EASING OF RESTRICTIONS
Jammu and Kashmir being a Union Territory is directly under the control of MHA. There is the good news for the people of Jammu and Kashmir that MHA has decided to ease some restrictions amid lockdown. MHA from Friday night allowed opening of neighborhood and standalone shops, including those located in residential complexes within municipal […]
Govt eases curbs on shops: what is open, and what is not
The Centre has issued an advisory relaxing curbs to allow functioning of select shops within and outside municipal limits with effect Saturday. In a fresh addendum to its April 15 lockdown guidelines, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued orders to exempt all shops in residential areas and market complexes in rural areas from the lockdown. Under […]
Facebook Messenger ‘Rooms’: All your questions related to ‘Zoom’ rival answered
Facebook is rolling out Messenger Rooms, a new video conferencing tool that resembles Zoom. The feature will allow up to 50 people to participate in a video chat through a link. Facebook says participants do not need to be Facebook users to access the feature. The announcement of ‘Messenger Rooms’ comes at a time when the […]
COVID lockdown: MHA allows all local shops to open, but malls excluded
New Delhi: In a reprieve to public at large, the Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday night allowed opening of neighbourhood and standalone shops, including those located in residential complexes within municipal areas, but at a 50 per cent strength and after taking necessary precautions. However, the order signed by Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, made it clear […]
Two militants, an ‘associate’ killed in Awantipora gunfight
Two militants and a ‘militant associate’ were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Goripora area of Awantipora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday, police said. Quoting Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, news agency GNS reported that two militants and a militant associate were killed in the gunfight. The identity […]
COVID-19: Man from north Kashmir passes away, toll 6 in J-K
Srinagar: The death toll due to coronavirus rose to six in Jammu and Kashmir after one more patient died of the infection on Saturday morning. Coordinator for COVID-19 at JVC SKIMS, Bemina, Dr Nouman Nazir told that an elderly COVID-19 patient from Tangmarg area of Baramulla, north Kashmir, died at the hospital in Srinagar on Saturday […]
India crashes out of world’s top 10 stock market league, mcap below $2 trln
MUMBAI: India has dropped out of the list of the world’s top 10 stock markets as the covid-19 pandemic led to a rout in global equities, ravaging valuations significantly this year. India’s benchmark indices entered a bear market, and the rupee hit a record low against the dollar, indicating fragile economic activity. Bloomberg data showed […]
Coronavirus update: India records 1,428 new Covid-19 cases, 57 deaths in last 24 hours
There were 1,429 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 57 deaths across the country in the last 24 hours, the Union home ministry said on Saturday, which marks a month since India was put under a nationwide lockdown. India’s tally of the coronavirus disease stands at 24,506—including 18,668 active cases, 5063 cured, discharged […]
Probe into Delhi riots: Student activists, PFI under police scrutiny
Umar Khalid shot to limelight after he was slapped with sedition charges along with nine other students, including then JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, for allegedly organising an event to protest against the “judicial killing” of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat at the Jawaharlal Nehru University on February 9, 2016. It is alleged that anti-India slogans […]
Centre issues advisory easing curbs on select shops, sending four teams to new hotspots
On the day it red-flagged Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad and Chennai among “major hotspot districts or emerging hotspots” and decided to send four new teams to monitor these cities, the Centre issued an advisory late Friday night relaxing curbs to allow functioning of select shops within and outside municipal limits. This will not, however, apply to […]