Covid cases climb to 31,000, spike puts deaths over 1,000
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in India crossed the 30,000 mark on Tuesday while that of fatalities due to the pandemic exceeded 1,000, as the country maintained a precarious grip on a disease that officials fear could peak over the next couple of months. According data disclosed by state health departments, the total number of Covid-19 […]
Journalist booked for tweeting on ‘quarantine over call with patients’
A freelance journalist in Andaman and Nicobar Islands was arrested for tweeting on the need to quarantine people for speaking with Covid-positive patients on the phone. Arrested on Monday evening, the journalist, Zubair Ahmad, was on Tuesday produced in a Port Blair court and granted bail. Following a report in a local newspaper and information […]
DC G’bal inspects door to door survey through Swasthya Nidhi app, urges people to download Aarogya Setu
242 teams constituted to cover the whole population GANDERBAL, APRIL 28: The Deputy Commissioner(DC), Ganderbal, Shafqat Iqbal, today visited various areas of Sub Division, Kangan to inspect the health audit, screening and door to door survey through Mobile app SwasthyaNidhi. For this purpose, the District Administration has constituted Booth Level Awareness Groups (BAGs), supervisors and […]
Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)
19 new positive cases reported today, 176 cases recovered till date in JK JAMMU, APRIL 28: The Government Tuesday informed that 19 new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), all from Kashmir division have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 565. According to the daily […]
VIRTUAL CLASSROOM
School education department post COVID-19 lockdown has been looking for ways and means to provide education to the school going children in their homes. Though it is good beginning, but at the same time it raised questions why in the past eight months of lockdown no such effort was done by J&K administration to impart […]
DC Budgam visit Chadoora, Chrar, reviews damage caused to water supply schemes
Srinagar, Apr 28 (KNS): Deputy Commissioner Budgam Tariq Hussain Ganaie on Tuesday visited Chadoora and took stock of the damage caused to several water supply schemes due to flash floods occurred on yesterday. He also visited Shrine of Sheikh-ul-Aalam (RA) Chrar-e-Shareef and reviewed post-lockdown situation with officials. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), DC Budgam […]
Women in Srinagar dies of COVID-19, toll 8
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded eighth death due to COVID-19 afetr a septuagenarian woman from Rainawari, Srinagar, died at a hospital on Tuesday. With underlying ailments, the woman had tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday. Medical Superintendent, Chest Disease hospital, Dalgate, Dr. Saleem Tak told that the elderly woman was suffering from various ailments. “She […]
COVID-19: 15 more test positive in Kashmir; J-K tally mounts to 561
Srinagar: Fifteen more people have tested positive of the coronavirus in Kashmir, taking the number of the Covid-19 patients in J-K to 561. Official sources told that among them, 10 were confirmed at Viral Diagnostic Lab of SKIMS Soura and include five from Baramulla, four from Shopian and one from Kupwara. Five other cases were confirmed […]
Lockdown: Man Walks For 15 Days From Mumbai To UP’s Shravasti, Dies In Quarantine
Fifteen days ago, Insaaf Ali began walking from Mumbai to reach his home in Shravasti district in Uttar Pradesh. A labourer in Mumbai’s Vasai, Ali struggled for food and water on the way but continued to walk almost 1,500 kilometres. He reached the outskirts of his village on Monday and was immediately taken to a […]
Entrance exams only after the lockdown ends: HRD Ministry
The entrance exams to different technical education courses will be held only when the lockdown ends, the Human Resource Development Ministry said on Monday. No dates for conducting entrance tests for different courses for medical, engineering, management and other streams have yet been announced. Even the exams conducted by the Union Public Services Commission have […]