Crescent Kashmir

Nafisa Ali: Wish the police stop beating people who are trying to bring food for their families

Nafisa Ali: Wish the police stop beating people who are trying to bring food for their families

Veteran actor Nafisa Ali, who is currently in Goa with her daughter, on Thursday took to Instagram to share how local cart vegetable vendors should be allowed in residential areas to prevent long queues in the marketplace. She also suggested that young people visit the elderly living in their vicinity and ask them if they […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Israel’s health minister gets coronavirus; top officials isolate

Israel’s health minister gets coronavirus; top officials isolate

Coronavirus has forced more top Israeli officials into isolation after the country’s health minister, who has had frequent contact with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, tested positive, the health ministry said on Thursday. Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and his wife, who also contracted the virus, are in isolation but said they feel well and are […]

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One in India’s five Covid-19 patients is linked to Tablighi Jamaat and its Delhi event

One in India’s five Covid-19 patients is linked to Tablighi Jamaat and its Delhi event

New Delhi: The health authorities in India have confirmed nearly 400 Covid-19 patients who have a Tablighi Jamaat connection. With nearly 2,000 positive cases, one in India’s five confirmed coronavirus patients is linked to the Sunni organisation that is under the scanner for allegedly violating social distancing guidelines by convening a massive religious congregation in Delhi in early […]

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Man shot dead in South Kashmir

Man shot dead in South Kashmir

Srinagar, April 2 (GNS): A 28-year-old youth was killed after fired by unknown gunmen in Larkipora area of Fatehpora in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. A police officer told GNS that the youth namely Mohd Saleem Dar (28) son of Mohd Abdullah Dar, a resident of Larkipora, Fatehpora was fired upon by the suspected militants this evening. […]

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ACUTE SHORTAGE

ACUTE SHORTAGE

Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing a phase of acute shortage of essential items particularly in Kashmir valley due to closure of highway. Srinagar-Jammu highway is closed for more than a week now with authorities only claiming that it would be restored soon. Police and other wings of administration are busy in enforcing […]

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SMC installs first of its disinfectant tunnel at CD Hospital

SMC installs first of its disinfectant tunnel at CD Hospital

SRINAGAR, APRIL 02: Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) today installed and made operational first disinfectant tunnel for decontamination and sanitization at CD Hospital Dalgate here amid Coronavirus pandemic. Mayor, Junaid Azim Mattu accompanied by Deputy Mayor Parvez Qadri, Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation, Gazanfar Hussain and other officials visited CD Hospital to inspect and start off the […]

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Justice Oswal sworn in as High Court Judge

Justice Oswal sworn in as High Court Judge

Other Judges of J&K High Court participate in oath ceremony via video link to maintain social distancing JAMMU, APRIL 02: Justice Rajnesh Oswal was sworn in as a permanent Judge of the common High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on Thursday. He was administered oath of office by the Chief Justice Jammu and […]

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Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)

Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)

08 new positive cases reported today, 17677 persons under observation JAMMU, APRIL 02: The Government Thursday informed that 08 new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), 05 from Jammu division and 03 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 70. According to […]

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960 Tablighi Jamaat foreigners blacklisted, says MHA

960 Tablighi Jamaat foreigners blacklisted, says MHA

With the Tablighi Jamaat’s Markaz in Nizamuddin West in Delhi emerging as a hotspot of coronavirus, the Home Ministry has cancelled the visas of 960 Tablighi Jamaat foreigners and blacklisted them. Earlier, an MHA official said about 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now in the country. Meanwhile, 328 coronavirus […]

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Around 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat Members, Primary Contacts Quarantined: Home Ministry

Around 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat Members, Primary Contacts Quarantined: Home Ministry

Around 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country in view of the coronavirus infection, a senior home ministry official said on Thursday. Punya Salila Srivastava, a joint secretary in the Union Home Ministry, told reporters during a daily briefing that out of about 2,000 such Tablighi […]