Enforce 24×7 strict lock down: Advisor Baseer Khan to DCs
Two lakh N-95 masks, adequate ventilators to be dispatched soon; SKIMS to increase testing facility upto 1000 per-day SRINAGAR, APRIL 11: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor and overall Incharge of Coronavirus Control Efforts (CCE) in Kashmir division, Baseer Ahmad Khan today directed Deputy Commissioners to enforce 24×7 (round the clock) strict lock-down in their respective districts. […]
16 more persons discharged after completing two-week quarantine in Srinagar
1827 persons discharged so far after successfully completing their quarantine SRINAGAR, APRIL 11: Sixteen (16) more persons who were shifted into administrative quarantine in Srinagar two weeks ago were discharged Saturday after successfully completing their 14-day quarantine period. ADC Srinagar M Hanief Balkhi and other concerned supervising officers oversaw their discharge. The group like all […]
Women in J-K wield hockey sticks to enforce lockdown
As offenders continue to violate lockdown, womenfolk in Jammu have picked hockey sticks to ‘teach a lesson’ to those who are unnecessary stepping out ‘just for entertainment’, amid shutdown. On the outskirts of Jammu, ex-Sarpanch of Chatha, Gurmeet Kour, has taken this initiative and within no time a large number of women came forward to […]
Teachers, students face hard time with slow internet services in J&K, demand 4G network
The students and teachers in Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir are finding it tough to keep up with the pace of their counterparts in other states owing to the low-speed internet as schools have started online classes to help students during the COVID-19 lockdown. The schools are using different kinds of digital modes to […]
Coronavirus And The Great Depression of 2020: How Mental Demons Are Adding To Life’s Miseries
There’s no escaping that noise, it’s always there, in or around your head, like low radio chatter, or a mosquito. It’s the background sound of a pandemic…it’s not unlike a silence, or a headache on the horizon that you try to forget but can’t. It presses in between the work con-calls in the mornings and […]
COVID-19: 17 more test positive in J-K, tally rises to 224
Srinagar: Seventeen more people have been tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir; among them five are from Jammu division, while twelve are from Kashmir. The tally of the Union Territory has risen to 224. The government’s spokesperson, Rohit Kansal, confirmed that seveteen more cases have been detected. “5 are from Jammu division […]
Pakistani army shells forward posts, villages along LoC in J-K’s Poonch
Jammu, April 11 The Pakistani army on Saturday resorted to intense mortar shelling on forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The latest ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Kirni sector comes barely 12 hours of intense firing and shelling in nearby Balakote and […]
Coronavirus: Inside India’s busiest Covid-19 hospital
In early March, 40-year-old Ravi Dosi, a chest specialist in India, saw a baffling surge in patients with respiratory problems at outpatient clinics. “There was almost a 50% jump in patients with upper respiratory issues and sore throat. They were not responding to antibiotics. Testing was still low and we didn’t really know what was […]
PM Narendra Modi speaks to CMs on extending COVID-19 lockdown
As India grapples with the coronavirus pandemic with nearly 7,500 cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held a video-conference with chief ministers of all states and Union Territories to discuss the next course of action and decide whether the 21-day nationwide lockdown, which is to end on April 14, should be extended. PM Modi, and other ministers, were seen […]
On Covid-19 lockdown, PM Modi to strike a balance between saving lives and livelihood
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hear out all the Chief Ministers on their views and suggestions on whether to lift or extend the lockdown, but his decision will be communicated directly to people closer to April 14. On April 9 and 10, PM Modi had six hours of presentations made by his principal advisors and empowered groups […]