Govt to take call on 4G in Valley after August 15
THE GOVERNMENT is likely to take a final call on the restoration of 4G mobile Internet services in the Kashmir Valley after Independence Day celebrations are over next month, official sources told The Indian Express. A “favourable” decision is “already under consideration” within the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the sources said. The government is waiting […]
CRUMBLING HEALTH SYSTEM
Latest from JK Government is that they have amended Sop’s regarding the referral cases to covid hospitals and also for the patients who are asymptomatic. These amendments have come in the wake of a crumbling health care system as even the fresh lockdown has failed to flatten the curve of covid-19 cases in Kashmir. On […]
Sajad Lone released from house detention
Authorities on Friday released Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone, who was under “preventive detention” since August 5, 2019. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), PC in a tweet said “J&K Peoples Conference Chairman Mr. Sajad Gani Lone has been officially released after completing 360 days in detention”. Lone, meanwhie, also took micro-blogging site Twitter […]
BSF personnel dies of cardiac arrest at LoC in Jammu and Kashmir
Srinagar: A Border Security Force soldier died of cardiac arrest during duty along the Line of Control in Mankote area of this district on Friday. They said constable R .Ravindra of 72 battalion BSF suffered the heart attack at Songali post in Mankote sector. The 43-year-old was shifted to nearby health facility where doctors declared […]
7 more COVID-19 related deaths in J&K take toll to 373
Srinagar: Seven more COVID-19 related deaths were reported in Jammu and Kashmir Friday morning taking the toll to 373, officials said. Four of the fresh victims are from Srinagar, two from Pulwama while one, a 56-year-old, is from Jammu’s Shakti Shakti Nagar area. Regarding two casualties in Pulwama, officials identified one of them as a […]
12-yr-old girl drowns, 2 siblings rescued in Poonch
A 12-year-old girl drowned as her two other siblings were rescued from a canal in Poonch last evening, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). Unnamed officials told the agency that the siblings, children of Zakir Hussian Peer, were playing near the canal at Jallian Azambad and subsequent went inside it, leading to […]
Scarcity of PPEs, below par facilities across quarantine centers worrisome: Lone
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Wednesday rued the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and unsatisfactory facilities being accorded to inmates at various quarantine facilities across Kashmir saying those lodged at such facilities are aghast on the unhygienic and inhospitable conditions there. Party’s senior leader and Member of Parliament from Baramulla Muhammad Akbar Lone […]
JK reports 450 new positive cases, 11842 recovered so far
JAMMU, JULY 30: The Government on Thursday informed that 450 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 83 from Jammu division and 367 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 19869. Also 17 COVID-19 deaths have been reported; 01 from Jammu […]
J&K: Congress’ Saifuddin Soz says he is not being allowed out even as government claims he is free
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by Jammu and Kashmir Congress leader Saifuddin Soz’s wife, challenging his “illegal detention” as the government claimed that he was free, Live Law reported. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra, MR Shah and Vineet Saran said that it would not entertain the petition since the Jammu and Kashmir administration […]
Conservation of wetlands must for ecological balance: Div Com
Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole today called for conservation of wetlands for the sustenance of ecological balance. Div Com said this while chairing a meeting with concerned officers today to take stock of the mapping of Hokarsar, Wular and Kreentcho-Chandhara wetlands. During the meeting, the Div Com also reviewed the progress made Vis-à-vis to […]