Implement Home Isolation guidelines to reduce burden on hospitals: JKAP
Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) senior leader and former minister Ghulam Hassan Mir on Monday urged the J&K government to follow the revised COVID-19 guidelines which allow home isolation of mild or asymptomatic coronavirus infection cases. In a statement issued to KNS, Mir observed that in the background of the rising number of COVID […]
MEDIA PROTESTS
After a lot of delay and discussions, finally journalists of Kashmir came on the streets to protest against the media policy drafted by the UT administration recently and said that it was not acceptable to them. Journalists under the banner of J&K Media Guild” staged a protest against Media policy and demanded its immediate rollback. […]
COVID-19: Woman dies in Baramulla, J-K death toll 141
Srinagar: A 60-year-old covid-19 patient from Baramulla died at a hospital here, taking the fatality count due to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 141. A resident of Kunzer Baramulla, the patient, a 60-year-old woman, passed away at CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the covid-19 management in the Kashmir Valley. Medical […]
Militant, army personnel killed in Pulwama gunfight
Srinagar: One militant as well as an army soldier have been killed in ongoing encounter in Gusso area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday. Official sources told GNS that in an ongoing firefight one unidentified militant have been killed. Meanwhile Army soldier and cop of J&K Police were also injured in early exchange of […]
COVID-19: 246 test positive in J-K, total 8675
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Monday reported 246 covid-19 infections, taking the overall tally of the cases to 8675 in J&K. Officials said that 36 cases were reported from Jammu division while 210 from Kashmir Valley and includes five from paramilitary CRPF, three from police and one from army besides two pregnant women and as […]
DGP, Prisons visits Central Jail Srinagar
V. K. Singh, IPS, Director General of Police, Prisons, J&K today visited Central Jail Srinagar to take stock of security arrangements & to evaluate the general living conditions available in the jail. Sr. Superintendent Central Jail Srinagar Tej Ram Katoch, CO 82 Bn CRPF Bal Krishna & other officers were present during the visit. According […]
Constitute STF with authorisation of competent authority to remove illegal encroachers: G L Raina
BJP leader and former MLC on Monday in press statement to KNS said, Encroachment of immovable property belonging to the Displaced Community of Hindus in Kashmir valley is a serious matter. The issue has been raised by the community repeatedly and at all available platforms. With the reorganisation of the erstwhile state into Union Territories […]
Eleven shops sealed in Sopore
Authorities on Monday sealed Eleven shops in sopore town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district for violating Govt orders. According to Kashmir News Service Correspondent Municipal council Sopore (MCS) under supervision of Imtiyaz ah food inspector ,Gh Mohidin shah tax collector directed to seal the shops during his visit to several areas of sopore to inspect […]
Journalists protest against new media policy in Srinagar
A group of journalists on Monday staged a protest against the new media policy and demanded its immediate rollback. The journalists who had assembled at the Press Enclave under the banner of “J&K Media Guild” were carrying banners that read: “don’t gag media, we are an equally important pillar of democracy”, and “down with media […]
55-year-old Uri woman dies of COVID-19, J&K toll 136
The death toll due to covid-19 mounted to 136 in Kashmir Valley after one more covid-19 patient, a 55-year-old woman from Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, died at a hospital here on Monday. Professor Farooq Jan, Medical Superintendent SKIMS Soura, told news agency GNS a 55-year-old woman from Boniyar Uri passed away at 8 […]