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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 […]
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 […]
COVID-19 free Pulwama district reports fresh case
Pulwama, Apr 28, KNT: First positive case has surfaced in the second phase in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Authorities had declared Pulwama district Covid-19 free zone. In the first phase the district witnessed three confirmed cases but all these three patients were discharged after their recovery. “At present there was no active Coronavirus case […]
Continued restrictions on internet in J-K during a pandemic are troubling: UN rapporteur
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression has said that limitations imposed by the government on internet in Jammu & Kashmir have made access to basic information difficult for healthcare professionals. In his report titled “disease pandemics and the freedom of opinion and expression”, David Kaye, UN rapporteur on freedom of […]
3 girls dead, one untraceable
Srinagar, Apr 27, KNT: Three girls died while one is untraceable after cloud burst triggered flash floods in two different areas of South and Central Kashmir on Monday evening. Police sources told KNT that a cloud burst triggered flash floods in Chotipora area adjacent to Sedow Forest area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. Two sisters […]
Cop’s militant aide son only casualty in Guddar Kulgam, police deletes tweets
Srinagar, April 27 : Only one “militant associate”, and not four militants as claimed by the government forces earlier, was killed at Guddar in the Devsar area of the south Kashmir district. The slain, Aqib Mushtaq Lone who had completed engineering recently from a college in Chandigarh, is a son of a police officer […]
COVID19: 2-year-old girl among 23 test positive in J&K, tally mounts to 546
Srinagar: A two-year-old girl from the Shopian district on Monday became the youngest in the Jammu and Kashmir to have tested positive for novel coronavirus. In all 23 fresh cases were reported in the last twenty-four hours and includes an expectant mother besides at least thirteen other women. Officials said that among the fresh cases, 15 […]