Special COVID sample Collection centre setup at Chitragam Shopian
SHOPIAN, MAY 26:- District Administration Shopian has established on the Spot Sampling and Testing Collection Centre at Chitragam Village in Shopian, Which has been declared red zone after fresh Covid positive cases. Pertinent to mention here that the Said village is the biggest populated village of the District. On the directions of Deputy Commissioner Shopian […]
Newspaper owner accuses police of ‘harassment’ ‘Brought matter into the notice of SSP Srinagar’
Srinagar, May 26, KNT: A senior Journalist and the owner of a Daily has accused police of ‘harassment’ and ‘humiliation’ in Srinagar area falling under the jurisdiction of Police Station Khanyar. “I was humiliated and harassed. Police party led by SHO Khanyar didn’t honour the valid movement card issued by the office of District […]
‘You are harassing doctors’: Bandipora CMO tells J&K Police in viral video
Days after a senior cardiologist was detained by police in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday intercepted the official vehicle of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Bandipora while he was enroute to a quarantine centre. Two videos of the CMO Bandipora Dr Tajamul Hussain shouting at the police personnel posted at a checkpoint in […]
‘Let your Patients, Hospital Go to Hell’: Srinagar Doc on Duty Reveals Horror of Being Beaten up by Cops
Srinagar: At a time when frontline health workers are feted with salutes, standing ovations, bouquets and musical tributes across the world, their counterparts in Kashmir are unfortunately made to face music on the way to their workplaces. Dr Syed Maqbool, an ace senior intervention cardiologist at Srinagar’s Super Speciality Hospital, alleged “police beating, humiliating and detaining […]
Covid-19: 90-Year-Old Man From Kulgam Dies, Toll 24
Srinagar, May 26 (GNS): A 90-year-old man from Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Tuesday became another victim of novel coronavirus, taking the overall death toll due to the disease to 24 in Jammu and Kashmir. Also 34 fresh cases of the virus were reported, taking the tally of patients to 1702. A resident […]
CSA president refuses to back Smith’s support for Ganguly
JOHANNESBURG: The divisions in South African cricket were exposed again when Cricket South Africa (CSA) president Chris Nenzani said Graeme Smith’s call for Sourav Ganguly to become International Cricket Council chairman did not have official approval. “We must respect both the ICC protocol and our own protocol in deciding which candidate to back,” Nenzani, a […]
Testing capacity increased by over 350% in one month, J&K now No. 1 in the country in testing
JAMMU, MAY 25- With the testing rate of over 10,000 per million Jammu and Kashmir has now become number one in country in testing. The testing capacity in the UT has gone up from just about 100 tests/day in March to 8000 tests/day today. In the last one month alone it has gone up […]
Advisor Baseer Khan inaugurates first 50-bed Infectious Disease Block facility at SKIMS Soura
Srinagar, May 25 (KNS): Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan today inaugurated a first of it’s kind Infectious Disease Block facility at SKIMS Soura for treatment of covid-19 and other pathologies infected patients exclusively. On the occasion, the Advisor accompanied by Director SKIMS, Dr AG Ahnagar inspected various wards and blocks to take first […]
COVID-19: South Kashmir woman passes away, J-K toll 23
Srinagar: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 23 in Jammu and Kashmir as swab sample reports of an elderly woman from Kulgam district of south Kashmir, who died couple of days ago, returned positive on Monday. “A 65-year-old lady from Bugam Kulgam was admitted in SMHS Hospital Srinagar on 22-5-2020 with bilateral pneumonia. She […]
40 new positive cases reported today, 112 recover in JK
Srinagar, April 25 (KNS): The Government Saturday informed that 40 new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), (all from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 494. According to the daily Media Bulletin on novel coronavirus (Covid-19), out of 494 positive cases, 376 […]