Home quarantine asymptomatic air travellers’
Voices across Kashmir are growing over the demand of allowing asymptomatic air travellers for home quarantine after taking their samples at airport. A group of passengers told KNS that it is “very unfortunate that Air travellers arriving at Srinagar Airport are taken from Srinagar Airport to Quarantine centres or Hotels like prisoners under security. They […]
Court took notice of improper treatment to Covid-19 patients, constitute SIT to probe alleged neglect
District Court Kupwara on Thursday took strong cognizance of improper treatment given to Covid-19 patients in several quarantine centres in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district and ordered constitution of SIT to investigate alleged negligence by authorities. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), the court of Sub-Judge Kupwara Javeed Alam after hearing the case directed SSP Kupwara […]
Maharashtra’s First Woman Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayan Dies Of Coronavirus
Former Maharashtra State Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayan died of COVID-19 at a hospital in Mumbai on Thursday morning, hospital authorities said. She was 72. The 1972-batch IAS officer was the state’s first woman election commissioner. She died at Seven Hills Hospital in suburban Andheri around 4 am, the medical facility’s dean Dr Balkrishna Adsul said. […]
SKIMS clarifies alleged denial of ambulance, coffin to COVID-19 victim
Srinagar: The Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura on Thursday issued a clarification over alleged denial of coffin and ambulance to a COVID-19 woman, who passed away at the hospital the preceding day. A video had alleged that the hospital authorities had denied the same to the deceased woman. But a statement issued […]
Businesses closed, public transport suspended as COVID-19 restrictions imposed in Budgam
Businesses remained closed while public transport services were suspended as the district administration imposed restrictions for five days to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, officials said on Thursday. In wake of daily spike of Coronavirus cases, the Budgam district administration on Wednesday evening ordered the imposition of section 144 cr […]
COVID-19: India records highest spike in a day as more than 30,000 test positive
On Thursday, the country recorded the highest spike in the number of COVID-19 cases as more than 30,000 test positive for the virus, reported Press Trust of India. The overall tally has risen to 9,68,876, while the death toll climbed to 24,915 with 606 people succumbing to the disease, according to the Union Health Ministry data. […]
Congress ready for a ‘face saver’ for Pilot, he keeps them on the edge
Sachin Pilot, sacked as deputy chief minister and the state unit chief for leading a rebellion against the Ashok Gehlot government, hasn’t taken up the Congress on its offer to head back to Jaipur along with the other rebel lawmakers sequestered in a Gurugram on the outskirts of national capital Delhi. On Wednesday, the Congress […]
Abdul Ghani Mir appointed ADGP law and order
The Jammu and Kashmir government has posted Abdul Ghani Mir as Additional director general of police (ADGP) law and order in the union territory. An order vide no. (144-JK(Home) of 2020) issued late on Wednesday night by the Union Territory’s home department said that Abdul Ghani Mir IPS (JK-1994 batch) is posted as ADGP law […]
Covid-19 Claims 3 More Lives in Kashmir, J&K Toll 211
Kokernag Woman Tests Positive Posthumously, Days After Hundreds Participated In Her Funeral Srinagar, July 16: Kashmir Valley reported three more covid-19 related deaths, taking the fatality count due to the virus to 211, officials said on Thursday. Two of the fatalities were reported from SKIMS Soura and include a 65-year-old man from Khajabagh Baramulla […]
Army soldier wounded in low-intensity explosion near LoC in J&K’s Rajouri
An army man sustained minor injuries in a low-intensity explosion possibly due to an anti-personnel landmine in Kalal area of Nowshera sector of Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. They said that a team of army soldiers was on routine duty along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kalal when a […]