COVID-19: Govt evacuates 1,52,416 stranded JK residents; 1,04,892 via Lakhanpur, 47,524 through special trains
JAMMU, JUNE 20: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has evacuated about 1,52,416 JK residents, stranded in other parts of the country due to COVID lockdown, via Lakhanpur and through special trains and buses till date amid strict observance of all necessary guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures. As per the official data received in this regard, […]
Gunfight breaks out in south Kashmir’s Kulgam
Srinagar: A gunfight broke out between militants and government forces in Lakadpora Pudsoo in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Saturday. Reports reaching a local news agency, Global News Agency, said that a joint team of the police, army’s 34 Rashtriya Rifle, and Central Reserve Police Force launched a cordon-and-search-operation in Lakadpora Pudsoo. As the joint team […]
Take action against hospital if found to have derogated in its duty: Delhi HC
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi government to carry out an investigation against the Primus Super Speciality Hospital after hearing a petition alleging serious carelessness by the hospital in the treatment of a patient. A bench of Justice Navin Chawla, after hearing the petition, observed that the allegations made by the petitioner against Primus […]
PC leader demands release of party chairman, other leaders
Srinagar, June 20 (KNS): Jammu and Kashmir peoples conference senior leader and political secretary of sajad Gani Lone on Saturday appealed authorities to release chairman peoples conference and all other political detainees According to statement issued to KNS Mohmmad Sulaiman Bhat leader of the said that chairman peoples conference sajad Gani lone and vice president […]
SDH Bijbhera’s Medical Superintendent Suspended
Srinagar: Director Health Services Kashmir on Saturday placed under suspension incharge Medical Superintendent Sub District hospital Bijbehara, Dr.Shaukat Hussain Parray, following a report by an inquiry committee against him. “In view of the report submitted by the enquiry Committee which was constituted by this office, Dr.Shaukat Hussain Parray I/C Medical Superintendent SDH Bijbehara is hereby […]
Beijing tests food, parcel couriers for coronavirus as city checks widen
Officials in Beijing are carrying out nucleic acid tests on all food and parcel delivery personnel as they ramp up efforts to rein in an outbreak of the coronavirus in the Chinese capital, state-backed Beijing News reported on Saturday. Officials have been expanding testing across the city of 20 million since a cluster of new […]
SL government launches probe into 2011 World Cup final fixing allegations
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s sports ministry on Saturday ordered an investigation into former sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage’s allegation the national cricket team’s loss to India in the 2011 World Cup final was fixed by “certain parties”. The sports minister Dullas Alahapperuma has ordered the investigation and asked for a report on its progress every two weeks, the ministry […]
Two injured in cross-LoC shelling in Uri
SRINAGAR: Two civilians were injured after India and Pakistan armies exchange fire along the LoC in Uri town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday. Locals said that two civilians identified as Maqbool Ah Mangral and Ahmad Sheikh sustained splinter injuries in the shelling Nambla village in Uri sector. Both the injured, having multiple splinter […]
COVID-19: Kulgam woman passes away in Srinagar hospital, death toll in J-K reaches 79
Srinagar: The death toll due to covid-19 rose to 79 in Jammu and Kashmir as swap sample report of an 80-year-old woman, who passed away at a hospital here, returned positive for the novel coronavirus on Saturday. Dr Nazir Choudhary, Medical Superintendent SMHS hospital, told a local news gathering agency Global News Agency that the […]
FINANCIAL PACKAGE
Kashmir has been waiting for a comprehensive financial package in the past ten months but the central government is maintaining silence. In a recent press conference, KCCI chief said that they had meetings from Prime Minister to Home Minister to Finance Minister and were expecting a handsome package, but the coronavirus lockdown washed away everything. […]