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Beijing to shut Covid-19 special hospital, clears all cases

Beijing to shut Covid-19 special hospital, clears all cases

Beijing: Authorities in Beijing are set to close a COVID-19 special hospital after clearing all the cases even as China reported six new coronavirus infections and 40 fresh asymptomatic cases, health officials said on Tuesday. The move to shut down the hospital comes after China’s coronavirus epicentre Wuhan recently closed 16 temporary hospitals and discharged its last […]

 Crescent Kashmir

12-year-old dies of ‘stomach pain’ after 6 Agra hospitals refuse treatment over Covid scare

12-year-old dies of ‘stomach pain’ after 6 Agra hospitals refuse treatment over Covid scare

Agra: A 12-year-old boy succumbed to 16 hours of excruciating pain in Agra after half-a-dozen nursing homes and hospitals allegedly refused to treat him, fearing that he might be Covid-19 positive. Nihal Singh, the deceased, was suffering from acute stomach pain. After being turned away from six private nursing homes and hospitals, when his father finally […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries plans its first rights issue in 30 yrs to pare debt

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries plans its first rights issue in 30 yrs to pare debt

Reliance Industries Ltd., India’s largest company by market value, plans to sell shares to existing investors in a rights issue for the first time in about 30 years as the energy-to-technology conglomerate steps up efforts to pare debt. The board of the Mumbai-based company will consider the proposal on April 30, when it announces its […]

 Crescent Kashmir

350 Tablighi members who recovered from Covid-19 ready to donate plasma

350 Tablighi members who recovered from Covid-19 ready to donate plasma

Around 350 members of the Tablighi Jamaat, who had come to Delhi to attend its congregation in Nizamuddin Markaz last month and were subsequently diagnosed with coronavirus, have agreed to donate their plasma to treat severely ill patients in the city. So far, 25 of them have donated for plasma therapy. Senior officials in the health department […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Explained: Why rapid tests are off, again

Explained: Why rapid tests are off, again

On Monday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) put an end to the question of rapid tests when it told the states that the newly procured kits for such tests had failed quality checks and should be returned to the suppliers. This effectively brings the curtains down on a long conversation on rapid testing between […]

 Crescent Kashmir

3 girls dead, one untraceable

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Cop’s militant aide son only casualty in Guddar Kulgam, police deletes tweets

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

COVID19: 2-year-old girl among 23 test positive in J&K, tally mounts to 546

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Testing scaled up in big way; trained 450 lab technicians in sample collection: Director HSK

Testing scaled up in big way; trained 450 lab technicians in sample collection: Director HSK

Srinagar, April 27( KNS): Director Health Services Kashmir Dr Sameer Matoo said that testing has been scalled in Kashmir a big way.Taking to KNS, he said, ” More than 800 tests are conducted daily. We trained 450 laboratory technicians to take samples for Covid19 suspect patients. They move in mobile vans and takes samples from […]

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Umar Akmal banned for three years from all forms of cricket for corruption charges

Umar Akmal banned for three years from all forms of cricket for corruption charges

Umar Akmal has been banned from all forms of cricket for three years on corruption charges, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Monday. “Umar Akmal handed three-year ban from all cricket by Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel Mr Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan,” the Pakistan Cricket Board said in a tweet. PCB Media ✔@TheRealPCBMedia Umar […]