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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 […]
Lockdown: Man Walks For 15 Days From Mumbai To UP’s Shravasti, Dies In Quarantine
Fifteen days ago, Insaaf Ali began walking from Mumbai to reach his home in Shravasti district in Uttar Pradesh. A labourer in Mumbai’s Vasai, Ali struggled for food and water on the way but continued to walk almost 1,500 kilometres. He reached the outskirts of his village on Monday and was immediately taken to a […]
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 […]
Justice can be done without robes or congregation: CJI Bobde on lockdown lesson
The Supreme Court was hoping to start tapping artificial intelligence to reform its processes in March but then came COVID-19 and, as it has done across the board, the outbreak pushed all plans to the backburner and has forced a rethink in the judiciary as well. In an interview at his office in his residence, Chief Justice […]
What moves gold prices? Lessons from the spectacular gains in history
Gold loves a crisis, the old adage goes. And with prices up 13% this year to their highest since 2012 and many predicting further gains as investors search for safe places to put their money, it looks true for the coronavirus crisis so far. But, as individuals and countries alike see a drop in income, […]