Assistant commissioner Revenue along with officers visit Quarantine centres
Srinagar, April 19 (KNS):In order check the facilities available at quarantine centres of Akura Mattan and Degree college Boys Anantnag , Assistant commissioner Revenue Anantnag Syed yasir Farooq Along with Tehsildar Mattan ,Mohd Maqbool and Deputy Chief Medical Officer Anantnag Dr Mohd Yousuf Zagoo visited Quarantine centres of Akura and Boys degree college Anantnag,today. Resolution […]
COVID-19: Teenage Muslim boy from Lucknow “beaten” for buying biscuits, dies
A teenaged Muslim boy from Lucknow who was allegedly beaten up by policemen while he was trying to buy food has succumbed. The slain has been identified as Mohammad Rizwan, he has become the first fatality from purported police high-handedness in enforcing the lockdown in Uttar Pradesh. Rizwan’s father, Mohammed Israil, said his son had […]
India’s Covid-19 cases cross 15,000, death toll rises to 507
The number of coronavirus disease cases in India climbed to 15,712, including 507 deaths, in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry data on Sunday morning showed. According to the health ministry’s data at 8am, there were 12,974 active cases, 2230 people have been sent home after being cured of the coronavirus disease and […]
Flights, trains unlikely to begin on May 3, GoM looks at May 15
Restrictions on air and train travel may continue beyond May 3, when the 40-day lockdown in India to stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic comes to an end, at least three people who attended a Group of Ministers (GoM) meeting on Saturday said on condition of anonymity. One union minister said that there was […]
Curbs will disrupt the supply chain, change nature of jobs: Niti Aayog CEO
In the wake of the nationwide lockdown enforced to prevent the spread of Covid-19, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Saturday said that India’s supply chain will get “massively disrupted” and that the nature of work too will change. “Supply chains will get massively disrupted; we are also in the midst of industrial revolutions 4.0.” […]
Early measures reason for fewer cases in India: WHO regional director
India has had fewer cases than it might have because of early and aggressive action to contain the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director, World Health Organization (WHO) South East Asia Region, told Hindustan Times in an interview. How should lockdowns be lifted? Lockdowns must be lifted slowly, when six […]
China could face consequences if ‘knowingly responsible’ for coronavirus pandemic: Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump warned China on Saturday that it should face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for the coronavirus pandemic, as he ratcheted up criticism of Beijing over its handling of the outbreak. “It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn’t, and the whole world is suffering because of it,” […]
Sahar Tabar: Jailed Iranian Instagram star ‘has coronavirus’
An Iranian Instagram star has contracted coronavirus in prison, her lawyer says. Fatemeh Khishvand, better known by her Instagram name Sahar Tabar, came to fame after posting photos in which she resembled what has been described as a zombie version of Angelina Jolie. Ms Khishvand was arrested in late 2019 for crimes including blasphemy and […]
Over 1,000 J&K Workers On Hunger Strike In Punjab, Demand They Be Sent Home
Pathankot: Nearly 1,200 workers from Jammu and Kashmir, who have completed their quarantine period of fourteen days in different camps in Punjab’s Pathankot district, are on a hunger strike for the last three days seeking they be sent to their towns in the Union Territory. They were stranded in Pathankot after the government imposed a […]
Universities In Kashmir Bolstering Fight Against COVID-19 With Machine And Manpower
As Coronavirus pandemic started slowly spreading in Kashmir, the government and health department approached universities for highly specialised equipment such as “PCR”- or polymerase chain reaction-machines to use them for COVID-19 tests. The administration also sought assistance from research scholars in the testing. The universities stepped in providing the machinery and the manpower. Doctors say […]