HCQ assurance kept, India seeks US help for cutting-edge Covid-19 test equipment
Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla on Wednesday requested the Trump administration for support to get access to cutting-edge Covid-19 testing equipment. Shringla made the request in a telephone conversation with his counterpart US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E Biegun, people familiar with the development said. Shringla’s phone call is a follow-up to Prime Minister Narendra […]
Balbharti releases Class 12th Science, Commerce, Arts textbooks online amid lockdown
Class 12 students under the state board would no longer have to wait to get their textbooks under the revised curriculum as the state’s publishing bureau Balbharti has uploaded majority books in their PDF versions on its official website- http://ebalbharati.in Almost all textbooks for the Commerce and Science stream have been uploaded on the website […]
Coronavirus: Mumbai Makes Masks Compulsory In Public, Violators To Face Action
In a first for the country, face masks have been made compulsory for all Mumbai citizens wanting to move around in the city, in any public places for whatever reasons, according to a BMC notification here on Wednesday. “Wear masks in public paces in Mumbai or face action under IPC section 188,” said BMC in […]
Modi tells MPs lockdown only way to curb Covid-19 spread, hints at extension beyond 14 April
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday said a decision on extending the nationwide lockdown will be made after consulting chief ministers of all states on 11 April, but reiterated that a lockdown is the only solution to containing the spread of the disease. The Prime Minister made his comments in his first interaction with all the parliamentary […]
Olympic qualification period suspended until December 1
World Athletics has announced that the qualification period for the Tokyo Olympic Games will be suspended from April 6 to November 30, 2020. “Athletes who have already met the entry standard since the start of the qualification period in 2019 remain qualified and will be eligible for selection by their respective Member Federations and National […]
Northern Railway scores century in a day: Converts over 100 coaches into COVID-19 isolation units
Surpassing its earlier record, Delhi-based Northern Railway has scored a century in one day, converting more than 100 coaches into isolation units Wednesday, the highest for any zone in India doing this work. Banking on such progress, Railways has also increased its overall target to now convert 5,150 coaches, over 10 per cent of which […]
Labour Deptt. counselling workers, migrants to mitigate lockdown stress
No one in J&K will go without ration, drinking water: Labour Commissioner SRINAGAR, APRIL 8: The Labour Department, J&K is working on a two-pronged strategy to ensure welfare of workers and migrants stuck in Jammu and Kashmir due to COVID-19 lockdown. Labour Commissioner, J&K, Abdul Rashid Var said several initiatives are being taken by the […]
COVID19: Conduct door to door testing in red zones, Adv Baseer Khan
JAMMU, APRIL 8: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, who is overall in-charge of Coronavirus Control efforts in Kashmir Division today said that everyone in the society has to play its due role in breaking the chain of deadly Covid-19 pandemic. This was stated by the Advisor, during a meeting to review stock and […]
Track down absconding travelers on war footing basis: Div Com to DCs
Directs to setup separate help-lines for Cancer, Dialysis patients, Juveniles homes, orphanages SRINAGAR, APRIL 08: The Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole, today, directed all the Deputy Commissioners (DCs) to track-down all absconding travelers on war footing basis in their respective districts and put them in administrative quarantine. All Deputy Commissioners were asked to strengthen […]
33 More Test Positive, J&K COVID-19 Cases Tally Rises to 158
Srinagar, April 8 : 33 more persons have been tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the number of COVID-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir to 158. Among the fresh cases include 11 from SKIMS Soura, 19 from Chest Disease hospital and three from Jammu, sources said. A doctor said that reports of 100 samples […]