Capital City Grievance Redressal Cell will have 80 executives: Govt
SRINAGAR: District Administration, Srinagar in collaboration with Srinagar Smart City Ltd organised first session of capacity building training for departmental executives deputed to the upcoming state-of-the-art Public Grievance Redressal Cell. Deputy Commissioner (Chief Executive Officer, SSCL), Srinagar Shahid Iqbal Choudhary delivered the introductory address and chaired the proceedings of the training cum capacity building workshop. […]
Hizb militant associate held in Kupwara: Police
Kupwara: Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a militant associate in Kupwara district of north Kashmir. “Police received a reliable information that a youth identified as Altaf Ahmed Bhat s/o Ali Mohammad Bhat r/o Kanthpora, Sogam has come in contact with Hizbul Mujahideen militants and is being lured to join their ranks,” a police […]
Grenade lobbed on CRPF party, one trooper injured
Srinagar, September 09: Suspected militants lobbed grenade on security forces on Wednesday evening in Lal chowk area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. A senior police officer said that militants lobbed a grenade on CRPF party which exploded resulting in injuries to a trooper. He said that the trooper has been referred to a local hospital […]
JK reports highest single-day spike of 1617 covid-19 cases
Srinagar, Sept 09: Jammu and Kashmir recorded the highest single-day jump of 1617 new coronavirus cases in last 24 hours, taking the J&K COVID-19 tally to 47542. With 67 travelers among them, official sources told that, 894 cases were reported from Jammu Division and 723 from Kashmir Valley. This is for the seventh day in […]
Lockdown not an attack on coronavirus, but on poor: Rahul
New Delhi, Sep 9 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the lockdown was not an attack on coronavirus but on the poor people and proved to be a “death sentence” for the unorganised sector as it “finished” jobs and small businesses. Everyone should stand against the attack, he said. “The lockdown was not […]
Spike in COVID cases: Delhi govt rules out another lockdown; Says economy can’t be ‘shut for eternity’
New Delhi, Sep 9 (PTI) Despite a sharp surge in COVID-19 cases in the national capital over the last fortnight, the Delhi government has ruled out possibility of another lockdown, with Health Minister Satyendar Jain asserting that the economy “cannot be kept shut for eternity” as livelihoods of millions depend on it. The minister also […]
Covid-19: Two more deaths reported from Rajouri
Rajouri, Sep 09 (KNO): Two more persons who had tested positive for Novel Coronavirus died on Wednesday in Rajouri district of Jammu division, officials said. With two more deaths due to Corona virus in Rajouri, the number of deaths during the past three days has reached six in theis hilly district. The deceased include a […]
Hizb militant associate held in Kupwara: Police
Kupwara, Sept 09: Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a militant associate in Kupwara district of north Kashmir. “Police received a reliable information that a youth identified as Altaf Ahmed Bhat s/o Ali Mohammad Bhat r/o Kanthpora, Sogam has come in contact with Hizbul Mujahideen militants and is being lured to join their ranks,” […]
Plasma therapy not beneficial in reducing mortality, progression to severe COVID-19: ICMR Study
New Delhi, Sep 9 (PTI) Use of convalescent plasma therapy in coronavirus-infected patients does not help in reducing mortality or progression to severe COVID-19, a multi-centric study funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has found. The ‘open-label parallel-arm phase II multicentre randomized controlled trial’ (PLACID Trial) was conducted across 39 public and […]
