US coronavirus death toll approaches milestone of 500,000
Washington, Feb 22 (AP) The US stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta. The figure compiled by Johns […]
COVID-19: Admin strengthens preventive measures at Srinagar airport
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration asserted that preventive measures, including compulsory testing of all inbound travelers, have been strengthened at Srinagar International Airport amid rise in COVID-19 cases outside the Union Territory. An official on Sunday said that these directions were given by Incharge Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary at a meeting […]
JK reports 84 new positive cases
JAMMU: The Government on Sunday informed that 84 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 16 from Jammu division and 68 from Kashmir division, have been reported today, thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 125867. Moreover, 63 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and discharged from various hospitals […]
JK reports 84 new positive cases, 123192 recovered so far
JAMMU, FEBRUARY 21-The Government on Sunday informed that 84 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 16 from Jammu division and 68 from Kashmir division, have been reported today, thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 125867. Moreover, 63 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and discharged from various […]
BJP leader raises issue of delay in property registration, seeks LG intervention
Jammu, Feb 21 (PTI) A senior BJP leader Sunday claimed that people are facing huge inconvenience due to delays in registration of documents pertaining to immovable properties and sought the intervention of the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha. Raman Suri, a BJP executive member, said the new department of registration under the Revenue Department was established […]
JK issue can only be settled through talks between India-Pak: Mehbooba
Srinagar, Feb 21 (PTI) PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that neither war nor the gun are solutions, and the issue of Jammu and Kashmir can be only settled through talks between India and Pakistan. The Centre should also engage the people of the union territory in the dialogue process, she said after visiting […]
Herd immunity difficult to achieve: AIIMS Director
New Delhi, Feb 21 (PTI) Herd immunity is “very difficult” to achieve and one should not think of it in “practical terms” in India, especially in the times of “variant strains” of COVID-19 and “waning immunity”, claimed AIIMS director Randeep Guleria on Sunday. Guleria was speaking at the ongoing edition of Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) […]
Fuel prices at ‘historic, unsustainable’ high: Sonia
New Delhi, Feb 21 (PTI) Writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over “spiralling” fuel and gas prices, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Sunday accused the government of “profiteering” off “people’s misery” and demanded a rollback of the increase in prices. In a letter to Modi, she said the truth is that as GDP “nosedives”, the […]
