Ladakh reports 183 new COVID-19 cases
Leh, April 22 (PTI) The Union territory of Ladakh has reported 183 new cases of coronavirus, taking the virus tally to 12739, officials said. Ladakh had recorded a total of 134 COVID-related deaths till now, they said. While 171 cases were reported from Leh, 12 positive cases were received from Kargil, they said. The total […]
BJP leader who returned from Kumbh Mela dies of suspected Covid-19
Jammu, Apr 22: Days after returning from Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand, senior BJP leader and former member of the erstwhile Legislative Assembly of J&K state, Thakur Puran Singh died in Rajouri on Thursday. Following Singh’s death, “suspected to be due to covid-19”, the administration in Rajouri has ordered his cremation strictly as per the health […]
Grenade, 191 bullets recovered in Samba
Srinagar, Apr 22: A rusted grenade and 191 bullets were claimed to have been recovered police and paramilitary CRPF from a nallah last night in Samba district of Jammu division. Official sources said that the recovery was made by CRPF’s 38 Batallion alongside police during searches launched in Kheedian village of Bari Brahmanna area of […]
Wife killed husband with paramour’s help: Police
Srinagar, Apr 22: More than a month after death of a 34-year-old man at Renji Pattan, police on Thursday claimed to have worked out the case by arresting his wife and another person, alleged paramour of the woman, in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. “On intervening night of 8/9th March one Mohammad Altaf Malik son Ghulam […]
Fresh snowfall in higher reaches of Kashmir, rains lash plains
Srinagar, Apr 22: The higher reaches of Kashmir including tourist resort Gulmarg and remote Gurez valley on Thursday received fresh snowfall while rains lashed the plains, resulting in a considerable dip in the maximum temperature. An official said that snowfall started in Gurez at around 06 AM today, following which the traffic movement on Bandipora-Gurez […]
Vice Chancellor KU Talat Ahmad Admitted To SKIMS
Srinagar, Apr 22: Professor Talat Ahmad, Vice Chancellor Kashmir University, has been admitted to SKIMS Soura, days after testing positive for the covid-19, official sources said on Thursday. They said that Talat is suffering from bilateral covid pneumonia and was admitted to SKIMS Soura where his condition is now stated to be stable. Dr G […]
Sitaram Yechury’s son dies of COVID-19 in Gurgaon hospital
New Delhi, Apr 22 (PTI) CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said his son Ashish died of COVID-19 in the morning. Ashish, a journalist by profession who would have celebrated his 35th birthday on June 9, was recovering well at Gurgaon’s Medanta Hospital, people close to the family added. They described his sudden death […]
Polling begins for sixth phase of Bengal elections
Kolkata, Apr 22 (PTI) Polling began at 7 am on Thursday for 43 seats in the sixth phase of the assembly election in West Bengal amid a surge in COVID-19 cases with the state reporting record infections. Long queues were seen outside most of the polling boths even before the voting began. In this phase, […]
India crosses 3 lakh covid cases mark
New Delhi, Apr 22: For the first time, more than 3 lakh COVID-19 cases were registered in a single day in India on April 21. As many as 3,15,660 cases and 2,091 deaths were recorded in the country as of 11.15 p.m. IST on April 21. No country has recorded more cases in a single […]
Bombing in hotel parking lot kills at least 4 in SW Pakistan
Quetta, Apr 22 (AP) A powerful bomb exploded in the parking area of a luxury hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding at least nine others, police said. It was unclear who was behind the bombing at the Serena Hotel. Police said rescuers transported victims […]
