40 more complete quarantine period in Kashmir, sent back home
Srinagar, Apr 21: Over 40 travelers who were put under 14-day quarantine in Srinagar were sent back home on Tuesday after completing the quarantine period, officials sources said. As soon as the people came out of the two Srinagar hotels located on the Boulevard road, where the administration had put them in quarantine after arriving […]
57 Kargil pilgrims return from Iran
Kargil, Apr 21: Over 50 pilgrims from Kargil who had been quarantined in Iran returned back to Kargil through a special flight on Tuesday morning, officials said. They said that scores of pilgrims from Kargil were stranded in Iran, which was badly hit due to Coronavirus. A couple of persons from Kargil have died in […]
Police booked two shopkeepers in Srinagar for violating lockdown orders
Srinagar, Apr 21: Police Tuesday booked two shopkeepers in the heart of city for violating prohibitory orders. Sources said that police in Maisuma Srinagar registered cases against two shopkeepers who had kept their shops open during lockdown. Sources identified these two shopkeepers as Suhail Ahmed Dar of New Colony Batamaloo and Muhammad Rafiq of Hamdaniya […]
4G restoration: File response on all petitions in one week, SC tells Centre, JK admin
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) today directed the Union Government and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to respond to all petitions filed challenging the restoration of 4G connectivity in the State. On informing the Court about the un-avaliability of Internet to the Students and the impact on 27 Lakh Students in the […]
Court employee found dead in Srinagar
Srinagar, Apr 21: Dead body of a 50-year old employee of Jammu and Kashmir High Court was found dead in Qamarwari area of Srinagar city on Tuesday. Reports said that some locals spotted the body lying at PDD Quarter near Police Colony in Qamarwari area and informed concerned police station about it. Immediately, a police […]
UN calls for scaling up all efforts to confront pandemic
United Nations, Apr 21 (AP) The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution calling for global action to rapidly scale up development, manufacturing and access to medicine, vaccines and medical equipment to confront the new coronavirus pandemic. The Mexican-drafted resolution requests UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to work with the World Health Organization and recommend options […]
Chinese medics may be injected with newly developed COVID19 vaccine by year-end: Official
Beijing, Apr 21 (PTI) China plans to inject Chinese medics with coronavirus vaccines by year-end to protect them to deal with any emergency situation, while 11 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in the country with no deaths due to the virus, health officials said. China’s National Health Commission (NHC) on Tuesday said that 11 […]
WHO sounded virus alarm from start, hid nothing: Tedros
Geneva, Apr 21 (AFP) The World Health Organization insisted that it sounded the alarm on the novel coronavirus right from the very start and had hidden nothing from Washington about the deadly pandemic. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there were no secrets at the UN agency after being blasted by the United States for […]
COVID-19: US to suspend immigration temporarily, as death toll reaches 42,092
Washington, Apr 21 (PTI) President Donald Trump has said that he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into America, amid the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 40,000 people in the US, the country with the most fatalities in the pandemic. The number of people killed in the US due to […]
