53-year-old Anantnag woman dies of covid-19, JK toll reaches 360
Srinagar, July 30: Kashmir Valley reported one more death due to covid-19, eleventh since last night, taking the fatality count due to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 360, officials said on Thursday. They said that four deaths took place at CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the management of the covid-19 […]
Pakistan records 1,114 new Covid-19 infections
Islamabad, Jul 30 (PTI) Pakistan’s coronavirus tally reached 277,402 with the detection of 1,114 new cases in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday. Another 32 people died overnight due to coronavirus-related complications, pushing the nationwide death toll to 5,924, the Ministry of National Health Services said. As many as 246,131 patients […]
Semi-decomposed body found in Banihal
Jammu, July 30: Police on Thursday found an unidentified semi-decomposed body of a woman in Thandi Chawon area of Dooligam Banihal in Ramban district. Sources told that a police team led by station House Officer (SHO) Banihal Abid Bukhari rushed to the spot and recovered the corpse. When contacted, the SHO confirmed the recovery of […]
NIA raids house in Awantipora
Srinagar, July 30: The National Investigation Agency on Thursday carried raids at Awantipora residence of a man arrested in April this year. Official sources said that a team of NIA carried the raids in Khandaypora area Awantipora in Pulwama district and searched the house of the man, Hilal Ahmad Wagay (truck driver). Wagay was claimed […]
Trump says India, China and Russia don’t take care of their air
Washington, Jul 30 (PTI) US President Donald Trump has alleged that India, China and Russia do not take care of their air, while America does, noting that he withdrew from the one-sided, energy-destroying Paris climate accord which would have made it a non-competitive nation . Trump, in his address on energy and the Permian Basin […]
India records biggest daily jump of 52,123 COVID-19 cases as recoveries cross 10 lakh
New Delhi, Jul 30 (PTI) The single-day increase of coronavirus cases crossed the 50,000-mark for the first time on Thursday, pushing India’s COVID-19 caseload to 15,83,792, while the recoveries surpassed 10 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry. The country registered a record increase of 52,123 infections in 24 hours while the death-toll climbed to […]
Admin extends lockdown till Aug 4 in various Jammu areas
Jammu: In view of the latest covid 19 cases spur, District Magistrate Samba, Rohit Khajuria, Wednesday order the extension of lockdown in tehsil Samba, Bari Brahamana, Vijaypur and Ghagwal up to August 4, 2020, till 5 AM. As per an order issued by the DM, the restrictions have been extended in continuation to the order […]
Hajj begins but sans mass gathering
Perhaps it will for the first time in Islamic history that the holy pilgrimage of Hajj begins but scaled down to the level of participation by a mere thousand people. The massive curtailment of people in this year’s Hajj has happened because of the world wide pandemic. The hajj is one of Islam’s most important […]