Police in Srinagar provides survival kits to needy
Srinagar, May 15: Srinagar police has provided 650 survival kits to the needy families in various parts of Srinagar. The kits were provided to the families who have been rendered jobless owing to the ongoing lockdown that has been put in place following the Covid-19 pandemic. A police official said that the kits containing essential […]
Girl injured after locals clashes with police at quarantine centre in Chadoora
Budgam, May 15: A girl was injured after clashes erupted in the premises of a quarantine centre here in Nagam Chadoora after the people put up at the centre along with their relatives accused the administration of delay in declaring the tests of quarantined people. Eyewitnesses said that the relatives of the quarantined people assembled […]
Internet restored in Budgam, Shopian and Pulwama
Srinagar, May 14: The mobile internet services was restored on Thursday in Budgam district after remaining barred for more than a day following the killing of a youth in CRPF firing near Kawoosa crossing on Srinagar-Gulmarg road. While police and CRPF said that the 25-year old Mehraj-u-din son Ghulam Muhammad of Makhama Beerwah Budgam was […]
Govt constitutes Committee to accelerate recruitment process in J&K
JAMMU, MAY 14: The government has constituted a committee to accelerate recruitment to government vacancies and ensure certain principles of transparency, inclusiveness and speed are maintained in the recruitment process. As per an official order issued here today in this regard, sanction has been accorded to constitution of this Committee which will comprise of Navin […]
Forces launch search operation in Sopore village
Sopore, May 14: Forces launched a cordon and search operation in Thagund Rehmatabad village of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday afternoon. Officials said that a joint team of Army’s 22 RR, SOG of Sopore and Rafiabad belt and personnel from the 92 battalion of CRPF launched search operation following inputs about the […]
Stranded passengers allowed to move towards Gurez Valley
BANDIPORA, MAY 14: The residents of Gurez Valley who were stranded in Bandipora were allowed to return to their homes on Thursday. As many as 613 passengers returned to their homes in Gurez valley in 75 vehicles. Assistant Commissioner Revenue Bandipora Reyaz Ahmad Beigh said the passengers were screened by a team of doctors at […]
Jammu receives first COVID special train with 1018 passengers
JAMMU, MAY 14: As part of government’s initiative of bringing back the stranded people of J&K to their homes in the wake of COVID-19 Lockdown, Jammu today received first COVID special train carrying 1018 passengers while 7 buses carrying 175 people including 11 minors stranded in Jammu have left from Bhatindi to Kashmir. Deputy Commissioner, […]
12 more test positive for covid-19 in JK
Srinagar, May 14: Twelve persons on Thursday tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Among them, five were confirmed at the viral diagnostic laboratory of SKIMS here, Professor Farooq Jan, Medical Superintendent of the tertiary care hospital, said. Sources said that four samples returned positive for covid-19 at a […]
Students, labourers from JK stranded in UP seek evacuation
Srinagar, May14: Around 100 students, teachers and labourers from Jammu and Kashmir, stranded in Uttar Pradesh due to lowdown, have appealed authorities to evacuate them at an earliest. “We are 80 students and teachers besides labourers stranded here in UP and have nowhere to go,” a student Mudasir Ahmad Mir said over the phone. “We […]
Five Indian and Pakistani firms to make drug to ‘fight coronavirus’
New Delhi: A US pharmaceutical firm has signed agreements with drug makers in South Asia to expand supply of the drug remdesivir for treating Covid-19. The agreement between Gilead and five generic pharmaceutical companies in India and Pakistan will help make the medicine for 127 countries, BBC reported. Remdesivir cut the duration of symptoms from […]