Grenades, ammunition found near IB in JK’s Samba
Jammu, May 10 (PTI) Security forces have launched a search operation in a forest area near the International Border in Samba district after three grenades and 54 rounds of AK ammunition were recovered from the area, police said on Sunday. The explosives and ammunition were noticed by some villagers in the forest area near Goran […]
Mobile internet services to be restored shortly: Div Com
Srinagar: The administration on Saturday said that the mobile internet services across Kashmir will be restored soon. The services (2G mobile internet) were suspended soon after the encounter broke out between forces and militants in Awantipora area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district where a top Hizb commander, Riyaz Naikoo was killed along with his aide on […]
COVID-19: 2 Nurses, attendant at Srinagar Hospital among 13 test positive
Srinagar, May 09: Three more samples from Super Specialty Hospital here including that of two nurses and an attendant came out to be positive for novel coronavirus along with 10 other persons in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the number of the covid-19 patients in J&K to 836. Nodal officer Dr. Saleem at CD hospital here […]
Tractor driver killed in road mishap
Rajouri, May 9: A 30-year-old tractor driver was killed in an accident as the vehicle rolled down around 350-ft into a gorge in this mountainous district on Saturday. Official sources said that the driver Mohammad Aslam (30) son of Faiz Hussain of Bhangai village of Thannamandi died on spot in the accident which took place […]
Cytokine storm killed youngest coronavirus victim in Kashmir
Srinagar, May 9: Doctors in Kashmir Valley have now started believing that out of 9 deaths occurred in Kashmir Valley only one can be directly attributed to the lethal Coronaviurs infection while rest of the patients died not only of Coronaviurs but of other conditions-known in medical terminology as co-morbidities. Comorbidity in medical terminology means […]
Death toll due to COVID-19 rises to 1,981; cases climb to 59,662
New Delhi, May 9 (PTI) The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,981 and the number of cases climbed to 59,662 in the country on Saturday, registering an increase of 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry.? The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at […]
Restrictions continue in Kashmir, curbs relaxed in some areas
Srinagar, May 9: Restrictions continued in Kashmir on Saturday in the wake of killing of top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo in an encounter with security forces on Wednesday, but the curbs were relaxed in some areas of the valley where the situation remained peaceful, officials said. Restrictions on the movement and assembly of people […]
SBI complains to CBI after Rs 411 crore loan defaulter flee country
New Delhi, May 9 (PTI) Three promoters of Ram Dev International, recently booked by the CBI for allegedly cheating a consortium of six banks to the tune of Rs 411 crore, have already fled the country before the State Bank of India reached the agency with the complaint, officials said on Saturday. The CBI had […]
365 Kashmiri students to return home from Bhopal in 18 buses
Bhopal, May 9 (PTI) Over 360 Kashmiri students stranded in parts of Madhya Pradesh due to the lockdown will be sent back to their native places in air-conditioned buses from Bhopal on Saturday, an official said. As many as 365 Kashmiri students stuck in different districts of the state will return home in 18 AC […]
Trump says he will soon make a decision on WHO
Washington, May 9 (PTI) US President Donald Trump on Friday said that he will soon make an announcement on the World Health Organisation, which he alleged has become a puppet of China. Trump has already suspended funding to the WHO, accusing it of being misguiding the world on the coronavirus and siding with China on […]