Pulwama youth who tested positive contacted 87 people, all quarantined
Pulwama, Mar 29: South Kashmir’s Pulwama youth tested positive for Covid-19 infection has contacted 87 people and all these persons have been quarantined, official sources said. Pertinently, a 26 year old youth (name withheld) from Pulwama area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, affiliated with Tableegi Jamat has tested positive for Coronavirus. While tracing the travel […]
Landslide hits Baramulla village, 14 members of four families rescued
Baramulla Mar 29: At least 14 people from four families were rescued after a landslide hit three houses and a cowshed in Chandoosa area of Baramulla district. Station House Officer (SHO) Chandoosa, said that they got an information about landslide from Lateef Abad, Chandoosa Baramulla around 10 pm last night. The information revealed that three […]
275 Indians, evacuated from Iran, reach Jodhpur
Jaipur, Mar 29 (PTI) A batch of 275 Indians evacuated from coronavirus-hit Iran arrived at the Jodhpur airport on Sunday morning, an official said. He said a preliminary screening of the passengers was conducted at the airport and thereafter, they were shifted to the Army Wellness Facility set up at the Jodhpur Military Station. Additional […]
Kashmir records 2nd COVID-19 death, North Kashmir resident succumbs
Srinagar, Mar 29: Kashmir Valley recorded the second fatality due to the novel coronavirus as a 62-year-old man hailing from north Kashmir’s Baramulla district died on Sunday morning. A senior government official said that the man died at Chest Disease hospital at around 4:00 am. A doctor said that the man was referred from SMHS […]
Trump decides against quarantine for New York region
Washington, Mar 29 (AFP) US President Donald Trump decided late Saturday against imposing a broad lockdown on New York and its neighbours after a strong pushback from local political leaders and warnings of the panic it could spark. “A quarantine will not be necessary,” Trump tweeted, some eight hours after he stunned the New York […]
US coronavirus toll at new records
Washington, Mar 29 (AFP) The number of novel coronavirus cases in the United States, already the world’s highest, reached a new record on Saturday, a count by Johns Hopkins University showed. Over the past 24 hours the United States also marked a record 453 deaths linked to the COVID-19 illness, bringing the country’s toll to […]
Worldwide coronavirus toll passes 30,000, two thirds in Europe: AFP tally
Paris, Mar 28 (AFP) More than 30,000 people have died worldwide in the coronavirus pandemic, two-thirds of them in Europe, according to an AFP tally at 1900 GMT on Saturday. In total, 30,003 lives have been lost with 21,334 of those in Europe where Italy has the highest number of fatalities with 10,023 deaths, followed […]
Police officer shifts students from quarantine facility to hotel, other cops move them back
Jammu, Mar 29 (PTI) A senior police officer on Saturday shifted some students from a quarantine facility to a hotel in Samba district after they complained that there were no facilities at the government-run isolation space, officials said. The IGP-level officer visited Radha Swami Ashram and shifted nine students who were undergoing quarantine there to […]