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Police in Srinagar provides survival kits to needy

Srinagar: 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 commodities have […]

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Girl injured after locals clashes with police at quarantine centre in Chadoora

Budgam: 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 in the […]

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JK Bank lean marks Hawal man’s account as donations pile up

JK Bank lean marks Hawal man’s account as donations pile up

Srinagar: Authorities have ordered to lean mark the Hawal man’s JK bank account opened at Vilgam Branch of the bank after huge amounts of donations poured into the account. Reports said that an amount of Rupees 27 lakh, 30 thousand were deposited into the account after the man identified as Shabir Ahmad Shah posted a […]

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Police flexes muscles on protesters in Leh

Leh: Police Friday flexed muscles on people protesting against the alleged harassment in red zone area of Choshot here in Leh region. Aghast over the police action, Imam Khomeni Memorial Trust Kargil demanded stern action against those policemen who according to the Trust even didn’t spare women and children and beat them blue and black. […]

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Skipping quarantine: Authorities order FIR against medico, his brother

Poonch: Authorities on Friday asked police to file FIR against a doctor and his brother who fled from Administrative Quarantine where they were put after their travelling back from outside the J&K yesterday. Sources said that early Friday morning, the doctor, a Medical officer in Medhar, and his brother, left the quarantine without permission and […]

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Govt evacuates 4 9218 JK residents through Lakhanpur

JAMMU: The government, fulfilling its commitment towards providing succor to J&K residents stranded outside UT due to COVID-19 lockdown, has evacuated 49218 people through Lakhanpur besides bringing back home 7264 persons through special trains at Jammu and Udhampur till May 15. According to a detailed break up about the figures, Rajdhani from Delhi has brought […]

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COVID19: Bandipora fights back, figures at the bottom of positive patients list

BANDIPORA: Bandipora once being a hotspot for the novel Coronavirus cases is effectively fighting back and skipped from number one position to No 8 within a month. Thanks to the coordinated efforts by the district administration, Health Department and the field functionaries. Bandipora district was the first district to cross 100 figure mark in the […]

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Leh-Manali highway likely to be reopened on May 18: BRO

Leh: The 490-km Leh-Manali highway, which connects Ladakh with Himachal Pradesh, is expected to be reopened for traffic on May 18 as the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has completed the snow clearance work on the strategic road, officials said on Friday. Project Himank and Project Deepak of the BRO have cleared snow from 16,050 ft […]

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12 more test positive for Covid-19 in JK

Tally rises to 983, crosses 100 mark in Jammu Division

Srinagar: Twelve persons on Thursday tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the tally of Covid-19 patients in J&K to 983. Among all the cases—882 are in Kashmir and 101 in Jammu. Also, 485 patients have recovered—57 in Jammu and 428 in Kashmir while 11 people have died, nine of them […]

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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 […]