Ready to open Sgr airport with 40 per cent flight operations: Officials
Srinagar: The airport authorities in Srinagar Thursday said that they are ready to resume the flight operations with only 30 to 40 per cent air traffic if the Centre gives its nod. The officials said that all Standard Operating Procedure (SoPs) and Covid-19 protocol will be followed as all arrangements have been put in place. […]
Covid-19: Div Com directs for improving sample collection, labeling
Reviews functioning of testing labs, procedures
SRINAGAR: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Pandurang K Pole Thursday chaired a meeting to review the measures for streamlining and further improving the functioning of the Corona virus testing laboratories at SKIMS Soura, GMC Srinagar and SKIMS Medical College Bemina besides sample collection centers at District/Subdistrict hospitals in Kashmir division. During the meeting several measures were discussed […]
DDC reviews arrangements at Quarantine Centres
Visits Red Zones, reviews essential services
SRINAGAR: Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar Shahid Iqbal Choudhary visited more than two dozen quarantine centres in Panthanchowk, Nowgam, Shalteng, South, Khanyar and North Tehsils to review the arrangements and interacted with residents arriving from different states. More than 90 hotels across the city have been taken over by the administration and designated as quarantine centres. Another […]
Hotelier accuses Medical Superintendent of ‘arrogance, misbehavior’
Srinagar: A hotelier from Srinagar has written to Lieutenant Governor accusing a Medical Superintendent of misbehavior and arrogance. The owner of 127 room 4 Star Hotel, Saqib Shafat Shah in a communiqué to LG has stated that Medical Superintendent JVC SKIMS Bemina is ‘drunk with arrogance’ and she lacks human touch in every aspect. “JVC […]
900 migrants return to JK from Maharashtra
Jammu: Nine hundred migrants from Jammu and Kashmir, including 400 students belonging to the Valley, were ferried home from Maharashtra by a ‘Shramik Special’ train on Thursday, officials said. However, several students from Jammu stranded in Pune alleged that the union territory administration was biased in the evacuation process. “The government has failed to evacuate […]
Militants escape cordon in Kulgam
Kulgam: An encounter between security forces and militants, which broke out at Yamrach village of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Wednesday night, ended on Thursday with the militants managing to flee from the encounter site taking advantage of the darkness. An official said that the encounter started after a joint team of Jammu and Kashmir […]
Advisor Baseer Khan calls for early execution of JKPDC projects
JAMMU: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan Thursday reviewed the working of J&K Power Development Corporation (JKPDC) here at a meeting. The Advisor took detailed review of the physical and financial progress, working of the Corporation along with ongoing projects, strategy for harnessing the Hydro Power potential and to make the Corporation a viable […]
