39 persons discharged after completing two-week quarantine
1811 persons discharged so far after successfully completing isolation period
SRINAGAR: Thirty nine (39) more persons who were shifted into administrative quarantine in Srinagar two weeks ago were discharged Thursday after successfully completing their 14-day quarantine period. Except one all these persons belonged to Srinagar district. Upon being discharged all these persons were ferried home in transportation the administration had arranged for their convenience. Concerned […]
Two attendees of Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi booked
Blamed for concealing travel history
Jammu: Two persons who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin were booked for allegedly concealing travel history in Udhampur district, officials said Thursday. Upon receiving information from the medical authority, Ramnagar, that two persons have concealed their travel history in order to evade necessary quarantine process, FIRs has been registered against them, […]
84 samples of Covid-19 suspects including a PSA detenue collected
Srinagar: Over 84 samples of Covid-19 suspects were collected Thursday and among these samples, one belongs to a Srinagar youth detained under Public Safety Act in Srinagar Central Jail. Well placed sources said that over 84 samples of Covid-19 suspects lodged in different quarantine centres were collected at JLNM Rainawari Hospital Srinagar and sent to […]
Won’t allow economic distress to affect poor, destitute: DG Social Welfare
SRINAGAR: As the country continues to remain under the COVID-19 lock down, Director General (DG), Department of Social Welfare Kashmir, Rukhsana Gani Thursday said that the government will not allow the economic distress to affect the poor and destitute living in the Union Territory. To mitigate the sufferings due to COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lock […]
Medicines, drugs available in sufficient quantity: Officials
Say strict action to be initiated against overcharging
SRINAGAR: On the directions of Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, a meeting was convened in the office of the Deputy Drugs Controller Kashmir, with the wholesale Drug Association of Srinagar with regard to the availability of medicines in the district. Similar meetings were also conducted at district level where officers took stock of the availability of medicines […]
People who participated in slain militant’s funeral will be booked: Police
Sopore: Police have started identifying those who participated in the funeral of a slain militant in Sopore in violation to government’s prohibitory orders. Pertinently, hundreds of people participated in the last rites of a slain militant Sajad Nawabi of Jaish-e-Muhammad who was killed in Armpora Sopore gunfight. A senior police official said that the participation […]
Centre afraid of Mehbooba’s political stature: Touseef Shah
Says delaying her release will complicate matters further
Srinagar: PDP leader Touseef Shah on Thursday condemned the central government’s move to keep PDP Party president Ms. Mehbooba mufti under continued PSA detention and only shifting her from a government accommodation turned sub Jail to her own residence. The central government by prolonging the detention of our party president Ms. Mehbooba Mufti is agreeing […]
Advisor Sharma discusses Agri scenario with Union Minister
Enumerates steps being initiated by JK in view of the Pandemic
JAMMU: Advisor to Lt. Governor, K K Sharma, Thursday participated in a meeting chaired by Union Agriculture Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Ministers of State Agriculture Parshottam Rupala and Kailash Choudhary, Secretary (DAC&FW) Sanjay Agarwal through video conferencing to discuss the state of affairs in Agriculture and its allied sectors in view of prevailing sitiuation […]
Amid Covid-19 scare, people start construction work at mosque
Anantnag: Amid Covid-19 scare, a large number of locals in Sirhama area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district are busy in the construction of a mosque and for this purpose the services of dozens of non-local labourers have been utilised. Well placed sources said that amid Covid-19 scare, people in Mohalla Tulwada Sirhama area started construction […]
Khrew blast: 21-year old injured woman succumbs
Srinagar: A 21-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries which she received after a solar battery exploded at her home in Khrew area of Pampore in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, bringing the total number of the people killed in the tragedy to two. Her brother, a 25-year-old youth, died while she and two other family members […]
