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Army reaches out to 5-year-old girl with severe burns

Uri: Amid the nationwide lockdown, the Army’s Dagger Warriors reached out to a five-year-old girl with severe burn injuries on the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s Uri sector and provided her timely treatment, officials said. The victim, Alia, had met with an accident that caused severe burn injuries to her recently in Kalgai […]

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Compliment efforts of administration, scale up activities: Lt Guv to IRCS

JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu Friday asked the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS), Jammu Region to collaborate with the local Municipalities and identify mentally unsound, homeless destitute in their jurisdiction on priority and take effective steps to provide them with a means of sustenance. He was chairing a meeting with the functionaries of IRCS, […]

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Virtual classes being provided to students: Advisor Sharma

JAMMU: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, KK Sharma Friday directed for doubling the efforts to provide facility of virtual classrooms and digital platforms to the students of Jammu and Kashmir, so that their studies do not suffer due to COVID-19 lockdown. The Advisor made the remarks while interacting with the Directors of Education of both the […]

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Chattabal locality in Srinagar declared as ‘red zone’

Srinagar: The authorities on Thursday declared Chattabal locality in Srinagar City as a “red zone” in view of a cluster of four positive cases of COVID-19 in the area, officials said. “Chattabal has been declared Containment (Red) Zone in view of cluster of four positive cases,” the Srinagar District Administration said in a tweet. The […]

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Medico body signals alarm, says positive percentage a concern

Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Thursday said nearly one in every 13 test samples in Kashmir valley are coming out positive for the novel (new) coronavirus. “Overall, country has about one in 22 tests positive for COVID-19,” said DAK President, Dr Nisar ul Hassan. “As of April 02, Kashmir valley has tested 678 samples, […]

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Govt provides 2 lakh masks, 5 ventilators to hospitals

Srinagar: Government of Jammu and Kashmir has provided additional masks, personnel protection kits to hospital for distribution among doctors and other health providers working in different hospitals in Valley, officials said on Thursday. Apart from it, five ventilators were given to Valley’s hospitals, a senior officer of the J&K Medical Supplies Corporation Limited said. He […]

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Tangmarg teacher test positive for coronavirus

Admin asks people to report kids whom he taught

Srinagar: A day after diseased COVID-19 patient’s teacher son tested positive for the dreaded disease, authorities in Tangmarg on Thursday urged people not to panic and asked students who were taking tuition from him to contact the nodal officer. “It is very unfortunate to inform the general public that tests confirmed that one son of […]

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Decongesting jails: High-powered panel says release of PSA detainees can’t be considered

Srinagar: Amid outbreak of deadly coronavirus, a high-powered committee constituted by the Jammu & Kashmir Government has maintained that release of detainees under the Public Safety Act (PSA) does not fall within the terms of guidelines issued by the Supreme Court to decongest jails. Highly placed sources disclosed that the panel observed that release of […]

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Youth shot dead by militants in South Kashmir

Anantnag: Suspected militants shot dead a man in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district this evening. Sources said that militants fired upon a person at Fathepora Larkipora area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district this evening. He was shifted to Government Medical College hospital where doctors declared him as brought dead. Medical Superintendent GMC Anantnag, Dr Mehrab Majid […]

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OP NAMASTE: RR assists police, admin in ensuring lockdown

Baramulla: A SVL team of Baramulla Rashtriya Rifles and ARTY BDE & JKPF jointly assisted district administration in maintaining lockdown amid Covid-19 pandemic. The Rashtriya Rifles Army Battalion at Bramulla in conjuction with the Svl Team of Artillery Brigade & JKPF assisted the district administration in maintaining the lockdown amid the pandemic by providing them […]