Ensure no one goes hungry in JK: Lt Guv to Officials

Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday reviewed the relief measures for people affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic and said it is the collective responsibility of the officers at various levels to ensure that no one goes hungry in Jammu and Kashmir. In order to assess the effective implementation of various welfare schemes in […]

Use technology to trace people misusing social media: DGP to officials

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbag Singh on Monday directed officials to use technology-based tools to identify and bring to book people using social media for anti-national and anti-social activities. The director general of police (DGP), while chairing a high-level security review meeting at the police headquarters here, also asked them to put in place […]

Deputy commissioners authorised to utilise all staff for Covid-related work in JK

Jammu: Amid a spike in COVID-19 cases, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has authorised deputy commissioners to utilise all available staff for Covid-related work like mobilisation for vaccination, testing and surveillance, an official order said on Sunday. It also stated that ASHA and Anganwadi workers would be trained and empowered to assist in Covid mitigation […]

Gunshots heard in Pulwama

Srinagar: Gunshots were heard in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, but there was no loss of life or injury reported, police sources said. The sources said the shots were heard near Women’s Degree College in Pulwama in south Kashmir. No loss of life or injury has been reported so far, they said, […]

Cyclone with wind speed of 155-165 kmph may hit Bengal-Odisha coasts on May 26

Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: A depression in east central Bay of Bengal is very likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm with a possible wind speed of 155 kmph to 165 kmph and make landfall on May 26 evening between Paradip in Odisha and Sagar island in West Bengal, the Met department said on Sunday. The […]

COVID-19 situation stabilizing: Govt

Says positivity rate, daily cases, active cases reducing

New Delhi: The COVID-19 positivity rate has declined from 24.83 per cent on May 10 to 12.45 per cent on May 22, the Union health ministry said on Saturday. Addressing a press briefing, Niti Aayog member (health) VK Paul said that though there has been an overall decline in case burden but the positivity rate […]

Kishtwar conspiracy case: Three Hizbul militants charge-sheeted by NIA

Jammu: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed a charge sheet against three Hizbul Mujahideen militants in a 2019 case related to a conspiracy to revive militancy in Kishtwar district, an official said. The charge sheet against Jaffer Hussain of Hunjalla and Taraq Hussain Giri of Pochhal in Kishtwar and Tanveer Ahmad Malik of […]