Police vaccination ambulances’ launched in Reasi
Jammu: Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi on Saturday started ‘vaccination ambulances’ after modifying 16 vehicles to help the civil administration to reach the remotest pockets of the district to ensure 100 percent inoculation against COVID-19, officials said. A total of 16 troops’ carrier vehicles have been modified into police vaccination ambulances to supplement the […]
Alarm: WHO says India COVID variant found in 44 countries
New Delhi: The B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus first identified in India last year has been found in 44 countries, says the World Health Organization (WHO) which has classified it as a variant of concern’. The UN body routinely assesses if variants of SARS-CoV-2 result in changes in transmissibility and severity, or if they lead […]
COVID vaccines don’t damage placenta, may be safe in pregnancy: Study
New Delhi: COVID-19 vaccines may be safe during pregnancy, suggests a study that found no evidence of injury to the placenta in pregnant women who received the preventive. The first-of-its-kind study, published on Tuesday in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, adds to the growing literature that COVID-19 vaccines are safe in pregnancy. “The placenta is […]
CRPF rescues critically injured civilian from gorge
Jammu: A CRPF jawan carried a critically injured accident victim on his back from a 50-metre-gorge along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, officials said on Wednesday, as his effort was lauded after Army’s Jammu-based White Knight Corps shared the pictures on social media. Naresh Kumar, a resident of Kathua district, was on the way to Srinagar […]
O Jerusalem: 24 Palestinian killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza
Gaza City (Gaza Strip): Israel unleashed new airstrikes on Gaza early Tuesday, hitting the high-rise home of a Hamas field commander and two border tunnels dug by militants, as Hamas and other armed groups fired dozens of rockets toward Israel. The escalation in the conflict was sparked by weeks of tensions in contested Jerusalem. Since […]