Added on April 20, 2020
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Srinagar: A unique COVID-19 response mechanism has come up in Srinagar to help people in distress during the prolonged lockdown to fight the pandemic and provide a one-stop solution to matters ranging from real-time tracking of cases to availability of essential commodities. The Emergency Response and Management Centre (ERMC), which could be the first such […]
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Jammu: Four people were booked on Sunday for hiding their travel history in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police official said. The case was registered against the four people in the Budhal police station for violating the orders of the district magistrate, Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, Chandan Kohli said. “It is […]
Added on April 20, 2020
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Banihal/Jammu: The 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway was reopened on Sunday after remaining closed for two days, paving the way for resumption of traffic movement, mostly trucks carrying essential commodities to the Valley, Traffic Department officials said. However, they said traffic movement was slow during the day due to inclement weather and falling rocks from the […]
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Jammu: Stepping up the COVID-19 screening of Rohingya Muslims living at various slums here, the Health Department in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday collected a dozen samples for testing, officials said. The samples were taken randomly during screening of Rohingya Muslims residing at Kargil colony and Beeru plot in Bhatindi, a red zone, by a […]
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Udhampur/Jammu: Over 70 sheep and goats, belonging to two nomadic families, died due to a suspected case of hypothermia in a high-altitude village in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. The 73 animals along with two horses were found dead in Meer village of Panchari during the intervening night of Friday […]
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Ahmedabad: Gujarat on Sunday reported the highest single-day spike of 367 in COVID-19 cases, with Ahmedabad alone accounting for 239 new detections, a Health department official said. With this, the number of the infected people in the state shot up to 1743, while the death toll rose by 10 to 63. On Saturday, 280 new […]
Added on April 20, 2020
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Mumbai: The RBI on Friday further eased bad-loan rules, froze dividend payment by lenders and pushed banks to lend more by cutting the reverse repo rate by 25 basis points, as it unveiled a second set of measures to support the economy hit hard by a coronavirus-led slowdown. In his second televised address since the […]
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Washington: Coronavirus deaths have surged past 150,000 worldwide with nearly a quarter of them in the United States, where President Donald Trump lent his support to protesters rallying against lockdown orders. Evidence is mounting that social distancing successfully slowed the pandemic after more than half of humanity — 4.5 billion people — were confined to […]
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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Saturday said the government’s economic relief was like “peanuts” when compared with the economic devastation in the country and asserted that it should have offered packages amounting to at least 9 per cent of the GDP to help the people amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Moily’s attack […]
Added on April 19, 2020
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Paris: The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 154,188 on Saturday, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP. More than 2,251,690 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December. Of these cases, at least 497,600 are now […]
