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New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Girish Chandra Murmu on Friday said the UT administration has been keeping intensive surveillance and has identified hotspots to preempt COVID-19 outbreak but “faced problems due to movement of Tablighi Jamaat” members, a statement issued by Rashtrapati Bhavan said. Murmu was participating in a video-conference of governors, Lt […]
Added on April 4, 2020
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Jammu: Five security personnel were injured in firing by the Pakistan Army along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Friday, officials said. The unprovoked ceasefire violation took place in Sunderbani sector of the district, they said. The injured were admitted to a hospital, the officials said. (PTI)
Added on April 4, 2020
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New Delhi: The government on Friday said there is no shortage of medical supplies across the country to fight COVID-19 outbreak. “Government of India is making sure that all the essential medical supplies are in place to fight COVID-19. 62 lifeline Udan flights transported over 15.4 tons of essential medical supplies in last five days,” […]
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Centre and other authorities on a PIL seeking a direction to them to provide free of cost testing facility for COVID-19 to all citizens in the country. A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta, in a hearing conducted through video conferencing, […]
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New Delhi: The number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 2,547 in the country on Friday while the death toll rose to 62, registering a jump of 478 cases, according to Union health ministry data. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 2,322, while 162 people were either cured or discharged and one had migrated, […]
Added on April 4, 2020
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Asks people to show solidarity towards fight against corona
New Delhi: In a new appeal to the countrymen, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked people to put off the lights in their houses for nine minutes at 9 pm on Sunday, April 5, and light lamps at their doors or balconies. “You are not alone, no one is alone in the fight against […]
Added on April 4, 2020
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New Delhi: Suspended Jammu and Kashmir police officer Davinder Singh, who was arrested while ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway earlier this year, was on Friday sent to further custodial interrogation by a Delhi court till April 10. Special Judge Munish Markan extended Singh’s custody after the Delhi Police said […]
Added on April 3, 2020
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New Delhi: With 235 more people being confirmed positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 2,069 and the death toll to 53 in the country on Thursday, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of active COVID-19 cases in the country is 1,860, while 155 people […]
Added on April 3, 2020
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Asks them to frame strategy for 'staggered' exit from lockdown
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told chief ministers to focus on COVID-19 containment measures — testing, tracing, isolation and quarantine — with a common goal of ensuring minimum loss of life, and pitched for a joint strategy for a “staggered” exit from the ongoing lockdown. As the country witnessed a spike in […]
Added on April 3, 2020
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Trucks carrying essential supplies allowed to move
Banihal/Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was partially restored on Thursday after being closed for a week to facilitate passage of trucks carrying essential supplies to Kashmir valley, officials said. A single stretch has been cleared on the arterial highway to allow passage of the trucks carrying essential commodities which were stranded there for many days, […]
