Covid-19: Active infections cross 1 lakh mark
New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 22,775 new COVID-19 cases, highest since October 6, while the number of active cases surpassed one lakh and Omicron infection tally reached 1,431, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. India logged 161 fresh Omicron infections, taking the total tally of such cases in the country to […]
Cong for more compensation to Vaishno Devi shrine stampede victims
Jammu: Attributing the death of 12 pilgrims in a stampede at Mata Vaishno Devi shrine to the grave negligence of the administration, the Congress party on Saturday demanded a Rs 50 lakh compensation to families of those killed and Rs 10 lakh to the injured in the tragic incident. The J&K unit of Congress demanded […]
Pol parties express grief over Vaishno Devi stampede
Srinagar/Jammu: Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir expressed grief over the loss of lives in the stampede at the shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi in Jammu on Saturday and urged the administration to take adequate steps to ensure such an incident does not recur. Deeply saddened by the news from #matavaishnodevi. My condolences to the […]
Three militants killed in Panthachowk encounter
Five security force personnel injured: Police
Srinagar: Three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants were killed and five security force personnel injured in an encounter in Pantha Chowk area of the city here on Friday, police said. One of the slain militant was involved in the December 13 attack on a police bus in the nearby Zewan area in which three policemen were killed […]
Omicron has started replacing Delta variant in India: Sources
New Delhi: Omicron has started replacing Delta variant in the country in terms of the number of COVID-19 cases and 80 per cent of international travellers who tested positive have this new variant, official sources said Friday. However, a third of all the detected cases were mildly symptomatic, and the rest were asymptomatic, they said. […]
Hyderpora operation was transparent: DGP
Says he was hurt by political leaders' comments on probe
Jammu: Asserting that some people are engaged in “soft separatism” by cleverly supporting militancy, Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbag Singh on Friday termed Hyderpora operation “neat and clean” and asked political leaders questioning the clean chit’ given to the forces to submit evidence to investigation panels. He said he felt hurt over irresponsible utterances of […]
