Srinagar administration focuses on home-delivering of groceries
SRINAGAR: In view of restrictions on business operations and public movement imposed as part of measures to contain spread of COVID-19 in the district the Srinagar administration has designated 23 department stores which will home-deliver groceries as ordered to residents. District Magistrate Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary has issued orders in this regard under the […]
Enforce complete ban on female Russian poplar species: Div Com to DCs
SRINAGAR, APRIL 03: In compliance to orders passed by the High Court J&K in Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Nos-834/2015, 1637/2015 & 976/2016, the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir Pandurang K Pole, today chaired a meeting to discuss the pollen related infections in wake of already spread of COVID-19 and to work-out the strategy and measures to get […]
COVID-19: Three persons booked for lockdown violations in Ganderbal
KV Correspondent Ganderbal: Police on Friday registered a case against three persons for violating the orders under section 144 Cr PC issued by the District Magistrate Ganderbal, in view of COVID-19 Pandemic in the district. A Police Official said that Police Station Ganderbal booked three persons under FIR No. 64/2020, 188 IPC for violating prohibitory […]
SC seeks Centre’s reply on plea seeking free tests of COVID-19 suspects
New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI) 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 […]
489 persons in quarantine test negative, walk home
Srinagar, Apr 3: At least 489 persons who were quarantined here in different hotels and other Government Buildings have tested negative. All these persons have been sent back to their homes with the suggestion that they should quarantine themselves in homes for next 14 days. District Development Commissioner Srinagar, Dr Shahid Iqbal Chowdary said that […]
Two patients recovered from Covid-19 to be discharged: Doctors
Srinagar, Apr 3: The second consecutive test report of first patient admitted in Chest Disease Hospital Srinagar for Covid-19 has been turned out negative. Yesterday also the first test of this patient was found negative and today for re-confirmation, once more the samples of this patients admitted at CD Hospital were collected and the report […]
COVID-19: Pak struggles to stop congregational prayers, cases surge past 2,400
Islamabad, Apr 3 (PTI) Pakistan’s coronavirus cases crossed 2,400 on Friday as the authorities struggled to stop big congregational gatherings despite government’s notification limiting upto five the number of people attending such prayers to curb the spread of the deadly disease. Ministry of Health Services said that Pakistan’s coronavirus cases jumped to 2,450 on Friday. […]
Global virus cases top a million, deaths surpass 50,000
Washington, Apr 3 (AFP) The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has soared past one million and fatalities have topped 50,000 as the United States reported the highest daily death toll of any country so far. Despite more than half the planet living in some form of lockdown, the virus is continuing to […]
No democracy is fighting pandemic by gagging its media: Editors Guild
New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI) The Editors Guild of India has said it is “deeply perturbed” over the government blaming the media in the Supreme Court for causing panic among migrant workers, leading to their exodus in the wake of the lockdown, and asserted that such actions could obstruct the process of dissemination of news. […]
