Coronavirus: One more tests positive in Ladakh, total cases reach 4

Leh: One more person has tested positive for coronavirus in Ladakh, taking the total number of cases in the Union Territory to four, a senior government official said on Thursday. Commissioner Secretary (Health) Rigzin Samphel said the patient is from Choshot Yokma area of Leh, which has now been notified as a ‘containment area’ by […]

Two attendees of Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi booked

Blamed for concealing travel history

Jammu: Two persons who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin were booked for allegedly concealing travel history in Udhampur district, officials said Thursday. Upon receiving information from the medical authority, Ramnagar, that two persons have concealed their travel history in order to evade necessary quarantine process, FIRs has been registered against them, […]

84 samples of Covid-19 suspects including a PSA detenue collected

Srinagar: Over 84 samples of Covid-19 suspects were collected Thursday and among these samples, one belongs to a Srinagar youth detained under Public Safety Act in Srinagar Central Jail. Well placed sources said that over 84 samples of Covid-19 suspects lodged in different quarantine centres were collected at JLNM Rainawari Hospital Srinagar and sent to […]

Won’t allow economic distress to affect poor, destitute: DG Social Welfare

SRINAGAR: As the country continues to remain under the COVID-19 lock down, Director General (DG), Department of Social Welfare Kashmir, Rukhsana Gani Thursday said that the government will not allow the economic distress to affect the poor and destitute living in the Union Territory. To mitigate the sufferings due to COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lock […]

Medicines, drugs available in sufficient quantity: Officials

Say strict action to be initiated against overcharging

SRINAGAR: On the directions of Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, a meeting was convened in the office of the Deputy Drugs Controller Kashmir, with the wholesale Drug Association of Srinagar with regard to the availability of medicines in the district. Similar meetings were also conducted at district level where officers took stock of the availability of medicines […]

People who participated in slain militant’s funeral will be booked: Police

Sopore: Police have started identifying those who participated in the funeral of a slain militant in Sopore in violation to government’s prohibitory orders. Pertinently, hundreds of people participated in the last rites of a slain militant Sajad Nawabi of Jaish-e-Muhammad who was killed in Armpora Sopore gunfight. A senior police official said that the participation […]

Centre afraid of Mehbooba’s political stature: Touseef Shah

Says delaying her release will complicate matters further

Srinagar: PDP leader Touseef Shah on Thursday condemned the central government’s move to keep PDP Party president Ms. Mehbooba mufti under continued PSA detention and only shifting her from a government accommodation turned sub Jail to her own residence. The central government by prolonging the detention of our party president Ms. Mehbooba Mufti is agreeing […]

Amid Covid-19 scare, people start construction work at mosque

Anantnag: Amid Covid-19 scare, a large number of locals in Sirhama area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district are busy in the construction of a mosque and for this purpose the services of dozens of non-local labourers have been utilised. Well placed sources said that amid Covid-19 scare, people in Mohalla Tulwada Sirhama area started construction […]

Khrew blast: 21-year old injured woman succumbs

Srinagar: A 21-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries which she received after a solar battery exploded at her home in Khrew area of Pampore in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, bringing the total number of the people killed in the tragedy to two. Her brother, a 25-year-old youth, died while she and two other family members […]