Added on March 25, 2020
KV Network
Srinagar: ‘It’s a very different world’, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday after being released from nearly eight months in detention, adding that the first task was to fight COVID-19 and any discussion on political developments could come later. Abdullah, sporting a long, unkempt grey beard, drove himself to his […]
Added on March 25, 2020
KV Network
Washington: Over 10,000 confirmed coronavirus cases were reported in a single day in the US, raising the number of COVID-19 patients to 43,734, as President Donald Trump signed an executive order to prevent hoarding of vital medical supplies and personal protective equipment. The US also for the first time registered over 130 deaths in a […]
Added on March 25, 2020
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Concealing travel history HC directs government to take action against those concealing facts JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court Tuesday directed the authorities of the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh to enforce their notifications/instructions/orders regarding all disclosures including travel history; quarantining and isolation stringently and take strict measures to ensure that […]
Added on March 25, 2020
Press Trust of India
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a complete lockdown across the country for 21 days from Tuesday midnight, asserting that social distancing is the only way out for the country in its decisive battle against the coronavirus. In his second address to the nation on the pandemic raging across much of the world […]
Added on March 25, 2020
Press Trust of India
New Delhi: The announcement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 21-day nationwide lockdown from Tuesday midnight in view of the coronavirus threat led to panic-buying of essential items in many parts of the national capital. The prime minister appealed to people not to panic, saying thronging shops will pose the risk of spread of COVID-19. […]
Added on March 25, 2020
Press Trust of India
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was released on Tuesday after nearly eight months of detention. His release order was issued after charges under the Public Safety Act (PSA), slapped on him in February, were revoked. Abdullah, who turned 50 on March 10, had spent 232 days in custody since the government […]
Added on March 25, 2020
Press Trust of India
Dhaka: Bangladesh on Tuesday initiated a process to “conditionally” release jailed former prime minister Khaleda Zia for six months amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country, Law Minister Anisul Huq told PTI. The 74-year-old opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief is serving a 17-year prison term in two graft cases since February 8, 2018. “The decision […]
Added on March 24, 2020
Press Trust of India
Admin seeks restricted intra-district movement as well
Jammu: Upping the ante in its fight against the Covid-19 spread, the Jammu and Kashmir administration on Monday ordered sealing of its entire interstate borders with Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and the Union Territory of Ladakh. It also ordered release of an additional Rs 40 crore to all deputy commissioners to support their corona-mitigation efforts besides […]
Added on March 24, 2020
KV News
Srinagar: Authorities in Kashmir on Monday started enforcing a lockdown to help check the spread of coronavirus in the valley. Police vehicles fitted with public address systems went around residential areas in the city and elsewhere in the valley early in the morning to announce that restrictions under CrPC Section 144, barring assembly of people, […]
Added on March 24, 2020
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4329 persons under observation: Govt
JAMMU: The Government Monday informed that 4329 travellers and persons in contact with suspected cases have been put under surveillance and, so far, only four cases have tested positive in Jammu and Kashmir. According to the daily Media Bulletin on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) 2916 persons have been kept under home quarantine while as 50 are […]
