Pandemic response: Political prisoners should be among first released: UN rights chief
United Nations: The UN human rights body has urged nations to release individuals detained without sufficient legal basis, including political prisoners, as the world body stressed the need to take a very close look at incarcerations and reduce overcrowding in prisons to prevent catastrophic rates of COVID-19 infection. Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN High […]
Coronavirus scare: Admin takes measures for protection of animals at Jammu Zoo
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir wildlife department has taken several steps for the safety of about 500 animals at the Manda Zoo here, including thorough check-ups, an official said, amid concern over a tiger testing positive for the novel coronavirus in the US. Wildlife Warden, Jammu, Shahzad Choudhary said none of the animals at the […]
CRPF trooper killed in Bijbehara attack
Srinagar: One CRPF jawan was killed and another injured on Tuesday when a militant hurled a grenade at a patrolling party in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said. Head Constable Shiv Lal Neetam was killed in the incident in Bijbehara on Tuesday evening. A man threw a grenade at a CRPF patrolling party and ran […]
12 Covid-19 suspect members of 2 families ferried in one ambulance
‘GMC refuses to take samples’
Srinagar: District Administration Shopian Tuesday allegedly huddled 12 members of two families into an ambulance from Shopian to GMC Anantnag to collect their samples, but at GMC, doctors refused to take their samples saying the Covid-19 suspects from Shopian district can only be tested at District Hospital Pulwama. Notably, two members from these families who […]
Admin says no to Shab-e-Baraat gatherings
Srinagar: The Srinagar administration on Tuesday imposed ban on holding any religious congregation in the district on the occasion of Shab-e-Baraat (night of blessings) in the wake of pandemic outbreak-Covid-19. Shab-e-Baraat is observed across the sub-continent with religious fervor on the night of 14th of Islamic Calendar month, Shabaan. District magistrate Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary […]
Jammu man sent to quarantine centre for spitting on road
Jammu: Old habits will just no longer do, a Jammu and Kashmir administration employee found to his dismay on Tuesday when he was sent to a quarantine centre for blowing his nose and spitting on the road. The man, who works as an accountant in the civil secretariat here, had gone to meet a relative […]
COVID-19: Three more positive cases reported, total count 109
Srinagar: Three persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, taking the total number of positive cases in the Union Territory to 109, an official said. “There were three positive tests today. All these cases were detected in Kashmir,” the official said. The total number of corona positive cases in the Union […]
Chattabal declared as containment zone
SRINAGAR: All entries and exits leading into and out of Chattabal area of Srinagar were Monday sealed. The sealing of the area comes in the wake of its declaration as containment zone after several cases of COVID-19 affected persons were reported therefrom. District Magistrate Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary who issued an order in this […]
23 areas declared red zones in Jammu division
Jammu: At least 23 areas in three district of Jammu have been declared ‘red zones’ in wake of looming threat of Covid-19. These 30 areas fall in the district of Udhampur, Rajouri and Jammu. “There are 13 red zones in Udhampur, 5 in Rajouri and 6 in Jammu. The red zones that have been declared […]
Familiarity with restrictions: Fear of pandemic worries Kashmiri’s not the lockdown
New Delhi: Kashmir’s familiarity with lockdowns is helping it to cope with the unprecedented global health crisis better but it is causing the valley greater distress than the ones in the past. There is no simmering anger and feeling of suppression normally associated with lockdowns of the past. The only thing that they are worried […]
