Pandemic: Govt constitutes high-powered committee to release prisoners
Umer Maqbool Srinagar, Mar 30: Setting the stage for temporary release of convicts and under-trails lodged in jails of Jammu & Kashmir, the government on Monday constituted a high-powered committee for decongesting prisons in the Union Territory. The committee comprises of executive chairman State Legal Services Authority, Principal Secretary Home and Director General Prisons. Presently, […]
PSA detention of 31 persons revoked
Srinagar: Amid the Coronavirus outbreak, the government has revoked detention orders of 31 persons who were languishing in different jails of J&K under the controversial Public Safety Act. Authoritative sources said that the Home department has revoked detention orders of 31 persons lodged in different jails of J&K. “All of them were lodged in jails […]
Fighting Corona: PhD scholar makes masks to help control COVID-19 spread
Shopian: With the rising cases of COVID-19 reported in Jammu and Kashmir and an increased demand for face masks, a PhD scholar from south Kashmir’s Shopian district is sewing masks to contribute his bit to secure people’s lives. “On the one hand government is educating people about this deadly virus and asking them to take […]
Covid-19: Cultural Academy to rope in artists to aware people through songs
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages (JKAACL) Monday released a song to generate awareness among masses on the deadly virus. The song is written by poet, Muzafar Hussain Dilber and sung by noted Sikara fame singer, Munir Ahmad Mir. The first song, ‘Traw Nerun Te Pherun Watan Baya’ on deadly virus […]
COVID-19: Lt Guv for prioritizing treatment of patients, distribution of masks, PPEs to staff
JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu Monday chaired a high level meeting at Raj Bhavan to review the arrangements being put in place to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The Lt Governor emphasized on prioritizing the treatment of the patients tested positive for COVID-19 and passed directions […]
Indians in foreign countries won’t face any problem, Centre assures HC
New Delhi: The Centre informed the Delhi High Court Monday that its nodal officers are making efforts to ensure no Indian citizen faces any problem in any country due to the coronavirus pandemic. A bench of Justices Sanjeev Sachdeva and Navin Chawla was informed by the Centre’s counsel that he has received instructions from the […]
Family quarantined, burglars strike COVID-19 patient’s home in Bandipora
Srinagar: The house of a coronavirus positive patient in Bandipora district was allegedly robbed during the night as the entire family was in quarantine, police said on Monday. Burglars struck at a house in Saderkoot Bala area in Hajin area of the north Kashmir district during the night and decamped with some valuable including jewellery, […]
Suspended police officer Davinder Singh sent to further custody till Apr 3
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Police officer Davinder Singh, who was arrested while ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway earlier this year, has been sent to further custodial interrogation by a Delhi court till April 3. Special Judge Ajay Kumar Jain extended Singh’s custody after Delhi Police said that he […]
Advisor Farooq Khan’s mother donates savings for Hajj to RSS-affiliate
New Delhi: A Muslim woman from Jammu and Kashmir has donated her savings of Rs 5 lakh, meant for the Hajj pilgrimage, to the RSS-affiliated ‘Sewa Bharati’ after apparently being “impressed with the welfare work” done by the outfit amid the lockdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Khalida Begum, 87, who saved Rs 5 […]
Unidentified dead body recovered in Pulwama
Pulwama: An unidentified dead body was recovered from Romshi Nallah in Frespora Rohmoo area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday. Police sources said that some locals spotted the body lying in a rivulet at Fresipora Rohmoo and immediately informed the police about it. Soon after being informed, a police team reached the spot and […]
