Man suffering from COVID-19 dies in JK; death toll rises to 2
Srinagar: A 65-year-old man who had tested positive for the coronavirus died at a hospital here on Sunday, taking the death toll due to COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir to two, officials said. The man, hailing from the Tangmarg area in Baramulla district, had tested positive for the coronavirus at SMHS hospital on Saturday where […]
Restrictions tightened as Kashmir records second COVID-19 death
Srinagar: Restrictions on the movement and assembly of people in Kashmir to contain the spread of the coronavirus were intensified on Sunday as the union territory recorded its second COVID-19 death, a day after 13 fresh cases were confirmed, officials said. The restrictions on the movement and assembly of people in Kashmir continued for the […]
JK cop shifts students from quarantine facility to hotel, other cops move them back
Jammu: A senior police officer on Saturday shifted some students from a quarantine facility to a hotel in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir after they complained that there were no facilities at the government-run isolation space, officials said. The IGP-level officer visited Radha Swami Ashram and shifted nine students who were undergoing quarantine there […]
Coronavirus global death toll crosses 31,000
Paris: The worldwide number of officially confirmed fatalities from the novel coronavirus rose to 31,412 on Sunday, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources. More than two-thirds of the deaths from coronavirus have now been recorded in Europe. Over 667,090 declared cases have been registered in 183 countries and territories since the […]
Death toll due to COVID-19 climbs to 25 in India; total cases 979
New Delhi: The number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 979 in India on Sunday with the death toll rising to 25, according to the Union Health Ministry. The ministry reported six fresh deaths — one each from Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Telangana. Thus, deaths have so far been reported from Maharashtra (6), Gujarat […]
COVID-19 cases surge to 33 in JK
Ten test positive in Kashmir, 3 in Jammu
Srinagar: The Covid-19 positive cases have shown a sudden spurt in Jammu and Kashmir with 13 cases being reported of which two are from Srinagar and three from Jammu taking the total number of positive cases in the Union Territory to 33 including the one who recovered and the one who passed away. “Ten more […]
Five villages declared red zones in Rajouri
Jammu: Five villages in Manjakote tehsil of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district were on Saturday declared as red zones and their surrounding villages as buffer zones to prevent the spread of coronavirus, officials said. The villages include Sarola, Dehridhara, Mangal Nar, Gambir Muglan and Kotli, the officials said quoting an order issued by Rajouri District […]
Prescribe Hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus patients: DAK to medicos
Srinagar: With 21 positive cases and a death due to the novel (new) Coronavirus in Kashmir valley so far, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday urged doctors to use arthritis drug, Hydroxychloroquine for patients who are diagnosed with the viral infection. “That would save lives and prevent spread of the disease,” DAK President Dr Nisar […]
Restrictions continue in Kashmir
Two teachers suspended in Bandipora for organising Friday prayers
Srinagar: The restrictions on the movement and assembly of people to curb the spread of the coronavirus continued in Kashmir for the tenth consecutive on Saturday, even as police booked several people for defying the lockdown by organising congregational prayers on Friday, officials said. While most of the mosques and shrines in the valley were […]
Multiple landslides blocks Jammu-Srinagar NH
Hundreds of trucks stranded
Banihal/Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was blocked at over a dozen places by landslides triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district, leaving hundreds of trucks carrying essential commodities to Kashmir stranded, officials said on Saturday. The men and machinery are on the job and efforts are on to make the 270-km-long highway, the only all […]
