Srinagar, June 10 (KNS): Amid buzz over possible errors in diagnosis with both RT-PCR tests and the faster antibody-based tests, president Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK), Dr Suhail Naik Wednesday said despite best efforts, no test can be 100% accurate. Dr Naik, who is a senior paediatrician, said every test has its own rate of true […]
Baramulla, June 10 (KNS): After five days of continuous search, the body of a missing soldier was today fished out from a dam in Boniyar area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said. According to reports Police and the army after seeking help from the CCTV footage found that the soldier had gone across the […]
Srinagar: The final meeting to open shops in the city centre—Lal Chowk and other areas of Srinagar will be taken after a crucial meeting between traders and the deputy commisoner Srinagar today afternoon, official sources told news agency. They said the traders have already given a written undertaking that they will follow the Standard Operating Procedure […]
Srinagar: The Directorate of Health Services Kashmir (DHSK) has suspended Block Medical Officer, Handwara, for incompetence and using unparliamentary language with staff and general public, reported a news agency, Press Trust of India. An order issued by the DHSK on Tuesday said that an inquiry had been constituted against BMO Handwara, Dr Abdul Majid over a complaint […]
New Delhi: Mathematical models of the progression of COVID-19 show it would be “possible” for Delhi to have 5.5 lakh cases by the end of July, several scientists have said while stating that community transmission of the disease may have started a while ago. Warning of more trouble ahead, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on […]
Last evening, media outlets were abuzz with news stories doing rounds that China had withdrawn its troops by 2 to 2.5 kilometers after top brass military talks on 6 June on India-China standoff in Ladakh. However, the “sources on the ground paint a far bleaker picture of Chinese intransigence along the Line of Actual Control […]
Islamabad : Pakistan has registered its highest single-day spike of coronavirus cases with over 5,000 infections in the last 24 hours, a day after the World Health Organisation urged the government to follow an “intermittent lockdown” policy to stem the spike in the disease. According to the Ministry of National Health Services, 83 more COVID-19 […]
Srinagar: Two more militants were killed in a gunfight that broke between militants and the government forces in Sugoo-Hendhama village of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, taking the toll of killed militants to five. A local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO), quoted unnamed official sources saying that five militants have been killed in the […]
Srinagar: A woman admitted to Srinagar’s Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial (JNLM) hospital for Covid-19 tried to escape Sunday after she tested positive for a fifth time. An asymptomatic case, she was first brought in on 2 May along with her husband and three children, who were also asymptomatic. While her family eventually tested negative and were discharged, […]
The distance between Jammu and Srinagar – the winter and summer capitals, respectively, of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir – is less than 300 km. But the chasm in mutual trust is far greater. In 1872, when Maharaja Ranbir Singh began the practice of alternating between Jammu and Srinagar every six months as […]