The recent significant decision taken by JK Chief Secretary to bring the levels of pressure on the health infrastructure here will go a long way to streamline the process. The need was felt as despite fresh lockdown everyday hundreds of new positive cases are detected infected by Covid-19. The government said that referral hospitals […]
Almost a year after he was detained in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, People’s Conference chairman and former state minister Sajad Lone was released from house arrest on Friday. Lone took to Twitter to announce his release and said that jail was not a new experience for him but the latest […]
Srinagar: A Border Security Force soldier died of cardiac arrest during duty along the Line of Control in Mankote area of this district on Friday. They said constable R .Ravindra of 72 battalion BSF suffered the heart attack at Songali post in Mankote sector. The 43-year-old was shifted to nearby health facility where doctors declared […]
The editor of a south Kashmir based news portal, The Kashmiriyat, was summoned by Jammu and Kashmir police’s cyber cell in Srinagar on Friday for “unknown reasons.” In a statement, the Kashmiriyat said that Qazi Shibli “got a call from the Cyber Police station at around 2:15 PM on Thursday asking him to present himself” in the Cyber Police […]
India recorded more than 50,000 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, for the second day in a row, pushing its infection tally to more than 1.63 million, according to the Union health ministry data. According to health ministry data, India has added 1,053,377 cases since July 1—702,689 have been […]
China’s territorial claims in Bhutan and the recent incursion into Indian land are indicative of their intentions, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday, adding that Beijing under Preisdent Xi Jinping was trying to find out whether other countries are going to push back. Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a […]
Srinagar: Seven more deaths were reported in Jammu and Kashmir due to COVID-19 since last evening, taking the toll to 373, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). Four of the victims were from Srinagar, two from Pulwama while one, a 56-year-old, was from Jammu’s Shakti Shakti Nagar. All of the deaths from Srinagar […]
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday indicated that he will seek a confidence vote when the assembly convenes next fortnight and claimed that the money offered to the MLAs to switch sides had increased sharply ahead of the session. “The floor test will happen; we are going to the assembly. The BAC decides this,” […]
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Thursday alleged that the government has “deliberately” chosen August 5 as the date of the bhoomi pujan ceremony for the Ram temple at Ayodhya as the “demolition” of Jammu and Kashmir and the rebuilding of the temple are both “core agendas of Hindutva forces”. Last year on August 5, the abrogation of […]
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has said it has had “good data so far” on its vaccine for Covid-19, developed in partnership with the University of Oxford, which is already in large-scale human trials. There are no approved vaccines for the illness caused by Sar-Cov-2 but AstraZeneca’s vaccine is being widely considered the leading candidate after results […]