Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday slammed the Jammu and Kashmir administration over its utterly non-serious approach and mismanagement in containing the spread of the deadly COVID 19. At a time when positive cases are witnessing a dreadful spike and government has failed to flatten the curve in Jammu and Kashmir, administration is indulging in […]
Government of J&K on Friday extended the term of Prof. Veena Pandita as Chairperson J&K BOSE for further two years. An order issued by Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon (IAS), Principal Secretary to the Government, School Education Department said, “In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 12 of the Jammu and Kashmir […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday (July 9) published an updated version of its March 29 scientific brief, ‘Modes of transmission of virus causing COVID-19: implications for infection prevention and control (IPC) precaution recommendations’, which it said included “new scientific evidence available on transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19”. In the brief, the […]
Three labourers were injured after a road roller hit them during a macdamization work on Arhama-Kangan road here on Friday. An official told Greater Kashmir that three labourers suffered injuries when a road roller hit them after its brakes stopped working during a road macdamization work in Arhama area. The injured have been shifted to […]
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank who they said was throwing firebombs at a guard post, but who Palestinian officials say was merely strolling through his village. The army claimed that troops fired late on Thursday at two Palestinians who were throwing Molotov cocktails at the guard post near […]
Players will have to motivate each other in the absence of any spectators in cricket’s post-coronavirus reality, spin bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed has said while quarantining with the Pakistani team in England ahead of a three-Test series next month. Playing behind closed doors is one of the many conditions the game has reluctantly accepted before […]
Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday appealed people to come forward and donate plasma, a medical procedure being used by doctors to treat the novel coronavirus disease across the globe. President DAK, Dr Suhail Naik said a large number of people who have recovered from Covid-19 pandemic are eager to donate plasma and it is […]
Several persons including students quarantined in Old Airport Rangrath in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Friday complained that authorities have plunged them into uncertain situation as their further investigation related to Covid-19 is not beig done. Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS) over phone, they said their test have been done few days ago and […]
A 75-year-old man from Kupwara district died of COVID-19 at a hospital in Bemina, Srinagar, taking the number of people succumbing to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 159. A resident of Chatgund area of the north Kashmir, the septuagenarian was referred from Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), the Medical Superintendent, Dr Shifa […]
Mudasir Ahmad Khan, A senior journalist who has worked with different newspapers from the past 2 decades, was bereaved on Friday as his ailing father Ghulam Mohammad Khan of Karfali Mohalla Habakadal, went for heavenly abode in C.D Hospital of Srinagar. A joint condolence meeting was held in Srinagar to express sympathies with mudasir Khan. […]