JAMMU, APRIL 06: Jammu and Kashmir Small Scale Industries Development Corporation Limited (SICOP) today contributed Rs 10 lakh to J&K Relief Fund to strengthen the ongoing efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19). In this regard, Atul Sharma, Managing Director SICOP presented a cheque of Rs 10 lakh to Commissioner Secretary Industries and Commerce […]
03 new positive cases reported today, 35243 persons under observation JAMMU, APRIL 06: The Government Monday informed that three new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), all from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 109. According to the daily Media Bulletin on […]
Calls for maintaining social distancing, distributes masks SRINAGAR, APRIL 06: General Manager (GM) SIDCO Aga Syed Aijaz today visited various industrial estates and quarantine homes established therein, to take stock of the steps taken to combat the spread of corona virus. The GM interacted with the president of industrial associations at industrial estate Shalteng, Rangreth […]
Srinagar: The number of coronavirus cases climbed to 109 in Jammu and Kashmir as three more persons under quarantine tested positive for the dreaded diseases on Monday. Among them, sources said one is from frontier Uri town of Baramulla district while two others are from Srinagar district. The case from the Uri is said to be […]
Srinagar: Three more soldiers, who were injured in a gunfight with militants in Kupwara woods, have succumbed to their wounds, talking the number of army personnel killed in the operation to eight including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO). Besides the soldiers, five militants were also killed in the gunfight which sporadically continued for several days […]
New Delhi: The leadership of the Tablighi Jamaat should have shown “sensible responsibility like the RSS… and cancelled its programme”, Sangh sah sarkaryavah (joint general secretary) Manmohan Vaidya said Monday. Addressing a press conference via video link, Vaidya said the Sangh had cancelled several programmes in deference to the government’s call for social distancing. But even as he criticised the Tablighi […]
Srinagar, April 6 (KNS): While reacting to J&K administration’s directive to fell all female Russian poplar trees “to contain” pollen related infections in Kashmir, CPI (M) J&K Secretary Ghulam Nabi Malik today said it would be an economic and ecological disaster which needs to be averted. A statement issued to KNS said the decision of the […]
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The Indian Railways has converted as many as 2,500 coaches into isolation wards for Covid-19 patients, the ministry announced on Monday. The coaches have a combined capacity of at least 40,000 beds, it added. “In times of lockdown, when manpower resources are limited and have to be rationalised and rotated, different zones of Railways have almost done […]