Centre Asks States To Ensure Availability Of Oxygen, Functional Life Support Equipment At Hospitals

Centre Asks States To Ensure Availability Of Oxygen, Functional Life Support Equipment At Hospitals

NEW DELHI, Dec 24: With some countries witnessing a surge in Covid cases, the Centre on Saturday urged states and union territories to ensure the availability of Liquid Medical Oxygen, adequate inventory of cylinders and functional life support equipment such as ventilators at hospitals to face any challenge. The health ministry asked them to ensure […]

Town Development

Town Development

 In order to review the pace of development, the J & K administration is reviewing the progress of work not only at the village level but also in the towns of all districts. Recently J&K administration held a second spell of My Town My Pride programme and senior officers were present in all such programmes. […]

Freezing Temperatures Continue In Kashmir; Pahalgam, Gulmarg Record Minus 6.4°C

Freezing Temperatures Continue In Kashmir; Pahalgam, Gulmarg Record Minus 6.4°C

Srinagar: Freezing weather conditions continued unabated as mercury saw a further drop in Jammu and Kashmir with Kupwara town and Bhaderwah recording this season’s coldest night while mercury settled at minus 5.4°C in Srinagar on Saturday. A meteorological department official said that the temperature in Srinagar dropped by 0.6°C against the previous night and was […]

Argentina up to second in FIFA rankings, Morocco surge

Argentina up to second in FIFA rankings, Morocco surge

ZURICH: Winning the World Cup was not enough to lift Argentina atop the FIFA world rankings with arch-rivals Brazil keeping the No. 1 position, the global governing body announced on Thursday. Brazil were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Croatia but built enough rankings points from results over recent years that feed into FIFA’s calculation. Argentina […]

Afghan women banned from university ‘for not following dress code’

Afghan women banned from university ‘for not following dress code’

Afghan universities were declared off limits to women because female students were not following instructions including a proper dress code, the Taliban’s minister for higher education said on Thursday. The ban announced earlier this week is the latest restriction on women’s rights in Afghanistan ordered by the Taliban since their return to power in August […]

Power shutdown

Power shutdown

JAMMU, DECEMBER 23: Chief Engineer (Distribution), JPDCL Jammu has informed that the power supply to SMVDU University Campus shall remain affected on December 24 from 10 am to 4 pm. Similarly, the power supply to Gurha, Mandal, Purmandel, Sandhi, Utterbehni and adjoining areas shall remain affected on December 24 from 9 am to 2 pm. […]

AC approves double carriage way road from Rajouri to BGSBU

AC approves double carriage way road from Rajouri to BGSBU

JAMMU, DECEMBER 23: The Administrative Council (AC) which met here under the chairmanship of the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, approved the proposal for upgradation of 8 kms of Road from District Headquarters Rajouri to Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU). Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta, Chief Secretary, J&K […]

Kashmir, Ladakh continues to reel under deep freeze, minus 4.8°C in Srinagar

Kashmir, Ladakh continues to reel under deep freeze, minus 4.8°C in Srinagar

Severe cold conditions continued in Kashmir Valley as well as Ladakh as Srinagar recorded minus 4.8°C and Leh 13.8°C on Friday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that the temperature was 0.7°C against previous night’s minus 5.5°C which was coldest of the season so far. Overall the mercury was 2.8°C below normal during this […]