Lieutenant Governor compliments Agriculture Deptt for GI tag JAMMU, JULY 25: In a momentous decision GoI has issued certificate of GI registration for the Saffron grown in the Kashmir Valley. Expressing happiness on the development, Shri G. C. Murmu Lieutenant Governor, Union Territory of J&K said that this is the first major step to […]
JAMMU, JULY 25: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has evacuated about 2,60,615 JK residents, stranded in other parts of the country due to COVID lockdown, via Lakhanpur and through special trains and buses till date amid strict observance of all necessary guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures. As per the official data received in this regard, […]
Kashmir Valley on Saturday reported four more deaths due to covid-19, taking the number of people succumbing to the virus to 302 in J&K. Among the fresh casualties, three were from Srinagar, the worst hit district both in terms of the causalities as well as number of the covid-19 cases, while another victim belonged to […]
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, it was confirmed Saturday afternoon. In a tweet on his official account, the Chief Minister wrote, in Hindi: “My dear countrymen, I was having COVID-19 symptoms and, after a test, my report came back positive”. Mr. Chouhan also appealed to […]
Srinagar: District Budgam will soon be getting a 100-bedded hospital for labourers which would be built with an estimated cost of Rs 180 crore at Ompora Housing Colony, informed Commissioner Secretary Labour and Employment (L&E), Saurabh Bhagat, here on Thursday. He said this while chairing a meeting of officers of Labour and Employment and other […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested a Kashmir University student hailing from south Kashmir’s Shopian district in a case registered against him in 2018. Aqib Ahmad Malik, a second-semester student of Bio-Chemistry at the premier educational institute of the valley, had been summoned by police for questioning in a case related to unlawful […]
One more militant has been killed in an ongoing encounter in Ranbirgarh area on the outskirts of Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district on Saturday, taking toll to two. Inspector General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar told news agency GNS that one more militant has been killed in the ongoing encounter. However, the identity of the militants […]
It was a rare and dark moment in the life of Iltija Mufti, daughter of the PDP president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, to witness the taking away of her mother on August 5 last year by the police, hours before the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was scrapped and the state came […]
The Union health ministry’s technical wing is formulating guidelines to help manage long-term complications that some people have reported after recovering from severe Covid-19 illness, officials aware of the matter said. “The ministry is working on guidelines for discharged patients who may develop other complications post-recovery at home. It has been reported that a section […]
Rigorous implementation of pandemic lessons, systematic containment, and proper planning and procurement to plug the gaps in health infrastructure are key, the Centre has told nine states that are currently facing a surge in novel coronavirus infections. At a high-level review meeting that went on for three hours over a video link on Friday, the Centre emphasised six main […]