SHOPIAN, APRIL 24: The District Administration, Shopian has termed the news report circulated by the Global News Service (GNS) is as baseless and distortion of facts. According to the DC office, Shopian, the Deputy Commissioner, Shopian is closely monitoring the situation and has visited the Covid-19 affected Heerpora village a number of times to take […]
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has reserved its order on a plea by journalist and author Gowhar Geelani challenging imposition of the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention ACT (UAPA) against him. The court heard the matter for almost an hour through video conferencing and the order likely to come by the evening. The case came […]
Coronavirus latest updates: US President Donald Trump on Friday suggested that researchers should try to apply their findings to coronavirus patients by inserting ‘light or disinfectant’ into their bodies. The theory comes amid shortage of testing kits and medical staff in the US, where nearly 50,000 people have been killed and over eight lakh people have […]
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said today that plasma therapy showed positive results on coronavirus patients in the capital. Four COVID-19 patients had plasma therapy treatment in Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital in the last few weeks. The initial results are positive and encouraging, added Kejriwal. “We are happy with the positive results in the […]
New Delhi: A medical study by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is set to test whether a drug used to treat sepsis and liver cirrhosis can reduce the risk of death in critically ill Covid-19 patients. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has research teams across the world scrambling to find a treatment or vaccine […]
Senior India spinner Harbhajan Singh has been a part of the Indian Premier League (IPL) since its inception and he has played for both Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians – the two most successful sides in the tournament. When MI have won the tournament four times, CSK claimed the title thrice. The off-spinner has won the […]
Transactions worth Rs 21,000 crore over four years (2015-2019) done mainly to siphon off funds; falsifying records; a Rs 1,100-crore loan from a “brother to a brother” that violated basic fiduciary norms; sales worth Rs 9,000 crore to over 160 customers who are bogus or do not exist, inflated bank balances and a string of […]
Srinagar, April 23 (KNS): Authorities of SKIMS Bemina today clarified the news that a doctor posted in Srinagar was terminated after he refused to use low be quality PPE kits. Taking to KNS, they said, ” the person in question was a junior resident doctor. He was not a permanent employee and was engaged for […]
Suyash Choudhary, Head of Fixed Income at IDFC AMC on Thursday raised the possibility that monetisation of the fiscal deficit may already be underway at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). To put it in layman’s terms, monetisation of the deficit is the printing of money to finance government spending. This process is usually not […]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar of repeatedly interfering in the functioning of the state administration, and asked him to judge who has crossed the limit of constitutional dharma and the norms of decency between the two constitutional functionaries. In a strongly worded seven-page letter to the governor, Banerjee […]