New Delhi: A group of scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)’s Centre for Molecular Medicine are researching the efficacy of a revamped tuberculosis vaccine, the BCG, which has been infiltrated with the Covid-19 protein to potentially protect people from the novel coronavirus that has wreaked havoc across the world. Led by well-known immunologist Dr Gobardhan Das, […]
Srinagar: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Sunday airlifted for treatment the ailing father of a 36-year-old man who had begun to cycle back home to Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district from Mumbai where he works as a watchman. After ThePrint’s report Friday on the arduous journey Mohammad Arif had embarked on after learning that his father, Wazir […]
thank health care workers, policemen, sanitation workers, who are on the frontline of the battle against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), as well as those who have been providing essential services during the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown to check the spread of the pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted his party colleagues and asked them to help […]
‘Contact tracing going on scientifically, sample collection being taken to doorsteps’ SRINAGAR, APRIL 05: At a time when the world is grappling with deadly coronavirus pandemic, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has established timely COVID-19 hospitals—which are working round the clock and performing sample testing swiftly. Director, Health Services Kashmir, Dr Samir Mattoo said that the […]
Millions of people across the country switched off the lights of their houses in a show of solidarity in fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Lamps were lit, torches were switched on and mobile lights were flashed from the balconies by countrymen who answered the call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister, in […]
A second migrant facility in Greece has entered quarantine after a resident tested positive for coronavirus. It comes three days after a similar facility, where 23 asylum seekers were found to be infected, was put under quarantine. In the latest case, a 53-year-old Afghan man staying at Malakasa camp along with hundreds of other people […]
Srinagar: Five militants and as many soldiers including a JCO from army’s elite para force were killed on the fifth day of an ongoing operation in the woods of Kupwara district in north Kashmir on Sunday. Defence ministry spokesman Col Rajesh Kalia said that the slain militants were infiltrators and that the operation was still going […]
Srinagar, April 05 (KNS): Congress has said that those who have completed their normal period of quarantine at different places in and outside J and K should be facilitated to their respective locations and there should not be any pick and choose of privileged ones. In a statement issued to KNS chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma […]
Srinagar April 05 (KNS): As J&K is witnessing continous spike in Covid-19 positive cases, five more persons which were reported today includes five persons from Uri town of Baramulla district on Sunday. According to Kashmir News (KNS), Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Uri Reyaz Ahmad Malik said that all fresh cases are family members of the two […]
New Delhi: Private schools are looking to ensure that their students participate in Sunday night’s lamp-lighting activity set out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and have issued forms to parents, ThePrint has learnt. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) had on 3 April asked students across the country to follow the Prime Minister’s appeal to light a lamp […]