Home-deliveries of foodgrains and LPG to citizens to free food packets to migrant workers to free food and medicines to citizens in need among a range of measures to minimise problems because of restrictions in the district: DC Srinagar SRINAGAR, MARCH 29: While there are elaborate measures in operation in the district for containment of […]
38 positive cases with 02 recoveries and 02 deaths, 6465 persons under observation in JK JAMMU, MARCH 29: The Government today informed that 6465 travellers and persons in contact with suspected cases have been put under surveillance and, so far, 38 cases (34 active positive, 02 recovered and 02 deaths) have tested positive in Jammu and Kashmir. […]
Scary, distressing, catastrophic: A bleak assessment by experts, humanitarians and epidemiologists on what a severe coronavirus outbreak would look like in countries across Africa sheltering millions of refugees and other vulnerable people. The virus that swept across the globe has infected more than 660,000 people and killed some 30,000 since it was detected in China late last year. […]
Dr Samoon assures smooth, speedy regularization of ReT teachers SRINAGAR, MARCH 29: Directorate of School Education Kashmir today issued orders for the regularization of 155 Rehbar-e-Taleem teachers engaged under erstwhile Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA) to the post of Teacher Grade-II. The official order of the regularization reads that “Chief Education Officers of Budgam/ Ganderbal/ Kulgam/ Pulwama/ […]
JAMMU, MARCH 29: The government today issued helpline numbers to facilitate inter-state migrant labourers who arrived in Jammu and Kashmir prior lockdown announced in view of coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. According to the Labour Commissioner J&K, the migrant labourers can contact the following helpline numbers for assistance and help: Showkat Shafi, Inspector, 8899546373 and Ansar Ahmad, […]
SRINAGAR, MARCH 29: Director, Shere-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, Dr AG Ahanger today appealed to people not to pay heed to unverified reports attributed to him on the social media regarding the spread of Coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir A message, which is being circulated on social networking sites attributing Director SKIMS to […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) is closely following the development of the coronavirus in Taiwan and is learning lessons from how they are fighting it, the body said on Sunday, after complaints from Taiwan it was being intentionally ignored. Taiwan is not a member of the WHO due to the objections of China, which claims […]
New Delhi: Ramping up government efforts to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday constituted 10 empowered groups, to be headed by secretaries, for planning and ensuring quick implementation of decisions taken to check the spread of coronavirus, ThePrint has learnt. Covid-19 cases have spiked in India over the last few days to cross […]
Debayan Saha and Shashi Ranjan, alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and AIIMS respectively, along with Sashi Ranjan who is a biomedical scientist from NUS, Singapore claim to have created a robot that can sanitise cities and stop the spread of the coronavirus. Their device ‘Airlens Minus Corona’, they say, can successfully tackle the coronavirus. It operates on […]
Srinagar In a sudden spurt in coronavirus cases in Kashmir, five more COVID-19 positive cases were reported in the Valley on Sunday. This takes the total number of coronavirus disease (COVID1-9) cases in the entire J&K to 38. “5 more positives cases confirmed in Kashmir -2 from Srinagar, 2 Budgam, 1 Baramulla,” tweeted government spokesman […]