JAMMU, MARCH 26: Managing Director Jammu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (JPDCL), Yasha Mudgal visited various quarantine centers of district Jammu to ensure adequacy of security, logistics like food/essential commodities etc, medical surveillance and sanitation arrangements During the tour, she visited five quarantine centers including Teacher Bhawan Gandhi Nagar, Yatri Bhawan, Bhagwati Nagar, NHPC Guest House […]
JAMMU, MARCH 26: Cabinet Secretary, Rajiv Gauba today held video conference with Chief Secretaries of all States/Union Territories to review supply chain management and transportation of essential commodities and services in and out of the State/UTs during the lockdown period as announced by the Prime Minister to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak. The meeting was […]
Two children, aged 7 and 8 years-old respectively, have tested positive for coronavirus disease (covid-19) in Srinagar on Thursday, officials said. Sources told Global News Service (GNS) that they had come in contact with the elderly man (COVID-19 patient) from Natipora who had arrived from Saudi Arabia recently. A senior doctor at JLNM hospital told […]
NEW DELHI : The government is looking for volunteer doctors to fight the coronavirus outbreak which has infected over 600 people in the country and has taken more than 19,000 lives across the globe. In a statement posted on Niti Aayog’s website on Wednesday, the government appealed to retired government, Armed Forces Medical Services, public sector undertaking or […]
New Delhi: Video chat app ‘Houseparty’, which raked in two million global downloads last week, has gone viral amid worldwide lockdowns to curb the Covid-19 outbreak . Since 2 March, the number of global downloads of the app has been growing at a much faster pace than other popular video conferencing apps like Zoom, Google Hangouts and Skype. […]
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government Thursday announced a Rs 1.7 lakh crore relief package, including cash transfers and free foodgrains, for the poor and migrant workers who have been hit the hardest by the Covid-19 lockdown and the ensuing halt in economic activity. The steps announced will also benefit farmers, affected employees of the organised sector, and women. Called […]
To address the immediate economic distress in the wake of the lockdown prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic, and ensure food and cash reaches the marginalised segments of society, the government announced a ₹1,70,000 crore package, under a new scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Yojana (PMGKBY), on Thursday. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, at a press […]
Jammu Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) President Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Thursday urged the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister to restore high speed mobile Internet, one of the prerequisites, in taking up preventive measures against the spread of Coronavirus-19 in Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement issued here, Bukhari observed that restoration of 4G […]
The Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday ordered closure all the Court complexes of J-K and Ladakh including the High Court complexes at Srinagar and Jammu, during the period of the lockdown. This is has been ordered in view of the declaration of 21-day lockdown by the Government of India and […]
A woman, who had returned from Europe last week and admitted to a hospital here with symptoms for coronavirus, left the facility for home after stray dogs entered her ward, her family said on Thursday, refuting the administration’s claim that she had escaped. “The claims of the administration that they had tracked her are nothing […]