Srinagar The administration on Wednesday decided to close all the government departments except those providing essential services across the Jammu and Kashmir till April 14, a top official said today. Taking to social networking site Twitter, government spokesman Rohit Kansal wrote: “#COVID19 #JammuAndKashmir #FightagainstCorona All government offices except those providing essential services closed till April […]
Social distancing was evident in the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. The Cabinet meeting held at Lok Kalyan Marg comes a day after PM Modi announced a complete lockdown across the country for the next three weeks and urged Indians to practice social distancing to combat coronavirus pandemic. Senior ministers were present at the meeting […]
By Shayib Bhat Srinagar Dozens of complaints have come to the offices of media outlets and newspapers from common people in Srinagar claiming that police was not allowing even the people have genuine emergencies to move on the streets. Police and security forces were seen on Wednesday enforcing curfew like restrictions Srinagar and […]
By Shayib Bhat Srinagar According to senior official in the administration they were waiting from the signal of central government to revoke PSA slapped on former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti. When asked by the reporter when she would be released, he said, “It can today, tomorrow”. However news agency IANS has reported that the PSA […]
After tweeting to offer tips on surviving a quarantine or lockdown, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah has a meme for “serious & scary times” up his sleeve. The National Conference leader has been tweeting regularly after he was released from detention on Tuesday after nearly eight months. And in one of them, […]
His travel history reveals that he had been everywhere before confirmed positive for Coronavirus in Srinagar. He had been to Delhi, Deoband seminary, Jammu and then to a Sopore mosque in North Kashmir. And finally, this 65-year-old man started showing symptoms of COVID-19 and had to be admitted to a hospital. The doctors tell Outlook […]
New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Tuesday warned against an inordinate use of hydroxychloroquine, just a day after the apex research body issued an advisory on using it as a preventive drug against the novel coronavirus. At an ICMR press meet, its epidemiology head Dr Raman Gangakhedkar called the usage of the anti-malarial drug as […]
New Delhi: About 70 Kashmiri students stranded at Benapole on the India-Bangladesh border will not be brought back to India, ThePrint has learnt. The students study at a medical college in Bangladesh, according to a video that has gone viral. “In view of the advisory on restrictions in movement from other countries into India and within […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday announced a complete lockdown across the country for three weeks starting from midnight tonight to stave off the menace of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). “In the view of the current situation, the nationwide complete lockdown will be in place for 21 days,” the Prime Minister declared in his second address to the nation in a […]
SRINAGAR, MARCH 24: The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Pandurang K Pole today chaired a meeting to review implementation of the directions passed by the High Court in Public Interest Litigation (PIL) regarding traffic management in the capital city. Threadbare discussion was held on matters which include identification of more parking sites in left-out areas, status of […]