United Nations: Nearly 25 million jobs could be lost worldwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, but an internationally coordinated policy response can help lower the impact on global unemployment, according to a UN agency. In its preliminary assessment report titled “COVID-19 and world of work: Impacts and responses”, the International Labour Organization (ILO) calls for urgent, […]
Agencies Mumbai: India’s rupee weakened to a new low and stocks slumped anew amid a global meltdown in risk assets, with rising number of coronavirus cases locally adding to anxiety. Sovereign bonds also declined. The rupee declined as much as 1.1% to 75.0562 per dollar to go past the key 75 mark for the first […]
Pulwama, Mar 19 : A day after authorities ordered restrictions of public transport in Srinagar, authorities have decided to suspend the movement of public transport in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. According to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the movement of public transport shall remain suspended in the district as a precautionary measure to avert the […]
New Delhi – The Centre on Wednesday issued a gazette notification for the adaptation of 37 central laws in the Concurrent List for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The gazette notification, issued by the Union Home Ministry’s Department of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Affairs, comes into force with immediate effect. It contains the 37 […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Thursday decided to close OPD section at SMHS hospital here amid growing threat of coronavirus spread in Srinagar where a sexagenarian woman yesterday tested positive, making it the first case of covid-19 in Kashmir Valley. Official sources told that the decision to close Out Patient department (OPD) section at SMHS hospital has […]
Beijing: China on Thursday marked a major milestone in its battle against the coronavirus pandemic as it recorded zero domestic infections for the first time since the outbreak emerged, but a spike in imported cases threatened its progress. The stark reversal comes as nations across the world have shut down in a desperate effort to contain […]
By Shayib Nazir Bhat Srinagar Hundreds of private vehicles and auto rickshaws are stranded at different points from Nowhatta to Hawal chowk. Security forces and police have sealed the roads at different points and are reducing to lift barbed wire. With the result there are huge traffic james at downtown people are pleading the police […]
By Shayib Bhat Srinagar Restrictions in some parts of down town In the wee hours of Thursday police and security forces partially sealed some parts of down town srinagar especially around khayanaar locality after one lady from this locality tested positive due to carona virus. Three more suspected cases having travel history are admitted in […]
New Delhi: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has moved an adjournment motion notice in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday over “demand to release political prisoners in Jammu and Kashmir”. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court earlier today asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration to apprise it whether it is planning to release National Conference (NC) leader Omar […]
New Delhi: A man suspected to be infected with COVID-19 allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a Safdarjung Hospital building on Wednesday, soon after he was admitted to the facility here by airport authorities, police said. The man was brought by the airport authorities as a coronavirus suspect and was immediately put […]