The government on Tuesday appointed Pandurang Kondbarao Pole, Secretary to the Government, Department of Food, Civil, Supplies and Consumer Affairs, as Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir. A 2001-batch IAS officer will replace Baseer Ahmad Khan who has been appointed as 4th advisor to lieutenant governor irish Chandra Murmu.Beside appointment of the Pole as Divisional commissioner, the government […]
GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organisation called on Monday for every suspected coronavirus case to be tested, as countries across Europe tightened their lockdowns and global stock markets tumbled again. “You cannot fight a fire while blindfolded,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists. “Test, test, test. Test every suspected case.” The […]
Srinagar, Mar 17: District Development Commissioner Dr Shahid Iqbal Chowdary on Tuesday directed heads of Departments and Institutions to devise and submit proposal for televised coaching classes by March 20 this month which shall be supported and financed by District Administration Srinagar. At a time when Coronavirus is creating ripples and panic among people, authorities […]
A 21-year-old youth football coach has died in Malaga after contracting the dreaded COVID-19, his club said. Francisco Garcia, a youth team coach of Spanish league second division side Atletico Portada Alta, was found to be suffering from leukaemia after being rushed to a local hospital with severe COVID-19 symptoms. “We want to express our deepest […]
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has declared the coronavirus infection an epidemic and said any person who refuses to follow orders on prevention or treatment of the disease would be dealt under the law. This was declared in a four-page notification issued by the Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education Department, Atal Dulloo, following an […]
India on Tuesday reported its third coronavirus fatality with a 64-year-old man dying in Mumbai, Health Ministry officials said as the number of positive cases rose to 125. The patient, whose wife is stable, is the first COVID-19 death in Maharashtra, the official said. Earlier, a 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi in Karnataka with a travel […]
Recently hundreds of sand diggers protested in Srinagar and approached local media questioning the intentions of the authorities as they could not understand why they were in hurry to e-auction the sand blocks during the peak of clampdown with no internet facility in Jammu and Kashmir. Thousands of families from generations are dependent on the […]
No Gymnasiums, Saloons, Spa etc. shall operate till further orders. The District Magistrate Srinagar Shahid Choudhary has issued a list of measures to contain the spread of Corona Virus in Srinagar. According to order issued on Tuesday, all medical colleges, universities, coaching centres and other educational institutions — government and private — shall continue to […]
Three more persons have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus in Union Territory of Ladakh, taking the total number of infected persons to six, officials said on Tuesday. Quoting the spokesperson of Union Territory of Ladakh, Rigzin Sampheal, newsgathering agency KNO reported that three more cases from Ladakh Union Territory have been tested positive. Among […]
Calls for strict adherence to SMC advisory SRINAGAR, MARCH 16: Mayor SMC, Junaid Azim Mattu today convened a meeting of private hospitals’ management of Srinagar City to discuss infection prevention control programme for COVID-19, here today. Commissioner SMC, Gazanfar Ali and other senior officers were also present on the occasion. The Health Officer Dr. Qazi […]