Valley Patients discharged from outside hospitals treated harshly in Samba: Kadfeen

Valley Patients discharged from outside hospitals treated harshly in Samba: Kadfeen

Congress leader Kadfeen Choudhary on Tuesday expressed serious concern over thew ill-treatment being meted out to the stranded passengers including patients who are returning to Kashmir during the ongoing lockdown. According to statement issued to KNS, Kadfeen said that there are disturbing reports pouring in Samba and other areas where stranded people hailing from Kashmir […]

Jammu-Kashmir To Distribute Braille Enabled Laptops To Visually-Impaired Children

Jammu-Kashmir To Distribute Braille Enabled Laptops To Visually-Impaired Children

Jammu:  The School Education Department in Jammu and Kashmir is going to distribute 42 laptops among children who are visually impaired to provide inclusive educational support through technological interventions. The laptops will be connected to braille tactile terminals lying in the resource rooms, School Education Principal Secretary Asgar Samoon said. “This will help the visually-impaired […]

8 parties write to President over Mufti’s release

8 parties write to President over Mufti’s release

Leaders of eight Opposition parties on Monday flayed the Union Government over the detention of political opponents and human rights activists, including former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, at a time when the country was dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. In a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind, Opposition leaders, including Sitaram Yechury of the […]

Lt Governor briefs the Union Health Minister about the UT Administration’s efforts in mitigating spread of COVID-19 in J&K

Lt Governor briefs the Union Health Minister about the UT Administration’s efforts in mitigating spread of COVID-19 in J&K

Jammu, May 12 (KNS): Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today briefed Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, through video conferencing, about the effective measures undertaken by the Government for prevention, containment and management of COVID-19 in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The Lt Governor apprised the Union Minister about […]

DC G’bal directs for identification of poppy, cannabis growers

DC G’bal directs for identification of poppy, cannabis growers

GANDERBAL, MAY 12: Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal, Shafqat Iqbal today directed the officers to start identification of all such people of the district who intentionally grow poppy and cannabis so that intensive campaign against its cultivation is initiated in the district. The DC gave these directions while chairing a meeting to discuss the arrangements for launching […]

Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)

Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)

55 new positive cases reported today, 455 cases recovered till date in JK All passengers arriving by trains, other means into J&K are being 100 percent tested for COVID-19 JAMMU, MAY 12: The Government Tuesday informed that 55 new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), 13 from Jammu division and 42 from Kashmir division, have […]

SHAMEFUL 

SHAMEFUL 

In the recent past there have been two tragic deaths in South Kashmir of two pregnant women, triggering protests and widespread condemnation as families alleged negligence of doctors. A small video surfaced on the social media showing body of a pregnant women on a stretcher as hospital authorities in Anantnag reportedly refused to provide them […]

Visually Impaired of J&K can now access Internet: Samoon

Visually Impaired of J&K can now access Internet: Samoon

Braille Tactile Readers with Laptops being installed in Resource Rooms for CWSNs under Samagra Shiksha JAMMU, MAY 12: Samagra Shiksha-Department of School Education, in its endeavor towards providing inclusive educational support through technological interventions to Children with Special Needs (CWSNs);  is going to distribute 42 Laptops among Resource Rooms established under Inclusive Education component in […]

COVID-19: 55 test positive in J-K, total tally crosses 900

COVID-19: 55 test positive in J-K, total tally crosses 900

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir witnessed the highest one-day jump in COVID-19 patients on Tuesday as 55 persons tested positive, taking the total to more than 900-mark. Professor Farooq Jan, Medical Superintendent SKIMS 47 people tested positive at the tertiary care’s viral diagnostic lab in last 24 hours. Among them, he said, 28 are from Kulgam, ten […]