COVID-19: Srinagar’s SMHS hospital closes OPD section

COVID-19: Srinagar’s SMHS hospital closes OPD section

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 […]

Huge traffic jams from Nowhatta to Hawal

Huge traffic jams from Nowhatta to Hawal

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 […]

Partial restrictions in downtown due to coronavirus

Partial restrictions in downtown due to coronavirus

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 […]

Congress Moves Adjournment Motion To Release Political Prisoners In J&K

Congress Moves Adjournment Motion To Release Political Prisoners In J&K

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 […]

Man Suspected of Coronavirus Commits Suicide by Jumping off Safdarjung Hospital Building: Police

Man Suspected of Coronavirus Commits Suicide by Jumping off Safdarjung Hospital Building: Police

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 […]

Sitharaman lashes out at Congress over ‘1991 Pandit massacre’, says BJP brought peace to J&K

Sitharaman lashes out at Congress over ‘1991 Pandit massacre’, says BJP brought peace to J&K

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Wednesday aggressively defended the Modi government’s handling of the Jammu and Kashmir situation and pointed out that the citizens of the state had been denied human rights for a long time. Sitharaman talked about the massacre of Kashmiri Pandits and the denial of rights to women, courtesy the special status […]

Rajya Sabha elections: 37 elected unopposed; election to 18 other seats on March 26

Rajya Sabha elections: 37 elected unopposed; election to 18 other seats on March 26

With the ruling and opposition party candidates for Rajya Sabha elections sailing through unopposed in Maharashtra, West Bengal, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Telangana, Odisha, Haryana and Chhattisgarh. The elections for remaining seats in the upper house will be held in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat on March 26. Nominations had […]