In J&K’s containment plan: 100% lockdown, raising isolation facilities
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has laid out the strategy for the period following the 21-day lockdown that ends Tuesday. The 19-point strategy governing the containment approach includes 100 per cent lockdown and screening in red zones, enhancing capacities for isolation, quarantine, and monitoring home quarantine, and constituting separate teams for contact tracing so that […]
Covid-19 cases in India double to 10,000 in six days
India went past a bleak milestone on Monday as the number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases crossed 10,000, with the infections doubling over six days and the government expanding containment efforts and ramping up testing in an attempt to curb the highly contagious pathogen from sweeping across the country. On Monday, 1,253fresh Covid-19 cases were […]
Iran foreign minister raises US sanctions with India
Iran foreign minister Javad Zarif on Monday raised the issue of “illegal and unilateral US sanctions” on his country during a telephone conversation with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar. In recent weeks, Iran’s top leadership has called on India and other countries to help defeat the US sanctions that are hampering the country’s fight against Covid-19. Iran […]
Explained: How coronavirus attacks, step by step
In the search for a treatment for COVID-19 disease, researchers have been targeting specific behaviours of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) that causes the disease. While the virus itself is still being studied, the hunt for a treatment is based on what is known so far about the way it infects humans. So, how does it infect someone? It begins […]
Govt revokes PSA detention orders of 36 persons
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday revoked Public Safety Act (PSA) detention orders of 36 persons lodged in different jails, sources said. Highly placed sources disclosed that Home department of J&K Union Territory today revoked detention orders of 36 persons lodged in different jails. Details gathered from different jails and police revealed that […]
SRINAGAR NEEDS EASING
Srinagar city has already witnessed four weeks of lockdown and being the capital of Jammu and Kashmir it has more reasons for the easing of restrictions now. There is no spike in the cases of COVID-19 and it has brought fresh optimism among the residents that they will get some respite now. District Administration of […]
COVID-19: Three Srinagar residents test positive, tally mounts to 273
Srinagar: A 4-year-old girl from Bandipora and twelve non-locals were among twenty-eight people tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Kashmir on Monday. The number of COVID-19 patients surged past 200-mark in the Valley and pushed the J-K’s tally to 273. “25 new cases of COVID-19 reported in J&K. All from Kashmir. Total now at […]
If you have this VPN app on your phone delete it immediately!
With 100 million installations, SuperVPN is very popular but it also has critical vulnerabilities that makes it very dangerous. Reported by TechRadar, VPNPro had reached out to Google as a part of its Google Play Security Reward Program on March 19 and that was when the company had validated the vulnerability. The Google Play Store has […]
After Modi’s appeal, AYUSH ministry gets over 2,000 proposals to tackle Covid-19 pandemic
New Delhi: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Naturopathy) practitioners to pitch in to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of AYUSH has received over 2,000 proposals in less than 15 days — all giving suggestions on how India could fight the highly infectious disease. On 28 March, PM […]
Coronavirus ‘disaster in the making’ in war-torn Syria
As Europe and the United States struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, experts warn that disaster looms in war-torn Syria, where hospitals are unable to meet existing needs and hygiene conditions are dire. The outbreak has infected more than 1.8 million people and killed more than 112,000 around the world since emerging in China in […]
