Karnataka IAS officer served showcause notice over Tablighi Jamaat tweet, says ‘can’t please everyone’
A day after being served a showcause notice by the Karnataka government for a tweet on the Tablighi Jamaat congregation, IAS officer Mohammed Mohsin on Saturday said he “can’t please everyone all the time”. Mohsin, posted as a secretary in the Backward Classes Welfare Department in Karnataka, was served a showcause notice by the state government over […]
ICMR plans to study whether novel coronavirus strain in India changed form
NEW DELHI : The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is planning to study whether the novel coronavirus strain in India has undergone mutation while spreading within the country over the last two months. According to a senior scientist of the country’s apex health research body, determining whether or not the SARS-CoV2 strain has changed form […]
Students Bear The Brunt As AMU, Jamia Scurry To Send Them Home
A day after the MHA revised its lockdown guidelines on Thursday to allow the movement of migrant workers, students, and other stranded persons, a bus with about 20 students left the Aligarh Muslim University campus for Saharanpur. The students expected they would be dropped home but the bus went past the city and reached a […]
Lone rues closure of agriculture Sub-sale centers
Srinagar, 02 May: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Senior Leader , and Member of Parliament from Baramulla Muhammad Akbar Lone on Saturday expressed dismay over closure of Sub-sale centers of the Department of Agriculture at different locations in Kashmir division saying the measure will cause inconvenience to the farmers and affect the annual agriculture produce. […]
25000 stranded persons expected to reach Kashmir
DC Budgam finalizes tests, quarantine arrangements for those arriving Budgam BUDGAM, MAY 02: As many as 25000 persons stranded in many parts of the country are expected to reach Kashmir, in coming days. The District Administration, Budgam finalized arrangements with the Health department to ensure proper testing, quarantine and other facilities are put in place […]
Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)
27 new positive cases reported today, 254 cases recovered till date in JK JAMMU, MAY 02: The Government Saturday informed that 27 new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), 02 from Jammu division and 25 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to […]
Gunfight rages in Handwara
Srinagar, May 02 (KNS): Gunfight rages between government forces and militants in north Kashmir’s Handwara town on Saturday afternoon. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), joint team of 21 RR, 09 Para, 92 Bn CRPF and SOG of J&K Police launched a Cordon & Search Operation (CASO) on special inputs about the presence of militants […]
Two militants killed in Pulwama encounter: IGP Kashmir
Srinagar, May 3 (KNS): Two unidentified militants were killed in an encounter in Dangerpora area of Pulwama. The encounter broke out between government forces and militants in Dangerpora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday morning, police said . Police official said that after receiving input about the presence of militants in the area, […]
COVID-19 sampling, testing of returnee people, Div Com reviews preparedness
Asks for increase per day testing capacities SRINAGAR, MAY 02: The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Pandurang K Pole today chaired a high level meeting to review preparedness and other arrangements of COVID-19 Sampling and Testing for stranded persons, who are returning to valley (Returnee-People) from different states of the country, in coming days. Threadbare discussion was […]
“We borrowed money”: Families struggle to bring Kashmiri prisoners home in lockdown
Srinagar: After nine months, when Mudasir Ahmed Wani was released from jail in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, the country was locked down to contain the spread of COVID-19. He couldn’t come home. An auto-rickshaw driver by profession, Wani was arrested in August 2019 as the government cracked down on Kashmir before and after repealing the region’s special […]
