Amid lockdown, narco-smugglers in J-K using ambulances, doctors’ prescription for free movement
As all routes connecting J&K with the rest of the country have been sealed due to ongoing 21-day lockdown, the drug mafia is using ambulances and fake prescription slips of doctors to travel on the highways in guise of patients to avoid checking. Arrest of three narco smugglers, travelling in an ambulance three days back, […]
As India Exports Hydroxychloroquine, Punjab Faces Acute Shortage Of The Medicine Due To Panic Buying
Ever since rumours started floating around that Hydroxychloroquine could help improve immunity against Covid-19, Patients of joint pain and malaria – diseases which it actually cures — are not getting enough tablets of the medicine in Punjab, due to acute shortage at stores and short supply from the manufacturing companies. Chemist associations and the drug […]
Forest department using old polythene envelopes to make nursery in Kangan
Ganderbal: Forest Department is setting up a nursery in Zirpora Kullan area of Central Kashmirs Ganderbal district in which small trees are being planted in the nursery but the irony is the fresh nursery is being covered with old polythene and sub standard material. Reliable sources said Kashmir News Service (KNS), that the nursery is […]
COVID-19: 17 more test positive in J-K, tally rises to 224
Srinagar: Seventeen more people have been tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir; among them five are from Jammu division, while twelve are from Kashmir. The tally of the Union Territory has risen to 224. The government’s spokesperson, Rohit Kansal, confirmed that seveteen more cases have been detected. “5 are from Jammu division […]
Baramulla battles Covid, lack of health infra
On Wednesday, Kashmir saw the highest surge so far in the Covid-19 cases. At least six samples taken from Government Medical College (GMC), Baramulla, tested positive. Of the six persons tested positive, five were Srinagar residents and had returned from Nigeria. They were under quarantine at Gulmarg in Baramulla. After the first positive case was […]
Coronavirus: The children struggling to survive India’s lockdown
The sudden imposition of a 21-day lockdown in India to stop the spread of the coronavirus has thrown the lives of millions of children into chaos. Tens of thousands are calling helplines daily while thousands are going to bed hungry as the country shuts down to battle the pandemic. With 472 million children, India has […]
India says UN remarks on ‘stigmatization’ during COVID-19 are ‘highly objectionable’
India on Saturday reacted strongly to the United Nations’ call for the government to fight “stigmatization of certain sects of people”, with an Indian representative to the body saying the remark was “highly objectionable” as “such matters are being looked after by the government, enlightened citizens and the civil society in the country.” J S […]
Over 8 lakh case count if no lockdown, MEA cites ICMR; Health says no such report
Exposing lack of coordination within the government, the Health Ministry has rejected a statement made by the Ministry of External Affairs, which had quoted a study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to say that India would have had up to 8.2 lakh COVID-19 positive cases by April 15 had it not been […]
Why rescheduling of IPL will take precedence over T20 World Cup for BCCI
The multi-billion dollar global sports industry is staring at unprecedented financial fallout as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Cricket is no exception. Players are expecting pay cuts, and cricket boards are surely gearing up for tough negotiations with broadcasters. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the first of the sport’s governing bodies […]
Coronavirus update- ‘Need time’: Kejriwal explains his Tablighi challenge to PM Modi on lockdown
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday that Delhi will follow the Centre on the lockdown but would need two weeks to make the national capital’s containment zones airtight after each and every contact of the Tablighi Jamaat has been verified and quarantined. Kejriwal’s pitch for a two-week extension of the lockdown came […]
