Two villages declared red zones to prevent spread of COVID-19
SHOPIAN, MARCH 30 Invoking prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC, Disaster Management Act and The Epidemic Disease Act, District Magistrate Shopian said that there would be no inward and outward movement of any person from the villages declared red zones and the people would stay in their homes to ensure complete lockdown. In […]
Covid-19: Govt sanctions Rs 17.65 Cr for registered construction workers
JAMMU, MARCH 30: The government today sanctioned Rs 17.65 crore for construction workers registered with the J&K Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board who have been left without any work due to lockdown announced in view of coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Accordingly, the government sanctioned Rs 1000 each in favour of active registered construction workers. […]
Covid-19: Govt notifies helpline for JK’s stranded migrant labourers
JAMMU, MARCH 30: The government today notified helpline numbers for migrant labourers of Jammu and Kashmir who are stranded in various parts of the country due to lockdown announced in view of coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Migrant labourers have been asked to seek assistance and help by contacting the following helpline numbers: Zameer Ahmad, Assistant Labour […]
Suspended Jammu And Kashmir Cop Davinder Singh Sent To Police Custody Till April 3
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Police officer Davinder Singh, who was arrested while ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway earlier this year, has been sent to further custodial interrogation by a Delhi court till April 3. Special Judge Ajay Kumar Jain extended Singh’s custody after Delhi Police said that he […]
COVID-19: Budgam man tests positive, tally reaches 46 in J-K
Srinagar: One more person has tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Kashmir. The patient is a resident of Soibug, Budgam, and had a travel history of Odisha. He had also taken part in a religious gathering at Bemina. Dr. G H Yatoo, Nodal officer at SKIMS, Soura, confirmed the report. This case had taken the […]
Centre Sets Up High-Level Panels to Restore ‘Normalcy’ Post Lockdown
New Delhi: The government on Sunday constituted 11 empowered groups to suggest measures to ramp up healthcare, put the economy back on track and reduce the misery of people as quickly as possible post the 21-day lockdown imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic. These empowered groups have been constituted to ensure a comprehensive and integrated response […]
Congress Slams ‘Thoughtless’ Lockdown, Links It to Demonetisation
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday slammed the lack of preparedness by the Modi government before announcing the “thoughtless” lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak, alleging it was making “hasty” decisions in the same manner as it did during the 2017 demonetisation exercise. “Unfortunately, history is repeating itself today,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said. “The lockout […]
‘We’ll die of hunger first’: Despair as Zimbabwe lockdown begins
Harare, Zimbabwe – It was still early on Sunday morning when Stewart Dzivira, his wife and their two-year-old son, jumped on a bus in Glen View, a densely populated suburb of Harare, to head into Zimbabwe’s capital. For days now, the 33-year-old has been unsuccessfully trying to get maize meal, or mealie meal, a Zimbabwean staple that […]
Assam doctor who took anti-malaria drug amid Covid-19 outbreak dies
A doctor in Assam, who health officials say took an anti-malaria drug that has apparently shown some effect against the coronavirus disease Covid-19, has died due to a heart attack, his colleagues said. It was not clear if the use of hydroxychloroquine is connected to the death of Utpaljit Barman, 44, a senior anaesthetist at […]
India assesses Covid-19 sample pooling for tests, says top scientist. How it helps
India is looking at increasing the capacity of testing for coronavirus disease Covid-19 by pooling of samples. The effort was announced on Twitter by India’s principal scientific adviser Vijay Raghavan. “Efforts to increase test capacity by the ‘pooling’ of samples are being evaluated. This is not simple and needs the development and testing of optimization algorithms so […]
