Recovering from Covid-19 not an immune passport: DAK
Srinagar, April 26 (KNS): Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Sunday said that the response towards COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir is appropriate and the healthcare workers are combating the deadly virus with optimal use of limited resources. President DAK, Dr Suhail Naik said that different studies carried out across world have revealed that a large chunk […]
High Court Quashes Three PSA Detention Orders
Srinagar; The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed the detention of three persons booked under the Public Safety Act, reported The Tribune. While disposing of the three separate habeas corpus petitions, a bench of Justice Tashi Rabstan quashed the detention of Shabir Ahmad Wani and Umar Ahmad Dar — both residents of DH Pora […]
40 fresh coronavirus cases in Kashmir, six dead
On a day when J&K recorded the highest the single day spike of COVID-19 cases after 40 new cases were reported from Kashmir, the UT also recorded sixth COVID-19-related deaths, after a 72-year-old man from North Kashmir, died in a Srinagar hospital on Saturday. The total number of COVID-19 deaths in J&K has now reached to six, […]
BMO Langate clarifies, cancels epidemiological sheet dated April 24
Srinagar, April 25 (KNS): Block Medical Officer (BMO) Langate on Saturday clarified that the contacts shared by Covid-19 patient as per epedimiological sheet uploded earlier does not match and hence stand cancelled According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), in a corrigendum note stated, “The epedimiological sheet uploaded on 24 April, 2020 does not correspond to […]
J&K Civil Secretariat Employees Union facilitate shifting of move employees to summer capital
Srinagar, Apr 25 (KNS): J&K Civil Secretariat Employees Union on Saturday took initiative to facilitate the return of Secretariat employees from winter capital Jammu to summer capital Srinagar. Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), President J&K Civil Secretariat Employees Union Rouf Ahmad greeted people of J&K on eve of Ramadhan. He said we have taken […]
Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)
40 new positive cases reported today, 112 recover in JK JAMMU, APRIL 25: The Government Saturday informed that 40 new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), (all from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 494. According to the daily Media Bulletin on […]
Lt. Governor extends greetings on Ramzan-ul-Mubarak
JAMMU, APRIL 25: Lt. Governor Girish Chandra Murmu has greeted the people on the commencement of the holy month of Ramzan and hoped that this auspicious period would be a harbinger of peace, amity, brotherhood, progress, and prosperity in J&K. In a message, the Lt. Governor said that the holy month of Ramzan is a […]
COVID-19: 17 patients, including a non-local, discharged from hospitals
Srinagar: Seventeen people, who were hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19 last month, were discharged from three different hospitals in Kashmir today after testing negative for the infection. Among these 17 people, one is a non-local from Kerala, who was tested positive after coming in contact with a Tableegi Jamat member. Nodal Officer for COVID-19 at […]
Two militants, an ‘associate’ killed in Awantipora gunfight
Two militants and a ‘militant associate’ were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Goripora area of Awantipora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday, police said. Quoting Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, news agency GNS reported that two militants and a militant associate were killed in the gunfight. The identity […]
How use of Chinese rapid testing Covid-19 kits created panic in a Kashmir village
Srinagar: Chinese rapid testing kits, distributed by the central government to various states/union territories to detect coronavirus, became a major source of panic at a village in Srinagar earlier this week. On Tuesday, a man in his 30s from Chandhara village of Pampore tehsil in Pulwama district tested “weak positive” for Covid-19 after his samples were examined using […]
