SRINAGAR — The Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said some Covid-19 patients test positive weeks after recovering from the infection. “RT-PCR test can detect the virus weeks after Covid patients have recovered from the illness,” said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan. “That does not mean that a person is infectious […]
GENEVA — The World Health Organisation’s top vaccines expert says that immunising children against the coronavirus is not a high priority given the extremely limited global supply of vaccines. Dr Kate O’Brien says vaccinating children is not a priority from a WHO perspective , even as increasing numbers of rich countries authorise their COVID-19 shots […]
SRINAGAR — Rescue operation continued on Friday for the 5th consecutive day to fish out the body of a Srinagar youth who had jumped into the river Jhelum on 31 May. As reported earlier, a youth after alighting from his cycle at Cement Bridge Qamarwari jumped into the river Jehlum. Later on he was identified […]
SRINAGAR — Former Chief Minister and National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah and People’s Conference chairman Sajad Lone have regretted that the Jammu and Kashmir administration is not allowing them to take bullet-proof vehicles for their own as well as their party leaders’ security. Lone was the first to tweet saying he has converted his […]
SRINAGAR — In a surprising development, Jammu and Kashmir police has booked Bandipora Correspondent of news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO) over a WhatsApp status showing 20 children who died in boat capsize incident on May 30, 2006 at Wular Lake as “martyrs”. KNO’s Bandipora correspondent Sajid Raina received a call from police station Bandipora […]
NEW DELHI — After Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, petrol price has crossed the Rs 100-per-litre mark in Leh, in almost all districts of Andhra Pradesh and parts of Telangana after fuel prices were again hiked on Friday. Petrol price was increased by 27 paise per litre and diesel by 28 paise a litre, according […]
KARGIL — In Ladakh, the community class concept by the Education Department has been a great success as keeping in view the well being of the students as per the Covid SOPs. The schools are run in the open by establishing class rooms at meadows, pastures and barren lands in different villages in collaboration with […]
NEW DELHI — India recorded 132,364 cases of the coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide infection tally to 28,574,350, according to the data from the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW). Also, in the same period, 2,713 people succumbed to Covid-19, taking the related death toll to 340,702, the […]
NEW DELHI — At least 624 doctors died in the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic across the country, with the national capital losing the most. According to the latest report of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), so far 109 doctors have lost their lives in Delhi alone in the second wave. The IMA’s latest […]
Sahil Gulzar SRINAGAR — Rehana Nabi hails from Kursoo Padshahibagh area of central Kashmir’s Srinagar District is an artist in Calligraphy as well as crohet artist. She has done her schooling from New Way English medium public school and then moved to Candid higher secondary institute Nowgam,She said that young people are showing interest in […]