JAMMU – A 40-year-old patient infected with Mucormycosis or popularly known Black Fungus having recently “recuperated” from COVID-19 died at Government Medical College Jammu on Friday, making it the first fatality of its type in J&K. Quoting Principal GMC Jammu, Dr Shashi Sudan, news agency GNS reported that the person, a resident of Poonch was […]
JERUSALEM – Israeli police attacked worshippers at the Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound with stun grenades, media reports said Friday. Clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have broken out hours after a truce in Gaza went into effect. Israeli police fired stun grenades and tear gas shortly after Friday prayers. Hundreds of Palestinians had held […]
JAMMU/SRINAGAR – All the Administrative Secretaries along with the officers of their departments today participated in the Anti-Terrorism Pledge taking ceremony held simultaneously at Civil Secretariat, Jammu as well as Srinagar. The pledge was administered by Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta, Financial Commissioner, Finance at Civil Secretariat, Jammu and Atal Dulloo, Financial Commissioner, Health & Medical […]
SRINAGAR – Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir zone Vijay Kumar Friday said that the issue of local boys joining militancy was a “serious concern” for the security forces and that many steps have been taken to plug the local militant recruitment while as there is a need for “more hard-work” for the same. Talking […]
JAMMU – The first case of ‘Black Fungus’ (Mucormycosis) was reported on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir from government medical college hospital in Jammu. Shashi Sodan, head of the microbiology department and presently also functioning as the principal government medical college hospital, Jammu told IANS: “Yes, we have a post COVID patient of black fungus […]
PULWAMA – The residents in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama township are dejected after the administration decided to turn District Hospital Pulwama into a Covid-dedicated hospital and closed all routine Out-Patient Departments (OPDs) within. People, especially those living in the close vicinity of the town area, complain that the district administration, and particularly the hospital management, should […]
SRINAGAR – Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Lone on Friday said that his father Abdul Gani Lone who was killed on this day 19 years ago “went at the right time” and as a “hero”. Speaking on the death anniversary of his father, Sajad said that senior Lone was killed for speaking the truth and expressing […]
SRINAGAR – The authorities on Friday tightened the Covid-19 curfew in Srinagar district on the eve of death anniversary of Mirwaiz Molvi Mohammad Farooq and Abdul Ghani Lone, which is being marked on May 21 in Kashmir. Witnesses said that the authorities tightened the curbs in order to restrict the movement of public and thwart […]
NEW DELHI – The daily rise in coronavirus cases in India remained below 3 lakh for the fifth consecutive day with 2.59 lakh new cases recorded in a single day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. With the fresh cases, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases climbed to 2,60,31,991. The death […]
JERUSALEM – Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire Thursday, halting a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip, brought life in much of Israel to a standstill and left more than 200 people dead. At 2 am local time, just as the ceasefire took effect, frenzy life returned to the […]