PULWAMA – At least 18 non-local labourers, among which 8 were tested Covid-19 positive escaped from a rented building in the middle of the night in Dadsara area of Tral town of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. A couple of days ago, 8 labourers living in a rented building were tested positive for Covid-19 in Dadsara […]
NEW DELHI – Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday said that the recovery time from COVID-19 infection and oxygen dependency will be reduced by anti-COVID drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). While speaking at the release ceremony of the first batch of the 2-DG drug, Vardhan said, […]
ISTANBUL – The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday said it will seek the UN General Assembly to protect the Palestinian people as the UN Security Council has failed to assume its responsibility to stop the aggression on Gaza. The OIC extraordinary meeting at the level of the foreign ministers was convened virtually […]
NEW DELHI – A top Indian virologist has resigned from a forum of scientific advisers set up by the government to detect variants of the coronavirus, he told Reuters on Sunday, weeks after questioning the authorities’ handling of the pandemic. Shahid Jameel, chair of the scientific advisory group of the forum known as INSACOG, declined […]
JAMMU – Jammu and Kashmir government is reaching out to COVID-19 patients in home isolation at their doorsteps and providing them special COVID care kits free of cost. The medical health and revenue team have been delivering the special COVID-19 Care kits contain an Oximeter, medicine kit, vitamins, cough syrup and also pamphlets of dos […]
NEW DELHI – India recorded 281,386 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry update showed on Monday. With this, the total tally reached 24,965,463. The data updated at 8am showed that 4,106 people succumbed to the disease in the said period, which pushed up the death […]
GAZA CITY — Israeli warplanes unleashed a new series of heavy airstrikes at several locations in Gaza City early Monday, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled the fourth war with Gaza’s Hamas rulers would rage on. Explosions rocked the city from north to south for 10 minutes in an attack that was heavier, […]
SRINAGAR – Amid continuous surge in Covid-19 cases and mortality in Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir division is facing an acute shortage of vaccines as not a single person was vaccinated in the Valley today (Sunday) while almost 9000 people received jabs in Jammu division. As per the data no person was vaccinated in any district […]
SRINAGAR – The railway authorities on Sunday ordered the extension in suspension of railway services in Kashmir division by one week till 24th of May, 2021. The railway service between Baramulla-Banihal and vice versa shall continue to remain suspended till 24th May, 2021. Last week, the authorities had announced the suspension of railway service till […]
NEW DELHI – Editors Guild of India Sunday condemned the “brazen” Israeli airstrikes on a building in Gaza that housed the editorial offices of Al Jazeera and the Associated Press. The Saturday’s bombing raid demolished the 12-story building, destroying much of the camera and editing equipment, and severely affecting the news reporting and broadcasting capabilities […]