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 […]
SRINAGAR – Police on Sunday handed over seventeen boys to their parents after proper counselling in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district. In a statement, police said that these boys were arrested for participating in protests in violation of Section 51 of DM Act during Corona Curfew. The police spokesperson further stated that the parents assured that […]
GAZA – Israeli air strikes killed 33 Palestinians, including 13 children, in Gaza early on Sunday, Gaza health officials said, and militants fired rockets into Israel as hostilities stretched into a seventh day. The pre-dawn attacks were on houses in the centre of Gaza City, health officials said. A spokesman for the Israeli military said […]
LONDON ― Thousands of protesters in London and Madrid marched in support of Palestinians today as the worst violence in years raged between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. In London, several thousand protesters carrying placards reading “Stop Bombing Gaza” and chanting “Free Palestine” converged on Marble Arch, near the British capital’s Hyde Park, to march […]