SRINAGAR – The health department has managed to vaccinate only 120 persons against Covid-19 in Srinagar, which is one of the worst-hit districts in Jammu and Kashmir in the last eight days. The summer capital has reported 5900 cases and 69 deaths due to Covid in the same period. According to official data, no jabs […]
SRINAGAR – Two local militants from Al-Badr outfit were slain in an anti-militancy operation in Khonmoh area of Srinagar outskirts on Monday. Reports said the anti-militancy operation was launched by the joint team of government forces including Indian Army’s 50 RR, CRPF and J&K Police in Khonmoh area on Monday morning following the inputs about […]
ANKARA – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called for the implementation of a UN decision to establish an international mechanism to protect the Palestinians, with funding and military contributions from volunteer countries. This came Sunday, in a speech via video conference during his participation in the meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic […]
Says, journalists working in tough conditions KUPWARA – Journalist fraternity Kupwara on Monday said that journalists are working in tough conditions amid the COVID19 pandemic and any kind of inconvenience to them is unacceptable and against the ethos and principles of a promising society. The statement came days after Suhail Yousuf Shah, a member of […]
BUDGAM – Two minor children, who were sleeping in two separate rooms at a marriage ceremony in Brenjan area of Chadoora in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district, suddenly fell unconscious on Monday afternoon. Sources told that two minor boys were sleeping and didn’t wakeup for a long time. “When the family members tried to woke them […]
SRINAGAR – The Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday said a rare but deadly fungal infection called mucormycosis is infecting Covid-19 patients. Sounding alert, DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan said if left untreated the disease can be fatal for covid patients. “Cases of mucormycosis, commonly known as black fungus are being […]
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 […]