SRINAGAR (KIMS) – The police have rescued the kidnapped girl and arrested the accused involved in committing the crime. Police in a statement said that the police station Manzgam had received a complaint from a complainant stating that his daughter (name withheld) had been kidnapped by one person namely Parvaiz Ahmad Bhat, a resident of […]
SRINAGAR – The Jammu and Kashmir High Court today quashed the circular which was issued by the administration for the re-registration of the vehicles brought from outside states and operated in the union territory. Advocate Zahoor Ahmad Bhat, who had filed the petition in the high court told that the Division Bench of Justice Ali […]
GUWAHATI – A commander of Ulfa-independent, a banned militant group, was killed in an encounter with police in western Assam’s Bongaigaon district on the wee hours of Thursday, police said. Based on intelligence inputs that Dwipen Saud, who was newly appointed as the commander of Ulfa-I’s western command and was planning some “high profile” abduction, […]
NEW DELHI – Facebook blocked posts tagged #ResignModi before restoring them hours later, stoking a controversy that’s erupted over government requests to remove social media content as India grapples with an escalating Covid crisis. Facebook said it barred the hashtag by mistake and not at the behest of the government, without elaborating. Facebook periodically blocks […]
NEW DELHI – India on Thursday reported a massive surge of 379,257 cases and 3,645 deaths, thus marking the biggest single-day spike ever, according to MoHFW. The cumulative caseload stands at 18,376,524 and the death toll from the virus has reached 204,812. India now has nearly 3.1 million active cases. India has been reporting over […]
BANDIPORA – As the Covid-19 cases surge in the district, authorities in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday converted 100-bedded District Hospital into a COVID Care Centre. Quoting an official, news agency Kashmir News Observer reported that in a meeting of health officials with district administration, it was decided that the district hospital will be […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. government told its citizens to leave India as soon as possible because of the country’s escalating Covid-19 crisis. In a Level 4 travel advisory — the highest issued by the Department of State — U.S. citizens were told “not to travel to India or to leave as soon as it is […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) – Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar has directed all the Police Units to facilitate hassle free movement of Doctors, Health Workers and Essential Services. For any assistance Dial: 112, he said. In a tweet IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar said, “During the #LockdownPeriod, all the #Police Units have been directed to […]
SRINAGAR – In a worrisome development, nearly 50,000 women of Kashmir have crossed the age bar of getting married owing to the society made unnecessary trends and rituals. Among the total women having crossed the marriageable age limit, more than 10,000 belong from district Srinagar. In a survey conducted by a non-profit organization Tehreek e […]
WASHINGTON – The double mutant Covid variant – identified as B1617 – that was first detected in India, has spread to ‘at least 17 countries’, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Up till April 27, B1617 variant had been detected in over 1,200 sequences uploaded on the open-access database GISAID (the Global Initiative on […]