‘No security in place, people distribute cylinders on their own’ SRINAGAR – Scuffle broke out between the attendants at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital on Saturday when they were distributing the oxygen cylinders themselves in the absence of proper arrangements by the authorities. Official sources informed that no security arrangements have been put in […]
SRINAGAR – Police on Saturday placed under suspension two officials and initiated an inquiry against SHO concerned after a video, purported to be of a police interrogation into murder of a man from Pattan area of north Kashmir in March this year, was circulated on social media. Police had arrested wife of the man and […]
JAMMU – With health experts warning that children are likely to be more affected in the third wave of Covid-19, Jammu and Kashmir government has designated two pediatric wards as Covid wards for children. Dr Dara Singh, Medical Superintendent at SMGS hospital in Jammu said that as of now two wards have been designated as […]
SRINAGAR – The Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory administration on Friday ordered the transfers and postings in revenue department. 1. Mr. Mohammad Hussain Mir, Jr.KAS, awaiting orders of posting, is posted as Tehsildar, Pahlgam vice Mr. Umar Gulzar. He shall also hold the additional charge of Tehsil Sallar. He shall draw his salary for the […]
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 […]
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 […]