Month: July 2020

No rolling back of Article 370, but Legislative Assembly soon: Ram Madhav

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Hitting out at regional parties of the Union Territory (UT), the BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav today ruled out rollback of the decision to revoke Article 370 that granted special status to the erstwhile J&K state. Madhav also dared the National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership to go to the people on ground over Article 370, abolished on August 5 last year, instead of tweeting from closed doors. “There can be a political discourse. Go to the people and tell them that we want Article 370…

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Post huge spike strict restrictions ordered in 88 containment zones of Srinagar

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Restrictions on public movement and activities are being imposed in 88 areas notified as COVID19 red zones in Srinagar after a sharp spike in positive cases has been reported in the district in the last couple of weeks. The decision to impose restrictions has been taken after recommendations of experts and is aimed at containing further spread of the COVID-19 disease, an official statement said. District Magistrate Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary issuing orders in this regard has directed for sealing off all these 88 red zones with strict enforcement…

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Kashmir heading towards ‘Catastrophic Phase’ of Coronavirus: Dr. Salim Khan

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Call for re-imposition of lockdown gains support from several quarters Jammu and Kashmir recorded at least nine deaths caused by COVID-19 on Saturday. A 24-year-old woman from Hakura, Anantnag, who recently delivered a baby, was among them. “Spike in symptomatic COVID-19 positive cases, with an increasing number of moderate to severe cases, is an indication of Kashmir moving towards a catastrophic phase of no return, with a considerable quantum of severe morbidity,” Dr. Salim Khan, Nodal Officer for COVID-19, and Head of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Government…

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Six deaths, 387 fresh cases of coronavirus reported from across J&K

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Six more persons including five from Kashmir died of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours, taking the death toll in J&K to 160, officials said.A 35-year-old woman from Srinagar died at Chest Disease Hospital. Hospital’s Medical Superintendent, Dr Saleem Tak said she shifted from SMHS on July 08. “She was suffering from hypertension, acute bilateral pneumonia and respiratory distress syndrome and died today at 9 am,” he saidAn 80-year-old man from Kokernag died at the CD Hospital late Thursday. Tak said the deceased was admitted on July 04 with bilateral…

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Rapid rise in coronavirus patients across Kashmir, records 57 deaths, 2024 positive cases in 9 days

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Over the past weeks, hospitals treating COVID19 patients in Srinagar are witnessing a steep escalation in the number of patients requiring intensive treatment and oxygen support. At Chest Diseases Hospital in Srinagar, a COVID19 designated facility of Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar, it was a house-full on Thursday. While the doctors had for long been complaining of asymptomatic cases “occupying” the hospitals, today they were struggling to ensure more than 50 percent of their occupants have oxygen support, in order to save their lives. Dr Saleem Tak, medical superintendent CD…

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Things to know about airborne Coronavirus transmission

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More than seven months after the new coronavirus was first detected, scientists and health experts are still trying to get a better understanding of how it spreads and how to curb the COVID-19 respiratory disease it causes. The coronavirus is transmitted from person to person through “droplet transmission”, including direct contact with someone who has been infected, indirect contact with contaminated surfaces, droplets of saliva from coughing or discharge from the nose when sneezing, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Airborne transmission is also possible, but its effects and…

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Kashmir ill-equipped to deal with the pandemic, people will die like cattle: Doctors

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As the world scrambles to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, fear and anxiety prevail across Kashmir after scores of COVID-19 cases were detected. Hospitals in the valley have an acute shortage of doctors and paramedics, while its healthcare facilities are insufficient to meet the crisis which has unsettled countries with world-class medical infrastructure. Given the situation, residents of the valley fear the potentially disastrous consequences of the coronavirus pandemic after the first case of infection was reported . Apprehensions abound that this may be just the “tip of the iceberg”…

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Dogra Group staged a protest against new Domicile Law

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Rejecting the domicile certificates, a Dogra group, United Democratic Alliance (UDA) on Wednesday staged a protest here to demand its rollback. The head of the group, Rajiv Mahajan said more than 1.30 crore people of Jammu and Kashmir holding Permanent Resident Certificate (PRCs) do not need the domicile certificates. “The government of India should withdraw the domicile certificates,” he said. Mahajan asked the government to create employment avenues for unemployed educated youth of Jammu and Kashmir. He said the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two…

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India is weaponizing its Spiritual Tourists

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Pilgrims headed to the divided region of Kashmir get armed guards and national encouragement — if they’re Hindu. By – Raksha Kumar Every July, thousands of buses, trucks, cars, mules, and palanquin bearers crawl up 12, 768 treacherous feet of mountainous terrain to reach the Amarnath cave, where a smooth ice stalagmite dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva reaches up from the cave floor. The devotees heading for this linga (a Hindu term for venerated, somewhat phallic objects) are making one of the most dangerous pilgrimages in India — not…

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Basant Rath a senior IPS officer of J&K cadre suspended for ‘Gross misconduct and misbehavior’

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Senior IPS officer of J&K cadre Basant Rath was on Wednesday suspended by the Union Home Ministry for “gross misconduct and misbehaviour”. Rath, a 2000 batch IPS officer, has been attached to Police Headquarters in Jammu and has been asked not to leave the headquarters without permission from the Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police. The order issued by the Home Ministry stated that disciplinary proceedings against Rath were “contemplated in connection with repeated instances of gross misconduct and misbehaviour, which have been brought to the notice of the…

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