Year: 2021

808 Covid-19 Cases with 4 fatalities reported from across J&K

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For the third day in running, Jammu & Kashmir reported 808 new covid-19 cases while four more people died due to the virus in the last 24 hours, officials said on Friday.Among the fresh cases, 283 were reported from Jammu Division and 525 from Kashmir Valley, taking the total count to 136470. Providing district wise details, the officials told that Srinagar reported 299 cases, Baramulla 104, Budgam 36, Pulwama 5, Kupwara 22, Anantnag 23, Bandipora 11, Ganderbal 7, Kulgam 10, Shopian 8, Jammu 164, Udhampur 28, Rajouri 9, Doda 9,…

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No action against non-JK vehicle owners: Govt to HC

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The government Wednesday informed the High Court that no action would be taken against the owners of the vehicles not registered in Jammu and Kashmir. Appearing before a Bench led by Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey, Advocate General assured the court that no action would be taken as the matter is sub-judice. Later, the court granted a week to the Advocate General to file the government’s response in the plea challenging the new order by Regional Transport Officer, Kashmir which says that the “Vehicles purchased outside JK with non-JK registration numbers…

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J&K Breaks Records; Six fatalities with 812 new covid cases reported in last 24 Hours

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Six more COVID-19 patients have died in Jammu and Kashmir in the past 24-hours while Wednesday reported this year’s highest, 812 fresh cases, pushing the infection tally to 13, 48,27, officials said. Over the past four months, the coronavirus cases reported a downward trend, however as India is witnessing a new surge, JK also sees a rise in daily fresh cases. The six new COVID casualties include four from the Jammu division and two from the Kashmir division. Of the 812 fresh Covid-19 cases, 465 are from Kashmir and 347…

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Revised power outage schedule for summers, 1.5 & 3 hrs curtailment in metered & non-metered areas respectively

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3 hours in non-metered areas, 1.5 hours in metered areas, 24/7 power supply to tourist places, essential commercials areas, Will try to provide uninterrupted power supply in Ramadan: CE KPDCL The government is planning to reduce power curtailment in the Valley from the current 7 hours outage in non-metered areas to 3.5 hours with the onset of the summer – which usually witness low load shedding compared to winter months. The metered areas will witness 1.5 hours from the current 3 hours daily outage. There will be no power curtailment…

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Kashmir farmers suffer as rivers illegally mined under supervision by the people at the helm

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Start of the apple season hampered by unabated mining of rivers, hitting thousands of farmers as government officials admit lapses. Ghulam Mohammad Mir, 62, looks grudgingly at the canal that usually brings water year-round to his and many other fruit orchards in Kashmir’s Shopian district, home to some of the finest apples grown in the lap of the Himalayas. Mir’s anger has a reason. The canal is dry these days, hampering the start of the apple season when farmers prepare the trees with minerals and fertilisers. “It is time to…

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Parents worried as Schools across Kashmir Valley report fresh covid cases

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Most of the schools have asked the parents to send their wards on alternate days to maintain Covid protocols such as social distancing. Some schools have also decided to run two shifts in the day to reduce the class strength by half. At-least 50 students from two south Kashmir schools including 36 students in a private school in Kulgam district and 14 in a government school in Anantnag district were found infected with coronavirus along with a handful of teachers and staff during random testing drives in schools in Kashmir…

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Pakistan seeks ‘Guarantees’ on J&K for better ties

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The thaw comes after a considerable deterioration in ties that followed New Delhi’s decision to do away with the special status granted to J&K under Article 370. Constitutional guarantees on not changing the demography of Jammu & Kashmir would go a long way in creating an “enabling environment”, Pakistan has conveyed to India, highly placed government officials told. The thaw in the India-Pakistan relationship that started with the restoration of the 2003 ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in February, through a statement by the Director Generals of Military…

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J&K records 461 fresh covid cases, 4 Deaths; 39 Students, 5 School staff test positive in Budgam

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For the first time this year, the daily Covid count in Jammu and Kashmir crossed 400 For the first time this year, the daily Covid count in Jammu and Kashmir crossed 400. The UT on Thursday recorded 461 infections, the highest daily count after December 8. The new cases have taken the case tally in the Union Territory to 1,31,421. The death toll reached 1,998 with four fresh fatalities — three in Kashmir and one in Jammu division. For the last seven days, the UT has reported around 200 daily…

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Pakistan to defers trade with India until Delhi reviews Kashmir’s Status: Shah Mehmood Qureshi

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Pakistan’s cabinet on Thursday put off allowing imports of cotton and sugar from neighbouring India until Delhi reviews its 2019 move to revoke the Kashmir region’s special status, the foreign minister said. In an effort to cool local demand and prices, Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC), the country’s top economic decision-making body, gave the go-ahead on Wednesday for the imports, which would have ended nearly two years of trade suspension between the nuclear-armed rivals. “It was a consensus opinion, including the prime minister, that as long as India doesn’t review…

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India has several human rights issues, working on restoring normalcy in Kashmir: US report

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India has several significant human rights issues, including unlawful and arbitrary killings, restrictions on freedom of expression and the press, corruption and tolerance of violations of religious freedom, a US report said on Tuesday. India has several significant human rights issues, including unlawful and arbitrary killings, restrictions on freedom of expression and the press, corruption and tolerance of violations of religious freedom, a US report said on Tuesday. In its ‘2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices’ to the US Congress, the Department of State noted the improvement in the…

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