On 13 May, a video surfaced on social media sites and evoked a sentimental storm after a man shared his lockdown sob story. Terming NGOs and Trusts as indifferent to his case, his coffer soon got brimmed with donations, before some alert community watchers busted his myth
A video of the man claiming he is unable to feed his family went viral on social media and evoked overwhelming response and within 24 hours the man received 27 lac rupees in the account, reports said
As another family in Kashmir lost their young son and plunged into mourning in the revered month of Ramzan, the joint forces in Kashmir termed it as a ‘Naka-violation’ killing in their statements. However, the policeman accompanying the boy tells an entirely different story
Twenty two years before he would win the prestigious Pulitzer Award, Mukhtar Khan had walked in Kashmir Observer newsroom as a promising rookie, whose photos were class apart on the daily’s frontpage
Two expecting mothers lost their lives in the Covid-scare filled healthcare centre in southern Kashmir’s Anantnag district within ten days. The double demise has created an outrage over the squeezed room for normal medicare at a time when majority of healthcare centres have become pandemic war-theatres and doctors frontline force
A home to second most Covid-19 positive cases in Kashmir after Srinagar, Bandipora is witnessing a raging online campaign presently. With pandemic threatening to spread its tentacles in town, the locals have joined hands to demand ventilators and a health center
“Cops tried to resist our run amid pandemic, but as shells rained, there was no question of staying back. We had to spend a night in another village”. In times of coronavirus scare, the villager said, not many doors were thrown open for them.
Closing OPDs for routine checkups and starting telephonic consultations for the same might have been hailed as a proactive medical move recently, but for many patients it’s a ‘lost in translation and transportation’ cause
Bereft of crying pallbearers and chest-beating mourners, a Hajin man’s funeral recently received a nocturnal farewell, perhaps never seen before in the ‘thespian’ town. The deceased has now returned to haunt the quarantined town, as 11 of his family members have been declared COVID-19 positives.
The district authorities in Bandipora on Wednesday ordered a probe to look into the breach of standard operating procedure (SOP) after a coronavirus patient from the north Kashmir district district was ferried in an official car of a senior employee
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