The Jammu and Kashmir government said on Saturday that 125 beds will be used as intensive care units (ICUs) in the DRDO’s under construction 500- bedded Covid hospital in Budgam district slated to be completed next month.
A four day old militant and his associate were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Tuesday, police said.
The administration of Jammu & Kashmir has identified 100 kanals of land for its use as a small arms firing range by Army in Samba district of Jammu province.
Former Union minister and Jammu and Kashmir governor Jagmohan Malhotra, 93, has passed away after a spell of illness.
Several mainstream parties, including National Conference, Apni Party and the Jammu and Kashmir unit of Congress on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Union minister Jitendra Singh and a high-level probe into allegations of corruption levelled against him by BJP leader and former MLC Vikram Randhawa.
India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases crossed the 2-crore mark with over 50 lakh infections being added in just 15 days.
One of the rattling visuals of the second wave of Covid in Kashmir came on the night of April 29 when a video of a young man pleading the SKIMS authorities to shift his father “struggling to breath” to critical ward went viral on social media.
Jammu and Kashmir reported on Monday 51 coronavirus related deaths, the highest single day fatalities so far, even as 3733 more people across the Union Territory tested positive for the deadly infection during the last 24 hours.
Normal life in Jammu and Kashmir remained crippled for the fourth consecutive day Monday in wake of a lockdown imposed by the administration to combat the spread of coronavirus.
As Jammu and Kashmir struggles to contain the spread of deadly coronavirus infection, the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha on Monday called for speeding up the vaccination drive, besides intensifying testing and contacts tracing across the Union Territory.
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