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Month: August 2020

Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tests Positive for Coronavirus

INDIA
Amit Shah, Union Home Minister, tests positive for Coronavirus. The news was announced by Amit Shah via his twitter: कोरोना के शुरूआती लक्षण दिखने पर मैंने टेस्ट करवाया और रिपोर्ट पॉजिटिव आई है। मेरी तबीयत ठीक है परन्तु डॉक्टर्स की सलाह पर अस्पताल में भर्ती हो रहा हूँ। मेरा अनुरोध है कि आप में से जो भी लोग गत कुछ दिनों में मेरे संपर्क में आयें हैं, कृपया स्वयं को आइसोलेट कर अपनी जाँच करवाएं। — Amit Shah (@AmitShah) August 2, 2020...
Russia Plans to Register World’s First COVID-19 Vaccine

Russia Plans to Register World’s First COVID-19 Vaccine

INTERNATIONAL
Russia intends to register a COVID-19 vaccine by August 10-12 2020. If the vaccine, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, is registered it would be the world’s first official approval of inoculation against the pandemic. According to a source, regulators may approve the Russian Direct Investment Fund for civilians to access the vaccine within three to seven days of registration. According to Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, the Gamaleya vaccine will undergo trials on another 1,600 people in order to get conditional registration in August. The production for the vaccine should begin in September, stated the Prime Minister. In a televised meeting of officials, President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said, “The key requirements for a vaccine are its proven effectiveness and s...
Kupwara Missing Boy Traced After 7 Years

Kupwara Missing Boy Traced After 7 Years

REGIONAL
Police on Sunday claimed to have traced a missing boy from Kupwara in Delhi. The boy had been missing for 7 years. In a statement issued, Police said that Police Post Kalaroos received a written report from Mohammad Ashraf Bhat son of Khazir Mohammad Bhat of Dogerpora Kalaroos, that one Ab Rashid Konsi son of Mohd Yousuf Konshi of Branard Kalaroos age about 14 years then, was missing from his house since 24 July 2013 who was working as a domestic helper in the house of said person. Praising the efforts of the police, the statement said, “By virtue of untired efforts of Kupwara Police and the family members of the missing boy, Abdur Rashid Konshi son of Mohammad Yusuf Konshi was traced out in Delhi recently”. Today on 2 August, after a gap of 7 years, the missing boy, now a man, wa...
Four Lakh Domicile Certificates Issued in over a Month in Jammu Kashmir

Four Lakh Domicile Certificates Issued in over a Month in Jammu Kashmir

REGIONAL
The Jammu Kashmir administration has issued over four lakh domicile certificates in over a month.buy prelone online buy prelone generic Pawan Kotwal, Principal Secretary, Revenue Department J-K, said, “So far, over four lakhs domicile certificates have been granted to the applicants. Though a period of fifteen days has been fixed for issuing a certificate to an applicant, yet we have asked all revenue officers, including Tehsildars, to complete the process within two days.” Pawan Kotwal was talking to the Chandigarh based newspaper, The Tribune. The region-wise division for the issued domicile certificates was not available. On talking about the rejection of a huge number of the online applications, he said, “the matter has been taken up with the IT department and they have as...
Editor of The Kashmiriyat, Qazi Shibli, Detained for Reasons Unknown

Editor of The Kashmiriyat, Qazi Shibli, Detained for Reasons Unknown

INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL
One of the editors of The Kashmiriyat, Qazi Shibli, after being summoned by the cyber police in Srinagar was later detained and is yet to be released. There has been no clarification from the cyber police as to what charges he has been detained for. Qazi Shibli had got a call from the cyber police station at around 2:15 PM on Thursday asking him to present himself for questioning in the cyber police station on Friday. On Friday, speaking to The Kashmiriyat, Qazi Shibli’s family stated that they waited for 8 hours outside the Cyber Cell in Srinagar before being told that he was being detained, without revealing the charges for detention. As of now, Qazi Shibli's family said that they don’t have any updates regarding his detention. Pertinently, Qazi was arrested last year in 2019...