Month: March 2021

Amid a fresh wave of covid 19, the Director-General of Jammu Kashmir Police  (DGP) and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus. An official told The Kashmiriyat that the DGP Dilbagh Singh tested positive for the virus on Wednesday along with his wife for covid 19 in Jammu. He said that the couple was showing symptoms of the virus which included fever and body ache. As per reports, Dilbagh Singh has self quarantined himself at his residence in Jammu. Pertinently 373 persons tested positive for covid 19 in Jammu Kashmir on Wednesday, the number marks the highest number of covid cases in 2020 so far.

Waris Shah/ Sheikh Nadeem At Least eight schools were order closure by the authorities in the Kashmir valley after the students or teachers tested positive for the covid-19 infection on Wednesday. The Kashmiriyat reported earlier that 36 students and a parent of one of the students tested positive for Corona Virus in the Noori Public School in Khull area of Damhal Hamjipora of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district after which the school was ordered to be shut for one week. In Kathoo area, a Government High school was shut after at least 14 students from the school tested positive for the virus in this school located in the Sirigufwara area of Anantnag district. The authorities have closed down the school for 5 days. In Mattan, the head of a school tested positive after which the scho...

Rayees Shah A driver of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) was killed after he came under a heavy avalanche in Pani Matha near Zojila Pass on Wednesday, Sources said. Police Sources told The Kashmiriyat that the Driver of BRO who was doing snow clearance operation From Zojila Road came under a heavy avalanche at Pani Matha near Zojila Pass at around 5:00 pm On Wednesday, resulting in the on-spot death of Driver. As soon as the other labourers and officers of BRO who were present there started a massive rescue operation and with the help of police, they took the dead body out from the avalanche and has been taken it to SDH Kangan for medico-legal formalities. The deceased driver was identified as Ghulam Rasool Bhat (50) Son of Ghulam Mohammad Bhat a resident of Gagangeer Sonama...

Covid-19 cases recorded in a single day this year hit a new record as Jammu and Kashmir reported 373 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday. Among the fresh cases, they said, Jammu division reported 73 cases and Kashmir 300, taking the J&K’s overall infection count to 130960. Also, four deaths were reported, one from Jammu division and three from Kashmir Valley, taking the total toll to 1994—736 in Jammu region and 1258 in Kashmir. This is for the third time that single day cases breached 300-mark in Jammu and Kashmir. Also, it was for the sixteenth consecutive day that more than 100 cases were reported on a single day in J&K. In all, nearly around 3200 cases were added to the tally during the time, they said. Providing district wise details,...

Protests erupted in the Government Degree college Of Pulwama and Tral in Pulwama district of South Kashmir after two detained youth studying in the colleges were brought to the campuses for writing their BG fifth semester English exam. A Student told The Kashmiriyat that students in large numbers shouting slogans gathered in the college ground of Tral when a student detained by Jammu Kashmir Police was brought to the college to write the exams. As soon as this student was brought inside the campus, fellow students gathered and shouted slogans against the forces while demanding the release of the fellow students. Girls in large numbers can be seen shouting high pitch slogans at the Policemen deployed outside the exam hall. The students have been allegedly detained under the Publ...

The authorities in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Wednesday ordered the closure of government girls higher secondary school Budgam for at least five days after one teacher was tested positive for Covid-19. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the educational institution has been closed for at least 5 days after detection of Covid-19 positive cases in the school. He said that all the primary and secondary contacts of the affected teachers and students have been advised to self-isolate and quarantine themselves. The official said that testing for all the contacts will be undertaken in due course of time—(KNO)