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Admin Starts Vaccination Drive for Advocates in 8 Districts For 18-45 Years Age Group

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Department of Law, Justice & Parliamentary Affairs has started special vaccination drive for advocates of eight districts of J&K in the age group of 18-45 years. The step has been taken as an immediate measure for ensuring that advocates, who are at greater risk of contracting infection owing to their vocation are vaccinated, a statement issued here by the Department said. It said that for vaccination of advocates, special camps are being organized in districts. It added that in the first phase, besides Jammu Srinagar districts, vaccination shall be carried out in Anantnag, Baramulla and Budgam districts in Kashmir division and Kathua, Udhampur and Rajouri districts in Jammu division from May 24 to May 26, 2021.

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Gujjar Community Resists Demolition of their ‘Houses’ in Shopian, 18 including 5 Journalists Injured

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At least 18 persons including five journalists were wounded on Monday after the forest eviction drive launched by the Forest department turned violent in the upper reaches of Zampathri area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. The eviction drive started by the forest department in the upper reaches of Zampathri area turned violent after the Gujjar community resisted the drive. According to the news agency, people from Gujjar community said that they aren't the permanent residents of the area, saying they have been erecting temporary sheds here for living to graze the cattle. “However, without serving any notice, the forest department officials reached the spot and started an eviction drive. We have insisted to the officials that we leave the area every year and there was no need t...

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India reports First Case Of Yellow Fungus

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Amid the rising cases of Black Fungus or Mucormycosis infection in various states of India, a case of Yellow Fungus infection has been reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad city, reported DNA. As per the report, the infected patient is undergoing treatment at a Ghaziabad hospital currently. Yellow Fungus is considered more dangerous than both Black Fungus and White Fungus. The symptoms of Yellow Fungus are laziness, weight loss and loss of appetite, or no appetite at all. Yellow Fungus can also cause leakage of pus, slow healing of the open wound or slow healing of all wounds, malnutrition, organ failure and sunken eyes due to eventual necrosis in serious cases, reads the report.

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“Modi’s photograph should also be printed on death certificates of parties who died due to Covid-19”: BJP Ally in Bihar

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Jitan Ram Manjhi, former chief minister of Bihar and the Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) president, raised questions over the photographs of PM Modi on the vaccination certificates. Manjhi happens to be an alliance partner with the NDA in Bihar. On Monday, Manjhi took to Twitter to criticize the PM and wrote, “Prime Minister is taking credit for corona vaccination in the country, his photograph should also be printed on death certificates of those patients who died due to corona in the country. It will be the real justification." Manjhi had stated on Sunday that the photographs of the President or the respective CMs of the states should be printed on the vaccination certificates. Manjhi is a close ally of CM Nitish Kumar. He had fought the 2020 Bihar Assembly election on the seats alloc...

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Frontline Asha Workers Stage Protest Demanding PPE Kits, Increase in Wages

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On Monday, scores of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers held a protest demonstration in the Pattan area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district over inadequate salary and lack of Covid-19 related safety measures, including PPE Kits. Witnesses told the that ASHA workers assembled at Pattan hospital and staged protest against higher authorities for failing to provide them with Covid-19 safety measures, including PPE kits. “We have been protesting for the last 10 days to demand hike in monthly honorariums and Covid-19 related safety measures but no is paying any attention to our genuine demands,” a protesting ASHA worker said. They alleged the government has completely neglected them even though they are at the forefront to fight the Covid-19 pandemic like other frontlin...

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‘Seek Consent from Director Health Services First’- JK Administration Gags Information on Black Fungus

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The Lieutenant Governor of Jammu Kashmir on Monday after declaring the Black Fungal as an epidemic disease also asked health professionals to not share any information regarding the management of the epidemic of Mucormycosis without prior permission from Director Health Service, Jammu/Kashmir. ALSO READ: Jammu Kashmir Officially Declares Black Fungus as an ‘Epidemic Disease’ The Jammu Kashmir admin directed all the Government and private health facilities, Medical Colleges will follow the guidelines for screening, diagnosis, management of Mucormycosis, issued by the MOHFW (Gol)/ICMR/Government of Jammu and Kashmir as amended from time to time and make it mandatory for all these facilities to report suspected and confirmed cases to Health Department through District Level Chief Medical Of...

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Islamic Scholar, Mufti Faiz ul Islam who First Translated Quran into Gojri is Critical

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The health condition of renowned Jammu-based Islamic scholar Mufti Faiz-ul-Waheed, who first translated the Quran in Gojri language, currently admitted at Acharaya Shri Chander College of Medical Science (ASCOMS) Jammu is grim as hospital authorities said that the patient continues to remain on ‘life-supporting system with multiple organ failure’ since his admission to the health facility on Sunday morning. When contacted, Medical Superintendent ASCOMS Rajinder Ratan Pal told a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS) that there was no significant improvement in the overall status of the patient. “The patient has been continuously on the life-supporting system – ventilator – and a team of doctors is closely monitoring his conditions”, the official said adding that “However nothin...

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Covid-19: 29-year-old Muslim Woman Turns Cremator at Hindu Crematorium in Kerala

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Subina Rahman a 29-year-old Commerce graduate with having a husband and an eight-year-old son, now doing a job that most people will shy away from. She is working as a cremator in a Hindu crematorium in Iringalakkuda, Thrissur district, Kerala. Subina was on the lookout for a job and came to know that there was a clerical one at crematorium controlled by the local Hindu Ezhava community, SNBS Samajam at Iringalakkuda, and applied. She got the job and was keeping a register for day-to-day activities including the number of cremations that have taken place and the names and details of the dead. However, she got bored and tried her hands at cremating the bodies, maybe the first Muslim woman to do so in Kerala. However, Hindu customs don’t allow women entry to crematoriums even during...

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Jammu Kashmir Officially Declares Black Fungus as an ‘Epidemic Disease’

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The administration of Jammu Kashmir on Monday declared black fungus or mucormycosis as an epidemic disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act- 1897. Officials told that the Health and Medical Education today issued a notification to declare black fungus as an epidemic disease. The move comes days after the Government of India directed the states and Union territories to make black fungus a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act. Jammu and Kashmir reported its first death due to black fungus on Friday after a 40-year-old Covid-19 recovered patient died of mucormycosis at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Jammu. According to officials of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Government Dental College Srinagar, GDC Srinagar, one case of mucormycosis was successf...

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Bangladesh Drops ‘Except Israel’ From Passport

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Bangladesh announced on Saturday that its passports will no longer bear the text “valid for all countries of the world except Israel,” essentially lifting a travel ban. Israel has welcomed Bangladesh's decision to remove the travel ban and has called upon the Bangladeshi government to establish diplomatic ties with Israel.buy proscar generic buy proscar generic Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said removing the words “except Israel” in the new passport does not mean that there has been a change in Bangladesh’s position, as it still does not recognise Israel.