Srinagar, Sept 12: The sero-prevalence study conducted across Kashmir for assessing IgG antibodies among general population and various subgroups have shown that 78 percent of children under 18 years of age sampled during the survey in July this year have developed antibodies against COVID virus. Moreover, the study shows that around 64 percent pregnant women […]
Srinagar, Sep 09: As per the population based Seroprevalence of Covid-19 in Kashmir valley, over 84 percent people have antibodies against the Covid-19 infection. An official said that a pan-Kashmir cross-sectional sero-study was conducted among general population and various subsets of population which include police personnel, healthcare workers, pregnant women by government medical college Srinagar […]
Srinagar, Aug 23: With 1300 school buildings lying vacant in Jammu and Kashmir, J&K’s chief secretary Arun Kumar Mehta has directed the General Administration Department (GAD) and Planning Development & Monitoring department to coordinate with respective deputy commissioners for allotment of these buildings. Documents reveal that the directions were passed by the CS during a […]
New Delhi, Aug 06:The Pensilungpa Glacier (PG), located in Zanskar, Ladakh, is retreating, and a recent study has attributed the retreat to an increase in the temperature and decrease in precipitation during winters. Since 2015, the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun, an autonomous institute under the Department of Science & Technology, GoI, has […]
Srinagar, Jul 17: Owing to the human errors, the man-animal conflict has seen a steep rise with more cases being reported from across the valley with each passing day. As per the official data, from 2006 till March 2021, 224 persons have died and 2,829 persons have been injured in man-animal conflict. Officials believe that […]
Srinagar, Jul 17: In the past five years, at least eight percent of the female population in Jammu and Kashmir suffer pregnancy loss, reveals a survey conducted by Government of India (GoI). The official figures of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare states that the region has witnessed at least eight percent of foetal […]
Srinagar, Jul 09: In a major concern, at least 27 percent of women population of 20 to 49 years has not married while the 35 percent of men of the same age group are sailing on the same boat in Jammu and Kashmir, reveals a survey conducted by Government of India (GoI). The official […]
Srinagar, Jul 05 : Stating that committing suicides is haram (prohibited) in Islam, Kashmiri Ulema Monday urged youth of the region to follow basic tenets of Islam to beat the stress so that growing trend of suicides declines rapidly in the Valley once known as peer-e-veer (valley of sufi saints.” The Ulema also made a […]
Srinagar, Jun 30: Over 500 suicide cases from different areas of the Valley have been reported at Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital in last one year, officials said Wednesday. Officials while sharing details said that most of such cases reported at the hospital are those who have consumed poisonous substances. From last one […]
Srinagar, June 30: A Gujurat Court acquitted a Kashmiri youth after 11 years of his detention. Bashir Ahmed Baba, from Rainawari area of Kashmir capital Srinagar, who was arrested in Gujarat for allegedly being a member of Hizbul Mujahideen, was acquitted today after more than 11 years. His brother Nazir Ahmed said that Bashir Ahmed […]
