Tral, April 3: A girl, who is a boutique owner in Tral area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, has manufactured free uniforms for the doctors in recognition of their great contribution in fight against the Covid-19 disease. Saima Reshi, a 26-year-old girl from the Batagund area of Tral, who runs the boutique ‘Fashion Shades,’ told KNT that “to give protection to doctors, she along with her sister Aafu Reshi (Co-owner) and other members have manufactured many uniforms after taking suggestions and guidance form ADC Tral.
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Will arrest those ‘instigating people’ on new domicile law: IGP
Alleging incitation on new domicile law through social media, police today said they have initiated action against such people and arrests were on cards.
“Since yesterday, some miscreants are instigating people on the new domicile law by misusing social media,” IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar said.
The central government on Wednesday announced the new domicile law for government jobs in J&K, opening up all jobs except class-IV to those who have resided in the UT for 15 years or studied here for 7 years. Till Article 370 and 35A were in place, government jobs were reserved only for J&K residents.
All political parties except the BJP have slammed the new law, stating that it was a blow to the unemployed youth of J&K.
“FIR will be filed and action will be taken against those found involved,” the IGP said. “There have been continuous reports of misuse of social media by miscreants to instigate people against the new domicile law.”
Sources in police said that the job to identify such people has been handed over to Cyber Police and once the people are identified, they will be dealt under law.
(This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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Jammu BJP raises concerns over new J&K domicile rule with national leadership, Amit Shah
Only the lower level jobs will be reserved for locals and the higher level jobs will be open for all, the party unit says
The notification of domicile rules for the newly created Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has the Jammu unit of the BJP worried and upset, as it not only loosens the criteria of who can claim domicile but only keeps lower level jobs reserved for locals with higher level jobs open for all.
The local unit flagged these concerns with the party’s national leadership and also with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
“According to what we gathered from the notification, only Group D jobs will be reserved for locals, while others are open for all. We have been told that the provincial services board will take care of some levels of hiring keeping locals in mind, but that is just oral assurance, the notification itself does not reassure us,” said a senior leader in Jammu BJP.
The notification, which came out on Wednesday in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, defines rules for claiming domicile and access to reserved government jobs for the people of the Union Territory. The reservation for domiciles will not apply to Group A and Group B posts and only to level 4 posts or posts that carry a payscale not more than level 4. “This means that all the higher level jobs are out of the purview of reservation for domiciles, also the 15-year threshold for claiming domicile means that anyone who comes in to work in J&K and stays on for 15 years, their children, if they stay here, will be considered for domicile,” said a source. No cut off date for calculating this 15- year period has, as yet, been notified.
“We are facing a popular backlash from our people on this issue and it will harm us as and when polls take place,” said a local leader who did not want to come on record.
Fears are valid: Ram Madhav
Speaking to The Hindu, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, who has been handling Jammu and Kashmir for the party for a long time, said that there were issues that the Jammu unit of the party had flagged, and that “their fears are valid.”
He also confirmed that Mr. Shah had been also been apprised of the concerns of the people of Jammu and he had assured that he would look into it.
“There are some issues with regard to the domicile notification that have been flagged, especially with regards to reserving jobs for locals, and to an extent these fears are valid,” said Mr. Madhav.
The Ministry of Home Affairs’ reply to a parliamentary panel on February 18 stated that there were over 84,000 vacancies in J&K, of which 22,078 vacancies pertained to Class IV jobs, 54375 to non-gazetted and 7552 vacancies in gazetted posts.
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Trump again tests negative for coronavirus
Srinagar: US President Donald Trump has tested negative for the novel coronavirus for a second time and is “healthy” and not displaying any symptoms for the deadly disease, the White House physician has said.
Sean Conley, Trump’s physician, did not provide any context for the second test. The doctor, however, said the president had been tested by a new rapid-point-of-care test that delivered results in 15 minutes.
“The President tested negative for COVID-19,” Conley, said on Thursday in a memorandum to the White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.
“This morning, the President was tested again for COVID-19, utilising a new, rapid-point-of-care test capability. He is healthy and without symptoms. Sample collection took just one minute and results were reported back in 15 minutes,” Conley said.
President Trump flashed a copy of his physician’s memorandum to his press secretary during his daily White House news conference.
“I did take a test. It just came out, this is from the White House physician,” Trump said at the briefing while holding up the memo.
“You may have it, just came out. I just took it this morning. And I took it, it took me literally a minute to take it and it took me – I guess it was 14 or 15 minutes (for results). I went to work, I didn’t wait for it, but it said it took 14 minutes or something with a conclusion and it said the President tested negative for COVID-19,” he was quoted as saying by the US media.
Trump added that he had taken the test “really out of curiosity to see how quickly it worked, how fast it worked.”
“It’s a lot easier. I’ve done them both and the second one is much more pleasant,” he said of his second test.
The president previously tested negative for the virus in mid-March after coming into contact with two persons who had tested positive.
Trump’s second test comes as more than a million coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide and States across the US continue to hand down strict measures to slow down the spread of the COVID-19.
America wrestles with the coronavirus pandemic that the White House has warned could kill up to two lakh people during the next fortnight.
A total of 1,002,159 COVID-19 cases have been reported across more than 175 countries and territories with51,485 deaths reported so far, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
The US has reported 236,339 COVID-19 cases, the highest in the world, and over 5,000 people have died due to the disease.
President Trump told reporters on Tuesday that the US was headed for a “very tough two weeks”, advising people to be prepared for the “hard days” ahead.
Deborah Bix, a member of White House Task Force on coronavirus, based on a model from actual data from the ground, said the death toll in the US could be between 100,000 to 200,000, with the strict implementation of the existing mitigation measures including social distancing till April 30.
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Two patients recovered from Covid-19 to be discharged: Dr Naveed Shah
20 positive patients undergoing treatment at CD Hospital
Srinagar, April 3: The second consecutive test report of first patient admitted in Chest Disease Hospital Srinagar for Covid-19 has been found negative.
Yesterday also the first test of this patient was found negative and today for re-confirmation, once more the samples of this patients admitted at CD Hospital were collected and report again was found negative.
The patient (name withheld) was in hospital quarantine from past 15 days and today his 3rd test was found negative. Head of Department, Chest Disease Hospital Srinagar, Dr Naveed Shah confirmed to KNT that the first patient tested positive for Covid-19 has been tested twice negative.
He said that patient hails from Natipora Srinagar and was tested positive after returning from Saudi Arabia.
Dr Naveed Shah added that there are 22 Covid-19 patients admitted in the hospital out of which 2 have been tested negative and they will hopefully be discharged. He admitted that two Covid-19 patients have been recovered and will be discharged from the hospital. (KNT)
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Locked down India struggles as workers flee cities
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Millions of homeless people and migrant labourers have been left in the lurch after India announced a 21-day lockdown in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country.
With factories and construction sites closing down, many have expressed fears that they would starve to death.
State governments have announced that they will open centres to feed these people, but have been overwhelmed.
Many have opted to walk hundreds of miles to their villages as public transport has been suspended.
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Covid-19 wrap from UAE: 210 new cases reported; airlines to fly special flights; suspension of residents’ entry extended; private tuition banned
UAE confirms 210 new coronavirus cases on Thursday
The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on Thursday announced 210 new cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus. The ministry announced today that it had monitored 210 new cases of new coronavirus (Covid-19), which were identified by examining those who were already infected – and did not adhere to preventive measures and self-isolation. This brings the number of reported cases in the country to 1024. The new cases are of various nationalities. They are all stable and getting the necessary healthcare.
The Ministry also announced the recovery of 35 people after receiving the necessary healthcare since they were admitted to. This brings the total number of recoveries to 96 in UAE. The ministry had on Wednesday confirmed 150 new cases as well as two deaths.
Entry of UAE residents suspended by 2 more weeks
The UAE on Thursday extended the suspension of entry of all UAE valid visa holders who are outside the country for two additional weeks. In a statement the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said these precautionary measures are taken in order to preserve the health and safety of the community.
The statement added that the two-week period, which starts Thursday, could be renewed according to updates on the coronavirus pandemic.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation urged people who are outside the UAE with valid UAE residency visa to register for the new service “Twajudi for residents” on the ministry’s website, as this service aims to facilitate their safe return to the UAE for emergency cases.
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How the coronavirus crisis is affecting food supply
More wide-scale crop losses are looming in India, where a lockdown has sent masses of workers home, leaving farms and markets short of hands as staple crops like wheat near harvest.
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted global food supplies and is causing labour shortages in agriculture worldwide.
Are we facing food shortages?
Panic buying by shoppers cleared supermarket shelves of staples such as pasta and flour as populations worldwide prepared for lockdowns.
Meat and dairy producers as well as fruit and vegetable farmers struggled to shift supplies from restaurants to grocery stores, creating the perception of shortages for consumers.
Retailers and authorities say there are no underlying shortages and supplies of most products have been or will be replenished. Bakery and pasta firms in Europe and North America have increased production.
Food firms say panic purchasing is subsiding as households have stocked up and are adjusting to lockdown routines.
The logistics to get food from the field to the plate, however, are being increasingly affected and point to longer-term problems.
In the short-term, lack of air freight and trucker shortages are disrupting deliveries of fresh food.
Longer-term, lack of labour is affecting planting and harvesting and could cause shortages and rising prices for staple crops in a throwback to the food crises that shook developing nations a decade ago.
What’s disrupting food supply?
With many planes grounded and ship containers hard to find after the initial coronavirus crisis in China, shipments of vegetables from Africa to Europe or fruit from South America to the United States are being disrupted.
A labour shortage could also cause crops to rot in the fields.
As spring starts in Europe, farms are rushing to find enough workers to pick strawberries and asparagus, after border closures prevented the usual flow of foreign labourers. France has called on its own citizens to help offset an estimated shortfall of 200,000 workers.
More wide-scale crop losses are looming in India, where a lockdown has sent masses of workers home, leaving farms and markets short of hands as staple crops like wheat near harvest.
Is food going to cost more?
Wheat futures surged in March to two-month highs, partly due to the spike in demand for bakery and pasta goods, while corn (maize) sank to a 3-1/2 year low as its extensive use in biofuel exposed it to an oil price collapse.
Benchmark Thai white rice prices have already hit their highest level in eight years.
Swings in commodity markets are not necessarily passed on in prices of grocery goods, as food firms typically buy raw materials in advance. A sustained rise in prices will, however, eventually be passed on to consumers.
Some poorer countries subsidise food to keep prices stable.
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation has warned that a rush to buy by countries that rely on imports of staple foods could fuel global food inflation, despite ample reserves of staple crops.
Fresh produce such as fruit or fish or unprocessed grains such as rice reflect more immediately changes in supply and demand.
Will there be enough food if the crisis lasts?
Analysts say global supplies of the most widely consumed food crops are adequate. Wheat production is projected to be at record levels in the year ahead.
However, the concentration of exportable supply of some food commodities in a small number of countries and export restrictions by big suppliers concerned they have enough supply at home can make world supply more fragile than headline figures suggest.
Another source of tension in global food supply could be China: there are signs the country is scooping up foreign agricultural supplies as it emerges from its coronavirus shutdown and rebuilds its massive pork industry after a devastating pig disease epidemic.
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New domicile rules for J&K: Altaf Bukhari likely to meet PM Modi, Shah in few days
Srinagar, Apr 03: Jammu Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president, Syed Altaf Bukhari would likely call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah in next few days.
According to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), sources said that Bukhari would call on PM Modi and HM Amit Shah in connection with the new domicile law for Jammu and Kashmir.
Bukhari during the meeting would likely apprise Modi and Shah that the new unsatisfactory domicile law is not in sync with the aspirations of people of Jammu and Kashmir—(KNO)