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— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 8, 2020
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Srinagar: A day after a senior Journalist was tested negative at SKIMS Soura after being declared positive for Covid-19 at Chest Disease Hospital Srinagar, former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah wondered and tweeted about those persons who can’t get tested twice or from different places, saying what happens to those people.
“As if things weren’t bad enough, we can’t even trust the authencity of test results. Chest Diseases hospital gives a COVID positive result. A day later SKIMS, Soura gives the same person a negative report. What happens to those who can’t get tested twice or from different places?” Omar Abdullah wrote in response to a tweet posted by a senior photo Journalist.
Big question mark on the authenticity of #Covid_19 tests at CD Hospital Lab. Senior journalist among many who tested positive for pandemic at CD lab, test negative at SKIMS, Soura, People have brought the issue into my notice, will see what’s wrong, Advisor Baseer Khan told KNO,” Journalist Umar Ganaie had tweeted.
Many people including a senior journalist, who were tested positive for the deadly COVID pandemic at Chest Disease hospital laboratory a few days back, tested negative for the virus at SKIMS Soura. (KNT)
Mumbai: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said India’s military and diplomatic levels talks with China have been positive and will continue.
Addressing the BJP’s Maharashtra Jan-Samvad Rally via video link, the minister also said the Narendra Modi-led government will ensure that the India’s pride is not affected as far as the situation along Indo-China border is concerned.
“The border dispute between India and China has been ongoing for a long time. We want to resolve it as soon as possible,” Singh said.
“Talks with China are on at military and diplomatic level. The June 6 talks were very positive and both the countries have agreed to continue talks to resolve the ongoing tussle,” he said.
“I want to assure people that leadership of the country is in strong hands and we will not compromise on India’s pride and self-respect,” he said.
Singh said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and some opposition leaders had sought the government’s clarification on what is happening at the India-China border.
“As the Defence Minister of the country, I want to say that whatever I have to say I will say it inside Parliament, I will not mislead the people,” the minister said.
Srinagar: Suspected militants shot dead a 35-year-old Sarpanch in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday.
An official told news agency KINS that a Sarpanch identified as Ajay Panditha of Dooru was fired upon by the gunmen near Lokbawan Larkipora.
He was rushed to GMC Annatnag where he was declared brought dead.
Meanwhile whole area has been cornoded off to nab the attackers.(KINS)
Srinagar: A 55 year old man from Pampore town of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district died of Covid-19 infection in Srinagar hospital.
The deceased was admitted SMHS Hospital on 6 June and was suffering from Pneumonia.
With this death the tally of Covid-19 patients who have died in Jammu and Kashmir has reached 45, among which two are non-locals including a trooper and four deceased hail from Jammu region.
Earlier a trooper, elderly man from Haril Handwara and a man from Khanyar Srinagar died in Srinagar hospital. Both had been tested positive for Covid-19 while the man from Srinagar, though tested positive, died due to head injury which he had sustained in road accident.
Nodal Officer for Coronavirus at SMHS Hospital, Dr Salim Khan told news agency KNT that the patient who was hailing from Pampore town of Pulwama died of Pneumonia. “He was 55 years old suffering from acute Pneumonia. After being tested positive for Covid-19 he had been admitted in the hospital,” he said. (KNT)
Ganderbal: Authorities closed two branches of Jammu Kashmir Bank in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district after two brothers working in these branches were tested positive for Covid-19 infection.
Official sources told news agency KNT that an Assistant Manager hailing from Srinagar was tested positive in JK Bank branch Kangan. The brother of the same employee was also tested positive at Bank branch Barosa Ganderbal.
Over 34 persons mostly employees of these bank branches have been advised to go for home quarantine while both these branches remained shut today.
Pertinently, long queues are seen outside bank branches. People openly violate social distancing norms. In recent past, large number of women folk was seen outside bank branches waiting for the opening of ‘Jan Dhan’ accounts. (KNT)
Ranchi: A flight carrying 55 migrant workers reached Ranchi from Leh on Monday morning, with Jharkhand ministers Mithilesh Thakur and Badal Patralekh greeting the returnees on their arrival at the airport.
An official statement by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) had on Sunday said 208 migrant workers of Jharkhand would be airlifted from Leh in four batches this week.
“Doosra jatha hawai marg se Ranchi pahunch gaya, un sab ko Johar (the second batch has reached Ranchi by air, salutations to them),” a CMO release quoted Soren as having said.
According to the state government norms, all 55 migrant workers will have to undergo home quarantine for 14 days.
The first batch of 60 migrant workers reached Ranchi from Leh via Delhi on May 29.
The returnees, all residents of the state’s Santhal Pargana region, were sent home in sanitised buses.
Soren had earlier thanked Ladakh Deputy Commissioner, officials of the Border Road Organisation, low-cost carriers Spice Jet, Indigo, Air Asia, and some local non-governmental organisations for their collective effort in sending the migrant workers home to Jharkhand from Leh.
Jammu, June 8 (PTI) An Army man was found dead under suspicious circumstances along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Monday, officials said.
The body was found near a forward post along the LoC, they said.
Further details are awaited.
Scaremongering done especially with some development partners who are in the NGO sector, says the Minister for Women and Child Development
Union Minister Smriti Irani has denied claims that the coronavirus-induced lockdown led to an increase in cases of domestic violence against women.
Replying to a question that the lockdown has increased domestic violence and women are not being able to even lodge complaints, Ms. Irani retorted: “It is false. Every state has a police line functioning. We have one stop crisis centres across every district of every State.”
“I without revealing the faces and names of women that we have rescued, have state by state, district by district rescue rehabilitation details of every individual victim,” she said on Sunday.
The Minister for Women and Child Development and Textiles said there was some “scaremongering done especially with some development partners who are in the NGO sector that 80% of women who are now at homes in India or across the world will be getting beaten up.”
She said every man is not beating up the woman in his house in India.
“Our police lines have been functional throughout the lockdown. Our crisis centres have been functional throughout the lockdown,” said the Minister.
Ms. Irani said rescue and rehabilitation facilities have been provided not only for women but also children.
“In fact, so far as the numbers go, I have 35 helpline numbers across all states apart from a central number that has been functioning fully throughout the lockdown period,” said the Minister.
She was addressing a TiE talk event hosted through a virtual platform on Sunday night.
National carrier’s repatriation flights in phase 3 of Vande Bharat Mission from June 10
Hundreds of stranded Indians in West Asia had been hit hard by the hike in the airfare for repatriation flights to be operated by national carrier Air India in the phase three of Vande Bharat Mission set to take off from June 10.
The one-way airfare in the economy class from the key three airports at Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to the four airports in Kerala has gone up from ₹18,760 (950 Riyals) to ₹33,635 (1,703 Riyals) when the airline opened its booking for phase III.
The one-way airfare in the national carrier from Jeddah to Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram had gone up from 1,000 Riyals to 1,700 Riyals. In the Business class, the fare has touched 2,470 Riyals. From Dammam, one has to pay 1,170 Riyals to Kochi and 1,773 to Kannur.
Compared to the hike in the airfare in the Saudi Arabia-Kerala sector, there is only marginal increase in the airfare in the Qatar-Kerala sector. The one-way airfare has gone up only from 766 Riyals to 780 Riyals.
Air India Express, low-cost arm of the national carrier Air India (AI), that is gearing up to operate 107 flights from West Asia and South East Asian countries in the phase III has not steeply increased the fare like Air India. “Fares had gone up six to seven AED (United Arab Emirates Dirham),” airline sources said. AI officials were not available for comments.
For many in Saudi Arabia who had been awaiting eagerly to return to the home soil, the hike in the airfare was a bolt from the blue as they came to know only after reaching the airline offices.
“The flyers had no other option other than to borrow money and book the seats as bulk of the flights are handled by Air India from Saudi Arabia and uncertainty prevails over the commencement of the commercial flights,” Feroz Khan, a social worker from Riyadh, said. “There was marginal increase in airfares in the Phase II. We were told that everything is decided at Delhi. But, now the Union government has taken the Non-Resident Indians for a ride at these testing times,” he said.
The Vande Bharat Mission was kicked off by the Centre on May 7 to bring back stranded Indians on a payment basis amid the COVID-19-induced lockdown. It also permitted foreign nationals and valid visa-holders to book seats on these flights.
With inputs from The Hindu