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Health workers ask questions from a woman during a door-to-door surveillance in a red zone area for COVID-19, amid the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, in Srinagar. PTI Photo

Four more test Covid19 positive in J&K, cases climb to 188

The four patients are the contacts of a 61-year-old woman who died of coronavirus in the state earlier

10 April 2020 11:10 AM IST

A municipal worker sprays a disinfectant to prevent the spread of virus amid national lockdown in Jammu. PTI photo

Two Tablighi Jamaat attendees booked for concealing travel history

The duo had recently returned to Ramanagar with a travel history of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, before attending the event at...

9 April 2020 1:23 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti has been in detention for more than eight months. (PTI)

Mehbooba Mufti shifted to her home; detention under PSA to continue

Former chief minister's residence designated as a subsidiary jail

7 April 2020 4:55 PM IST

A medical staff member collects a sample taken from a person to be tested for the new coronavirus at a quarantine zone in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, in Chinas central Hubei province. AFP photo

J&K man escapes quarantine centre, booked

On being informed about the incident a police team from Ramgarh immediately swung into action, traced the man and...

6 April 2020 11:06 AM IST

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5 infiltrators, 3 Army jawans killed in ongoing gunfight in Keran area...

An Army jawan identified as Sepoy Satendra Kumar Tomar committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in...

5 April 2020 5:21 PM IST

Uddhav Thackeray (PTI photo)

Uddhav Thackeray is a revelation: Omar Abdullah

Maharashtra has recorded 32 coronavirus deaths so far and 661 cases of the virus

5 April 2020 1:22 PM IST

Centre reserves jobs in J&K for domiciles after anger over April 1 order

Centre reserves jobs in J&K for domiciles after anger over April 1...

The move had evoked a sharp reaction from political parties, including the newly-formed Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party

4 April 2020 10:08 AM IST

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Privileges given to former J&K chief ministers withdrawn

The move comes months after J&K Law Commission had recommended repeal of the legal provisions providing facilities to...

2 April 2020 12:01 PM IST

Srinagar looks like a ghost town due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The central government amended the Jammu & Kashmirs domicile laws, a move that has been criticised by all political civil society groups in the Kashmir Valley. (DC Photo: H U Naqash)

Kashmir's domicile law changed under cover of Covid-19

Under new law any person who has lived 15 years in the UT will be treated as a domicile resident

2 April 2020 8:49 AM IST

A family leaves a makeshift coronavirus quarantine facility set up at a hotel requisitioned for the purpose by the authorities in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. Hundreds of local residents, on their return from outside Kashmir, were quarantined in such facilities. The authorities say that most of the people who have tested positive a have history of travel to various parts of India and abroad. (DC Photo: H U Naqash)

J&K takes up 'robust' contact tracing in Valley

About 2000 contacts of Covid-19 positive persons have been identified

2 April 2020 8:28 AM IST

People who attended Tabligh-e-Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin West board walk to board a bus for the LNJP Hospital for screening and COVID-19 test, in New Delhi, Tuesday. PTI photo

Tracing contacts of Nizamuddin attendee from JK who travelled by...

The businessman, who travelled to Delhi to attend a Tablighi Jamaat congregation, died on March 26 in a Srinagar...

31 March 2020 3:45 PM IST

Health workers spray disinfectant in Srinagar. (DC Photo by H U Naqash)

Why are so many fleeing quarantine in Kashmir?

Photographs of street dogs in the corridors of major hospitals put the focus on hospital conditions

31 March 2020 12:27 AM IST