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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

A team of workers spray disinfectants outside as a precautionary measure during the nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Srinagar on Monday. PTI photo

Chaos in J&K hospitals as coronavirus tally rises to 48

In J&K, as many as 11, 644 travellers and persons in contact with suspected cases are under surveillance, including 355...

31 March 2020 12:04 AM IST

Police and paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a road leading to the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital in Srinagar, where most patients with symptoms of COVID-19 are being kept in quarantine. (AP)

26 Covid-19 suspects flee after quarantine riot at Srinagar hospital

They are retraced and brought back but one doctor loses her job for negligence

28 March 2020 11:38 PM IST

A man walks under a umbrella near the main gate of historical Jamia Masjid locked for the congregational Friday prayers, during 3rd day of the 21-day nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic, in Srinagar. PTI photo

Four more coronavirus cases in J&K, Friday congregations cancelled

On 9th day of virtual lockdown, uniformed men had to act tough to prevent gatherings at places

27 March 2020 10:55 PM IST

File photo of health staff carrying out a door-to-door campaign in Khanyar locality of Srinagar. The first patient to test positive for the coronavirus was from this locality. On Thursday a person who had flown on the same flight as the first positive also tested positive for coronavirus. is the first COVID-19 case in the valley following which lockdown is being enforced in srinagar and some other areas of the valley ON mARCH 19,2020. photo by h u naqash

Places of worship shut after first Covid-19 casualty in Kashmir

Authorities probing why coronavirus victim was allowed to leave hospital despite symptoms

26 March 2020 11:59 PM IST

Security personnel stands guard along a road during lockdown in the wake of deadly coronavirus, in Srinagar. PTI photo

First covid19 death in Kashmir

A 65-year-old man who had been with a Tablighi Jamaat outside Valley dies in a Srinagar hospital days after testing...

26 March 2020 1:54 PM IST

A preventive lockdown continued in Srinagar for the seventh straight day on Wednesday to arrest the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 in Jammu & Kashmir. (Photo: H U Naqash)

Panicky Kashmiris rush to hospitals after COVID-19 cases swell in J&K

With 4 more testing positive for the deadly virus, authorities decide to get tough with lockdown violators

25 March 2020 10:40 PM IST

Former Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was released from detention on March 24, 2002. (DC Photo: Habib Naqash)

Omar Abdullah: It's callous and cruel to keep Mehbooba Mufti in...

Former J&K chief minister says there was never any justification to detain her in the first place

25 March 2020 2:11 PM IST

Omar Abdullah speaking to reporters after his release from detention

Far & Near: Kashmir after the Abdullahs' release

If the NC and PDP now show common purpose, efforts by the Centre to degrade the Abdullahs' party is likely to receive a...

25 March 2020 10:51 AM IST