News Topic:COVID-19

China develops nanomaterial to combat coronavirus: Report

BEIJING — A team of Chinese scientists has reportedly developed a novel way to combat the new coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease which...

No soldier has tested positive for COVID-19: Indian Army

SRINAGAR — The Indian Army on Sunday strongly refuted the news reports that a Territorial Army soldier was tested positive, stating that the news...

COVID-19: Many villages declared as red zones in Pulwama

PULWAMA — Invoking prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC, Disaster Management Act and The Epidemic Disease Act, District Magistrate Pulwama said there would...

Concealing travel history is criminal: Government

SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government on Sunday said that concealing travel history is a crime, saying that those hiding travel history are...

COVID-19: Tangmarg man’s death possible case of community spread

SRINAGAR — As the second COVID-19 death in Kashmir valley had no history of travel or contact, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Sunday said...

Employees to donate day’s salary to relief fund: EJCC

SRINAGAR — Employees Joint Consultative Committee (EJCC) – an amalgam of various employees’ association of J&K – has decided to donate one-day salary towards...

SpiceJet pilot tests positive for COVID-19

NEW DELHI — SpiceJet said on Sunday that one of its pilots who did not fly any international flight in March has tested positive for the...

Administration creates local COVID-19 Fund in Pulwama

PULWAMA — Amidst the reeling coronavirus pandemic and the unprecedented situation created by it, district administration Pulwama is making unrelenting efforts in creating quarantines...

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Properties damaged as cloudburst hits Chhatroo area in Kishtwar

Damage was reported to two houses and two shops after a cloudburst triggered flash flood-like conditions in the Chhatroo area of Kishtwar district.

₹3.11 Crore Embezzlement: Crime Branch chargesheets two in Baramulla bank fraud

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Kashmir of the Crime Branch, Jammu and Kashmir, has filed a chargesheet in a decade-old bank fraud case.

31 Amarnath pilgrims injured as bus plunges into gorge in Ganderbal

Thirty-one Amarnath Yatra pilgrims were injured after a bus carrying them overturned and rolled into a gorge at the S-Mode stretch in central Kashmir's Ganderbal.

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India’s E20 Ethanol Mandate: Progress, Pitfalls and Public Backlash

India’s ambitious push toward a 20% ethanol-blended fuel, known as E20, is facing significant backlash from vehicle owners and environmentalists.

When a Black Hole Whispers to the World’s Thinnest Material

A black hole and a sheet of graphene seem to belong to completely different worlds. Yet modern physics has taught us a lesson: nature is often more connected than it appears.