News Topic:COVID-19
J&K
COVID-19: Don’t cut salary, terminate employees who can’t join duties: J&K’s Labour Commissioner
JK’s Labour Commissioner issued an advisory advocating that there should be “no termination or reduction in salary” in the wake of COVID-19.
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Kashmir
FIR against south Kashmir man for hiding travel history to Pakistan
Amid raging scare about spread of Coronavirus, authorities in Pulwama have ordered the filing of an FIR against a person from Awantipora.
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Health
Coronavirus: District Hospital Pulwama closes OPD section
Health authorities on Sunday closed the OPD section in District Hospital Pulwama amid growing threat of Coronavirus spread in India.
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J&K
J&K Government lists essential services allowed during lockdown
Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs issued list of essential services that will be allowed to operate during lockdown.
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Health
COVID-19: Pregnant women not at higher risk, says DAK
DAK said pregnant women are not at higher risk of developing severe disease from the novel (new) Coronavirus than the general population.
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Kashmir
Kashmir will go into lockdown mode from Sunday evening
Jammu and Kashmir will go into complete lockdown starting from 8 PM today till 6 AM of March 31 in wake of the Coronavirus threat.
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J&K
New arrivals in J&K prisons screened, suspects quarantined: DG Prisons
Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Prisons, V K Singh on Sunday said that all new arrivals in J&K UT prisons are being screened.
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Kashmir
Kashmiris returning from outside nations facing a hard time
“The government claims that it is following WHO guidelines and nobody in wild imagination would imagine such a compliance,” people say.
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Army soldier found dead at 16 RR headquarters in Surankote
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