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US to authorize Pfizer vaccine for ages 12-15 early next week
The US Food and Drug Administration is preparing to authorize the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine for adolescents between ages 12 and 15 years by early next week, the New york times reported on Monday, citing federal officials familiar with the agency’s plans. An approval is highly anticipated after the drugmakers said…
Read More »Forest Protection Force seizes three horses, timber worth lakhs in Shopian
Srinagar, May 4 : Forest Protection Force seized 3 horses, timber worth lakhs of rupees in Shopian Forest Division. As per official statement, during the intervening night of 3rd and 4th of May, 2021, the FPF party from Shopian gamma unit laid a Naka at three different places of Romshi…
Read More »Rs. 17 lac fine realized from erring shopkeepers in two months in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, MAY 04: The Departments of Food Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) and Legal Metrology has realized a fine of over Rs. 17 lac from erring shopkeepers across Kashmir during the past two months. As per the officials details, FCS&CA department through its enforcement squads and market checking teams…
Read More »Div Com visits DRDO 500- bedded Covid hospital site at B’gam
BUDGAM, MAY 04: The Divisional Commissioner (Div Com) Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole today visited Reshipora village in Budgam district to take stock of ongoing construction work of DRDO 500- bedded Covid hospital. The Div Com was accompanied by Deputy Commissioner Budgam, Shahbaz Mirza, CE PWD, CE PHE, divisional heads or…
Read More »Schools must reduce fees as classes are online, no overhead & maintenance costs: SC
New Delhi : The Supreme Court has made some significant observations that are applicable to schools, colleges and other educational institutions in the time of pandemic when teaching has gone online for more than a year now. The Supreme Court bench led by Justice Khanwilkar in a judgment noted that…
Read More »At least 23 dead, scores injured after Mexico City Metro overpass collapses onto road
Mexico City, May 4: At least 23 people were killed after a bridge on an elevated section of the Mexico City underground system partially collapsed as a train was passing over it, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said. At least 70 people were injured, some of them seriously, Sheinbaum told journalists at…
Read More »Advisor Baseer Khan reviews Covid control measures in Pulwama, Shopian districts
PULWAMA, MAY 04: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, today chaired a series of meetings with officers, Panchayat Raj Institutions and Urban Local Bodies members, traders and transporter associations, religious leaders of Pulwama and Shopian districts here to take stock of Covid control measures being implemented in the districts…
Read More »Consignment of covidshield vaccine weighing 160 Kg ,50000 doses arrive on Srinagar airport
Another consignment of 50,000 Covishield COVID-19 vaccine doses from Serum Institute of India, Pune arrived in Srinagar on Tuesday. The newest vaccine consignment weighing 160 kg landed on the Srinagar airport this afternoon and was handed over to the J&K government’s immunization officers, official Twitter handle of the airport read…
Read More »Mayor reviews functioning of SMC wings
Mayor Srinagar Junaid Azim Mattu today held a meeting with all the senior officers of the Corporation to review works pertaining to Sanitation,works division, planning, establishment, Drainage, Town planning, Street lights and other routine works. Besides Commissioner SMC MR Athar Amir Khan, Joint Commissioner Adm Riyaz Ahmed Shah, FA/ CAO,…
Read More »Driver killed, 11-yr-old boy injured in Bugam mishap
Budgam, May 04 : A tractor driver was killed while a boy was injured after a vehicle they were travelling in turned upside down Tuesday afternoon at Khag area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Reports say that a tractor driver lost control over his vehicle following which the tractor…
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