Home Blog Page 665

India may see Covid surge in January, next 40 days crucial

By
editor
-
The next 40 days are going to be crucial as India may see a surge in COVID-19 cases in January, official sources said on December 28 citing the pattern of previous outbreaks.
“Previously, it has been noticed that a new wave of COVID-19 hits India around 30-35 days after it hits East Asia…. This has been a trend,” an official said regarding India covid surge.

The Health Ministry sources, however, said the severity of the infection is less. Even if there is a wave, deaths and hospitalisation will be very low, they said.

The sources said 39 international passengers were found positive for COVID-19 out of the 6,000 tested on arrival in the last two days.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to visit the airport in Delhi to take stock of testing and screening facilities there, they said.

Also read- https://jkmedia.net/covid-19-scare-india-reports-188-new-infections-active-cases-rise-to-3468/

The government has made random coronavirus testing mandatory for 2% of passengers arriving in each international flight from Saturday.

The sources said filling up of ‘air suvidha’ forms and 72-hour prior RT-PCR testing may be made mandatory from next week for international passengers coming from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore.

Amid a spike in COVID-19 cases in some countries, including China and South Korea, the government has sounded an alert and asked States and Union Territories to prepare for any eventuality.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Health Minister Mandaviya have held meetings to assess the country’s preparedness to deal with a fresh surge in cases.

Mock drills were held at health facilities across India on Tuesday to check operational readiness to deal with any spurt in COVID-19 infection, with Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya saying the country has to remain alert and prepared as cases are rising in the world.

The latest spike in cases is being driven by Omicron sub-variant BF.7.

The official sources said the transmissibility of this BF.7 sub-variant is very high. A person infected with the sub-variant can further infect 16 persons.

 

Search underway along LoC after suspicious movement detected in J&K’s Poonch

By
editor
-

The Army on Friday launched a search operation in a forward area, a day after it noted suspicious movement along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Officials said the troops guarding the LoC in Khari Karmara area opened fire on picking up the movement of two-three suspected intruders around 7 pm on Thursday.

Troops also fired dozens of illuminating bombs to keep a close watch on the area to ensure there is no movement of terrorists from across the border, the officials said.

A massive search operation was launched with the first light of the day to look for any traces of the suspicious movement on the ground, the officials said.
The search operation is underway and further details are awaited.

Fresh Weather Forecast of Jammu Kashmir: Check Here

By
editor
-

Weather Forecast: The weather across Jammu and Kashmir on Friday is expected to remain dry while as one or two places may experience a brief rain and snow shower, a MeT official said.

He said the night temperatures will decrease significantly with most dry weather in coming next seven days.

Also Read: Search underway along LoC after suspicious movement detected in J&K’s Poonch

“Mostly dry weather is expected in most parts of Jammu & Kashmir on Friday. 1 or 2 places may experience a brief rain/snow shower. While as over the next 7 days, night temperatures will decrease significantly with mostly dry weather”, he added. Pertinently the parts of J&K including famous ski resort Gulmarg on Thursday recieved fresh spell of light snowfall that led to the increase in Mercury.

PM Modi performs last rites of his mother in Gandhinagar

By
editor
-

PM Narendra Modi on Friday performed the last rites of his mother Heeraben Modi in Gandhinagar.

Prime Minister Modi, who had reached Gandhinagar early this morning, consigned the mortal remains of his mother Heeraben Modi to fire along with his brothers.

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, former CM Vijay Rupani, and Cabinet Ministers of Gujarat were present for Hiraba Modi’s last rites.

PM Modi who reached Gujarat this morning first paid tribute to her at her Raysan residence and then carried the bier with the mortal remains to the crematorium for the last rites.
Heeraben Modi, 100, passed away at around 3:30 am today at the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre in Ahmedabad, according to a bulletin from the hospital. She was hospitalised on Wednesday after her health deteriorated.

The Prime Minister informed the nation about her demise early Friday morning.
Informing about her demise, the Prime Minister posted a heartfelt tweet early this morning, “A glorious century rests at the feet of God… In Maa, I have always felt that trinity, which contains the journey of an ascetic, the symbol of a selfless Karmayogi and a life committed to values.”

PM Modi recalled his visit to his mother on her 100th birthday this year.
“When I met her on her 100th birthday, she said one thing, which is always remembered that work with intelligence, live life with purity, that is, work with intelligence and live life with purity,” PM Modi tweeted.

Several leaders and ministers expressed their condolences on the demise of PM Modi’s mother.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressed grief and highlighted the value of a mother in one’s life and said that its void is “impossible to fill”.

“I am deeply pained by the passing away of Hira Ba, mother of Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi. The death of a mother leaves such a void in one’s life that is impossible to fill. I express my condolences to the Prime Minister and his entire family in this hour of grief. Om Shanti!” the Defence Minister tweeted.

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel also condoled the death of the Prime Minister’s mother passed away at 100, and said that she was the epitome of simplicity and high values of life.

“Deeply saddened by the passing away of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi’s mother Pujya Hiraba. Pujya Hiraba was an epitome of generosity, simplicity, hard work and high values of life. I pray that God rest her soul in peace. AUM Shanti,” Patel tweeted, roughly translated from Gujarati.

Ahead of the recently held Gujarat assembly polls, the prime minister during campaigning had visited his mother who turned 100 this June.

Heeraben had also cast her vote in the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly polls.
Later in the day, the Prime Minister will join today’s scheduled events in West Bengal through video conferencing, his office informed on Friday.
The prime minister was scheduled to visit West Bengal to launch the developmental projects, including flagging off the Vande Bharat Express in Kolkata and also to attend a meeting of the National Ganga Council.

Prime Minister was scheduled to lay the foundation stone of projects worth more than 7,800 crores in the state of West Bengal.

 

 

Cricketer Rishabh Pant injured in accident, pic shows car totally burnt

By
editor
-

Cricketer Rishabh Pant has been injured after his car collided with a divider and caught fire while he was reportedly travelling on Delhi-Dehradun highway.

Picture showed Rishabh Pant’s car totally burnt. Reacting to news, social media users wrote, “OMG. Get well soon Rishabh Pant,” and “Wishing him speedy recovery. I hope he will be fine.”

3,15,962 posts vacant in Indian Railways

By
editor
-

At present, 3,15,962 posts are vacant in the Indian Railways, which has been revealed under the Right To Information.

RTI activist Chandrashekhar Gaur of Neemuch district in Madhya Pradesh sought information about the vacant posts, by submitting an application in the Ministry of Railways. According to the information provided to Gaur by the Ministry, 3,12,944 posts were vacant in Group C of the Railways till November 1 (Provisional).

Similarly, in another reply received on December 27, the Ministry apprised that 2,092 posts of Group A, 926 of Group B were vacant as of September 15, 2022. The country has been struggling with an increase in unemployment, which makes the fact of lakhs of government jobs in the Railways lying vacant, quite surprising.

 

Rahul Gandhi led Bharat Jodo Yatra likely to enter J&K on Jan 22: Congress

By
editor
-

As the Bharat Jodo Yatra led Shri Rahul Gandhi is expected to enter Jammu and Kashmir from Lakhanpur on January 22, the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee on Thursday reviewed the preparations and appealed to everyone for support for the event.

“This is the biggest such event of its kind and nature post independence, having greater significance, in Jammu and Kashmir, said media incharge and Chairman of the committee, Ravinder Sharma.

He was flanked by senior Leaders of media departament including Dr Rashid Chaudhary, Kapil Singh, Dr Jhangeev Sirwal, Sahil Sharma, Bilal Rashid, Rajiv Saraf and Bhavishya Sudan.

Sharma said that the detailed schedule of the Yatra for J&K is being worked out in consultation with the concerned agencies especially security agencies but the Yatra is expected to reach Lakhanpur on January 22.

Extending cooperation to the media for the due discharge of their duties, JKPCC has assured țo share all relevant Information from time to time for their use in the better interests of the public.

Sharma said that large number of senior AICC leaders and several senior Leaders from different states are likely to join Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in J&K, besides thousands of Leaders and workers from all over country and Jammu and Kashmir. Several other prominent leaders and personalities from different shades of opinion and walks of life have already announced or are expected to join.

Lauding the significant role of media in the most difficult periods in Jammu and Kashmi, Sharma said media in Jammu and Kashmir has always tried to maintain a balanced approach and objectivity while discharging its duty towards the public.

Earlier chairing a meeting, media committee and party Spokespersons, Ravinder Sharma stressed upon the party colleagues and workers to render all possible assistance and timely information, from time to time to the media community for the performance of their duties.

“Keeping in view the cold weather and difficult climatic conditions, its the responsibility of all partymen to attend to the genuine needs and assistance of the media men, who are the friends of society,” he said.

He said that the Bharat Jodo Yatra is likely to culminate in Srinagar, on January 30, the martyrdom day of Mahatma Gandhi, as per tentative schedule, however it is yet to be finalised.

PM Modi’s mother Heeraben Modi passes away at the age of 100

By
editor
-

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Heeraben Modi, who was admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad, passed away at 100.

Informing about her demise, the Prime Minister posted a heartfelt tweet early Friday morning, “A glorious century rests at the feet of God… In Maa, I have always felt that trinity, which contains the journey of an ascetic, the symbol of a selfless Karmayogi and a life committed to values.”

PM Modi recalled his visit to his mother Heeraben Modi on her 100th birthday this year.
“When I met her on her 100th birthday, she said one thing, which is always remembered that work with intelligence, live life with purity, that is, work with intelligence and live life with purity,” PM Modi tweeted.

Private Schools in Jammu are forcing students to attend classes during Winter Breaks

By
editor
-

Aam Aadmi Party leader and vice-president of Jammu province, Amit Kapoor on Thursday in a press conference here, hitting at the local Private schools said that some schools run by corporates are still operational despite winter break issued by local govt for educational institutes.

Speaking to the media Mr Amit Kapoor quoted a govt order dated back to18-03-2019 said that this order reads that the private schools should give back the hiked school fees which they have received from parents of school kids since from the year 2014 till now.

 

“There are some schools in Jammu, which belong to the local corporates who are still calling students to attend classes in such harsh winter and that even during winter vacations. I want to ask how they can refuse govt diktat and conducting classes in their schools, some of them are taking classes on school terraces in such cold”, he said.

He added that local private schools have nexus with some garment shops here  because the schools fixes rate of uniforms as per their wish and send the students to those selected stores with whom they have ties to earn profit.

“The LG administration should wake up from their slumber and must take action against these private schools. The  ‘J&K Fee Fixation Committee’ has fixed charges of school fees but private schools here are taking fees from parents as they want”, he said.

 

Aman Zutshi

Hindu woman gang-raped, beheaded, breast chopped off in Pakistan

By
editor
-

In a horrifying incident, a 42-year-old Bheel lady was gang-raped and then brutally killed in Sindh, Pakistan. Diya Bheel has been named as the victim. According to reports, she was gang-raped before having her head and breasts cut off. As per media reports, the accused even went so far as to remove her head’s skin before dumping her corpse and the cut off head in a wheat field.

Sindh province of Pakistan’s Sanghar District is where the case was first recorded. According to media reports, no case has yet been brought in this situation. In addition, no one has been named among the accused.

Surge in cases of assault on Hindu women

The surge in the cases of forced conversions and marriages in Pakistan has put the Hindu and Christian families in constant fear of their daughters being snatched away, an International Forum for Human Rights reported.

This month, the UK government imposed sanctions on its Muslim cleric Mian Abdul Haq for forced conversions and marriages of girls and women from religious minorities but such cases also don’t appear to impact the Pakistan government.

The cases of forced marriage and conversions come out regularly and are ultimately dumped.

Recently, on December 10, of Justice (VoJ) released a report which stated that a hundred cases of abduction, rape, and forced conversion to Islam of Christian girls have taken place between 2019 and 2022. But, this report does not mention the cases of Hindu and Sikh girls which are reported almost every month. In Sindh, even the parents of young boys fear their kidnapping for forced conversion, according to IFFRAS.

13-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped

Recently, a minor Hindu girl, aged 13, was abducted from her home by a man named Arshad Ali from Karachi, Sindh.

An FIR has been registered with the Karachi police, however, no arrest has so far been made in the incident. According to the minor girl’s family, Arshad Ali has been harassing her for the past year and a half and they have filed complaints with the police several times. The family is apprehensive that the girl will be forcibly converted to Islam and will be married to Arshad Ali, according to local media.

1...664665666...1,144Page 665 of 1,144
Copyright © 2022 JK Media | All rights reserved | Powered by Rodiex