th 24 Wednesday 05 May | 22 Ramazan | 1442 Hijri | Vol:24 | Issue: 105 | Pages:12 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com / kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver Postal Regn: L/159/KO/SK/2014-2016 5 STATE 6 MAKING OUR ZAKAT 3 CITY MORE CONSTRUCTIVE 165 OUT OF 348 COVID MAYOR SMC SETS TARGETS FOR Zakat is one of the five basic tenets of Islam. EFFECTIVE SERVICE DELIVERY ICU BEDS OCCUPIED IN KASHMIR Zakat means purity. Thus, this implies In Kashmir, of 348 beds designated as COVID ICU beds, around 165 that a man purifies his yearly earnings Mayor Srinagar Municipal Corporation Junaid Azim beds have been occupied already. A top health official said that 183 THINK by giving away one part of them in the Mattu Tuesday held a meeting with senior officers of the COVID ICU beds are still vacant in Kashmir division but the main four path of God. This further implies that man Corporation to review works pertaining to Sanitation... Widom 100 Kanals Of Land Identified A time will come upon the people when one will not For Firing Range care how one gains one’s money, legally or illegally. Agencies —Hadith (Bukhari) SRINAGAR: The administration of Jammu & Kashmir has iden- tified 100 kanals of land for its 22ND RAMAZAN use as a small arms firing range Iftar Sehri by Army in Samba district of TODAY TOMMOROW Jammu province. Dr Irfan Ahmad FIQAH 07:19 04:06 The official documents reveal HANAFIYA that alternate land measur- DM Cardiology, ing 100 kanals of land at village Consultant Cardiologist FIQAH GMC, SMHS Hospital JAFARIYA 07:28 04:02 Deon (Parmandal), Bari Brahmna has been identified for establish- ment of small arms firing range. It is a Tsunami of COVID. “Revenue documents have SKIMS, CD hospital, JLNM been prepared by Tehsildar con- all are full, SMHS beds are cerned. A joint verification was getting exhausted at a rapid also conducted by sub-division- pace, there is an urgent need al magistrate Vijaypur and Army of opening make shift COVID authorities regarding suitability hospital in Haj House or taking of FFR and the suitability report over private hospitals from the Army authorities has not been received so far,” reads the documents. Dr Tariq Tramboo According to minutes of a MD, Critical Care. FIPP, meeting chaired by divisional Chairman Spine loop commissioner Jammu on March International USA 27, it was decided that DC Samba alongwith local military author- Misfire During Wedding General information: While ities will visit Deon village for there are anti-inflammatory Sparks Protest joint inspection. A CRPF man halting a motorcyclist during coronavirus imposed curbs in the Old City of Srinagar on Tuesday. KO Photo, Abid Bhat. drugs that reduce the risk of They will also More On P10 SRINAGAR: A cop allegedly fired death from Covid-19, such with his service weapon in a mar- as dexamethasone, they riage ceremony in Nowshera town of are only given to people Rajouri after which the locals of the Covaxin vs hospitalised with severe area staged a protest demonstra- Covishield – A #Covid. As of now we have tion, demanding immediate action NO antivirals or antibiotics against the accused cop. Locals said Detailed Comparison 4650 More Test Positive, against Covid. that heated arguments took place between the cop and a local person he second phase of the during a marriage More On P10 COVID-19 vaccination drive has already begun in Dr Mohsin Bin T Mushtaq Shah Separatist Ashraf India, and many people are still 37 Succumb To Virus Internal Medicine, unaware of how the two vac- Sehrai Hospitalised cines – Covaxin and Covishield GMC Srinagar and SRINAGAR: Muhammed Ashraf Seh- – are different from each other. Associated Hospitals rai, chairman of Tehreek-e- Hurriyat The second phase began on 143 People Arrested For Flouting Rules was Tuesday shifted to GMC Jammu March 1, in which people over If you are having any active from Kot Bhalwal Jail after his health the age of 60 and those above 45 olice have arrested 143 people in the Kashmir valley in a span of 24 hours symptoms like fever, cold, started deteriorating His son said with associated comorbidities for violating lockdown guidelines issued by the administration to curb cough or breathlessness, that Sehrai has been shifted from Kot can take the life-saving shots. PCOVID-19, officials said on Tuesday. They said vehicles were seized as well please delay the vaccination Bhalwal Jail to GMC Jammu. Currently, the government for flouting the norms in Budgam and Bandipora districts. "During the last 24 and take opinion of a “He was already suffering from many hasn’t allowed people to decide hours, police have arrested 143 people, lodged 79 FIRs and also realised fines to physician first. ailments. His health has worsened which vaccine they want to get, the tune of Rs 84,930 from 620 people for violating the guidelines throughout after his arrest,” he said. Muhammad but the result of the first phase Kashmir valley," an official said. Since the outbreak of the second wave of the Ashraf Sehrai was booked under the clearly suggests that both the coronavirus, the J&K Police has enhanced its efforts to More On P6 Public Safety Act More On P10 vaccines being inoculated in Jagmohan Dead At 93 India are safe and effective. Man Killed In Kishtwar Well, we have compiled all Covid Hospital To Be Ready By Next Month: Govt J&K Declares Road Accident the information to give you a 125 ICU Beds In 500 Bedded Corona Hospital In Budgam: Pole better understanding of the for- 3 Day Mourning SRINAGAR: A man died while nine mulation and every other detail Observer Monitoring Desk overall fatality count since the he Jammu and Kashmir government said on Saturday that 125 beds will others were injured in a road accident about the vaccine you are go- outbreak of pandemic last year be used as intensive care units (ICUs) in the DRDO’s under construction Press Trust Of India near Hasti Sarthal area of Kishtwar ing to get to stay safe from the SRINAGAR: Coronavirus cases to 2458 in J&K. T500- bedded Covid hospital in Budgam district slated to be completed district on Tuesday. A man was killed Coronavirus. Have a look – continue to show a massive About the fresh cases of in- next month. The remarks in this regard were made by the Divisional Commis- NEW DELHI: Former Union and nine others injured after a Tata surge in Jammu and Kashmir fection, officials said, 3178 were sioner Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole, who visited Reshipora village of Budgam minister and Jammu and Sumo bearing registration number Developer as 4650 more people test- reported from Kashmir Valley district on Tuesday to take stock of ongoing construction More On P6 Kashmir governor Jagmohan JK17-1248, they were travelling in met ed positive for Covid-19 on while 1463 from Jammu division, passed away following a spell met with an accident on Sarthal- Covaxin has been developed Tuesday, highest ever single- taking the number of people in- of illness. He was 93. Kishtwar road, officials said Tuesday. by Hyderabad-based Bharat day spike in infections so far, fected across J&K to 191869. Now Oxygen Cylinders Only After Registration President Ram Nath Kovind They identified the deceased as Chatu Biotech International Ltd in while the deadly infection Providing district-wise de- and Prime Minister Narendra Ram (35) son of Jodh Ram, a resident association with the Indian claimed lives of 37 others tails, the officials said that &K administration has begun rationing medical oxygen and made it man- Modi on Tuesday paid tributes More On P10 of Trigam Kishtwar. Council of Medical Research across the Union Territory Srinagar reported 1311 cases, datory for anyone seeking an oxygen cylinder to register first with Covid to Jagmohan and described (ICMR) and the National during the last 24 hours. Baramulla 352, Budgam 386, JControl Room set up at the Divisional Commissioners Office in Srinagar. him as an exemplary adminis- Ladakh Logs 89 Cases, Institute of Virology (NIV). According to the officials, Pulwama 240, Kupwara 96, “To ensure and facilitate that Oxygen is available to patients genuinely needing trator and devoted politician. 3 More Deaths Covishield has been devel- 25 people succumbed to the Anantnag 417, Bandipora it, the government has decided that refilled cylinders will be provided to them He passed away on Monday. after furnishing requisite prescription from a doctor to the control room set up LEH: Ladakh’s COVID-19 tally in- oped by the Oxford-AstraZeneca infection in Jammu division 107, Ganderbal 31, Kulgam The Jammu and Kashmir and is being manufactured by while 12 people died of virus at 162, Shopian 85, Jammu 598, at Director Industries Jammu or Divisional Commissioner COVID control room administration has an- creased to 14,315 with 89 fresh cases Kashmir”, a government spokesperson told Kashmir Observer. More On P10 while the death toll climbed to 148 as the Serum Institute of India (SII). different hospitals in Kashmir Udhampur 220, Rajouri 205, nounced three days of state three more people succumbed to the Valley on Tuesday, raising the Doda 81, More On P10 mourning from Tuesday to disease, officials said on Tuesday. Type of Vaccine Thursday on the demise of They said 85 fresh cases were report- the former governor. Covaxin is an inactivated vac- SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday extended ‘corona curfew’ till May 10 in five districts "Saddened to hear about ed from Leh and four from Kargil. ‘Corona Curfew’ of J&K including Srinagar and Jammu. “In view of the trend in COVID positive cases, the positivity rate and Of the 148 deaths so far, 104 were cine, which has been prepared the demise of Shri Jagmohan on a tried and tested platform of Extended In the cases per million, the Corona Curfew in the 4 districts of Srinagar, Baramulla, Budgam and Jammu which Ji, former governor of J&K.