Covid Vaccination Drive Begins in Kashmir
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th SUNDAY Contact JANUARY - 2021 : -0194-2502327 24 KASHMIR FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS & 17 SRINAGAR: PARTLY CLOUDY YOUR COPY OF Maximum : 6.8O SUNSET O Today 05:47 PM Minmum : -8.2 SUNRISE Humidity : 90% Tommrow 07:37 AM 03 Jumadi-ul-Sani | 1442 Hijri | Vol:24 | Issue: 14 | Pages:12 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com / kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver Postal Regn: L/159/KO/SK/2014-2016 Widom Beginning of the end 1 Covid-19 Death Reported Mercury Dips The good and in 24 Hours wise lead Covid Vaccination quite lives Observer Monitoring Desk Further, Cold — Euripides SRINAGAR: A septuagenar- Drive Begins In Kashmir ian man from central Kashmir’s Wave Intensifies Budgam district on Saturday died of coronavirus, even as the Union Territory reported 109 fresh cases of novel coronavirus, including nine travellers during Magnitude 4.1 the last 24 hours. Earthquake Hits J&K A 75-year-old man from Mazhama village of Budgam dis- SRINAGAR: An earthquake of trict became the latest victim of magnitude 4.1 on the Richter the deadly disease on Saturday, Scale was felt in Jammu and taking the fatality count to Kashmir on Saturday. The quake 1921 in the Union Photo: Abid Bhat KO was reported at 10.01 pm with Territory, officials its epicentre at a depth of 93 km said. east of Katra, according to the So far 1921 National Centre of Seismology people have (NCS). The depth of the quake succumbed Press Trust Of India in the freezing of water was 10 km. So far, no reports of to virus in J&K— supply lines and water bod- any damage have surfaced. 1206 in the SRINAGAR: The minimum ies, including the famous Valley and 715 in temperature at most places Dal Lake, in several areas. Police Officer Dies Jammu region. in Kashmir dropped fur- A thick fog also engulfed Of Cardiac Arrest Srinagar district with ther on Saturday as the many parts of the valley, SRINAGAR: A police officer died 453 deaths tops the list intense cold tightened its including the city, in the of cardiac arrest at the SMHS followed by Jammu (367), grip in the Valley, resulting morning, More On P6 hospital here on Saturday. Baramulla (172), Budgam (115), Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Kupwara (94), Pulwama (88), Amrez Ahmed Khoja, posted Anantnag (84), Doda (64), THE CITY HAD RECORDED A low of minus A health worker being administered Covishield vaccine at SK institute of medical sciences (SKIMS) Srinagar on at Shergari Police Station was Bandipora (61), Udhampur (57), Saturday. KO Photo, Abid Bhat 8.4 degrees Celsius on Thursday, which was shifted to SMHS Hospital after he Kulgam (54), Rajouri (55), Kathua complained of chest pain, news (51), Ganderbal (46), Shopian the coldest night in Srinagar since 1991. agency KNT reported while quot- Press Trust Of India Minister Narendra Modi kick- A lot of doctors, including (39), Samba (39), More On P6 ing police sources. started it across the country in heads of institutions, several The police officer died in the hos- SRINAGAR: The coronavirus the morning, the official said. heads of departments and chief pital while the cause of his death vaccination drive started in A G Ahangar -- the director medical officers of various dis- Bailey Bridge Makes Highway Charges Filed is attributed to cardio-pulmonary Kashmir on Saturday, with of the SKIMS, the premier ter- tricts, received the jabs to boost arrest, the report said. nearly 2,000 healthcare tiary care hospital in Srinagar confidence in the vaccination Against 11 Khoja was a resident of Ibkote workers, including promi- -- received the first shot at the process, according to Haroon. Motorable After 6 Day Closure village of Karnah along the Line of nent doctors were given jabs centre, State Immunisation Jammu and Kashmir re- ‘Lashkar Members’ Control (LoC) in Kupwara district. in the Valley by the end of the Officer Qazi Haroon said. ceived on Wednesday 1.46 His body has been handed over to day, an official said. About 4,000 healthcare lakh doses of the Oxford- Press Trust Of India his legal heirs for last rites. Forty centres -- 20 each in workers will receive the shot AstraZeneca's vaccine, manu- two divisions -- across Jammu in the first phase and 100 peo- factured in India by the Serum JAMMU: Jammu police has filed Youth Injured In and Kashmir started the vac- ple each will be given shots at Institute. While 79,000 doses a chargesheet against 11 alleged cination drive after Prime these centres, Haroon said. were received More On P6 members of a Lashkar-e-Taiba Jammu Shootout (LeT) module that was busted last JAMMU: A 25-year-old man was year, an official spokesperson said critically injured on Saturday on Saturday. when he was fired upon by two A Historic Day: LG The chargesheet against the people who were later arrested ammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday cautioned arrested accused with nine hail- along with a revolver here, police people against rumour mongers spreading lies about COVID-19 Observer Monitoring Desk raised by the Border Roads ing from Doda district of Jammu said. Happy Jamwal was shot at Jvaccine even as the administration said it is fully prepared to ensure Organisation (BRO) made the region and one each of Baramulla near the main chowk Paloura in a successful inoculation drive in the union territory. The coronavirus SRINAGAR: After remaining strategic road link motorable. and Kupwara districts of north the city and was taken to Gov- vaccination drive started at forty centres across Jammu and Kashmir on closed for six consecutive days, “The Bridge was put to trail Kashmir, was filed in the Court ernment Medical College (GMC) Saturday where healthcare workers were administered jabs. the Srinagar-Jammu highway run at 2.45 PM and traffic was of 3rd Additional Sessions Judge hospital, a police officer said. The UT had received the first batch of 1,46,500 doses More On P6 on Saturday was thrown open allowed to pass in a regulated Jammu on Friday, the spokesper- Soon after the incident, the family for traffic after the Bailey Bridge manner More On P6 son said. More On P6 members of the victim staged a demonstration outside the local police station at Janipur and Soz Condemns demanded action against the Minor Rejig In Civil culprits, alleging that they at- Arrest Of Soaring Air Fares tacked Jamwal after he refused to Mainstream Leaders Admin, 13 Officers Shifted pay them money. CB Tightens Noose Around Ticketing Agents Police acted swiftly and arrested SRINAGAR: Senior Congress Bhupinder Is New DC Mission, J&K, has been trans- two of the accused and recovered leader Prof. Saifuddin Soz on SRINAGAR: The Crime Branch tickets by airlines staff to the ferred and posted as Deputy a revolver from their possession, Saturday said that incarcera- of police on Saturday carried ticketing agents in advance Baramulla, Garg To Take Commissioner, Baramulla. the officer said. tion of mainstream political out searches at multiple loca- in violation of the standing Charge Of Anantnag Anshul Garg (IAS), Deputy leaders of Kashmir by the tions across the city in con- norms and procedure. The Commissioner, Kupwara, has Load Carrier Rolls Into Union Territory administra- nection with the alleged sale complaint further alleged that Observer Monitoring Desk been transferred and posted as Jhelum, 2 Injured tion has become a ‘routine’ of air tickets on exorbitant travel agents in league with Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag. SRINAGAR- Two persons were In a statement issued to me- rates by travel agents and airline staff were creating ar- SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Choudhary Mohammad Yasin injured after a load carrier they dia here, Soz said that notice various airlines operating in tificial inflation of prices. Kashmir government on (IAS), Deputy Commissioner, were travelling in plunged into may be taken of senior Peoples the Valley. “During the investigation, Saturday reshuffled civil ad- Shopian, has been transferred river Jhelum near Hajin in north Democratic Party (PDP) leader The sleuths of CB conduct- report said, were carried out the Crime Branch Kashmir ministration by transferring and posted as Mission Director, Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Naeem Akhtar who had been ed searches at the offices of at on the basis of a complaint had summoned representa- as many as 13 bureaucrats, in- National Health Mission, J&K. Saturday. Reports said that a taken into custody months ago. least nine travel agents and from different travel asso- tives of various airlines viz, cluding many IAS and KAS offi- Shrikant Balasaheb Suse (IAS), Bandipora-bound Tata mobile Of late, Akhtar had been the residence of a sales man- ciations and trade bodies Vistara, Go Air, Indigo, Air cers “in the interest of adminis- Additional Deputy Commissioner (JK15A 5193) met with an acci- lodged in MLA’s Hostel, Srinagar, ager of a private airliner, local through Director Tourism, India, Air Asia and Spice-jet tration” with immediate effect. in the office of Divisional dent after the driver purportedly he said adding now, when his news agency KNT reported Kashmir regarding dry sell- U/S 160 CrPC along with rel- On the directions of Commissioner Kashmir, has lost control over the vehicle near health deteriorated, he was Saturday. The searches, the ing/offline selling of bulk evant records,” More On P6 Lieutenant Governor Manoj been transferred and posted as Prang area of Hajin, according to hospitalized for treatment. Sinha, the general administra- Deputy Commissioner, Shopian. Senior Congress leader said tion department (GAD) issued Nazim Zai Khan (KAS), news agency GNS. The injured to monitor this have been identified as Showkat it is extremely deplorable that GOVERNMENT SHOULD CONSTITUTE A TEAM an order on Saturday shifting Deputy Commissioner Ramban, Ahmad Guroo (35) son of Abdul even when his health has de- business so that a check on all travel agents selling tickets is done.