SRINAGAR: In a bid to provide instant cash management solutions to the customers, JK Bank on Tuesday dedicated 12 Cash Recycler Machines (CRM) for the public at various places in Srinagar thereby carrying forward its ease-of-banking mission.
Srinagar, Kashmir – In less than a week, 23-year-old Umer Farooq says, his life turned into a living hell.
On April 20, his 53-year-old mother, Haseena Bhat, tested positive for COVID along with his father, Farooq Ahmad Bhat, 63, and brother Wasee Ullah Bhat, 28. The family all live together in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Six days later, Umer’s previously healthy mother died in his arms and his father – who still does not know that his wife is dead – remains in hospital in a critical condition.
“When we got the positive results on April 20, my father broke down; he started crying like a baby. The hysteria around us and the terrible condition of COVID patients in Kashmir has scared every single one of us. He worried for my mother the most,” says Umer, who is a student at the Islamia College in Srinagar.
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SRINAGAR: After staying on-line with vintage internet speed, students of classes 9 to 12 resumed physical mode of education on March 1. This time the resumption came with new norms, dictated by the invisible virus – masks, sanitisers, physical distancing.
Entry to schools is subject to a welcome temperature check. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
The school re-opening is a first after August 5 2019, with a brief opening in February 2020, and a quick closure in wake of the pandemic dictated lock-down. The schools were shut on March 9, more than a week before the first positive case was detected in Srinagar, on March 18. As the cases surged across the country, the detection was followed by a nationwide pandemic lockdown on March 25. The lockdown compelled education to go virtual.
SRINAGAR: The family members of two youth, who were arrested in Jammu for allegedly killing an ATM guard of Jammu and Kashmir bank in Nanak Nagar area of Jammu, Sunday said that their sons were innocent and police should investigate the matter properly and keenly.
Two youth from Bandipora arrested in Jammu in the murder case of ATM guard. Pic: Police
Talking to the news agency
KNO, Bashir Ahmad Lone, father of one of the accused Viqas Bashir, said that police should investigate the matter properly and keenly, as it is the question of one’s life.
“Our sons are innocent and we want the police to thoroughly investigate the matter. Police must not jump to the conclusion. The career and life of two budding students is at stake. Its beyond our imagination that they will commit such a heinous crime,” Bashir said.