bySaifullah Bashir
SRINAGAR: On April 20, Turab Shah, 30, received a call from her sister, Ishrat, 37. She informed him about being tested COVID-19 positive. Ishrat along with her husband lives in the Gulab Bagh area of Srinagar. But a day before she was tested positive, she was at her brother’s home in Karan Nagar, where she met her elderly mother too. “Get all family members tested immediately,” Ishrat told Shah over the phone.
Acting quickly, shah got all of his family members tested. Shah’s brother, mother and father turned positive. The health conditions of all of them in a day’s period of time changed. They were now visibly symptomatic: fever, breathlessness and body pain, all symptoms gripped them quickly. The family is clueless about how they actually contracted the virus.
by Saifullah Bashir SRINAGAR: The unscheduled and prolonged power cuts during the ongoing month of Ramzan has irked the common people who castigate the administration for failing to live up to their claims of providing uninterrupted services at least in the summer capital Srinagar.
by Saifullah Bashir
Srinagar: After Kashmir based environmental stakeholders along with government bodies have been left out of the newly constituted Pollution Control Committee, the environmentalists are expressing concern while mulling to take the matter to the court.
A gazette notification issued on 25th March 2021, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) constituted a committee that has 14 members including a Chairperson and a Member Secretary. However, there is no Governmental or Non-Governmental member from Kashmir these 14.
The J&K Pollution Control Committee (JKPCC) members include Administrative Secretaries of Industries, Housing and Urban Development; Health & Medical Education; Transport Departments and Additional Secretary Forest and Environment is also a member of the committee.
by Saifullah Bashir SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education is yet to declare the result of 11th class which was concluded on January 6, 2021. Director Academics BOSE Dr Farooq Peer said, “Result will be out in a week.
Rare Success
Insha Lone
aifullah Bashir
Insha’s grandparents, Mrs and Mr Abdul Gani Lone, take care of her and her brother.
In the recently declared Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (BOSE) results of the twelfth standard, Insha Lone, a resident of Newa (Pulwama) secured 85 per cent marks. Seemingly this is unimpressive given the students getting 500/500 but what makes it special is that Insha managed this score while losing both her parents during the examinations.
“I am missing my father and mother,” Insha said while crying. She lost her “home” at the beginning of the examination and her parents died within a week when she was busy being examined for practical’s.