Brussels, May 08 (KMS): The Chairman of Kashmir Council Europe (KCEU), Ali Raza Syed, has asked the European authorities to raise the issue of human rights violations in its Summit with India in Portugal. The European leaders who will be assembled in Porto, the city of Portugal, today (8 May …
Read More »Pakistan hands over dossier to ICRC for setting up medical corridor in IIOJK
Islamabad, May 08 (KMS): Pakistan has handed over a dossier to International Committee of Red Cross for setting up an international humanitarian medical corridor to provide medical assistance to the people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The dossier was presented by Chairman Kashmir Committee Shehryar Khan Afridi to …
Read More »Pakistan urges UN to get Kashmiri prisoners released
Islamabad, May 08 (KMS): Pakistan’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations Munir Akram in a letter to the Secretary General Antonio Guterres has conveyed deep concern of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on the recent demise of a senior APHC leader and Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Ashraf …
Read More »India’s COVID catastrophe: Deaths piling because of Modi’s complacency
Islamabad, May 07 (KMS): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s incompetency and his disregard towards people’s live have become evident amid the ongoing Covid-19 surge across India as the country has recorded its worst Covid-19 numbers, becoming the first in the world to cross 400,000 daily cases of the coronavirus. A …
Read More »COVID-19 spreads to rural India, villages ill-equipped to fight it
New Delhi, May 07 (KMS): Hopes that India’s rampaging second wave of COVID-19 is peaking were set back on Thursday as record daily infections and deaths were reported and as the virus spread from cities to villages that were poorly equipped to cope. Government modelling had forecast a peak by …
Read More »India Covid peak in coming days, then 20,000 a day by June-end: Forecast
Infections have surged by more than 300,000 cases for 15 straight days, pushing India’s total tally past 21 million New Delhi, May 07 (KMS): A mathematical model prepared by advisers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggests India’s coronavirus outbreak could peak in the coming days, but the group’s projections have …
Read More »New concerns as Indian Covid variant clusters found across England
London, May 07 (KMS): Clusters of the Indian variants of Covid-19 have been found across England, including in care homes, the Guardian has learned, amid growing fears about the speed with which they are spreading in communities. The latest update of case numbers of these variants was due to be …
Read More »India sets new COVID world record as oxygen demand jumps seven-fold
New Delhi, May 07 (KMS): India has seen demand for oxygen jump “seven-fold” as the country set a new world record for daily COVID-19 cases on Thursday. By the numbers: India’s health ministry reported 412,262 new infections, taking the official tally past 21 million, and 3,980 deaths from the coronavirus …
Read More »COVID-19 surge: Sri Lanka bans travellers from India with immediate effect
Colombo, May 07 (KMS): Sri Lanka has announced that all arrivals from India will be banned with immediate effect due to the record rise in COVID-19 cases in India. Several countries like the UK, the UAE, Australia and Singapore have already banned travellers from India. Sri Lanka’s Civil Aviation Authority …
Read More »Pleas for help in India as Covid-19 leaves children without carers
New Delhi, May 07 (KMS): When an Indian children’s rights group tracked down two boys aged six and eight after it was told that their parents were both severely ill with Covid-19 and unable to care for them, the children had not eaten for days. The case, reported by …
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