Death toll 1148; 73014 test positive for virus  

Nadeem Nadu

Srinagar, Sep 28: A 24-year-old woman was among fifteen persons who died due to COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir, while 824 more people tested positive for the deadly virus across the Union Territory, officials said on Monday.
They said that the death toll due to COVID-19 has mounted to 1148, while 73014 persons have tested positive for the virus till date.
Giving the details of the fatalities the officials said the eleven victims belonged to Jammu and four to Kashmir Valley—two from Pulwama and one each from Bandipora and Shopian respectively.

Regarding Jammu, they said, seven of those who succumbed to the virus were residents of Jammu district and one each from Udhampur, Doda, Samb and Ramban.

The victims include a 24-year-old woman from Roop Nagar Jammu, a 62-year-old man from Simlar Camp Jammu, a 60-year-old woman from Kuajwari jammu, a 60-year-old man from Narwal Kasim Naga and a 61-year-old woman from Ustad Mohalla Jammu.

Among others those who died in Kashmir included a 60-year-old man from Tral Pulwama who died at SKIMS Soura.

Also, a doctor at SKIMS Soura told GNS, a 55-year-old man from Bongam Shopian died at the tertiary care hospital, eight days after he was admitted and diagnosed with Covid pneumonia with respiratory failure. “He died due to cardiopulmonary arrest,” the doctor said.

With these deaths, 1148 people have died due to covid-19 including 827 from Kashmir Valley and 320 from Jammu division.

J&K records 824 new cases
Meanwhile, J&K reported 824 new novel coronavirus cases including 82 travelers and 52 security personnel in last 24 hours, taking the total count to 73014, officials said on Monday. It is for the first time after September 4 that less than a thousand cases have been registered in J&K.

Sources told GNS that 540 cases were confirmed from Jammu division and 284 from Kashmir Valley.
Giving district wise-details, official sources said that Srinagar reported 105 cases, Budgam 27, Baramulla 26, Pulwama 33, Anantnag 18, Bandipora 9, Kupwara 44, Ganderbal 13, Kulgam 1, Shopian 8, Jammu 337, Rajouri 52, Udhampur 38, Kathua 37, Doda 11, Samba 29, Poonch 10, Ramban 1, Reasi 14 and Kishtwar 11.

A number of these cases were confirmed at diagnostic laboratories of SKIMS and CD hospital here.

The Anantnag cases include female (70) from Dooru, female (55) from NA Anantnag, male (64) from Anantnag.

The Srinagar cases include male (37) from Lal Bazar, male (55) from Nawakadal, female (60) from Harwan, female (15) from Soura, female (45) from Nowshera, male (32) from Zoonimar, male (71) from Bemina, male (62) from Rajbagh, female (48) from Lal Bazar, female (65) from Soura, male (70) from Eidgah, female (65) from Soura, male (80) from Nowshera, female (80) from Bemina, female (60) from Nowshera, male (75) from Botakadal, male (55) from Nigeen, female (59) from Nowshera, male (58) from Ahmadnagar, female (04) and male (25) from Soura, male (52) from Chanapora, two females (18, 65) from Rainawari, two males (60, 24) from Nowshera, female (45) from Harwan, female (65) from Gulab Bagh, male (47) from Barbarshah, male (53) from Buchpora, male (50) from Hawal, male (25) from Ahmadnagar, male (72) and female (65) from Ali Bazaar, male (21) from Nowshera, male (43) from Ahmadnagar, female (06) from Parimpora, female (63) from Lal Bazar, female (60) from Sakidafar, male (35) from Soura, male (68) from Gulab Bagh, female (60) from Ahmadnagar, male (49) from Baghi Mehtab, male (65) from Harwan, male (04M) and female (26) from Nowgam, female (60) from Lasjan, female (60) from Fateh Kadal, male (33) from HMT Srinagar.

The Budgam cases include male (35) and female (10) from Jhelum Colony Rukh Shalina, male (38) from Nagam Chadoora, male (48) from Sonpah, male (25) from Nassarpora, female (02) from Qazipora. The Ganderbal cases include male (40) from Lar, male (65) from Warposh, male (50) from Ganderbal, male (31) from Dhobipora Ganderbal.

The Baramulla cases include female (70) from Tangmarg, male (60) from Pattan, male (50) from Tangmarg, male (52) from Tral, female (25) from Kanibagh, female (65) from Jahama Baramulla.

The Kishtwar cases include male (21) from Madma Kishtwar.

The Kupwara cases include male (46) from Dragmulla Kupwara.

The Poonch cases include male (75) from Poonch, male (90) from Sinankote Poonch.

The Doda cases include female (42) from Baderwah Doda. The Kargil cases include male (26) from Kargil.

The CRPF cases include male (34) from 188/181 Bn Crpf Humhama Budgam, male (48) from 82/ Acs Bn Crpf Humhama Budgam, male (39) from 23/ Acs CRPF Humhama Budgam, male (33) from 144/ Acs Crpf Humhama Budgam, male (41) from 54 Bn Crpf Nishat Srg, male (38) from 220 Bn Crpf Humhama Budgam, male (25) from 12 Bn Crpf Humhama Budgam, three males (47, 43, 30) from 35 Bn Crpf Humhama Budgam, male (48) from 155/35 Bn Crpf Humhama Budgam, male (41) from 209/35 Bn Crpf Humhama Budgam, male (41) from 35 Bn Crpf Humhama Budgam, male (32) from 220 Bn Crpf Humhama Budgam, male (40) from 115 Bn Crpf Zakura Srg, male (45) from 184/ 115 Bn Crpf Zakura Srg, two males (33, 33) from 115 Bn Crpf Zakura Srg, five males (46, 35, 25, 36, 23) from 290 Fd Panchgaon Kupwara.

The BB Cantt cases include two females (49, 25) and two males (39, 40) from BB Cantt Srinagar.

The CD cases include male (55) and two females (50, 38) from Shangus, male (40) from Uttersoo, female (26) from Srinagar, female (16) from Kanilbagh Bla, female (60) from Sherwani Colony Bla, male (53) from Kanilbagh Bla, male (42) from Delina Bla, male (31) from Khawaja Bagh Bla, male (35) from Kanthbagh Bla, female (55) from Khawaja Bagh Bla, two males (20, 13) and female (45) from Khrew, female (35) from Hyderpora, female (36) from Tulbagh Pampore, female (39) from Nowpora, male (35) from Bun Mohalla Tral, female (62) from Sanzwatura, male (35) from Rahmoo, female (57) from Pushpora, female (23) from Baygund, female (25) from Loswani, twenty five males (28, 30, 27, 46, 24, 32, 33, 46, 26, 36, 40, 27, 30, 39, 25, 27, 24, 24, 32, 45, 30, 33, 26, 35, 34) from BB Cantt, male (45) from Bemina, male (66) from Srinagar, male (42) from Nowgam, female (75) from Safapora Ganderbal, female (60) from Ganderbal, male (40) from Gogjibagh, male (43) from Zakura, male (NA) from Chanapora, male (80) from Rashimullah Batmaloo, female (37) from Chadoora, male (65) from Srinagar, female (07) from Soura, male (29) from Harwan, male (35) from Hyderpora, male (55) from Hazratbal, male (80) from Safakadal, female (55) from Eidgah, male (55) from Bemina, female (52) and male (60) from HMT, female (58) from Hawal, male (25) from Bemina, male (65) from Sonwar, male (07) from Wuyan, female (NA) from Ganderbal, male (27) from Anantnag, female (65) from Drass, male (NA) from Natipora, male (60) from Zakura, female (30) from Zainakote, female (80) from Sopore, male (70) from Lethpora, female (56) from Srinagar, female (40) from Bemina, male (90) from Pattan Baramulla.

Moreover, they said, 1408 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and discharged from various hospitals 831 from Jammu Division and 577 from Kashmir.

New Delhi, Sep 28: India’s nCoV cases tally crossed 60 lakh mark and reached 60,74,702 on Monday after recording a sharp spike of 82,170 new cases in the past 24 hours , as per the Union Health Ministry update here.
Pandemic deaths have also witnessed a rise and the toll now stands at 95,542 after 1,039 more people lost their battle with the highly contagious virus.
On the other hand, recoveries also crossed the 50-lakh mark after clocking 74,893 cured and discharged cases during the same period, and the figure now stands at 50,16,520.
India has witnessed a high level of more than 90,000 daily recoveries in the recent past and the total recovered cases outnumber active cases by more than five times.
As much as 73 per cent of the new recovered cases are being reported from 10 states — Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Kerala, Odisha, West Bengal and Punjab.
Active case-load on the country has increased a little since Sunday and currently the peninsular houses 9,62,640, such cases, the government data update said.
In terms of percentage, the active cases are 15.85 per cent, recovered at 82.58 per cent, and the deaths 1.57 per cent.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), as many as 7,09,394 samples were tested in the past 24 hours, taking the total cumulative samples tested since the beginning of the pandemic till Sunday to 7,19,67,230.
Maharashtra continues to remain the worst affected state with maximum case count as well as in terms of maximum active cases of the pandemic. It recorded 18,056 new coronavirus positive cases, which pushed the state’s overall tally to 13.39 lakh. With the death of 380 patients in the day, the toll reached 35,571.
Karnataka registered 9,543 new Covid-19 cases and 79 deaths in a span of 24 hours, taking the overall tally to 5,75,566
Telangana reported 1,378 new Covid-19 cases and 7 fatalities in the last 24 hours, pushing the state tally to 1,87,211, with 1,107 deaths, the state’s Covid-19 bulletin said on Monday.

The number of global novel coronavirus cases was nearing the 33 million mark, while the deaths have increased to more than 9,96,000 on Monday, Johns Hopkins University said.
The total number of cases stood at 32,977,556 and the fatalities rose to 996,674, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.
The US is the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 7,113,666 and 204,750, respectively, according to the CSSE.

India comes in the second place in terms of cases at 59,92,532 while the country’s death toll soared to 94,503.
The other countries with the cases are Brazil (4,717,991), Russia (1,146,273, Colombia (813,056) and Peru (800,142) the CSSE figures showed.
Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of fatalities at 1,41,741.
The countries with a death toll above 20,000 are Mexico (76,430), UK (42,077), Italy (35,835), Peru (32,142), France (31,675) and Spain (31,232).

‘Investigation in Rajouri youth killing in Shopian encounter in final stage’

Srinagar, Sep 28: Describing the Pulwama encounter a very big success for security forces, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh on Monday said longest surviving commander of Lasher-e-Toiba (LeT) and his aide were killed.
Aijaz Ahmad Reshi, who was involved in many militancy related incidents, including Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in which eight Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed at Pampore, had joined militancy long before Burhan Wani of Hizbul Mujahideen(HM), DGP told reporters at Pulwama after the Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) launched Sunday evening at Samboora, Pampore, in Pulwama ended today.
J&K Police Chief said the CASO was launched last evening following a tip off about the presence of militants. During the operation an encounter took place, he said operation was suspended due to darkness late Sunday night.
However, when the operation resumed this morning two bodies of militants were recovered.
Later one of the slain militant was identified as Reshi who was longest surviving militant commander of LeT.

Reshi was killed along with his aide Sajjad Ahmad Sofi, who was recruited by him. However, after the killing of Reshi there will be now be a dip in the recruitment of local youths in militancy. During the past fortnight 15 youths shunned the path of violence and joined mainstream, he said adding this year a total of 24 who had joined militant ranks have returned with the active cooperation of security agencies and family members of these youths.
DGP Singh said Reshi worked as Over Ground Worker (OGW) in 2015 and joined militancy before Burhan Wani.
The police chief said the recovery made today included two AK-47 riffles, two magazines, some rounds of ammunition, and incriminating material from the slain militants.
‘Investigation in Rajouri youth killing in Shopian encounter in final stage’
Meanwhile, the DGP said that the investigation into the killing of three youths from Rajouri in an encounter by security forces in south Kashmir district of Shopian is in the final stage.
The comment by the DGP comes days after the DNA samples of three persons, who were killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Army in Shopian, have matched with their families from Rajouri.
“Our investigation is in the final stage. The SSP Shopian is himself monitoring the investigation process of the case and very soon further details about the case will be shared,” Singh said.
The Army had on July 18 claimed that three militants were killed in an encounter in village Amshipura in Shopian. But, Army initiated an inquiry into the encounter after it was claimed that the slain were from Rajouri and had gone missing. The families of the deceased had claimed that the trio was working as labourers and had gone missing in Amshipura.
After completing inquiry into the encounter, the Army said that the investigation has brought out certain prima facie evidence indicating that during the operation, powers vested under the AFSPA 1990 were exceeded and the Do’s and Don’ts of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) as approved by the Supreme Court have been contravened.
In a statement issued earlier this month, the Army said the competent disciplinary authority has directed to initiate disciplinary proceedings under the Army Act against those found prima-facie answerable. “The evidence collected by the inquiry has prima-facie indicated that the three unidentified terrorists killed in operation Amshipora were Imtiyaz Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed and Mohammad Ibrar, who hailed from Rajouri. Their DNA report is awaited. Their involvement with terrorism or related activities is under investigation by the police,” it said.
“Indian Army is committed to ethical conduct of operations. Further updates on the case will be given periodically without affecting due process of the law of the land,” it added.

Srinagar, Sep 28: A youth, an employee in Rural Development Department, was shot and critically injured in Nildoora village of South Kashmir’s Shopian district succumbed to the wounds at a hospital here on Monday.
Official sources said that the gunmen fired upon the youth, Sabzar Ahmad Naikoo son of Abdul Rasheed Naikoo in the native Nildora village, leaving him critically injured. He was immediately shifted to nearby hospital for treatment wherefrom he was shifted to Srinagar’s SMHS hospital for specialized treatment owing to “critical injuries”. He however succumbed to the injuries. Medical Superintendent SMHS hospital Dr Nazir Choudhary confirmed to GNS that he succumbed to the injuries.
A senior police officer said that Naikoo workd in Rural Development Department.
Meanwhile a team of Police reached the spot and has started investigation in this regard, the official sources said. (GNS)