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A joint team of Kupwara Police and Army 160 TA here has apprehended one OGW namely, Fareed Ahmad Chowhan on of Shamas Din Chowhan resident of Reshwari, Awoora, aged 33 , Ward Member Zurhama, Kupwara. Fareed was moving in suspicious circumstances in the area when local people surrounded him and informed the police about it late last evening. Acting on the tip of local police along with a team of TA 160 Bn apprehended Fareed who was subjected to personal search. During his personal search a Chinese Pistolwas recovered from his possession. He has been taken into custody and a case under relevant provisions of law has been registered against him at PS Trehgam and investigation taken up.- (KB)

uri, 1 tower of 400 KV Sambha-Amargarh Sterllite Transmission Line has toppled, because of land erosion as a result of which power supply to Kashmir Valley has got partially affected since intervening night of 20th & 21st January, 2022,” a KPDCL official told GNS. “We are short of availability of power by 10%, this has resulted in additional curtailments. Restoration works have been taken up in hand by concerned agency and will take about 10-15 days. Consumers are requested to bear with the corporation and inconvenience caused to general public is regretted,” the official added. (GNS)

Core Group consisting of top officials of Civil Administration, Intelligence Agencies, and Security Forces in J&K met today at Badami Bagh Cantonment to review the security situation in Kashmir. The meeting was co-chaired by the General Officer Commanding, Chinar Corps, Lt Gen DP Pandey and Director General of Police Jammu & Kashmir, Dilbag Singh. The core group reviewed the intelligence inputs and security parameters of 2021. The year 2021 witnessed a reduction in militant infiltration, militant incidents and militant recruitment and increased operations based on human intelligence, reduced collateral damage, no civil casualties in law and order situation, reduced SF casualties, increased arrest of militants and booking of OGWs; all pointing to effective conduct of joint operat...

As many as 92 officers of Jammu & Kashmir Administrative Service (JKAS) and Jammu & Kashmir Police Service (JKPS) are attaining superannuation in the calendar year 2022. Details available with news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) lay bare that 56 JKPS officers and 36 JKAS officers would retire in the year 2022. Both the Home department and General Administration Department- who are respectively cadre controlling authority for JKPS and JKAS- have already notified the names of officers who are attaining superannuation in the next 12 months. According to notification of Home department, 56 officers of different ranks, mostly deputy superintendents of police (DySPs), would retire in the next 12 months. Of them, seven officers would retire on January 31, six on February 28, ...

At a time when doctors and experts claim that the third wave is extremely infectious but around 95 percent positive patients have either no symptoms or mild symptoms. People at this stage are resorting to self medication which according to doctors can prove dangerous. Experts and doctors told the local news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that people, whoever, are having any symptoms avoid visiting hospitals at this stage as they will get tested before entering hospitals, they prefer to go to chemist shops and resort to self medication. They said that the positivity rate currently is very high but around 90 percent of the positive patients are in home isolation and without consulting doctors most of them are resorting to self-medication. They further added: “There are thousands...

Amid the heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir, the intelligence agencies have warned that militants from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Al Badr are planning to sneak into the Union Territory through Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), sources in the security set up said. The sources, quoting intelligence inputs, said that at least seven militants of LeT and five of Al Badra are trying to cross over to Jammu and Kashmir from two different areas located in PoK. The intelligence alert has specifically said that from one place in PoK, the LeT ultras will be trying to infiltrate with the help of a launch pad commander, while the five Al Badr militants are located near a launch pad in Balakot, who are being escorted by a local guide to infiltrate from the Bhimber Gali side in Poonch district of Jam...

Amid the steep surge in positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir, the hospitals are facing staff shortage as hundreds of staff members have tested positive for Covid-19 since the third wave has begun. An official from Government Medical College (GMC), Srinagar told the local news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that around 800 doctors and paramedics of GMC and its associated hospitals were tested positive for Covid-19 and most of them were tested positive in the last one week. Dr Salim Khan, Head of Department community medicine at GMC Srinagar, said that there is shortage of manpower in all hospitals as doctors, nurses and other paramedics have tested positive for Covid-19. He said that most of them were tested positive in the last one week due to which there are only four doctors ...

Amid the surge in Covid-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir, President Private Diagnostic Centres Association (PDCA) on Wednesday urged authorities to allow all private diagnostic centers in Jammu and Kashmir to conduct rapid antigen and RT-PCR tests. President of PDCA Umar Dhar while talking with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that they are regularly receiving complaints that some private diagnostic centres, hospitals who have been allowed to conduct tests are charging different rates. Dhar said that they are also receiving complaints that some centres are conducting RAT only but are charging rates as per RT-PCR tests which is neither acceptable nor warranted under pandemic situations. He added that as positivity rates are increasing with each passing day and people a...

Kashmir Valley including Srinagar received light rains while some plains and higher reaches had light to moderate snowfall since overnight, officials said on Tuesday. Amid cloud cover, the night mercury increased across J&K and Ladakh with only three weather stations set up by the meteorological department here recording below sub-zero temperature. A meteorological department official told GNS that Srinagar received 0.2mm of rain in last 24 hours till 0830 hours while the summer capital of the J&K recorded a low of 1.1°C against last night’s 1.0°C. Kashmir is presently under the grip of 40-day long harshest period of winter, known locally as ‘Chillai Kalan, which started from December 21. It is followed by a 20-day long ‘Chillai Khurd’ and a 10-day-long ‘Chilla Bachha’. ...

Jammu Kashmir reported a major spike as 1966 persons tested positive for covid-19 in the last 24 hours, while five deaths have been reported across the region, officials said on Sunday. 889 out of these cases fresh cases were reported from the Jammu division and 1077 from Kashmir, an official told The Kashmiriyat. On Thursday, the number of omicron cases reached to 23 in Jammu Kashmir. 271 patients recovered in Jammu Kashmir on Thursday- 153 from Jammu Division and 118 from Kashmir Division. Giving district-wise details of the fresh cases, the officials said that Srinagar reported the highest 416 cases, Baramulla 311, Budgam 159, Pulwama 12, Kupwara 26, Anantnag 39, Bandipora 53, Ganderbal 7, Kulgam 52, Shopian 2. In Jammu division, Jammu district reported the highest with 4...