The minimum temperatures recorded a plunge in Kashmir Valley with Srinagar recording minus 4.0°C on Monday. A meteorological department official told GNS that there was a drop of 3.4°C against the previous night’s minus 0.6°C in Srinagar. Today’s minimum temperature, he said, was below normal by 0.8°C for the summer capital. Qazigund, he said, recorded […]
Sheikh Nadeem A man was charred to death after his vehicle caught fire in Panzgam area of Kokernag in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. An official told The Kashmiriyat that on Monday morning, a vehicle suddenly caught fire and the man who was driving it was charred to death. The man has been identified as Shabir […]
In a sad and shocking development, a ‘langar’ which fed over two million hungry migrants during the first lockdown year, has been demolished ostensibly owing to certain disputes among the landlords, on a remote corner of Yavatmal National Highway. The 84-year-old Sikh ‘sevak’ Karnail Singh Khaira, who managed the ‘langar’ to serve the masses for […]
Police under the aegis of Civic Action Programme (CAP) distributed wheelchairs among specially-abled persons at District Police Lines Awantipora. SSP Awantipora Mohd Yousif-JKPS distributed 24 wheelchairs among specially-abled persons hailing from different parts of the police district. DySP DAR DPL Awantipora, SDPO Awantipora and other Police officers were also present on the occasion. SSP Awantipora […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Srinagar on June 26 in 2019 was to give the final touch to the government’s resolve for carrying out the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu Kashmir, Lt General (retired) K J S Dhillon has claimed in his yet-to-be-released book. ‘Kitne Ghazi Aaye Kitne Ghazi Gaye’, authored by […]
In no less than a miracle, doctors from Kralpora sub-district hospital assisted paramedical staff of a health centre in remote Keran village of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district to deliver baby over a WhatsApp call. Officials told Kashmir News Service (KNS) a woman from Mandian village of Keran complained of labor pain and was taken to […]
The Supreme Court will deliver its judgment tomorrow on a plea challenging delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies in Jammu Kashmir. According to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the Apex Court will pronounce its judgment on Monday (February 13) on the petition filed by two Srinagar residents-Haji Abdul Gani Khan and Muhammad Ayub Matto. On […]
On Sunday, rescue efforts entered their seventh day as workers searched through debris for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, killing more than 29,000 people in one of the worst disasters to strike the area in a century. The death toll keeps rising amid widespread destruction and cold as hundreds of thousands […]
According to police, hundreds of Muslims stormed a police station in the eastern Punjab province of Pakistan, took a blasphemy suspect from his cell, took him outside, and lynched him. For desecrating pages of a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, a man Waris was being held by police, according to senior police officer […]
Sajad Chopan Officials on Sunday demolished two structures and sealed more than 61 shops in the Banihal area of Ramban district of Jammu Kashmir. As per the district administration, the shops were constructed illegally on “state land”, so all the shops were sealed and handed over to the custody of MC Banihal. Watch Video: Locals […]