Month: January 2021

SHAH BASIT At least four persons were injured in a road accident at the Ganiwan area of Ganderbal District on the Srinagar-Leh highway on Sunday Morning. Reports said that a passenger bus bearing registration number JK01D 5574 traveling from Gund to Kangan skid from the road near Ganiwan resulting in injuries to Four passengers traveling in the bus. An official confirming the incident to The Kashmiriyat said that the injured were immediately shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment. The official further said that a case has been registered under relevant sections of law in this regard

Mubashir Naik Eleven people got injured in a road accident on Sunday morning in District Doda, Chenab valley. The accident took place when a Bus Registration no JK02BK 7119 on its way from Bhaderwah to Jammu met with an accident near New Bridge pul Doda & Rolled down from the Road about 150-200 feet resulting in injuries to 11 persons. Hospital officials upon being contacted by The Kashmiriyat identified the injured as Driver pushvinder singh S/o Sukh Dev R/o katra age 32 year, Susheel singh S/o Davinder singh R/o Ramnager udhampur age 24 year, Mohd sabir S/o Ali batt R/o Gundna age 35 year, Ashok kumar S/o Roshan lal R/o Jammu age 36 years, Vista Devi W/ o Sanjay kumar R/o Bhaderwah age 33 years, Arun kumar S/o Ashok kumar R/o Bhall Bhaderwah age 22years,  Naseema Begum W/o G...

Scores of aspirants, who were scheduled to appear in the examination for the recruitment of Banking Associate in J&K Bank alleged that they were not allowed to enter the examination hall. The aspirants said that due to the fresh snowfall, they couldn't reach the examination hall on time. "We were earlier told that the examination will begin at sharp 10:00 AM, but yesterday evening, it was informed that the examination will start at 09:00 AM in the morning," Yasir Altaf, one among the aspirants from Mattan Anantnag said. He said as Kashmir received fresh snowfall, the roads were not cleared early morning, thus consumed their lot of time in reaching Srinagar headquarters of the bank, where the examination is being conducted. Altaf added that over a dozen aspirants are still w...

Moderate to heavy snowfall started on Sunday in Kashmir and Ladakh while rains lashed the Jammu division, Weather office has forecast widespread snowfall in many areas of the valley on Sunday and Monday with heavy snowfall at isolated places. Traffic on the Srinagar-Jammu highway has been halted because of snow accumulation in the Jawahar Tunnel sector of the highway. As the night sky remained overcast, minimum temperatures improved throughout J&K and Ladakh, Srinagar had minus 1.5, Pahalgam also had minus 1.5 while Gulmarg had minus 5.0 as the minimum temperature. Leh town of Ladakh had minus 12.7, Kargil minus 16.6 and Drass minus 22.4 as the night's lowest temperature. Jammu city had 11.7, Katra 9.5, Batote 1.5, Banihal 0.5 and Bhaderwah 0.6 as the minimum temperatures. ...

Jammu Kashmir Police on Saturday claimed to have solved a theft case and arrested accused persons involved in the commission of crime in Srinagar while adding that the stolen property worth lakhs was also recovered from them. “On 24-12-2020, Police Post Bemina received a written complaint from one Danish Farooq of Hamdania Colony Bemina Srinagar, proprietor of a Copper shop in Zehra Complex situated at Hamdania Colony Bemina stated that during the intervening night of 23/24-12-2020, some unknown thieves have broken the shutter of the shop and stolen the copper utensils worth lacs,” police spokesman said in a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Accordingly, police said that a case under FIR number 270/2020 under relevant sections of law was registered in P...

As the Police and the families of the three youth killed during the Srinagar encounter continue to make claims and counterclaims,  the father of one of the slain (Athar Mushtaq) in the Encounter from Bellow area of Pulwama district in South Kashmir has dug a grave for his slain son and appealed the police authorities to return the mortal remains of his 18-year-old son. In a video, that has gone viral over social media networking sites, his father has threatened that he will visit the Police Control Room Srinagar for last time and if they did not provide the mortal remains of his son, and that he will ‘kill himself’ in front of them. https://twitter.com/vikarsy/status/1345356995772092416 The slain’s father while digging the grave at his ancestral graveyard in Bellow, made the appea...

Jammu Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday said that the administration plans to attract investments worth up to $4 billion in the next two-three years. He said that the administration was identifying 6,000 acres (2,400 hectares) of land for businesses and that they would make companies feel secure, adding, "The administration was also working on organising an investors summit after a delay due to the coronavirus pandemic." “We have an annual budget of 1 trillion rupees ($13.68 billion) for the region and a good amount of that is being used for providing security for businesses,” Sinha said to a group of journalists in New Delhi. “We are in touch with all major business houses,” he said.