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Month: July 2021

Death Cases Rises As Warm Wave Cooks Canada And The Pacific Northwest

Death Cases Rises As Warm Wave Cooks Canada And The Pacific Northwest

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Many passings in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon have been recorded due to a warmth wave that has simmered the Pacific Northwest for quite a long time and broken Canadian warmth records, stipulated a huge number of individuals scrambling for help. Oregon's state clinical inspector's office on Wednesday ascribed about 63 deaths in last five days to the rebuffing heat in that state, incorporating 45 in Multnomah County, which incorporates Portland — where temperatures have arrived at a record 116 degrees Fahrenheit (Approx 46.6 Degree Celsius) In Washington, authorities detailed almost twelve lives lost to hyperthermia on Wednesday alone in King County, which incorporates Seattle; two warmth related passings were accounted for there the other day. In Snohomish County, Washin...
5 persons Dead,  3 Injured in Ramban Road Accident

5 persons Dead, 3 Injured in Ramban Road Accident

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Five persons were killed and three others were injured when a taxi cab they were travelling in skidded off the road and rolled down into over 1000-ft gorge in Ramban district on Friday, officials said. They said that at around 1640 hours, a Sumo vehicle (JK03E-3218) on way from Neel to Tata Pani Sangaldan skidded off the thoroughfare and rolled down into the gorge at Digdol area in the district. Five persons died on the spot and three others were injured, the officials told GNS.buy viagra super force online https://myhst.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo/inc/patterns/new/viagra-super-force.html no prescription The injured have been shifted to district hospital Ramban for treatment. SHO Ramban Pardeep Kumar confirmed to GNS the accident. He said that soon after information was...
Indian Media Silent Over ‘Covaxin-Gate’ in Brazil, While Millions Around the World Follow the Investigation

Indian Media Silent Over ‘Covaxin-Gate’ in Brazil, While Millions Around the World Follow the Investigation

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While the Covaccine scandal has spread widely in the Brazilian media, Indian media has remained silent about it. Brazil was supposed to buy 20 million doses of covaccine made by Bharat Biotech. The vaccine has not been recognized by the World Health Organization and the Drug Control Agency of Brazil rejected it, too. The deal amounted to $324 million dollars. It has come to the fore that Bharat Biotech tried to get an advance of $4.5 million to a Singapore based offshore company despite its name not being in the contract. A senior official affiliated with importing the vaccine questioned the payment and met the President Bolsonaro regarding the matter. It is believed that it was an attempt to rob the government treasury. The corruption involved in the deal was exposed and the deal wa...
Dalit Community in Jammu Fearful After Being Attacked by Brahmins for Using the Village Well

Dalit Community in Jammu Fearful After Being Attacked by Brahmins for Using the Village Well

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According to a recent report of The Wire, individuals from the Dalit people group of Malarh People in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur locale have been living in a condition of consistent dread after some of them were assaulted by individuals from the generally favored Brahmin people group in the evening of June 9. The assault occurred four days after two Dalit ladies were forestalled by three men from the Brahmin people group from getting water from the town notable as Panduan de Khu (the well of the Pandavas) on June 5. Albeit the Jammu and Kashmir police has registered a First Information Report (FIR) on June 10 and booked seven individuals from Brahmin community under different sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for the June 9 assault, the Dalit people group of Malarh remain unc...
Kulgam Encounter: Government of India Must Come Clean on Allegations Raised by the Family: Mehbooba Mufti

Kulgam Encounter: Government of India Must Come Clean on Allegations Raised by the Family: Mehbooba Mufti

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Responding to the claims made by the family of the youth killed in Kulgam Encounter on Wednesday, The former Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti has demanded that the Government must come clean on the allegations. ALSO READ: Not a Militant, Nor an OGW, He was Just a Cricketer- Family Denounces Police Statement In a tweet, Ms. Mufti said, "Encounters occur on a daily basis in J&K. But when legitimate questions are raised the security forces must be held accountable. The parents of the 17 yr old minor killed in the Kulgam gunfight claim that he was an innocent civilian. GOI must come clean on these allegations." Pertinently the family of the 17-year-old Zakir Bashir Naik of Czimmer area in Kulgam had refuted the Police statement in which they said Zakir had recently ...
Wife of Late Journalist Maqbool Veeray Passes Away

Wife of Late Journalist Maqbool Veeray Passes Away

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Suhail Dar The wife of deceased senior journalist, Maqbool Veeray passed away on Friday afternoon after illness at District Hospital, Anantnag. Samina Veeray (55), the wife of the renowned Journalist had been unwell since her husband passed away. Several people from different areas have thronged their residence at Shirpora where her Nimaz e Jinaza will be offered shortly. Various Journalists and civil society members have expressed their condolences to the bereaved family. Samina is survived by Zamin Veeray, her son and two young daughters. Salman Shah, Editor of The Kashsmiriyat in a condolence message wrote, "The wife of Senior & renowned Journalist, Late Maqbool Veeray passed away on Friday afternoon at GMC Anantnag. A motherly figure to me, and many other journali...
Bag Loaded with Arms and Ammunition Recovered in Qazigund

Bag Loaded with Arms and Ammunition Recovered in Qazigund

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Danishwar Hameed The Government forces on Friday claimed to have recovered a bag loaded with arms and ammunition in the Akhran area of Qazigund in South Kashmir's Kulgam district. An official told said that based on a specific input a joint team 9 RR and Police recovered a bag with arms and ammunition in between the poplar trees in the Hanjipora area of Akhran on Thursday night. He said that 01 AK-47 magazine, 48 rounds of AK-47, 01 pistol, 02 pistol magazines, 04 hand grenades, 01 Chinese grenade, and battery with wire were recovered from the bag. A case has been registered under relevant sections of law in this regard.
Budgam Woman Hanging Case: Family stages protest, alleges hospital authorities of delaying post-mortem report

Budgam Woman Hanging Case: Family stages protest, alleges hospital authorities of delaying post-mortem report

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The family and relatives of a 30-year-old woman, who was found hanging from a walnut tree in Nowgam area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on May 10, staged a protest on Friday, alleging hospital authorities of delaying reports of post-mortem. Reports reaching the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the family members of the deceased lady held a protest outside sub-district hospital Charar-i-sharief while demanding justice. “My sister was murdered, as she was hanged to death by her in-laws,” said a brother of the deceased lady. As per her family, she was found hanging outside her in-laws residence at Nowgam Darwan during the intervening night of May 09 and 10. “If she had committed suicide, why would doctors delay the post-mortem report. They conducted post-mortem on Ma...
Bridge Over Canal Collapses in Kulgam

Bridge Over Canal Collapses in Kulgam

KULGAM
 Danishwar Hameed The middle portion of the bridge in between Chawalgam and Chanser collapsed on a canal on Friday morning. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that the bridge collapsed when a truck was crossing it and the vehicle was stuck in the broken portion of the bridge. The bridge connects various areas with district headquarters in the South Kashmir district of kulgam. The local appeals to higher authorities to repair this bridge as soon as possible.
Will request LG to release Mirwaiz, Says Altaf Bukhari

Will request LG to release Mirwaiz, Says Altaf Bukhari

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Pitching for the release of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq from house detention, Jammu Kashmir Apni Party President Syed Muhammad Altaf Bukhari Friday said that the role of the Institution of Mirwaiz is not limited only to socio-religious reforms, but it has its role for establishing democratic institutions and safeguarding democratic rights. Bukhari as per news agency Kashmir News Trust said that he will request Lieutenant Governor to release Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Umar Farooq. “Mirwaiz plays an important role in society to fight social evils. At a time when there is a surge in suicide cases, drug abuse and other social crimes, Mirwaiz can influence the society. He has a say and command over people. I think his release from imprisonment will benefit the society,” Bukhari said. Pertinently, ...