Month: August 2021

Army on Wednesday pressed navy drivers into service to trace pilot and co-pilot of a helicopter of Indian Army's aviation corps which crashed near the Ranjit Sagar Dam in the Basohli area of Kathua yesterday, officials said. The helicopter crashed around 1020 hours on Tuesday. Later teams of Police and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rushed to the site and started rescue operations. However the success eluded them till evening when the operation was called off due to darkness. This morning, Lieutenant Colonel Devender Anand, Defence PRO based in Jammu, told GNS that navy divers were pressed into service to find out the missing pilots. So far some helicopter parts were recovered along with a helmet, two big size bags and one shoe, the officials said. (GNS)

Dozens of famous springs located in South Kashmir’s Tral belt are on the verge of getting extinct owing to the locals and officials' ignorance over the years. Many springs which were once the main source of water for the residents are in a pathetic condition and authorities aren’t taking any steps to clean or restore them. Locals from Tral said that almost every spring in the town is in dilapidated conditions as a lot of dirt, garbage have filled the water bodies making them unfit for use. “Two famous springs, Batnag and Wudnag are full of garbage as the two are surrounded by schools and shops which is leading to the dumping of waste near them,” they said. Locals said these springs are of historical importance but no attention is being provided towards them. “My shop is loca...

The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration on Wednesday issued a statement ahead of the second anniversary of the Abrogation of Special status of Jammu Kashmir on August 05, 2019. In a statement issued to The Kashmiriyat, the PAGD said that India has damaged the bond of Kashmir with India by abrogating the special status and the state machinery has been on a collapse since. Here's a full text of the statement. August 05 marks the completion of two years since the unprecedented assault on the constitution of India was taken to nullify  Article 370 of the constitution -  thereby damaging the very bond of our relationship with the union of India. By demolishing the constitution of  Jammu & Kashmir by the Government it has crossed all the limits of constitutionality. Downgrading ...

Two teen aged girls have gone missing from south Kashmir’s Bijbehara village. Both girls are 14 years old and are residents of Gadhanjipora village of Bijbehara in Anantnag district. Police sources said that fathers of these teen aged girls-Ali Muhammad Dar and Farooq Ahmed Dar filed written complaints at police station Bijbehara stating that their daughters (name withheld) are missing from their homes since Monday (2 August). Police took cognizance of these missing reports and registered an FIR vide number 222/2021 under relevant sections of law. Police have constituted a team to trace these missing young girls. Families have also appealed general public to help them in tracing these two girls. (KNT)

National Investigation Agency (NIA) along with Jammu Kashmir police on Wednesday morning raided two residences in Chittibanday village in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Reliable sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) that a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) accompanied by a Police team raided the residences of one Muzamil Ahmad Bhat son of Ghulam Hassan Bhat, resident of Chittibanday, working as Sales man in a hardware shop and Waqar Ahmad Lone son of Ghulam Mohammad Lone, resident of Chittibanday who is under judicial custody in case FIR no. 74/2020 under section 302-452-154 IPC, 16-18-23-39 ULAP act registered at Bandipora. They said that no recovery has been made so far at both the residences that were searched by the NIA. However, during the raid Muzamil...

In Jammu and Kashmir at least 21 percent of married women of 18-49 years have experienced injuries from their spouse during the physical or sexual violence against them reveals a survey conducted by Government of India (GoI). The official figures of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare accessed by the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) states, “Twenty one percent of married women of 18-49 years of age who have experienced physical or sexual violence reported suffering from injuries from what their husband did to them.” “Among women who have experienced both physical and sexual violence this proportion raises to 38 percent,” it reads. The report further states that the most common types of injuries among women who have experienced physical and sexual violence are cuts, br...

At least sixteen Public safety Act (PSA) detainees from Kashmir Valley were shifted to Haryana Jails on Tuesday, official sources said. Official sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) that sixteen detainees have been shifted outside Kashmir on Tuesday by the government of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory by an order no PB-V/585 of 2021 dated 2/8/2021. All the sixteen detainees were lodged in central Jail Srinagar from 2019- 2020 and 2021. An order of Home department from civil Secretariat Srinagar, a copy of which lies with news agency Kashmir Dot Com- (KDC) reads that “The powers conferred under section 10-B of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act 1978, the government hereby directs to remove/shift the 16 detainees who have been detained under the provision of Jammu a...

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Monday asked the government to file a response regarding a petition filed about mushrooming growth of news agencies on social media and especially the news portals involved in circulation of fake news. In an order, a copy of which lies with Kashmir News Service (KNS), the High Court has asker the government to file a response in this regard within a month. The court has also asked the government to specifically point out to provisions of law under these news portals if at all are required to be registered or licensed after the petitioners alleged that several news portals are operating freely without any registration or license from any authority. The PIL has alleged that these news portals are not under the supervision and control of any autho...

Ninety militants were killed, more than half of them from Lashkar-e-Toiba, this year so far, in Kashmir Valley, officials said on Tuesday.buy forzest online https://www.bodybuildingestore.com/wp-content/themes/classic/inc/new/forzest.html no prescription Also, 73 new recruitment have taken place this year, they said. A top police officer told GNS that the Valley also witnessed over a 72 per cent drop in the incidents of “law and order” from August 2017-July 2019 to August 2019 to July 2021. Providing outfit-wise break-up of the militants killed, the officer said that 51 were from Lashkar-e-Toiba, 20 from Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, eight from Jash-e-Mohammad, six from Al-Bard, three from AGuH and two from ISJK. The officer said there were 1394 “law and order” incidents from August 2017-J...

The Government’s School Education Department on Monday ordered all vaccinated staff to attend office in Jammu and Kashmir. The order has been issued by B K Singh, Principal Secretary to Government School Education Deportment, following a detailed review on overall assessment of the situation pertaining to the spread of COVID-19 across J&K by the administration. “There is significant improvement in situation and need of further improvement in the interest of public health especially for students,” reads the order. While all schools including coaching centre(s) shall continue to remain closed for onsite or in-person teaching till further orders, all vaccinated staff shall attend Office, reads the order, a copy of which lies with GNS. “Digital Education Programme(s) "e-Vidalay...