Month: January 2022

With ‘Chillai Kalan’, the 40-day long harshest period of winter ending in couple of days, the minimum temperature plunged across Kashmir Valley as the world famous Pahalgam recorded a low of minus 11.8°C on Friday. An official of the meteorological department here told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K recorded a low of minus 3.6°C against last night’s minus 1.3°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. Its exit does not mean end of the cold. It is followed by a 20-day long ‘Chillai Khurd’ and a 10-day-long ‘Chilla Bachha’. Gulmarg recorded a low of minus 10.4°C against minus 10.0°C on previous night, he said. The temperature was nearly 2.9°C below normal ...

After giving them ten days to respond, the High Court of Jammu Kashmir has granted two more weeks to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Government of India (GoI) to respond to a plea by Mohammed Lateef Magray seeking the dead body of his son Amir- one of the four persons killed on November 15 last year in Hyderpora. Earlier on January 12, the court had issued notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI, and J&K administration, Director General of Police (DGP), and Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir seeking their response within 10 days to the plea. The 18-page petition was filed by Amir’s father Mohd Lateef through his lawyers Deepika Singh Rajawat and Mohammed Arshad Chowdhary. The move came two days after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Jammu and Kashmir ...

The Srinagar-Jammu national highway, only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country shall remain open for two-way traffic on Friday, traffic officials said. “On 28-01-2022, subject to fair weather and better road conditions LMVs(passenger)/private cars shall be allowed from both sides on Jammu-Srinagar highway viz Jammu towards Srinagar and vice- versa,” a traffic official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). He said Traffic Control Unit Jammu/Srinagar shall liaise with TCU Ramban before releasing the traffic, he said. He said cut off for LMVs/private cars from Nagrota (Jammu) will be at 0800 hours to 1200 hours, from Jakheni (Udhampur) at 0900 hours to 1300 hours and from Navyug Tunnel (Qazigund side) 0900 hours to 1300 hours “(subject to change d...

A tourist guide’s body was found in Drang area of Gulmarg on Thursday, a day after he had gone missing in the famous tourist destination. Reports reaching GNS said the tourist guide namely Firdous Ahmad Bhat son of Ghulam Mohammad Bhat of Katipora Tangmarg went missing while he was accompanied by a group of tourists while they were on trekking from Kangdori towards Gulmarg. The ‘guide’ halted on way, while asking the tourists to continue the movement. The tourists, on not finding him, reached out to the police, informing them of the person having gone missing. Confirming it, a police official told GNS that on receiving the information, a rescue operation was launched to trace the missing person.  “His body has been recovered and family has been informed,” the police officer told G...

Sets 2-day timeline for delivery of service In a significant move, the administration of Jammu & Kashmir has now made it mandatory for authorities to complete the registration of documents relating to sale of immovable properties, within two days. In a notification, a copy of which is in possession of news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the Jammu & Kashmir government has brought registration of documents under the Public Service Guarantee Act (PSGA). The PSGA guarantees time-bound delivery of public services to the people. According to the notification, the timeline for registration of documents is two days. The notification also states that timeline for delivery of registration of documents by the authorities is also two days. While sub- registrar and registrar...

Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday ordered transfer of 33 officers, 32 of them JKAS, in the interest of administration with immediate effect. According to an order issued here, Syed Yasir Farooq, JKAS, Assistant Commissioner Revenue, Anantnag, has been transferred and posted as Deputy Secretary to the Government, Home Department. Ms. Shavi, JKAS, Deputy District Election Officer, Udhampur, has been transferred and posted as Deputy Director, Handlooms, Jammu, against an available vacancy. Mohd. Idrees, Project Officer, Wage Employment (ACD), Doda, has been transferred and posted as Deputy Director, District Employment and Counselling Centre, Doda, against an available vacancy. Towfeeq Ahmad Gazi, JKAS, BDO, Lar, Ganderbal, has been transferred and posted as Sub- Divisional...

A tourist guide has reportedly gone missing in famous tourist destination Gulmarg – in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday. Reports reaching GNS said a tourist guide namely Firdous Ahmad Bhat son of Ghulam Mohammad Bhat of Katipora Tangmarg went missing when accompanied by a group of tourists while they were on trekking from Kangdori towards Gulmarg. The ‘guide’ has halted on way while asking the tourists to continue the movement. The tourists, on not finding him, reached out to the police informing them of the person having gone missing. Confirming it, a police official told GNS that on receiving the information, a rescue operation was launched to trace the missing person. “There are at least three police teams besides the army and locals involved in the search operat...

A 30-year-old man was killed in a road accident at Mirgund highway in Baramulla district on Thursday. Official sources told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a man identified as Muhammad Yaseen Sofi, son of Gazanfar Sofi of Pattan Schanabal was hit by an unknown vehicle today. The man was brought to SMHS hospital here by Police party from Police Post Mirgund for treatment. However, the doctors at SMHS declared him as brought dead—(KNO)