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Residential house in far flung border village reduced to ashes; Locals appeal admin for help

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On Thursday morning a massive fire broke out in a house in the Keran Village of Kupwara District, reducing the establishment into complete ashes. Sharafat Zooh, a resident of Bani village of Keran Tehsil under Kupwara Administration, suffered a hefty catastrophic damage when his wooden house got completely ablazed and nothing was left. While talking to the media, a spokesperson, Zahoor Lone on Sharafat's behalf said, "Apart from taking out themselves alive, they couldn't take out a piece of article from the fire. Everything turned into ashes. The fire broke out suddenly and before they could realise it scattered all over as the houses in the border areas are built of wood." Lone also grieved about the financial constraints the people in the border area undergo. "These people over ...

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Flight operation resumes at Srinagar airport; 38 operate, 6 cancelled

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After early morning hiccups due to poor visibility, flight operations resumed at the Srinagar International Airport following improvement in wet weather conditions on Thursday. Officials said that after early morning delays and cancellations, flights landed and took off at the Srinagar airport as the visibility increased from 400M early in the morning to 1500M around noon. “38 flights operated so far,” Director, Airports Authority of India, Srinagar, Kuldeep Singh told GNS. A number of flights were delayed or cancelled early morning due to low visibility at the airport but as the day progressed the operations continued normally. “Eight flights were cancelled today” the Director AAI said, adding, “The passengers of these cancelled flights will be accommodated in next available flig...

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R K Goyal Posted Financial Commissioner Home, Shaleen Kabra Revenue

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Jammu Kashmir government appointed Raj Kumar Goyal (IAS) as Financial Commissioner (Additional Chief Secretary), Home Department, on Thursday. In all, six officers have been transferred in the interest of administration and Goyal, the 1990— AGMUT cadre IAS officer replaces Shaleen Kabra (IAS, AGMUT:1992) who has been posted as Financial Commissioner, Revenue. As per a separate order, a copy of which is also with GNS, Gulzar Ahmad Dar, JKAS, Additional District Development Commissioner, Srinagar, has been transferred and posted as Additional Director, SKIMS, Srinagar and ex-officio Special Secretary to the Government. “He shall also hold the charge of the post of Administrator, Associated Hospitals, Srinagar, in addition to his own duties, till further orders,” the order reads. Rey...

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3-year-old kid injured in stray dog attack in Pattan, Second incident of the month

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A three-year-old kid was seriously injured in a dog attack in Singhpora village of Pattan town here in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. This was the second attack from the stray dogs in the same village. Earlier in the first week of this month stray dogs had mauled a 12-year old boy to death. Locals who staged a protest forcing Tehsildar Singhpora to visit the spot said that a kid identified as Hadi Ali son of Shabir Ahmed, a resident of KP Payeen, Hanjiveera Singhpora was attacked by dogs when he ventured out from his house. Locals somehow saved him from the clutches of the dogs, but he sustained injuries and was shifted to the hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Locals alleged that Srinagar Municipal Corporation after capturing dogs in parts of Srinagar drop them in Pa...

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20 Hours of Search: No Trace of Six Persons missing at Margan Top

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Even after more than 24 hours having passed, there is no clue about six people who had gone missing amidst heavy snowfall in the upper areas of Jammu Kashmir's Kishtwar district. Director of Disaster Management, Amir Ali said that six people from Warwan village of Kishtwar had gone on foot from Anantnag district of South Kashmir via Margan Top and they left Margan top more than 20 hours ago, but have not reached their home yet. "Since then there is no information about them," the official said. Earlier the police said, more than 50 tourists stranded in Sonmarg have been evacuated after heavy snowfall. Police further urged people to not go to higher reaches in view of bad weather and continuous heavy snowfall.

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JK Reports 75 Fresh Covid-19 Cases, No Death

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Jammu Kashmir reported 75 fresh Covid-19 cases even as there was no death due to the virus in the last 24 hours, officials said on Thursday. They said 52 of the fresh cases were reported from Jammu Division and 23 from Kashmir Division, taking the overall tally to 452722 . Giving district wise details, the officials told GNS, Srinagar reported 12 cases, Baramulla 3, Budgam 2, Pulwama 0, Kupwara 1, Anantnag 0, Bandipora 0, Ganderbal 0, Kulgam 5, Shopian 0, Jammu 18, Udhampur 4, Rajouri 0, Doda 22, Kathua 5, Samba 0, Kishtwar 0, Poonch 1, Ramban 2 and Reasi 0. There was no death reported in the last 24 hours, they said. So far 4748 persons have succumbed to the virus—2325 in Jammu and 2423 in Kashmir. Besides, they said, 353 Covid-19 patients—169 from Jammu and 184 from Valley— r...

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Bangladeshi national visiting Kashmir without passport arrested

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The Indian Army detained a Bangladeshi national from North Kashmir’s Baramulla district for traveling to India without any passport. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that Army handed over a Bangladeshi national to police after detaining him in border area Uri. They said that during the investigation, it surfaced that this Bangladeshi citizen had travelled to India and then to Kashmir without any passport. A police official while confirming the arrest of this foreign national identified him as Rabi-ul-Islam son of Muhammad Saleem. He said a fake Adhar Card has been recovered from his possession. He has been booked under Foreign Registration Act. “An FIR vide number 23/2022 under section 14-A of Foreign Registration Act has been registered at police station Uri and ...

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2 ‘hybrid’ among 3 active LeT militants, associate held in Budgam, Baramulla: Police

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Jammu Kashmir police on Thursday claimed to have arrested three active militants including two 'hybrid' militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in Kashmir. A police spokesman in a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that a militant associate was also arrested today in Budgam district. “Police along with security forces have arrested three active militants including two hybrid militants of LeT from Budgam and Baramulla.” Spokesman said that acting on specific information about presence of militants in Aarath area of Budgam, Police along with 2RR arrested an active militant of LeT identified as Yasir Mushtaq, son of Mushtaq Ahmed and a militant associate identified as Irfan Bashir son of Bashir Ahmed Dar both residents of Allahpora Budgam. “Incriminati...

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Situation would have never escalated this far, had the West stopped Arming Ukraine: Former UN Weapon Inspector

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William Scott Ritter Jr- a renowned former United Nations weapons inspector has said that situation could have been prevented from escalating so far, had the western countries stopped arming the forces in Ukraine. He said that it is obvious for Russia to not allow any foreign interference in its immediate neighborhood. "All that needed to happen was Ukraine saying it will not be a part of NATO and would comply with the Minsk treaty, to which Ukraine is a signatory," he said. The Minsk Protocol is an agreement that sought to end the war in the Donbas region- a region that claims to be an independent nation.buy clomiphene online https://www.ecladent.co.uk/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/inc/new/clomiphene.html no prescription Its sovereignty was recently recognized by Russia to which ...

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Woman Burnt by In-Laws for ‘Dowry’ in Pulwama, Succumbs: Family

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The family members of a woman from Pulwama alleged that she was set ablaze by her in-laws in the Rajpora area of Pulwama. Staging a protest in the Qasbyar area of Pulwama, the family alleged that Fahmeeda Akhtar who was burnt by her in-laws succumbed to her injuries at Sher e Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar on Wednesday morning. Fahmeeda Jan had been married for the past three years but was treated inhumanely at her in-law's house, her mother said. "Even her husband did not support her," she said. Appealing the Deputy Commissioner Pulwama for his intervention, she said that the case should be thoroughly investigated. The brother of the woman said that the family received got a call from her the neighbors of her in-laws that she had developed some pain and had ...