Month: August 2022

Residents of Sector-F Iram Lane Natipora Srinagar on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the dilapidated road conditions and accused authorities of turning a deaf ear to the “sufferings” faced by them. A delegation of people from the area told GNS that they have been demanding authorities to give them at least something “which can be called a road”. “If they have a paucity of funds or for any other reason they cannot lay a concrete road or black topped-one, at least they should give us a road worth name,” the delegation said. The residents claimed that the locality comprises about 400 households, and said that in absence of the proper road, they are facing numerous problems, more so when it rains or there is snowfall. “Every time it rains, the natural or muddy road turns into...

The J&K and Ladakh High Court on Wednesday asked the government to take a call on the Muharram procession from Guru Bazar to Dalgate here, observing that it’s the “domain of the administration, security agencies, and other stakeholders to take a call on it.” A registered Trust of Shia community of Srinagar through its Secretary Aga Syed Mujtaba Abass had filed a Public Interest Litigation, seeking direction upon the State authorities to allow the Shia Community to take out the religious processions especially on the August 8th from Guru Bazar to Dalgate. The Trust had also sought directions to provide necessary security for the procession. “Taking out the religious procession especially in Kashmir depends upon the law-and-order situation,” a bench of Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal a...

It was the wettest 61-day period in Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, since at least 1901, as per Faizan Arif, an independent weather forecaster who operates 'Kashmir Weather'. The observatory located at Ram Munshi Bagh Srinagar recorded a total rainfall of 230.0mm in the first two monsoon months against an average rainfall of 110.9mm, which is 107% above average. In the first monsoon month, June, the summer capital recorded a total rainfall of 107.9mm against an average rainfall of 42.0mm In July, the city recorded a total rainfall of 122.1mm against an average rainfall of 68.9mm The highest total rainfall in the month of June is 142.1mm recorded in the year 1996, while in July it is 182.6mm recorded in the year 1988. In the year 2015, the city had experienced a ...

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been issued a notice by the Delhi High Court on a plea by incarcerated Kashmiri separatist and Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi who challenged the agency’s decision to seize her Srinagar house, India Legal reported on Wednesday. A Division Bench of Justices  Mukta Gupta and Anish Dayal  sought  the response from NIA on  Asiya Andrabi’s alleged accomplice, Sofi Fehmeeda, challenging the seizure of her car. The matter will now be considered on September 28. Asiya Andrabi is the chief of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, which has been banned by the Government of India. She along with Sofi Fehmeeda and others were arrested in 2018 and since then they are languishing in jail for the alleged anti-India activities. Asiya Andrabi is booked under the...

A  young man was critically injured after receiving an electric shock when he was installing ‘Muharram’ Banner at his house in Mirgund area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. The victim identified as 22 year old Syed Ajaz Moosvi son of Syed Mustafa of Mirgund sustained burn injuries when he came in contact with a live wire passing atop his house. Local sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust he was shifted to District Hospital Budgam where doctors referred him to SMHS Hospital Srinagar. His condition is stated to be critical. (KNT)

An Indian tricolor flag was hoisted outside the gate of the Hurriyat Conference in Srinagar’s Raj Bagh area on Wednesday afternoon. Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that Sandeep Mawa, the chairperson of Jammu Kashmir Reconciliation Front (JKRF) appended two flags at the entrance gate of the office of the separatist organization that has remained shut post-August 2019. Late afternoon, images emerged which suggested that both the tricolours had been removed. The Hurriyat leadership including its chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has been under arrest since the unilateral abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which provided semi-autonomy to the Jammu Kashmir region, on August 05, 2019. Pertinently, the administration, as a part of the campaign ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mohatsav...

Jammu Kashmir police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested five persons including husband and inlaws in a murder case of a lady at Bemina area of Srinagar. “On 27-06-2022, Police Station Batamaloo Srinagar received an information through reliable sources to the effect that at Nundresh Colony-B Bemina one lady namely Tasleema Bano, (Aged 38 years), wife of Shahnawaz Ahmad Dar of Nundresh Colony B Bemina Srinagar has died at her In-laws house in suspicious condition and was taken to SMHS Srinagar where doctors brought her dead,” a police spokesman said in a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Upon reception of this information, a report has been entered into the daily dairy of Police Station Batamaloo vide GD No.30 dated 27-06-2022 and proceedings under sec...

The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday said that it trapped and arrested a tehsildar and his clerk redhanded while demanding and accepting bribe in Srinagar. According to a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), ACB received a written complaint, alleging therein that Majid Choudhary, Tehsildar Panthachowk, Srinagar and his office clerk Peer Waseem Ahmad were demanding ₹ 1.61 Lakh as bribe for issuing the revenue records in favour of the complainant. The statement reads that the complainant pleaded for justice and the duo officers settled that bribe amount be paid in installments and asked the complainants to pay ₹1.20 as 1st installment. “However, before paying the bribe amount to the accused persons, the complainants approached before Anti Corruption Bu...