Month: September 2022

Over 200 garbage lifting small-size trucks called ‘Hooper’ are lying untouched for the past six months in the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) owned yard near Aloochi Bagh area of uptown Srinagar. These trucks had been procured by SMC to lift the solid waste material from the interiors of Srinagar city, but due to the non-availability of drivers, these vehicles have not been used for the required services and are lying where they were parked six months ago. Insiders at SMC told news agency Kashmir News Trust that authorities are pressurizing the Ward Officers to identify those ‘Sweepers’ who can drive these vehicles so that they can be used to lift garbage from different wards of Srinagar city. Sources added that not a single ‘Sweeper’ has shown a willingness to drive these sm...

The much-awaited 500-bed Children Hospital in Bemina area of Srinagar will be made functional from September 26, officials said here on Thursday. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that all machinery and other equipment have been shifted to the hospital and it will be made functional from Monday. He said that machinery and all equipment have been installed at the hospital so that the patients won't suffer. “From Monday 10 am, OPD and admissions at GB Panth will be closed and at the same time, admission of patients will start at Children hospital Bemina,” he said. Notably, work on the hospital was initially started in 2013 but the then chief minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed gave an extension in October 2015 and laid the foundation stone for a 500-bedded M...

Climate change that is a long term shift in patterns of temperature and weather has affected quality and even quantity of the fruit crop in Kashmir, experts said. As per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), due to the heat wave, the farmers whose livelihood is dependent on the horticulture are very much worried as they are unable to understand what to do at what time. Experts believe that the effects of climate change are likely to increase in the coming time and there is a need to take adaptability measures to lower the effect of climate change. Dr Aamir Hussian Bhat, a lecturer of Environmental Science at GDC Hadipora Baramulla told KNO that due to climate change the chances of damage to crops due to untimely snowfall, hailstorm, cloudburst, heavy rains have increased thereb...

Chief Secretary of Jammu Kashmir, Arun Kumar Mehta on Thursday said that by the end of September all land owners will get digital land passbooks in the Union Territory. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function here, Kumar, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that the land passbooks will be issued in three different languages including Hindi, English and Kashmiri. He said that this will be for the first time that land passbooks will be issued in local language, which people can understand. “This has never happened before.” He also said that the aim of organising sports events in Jammu and Kashmir’s is also to keep youth away from drugs, which has become a challenge for society. “Those who are victims of drugs need our help, they need society’s help. Go...

The Jammu Kashmir Police on Wednesday late evening claimed to have arrested two active hybrid militants along with arms and ammunition in Sopore area of North Kashmir's Baramulla district. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that a joint team of police, Army’s 22 RR and CRPF’s 179 BN during a cordon and search operation arrested two active hybrid militants in Botingoo area of Sopore. He said that they recovered incriminating materials including 1 pistol, magazine, 08 pistol rounds and a grenade from their possession. They have been identified as Imtiyaz Ahmad Ganai son of Abdul Rahim Ganai and Waseem Ahmad Lone son of Ghulam Rasool Lone—both residents of Botingoo. Meanwhile, a case under relevant sections of law has been registered in Police Station So...