Month: September 2022

Bandipora police on Saturday said that they have solved the case of the killing of migrant labourer by arresting three militants in Sadunara area of Hajin in North Kashmir's Bandipora district. Senior Supritendent of Police Bandipora, Mohammad Zahid while addressing a press conference, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that on intervening night of 11-12 August, a migrant labourer identified as Amrez Masoori of Bihar was shot dead by some unknown militants in Sadunara following which a formal case was registered and investigation was set into motion. He said that during the course of investigation various suspects were called and questioned and technical assistance was also brought into use. “Eventually it was found that three local militants identified as Was...

Police in North Kashmir’s Handwara recovered Brown Sugar from two drug peddlers, official sources said. They said a police party intercepted two drug peddlers at Sonmullah Crossing Check Point and during frisking 10 grams of Brown Sugar were recovered from them. Both were arrested and an FIR vide number 102/2022 under section 8/21 NDPS Act was registered against them at Police Station Vilgam. Police sources identified the duo as Shabir Ahmad Lone of Budnamal Chowkibal and Shakeel Mir, a resident of Zunreshi Kupwara. (KNT)

Department of Health and Medical Education on Saturday said that registration on Hospital Professional Registry (HPR) portal of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is mandatory for doctors and nurses working in government as well as private sector. H&ME department in a Tweet, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) informed that HRP registeration is mandatory for all doctors and nurses of both government as well as private sector. “It is mandatory for all the doctors and nurses working both in the government as well as the private sector to register themselves on the (HPR )Hospital Professional Registry portal of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission,” it tweeted—(KNO)

Weather department on Saturday forecast scattered light to moderate rain and thunders over Jammu and Kashmir in next 24 hours and mainly dry weather thereafter for subsequent two days. A meteorological department official here told GNS that several parts of Jammu and Kashmir received very light rain fall. Regarding the minimum temperature, he said, Srinagar recorded a low of 16.2°C against 14.2°C on the previous night. The temperature was 3.0°C above normal for the summer capital during this time of the year, he said. Qazigund recorded a low of 13.2°C against 12.6°C on the previous night. The temperature was 1.8°C above normal there, he said. In Pahalgam, he said, the mercury settled at 9.1°C against 8.8°C on the previous night and it was 0.6°C above normal for the south Kashmi...

Kashmir’s bat manufacturers are facing losses in the face of willow shortage. A spokesperson of Bat Manufacturers Union Fawzul Kabeer told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that the industry has been producing bats and is meeting about 85 percent of the total demand of world cricket since 1920. Fawzul, who is also owner of the GR8 Sports and has provided bats to international cricketers, said that nobody plants willow trees now causing the ongoing shortage. “The government can intervene by planting willow saplings on wetlands, banks of water bodies, state land, marshy land and other land available so that the willow will remain available in abundance and then bat can reach to every corner of the world,” he said. Fawzul said that presently there are one lakh skilled and u...

Sarjan Barkati, as per his family, has been arrested by the Police, from his house in the Reban area of Shopian district of South Kashmir late on Saturday morning. A family member of Barkati told The Kashmiriyat over the phone that the Forces entered into the house of Barkati in Reban around 6:45 AM and detained the religious cleric. He said that Barkati has been arrested by the Police for reasons unknown. “We do not know why he has been picked up,” the family member said. Barkati has been arrested twice in the last two years. Earlier he was booked under the Public Safety Act in 2016, only to be released after four years Earlier two prominent clerics Abdul Rashid Dawoodi and Mushtaq Ahmed Veeri from south Kashmir were picked up by the police and booked the the public safety act...