Month: November 2022

Dozens of ‘Permanent Daily Labourers’ [PDL] working in the Power Development Department in Kashmir Valley Friday alleged that they have been posted in far off Sub-Divisions as a result they face a lot of problems. At least 31 PDL posted in Kunzar falling under Sub-Division Tangmarg have been asked to join field duties in Baramulla and Kupwara Sub-Divisions. “We hail from different areas of sub-division Tangmarg but are posted in far-off places. Whatever we earn gets lost in bus fare. This is injustice towards us,” they said. These daily rated employees manage maintenance work in the field and get Rs 9,000 per month. They alleged that those workers close to the officers were not transferred. “There is an officer who runs and hotel where several daily rated workers work as waiters b...

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal filed by the Jammu Kashmir administration against an order of the National Human Rights Commission to pay compensation of Rs 3 lakh each to the kin of 10 children who died in the Udhampur district due to the consumption of spurious cough syrup. A bench of Justices M R Shah and M M Sundresh said officers were found to be negligent and it does not find any reason to interfere in the matter. “Your officers are found to be negligent. They ought to have been vigilant. Don’t compel us to say things about the food and industry department. The health of citizens is in their hands. They don’t perform duties at all. They can’t play with the lives of citizens. It is their duty to check and verify things,” the bench observed. The top court was h...

A foreign Jaish militant active for the last 8 months in the district was killed in Kaprin area of Shopian early morning hour's on Friday Jammu and Kashmir termed the operation as a big success and congratulated the joint team for conducting a successful operation and eliminating Jaish militant Kamran. Addressing a press conference in Shopian, senior superintendent of police (SSP) Tanushree said that a foreign militant Kamran Bhai alias Hanees a Pakistan national was active for more than eight months in south Kashmir’s Shopian. He was involved in many militant-related incidents, the top cop said as per news agency— Kashmir News Apex (KNA). SSP Shopain Tanushree said There was intelligence input about a Fidayeen attack and civilian target killings in Shopian district, We shall deal wi...

A Delhi Court has granted bail to a 25-year-old Kashmiri youth, after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) failed to file a charge sheet within the statutory period against him in a case registered under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967, Live Law reported. The Principal District and Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma of Patiala House Courts granted bail to Fayaz Ahmad Khan who was arrested by the probe agency on 14 May after various raids were conducted in Jammu Kashmir in ‘The Resistance Front (TRF)’ conspiracy case. As the period of 180 days for filing a charge sheet against Khan expired, his counsel Tamanna Pankaj moved an application seeking bail under Section 167 (2) of the CrPC. The NIA did not respond to the application. Without delving into the merits of the cas...

The Endangered royal stag, popularly known as the Hangul, has shown a gradual increase in its population and fresh survey in this regard is being carried out through genetic methods. The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red Data Book which contains lists of species at risk of extinction has declared the Hangul as one of three species that were critically endangered in JK. The other two are the Markhor and the Tibetan antelope or ‘Chiru’. The Hangul is placed under Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and the JK Wildlife Protection Act, 1978. “To increase the breed of the ‘Hangul’, the animal breeding centre is functional at Shikargah area of Tral in Pulwama under the 'Species Recovery Programme”, an official said. The official said tha...

Amid forecast for “mainly dry weather” in the next 24 hours, mercury recorded a drop in Jammu Kashmir with the famous Pahalgam resort recording a low of minus 4.2°C on Friday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar recorded a low of 3.°C against 4.7°C on the previous night. The temperature was 1.8°C above normal for the summer capital during this time of the year, he said. Qazigund recorded a low of 2.2°C against 5.0°C on the previous night. The temperature was 0.3°C above normal for the gateway town of Kashmir, he told GNS. In Pahalgam, the mercury settled at minus 4.2°C against 2.8°C on the previous night and it was 3.1°C below normal for the south Kashmir resort, he said. Kokernag recorded a low of 2.4°C against 3.7°C on the previous night and it wa...

Panic spread in the Pahoo area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district when the locals spotted wild boars late on Thursday night. An eyewitness told The Kashmiriyat that around 10 PM on Thursday he spotted a group of wild boars (around eight) moving towards the main road in Pahoo- Chakpora Pulwama which triggered panic among the locals. "We own a poultry farm in Pahoo. Around 10 PM, as we came out of our farm, we spotted a group of animals moving on the main road. As we approached closer, we saw a group of wild boars moving about on the road," he said. He said that he has seen a boar for the first time in Kashmir. "This is a new phenomenon in Kashmir. We have never seen boars anywhere, at least, not in our area," he added. Seeking the immediate intervention of Wildlife officials, h...

Additional Director General of Police Kashmir Vijay Kumar on Friday said that foreign JeM militant Kamran has been killed in a gunfight at Kaprin area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. While quoting ADGP Kashmir, The Kashmir Zone Police on its official Twitter handle wrote, " One FT of JeM militant outfit killed, identified as Kamran Bhai @ Hanees who was active in Kulgam-Shopian area. Search is still going on,". Earlier, a gunfight erupted during predawn hours between militants and security forces in Kaprin area Shopian.(GNS)