Month: November 2022

A hotel owner from Pahalgam area of South Kashmir’s Anantnga district travelled nearly 70 kilometres to return money to a tourist that he had forgot in the hotel room in Pahalgam. As per details available with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Abdul Wahid Wani, owner of Best view resort at Ladroo, Pahalgam returned over 19 thousand to the tourist that he had forgot while leaving the hotel. Talking to KNO, Wahid said a tourist namely Ramesh Choudhary had stayed in his hotel and next day his daughter came to clean the room and found Rs 19,700 there. “We were waiting to return the money to the owner and on November 08, I received a call of the tourist who had forgot the money. I returned the money to him on the same day,” he said. Meanwhile, Ramesh who got his money bac...

As winter has almost set in pushing people across Kashmir to buy heating gadgets including gas heaters etc, the leading medicos in the Valley on Wednesday said the use of gas heaters during winters can prove as “silent killers” if proper cautions aren’t taken. The doctors urged people to ensure proper ventilation in rooms and not to use gas heaters in bedrooms. Talking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Kashmir’s leading medico at Government Medical College (GMC) College Srinagar, Dr Nisar ul Hassan said that the heaters emit combustion products like carbon monoxide and once it reaches a particular level inside a room, a person gets "carbon monoxide poisoning". Hassan said the best way to prevent deaths due to unvented gas heaters is to discontinue their use and instead, use...