Month: January 2023

The flight operations at Srinagar International Airport resumed a day after remaining suspended due to heavy snowfall in the Kashmir Valley, while Srinagar-Jammu national highway remained closed for traffic on second consecutive day. Talking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Director Srinagar Airport Kuldeep Singh said flight operations resumed today after a slight delay in the morning. "Several morning flights were delayed due to low visibility, but now the flight operations are going on smoothly," he said. Meanwhile, an official said restoration work on Srinagar-Jammu highway was still going on and people are advised not to take any journey till it is completed. He also said train service, which remained suspended for a day on Monday has been partially resumed f...

A Kashmiri woman whose video had gone viral on social media, claiming that she was married to one Bihar resident and later deserted by him, has been reunited with her husband, the Police claimed. Sumaira Haneef (now Anjali Singh) married Lalu Singh, a local resident of Begusarai in May 2022, as per local reports. In a viral video, a Kashmiri woman claimed that Lalu Singh, a Bihar resident was working as a labour in Kashmir and used to buy ration and other items from her brother's shop in Kashmir. The two secretly married in a Bihar court after which she changed her religion to Hinduism. "We lived together for several months and then he (Lalu) sent me home to Kashmir on November 02 and promised that he would come and take me back after 'Saraswati Pooja', but when I came to Kashmir,...

The Jammu Kashmir Police on Tuesday said it arrested the medical shopkeeper accused of giving an overdosed injection to a poor street vendor in Anantnag town. Police in a press release said, Police Post Janglat Mandi Anantnag had received an application on 27th Jan, from Aadil Ahmad Bhat Son of Ghulam Nabi Bhat, a resident of Deva Colony Anantnag, stated there in, that his brother namely Irfan Ahmad Bhat Son of Ghulam Nabi Bhat, resident of Deva colony Anantnag was feeling throat irritation. Watch video here https://youtu.be/-MqVtkJLgds Accordingly, he approached a medical shop at janglat mandi i.e., Rehmani Medical chamber, who had injected him injections without test dose. He (Irfan) developed some complications and was brought to GMC Ananthnag where doctors declared him b...

Shabir Khan The falling of a Chinar tree led to massive damage to two residential houses in the Mohura area of Uri in the Baramulla district of north Kashmir. Officials told The Kashmiriyat that on Monday morning, residential houses belonging to Ghulam Hassan Khan and Jahangeer Ahmed Khan were damaged when a branch of a chinar fell on the two houses in the north Kashmir area. The officials said nobody was injured in the incident, adding, "The residents had fortunately come out of the house before the incident occurred." A team from the Revenue Department reached the spot and assessed the financial loss to the property.

In compliance to the directions from Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), Athar Amir Khan following prediction of Snowfall, the men and machinery of the corporation has been on the Snow clearance job since early morning to ensure hassle free movement of general public and vehicular movement. An official informed that all the major roads, link-roads, streets and alleys have been cleared of Snow both through machines as well as manually. Officers, frontline warriors and machinery are on the ground to meet any challenge in case of any eventuality, he added. The Commissioner SMC also toured various City areas, hospitals to have firsthand appraisal of Snow clearance status. He visited SMHS Hospital, Dastgeer Sahab, JLMN Hospital, Chatti Padshahi, Dargah and Imam Bargah Za...

Sheikh Nadeem The Jammu Kashmir administration has renamed several educational institutes, bridges and stadiums to the names of Government force personnel killed in the line of duty. According a notification, accessed by The Kashmiriyat, the Manoj-Sinha-led admin on Monday ordered the renaming of several educational institutes, bridges and other public places in the valley. Girls Middle School at Khoshipora in Anantnag has been renamed after Constable Rameez Raja Itoo, Constable who was killed in March 2021. A graduate in Science, Rameez Raja had joined the Jammu Kashmir Police as his father Abdul Salam Itoo died five years ago while serving the Jammu Kashmir Police. In March 2021, suspected Militants barged inside the house of a BJP leader in Srinagar and the alert sentry w...