Month: January 2023

The Jammu Kashmir Police have registered 1021 NDPS cases, arrested 1685 drug peddlers including 138 notorious drug peddlers who have been detained under PIT NDPS Act during the previous year 2022 in the Kashmir valley. Besides, huge quantity of different types of contraband/psychotropic substances were recovered. In a press release, Jammu Kashmir Police said, Besides during the previous year, mass campaigns including 1098 ‘Thana Divas’ meetings, 1206 Police Community Partnership Group meetings, Police Public Meetings, Counselling at Drug De-addiction Centers, engagement of youth in sports activities through Civic Action Programmes (CAP) were held by police across the districts of Kashmir valley to eradicate the drug menace and to create awareness among the general public and to seek ...

The residents of Mehjoor Nagar in Srinagar staged a protest against the curtailment of ration supplies to the Kashmir valley. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that on Monday morning, people hit to roads in the Mehjoor Nagar area of Srinagar and blocked the traffic raising slogans demanding ration. In January 2021, The Government curtailed the rice and wheat quota for Kashmir Valley. Over 120371.62 quintals of food grains (rice and wheat) were curtailed. Officials, back then, said under National Food Security Act (NFSA), the Directorate of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Kashmir had allocated 210849.89 quintals of food grains for the month of January 2021. In October 2020, 331221.51 quintals of food grains had been allocated for Valley. “This is a deficit of 120371.62 quint...

Renowned Kashmiri poet, Professor Rehman Rahi passed away on Monday morning at his Vicharnag residence in Srinagar. The 1925-born poet was presented with the 40th Jnanpith Award as an eminent Kashmiri poet, on November 6, 2008, by the then Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. In the year 1948, Rehman Rahi started his career as a PWD and later worked as a Sub-editor with Khidmat newspaper for several years. In 1952 he did his masters in Persian and a decade later another master's in English. For most of his career, he taught at the University of Kashmir. Rahi has made an immense huge contribution to the Kashmiri language and poetry. He has authored almost a dozen books and translations and mentored hundreds of students and scholars. For his contributions to the language, he was hono...

Gulmarg and Pahalgam and other higher reaches received fresh snowfall while light rains lashed plains including Srinagar amid an increase in night temperature on Monday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar recorded a low of 0.9°C against last night’s minus 0.1°C. Today’s minimum temperature was 2.8°C above normal for the summer capital which received 0.5mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours till 0830 hours today, he said. Qazigund, he said, recorded a low of 0.2°C against minus 1.3°C. Today’s minimum temperature was 1.8°C above normal for the gateway town that had 0.8mm of rain during the time, he said. Pahalgam received 0.2cm of snowfall during the time and recorded a low of minus 0.7°C against minus 1.4°C on the previous night. Today’s minimum temperat...