Month: February 2023

Four days after an avalanche killed two Polish nationals, another avalanche hit the Afarwat Peak at famoud ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that an avalanche hit the area today morning, however, no casualty has been reported in the incident. He said the area was already declared as Red Zone and as a precautionary measure teams have been sent to the spot. "Medical teams have been kept on standby near the avalanche area," he said. Notably, on February 01 two Polish Skiers were killed and 19 others were rescued after an avalanches hit the Afarwat peak—(KNO)

Suhail Dar Burglars broke into seven shops in the Janglat Mandi area of south Kashmir's Anantnag district. An official told The Kashmiriyat that during the intervening night of Friday and Saturday unknown persons broke out into seven shops located at the Janglat Mandi area of the main town in the Anantnag. He said that early morning as the shopkeepers reached their shops, they found their shops had been broken into and goods worth lakhs stolen from their shops. The shops looted include Waqar Medical Store, Tafheem Medical Store, Aadil Pharmacy, MM Medical store, GS Medical Store, Kadoo Pharmacy, and Abdullah Bakery Shop, he saidm The police, as per locals, has sealed the area and is monitoring the situation and also taking stock of the losses incurred by the shopkeepers.

National Conference (NC) leader, Salman Sagar on Thursday termed the ongoing government's anti-encroachment drive as a political vendetta saying that those people who are behind this act will be remembered as it is being carried out in a biased manner. In a press conference today he said "It's very unfortunate that the government is taking such harish steps against its own people With each passing day, the people across Kashmir are being harassed through this anti-encroachment drive which is political vendetta," he said while addressing a press conference here at Srinagar "I will approach the court in my personal case in which our outhouse was demolished. I have documents and will prove in court. Also poor should be provided maximum relief during eviction drives," he said, adding tha...

Around 6.5 percent women in Srinagar started experiencing domestic violence during Covid-19 lockdown, a new study has revealed. As per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the study conducted by the Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Srinagar has revealed that the effects of preventing a COVID-19 health crisis have had unintended consequences on domestic abuse (DA) victimization, Social distancing measures inherently change micro level human interactions, as they force people to spend more time at home. The online study using Google forms was conducted by Sabira Aalia Dkhar, Ruqia Quansar, and S.M. Salim Khan of the Department of Community Medicine and the study was published in the International Journal of Advanced Research (IJAR). The members of th...

Secretary Health & Medical Education (H&ME), Bhupinder Kumar, today chaired a meeting to review the status of implementation of Projects approved under Emergency Covid Response Package (ECRP-II). A detailed presentation was made by Ayushi Sudhan, Mission Director, NHM, JK, delineating progress on establishment of infrastructural projects which included Maternal ICUs, Hybrid Paediatric ICUs, Oxygen supported Paediatric wards and 6 Bedded/20 Prefab structures approved under Emergency COVID Response Package (ECRP-II) for the UT of Jammu Kashmir by the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. It was informed that a total of 75 state of art facilities are being established across the UT including 27 Maternal ICUs (245 Beds), 21 Paediatric Hybrid ICU (221 Beds), 14 Oxygen sup...

Anjuman-i- Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar today once again expressed its deep regret over the fact that for the last three and a half years, the authorities have illegally and arbitrarily kept its head Mirwaiz Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq under house detention due to which he has not been able to perform the important duty of performing the Jummah prayers at the historic central grand mosque for the consecutive 180th Friday. Condemning this dictatorial behaviour of the authorities, the Anjuman in a statement termed it as a sheer interference in religion, freedom of expression, and a serious violation of human rights. “It is a sad chapter in the recent history of Kashmir that the mimbar-o-mihrab (pulpit) of the historic Jama Masjid – which is the great place of worship and the centre of spi...