Month: March 2023

Two residential houses were damaged in a nocturnal fire incident at Narbal area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district. An official while confirming the incident said that during night hours fire broke out due to electric short circuit in two residential double storied houses of Ali Mohammad Kaloo, son of Mohammad Sultan Kaloo and Mushtaq Ahmad Handroo, son of Abdul Wahaab Handroo both residents of Kali Mohallah Narbal. Soon after noticing the flames, locals and police reached to the spot and informed the Fire and Emergency Services department following which the fire tenders reached the spot and doused the flames. He said, in the incident, no loss of life was reported, but upper stories of both the houses got damaged. Meanwhile, police have taken cognizance of the incident. (KDC...

A strong earthquake of Magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale jolts Kargil, Ladakh on Friday night, National Center for Seismology said. Reports reaching said that the tremors were felt in the parts of Kashmir valley also. “Earthquake of Magnitude:5.0, Occurred on 17-03-2023, 23:49:21 IST, Lat: 37.36 & Long: 75.72, Depth: 250 Km ,Location: 314km N of Kargil, Laddakh, India,” NCS said in a tweet.

The arrest of a Gujarat conman from Kashmir Valley has become a matter of debate in political circles with top politicians from across India tweeting and retweeting about the fraudster identified as Kiran Bhai Patel. Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi took a swipe at the Jammu and Kashmir administration saying that when she had visited Jammu to meet the families of victims of targeted Hindu killings in Kashmir, she had been offered zilch security. “Not that it deterred me, but as MP when I had visited Jammu to meet the families of victims of targeted Hindu killings in Kashmir, I had been offered zilch security and here a conman manages to get z security, VIP protocol, hotel stay and mehman nawaazi. Adbhud!” the Rajya Sabha member Priyanka Chaturvedi tweeted...