Month: March 2023

The tourism department of Kashmir on Saturday said more than 1 lakh tourists thronged the Kashmir Valley i. the month of February alone and that they are hoping the number will increase in coming days. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of an event here, Director Tourism Kashmir, Fazlul Hafeez, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said the month of February alone recorded more than 1 Lakh tourist in the Valley. He said they are working on several methods and preparing for the upcoming tourist season so that number of tourists in the Valley will increase. “We are working on scientific methods of calculating tourist numbers as this is the age of big data, so we collect dats based on scientific methods. We collect data from registered and unregistered hotels also,” h...

The Jammu Kashmir administration has cancelled yet another exam in the region. Several job recruitment exams have been cancelled in the last three years. On Wednesday, the Jammu Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) cancelled the Paper-II (Qualifying) of the J-K Prosecuting Officer (Preliminary) Examination held in January. The fresh date for holding a fresh examination has been announced as 16th March 2023. According to an order the JKPSC said that the examination held earlier was cancelled after the complaints were received that the examination of the Qualifying Paper II of the preliminary examination was of a standard higher than the level prescribed in the notification. The JKPSC conducted the Preliminary Examination for filling up the posts of Prosecuting Officers in t...

Amid the forecast for “partly to generally cloudy” weather in the next 24 hours, the minimum temperature recorded a fall in Kashmir Valley and an increase in Jammu on Saturday, officials said. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar recorded a low of 6.4°C against 6.6°C on the previous night and it was above normal by 4.2°C for the summer capital. Qazigund, he said, recorded a low of 4.2°C against 5.6°C on the previous night and it was 3.3°C above normal for the gateway town of Kashmir. Pahalgam, he said, recorded a low of 1.2°C against 1.7°C on the previous night and it was 3.5°C above normal for the famous tourist resort in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Kokernag recorded a low of 4.7°C against 4.8°C on the previous night and it was 3.8°C above no...

The residents of Bijbehara town in south Kashmir's Anantnag district staged a protest against the installation of smart meters by the Power Development Department (PDD). Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that scores of  local residents on Saturday blocked the old highway raising slogans against the admin and the Power Development Department to demand that the installation of smart meters should be immediately stopped. "Why is one order followed by the other to trouble common Kashmiris? From 2019, all we have seen is orders being issued against the interests of common Kashmiris," a protesting woman said. They said that  they belong to the poor working class and hardly make  500 rupees a day. "How can we afford hefty electricity bills?" they asked. The residents appealed the Admi...

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Passport Authority in Srinagar to take a fresh decision on the request for the issuance of a passport to former JK chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti within three months. According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the submission was made before a single-judge bench of Justice Prathiba M Singh, wherein the Central government’s standing counsel, Kirtiman Singh, told the court that a decision was taken yesterday on Mufti's appeal and the matter has been remanded to the passport office in Srinagar. Justice Prathiba M Singh noted that the issue has been pending for two years following an appeal against the rejection; it has now been remanded to the passport officer concerned for reconsiderat...