Month: August 2023

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday raided multiple locations in Kashmir including the residence of Advocate Parvez Imroz in an NGO funding case registered in the year 2020. Sources told Kashmir Dot Com reported that the sleuths of NIA with the assistance of police and CRPF raided multiple locations in Srinagar, Kupwara, Budgam, Pulwama, and Shopian districts of the valley. In Srinagar, The NIA sleuths raided the residence of Zubair Siddiq Dar, son of Mohammad Sadiq Dar at Bonpora Batmaloo and later was brought to PS Batmaloo for questioning. In Budgam, the sleuths of NIA raided the residence of Arshid Indrabi, son of Ghulam Qadir at Cooperative Colony Peerbagh. Another team searched the residence of Advocate Parvaiz Ahmad Sheikh, son of Ghulam Qadir at Kanta Bag...

Amid the frequent wet spells in Jammu and Kashmir this month, the summer capital of the Union Territory—Srinagar has broken all previous records as for the first time since 1891, the station has received a precipitation of 187.2 mm. It has been after 131 years that Srinagar has witnessed such a huge precipitation in July month. Independent Weather Forecaster, Faizan Arif Keng told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that Srinagar records wettest July in at least 131 years, saying that the Rambagh Observatory in Srinagar received the highest total rainfall in July since its establishment in 1891, recording 187.2 mm of rainfall this July. “The majority of this rainfall occurred during three spells: 20.0 mm on 08 July, 50.6 mm on 20 July, and 53.4 mm on 27 July,” he said, add...

A family from Chri-Larno Kokarnaga area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district Tuesday arrived at Srinagar’s Press Enclave seeking stringent punishment for what they called ‘murderers’ of the head of their family. In order to attract the attention of scribes, they had brought with them the dead body of the family head who according to succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday morning after remaining admitted at SKIMS for 9 days. While talking to reporters, Bilal Ahmed Dar, one of the sons of the deceased man Ali Muhammad Dar said that they were attacked and assaulted by a group of ‘goons’ on the night of 22 July. "Over 25 people barged into our house, smashed windowpanes and dragged us out. They assaulted us. Our father sustained head injuries. Since then he was undergoing treatment at S...

A soldier ended his life by allegedly hanging himself in a washroom at the old Airfield area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Official sources said that a soldier identified as Mahesh Kumar was found dead in the washroom. His colleagues found him hanging with a rope and informed the authorities. The incident occurred at 256 Transit Camp and the deceased was affiliated with 34 Rashtriya Rifles. Police have taken cognizance of the incident and registered a case under relevant sections of law. [KNT]