Month: September 2023

The Commanding Officer (CO) of the 19RR of the Indian Army, stationed in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, was among the three Government force personnel killed during the ongoing encounter in the Gadol area of the south Kashmir district, reported Press Trust of India. An official confirmed to The Kashmiriyat that 19RR of Indian Army and Jammu Kashmir Police were fired upon by militants when they had laid a cordon and search operation in the area. During the initial exchange of gunfire, three top ranking officials of Indian Army and Police were injured and soon rushed to the Army's 92 base hospital in Srinagar for treatment. One of the injured, identified as the CO of 19 RR identified as Colonel Manpreet Singh, also a sena medal recipient, succumbed to his injuries at the hospita...

A local court in Srinagar sent Waqar H. Bhatti, arrested over twelve days ago, to a six-day judicial remand on Tuesday. Bhatti, a socio-political activist, was arrested on 01 September after Darakshan Andrabi, who serves as Chairperson of Waqf Board, allegedly registered a complaint against him. In a application, Andrabi has written, “With respects I request your goodself to Kindly consider my application for issuing orders to the police to register an FIR against one Waqar Batti (a known Anti- India so called activist from Poonch area presently residing in South Kashmir reportedly somewhere in Kokernag) on the following grounds,” the application reads. It further reads as, “That while reacting to a decision of J&K Waqf Board regarding engaging degree holding Qualified Imams, ...

With no respite from the heat and dry hot spell in Kashmir, Srinagar on Tuesday recorded the season’s second-highest day temperature in 132 years, officials said. Meteorological department said that the summer capital of J&K, Qazigund and Kokernag recorded record-breaking severe heat wave. “Srinagar recorded a maximum temperature of 34.2°C, which is 6.0°C above normal. This is the 2nd highest maximum temperature ever recorded in September since 1891,” he said, adding, “It has broken the 53 years old record of 33.8°C recorded on 01 September 1970.” Notably, due to the ongoing hot summer spell in Kashmir, several water bodies including the river Jhelum are witnessing a dip in the water level with a video emerging on social media showing a houseboat on the dried river bed of the ...

Central Kashmir's Srinagar district recorded a maximum temperature of 34.2°C, which is 6.0°C above normal. This is the 2nd highest maximum temperature ever recorded in September since 1891 when the weather observatory was established. Earlier the highest temperature recorded in September was 33.8°C which was recorded on 01 September 1970. The all time highest temperature has been recorded at 35.0°C which was on the 18 September 1934, acording to Kashmir weather. In Qazigund, Kashmir Weather said, today's maximum temperature was 33.2°C which is 6.7°C above normal. The previous record was 32.8°C on 12 September 2019. In Kokernag, the highest temperature recorded was 32.0°C which is a spike of 6.6 degrees from Normal. Today's temperature broke the previous record of 31.8°C recorde...