Month: September 2023

AAdditional Director General of Police (ADGP) Fire and Emergency Services (F&ES), Alok Kumar on Saturday said that the fire incidents across Jammu Kashmir have reduced by 31 per cent this year. “Against 59000 fire incidents last year, J&K has recorded only 4000 incidents this year, which is 31 per cent reduction in such cases in the past one year,” Kumar said, adding that the figure is from August 2022-July 2023. He added that the reduction in the fire incidents is the outcome of 28000 fire awareness events organized by F&ES at multiple places across J&K. Talking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), ADGP F&ES further stated that over three lakh people have been trained in the fire awareness events. Kumar said that the F&ES is planning to come ...

Farmers across the valley are worried due to the prolonged dry weather conditions, which they said has degraded the quality of apples. As per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Kashmir has been witnessing dry weather conditions with minimum rainfall since August. According to India Meteorological Department data related to the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), approximately 80 percent of the area in Kashmir region (8 out of 10 districts), has been impacted by moderate to extreme dryness between August 3rd and August 30th. Weather department has now forecasted the dry weather to prevail for the next 10 days. As such this prolonged dry spell has impacted the quality of apple, which the farmers claimed could lead to heavy loss to the horticulture sector. “August and Se...

Danishwar Hameed A father and son have gone missing from their home in south Kashmir's Kulgam district. Family members of the duo speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that around 1:30 PM on Saturday, some unknown persons came to their house in Turigam Kulgam looking for Bashir Ahmed Mir, following which the father-son duo have gone missing, causing panic among the family members. "Someone knocked at the door of the house and my brother Zubair Ahmed Mir aged 22 came out to enquire. He was told that the persons at the gate were looking for Bashir Ahmed Mir. My brother went inside and called my father out. Following this both of them have been missing," Faisal Mir, another son of Bashir Ahmed said. Bashir Ahmed Mir is a serving inspector in the Power Development Department of Jammu Ka...

Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar on Saturday chaired a high-level meeting with the officers of Police, security forces and other intelligence agencies in Anantnag district to review the security of National Highway and SOPs being followed by security forces during convoy movement. The meeting was attended by GOC Victor Force, IG Traffic J&K, Army’s Sector Commander 1st, DIG Police SKR, DIG BSF, DIG SSB, DIG CRPF Awantipora, DIG CRPF Anantnag, DIG BSF, DDIB, Additional Commander SB, SSsP of Anantnag, Kulgam districts, SP Awantipora, SP Cargo and other officers, a police spokesman said in a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said. Vijay Kumar advised all the participating officers to conduct a joint survey of NHW viz a vi...

Urbanization, unabated encroachment and flow of sewage are the reasons the river Jhelum is getting polluted, experts said. Jhelum which originates from Veerinag in south Kashmir and traverses through Srinagar before entering into Wular Lake is an important source of irrigation, drinking water and hydropower in the valley. Experts said the heaps of garbage, polythene, plastic and even pipes dropping sewage into the river are a common sight due to which this river has been turned into a big drain of Kashmir. They said the majority of the population here is dependent on Jhelum for drinking water purposes but the pollution of this water body has become a reason for many diseases. An official of the Pollution Control Board told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that urbani...