Month: November 2023

Air traffic was hit in the valley as foggy conditions continued for the second day, resulting in delaying the morning flights. An airport official told News Agency Kashmir Scroll that, due to foggy conditions, the flights scheduled to take off have been delayed. "The flights will take off once the fog vanishes out in and around the airport", the official said. Notably, weather conditions have been grim for almost a week, with foggy conditions largely prevailing across the valley. (KS)

The consumers across Kashmir have been complaining of a worse power scenario for the past couple of weeks, stating that it is for the first time that the power cuts with such intensity are being witnessed. The news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), received phone calls from the consumers, hailing from different parts of Kashmir, saying that the power schedule is not being adhered to, thus pushing them to the wall. “We are being forced to reel under darkness. The power cuts are being mostly witnessed in morning and evening hours. There seems no schedule in place as the electricity is being snatched after every hour,” a consumer from Srinagar’s Old City area, said, adding that such a situation is being witnessed at a time when the government has come up with the smart meters and prom...

National Conference Vice-President and former chief minister J&K Omar Abdullah Monday said that BJPs developmental slogan in Jammu Kashmir was a bundle of lies and it cheated people in the name of providing employment and holding assembly elections in the region. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS) correspondent, the former CM J&K Omar Abdullah while speaking to reporters in southern Kulgam said BJP has only been betraying us in the name of elections, getting rid of unemployment, development, better electricity and other minor things. "Except lies, they have not given anything to the people. The condition of electricity was not this worse as it is today even when they claim crores of funds are being spent. Why they don't arrange more funds to provide electricity to people...

Seven sheep were killed in a leopard attack in the Dargam area of Pattan in north Kashmir's Baramulla district. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that during the night hours, a leopard barged into the shed of a local resident Ghulam Mohammed Wani and mauled eight sheep to death. "It is tragic that due to the negligence of the wild life Department, the years of hard work of a poor man Ghulam Mohammed Wani went in vain," a local said. He said that the residents of the Dargam have repeatedly asked the Wildlife Department to lay a trap for this leopard, but the department ignored their repeated appeals. Locals said that the leopard attacked another shed four months ago and killed several sheep in he village. In Kashmir, there's been a consistent increase in confrontations between huma...