Month: March 2024

Bhartiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) J&K unit is all set for a grand welcome for Prime Minister Narendera Modi, who is arriving on March 7 to address a mega rally at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar. A BJP leader privy to the preparation plan told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that J&K BJP has already started mega preparations to give rousing reception to PM Modi on March 7. “There will be a grand welcome for PM Modi at Bakshi Stadium. We have devised a plan and our workers are working on that,” he said. “This time, it will be a unique welcome for our leader.” PM Modi will address a mammoth rally at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar where BJP is expecting two lakh people. It will be the first public rally of PM Modi in Srinagar after abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019. This wil...

Jammu Kashmir Police have dropped the names of social media users from the chargesheet who were examined during investigation of a multi-crore Curative Survey scam. A bogus company operating under the name ‘Curative Survey Private Limited’ cheated the unsuspecting public through a fraudulent website by falsely promising them significant returns on their investments. “The chargesheet produced by police before the Srinagar Court has dropped the names of social media users after finding them not involved in the scam. All the seven accused named in chargesheet are non-locals,” said Aamir Masoodi. One of the accused Vinod Jhon Kenndy presently in judicial custody in the case is represented by criminal lawyer Aamir Masoodi. “I have moved the bail application of my client which has been ...

Over 40 per cent of referrals from rural hospitals to Kashmir’s premier maternity specialty Lalla Ded Hospital turn out inauthentic. These unauthentic referrals overburden Srinagar’s LD Hospital. Medical Superintendent LD Hospital Dr Muzaffar Jan told the news agency Kashmir News Trust that the Secretary Health and Medical Education recently sought data about inauthentic referrals and the same was provided to him. “Secretary Health and Medical Education even sought the names of those doctors who unnecessarily referred the patients with labor pain to LD Hospital. Hopefully, action will be initiated against those doctors and that will be a deterrent for other doctors in the future,” Dr Jan. In response to a question, the Medical Superintendent LD Hospital said that they treat eve...

BJP National Executive Member, Party's J&K Core Group Member and Chairperson of Jammu Kashmir Waqf Board Dr Syed Darakhshan Andrabi attended a felicitation event at Anantnag in which BJP leaders and activists felicitated Dr Andrabi and eminent party leader and Seh Prabhari for Kashmir Rafiq Ahmad Wani for being nominated as the Executive Officer of J&K Waqf Board for Anantnag district. State Vice President State BJP Minority Morcha Nazir Ahmad Ganai, Vice President Mahila Morcha Kashmir Ms Rumaysa Rafiq, Constituency President Arshad Hussain, District VP Pinka Malik and other party functionaries and activists participated. Dr Andrabi was accorded a warm welcome by the BJP cadres on her arrival. Dr Darakhshan Andrabi later addressed the media after the event and said that BJP ...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, Ravinder Raina on Monday said that around 2 lakh people are set to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Kashmir this week. Speaking to the media in summer capital Srinagar, Raina as per news agency Kashmir Scroll expressed that the people of Kashmir are filled with excitement, joy, and happiness ahead of the Prime Minister's visit to Kashmir after the Abrogation of Article 370. Raina stated that the mega rally is scheduled to take place at Bakshi stadium in Srinagar, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the crowd. Approximately 2 lakh people are expected to participate in the event, he stated. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kashmir on 7th March. Sources have revealed that during his visit, the Prime Minist...

The High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh has ordered the release of a 27-year-old youth from north Kashmir’s Bandipora presently lodged at Barely Jail of Uttar Pradesh under the Public Safety Act. The detenue Umar Aijaz Mir of Bandipora against whom police had registered 6 FIRs in 2016 on charges of stone-pelting was arrested by police in 2022. Police had claimed that a grenade had been recovered from the possession of the accused and accordingly Public Safety Act was slapped on him. Advocate Bashir Ahmed Tak, the Counselor of the accused prayed that the cases registered against the accused were all frivolous and a youth who was co-accused when Umar Aijaz Mir was arrested in 2022 has already been released by the Court The Court of Judge Rahul Bharti as per the news agency Kas...

At least three workers are reported to have been washed away in Jhelum river during a demolition work on an old bridge at Uri in Baramulla district. Locals told GNS that several workers were engaged in demolition work on an old bridge in Mohura Uri and during the time the trio is believed to have fallen into the Jhelum river. "The apprehension of them having fallen into the river (Jhelum) have grown as some people are claiming to have seen them falling into the river flowing in proximity to the site of the 'accident'," a local said. When contacted, a police official told GNS they are assessing the situation. "Nothing can be said with much certainty at the moment," the police official said. (GNS)