REGIONAL

In a major setback to the Kashmir most vital industry horticulture, the prices of packing material of apples have increased abruptly due to which apple growers fear losses. Growers across Kashmir while talking to news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that the cost of packing material has increased by around 30 to 40 percent in Kashmir in last few days only due to which growers are fearing losses. Fayaz Ahmad an apple grower from Shopian said that usually they would purchase wooden apple boxes alias 70 to 80 rupees but this time same boxes are being sold alias 110 to 130 rupees. He added that they were getting cardboard boxes alias 35-40 rupees but same boxes were being sold by around 50 rupees this year. Other growers also echoed the same voice and said that cost of appl...

A Special Police Officer (SPO) on Tuesday allegedly bludgeoned his pregnant wife to death in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Reports reaching KDC said that accused SPO Mohan Lal is absconding and his house was set ablaze by some angry villagers. Senior Superintendent of Police, Kathua, Ramesh Chander Kotwal said special teams have been formed to arrest the accused. An officials said the incident happened at Dharalta village in the Billawar area when Lal, who is posted in district police lines Kathua and was on leave for the past three days, brutally killed his wife Asha Devi (32), a mother of two daughters, following an argument over some family matter. The SPO fled the scene before the neighbours arrived, they said, adding some agitated people torched his...

At a time when Kashmir-centric political parties are finding it hard to protest against the alleged inclusion of non-local voters in Jammu and Kashmir and both Altaf Bukhari and Sajad Lone targeting Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Decleration for allowing Shiv Sena leaders to participate in ‘All-Party-Meeting, senior Congress leader Saifuddin Soz Tuesday appealed to both the leaders to fall in line with PAGD in public interest. Soz as per Kashmir News Trust said these are difficult times and togetherness alone is the safety valve. “We have fallen to very difficult times in our history. The Central Government has turned totally hostile to our sacred cause i.e. our cherished goal of safeguarding our Internal Autonomy,” Soz said. He said that leaders of Kashmir had acceded to a democrati...

Jammu Kashmir High Court Bar Association Jammu has given Jammu Bandh a call for August 29 in protest against the non-serious attitude of the Government towards their demands and issues. As per the Srinagar based News Agency, Kashmir News Trust, Bar Association Jammu said that their demands are in the interest of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, particularly of Jammu people. The shutdown call has been given by the President Bar Association Jammu M.K Bharadwaj. While addressing a press conference at District Court Complex Jammu, Bharadwaj said that they are agitating since long but the Government has maintained silence over demands and grievances. He said, “time and again we made it clear to the Government that in case our demands are not considered the lawyers fraternity will be le...

A BJP leader was found hanging from a tree under mysterious circumstances in Jammu Kashmir’s Kathua district on Tuesday, officials said. A villager saw the body of Som Raj hanging from a tree at some distance from his house in Hiranagar town in the morning and informed the police, they said. The body, which had blood marks, was sent to a hospital for post-mortem, the officials said. Sources said Raj was missing for the past three days. Police have lodged a case and initiated investigation, the officials said. Raj's family alleged that he was was murdered and demanded that the government should provide justice to them. Many BJP leaders, who visited Raj's home, demanded a probe into his death.–(PTI)

Jammu Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha on Tuesday said that Union government and JK administration is doing every effort to make impossible things possible so that the youth of Jammu Kashmir reach to their goals. Speaking on the occasion of opening ceremony of 28th Masters National Table Tennis Championship at Indoor Stadium Srinagar, Sinha, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that those who have talent in sports activity, they are being given every opportunity to showcase their skills and talent. He said that JK Sports Council and Youth Services and Sport Department are making every efforts in the Union Territory to reach out to the youth and provide them a platform so that they can make J&K and the entire country proud in the sports field. “Be it ...

The Jammu Kashmir Police in Baramulla Police on Tuesday issued a fresh traffic advisory, for 25th Muharram, i.e tomorrow 24th August-2022. According to a fresh traffic advisory order issued by Baramulla Police reads that the traffic movement on Srinagar-Baramulla national highway shall remain affected w.e.f 1300 hrs upto 1900 hrs from Harthrat to Narbal). “General Public is requested to kindly avoid unnecessary movement on Baramulla- Srinagar Highway. Medical emergencies will be allowed”, reads the order copy. “Traffic diversion Plan on Srinagar-Baramulla national highway medium motor/light motor vehicles.” “Route plan for north Kashmir-based vehicles towards Srinagar. Srinagar-bound vehicles from North Kashmir viz Kupwara-Handwara & Sopore will move via Hygam to Sumbal to ...

The death toll from the August 11 militant attack on an Army camp in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir rose to seven after a havaldar who was undergoing treatment succumbed to his injuries, officials said. Two militants and four soldiers “Subedar Rajendra Prasad, Rifleman Manoj Kumar, Rifleman Lakshmanan D, and Rifleman Nishant Malik were killed in Palghar Rajouri attack. Officials said that Havaldar Satya Pal, a resident of Rajasthan succumbed to his injuries after undergoing treatment for 13 days at Udhampur Military Hospital. With the death of the soldier the toll in the attack has reached 7 including 5 soldiers. Northern Army commander, Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi, and other senior officers paid their last respects to Havaldar Singh at a wreath-laying ceremony in Udhampur. (...

A court in Jammu on Tuesday issued a bailable warrant against Rubaiya Sayeed, after she did not appear for her cross—examination by JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik, whom she had identified as her abductor during last hearing of the case. Talking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Advocate Monika Kohli, special public prosecutor for CBI, said that Rubaiya Sayeed did not appear in the TADA court for her cross examination by the accused. “The Court has issued a bailable warrant against her and directed her to remain present on the next date of hearing scheduled on September 21,” she said. In July this year, Rubaiya had identified Yasin Malik as one of her kidnappers in 1989. Rubaiya was kidnapped in December 1989 when her father, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, was the Union Home ...