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With an aim to provide financial succor to the families of the police personnel who were slain in action or have passed away of illness or naturally while in service, the Director General of Police, J&K, Dilbag Singh has sanctioned over rupees 1.52 crore as Special Welfare Relief for Next-of-Kins of such police personnel. Vide an order of PHQ Special Welfare Relief of rupees 22 lakh has been sanctioned in favour of dependents/legal heirs of Selection Grade Constable Safiullah Qadri who was killed in a militant attack. Similarly the special welfare relief of rupees 22 lakh each has been sanctioned in favour of dependents/legal heirs of deceased ASI Mohammad Hussain, HC Javid Ahmad SgCts Amina Akhtar, Darbesh Kumar, Follower Ghulam Qadir. Special welfare relief of rupees 20 lakh ha...

With parts of Kashmir facing drought-like situation due to low water level, farmers on their own are arranging bulldozers and other machinery to clean canals so that they can irrigate their fields. Fayaz Ahmad, a farmer from Kakapora Pulwama said that lift irrigation schemes weren't made functional when water level was normal in Jhelum. “We repeatedly requested authorities to clean canals which aren't dependent on lift irrigation schemes so that more water can reach paddy fields,” he added. “Now with their pleas falling on deaf ears, we hired bulldozers and other machinery and cleaned all canals in the area due to which the carrying capacity of canals has increased and more and more land is getting irrigated,” he said. Ghulam Rasool, another resident of the area told news agenc...

Traffic movement on Jammu-Srinagar national highway was suspended after a massive landslide and heavy boulders struck the road near Rehampadi area of Banihal in Ramban district, officials said. A landslide and heavy boulders hit the highway near Rehampadi in Banihal section of Ramban today morning, Asgar Malik, Deputy Superintendent of Police (traffic), national highway Banihal told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) We are on the job and are trying our best to restore the highway as soon as possible,” he said, adding tha traffic has been suspended on both sides of the Srinagar Jammu national highway—(KNO)

An Army trooper was killed in an accidental grenade blast in the frontier Kashmir district of Kupwara, official sources said. They said a grenade exploded accidentally when the victim Signal-Man identified as Bharat Yaduwanshi was on sentry duty at Gonipora Gugtiyal Camp in Kupwara. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that the injured soldier was rushed to 428 Field Hospital Zangli, Kupwara, where he succumbed to his injuries. The dead body was handed over to the concerned Unit, after the completion of medico, and legal formalities while police initiated proceedings under section 174 CrPc. (KNT)

The Bhartiya Janta party, as per stats, has failed to contain militant recruitment in Jammu Kashmir since it rose to power in 2014. Data available to The Kashmiriyat reveals that the Congress-led UPA government saw as many as 154 local youths taking up arms to join militant groups, however, the number has drastically risen to 1010 since 2014. In 2014, the number of locals joining militancy was 53, in 2015, it reached 66 before touching the highest mark of 88 in 2016, in 2017, the number rose further to 126 and in 2018, 218 local youth joined militancy, the highest number in a decade, while in 2019 the number dropped to 139. In 2020 the number rose again to 167 local youth joining various militant outfits in Kashmir. The numbers, according to the official data are 128 in the last year...

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted fresh raids at multiple locations in Jammu Kashmir in a major crackdown on the cross LoC (Line of Control) trade and militancy funding case. The joint operation was carried out by the NIA and Jammu Kashmir police along with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). The joint team led by the NIA also conducted searches at other locations in Srinagar as a part of the crackdown on militancy in north Kashmir. The development comes a day after the NIA conducted raids at four places in Jammu Kashmir including three locations in Baramulla and one in Handwara district in the cross LoC Trade and militant funding case. The raids were carried out at the premises of suspected cross LoC traders and connected persons, and the NIA c...

The prices of goods across India are soaring. The latest Price-based Inflation (WPI) shows a rise to a 15.88 per cent in May, it highest under the current series launched in 2012, government data showed. The latest stats of WPI combined with retail inflation data from Monday indicate supply-driven inflation is showing no signs of relief anytime soon. According to reports, the data showed, inflation in food articles in May was 12.34 per cent, as prices of vegetables, wheat, fruits and potato witnessed a sharp spike against the last year's prices. The rate of price rise in vegetables was 56.36 per cent, while in wheat it was 10.55 per cent and in egg, meat and fish, inflation was 7.78 per cent. In the fuel and power basket, inflation was 40.62 per cent, while in manufactured prod...

A 32-year-old woman was found dead allegedly under suspicious circumstances at her in-laws’ house in Kakroosa area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Reports reaching GNS said that the woman was found dead at her in-laws’ house this morning. Soon after news about the death of the woman (name withheld) broke, the victim’s family went to her in-laws’ house. Claiming to have found the woman dead under suspicious circumstances, the family alleged her murder. The family has been protesting since morning at Pachkote Tarathpora – native village of the victim, demanding a thorough investigation into the ‘sudden’ death of the woman. Medical Superintendent District Hospital Handwara, Dr. Nissar Ahmad told GNS that a post-mortem of the body has been conducted. He however declined ...

The Indian government has reached out to an MBBS student undergoing treatment in a Bangladesh hospital after being critically injured in an accident and efforts are being made to airlift him to AIIMS in New Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir BJP President Ravinder Raina said on Monday. Shoaib Lone, a resident of Rajouri district here, is a final year MBBS student in Barind Medical College in Dhaka. On June 3, Shoaib, along with two other friends from the college, met with an accident in which one them died and two others including Shoaib were critically injured. During his visit to Rajouri district, Raina met the student's father Mohmmad Askam Lone. "As soon as I came to know about the accident from his father during my visit to Rajouri, I sought help of the PMO. He is in coma. His parents ...