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Two tourists from UP were injured when a vehicle they were travelling in tilted near Langanbal area of Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Sunday. Official sources told GNS that the vehicle (Inova—JK02AE-6996) skidded off the road and tilted near langanbal. Two among the tourists travelling in the vehicle, coming from Anantnag towards Pahalgam, got injured and were rushed to PHC Pahalgam. The injured identified Satish Sahu (46) son of Viajna Sohu of Sadder Bazar Jansi and Reshaf Kumar (20) son of Suhan Kumar of Hansi UP were later discharged after first aid, a police official told GNS. (GNS)

Residents of Panzath area in Qazigund hamlet of South Kashmir's Anantnag district and Drusoo area of South Kashmir's Pulwama district have appealed the Jammu Kashmir Bank authorities to install an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) in these areas to ease their hardships. Locals from Panzath told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that they were facing lot of inconvenience in withdrawing cash from their accounts through ATM, as there is no automatic teller machine located in the area. They added that Panzath is one of the most populous village of the area and has historical importance due to Panzath lake and most people in the area are associated with horticulture sector who are suffering for want of ATM in the area. “There is J&K Bank unit in the village which caters to Panza...

A policeman injured in a hit-and-run case in Handwara succumbed at a hospital here on Sunday morning, officials said. They told GNS that the policeman Khurshid Ahmad Mallik son of Abdul Ahad Malik, a resident of Hangah Mawer was fatally injured after hit by an unknown vehicle at Kralgund area in Handwara on March 18. He was since hospitalised at SMHS hospital Srinagar, however succumbed to his injuries this morning, they said. Confirming the death of policeman, a police official told GNS that a case is already registered in this regard and investigations are in full swing. (GNS)

A casual labourer of Power Development Department (PDD) was admitted to hospital after he suffered injuries while repairing a HT-wire at Batpora area of Kunzar in north Kashmir's Baramulla district. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that an employee identified as Waseem Ahmad Mir, son of Ghulam Muhammad Mir of Devbugh Kunzar was critically injured while rectifying the electric supply at Batpora. He said that the injured was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment where from he was shifted to SMHS hospital for futher treatment-(KNO)

 Authorities on Saturday warned of action against the vehicle owners not affixing High Security Registration Plates (HSRPs) on the vehicles. In a communique issued in this regard, SSP Traffic Rural Kashmir said that a good number of motor vehicles were plying without the HSRPs, in violation of the directions by Supreme Court of India and Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) in this regard As per the SSP Traffic Rural Kashmir, the old plates were easy to tamper with “which can be misused by anti-national elements”. The SSP said that vehicles not affixing the plates were liable for action under section 192(1) and Rs 2000 fine. The owners have been asked to get the name plates from Mateen Mehraj cell number 7006271977, Mohammad Mohasin ...

Rain lashed Kashmir Valley with northern Kupwara district receiving highest rainfall on Saturday, officials said. Amid cloud cover, night temperatures increased further across Jammu and Kashmir barring the famous skiing resort of Gulmarg. A meteorological department official told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, received 6.0mm of rainfall and recorded a low of 10.7°C against last night’s 8.5°C. The temperature was 6.0°C above normal for Srinagar during this time of the year. Qazigund had no rainfall and recorded a low of 9.0°C against 7.0°C as on the previous night. The temperature was above normal by 5.4°C for the gateway town of Kashmir where maximum temperature soared to all-time of 27.8°C on Friday, he said. Kokernag, also in south Kashmir, had no rainfall ...

The CBI has booked former J&K Bank chairman Mushtaq Ahmad Shaikh and 18 others for a Rs 800 crore loss to the bank caused due loans to REI Agro, which were issued in violation of guidelines, without tangible security and on fake documents, officials said. In addition to officials of the bank, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has also booked REI Agro chairman Sanjay Jhunjhunwala, and vice president and managing director Sandeep Jhunjhunwala, they said on Friday. The case was earlier probed by the anti-corruption branch of Jammu and Kashmir and it had found during its preliminary inquiry that loans worth Rs 800 crore were sanctioned to the group on the basis of fake documents between 2011 and 2013 and in violation of guidelines, the officials said. This caused a loss of...

After BJP ruled several states declared filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri's ‘The Kashmir Files’ tax-free, former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha sarcastically asked BJP government that it should pass a law in the Parliament making the movie’s viewing mandatory as declaring it only tax-free is not enough. BJP ruled states including Gujarat, Goa, Uttarakhand, UP, Bihar, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Haryana have already made the movie tax free. The film, which is based on the alleged exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in the 1990s, hit the theatres on March 11 and has received adulation and criticism in equal measure. Yashwant Sinha took to social media and tweeted: “It is not enough to make the film The Kashmir Files tax-free all over India. Parliament should pass a law makin...

Former Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said the government's move to "aggressively promote" The Kashmir Files and "weaponising the pain of Kashmiri Pandits" makes its "ill intentions obvious". "The manner in which GOI is aggressively promoting Kashmir Files and is weaponising pain of Kashmiri Pandits makes their ill intention obvious," PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said in a tweet on Wednesday. Mehbooba Mufti also accused the government of "creating a conducive atmosphere between the two communities". "Instead of healing old wounds and creating a conducive atmosphere between the two communities, they are deliberately tearing them apart," Mehbooba Mufti said. The movie has received a massive push from the Centre and states and also got Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nod w...

A hangul (Kashmir stag) has been killed by a leopard in Tral forests during the intervening night of Tuesday-Wednesday, officials said. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the corpse of a female hangul was found on Wednesday morning in Shikargah area of Tral. They said that the corpse of hangul is in their custody now and further decisions will be taken accordingly by the higher ups. He added that the killing of hangul has made it clear that there is presence of endangered Kashmir Stag in Shikargah forests. Pertinently, Hangul is a subspecies of Central Asian red deer endemic to Kashmir. It is found in dense riverine forests in the high valleys and mountains of the Kashmir Valley and northern Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh. In Kashmir, it i...