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January 02 Shabir Khan The Residents of Naidkhai (Kanipora) area staged a protest demonstration on Tuesday morning against PDD over the non availability of power supply for last one month in the area. A large number of people from Naidkhai (Kanipora) assembled near Power Receiving Station Naidkhai and staged a protest and blocked the Sopore -Sumbal road for four to five hours. Pertinently, the protesters raised slogans against the PDD department due to their failure of providing power supply on time. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat a protester said, “our village is without electricity for last one month due to which villagers suffer during these harsh cold winter days." The employees of the department misbehaved with us when we visited their office and demanded installation of new tran...

January 02 2018 has just ended, the Kashmir valley witnessed the bloodiest year in over a decade, as 240 Militants, 140 civilians and 84 Government Force personnel were killed in the year. The year also marked frequent internet bans and Shutdowns against the killings of civilians and Militants as well. The twin district of South Kashmir, Pulwama and Shopian considered to be hot bed of the 'New age militancy' saw the highest civilian causalities during the clashes near encounter sites in 2018. The Pulwama District witnessed at least 22 encounters raging between Militants and Government Forces while in Shopian districts at least 17 gunfights. The Disricts witnessed a shutdown for almost four months in the year, as per data available to The Kashmiriyat while as the longest shut...

January 02 Waris Shah The vehicular movement on the highway connecting Jammu with Srinagar has been temporarily suspended due to fresh snowfall at various places including the Jawahar tunnel. Officials told The Kashmiriyat that the traffic on the highway has been suspended as a precautionary measure due to fresh snowfall on both sides of the Banihal Shaitan Nalah and Jawahar tunnel. "The area has recorded several inches of snowfall since Tuesday night and we have ordered clearance of the highway however vehicular movement has been suspended on both sides as of now," the traffic official said. He said it is likely to take a few hours to restore traffic.buy lasix generic buy lasix generic

December 31 Cold wave gripped Kashmir Valley including Ladakh region again on Monday after a days respite with weather officials predicting snowfall in the first week of January. The minimum temperature plummeted several notches below the freezing point in Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar to minus 6.6 while it was minus 2.2 on Sunday. An official of the Met department said the minimum temperature was minus 5.5 degree Celsius in Pahalgam, and minus 5 degree Celsius in Gulmarg. Leh recorded minus 14 degree Celsius as the minimum temperature, and in Kargil, it was minus 17.2 degree Celsius.

December 30 Gunshots have been heard during a cordon and search operation at Kreeri area of North Kashmir's Baramulla District. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that 29RR of Indian army and Jammu Kashmir Police had jointly launched a search operation in the area on Sunday afternoon. The entry and exit points were blocked as the operation was launched. Massive gunshots have been heard in the area, sources said. However officials could not be reached to confirm whether a contact had been established with Militants or not. Details rushing in

Decmber 30 Suspected Militants on Sunday afternoon looted four weapons from Jawahar Nagar area of Srinagar. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that suspected Militants looted weapons from the house of ex Congress legislator, Muzaffar Ahmed Parray in Srinagar. Details emerging.

December 28 A photographer working for The Kashmiriyat has been injured while covering street protests in Kunzer area of North Kashmir's Baramulla District. Sajad Hameed said that while he was covering a protest in the area, a Policeman deployed in the area hit him with a bamboo stick on his arm. Sajad was immediately rushed to the nearby hospital where the doctors said he escaped a near fracture and has been severely injured. He was pertinently covering the protest staged by the family members of a youth who went missing on Thursday from the Kunzer area. Identified as Shakir Mushtaq sheikh son of  Mushtaq Ahmad Sheikh, a resident of Tuk Batpora in Kunzar went missing on Thursday after he left his home. The Station House Officer of the concerned Police Station upon being ...

December 28 Sajad Hameed Two persons including a girl were injured when Government Forces fired tear smoke shells against protesters in Kunzer main market in North Kashmir's Baramulla District. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that hundreds of people including women gathered early morning in the main market of Kunzer to demand the whereabouts of a youth from the area. However upon gathering at the main market, the forces fired tear smoke shells at the protesters, injuring two of them. They were immediately shifted to the nearby hospital. Pertinently Shakir Mushtaq sheikh son of  Mushtaq Ahmad Sheikh, a resident of Tuk Batpora in Kunzar went missing on Thursday after he left his home.

December 28 An encounter that raged between Government Forces and Militants in the Renzipora area of South Kashmir's Pulwama District ended with the killing of one local Militant. The Militant was identified as Ishfaq Ahmad wani son of late Mohammad Yousuf wani resident of Koil village of Pulwama district who had joined the Militant outfit Lashkar e Taiba in July. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that Ishfaq whose father was a famous Militant commander from Pulwama was killed on 31 August 1996. The 25 year old, a post graduate in Business Administration was as a fruit businessman associated before he went missing and joined the Militant outfit Lashkar e Taiba. After leaving home the family members tried to call him many times but his phone is continuously switched off, post which ...

December 27 Rayees Shah A girl who was missing from her home found dead on Thursday from a canal in Kangan area of Central Kashmir's Ganderbal district. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that the body of 20-year-old Rabiya Bano of Woodar Kangan was recovered from a canal. Police have taken cognizance of the incident and started investigations, he said. The body of the deceased was handed over to her family for last rites after medico-legal formalities, said the official.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/prednisone.html