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Several residential houses in villages along Line of Control in Tanghdar sector have developed cracks in the aftermath earthquake, a top police official said. Senior Superintendent of Police Shriram Ambarkar Dinkar told GNS that his office has received reports about several residential houses in the villages including Hajinar, Prada, Taad, Kandi to have developed cracks in the fallout of earthquake. “We are ascertaining the damaged caused by the earthquake in other parts of the district as well and details will be shared accordingly”, the top-police official said. Pertinent to mention here that an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale occurred on Friday night in Jammu  Kashmir, triggering panic among the people who rushed outside their homes and made frantic calls to their...

The administration of Jammu Kashmir asked the Deputy commissioner of 10 Districts of the Kashmir valley to forward the details of the employees who have completed 22 years of service or attained the age of 48 years of age. The Office of the Private Secretary Divisional Commissioner Kashmir today issued an order to Deputy Commissioners of 10 districts of Kashmir division asking them to forward the details of the employees who have attained 48 yrs of age or more and completed 22 yrs of service as ending in December 2021. The matter was referred to as Urgent in the order, The order number Div/com/ PS? MISC/2020/ 3126 did not specify the purpose of such information.

The authorities on Friday said that all the government and private schools in Kashmir valley will reopen on March 1 after 8 months after the outbreak of COVID-19. Director School Education Kashmir, (DESK), Mohammed Younis Malik, said that there is no confusion as they have already issued the order that all schools will be reopened on March 1st after a gap of eight months. Pertinently, the winter vacation in Kashmir schools was announced on December 10 and the schools are now set to open on March 1. The director school of education said that before reopening of the schools there will be sanitization and cleaning of schools 5 days before. “We have issued the guidelines to the school heads to ensure proper cleaning and sanitation of classrooms,” he added. KNS

The Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said most of the doctors, nurses and paramedical staff in Kashmir are opting out of Covid-19 vaccine. "More than 80 percent of the healthcare workers have turned down the vaccine,” said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement issued to GNS. “Out of 7,000 healthcare workers at Government Medical College Srinagar and its associated hospitals, only 1,167 (16.67 percent) have received the vaccine as on February 09. 5, 833 workers (83.33 percent) have opted out of the vaccine.” “Such a large percentage of medical personnel declining to take the vaccine is a major concern,” he said. “It is a troubling development, especially since healthcare workers are at higher risk of contracting the virus and their sickn...

Six days after he went missing, the dead body of a Kashmiri engineer, who went missing during a glacier burst in Uttarakhand was found on Friday. A resident of the Soura area in Srinagar, Basharat Ahmad Zargar was working as an engineer on Rishi Ganga power project (130 Mw) in the Uttarakhand state. According to news a report by Kashmir observe, Shabir Ahmad, his brother broke the sad news of his brother’s death Friday afternoon. “My brother’s body was found by NDRF near the power project at 2.30 PM Friday, he said. Pertinently the body of Basharat was found on the sixth day of rescue operations after flash floods in Uttarakhand. At least 204 people are missing, The death toll has increased to 37 people, out of which 24 are yet to be identified.

Rayees Shah/ Shah Basit Hotel owners in Sonamarg have appealed to District Development Commissioner Ganderbal to Open the Sonamarg Road for tourists. A Hotel Owners Sajjad Rasool told  The Kashmiriyat that they have been sitting idle for the last twenty months and the tourism sector are at peak these days and they are only visiting Gulmarg, Pahalgam, and Srinagar's Dal Lake, but due to the closure of Sonamarg Road hotel owners Who are immersed in bank loans suffering a lot of problems. Sajjad Rasool said that after August 5 2019 Situation Than the global epidemic spread Rapidly hundreds of employees working in different Hotels have lost their daily Jobs.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/cipro.html "Every year Sonamarg has only four months of Tourist Season and hotel owner...

A CRPF officer was wounded after the service rifle he was fiddling with went off inside the camp in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. The incident took place at Nagam Chadura Camp belonging to C-Company 117 Battalion CRPF during the intervening night of February 11 and 12. Official sources said that the rifle of Assistant Sub Inspector Rajesh Kumar went off and the bullet hit his leg. They said Kumar was shifted to Badami Bagh based Army hospital for treatment. KNT

Most parts of the Kashmir valley have shutdown shut down from North to South against the hanging of Maqbool Bhat on the same day in the year 1984 in Tihar Jail. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference through posters displayed in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir urging people to observe a complete strike on 9th and 11th February said that these great sons of soil sacrificed their lives for the future of the Kashmiri generations. The posters also displayed by Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Alliance paying rich tributes to the martyred Kashmiri leaders said that their sacrifices would not go waste. The posters were carrying pictures of Muhammad Maqbool Bhat and Muhammad Afzal Guru and they were reading, “We are the custodians of the blood of thousands of Kashmiri martyrs and would not ...

With the theme of GO FOR THE GOALS, International Development Week was celebrated in Banpura, Trehgam in the Kupwara district of North Kashmir. As per an official communique of Indian Army issued to The Kashmiriyat, The event was attended by Mr Md Abdullah Mir, BDC Trehgam and Inspector Rashid, SHO Trehgam PS, Sapanches and ward members and approx 180 villagers incl 120 children also attended the event from 11 AM to 1230 PM at Banpura. Mr. Abdullah Mir and Inspector Rashid told educated everyone about the importance of goals in life and to concentrate on achieving a brighter and peaceful future. The enthusiasm of people to attend the same was visible from a large number of attendees and especially children. The sparkling smile on the face of the children indicated the josh and the po...

The PIL seeking a ban on cow slaughter and enacting strict laws on it was rejected by the High Court. A division bench of Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Rajneah Oswal asked the petitioner to place his demand before the Chief Secretary of Jammu Kashmir. In the PIL filed in the High Court, the NGO demanded a stringent law against cow slaughter in Jammu Kashmir so that cow slaughter can be stopped in the state. Lawyers appearing on behalf of the petitioner argued in the High Court that cow slaughter was a punishable offense under Ranbir Penal Code RPC. After coming into force in the state of Jammu Kashmir Reorganization Act-2019, it no longer comes under the category of crime in Jammu Kashmir. The lawyers also said that the Indian Penal Code is not in the category of cow ...