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After heavy snowfall in Kashmir, the Jammu Srinagar national highway (NHW) has been blocked due to snow accumulation at Jawahar Tunnel and Landslides/mudslides at several places. According to Kashmir weather, Moderate to heavy snowfall is likely to continue till tomorrow morning with occasional breaks. Significant improvement in weather is expected from tomorrow afternoon. However, isolated light snowfall activities will continue till 8th Jan.

Shah Basit/Rayees Shah The fresh snowfall in Kashmir valley has forced the closure of most of the roads, and same is the situation in the Ganderbal district of Central Kashmir. Though the department incharge, R&B department has started Snow clearance operation at main Roads and other link roads in Ganderbal district, several areas remain disconnected. The roads, as per Locals, have been covered with a layer of snow and the clearing operations are in the process through the usage of JCB machinery. Locals of the Sehipora Wayil told The Kashmiriyat that snow was not properly cleared in their village and when they asked contractor about this contractor replied, “I don’t care Go to governor he will clear snow.” The road has been macadamisd by R&B but the contractor said that the ro...

The sister of Zahid Farooq Khan-‘accused’ in Advocate Babar Qadri’s killing has issued a statement claiming that her brother has been falsely framed in the murder case. We are producing her statement with slight modifications. It was September 2020 about 5 o’clock in the evening when my brother namely Zahid Farooq khan, a resident of Nowhatta was in his shop in Khanyar Srinagar, few police officers came to his shop and he was being told to come along, by them. They said, “sir (senior police officer) wants you to come to Lal Bazar police station”. All of us were in shock to hear that, we rushed to SP office Hazratbal, to meet Zahid. All of this continued for 45 days, we went to SP office Hazratbal, police station Nigeen, police station Lal Bazar each day, but there, police perso...

The major snowfall of the season left the entire Kashmir blanketed in varying depths of the white stuff even as air traffic remained suspended while Jammu-Srinagar and Mughal road remained closed. Snowfall began late on Saturday night in most parts of Kashmir and continued throughout the night with large swathes of south Kashmir receiving more snowfall than north and central parts of the Valley, the officials said. Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K, received snowfall of 13.4cms in the last 24 hours till 0830 hours, a MeT official told GNS. He said Qazigund, the gateway town of Valley, recorded the highest snowfall of 52cms while Pahalgam, the famous tourist destination, and Kokernag recording 21cms and 32cms respectively. Regarding Gulmarg, the official said that the wo...

SHAH BASIT At least four persons were injured in a road accident at the Ganiwan area of Ganderbal District on the Srinagar-Leh highway on Sunday Morning. Reports said that a passenger bus bearing registration number JK01D 5574 traveling from Gund to Kangan skid from the road near Ganiwan resulting in injuries to Four passengers traveling in the bus. An official confirming the incident to The Kashmiriyat said that the injured were immediately shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment. The official further said that a case has been registered under relevant sections of law in this regard

Mubashir Naik Eleven people got injured in a road accident on Sunday morning in District Doda, Chenab valley. The accident took place when a Bus Registration no JK02BK 7119 on its way from Bhaderwah to Jammu met with an accident near New Bridge pul Doda & Rolled down from the Road about 150-200 feet resulting in injuries to 11 persons. Hospital officials upon being contacted by The Kashmiriyat identified the injured as Driver pushvinder singh S/o Sukh Dev R/o katra age 32 year, Susheel singh S/o Davinder singh R/o Ramnager udhampur age 24 year, Mohd sabir S/o Ali batt R/o Gundna age 35 year, Ashok kumar S/o Roshan lal R/o Jammu age 36 years, Vista Devi W/ o Sanjay kumar R/o Bhaderwah age 33 years, Arun kumar S/o Ashok kumar R/o Bhall Bhaderwah age 22years,  Naseema Begum W/o G...

Scores of aspirants, who were scheduled to appear in the examination for the recruitment of Banking Associate in J&K Bank alleged that they were not allowed to enter the examination hall. The aspirants said that due to the fresh snowfall, they couldn't reach the examination hall on time. "We were earlier told that the examination will begin at sharp 10:00 AM, but yesterday evening, it was informed that the examination will start at 09:00 AM in the morning," Yasir Altaf, one among the aspirants from Mattan Anantnag said. He said as Kashmir received fresh snowfall, the roads were not cleared early morning, thus consumed their lot of time in reaching Srinagar headquarters of the bank, where the examination is being conducted. Altaf added that over a dozen aspirants are still w...

Moderate to heavy snowfall started on Sunday in Kashmir and Ladakh while rains lashed the Jammu division, Weather office has forecast widespread snowfall in many areas of the valley on Sunday and Monday with heavy snowfall at isolated places. Traffic on the Srinagar-Jammu highway has been halted because of snow accumulation in the Jawahar Tunnel sector of the highway. As the night sky remained overcast, minimum temperatures improved throughout J&K and Ladakh, Srinagar had minus 1.5, Pahalgam also had minus 1.5 while Gulmarg had minus 5.0 as the minimum temperature. Leh town of Ladakh had minus 12.7, Kargil minus 16.6 and Drass minus 22.4 as the night's lowest temperature. Jammu city had 11.7, Katra 9.5, Batote 1.5, Banihal 0.5 and Bhaderwah 0.6 as the minimum temperatures. ...

Jammu Kashmir Police on Saturday claimed to have solved a theft case and arrested accused persons involved in the commission of crime in Srinagar while adding that the stolen property worth lakhs was also recovered from them. “On 24-12-2020, Police Post Bemina received a written complaint from one Danish Farooq of Hamdania Colony Bemina Srinagar, proprietor of a Copper shop in Zehra Complex situated at Hamdania Colony Bemina stated that during the intervening night of 23/24-12-2020, some unknown thieves have broken the shutter of the shop and stolen the copper utensils worth lacs,” police spokesman said in a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Accordingly, police said that a case under FIR number 270/2020 under relevant sections of law was registered in P...

As the Police and the families of the three youth killed during the Srinagar encounter continue to make claims and counterclaims,  the father of one of the slain (Athar Mushtaq) in the Encounter from Bellow area of Pulwama district in South Kashmir has dug a grave for his slain son and appealed the police authorities to return the mortal remains of his 18-year-old son. In a video, that has gone viral over social media networking sites, his father has threatened that he will visit the Police Control Room Srinagar for last time and if they did not provide the mortal remains of his son, and that he will ‘kill himself’ in front of them. https://twitter.com/vikarsy/status/1345356995772092416 The slain’s father while digging the grave at his ancestral graveyard in Bellow, made the appea...