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Apple Farmers Federation  (AFF) Tuesday demanded a Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) by the Government and the imposition of a ban on foreign imports of apples. Led by its President, Zahoor Ahmed Rather, a resident of Kulgam district in south Kashmir, who has fought extensively for the rights of apple farmers in the Kashmir valley, a team of the Federation met LG Manoj Sinha and presented a memorandum. In their memorandum, the AFF brought to notice "the calamity that awaits the apple growers of Jammu Kashmir" this marketing season due to the suspension of the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) by the Union government. The MIS played an important role in procuring inferior quality C-grade apples in the Valley since 2017, when the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation ...

The Commanding Officer (CO) of the 19RR of the Indian Army, stationed in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, was among the three Government force personnel killed during the ongoing encounter in the Gadol area of the south Kashmir district, reported Press Trust of India. An official confirmed to The Kashmiriyat that 19RR of Indian Army and Jammu Kashmir Police were fired upon by militants when they had laid a cordon and search operation in the area. During the initial exchange of gunfire, three top ranking officials of Indian Army and Police were injured and soon rushed to the Army's 92 base hospital in Srinagar for treatment. One of the injured, identified as the CO of 19 RR identified as Colonel Manpreet Singh, also a sena medal recipient, succumbed to his injuries at the hospita...

A local court in Srinagar sent Waqar H. Bhatti, arrested over twelve days ago, to a six-day judicial remand on Tuesday. Bhatti, a socio-political activist, was arrested on 01 September after Darakshan Andrabi, who serves as Chairperson of Waqf Board, allegedly registered a complaint against him. In a application, Andrabi has written, “With respects I request your goodself to Kindly consider my application for issuing orders to the police to register an FIR against one Waqar Batti (a known Anti- India so called activist from Poonch area presently residing in South Kashmir reportedly somewhere in Kokernag) on the following grounds,” the application reads. It further reads as, “That while reacting to a decision of J&K Waqf Board regarding engaging degree holding Qualified Imams, ...

With no respite from the heat and dry hot spell in Kashmir, Srinagar on Tuesday recorded the season’s second-highest day temperature in 132 years, officials said. Meteorological department said that the summer capital of J&K, Qazigund and Kokernag recorded record-breaking severe heat wave. “Srinagar recorded a maximum temperature of 34.2°C, which is 6.0°C above normal. This is the 2nd highest maximum temperature ever recorded in September since 1891,” he said, adding, “It has broken the 53 years old record of 33.8°C recorded on 01 September 1970.” Notably, due to the ongoing hot summer spell in Kashmir, several water bodies including the river Jhelum are witnessing a dip in the water level with a video emerging on social media showing a houseboat on the dried river bed of the ...

Central Kashmir's Srinagar district recorded a maximum temperature of 34.2°C, which is 6.0°C above normal. This is the 2nd highest maximum temperature ever recorded in September since 1891 when the weather observatory was established. Earlier the highest temperature recorded in September was 33.8°C which was recorded on 01 September 1970. The all time highest temperature has been recorded at 35.0°C which was on the 18 September 1934, acording to Kashmir weather. In Qazigund, Kashmir Weather said, today's maximum temperature was 33.2°C which is 6.7°C above normal. The previous record was 32.8°C on 12 September 2019. In Kokernag, the highest temperature recorded was 32.0°C which is a spike of 6.6 degrees from Normal. Today's temperature broke the previous record of 31.8°C recorde...

Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted 10 days time to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to place on record relevant documents on Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah's plea for regular bail in connection with an alleged terror funding case. Shah's appeal challenges an order passed by a special judge on July 7, which had rejected his bail plea. On Special Public Prosecutor for NIA Akshai Malik asking for 10 days time to file documents, the court granted it time and posted the matter for next hearing on September 22. On August 7, senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, representing Shah, had argued that the case lacked substantial evidence, referring to it as a "no material case". He had said that a charge sheet had already been filed by the probe agency, adding that the tri...

The Jammu Kashmir Police claimed to have arrested a non-local for supplying banned drugs to the drug peddlers in Srinagar. Mohammad Asim, a resident of Darya Ganj Delhi, wanted in a case registered by Police Station M R Gunj under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act was arrested by Srinagar police on Tuesday. Srinagar police in a post on its social media handle X said, “The main accused identified as Mohammad Asim a resident of Darya Ganj Chawri Bazar Delhi who was supplying drugs to drug peddlers in Srinagar was arrested. Asim is the main supplier of contraband Spasmo-Proxyvon Plus to drug peddlers in Srinagar”, Srinagar police said on social media handle X. “During investigation of the Case FIR No. 25 /2023 U/S 8 /22 , 27 (A ) NDPS ACT of MR Gunj PS, the ma...

An encounter broke out between security forces and militants in Narla area of Rajouri district on Tuesday, officials said . They told a joint of team of police, Army and CRPF after receiving information about the presence of militants launched search operation in the area. They said that as the joint team of forces intensified searches towards the suspected spot, hiding militants fired upon the party, which was retaliated, triggering an encounter. They said that the exchange of fire is on in the area and two to three militants are believed to be trapped in the area.

Three school-going minor boys have gone missing from Villgam in Handwara area in north Kashmir's Kupwara district since yesterday. Official sources told GNS that three minor boys went missing while they were out for playing in the vicinity on Monday afternoon. The missing trio has been identified as Nazim Mumtaz, son of Mumtaz Ahmad Lone, resident of Phalmarg, Faizan Hameed Mir, son of Abdul Hameed Mir, resident of Kalmoona and Uzair Ahmad Dar, son of Mohammad Shafi Dar of Chammpora. "The parents of the missing boys have lodged a missing report at Police Station Villgam", the sources said. When contacted, SHO Villgam Jaan Mohammad confirmed about receipt of a missing report into the matter. "We have launched efforts to trace the trio", he said further urging the local inhabitan...

In the ensuing year so far, security forces have neutralized 46 militants of which 37 were foreigners and it’s for the first time that the elimination of foreign militants is four times more than the locals, Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi said Monday. The army commander was speaking to the media after the inauguration of three-day North Tech Symposium at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jammu on Monday, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). The army commander said that this is for the first time that the among militants killed in various operations across the region this year, the number of foreign militants was four times higher than locals.” Elaborating further, the northern army commander said in the first eight months was 46 and out of...