THE KASHMIRIYAT

The Excise Department Monday sealed a mobile wine shop on Boulevard Road in Dalgate area in Srinagar city. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a mobile container selling liquor to customers was sealed after the operator failed to produce a registered license. Sources said that an inspection was conducted by the excise department team and it sealed the mobile wine shop. Scores of people mostly tourists were seen buying liquor from the mobile shop when the container was sealed. Reliable sources said that the customers were being over-charged for every bottle of branded liquor. There are a couple of liquor shops on picturesque Boulevard Road that witness huge rush of local and non-local customers. [KNT]

A District Level Coordination-cum-Implementation Committee (DLCIC) meeting was held under the Chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad here on Saturday. The meeting was held to review the progress of works being executed on the development and restoration of Religious Places/Assets in the District. DC Srinagar discussed the Action Plan prepared for carrying out the restoration, revival, preservation, and maintenance of Architecture and Heritage of Religious Places/Heritage Sites in Srinagar in the financial year 2023-24. The DC was given a detailed overview of the DPRs regarding all identified Religious Places/Heritage Sites under the “Scheme for Revival, Restoration, Preservation, and Maintenance of Architecture and Heritage in Jammu and Kashmir”...

Kulgam police under the close supervision of SP Kulgam Shri Sahil Sarangal-IPS is making every effort to hunt down the drug peddlers in the district and to put them behind the bars. In this regard, Yesterday at about 1615 hours, Acting promptly upon a specific information generated from credible sources regarding presence of contraband substance, a special team headed by DySP HQRS Kulgam Shri Ghulam Muhammad Bhat-JKPS along with SHO police station Kulgam INSP. Aayaz Geelani was constituted who swiftly reached the spot suspected locations at Rangrezpora, Kulgam. During search in presence of executive magistrate Kulgam, 41 kg and 34 kg of Poppy Straw like contraband substance was recovered from the residential houses of the notorious drug peddlers namely; Manzoor Ahmad Naik and Ali Mohamm...

Jammu Kashmir police on Saturday carried out a search of the house of Hizbul Mujahideen militant in Kishwar district. In a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), SSP Kishtwar Khalil Ahmad Poswal said that after obtaining a search warrant from NIA court Jammu in case FIR No 01/2022 U/Sec. 13/18/19/20/39/UAPA, 7/25 I.A act, 4/5 Explosive Substance Act registered search was carried out in the residential house of active militant of HM namely Muddasir Ahmed of Tander Dachhan. He said that during the course of the search, evidence seized shall be investigated so as to subject the accused person to judicial determination for his involvement in anti-national activities and perpetuation of terrorism. He said that all the supporters and associates of militants fou...

Asserting that the ground situation in Jammu and Kashmir has changed after the abrogation of Article 370, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said the technical survey on the 175-km Gurdaspur-Jammu gas pipeline has been completed. A final decision on the prestigious project will be taken this month, he added. The Union Minister of Housing, Urban Affairs, Petroleum, and Natural Gas said the real estate summit is on the cards in Srinagar shortly after the successful first-ever such event in Jammu in December 2021. Puri, who was here to highlight the nine-year achievements of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government, said the petrol and natural gas regulatory board is evaluating the bids with regard to the Gurdaspur-Jammu gas pipeline project. Talking to me...

Jammu Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Tuesday said that four to five more Yatri Niwas are coming up to accommodate and facilitate Amarnath Pilgrims while a road from Chandanwari to Baltal is also in the pipe-line. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of an event in Jammu, LG Sinha said that four to five Yatri Niwas will come up at Baltal, Nunwan Camp and one at entry point to Kashmir near the Walnut factory. “This will help accommodate pilgrims and facilitate them smoothly,” he said as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). The LG said that a road from Chandanwari to Baltal is also in the pipe-line. “DPRs of the road stretch will be completed shortly. The road will save the time of pilgrims and help more devotees have the glimpse of holy Shiv Lingam at the cave shrine o...

Sitting MP and former chief minister of JK, Dr. Farooq Abdullah Sunday said that National Conference is ready to take part in assembly elections whenever it will be held and hinted that party is “considering over alliance” in the upcoming polls in order to throw the party out which is spreading hatred and divide. “I don’t know about other parties but our party NC is ready to take part in assembly elections whenever it will be held. We are also thinking about alliance in upcoming polls as we have to throw the party out that is leading us towards hatred and divide,” Dr. Farooq Abdullah as per KNS said while dedicating first of its kind hydraulic roller at Shaheed-e-Millat Sports Stadium at Lal Bazar Srinagar. He said this sports ground was dedicated to youth by Omar Abdullah in past an...

PDP president and former Jammu Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has been issued a passport with 10-year validity, sources said on Sunday. After a prolonged legal battle in the Delhi High Court, the passport was delivered to Mehbooba. Her travel document expired in 2019 and since then she had been seeking its renewal. It came barely two days ahead of a hearing in Jammu and Kashmir High Court where Menbooba’s daughter Iltija’s plea challenging the decision of the passport office to give her a country-specific passport is to come up. The passport given to Mehbooba, who was the last chief minister of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state before it was bifurcated in 2019, is valid from June 1, 2023, till May 31, 2033. In the Delhi High Court in March this year had asked the passpor...

The Border Roads Organisation on Saturday said that it will complete the restoration works on Amarnath Yatra track by Jun 15 even as the Yatra is scheduled to commence from July 1. In a statement, issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), a spokesperson said that Amarnath Yatra tracks were handed over to BRO in September 2022 for further maintenance and upgradation. “Earlier the yatra track from Baltal to Holy Cave was maintained by PWD (R&B) and the one from Chandanwari to Holy Cave was maintained by Pahalgam Development Authority. Restoration works on the tracks could however, commence only in March 2023 after the necessary funds were released to BRO by the government. The basic scope of work involved snow clearance, widening of the track, restoration of all foot b...