THE KASHMIRIYAT

The forest department on Monday booked a bank official for allegedly involved in cutting down a tree in north Kashmir’s Rafiabad forest range of Langate. The incident came to fore after a video went viral on internet, following which a prompt action was initiated by forest department registered an FIR and logs were also seized. Reports reaching to Kashmir News Service (KNS), that some unknown persons had cut down the forest firewood tree in Rafiabad range in compartment No. 30 in Darbal Langate. Soon after the video went viral, the forest departed rushed its officials who seized the stuff. A senior officer from forest department while speaking to KNS said that single forest tree was cut down which however have been seized. “The seized material has been dispatched to Forest Divisio...

The Jammu Kashmir admin has issued global invitation for comments on draft request for proposal (RFP) for complete sale of Jammu Kashmir Cements Limited, a fully government owned cement company. According to an advertisement notice, a copy of which lies with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Jammu  Kashmir admin intends to sell complete equity stake of Jammu Kashmir Cements Limited (JKCL) by way of strategic disinvestment of the equity shareholding along with full management control. Jammu Kashmir Cements Limited (JKCL) is a fully government owned company under the Administrative Control of Department of Industries and Commerce, Jammu Kashmir. “It is engaged primarily in the manufacture and sale of cement and has 1200 Ton per Day (TPD) of installed integrated cement man...

Parimpora Fruit Marketing Complex, known as Fruit Mandi in local parlance has gone to dogs due to the callous attitude of the authorities. The roads of the Mandi are in shambles while massive encroachments and heaps of garbage piling on the roadsides are adversely affecting the day-to-day business there. Parmipora Fruit Mandi in the 1980s was set up to develop it into a model Mandi. The roads of Mandi are full of potholes and deep ditches, causing innumerable problems for the commuters as well as fruit-laden trucks. “Authorities never bothered to macadamize the roads of this Mandi. This Fruit Mandi is the victim of government apathy,” a group of traders told news agency Kashmir News Trust adding that a few inches of rainfall turn this Mandi into a cesspool. They said that due to d...

Subscribers of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in Uri town in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district are having a tough and according to them, the telephony and other services of the company are completely shut from last five days. “It is has been five days and all the BSNL services, be it mobile phone connectivity, landline, broadband, fiber, lease line internet services, are shut here from last five days,” said Yasir Ahmad, a local. An employee posted in a government office here told GNS that they have the facility of leased line internet in their office. "For the last five days, it has been defunct and people who come to our offices suffer," he said. Another local Zubair Ahmad also expressed regret that complaints raised by them often go “unattended”. “Despite complaints, no...

Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo on Wednesday took a district-wise review on the present status of the lumpy Skin disease. He elaborated on controlling measures being taken up like vaccination, use of medicines, procurement of vaccines, and sample collection for testing through a presentation. ACS stressed upon the officers to complete a 100% target to vaccinate Lumpy Skin animals in every district to control the disease as early as possible. During the meeting, it was informed that to date 70,614 animals have been affected with Lumpy Skin Disease in which 60,615 animals have been recovered so far. The meeting was attended by senior officers of Agriculture Production Department in hybrid mode, besides the District Nodal Officers, Dis...

J&K police have arrested 3 JeM associates in Narwal area of Jammu and recovered huge quantity of arms & ammunition including 3 AK-56 rifles, 6 grenades from their possession. Police in a statement to Kashmir News Apex- (KNA) said that during intervening night of 8/9 November Police party of PS Trikuta Nagar was clearing the traffic on National highway. During the said exercise an oil tanker bearing registration number JK02BF 2965 stationed at Narwal was asked to move forward. The same truck again stopped at near Environment Park. The patrolling party of concerned Police station when again asked to move forward, the driver took a U-Turn and again stopped the truck at the initial point i.e Narwal. This time while de-congesting the area, it was noticed that it is the same truck ...

A hotel owner from Pahalgam area of South Kashmir’s Anantnga district travelled nearly 70 kilometres to return money to a tourist that he had forgot in the hotel room in Pahalgam. As per details available with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Abdul Wahid Wani, owner of Best view resort at Ladroo, Pahalgam returned over 19 thousand to the tourist that he had forgot while leaving the hotel. Talking to KNO, Wahid said a tourist namely Ramesh Choudhary had stayed in his hotel and next day his daughter came to clean the room and found Rs 19,700 there. “We were waiting to return the money to the owner and on November 08, I received a call of the tourist who had forgot the money. I returned the money to him on the same day,” he said. Meanwhile, Ramesh who got his money bac...

As winter has almost set in pushing people across Kashmir to buy heating gadgets including gas heaters etc, the leading medicos in the Valley on Wednesday said the use of gas heaters during winters can prove as “silent killers” if proper cautions aren’t taken. The doctors urged people to ensure proper ventilation in rooms and not to use gas heaters in bedrooms. Talking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Kashmir’s leading medico at Government Medical College (GMC) College Srinagar, Dr Nisar ul Hassan said that the heaters emit combustion products like carbon monoxide and once it reaches a particular level inside a room, a person gets "carbon monoxide poisoning". Hassan said the best way to prevent deaths due to unvented gas heaters is to discontinue their use and instead, use...

As the mercury continues to take a dip in winter zones of Kashmir valley, educators in majority of the schools here say that the heating challenges are urgent concerns to look-after to safeguard health of the students. The news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), spoke to some of the teachers at government-run-schools and recognized private schools of Kashmir who says that most of the middle and primary government schools san the basic facilities. One of the teachers said, “There is no heating facilities or arrangement in almost most of the middle and primary schools. They even san benches and matting facilities.” Lamenting on the issues, the teacher further said, “In a number of government schools, there are damaged window pans and doors.” Adding, “The ironical part of the educat...