A 48-year-old man died after he slipped from a high mountain peak in Damhal Hanjipora area of South Kashmir's Kulgam district, officials said on Saturday. An official told the news agency that the man identified as Shakeel Ahmad Magray (50) son of Abdul Razaq Magray, a resident of Watoo Kulgam had gone for a picnic in the nearby forest area, where he slipped from a mountain peak, resulting in his on-spot death. He said that, however, after hectic efforts, the locals and police recovered his body from the spot. "Police have taken the cognisance of the matter and started further investigation,” the official said—(KNO)

Stage protest at Press Enclave, urge IGP Kashmir, SSP Srinagar to investigate the matter; army doesn’t operate in SMC limits, say officials A family from the Hokersar-Shikargah area of Srinagar outskirts Friday alleged theft of gold worth lakhs of rupees, cash and pashmina shawls during the nocturnal raid on July 7 and July 8 by the “men in uniform.” The distressed family members appealed to the IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar and SSP Srinagar Sandeep Choudhary to investigate the matter and to book those involved in the act of theft. The family members, women, girls and elderly, staged a protest at press colony Srinagar that at 1:40 am on July 7, men wearing army uniform, holding guns in their hands, knocked on the door of their house on the pretext of carrying out the search. “We were...

A 12-year-old boy drowned while taking bath in river Jeel in Narbal area of Central Kashmir's Budgam district on Friday afternoon. Official sources told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the minor boy identified as Furqan Ahmad Tabardar resident of Parimpora Srinagar, who had come to his maternal home at Ghat Narb, drowned while taking bath with his friends. They said that after receiving the information search operation was launched by locals and police to trace the boy—(KNO)

Political activity has picked up in Jammu Kashmir after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's all-party meeting with the leaders of the region. A commission set up by the Modi-led Government is talking to regional parties relating to the delimitation process in Jammu Kashmir. Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Jammu province has opposed to the use of 2011 census data to reconstruct the constituencies. The delegation of BJP, who showed up to give a presentation before the commission, has said that the voter list should be considered in the delimitation exercise. The BJP claims that the 2011 census data was rigged. Not only the provincial unit of BJP, but other parties in Jammu province have already objected to the use of 2011 census for delimitation. According to the cen...

Additional Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Adjudicating Officer for the district under Food Safety and Standards Act 2006, Gulzar Ahmad today imposed a penalty of Rupees Four Lakh Fifty Five Thousand (Rs 455000 /=) on various Food Business Operators for violating different provisions of this Act, here. It was informed that the cases were filed by the Food Safety Officers against twenty (20) FBOs for manufacturing and sale of substandard and misbranded products, not obtaining license/registration besides violating Good Hygienic, Good Manufacturing Practices as mandated in Schedule 04 of the Act. During the trial of the cases, the ADC directed the Food Business Operators to strictly adhere to the provisions of the Act and desist from such illegal acts in future. He also called for creati...

The Delimitation Commission has met all the delegations on the last day of their four-day visit. Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra, who was accompanying the commission on the last day of the tour, said that after the delimitation determination, 7 assembly seats will increase in the state. Chandra also said that the draft of the commission will be placed among the public and objections will also be sought on it. Till the last elections, there were a total of 87 assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir. After the separate union territory of Ladakh, a total of 83 seats were left in the state and 4 were given parts of Ladakh. Now after the new delimitation, there will be 90 assembly seats in the state, on which elections will be held. Delimitation not done after 1981. On the questio...