Year: 2020

‘Won’t allow Israeli-type Settlement’: Militant body warns ‘RSS Agents’ against ‘Usurping J&K Land’

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The spokesman of the People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) alleged the “Hindutva terrorists” were scheming to throw Kashmiris out by usurping their land and cutting their orchards on one pretext or another. n its new released video, militant organisation People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) has threatened to ‘execute’ those RSS agents who are planning to settle down in Jammu and Kashmir in the ‘guise of civilians’. “We won’t allow Israeli-type settler colonies in Kashmir and Indians who want to settle in those colonies will become its legitimate target,” a masked man warned…

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Intense cold wave sweeps valley, Srinagar records second coldest night of decade this December

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Kashmir will get the next spell of snow with the onset of Chillai Kalan, the harsh 40-day winter period starting on December 21. Jammu and Kashmir continues to be under the influence of an intense cold wave for the last three nights with the summer capital Srinagar recording the lowest temperature of the season on Friday night, which was also the second coldest December night in the past one decade. The mercury dipped to minus 6.6 degrees Celsius in Srinagar on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, said a…

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Property of Dr. Farooq worth 12 Crores attached in money laundering case

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday attached assets worth Rs 11.86 crores of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah in connection with the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) money laundering case. The properties which were attached by the Enforcement Directorate include three residential houses at Gupkar Road in Srinagar, Tanmarg and Sunjwan village. Lands owned by Farooq Abdullah at four different places in Jammu and Kashmir has also been attached by the ED officials. The Enforcement Directorate in its statement also pointed out that residential property attached…

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Kashmir Valley braces for chilly winter, the Chillai-Kalan

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Although temperatures of Jammu and Kashmir starts dropping in the beginning of December, but the harshest winters commence by the third week of December and last until the end of January. The minimum temperatures of Jammu and Kashmir are already heading south. Anantnag, Banihal, Batote, Gulmarg, Kukernag, Kupwara and Qazigund are witnessing minimum temperatures in the range of -3 and -5 degree, Srinagar and Gulmarg are recording minimum temperature around -6 degrees. Most of the districts of Jammu and Kashmir are witnessing freezing morning and nights. The 40-day period of…

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Govt identifies land for Kashmir’s first Sainik colony to house ex-servicemen

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Twenty-five acre grazing land has been identified in Budgam and its transfer will take place after completion of all the bureaucratic processes. The Jammu and Kashmir government has identified 200 kanals or 25 acre land in Budgam district to set up Kashmir’s first Sainik colony, we has learnt. The colony, according to a senior J&K government officer, is being primarily set up to provide housing facilities to retired armed forces personnel and their families belonging to the union territory. The colony will also cater to widows and families of deceased…

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100 Year old woman made to attends BJP rally “Promised to release jailed son in return”

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On Monday, a 100-year-old woman attended a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in Baniyari village of Hajin in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district to, she said, get her son released from jail. Fazi Begum was accompanied by her two neighbours, who helped her to walk and reach the venue. She told a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that she was attending the rally after “Jan Sahab of BJP” promised her that her son, who is in jail for the past ten years, “would be released if she attends the…

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Metro services to hit Jammu and Srinagar cities soon

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Commuting in Srinagar and Jammu is set to become smooth and pleasurable as the twin cities will soon get metro services. In this regard, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha chaired a meeting at Civil Secretariat to steer Light Metro Rail Projects for Jammu and Srinagar. Chief Secretary, BVR Subrahmanyam, Principal Secretary Housing and Urban Development Dheeraj Gupta, Principal Secretary to the Lt Governor Nitishwar Kumar, MD/ CEO, Jammu/Srinagar Mass Rapid Transit Corporation, Ankita Kar, besides representatives from MAHA-Metro and other senior officers were also present in the meeting. The representatives of…

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Kashmiri’s outraged as authorities fell thousands of apple trees

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Members of Gujjar tribal community say their trees – a major source of livelihood – were cut down as part of eviction drive by forest department. An arduous three-mile trek over an unpaved mountainous track leads to Shareef-Ud-Din Bajad’s mud and wood hut. Dressed in a “pheran” – a traditional woollen cloak worn by Kashmiris for warmth – Bajad stood in front of his house staring at the apple tree stumps left behind by the authorities last week. With tears in his eyes, the 70-year-old resident of Kanidajan village in…

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Snowfall brings new hopes to suffering tourism industry

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Amid the pandemic both domestic and foreign tourists have started to land in the Valley to welcome 2021 in the snow filled meadows of Gulmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to locals and hoteliers, the hill station is witnessing an abrupt flow of the tourists as the New Year is getting closer. Amid the pandemic both domestic and foreign tourists have started to land in the Valley to welcome 2021 in the snow filled meadows of Gulmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to locals and hoteliers, the hill…

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Jammu records season’s chilliest day, Cold wave grips Kashmir & Ladakh

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Drass freezes at minus 24.6 degrees Celsius, Gulmarg shivers at minus 9, Srinagar-Leh Highway, Mughal Road closed for 6th day While a cold wave has gripped Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, Drass froze at minus 24.6 degrees Celsius on Sunday night, making it the coldest recorded temperature of the season in the region so far. As per Meteorological Department, Leh recorded minus 13.2 degrees and Kargil minus 11.8 degrees Celsius on Sunday night.The ski-resort Gulmarg in Baramulla also recorded the coldest night of the season so far at minus 9…

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