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As Srinagar sizzles at 34.7, MeT predicts a 2-day wet spell from Saturday

June 10, 2021June 10, 2021 Editor

After witnessing scorching heatwave conditions for the last three days, there is the possibility of a respite as the Meteorological Department has predicted a two-day wet spell in Jammu and Kashmir beginning Saturday and cloudy weather on Friday. Sweltering hot weather continued on Wednesday as the summer capital witnessed the hottest day of the season and recorded 34.7 degrees Celsius, 6.8 degrees Celsius above normal. This temperature is the second-highest June temperature in Srinagar in the last 11 years. This also makes Srinagar the hottest recorded weather station in the…

2000 – 20,000 Badami Bagh Cantonment Board begins levying Property Tax

June 10, 2021June 10, 2021 Editor

People living within the jurisdiction of Badami Bagh Cantonment Board (BBCB), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Defense, have begun receiving property tax bills from the board for their commercial and residential structures in Srinagar. Residents of several localities including Sonwar, Indra Nagar, Batwara, and Shivopora said that they have received property tax bills from the Board for the ongoing year. The bills have been charged as per the value of the property and range from Rs 2000-20,000. The authorities, according to locals, have unilaterally valued their properties and…

PAGD comes alive, Crucial meeting today at Mehbooba’s Gupkar residence

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021 Editor

As the speculations regarding further bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir are rife, the much-hyped People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), a conglomerate of political parties in the Union Territory, has once again come alive as it has decided to hold a crucial meeting at PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti’s Gupkar residence late afternoon today. Sources privy to the development told the news agency, that a meeting of PAGD has been scheduled today at conglomerate’s Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief, Mehbooba Mufti’s Gupkar residence. They said that the meeting…

Amid a downturn in virus cases, J&K experts say no room for complacency

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021 Editor

As coronavirus disease cases in Jammu and Kashmir continue their downward trend, experts have asked the public to not lower their guard as it could lead to another upsurge in infections in the Union Territory. Around 4,000 people have died in the UT since the virus outbreak in March 2020. May had proved to be deadliest month with 1,625 deaths and 1,14,382 infections. The lockdown has played a vital role in curtailing the spread, which is being reflected in the hospitals’ reduced caseloads, says Baramulla Government Medical College senior doctor…

Children & Coronavirus Third Wave

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021 Editor

Will the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India hit children the most? Here’s what top expert Prof Muzaffar Jan, a noted pediatrician, Head Department of Pediatrics at GMC Srinagar, and a member of the J&K Government’s advisory panel for Third Wave preparation had to say. Q: How will the Third Wave affect children?A: The first wave that hit the World in 2020 affected the elderly and those with underlying illnesses the most. The mortality was also high in that age group. The Second Wave that hit in 2021,…

UN should take note of rights violations: Mehbooba Mufti

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said the United Nations had to “step in” as India’s own institutions have stopped taking notice of human rights violations. Mehbooba said anyone who raised voice against the wrong measures of the Government of India (GOI) was labelled as “Pakistani agent”. “Anyone who raises his voice against GOI’s draconian measures is conveniently labelled as a Pakistani agent. A pity that our own institutions have stopped taking notice of such brazen human rights violations & instead the UN has…

High flying rumors become Don Quixote’s windmills in Kashmir

June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 Editor

High flying rumours become Don Quixote's windmills in Kashmir

Kashmir has been agog since the last five days with rumours running high that ‘something big like August 5, 2019’ is going to happen. In 2019 also rumours flew wild saying ‘Delhi was planning something big’ and those rumours came true when articles 370, 35A and the statehood were scrapped by the Indian Parliament. What fuelled the rumours of 2019? The official advisory to tourists to leave the Valley, the curtailment of the Amarnath Yatra which was in full swing when the government decide to cut it short. The huge…

Post Sinha & Shah’s Delhi meet, demand for separate statehood rising from across Jammu region

June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 Editor

With J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and more paramilitary troops being rushed to Kashmir, speculation has been rife that the Centre is about to make some major decisions on Jammu and Kashmir. This has prompted Jammu-based parties to come forward demanding that Jammu be made a separate state. Sinha met Shah and Home Secretary A K Bhalla in New Delhi for a security review meeting. Soon after the meeting, rumours have surfaced that the Centre is planning to give statehood to Jammu and may…

LG Manoj Sinha’s meet with Amit Shah and AK Bhalla in Delhi trigger speculations in Kashmir

June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Editor

Heavy troop movement in J&K as CAPF companies return from poll duty The J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s conferences with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Home Secretary AK Bhalla in Delhi triggered speculations and rumors about attainable administrative and political adjustments within the Union Territory. However, a senior official within the administration knew that the conferences with Shah and others have been a routine train. The LG met Shah and Bhalla to debate the bottom scenario within the UT and different common administrative work. The LG is returning to…

GoI comfortable with non-political setup in J&K: Sajjad Lone

June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Editor

Lone also made a veiled attack at former J&K chief secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, stating that the latter nursed hatred towards the people of Kashmir People’s Conference chairman and former minister Sajjad Lone on Sunday said the current government is comfortable with a non-political setup in Jammu and Kashmir. Lone’s party was in alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party-Bharatiya Janata Party combine in Jammu and Kashmir till the saffron party withdrew support from the government led by Mehbooba Mufti in 2018. He later became part of the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar…