March 15, 2022 | Kashmir POST

Rising Airfare; Rationalise ticket prices to Kashmir: Farooq Abdullah asks GOI

March 15, 2022 Editor

National Conference President and Member of Parliament from Srinagar Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Monday sought rationalisation of airfare to all domestic tourists destinations in the country including Kashmir. He said the escalation of airfare dampens the plans of those countrymen who can ill-afford to pay hefty amounts of pleasure trips across the country. “People across the country cannot afford to visit domestic destinations due to skyrocketing airfare. There, it is imperative for the government to rationalise the airfare, so that countrymen can visit these domestic destinations, particularly Kashmir,” he said.…

Minor child among 4 killed, 15 hurt in Jammu scrap shop blaze

March 15, 2022 Editor

At least 4 people, including a woman and a child, were killed and 13 others wounded in a major blaze that broke out in a scrap shop near Dak Bungalow at Residency Road in Jammu on Monday evening. Officials in Government Medical College ( GMC) Jammu said that they received four bodies, including that of a woman and a minor child from the incident of the fire. The officials in Fire and Emergency Services said that five fire tenders and several ambulances were rushed to the spot to start rescue…

Media in Kashmir is being ‘Choked’ due to local admin curbs; PCI fact-finding committee

March 15, 2022 Editor

A three-member Fact-Finding Committee (FFC) of the Press Council of India (PCI) has said that news media in Jammu and Kashmir, especially in Kashmir, was “slowly being choked” due to extensive curbs imposed by the local administration. The FFC, in its report submitted last week, has also advised the J&K administration to immediately stop the “tendency” to see all critical reporting and opinions as “anti-national”. “A conflict zone has many players and many aspects of events that unfold. A journalist cannot and should not ignore the government version; at the…

BJP dares Congress to say it will restore Article 370 if it returns to power

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 Editor

The BJP on Monday dared the Congress to announce in Lok Sabha that it would restore Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir if it comes to power. Intervening in the debate on the budget for Jammu and Kashmir in the Lower House, Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh said that the Modi government was allocating 63 percent of the budget to the Union Territory to deal with the legacy of the Congress regime. “Does the Congress party have the courage to say that it will restore Article 370 after…

Most people in Kashmir don’t need masks now: DAK

March 15, 2022 Editor

The Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday suggested that most people in the Valley do not need to wear masks now due to the low number of Covid cases. The association, while referencing Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention guidelines, said that Kashmir is a low-risk area now. “Masks can come off in schools too,” said DAK president Dr. Nisar Ul Hassan, in a statement. Dr. Hassan said, “Under new CDC guidelines, masks are not recommended if average new cases fall below 200 per 100,000 population, there are fewer…

Delimitation panel releases draft proposal for public remarks

March 15, 2022 Editor

The Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission on Monday released its draft report for public remarks and sought objections and suggestions from residents of the union territory before March 21, which will be considered by the panel in its public sitting on March 28 and 29. There isn’t much difference between the first and second draft proposals that were given to associate members of the commission, but in the new report, names of some assembly constituencies have been kept the same as they were in the erstwhile state. For example, the…