Light to moderate rain, snow predicted in next 24 hours: MeT

Light to moderate rain, snow predicted in next 24 hours - MeT

Predicting further dip in temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir, Meteorological Department on Friday said that they are expecting rains and snow in Union Territory during next 24 hours. “Fairly to widespread light to moderate rain, snow and thunders are expected in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday,” MeT officials said here adding that there has been further drop in maximum and minimum temperatures across J&K. MeT also issued yellow warning for isolated rain/thunder/lightning on Saturday . Pertinently, green means no action, yellow—situation to be watched, orange–government agencies need to be prepared…

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Sudhir Suri, Shiv Sena leader shot dead during protest in Amritsar

Sudhir Suri, Shiv Sena leader shot dead during protest in Amritsar

Hindu right-wing leader Sudhir Suri, 58, who headed Punjab-based Shiv Sena (Taksali), was shot dead in broad daylight while he was taking part in a protest outside a temple in the presence of police, including a DSP-rank officer and an SHO, in Amritsar on Friday. Suri was staging a protest outside Gopal Mandir in Amritsar’s Kashmir Avenue locality when he was shot at five times by Sandeep Singh, who ran a garment shop outside the same temple, according to police officials. He was later arrested. The police also recovered a…

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Alert!! Kashmir has 70000 drug abusers, 52000 using heroin: Survey

Drug abuse among youngsters has increased manifold with medicos blaming easy access to illicit drugs in Kashmir. As per the official figures, the Drug De-addiction Center at SMHS Hospital receives at least 150 drug addiction cases every day. Of 150 cases, 70 cases are follow-up cases and the remaining cases are new. There are also 15 drug addiction cases among teenagers. According to the officials, 95 percent of cases are heroin abusers. According to the doctors, after doing serological tests of these patients, of the 100, 70 cases are found to have Hepatitis…

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