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Landslide and Shooting stones disrupt traffic on Srinagar-Jammu NH, Rain and thunderstorm expected in J&K within 24 hours

May 8, 2023 Editor

Srinagar Jammu National Highway remained open for two-way traffic of light and medium passenger vehicles and one-way traffic of heavy vehicles for Kashmir on Sunday. The officials monitoring the regulation of traffic in Ramban said that vehicular movement on Srinagar Jammu National Highway was disrupted for some time due to the landslides and shooting stones in Rampari area of Banihal. They said, “The landslide and shooting stones blocked the down tube Sunday afternoon due to which vehicular traffic was disrupted for some time. The traffic was diverted through another (up)…

Secret talks underway between BJP – NC to form next government in J&K: Sajad Lone

May 3, 2023 Editor

BJP-NC Alliance to Form Next Government in J&K: Sajad Lone

Peoples Conference (PC) chairman and former minister Sajad Lone has claimed that the National Conference and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were “confabulating” with each other and that both the parties will form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir. In an interview with Karan Thapar, broadcasted on The Wire , Lone said the National Conference and BJP are “confabulating” with each other for “at least a year”. As an alleged proof, Lone said that ‘although Omar Abdullah joined Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar none of the Abdullahs nor…

Jammu & Kashmir experiences a drop in temperature and heavy rainfall affecting apple pollination in Kashmir

April 27, 2023 Editor

Amid cloudy weather, intermittent rain lashed Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. Light to moderate showers with lightning and winds were observed at many places of the Union Territory particularly in the afternoon. “We have recorded rain in all weather stations of J&K,” said an official of the meteorological department. She said the highest rainfall of 6.2 mm was reported in Jammu’s Batote and 5.4 mm in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district during the day. “The summer capital Srinagar was drenched with light rain of 0.7 mm which is still continuing intermittently,” she said…

Kashmiri Pandit outfit warns GoI: ‘Perceptions of normalcy in J&K no more than delusions’

April 26, 2023 Editor

Panun Kashmir asks the Centre to ‘recognise the internal failures in J&K’ over the handling of security affairs, at the level of the security establishment and the top political leadership. Panun Kashmir, a prominent organisation of migrant Kashmiri Pandits, on Tuesday, asked the Government of India “to recognise that its perceptions about fast unfolding normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir are not more than delusions driven by political expediency”. In a press statement issued in Jammu, Panun Kashmir chairman Dr Ajay Chrungoo expressed shock over the terrorist attacks on security forces…

Exposing Corruption in Kashmir and Allegations against Adani: Insights from Former J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik’s Interview with Karan Thapar

April 16, 2023 Editor

The Pulwama tragedy, Malik says was used by the “Politicians” for electoral gains during elections. In a highly explosive interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, the last Jammu & Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik painted a fatal image of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his close aides, and the BJP government. Citing instances of the “incompetence” and failure of the Indian system, Malik delved into the details of the Pulwama tragedy and the state of corruption in the Modi regime. Satya Pal Malik served as the Jammu and Kashmir…

COVID-19 Cases Surging across J&K with 122 New Infections, Total Active Cases Reach 531

April 13, 2023 Editor

The Government on Wednesday informed that 122 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 52 from Jammu division and 70 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of active positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 531. Moreover, 62 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and discharged from various hospitals, 12 from Jammu Division and 50 from Kashmir Division. In last 24 hours, 4,137 COVID tests have also been conducted across the UT. In case of any emergency people can avail free ambulance services 24×7…

Revamped Roads in J&K Set to Slash Delhi to Srinagar Travel Time to Just 8 Hours, Boosting Tourism Four-Fold!

April 12, 2023April 12, 2023 Editor

The Delhi-Jammu-Srinagar highway will contribute to a four-fold rise in the footfall of tourists in Kashmir, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said Tuesday. Gadkari, who inspected the Banihal-Qazigund tunnel and other projects in the union territory, said that upon their completion the travel time between from Delhi to Srinagar will be just 8 hours. Key projects part of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway: The 924-metre-long Banihal-Qazigund tunnel, being constructed to avoid a 3km landslide-prone region in Ramban district of Jammu, is part of the ongoing four-laning of the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway…

PDP Slams BJP’s Kashmir Policy as ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’

April 9, 2023 Editor

The PDP on Saturday said the BJP’s Kashmir policy and its Naya Kashmir rhetoric are like “an emperor’s new clothes,” that the judiciary and civil society have no option but to praise. In its monthly newsletter, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said that in BJP’s Naya Kashmir, a conman like Kiran Patel visits the valley flanked by security personnel while journalist Asif Sultan is jailed for doing his job. Patel was arrested by Jammu and Kashmir Police from a five-star hotel in Srinagar last month for allegedly posing as an…

Ghulam Nabi Azad Blames Rahul Gandhi: ‘Reason I am Not in Congress; You’ve to be Spineless to be in Today’s Congress’

April 6, 2023 Editor

Rahul Gandhi is the reason I and many others are not in the Congress today, veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Wednesday lamenting that leaders had to be “spineless to survive in today’s Congress.” In a free-wheeling discussion on the state of the Congress, a party he quit in August 26 last year after bitterness with then Congress chief Sonia Gandhi over a G-23 letter to her demanding party overhaul, Azad also said the UPA-2 Cabinet should have stuck to the 2013 ordinance which then Congress Vice President Rahul…

GoI reveals 185 outsiders have bought land in J&K in the last three years

April 5, 2023 Editor

As many as 185 people from outside Jammu and Kashmir have bought land in the Union Territory in the last three years, Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai, however, said as per the information provided by Ladakh, no land has been bought by outsiders in the UT. “As per the information provided by the government of Jammu and Kashmir, a total of 185 people from outside the the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir have bought land in the UT during 2020, 2021…