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Valley survives high-intensity quake with minor infra loss

October 28, 2015 Editor

The 7.5-magnitude earthquake, which the Indian Meteorological Department described as great in intensity, had a marginal effect on the life and property in the Kashmir valley. While three persons, including two women, lost their life in the quake-related incidents across the state a handful of residential houses suffered minor damages. The women had suffered fatal heart attacks. In Kashmir, two persons died in the tremor-related incidents. However, there was little damage to public and private infrastructure. The initial assessment carried out by the state government revealed that a handful of…

India must think why people in Kashmir observe shutdown on 27th Oct, Radha Kumar

October 28, 2015 Editor

Former interlocutor and a renowned civil society member Prof Radha Kumar Tuesday said that India must think and act over the query why the people of Kashmir observe black day on October 27, the day when Indian Army first time landed in Kashmir in 1947. “Government of India ought to find out why people of Kashmir have been observing October 27 as black day. We have been going in a wrong direction and it is up to us to bring things on the right track,” Radha Kumar told CNS adding…

Quake brings Srinagar to standstill

October 27, 2015 Editor

Earthquake on Monday brought summer capital Srinagar to a standstill as it paralyzed vehicular movement, crippled mobile phones, and stranded hordes of commuters and trapped scores of people in their respective places. People squatted and many laid down on roads in Srinagar when strong tremors hit Jammu and Kashmir on Monday afternoon. Hundreds of people came to open spaces in many areas of the city including Lal Chowk with tears and names of Allah being reverberated louder and louder. The people came out of shops, hotels, offices and educational institutions.…

Observe strike today: Separatists to people

October 27, 2015 Editor

Geelani appeals UN to select representative on Kashmir Hurriyat (M) PaK chapter to hold peaceful demos in front of UN office Separatist leaders Monday reiterated their call for complete shutdown on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir and appealed people to observe 27th October as a ‘black day’ against the ‘forcible accession of J&K with India in 1947.’ Chairman Hurriyat (G) Syed Ali Geelani said on October 27, 68 years ago India ‘forcibly’ took control of J&K without any constitutional and moral reason. Hurriyat (M) chairman who termed October 27…

Earthquake causes massive damage to property as well two lives in Kashmir

October 26, 2015 Editor

The massive earthquake that rocked Jammu and Kashmir today afternoon has caused huge damage to property across the Valley. Two elderly womans dies of heart attack post earthquake. 80-year-old Fata, wife of Abdul Rashid Dan, a resident of Ahangar Mohalla, died at her home in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district and 65-year-old woman died at her home in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district . Cracks appeared in most multi-storeyed public and private buildings and a flyover in Srinagar, while there were reports of major damage to dozens of government and private buildings in Badgam,…

Rain, Snowfall in Kashmir leads to sharp drop in temperature

October 26, 2015 Editor

Incessant rain in the plains and snow in the hills on Sunday saw Kashmiris shivering as the maximum temperatures dropped by eight to 10 degrees below normal here. The traditional Kashmiri ‘pheran’ was worn by locals in the countryside today. The elderly locals were seen holding the earthen fire pots woven in wicker baskets called ‘kangri’ under their pherans. “It is like ‘Chillai Kalan’. I am wearing two jerseys under the pheran and still feeling cold,” said 75-year-old Ghulam Nabi of Ganderbal district. ‘Chillai Kalan’ is the 40-day period of…

Shopian, Pulwama mourn death of Hizb militants

October 24, 2015 Editor

Clashes in Pulwama against ‘manhandling’ of militant’s family South Kashmir’s Shopian and Pulwama districts observed a complete shutdown on Friday to protest the killing of two Hizb militants in a gunfight at Manzgam village of Shopian district. Thousands of mourners participated in the funeral processions of Irshad Ahmad Sheikh of Maldeera Shopian and Adil Khanday of Barbugh Imam sahib. They were laid to rest amid pro-Kashmir and anti-India slogans in their native graveyards. All the shops and business establishments remained closed in Pulwama and Shopian while transport remained off the…

Geelani calls for shutdown on Oct 27

October 24, 2015 Editor

Terming the October 27, as ‘day of mourning’ for the Kashmiris, the Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani today called for complete shutdown on that day. “October 27, 1947 is day when armed forces landed in Kashmir against the wishes of people. The people of the Jammu & Kashmir were neither asked for their views about that forced control on that day and nor are their wishes and aspirations being respected today,” Geelani said in a statement. “The so-called accession of Maharaja Hari Singh with India is controversial, unreliable and…

Restrictions in old Srinagar, protests in uptown areas

October 24, 2015 Editor

Police put in place stringent restrictions on movement of people in Old Srinagar on Friday, even as protests were held in several uptown areas of the city, against the killing of Zahid Rasool Bhat of Batengoo village of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district by fanatics in Udhampur on October 9. The call for protests was given by Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani. Though the Srinagar district administration had announced that areas falling under five police stations of old Srinagar shall remain under restrictions, curbs were put in place in…