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Rambagh Killing: Amid Shutdown, Mobile internet suspended in old city

November 26, 2021 Editor

Most of the shops in the old areas of Srinagar were shut on Thursday while mobile internet remained suspended in many parts of the city a day after the killing of three militants, including the self-styled commander of The Resistance Front (TRF), in an encounter, officials said. The officials said mobile internet was suspended in several areas of the city as a precautionary measure. Police on Wednesday said security forces killed three militants in a brief encounter in the Rambagh area of the city. The slain included the self-styled commander…

Three boys were ‘taken out of car, shot dead on street’: Rambagh Incident Eyewitness

November 25, 2021 Editor

Minutes after police said that “three militants were killed in a shootout” in Srinagar, eyewitnesses have claimed that “three boys were taken out from a car and shot dead on the street”. In a viral video, eyewitnesses claim that the three were “unarmed and were shot dead by the armed forces in front of us”. Witnesses have also alleged that the trio was dragged down from a vehicle and shot dead. Soon after the incident took place, locals gathered near the spot and claimed the killed men were “innocent”. The…

Prolonged power cuts return to haunt people across Kashmir

November 21, 2021 Editor

Power pilferage has pushed energy demand over 2600 MW With the onset of winter, the unscheduled and extended power cuts have aggravated the woes of people in Kashmir. Of late both metered and non-metered areas in Kashmir have started witnessing extended unscheduled power cuts, despite the fact that Kashmir Power Development Corporation Limited (KPDCL) announced a load shedding program of 1.5 hours in metered areas and 3 hours in non-metered areas. However, despite the load shedding program being announced, the KPDCL is resorting to unscheduled pesky power cuts which have…

Hurriyat calls for shutdown over deaths of civilians in Hyderpora encounter

November 19, 2021 Editor

Issuing a statement, the Hurriyat Conference said it has called the shutdown in support of the families of the two civilians who were killed in the Hyderpora Encounter. The Hurriyat Conference on Thursday called for a Bandh on Friday and demanded justice for the civilians killed in the Hyderpora encounter. Issuing a statement, the Hurriyat Conference said the Hyderpora encounter has stunned the people of Kashmir and said it has called the shutdown in support of the families of the two civilians killed in the encounter. A fresh controversy has…

Police detain kin seeking bodies of slain civilians killed during staged shootout in Hyderpora

November 18, 2021 Editor

Aijaz Hussain Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir late Wednesday detained over a dozen relatives of two civilians killed in a controversial gunfight, eyewitnesses said, hours after they staged a protest in the disputed region’s main city while pleading with authorities to return the bodies so they could bury them. Police officials wearing flak jackets and carrying assault rifles swooped on a protest site in Srinagar minutes after lights were turned off in the locality. They dragged the relatives into a police van amid slogans by the family members in the freezing…

APHC condemns ‘Gruesome Civilian Killings’, seeks justice for families of slain

November 17, 2021 Editor

Hurriyat condemns ‘Gruesome Civilian Killings’, seeks justice for families of slain

All Parties Hurriyat Conference Tuesday strongly condemned the ‘Gruesome Killing of Civilians’ during a military operation at Hyderpora. As per the family sources, Mohd Altaf Bhat of hyderpora was killed by armed forces while being used as a human shield and had no affiliation with any group as claimed by the authorities, a statement by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq led pro-freedom body said. “His niece Saima has in fact claimed in the media that there was no gunfight… He was taken three times as a human shield for checking and when…

Locals in Pulwama up in arms over transfer of 100 kanals of land to armed forces

November 15, 2021 Editor

A protest was held in Okho Kakapura area in Pulwama district today over the transfer of land to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). People were demanding that the government should reconsider the decision. Hundreds of people in Okho Kakapura of Pulwama today chanted slogans of “Give justice, take back the decision” and strongly demanded the government to take back this decision. Locals said that earlier, the administration had identified about 100 Kanals of land in the area for the purpose of it being transferred to the paramilitary. They said…

Demonetization, Kashmir; How the process left the valley untouched

November 15, 2021 Editor

Many of us thought land prices in J&K will go down. But seven years down the line land prices are going up and up and people are unable to afford to buy land. Even after demonetization, Kashmir valley behaved as if the demonetization had happened somewhere else and they have nothing to do with it. There was the complete absence of chaos in the streets of Srinagar that was so visible in other parts of the country. No long queues were seen outside any ATM. And people were not complaining…

Srinagar records ‘Coldest Night’ so far, shivers at 0.1 degree

November 14, 2021 Editor

Besides Drass being the coldest in Ladakh, Leh recorded minus 9.6 degrees and Kargil minus 6.4 degrees as their minimum temperatures. As the mercury continued to dip, Srinagar recorded the coldest night of the season so far at 0.1 degrees Celsius, as Ladakh’s Drass town remained frozen at minus 12.7 degrees, the Met Department said on Saturday. “The minimum temperature in Srinagar was 0.7 degrees yesterday (Friday), but it fell further to 0.1 today. Pahalgam recorded minus 3.5 degrees Celsius, while Gulmarg recorded minus 0.2 degrees as the minimum,” a…

Businessmen, Students decry Kashmir’s new ‘Unscheduled, Unannounced’ Internet Shutdowns

November 12, 2021 Editor

The unscheduled internet shutdowns in different parts of Kashmir, especially capital Srinagar, have hit the students and businesses hard. By: Auqib Javeed For the last two weeks, Aisha Jan, 22, had to travel over 15 kilometers every day to attend her online classes in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district along with her younger sister. Jaan, who lives in the Soura area of Srinagar city, was accompanied by her younger sister, Aira Jan along with their father, who drops them at a relative’s home in Ganderbal so that his kids don’t miss…