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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…

To ease traffic burden a sixteen grade separators proposed in Srinagar

November 10, 2021 Editor

Amid bulging vehicle population adding to the traffic woes in Srinagar, an official report on mobility has recommended 16 junctions for grade separation including Sanat Nagar junction which is often marred by traffic congestion. As per the official report of the J&K government, sixteen junctions are proposed for Grade separation in phase-I & II, eight junctions are proposed in phase-I – Nowgam Chowk, Sanat Nagar Chowk, Tengpora-Batamaloo Crossing, Bemina Chowk, Parimpora Chowk, Shalteng Chowk, Humhama Chowk and Jhelum Bund near GPO to SangarMall.” “Remaining eight junctions are proposed in phase-II…

5000 additional CAPF men deployed in Kashmir for more security measures, Intense frisking in Srinagar

November 10, 2021 Editor

Day after the targeted killing of a civilian in old Srinagar, the city witnessed more security measures on Tuesday which included intensified frisking. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, a salesman was shot dead by terrorists in the Bohrikadal area of old Srinagar on Monday evening from point-blank range. A resident of Bandipora district of north Kashmir, Khan was employed as a salesman in a shop owned by a minority community popular businessman in the area. Since Tuesday morning, joint parties of police and paramilitary CRPF were witnessed carrying out random searches and…

Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti express strong objection to using community halls as security barracks

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 Editor

Omar Abdulla, Mehbooba Mufti express strong objection to using community halls as security barracks

NC vice president Omar Abdullah on Saturday said the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir had “regressed” to such an extent that community halls built during his tenure as chief minister of the erstwhile state were being used as barracks for security forces. “My Government built community/marriage halls & demolished bunkers in Srinagar. It’s disappointing to see the security situation in the city has now regressed so far that new bunkers are being constructed & the marriage halls are being used as barracks for security forces,” he wrote on Twitter.…

LockDown: Five areas of Srinagar put under strict corona curfew for 10 days

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 Editor

The places where strict corona curfew will be implemented are Lal Bazar, Hyderpora, Chanapora, Bemina (Hamdania Colony), Bemina (Housing Colony, Bilal Colony, SDA Colony). The curfew will be in effect from Nov 9, 2021, as of 12:00 AM. In view of rising covid cases in the city, the Srinagar district administration on Monday has imposed a strict corona induced curfew in five areas of the city for a total of 10 days, as reported by the news agency ANI. The places where strict corona curfew will be implemented are Lal…