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Widom J&K Reports 3 More Chilleh Kalan We never know the Centre Okays Use Of Covid-19 Deaths worth of water till the well is dry.” Observer Monitoring Desk Ends, Chill Persists — Thomas Fuller J&K Forest Land For SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir reported on Saturday three more Non-Forestry Purposes coronavirus deaths while 76 new Agencies cases of virus Electric Shock Injures were detected SRINAGAR: For the first time across the Union PDD Daily Wager after abrogation of Article Territory during the SRINAGAR: A daily wager of the 370, the Government of last 24 hours. Power Development Department India has given its clearance The victims officials (PDD) on Saturday was injured for use of forest land for said, were a 95-year-old due to electrocution in Kulgam non-forestry purposes in man from  More On P10 district of south Kashmir. Manzoor Jammu & Kashmir for con- A woman carries a bucket of water on her head as water lines in Srinagar and Ahmad Dar of Damhal Hanjipora struction of a multipurpose elsewhere froze due to severe cold conditions on Saturday. KO Picture, Abid Bhat received an electric shock when he project of geo-strategic and Doda Becomes came in contact with a live wire in national importance. Corona Free Press Trust Of India phase—the 40-day long Nandmarg locality while repairing Central government has Chilleh Kalan—ended with a transform, resulting in injuries to given approval for non- Press Trust Of India SRINAGAR: Kashmir Valley Srinagar recording the sea- him, news agency KNO reported. forest use of 680.1 hectares continued to reel under in- son’s coldest day at minus 2 Quoting officials,  More On P10 of forest land for construc- Kashmir, a local news agen- said that this was the first BHADERWAH: Jammu and tense cold conditions even degree Celsius on Saturday. tion of Ujh multipurpose cy KNO reported Saturday project submitted to Centre’s Kashmir's Doda has become the as the winter’s harshest Srinagar city  More On P10 OGW Arrested In hydro-electric project in while quoting official docu- Forest Advisory Committee first coronavirus-free district Pampore: Police district Kathua of Jammu & ments. The report further after  More On P10 in the Union Territory after the last three active cases turned Highway To Remain SRINAGAR: Police on Saturday negative and subsequently dis- claimed to have arrested a militant THE REHABILITATION & RESETTLEMENT PLAN shall ensure that charged from hospital, officials Closed On Thursdays associate of Lashkar-e-Taiba from no rehabilitation is proposed over forest land. A copy of the approved said on Saturday. ammu-Srinagar, the only surface link connect- ing Kashmir Valley with the outside world, Pampore town of Pulwama district. R&R plan shall be submitted by the user agency to the UT administration The hilly district had not regis- Junaid Altaf of Konibal locality of shall remain closed for next four  More On P10 who will monitor to ensure that no project affected person occupies forest land.” tered any new COVID-19 cases over J Pampore was arrested by a joint the past fortnight,  More On P10 team of police, army’s 50 RR and CRPF 110 battalion and incriminat- ing material of LeT was recovered from his possession, a police 30,000 KP's Apply For 2,000 Cross-Border Firing spokesperson said Saturday. He Injured Militant, Associate Surrenders said all the recovered  More On P10 Rattles Kathua Posts Under PM’s Package During Pulwama Encounter: Police Observer Monitoring Desk Banned Wildlife Items Press Trust Of India “As regards to the jobs, out Seized, Man Held of 6,000 posts, 3,841 can- Will Welcome Those With Open Arms Who Shun Violence: IGP JAMMU: After exchanging fire JAMMU: Over 30,000 didates have already been Observer News Service along the Line of Control (LoC) SRINAGAR: A joint team of wildlife Kashmiri Pandits have ap- selected and appointed in for two consecutive days, the department officials, police and plied for the 2,000 re-allocat- various departments. The re- SRINAGAR: Two local mili- Indian and Pakistani troops on CRPF personnel recovered a large ed government jobs under the maining 2,000-odd posts have tants of Hizbul Mujahideen, Saturday traded heavy gunfire quantity of contraband wildlife prime minister's employment been referred to J&K Service one among them injured, laid along the International Border products during a raid in south package and the selection Selection Board (JKSSB)," a re- down their arms during a gun- in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Sat- process would be completed lief and rehabilitation depart- fight with government forces in Kashmir, officials said Saturday. urday and arrested the accused. On by the end of April, officials ment spokesperson said. Lelhar area of Pulwama district, The Pakistani army has violated a specific information provided by said on Saturday. "The JKSSB has already re- police said Saturday. the ceasefire again by resorting to Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, New The prime minister's pack- ceived more than 30,000 ap- Acting on a specific input unprovoked firing along the IB in Delhi (WLCCB), a team of Police, age for Kashmiri Pandit mi- plications for these posts and about the presence of militants, Kathua district, they said. personnel of CRPF 40 Battalion and grants announced in 2008 the selection process shall be police, army’s 50 RR and the The firing from across the bor- wildlife officials of  More On P10 has two major components completed by the end of April. personnel of CRPF 183 battalion der started around 10.10 pm on – one pertaining to the provi- This will ensure completion of launched a cordon and search Friday in the Bobiyaan border Missing Man Found sion of 6,000 jobs for youth the PM package component re- operation in Lelhar area of the outpost area of Hiranagar sector, Dead In Kupwara and another pertaining to the lated to jobs," the official said. south Kashmir district around File Photo: Abid Bhat prompting an effective retalia- SRINAGAR: The body of a missing provision of 6,000 accommo- He said there are a few 8:00 pm Friday, a police spokes- the search team when their to the fire leading to an encoun- tion by the Border Security Force man was recovered on Saturday in dation units for the recruited posts which have remained person here said. The holed up presence got ascertained. ter. However, the joint forces (BSF), the officials said.  More On P10  More On P10 Cherkoot area of north Kashmir’s employees. unfilled due to militants, he said, fired upon “The search party retaliated showed utmost They said the cross-border fir-  More On P10 Kupwara district. ing between the 33-year-old Javaid Ahmad Mir’s body was recovered in the forest JKP Among Kashmir Life Editor Bereaved Govt Orders Minor area of Cherkoot on Saturday, a CBI Arrests ESIC Deputy fortnight after he went missing Best Forces: LG KEG Expresses Solidarity With Masood Hussain Reshuffle In Admin from his home in Izgund village Director With Rs 50K Bribe of Khumriyal on January 15, news Observer News Service Observer Monitoring Desk A resident of Gehend vil- Observer News Service agency GNS reported. Four days Observer Monitoring Desk to know in the month of lage in Shopian district in after his disappearance, the report JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor, December 2020 that a notice SRINAGAR: Gull Hassan Wani, fa- south Kashmir, he was laid to JAMMU: The Jammu and Manoj Sinha said Saturday that SRINAGAR: The Central Bureau of has been issued to the firm by ther of senior journalist and Editor- rest at his ancestral graveyard. Kashmir government on said, a missing report  More On P10 Jammu and Kashmir police was Investigation (CBI) on Saturday ar- ESIC, Regional Office,” he said. in-Chief ‘Kashmir Life’, Masood Late Wani is survived by Saturday ordered minor re- among the best police organisa- rested Deputy Director of the On knowing this, the spokes- Hussian, passed away Saturday wife, five sons and a daughter. shuffle in the administration ITBP Gets New tions in the country and being ESIC posted in Jammu person said, the complain- morning at SKIMS, Soura. Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) by shifting half a dozen officers Commander In Ladakh accorded with one of the high- for allegedly demand- ant and the owner, Wani was not keeping well condoled the demise of Gull with immediate effect. NEW DELHI: The Indo-Tibetan Bor- est numbers of gallantry med- ing and accepting a both visited the office for some time and was ad- Hassan Wani, father of Masood As per an order issued here in this der Police (ITBP), which guards the als in the last few years, itself bribe of Rs 50,000. of ESIC to meet Dy. mitted to SKIMS Soura on Hussain, Editor Kashmir Life regard, Rajesh Sharma, Secretary, Line of Actual Control with China, speaks about the courage and Darbara Singh, Director and during Wednesday, late evening. and KEG Secretary General. J&K Public Service Commission, has posted a new officer to head its bravery of the JKP personnel. incharge Regional the meeting Singh Family sources said. In a condolence message has been transferred and posted as frontier in Ladakh, official sources Sinha made these remarks Director, ESIC allegedly told them As his condition deteriorat- KEG expressed grief over Mr Custodian General, J&K, replacing said on Saturday. while attending Special Jammu was arrest- that their papers were ed, he was put on ventilator Wani’s demise. A highly re- Suriya Jabeen, who has been trans- Lhari Dorjee Lhatoo, a 1999-batch Security Force's (SSF) ‘Bada ed by CBI on the ba- not proper and ESIC support, where he breathed vered person, Gull Hassan ferred and posted as Additional officer of the Manipur cadre, will be Khana’ held here at Raj Bhavan sis of a complaint filed would impose a penalty his last at around 5 am. Wani  More On P10 Secretary to Government, Tribal replacing ITBP Inspector General on Saturday, an official spokes- by an employee of a private of Rs.23, 90,850/-(approx) on Affairs Department, an official (IG) Deepam Seth, who was com- person said. The LG, he said, firm that provides security ser- them and if they would pay him ashmir Editors Guild (KEG) condoles spokesperson said. lauded the SSF personnel for vices to different private insti- a bribe of Rs.2 lakh, he can re- KEG Condoles He said Raj Kumar Katoch, manding the force troops deployed Demise of the sad demise of mother of senior along the LAC with China in Ladakh. performing their duties with a tutions, a spokesperson said. duce the penalty amount. KJournalist Nazir Masoodi. In a condo- Director, Tourism, Jammu, has Seth, a 1995-batch  More On P10 high order of  More On P10 “The complainant came “After negotiation,  More On P10 Masoodi's Mother lence message KEG expressed  More On P10 been transferred and  More On P10

Kashmir Through Pages: Five Upcoming Books To Watch Out For Yash Daiv the geography and old battles that the clichéd view of Kashmir — one boundaries that turned Kashmir into have now found place in the limelight. that sees it “either as an earthly para- a sore oyster. he abrogation of Article 370 that This thoughtful, organic travel- dise or a living hell”. The book has already been hailed revoked Kashmir’s semiautono- ogue is born in the dark that came It takes you to unexpected places, by stalwarts from many domains for Tmous status was a thunderclap over Kashmir after August 5, 2019. into the homes of poets, playwrights it is the kind of on-ground, honest in a storm that has been brewing in Author Suhas Munshi, who has spent and street performers; to the mi- narratives that world needs. the region for decades. a decade reporting politics, conflict nuscule Christian community in In Forgotten Kashmir, Dinkar While it brokered many emotions and culture across India, was visiting Baramulla and much more. P Srivastava—who joined Indian — confusion and anger being the Habba Khatoon’s relic in Gurez when Farah Bashir, a former photojournal- Foreign Service in 1978 and is cur- prominent ones — it also generated Article 370 was abrogated. ist with Reuters, is set to make a scintil- rent Indian Ambassador to Iran— many stories that have now found The narrative of his book was ex- lating debut with Rumours of Spring. sets a chronology of events that led their expression in books. tracted from the gloom that fore- In the book, she documents her ad- to stretching of barbed wires, div- The coming quarter of 2021 has in- shadowed Kashmir. It tries to give olescent years in Kashmir during the ing one people and the subsequent teresting books in the offing, ones that a sense of what that moment has 90s — the epoch marked by the siege. evolution of Pakistan-administered reflect the current mood and others meant to the common Kashmiri. She writes about understanding Kashmir over seven decades. that invoke the memories of past. Apart from these stories, this in- militarisation of domestic spaces It includes major milestones like the Then, there are commentaries on sightful travelogue breaks away from and forming new etiquette with the ‘tribal’ war in 1947-48,  More On P10