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3 CITY 5 RAMADAN: 10 TIPS FOR HEALTHY 7 STATE EATING DURING HOLY MONTH MAYOR SMC BLOCKING DEVELOPMENTAL BAISAKHI, NAVRATRI Ramadan is a joyful time of the year - think WORK IN SRINAGAR: DY MAYOR Christmas and Thanksgiving rolled into one. CELEBRATED ACROSS KASHMIR Deputy Mayor of Srinagar, Parvez Qadri Tuesday accused the Such holidays are always associated with The twin festivals of Baisakhi—the festival of harvest and city Mayor, Junaid Azim Mattu of acting as a stumbling block THINK speciality food. Like turkey for Thanksgiving, Navratri—the festival celebrated on New Year as per Hindu in the developmental work undertaken by the government... the holy month - when Muslims abstain.... calendar, were celebrated with traditional enthusiasm....

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When you have a Ramazan Kareem dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go —Carol Burnett Kashmir Begins Month

1ST RAMAZAN Of Fasting From Today Iftar Sehri TODAY TOMMOROW Observer News Service FIQAH 07:05 04:33 SRINAGAR: With the new HANAFIYA moon in horizon the fasting FIQAH month of Ramazan begins JAFARIYA 07:11 04:32 in Kashmir under the shad- ow of raging coronavirus pandemic. Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Nasirul Islam announced the sighting of the moon moments after reports of moon sightings were announced on social media from across the region. "The crescent has been The boulevard road witnessed huge traffic jams as thousands of people flocked to Mughal Gardens, thrown sighted in parts of Ramban open on Tuesday on the occasion of Baisakhi. KO Photo, Abid Bhat district ... I have received credible witnesses about intake of food and water -- which can be of 29 or 30 the sightings. Therefore, from sunrise to sunset every days -- will end with sight- Ramazan-ul- Mubarak day. ing of Eid moon. GoI Had No will be observed from Muslims across the world The markets across Corona Cases Shoot Up In Wednesday," he said. follow the Lunar calendar Kashmir have been flooded Right To Revoke 2 Militants, 3 OGWs Devout Muslims will fol- and each month starts with with several varieties of dates J&K, 1269 Test Positive Art-370: Soz Arrested: Police low a new routine for the sighting of the crescent. which is used to break the fast  More On P6 SRINAGAR- Police on Tuesday next 30 days, shunning all The fasting month every evening. Press Trust Of India claimed to have arrested two local Deadly Infection Srinagar Has SRINAGAR: The abrogation of provisions of Article 370 was militants and three over ground uslims in many parts of the world marked the start of Ramazan on Claims 3 More Lives, Highest 2833 "wrong" and "unconstitution- workers (OGWs) in Handwara area Muslims Mark Tuesday, but a spike in coronavirus cases in several countries has once al" and people of Jammu and of north-Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Ramazan again put curbs on the holy month's signature feasts and lengthy Patients In J&K M Toll Reaches 2037 Kashmir have every right to A police officer said that on receipt prayers in mosques. Still, there are glimmers that Ramazan 2021 could feel ammu has recorded a Amid Virus Press Trust Of India raise their voice against it, se- of specific inputs about presence of less restricted than last year, when Islam's holiest period coincided with the seven-fold increase in active SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir nior Congress leader Saifuddin militants’ at different locations, differ- Surge, Curbs start of the coronavirus pandemic. Mosques have since  More On P6 coronavirus cases in nearly a on Tuesday recorded 1,269 new J Soz said on Tuesday. ent teams were constituted and the month, while Srinagar currently two militants and three OGWs were COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to has the highest number of 2,833 He was reacting to a state- 1,40,650, while three fresh deaths ment made by Vice President tactfully arrested.  More On P6 patients in the union territory, pushed the toll to 2,037, officials said. official data showed. M Venkaiah Naidu last week Light Rainfall Wedding Bells Ring Again As Out of the fresh cases, 582 were Some districts in Jammu and where he said that Jammu and BSF Nabs Pak from the Jammu Division and 687 Kashmir is an integral part of ‘Intruder’ Along IB In J&K From Kashmir which were earlier Guns Fall Silent Along LoC from the Kashmir Division of the declared "coronavirus-free" are India and the country is capa- SRINAGAR: The Border Security Today: MeT union territory, they said. The of- now reporting new cases as the ble of solving its own problems. Force (BSF) men on Tuesday arrest- Press Trust Of India to uphold ceasefire along ficials said Srinagar district country reels under a second On his first Jammu and ed an alleged intruder from Pakistan AGENCIES JAMMU: As India and the borders in the Union recorded wave of COVID-19 infections. Kashmir visit since the August  More On P6 in RS Pura area of Jammu district, SRINAGAR: The weatherman Pakistan adhere to cease- Territory from the night of On March 19, Srinagar district 2019 abrogation of Article 370, officials said. Officials said that alert on Tuesday forecast scattered to fire agreement after years February 24 and 25, bringing had 564 active cases and the Naidu had also asked other na- widespread light to moderate rain of cross-border shelling, respite to the residents who tions to “confine themselves BSF men observed suspicious move- figure shot up to  More On P6 ment of a Pak national who had and thundershowers in Jammu marriage celebrations have were reeling under the con- to their domestic problems” crossed International Border (IB) and Kashmir for next few days. silently returned to villages stant threat of shelling from rather than giving unsolicited aking the COVID-19 vaccine does not near BP No 942 and was making a As per the statement by me- along the Line of Control across the border. advice to India. Scholars Okay invalidate the Ramazan fast, Muslim desperate attempt to cross fence. teorological office here, there (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. The original ceasefire “I think Vice President scholars said on Tuesday, appealing to “He was warned  More On P6 is possibility of scattered rains Director General of agreement was reached be- Vaccination T Venkaiah Naidu will concede tomorrow while widespread Military Operations (DGMOs) tween the  More On P6 people not to stop taking the shots during the our right to  More On P6 Explosive Material rains have been predicted from of India and Pakistan agreed During Ramazan ‘roza’ period. A fatwa saying  More On P6 Found During CASO April 15 to 17. On April 18, there is forecast of scattered rains and SRINAGAR: An explosive material isolated showers on April 19, the RERA APPOINTMENTS was recovered on Tuesday during a statement said. search operation in orchards of Ka- The weather office has also is- Construct Crash Barriers, Parapets mraazpora area of south Kashmir’s sued ‘yellow warning for “isolat- Selection Panel To Meet Soon Pulwama district. A senior police ed thunder/lightning with gusty Agencies comprises administrative sec- official said that during searches wind 30- 40-kmph” for both At Vulnerable Spots: LG To NHAI SRINAGAR: The constitution retaries of Housing & Urban explosive material was found by Jammu and  More On P6 Observer News Service of the Real Estates Regulatory Development Department and joint forces of Police and Army’s RAMBAN: Jammu and Authority (RERA) in Jammu & Law department. 53RR in orchards of Kamraazpora. Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, Kashmir Union Territory is on The RERA is being set-up to He said that few batteries and other Manoj Sinha on Tuesday di- cards as a selection panel for ap- monitor the real estate sector explosive material  More On P6 rected national highway au- pointing its chairman and mem- and adjudicate disputes related Highway To Remain thorities of India (NHAI) to bers is expected to meet soon. to real-estate projects. The Contractor Arrested Closed Today HIGHWAY ensure proper maintenance Sources in administration primary purpose of RERA is to For Firing Shots of existing national highways, of Jammu & Kashmir Union protect the interest of the home BANIHAL: A railway tunnel SRINAGAR: The Jammu-Srinagar besides constructing crash Territory said that three- buyers. The body is entrusted construction sub-contractor was highway, the only surface link barriers and parapets at all member selection committee with the registration and regu- connecting Kashmir Valley with vulnerable locations to avoid comprising a High Court judge lation of real estate projects. arrested for allegedly opening fire KILLER on men and women, who were the outside world, will remain road mishaps. and two senior bureaucrats is As per conditions govern- protesting against his company, closed on Wednesday owing to Chairing a marathon meet- passed for establishment of authorities were also direct- expected to meet this month ing these appointments, the in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban weekly maintenance and repair ing to review the working of Trauma centre in order to pro- ed to ensure proper main- to finalise its recommendation chairpersons shall have ade- district, police said on Tuesday. The work, traffic authorities said on District Administration here vide requisite medicare facili- tenance of existing national for the key appointments. quate knowledge and profes- incident took place in Taatnihall area Tuesday. on Tuesday, the LG observed ties to the people, an official highways, besides construct- “The committee would meet sional experience of at least of Banihal on Monday evening when “No traffic shall be allowed that the area being accident spokesperson said. ing crash barriers and  More soon,” they disclosed, adding 20 in urban development, members of one Abdul Gani’s family from either direction between prone, directions were already He said that the NHAI On P6 that the panel is headed by a housing,  More On P6  More On P6 were joined  More On P6 Udhampur and sitting High Court judge and

SIMPLE EQUATION Slain Cop’s Math Period Making His Students Sentimental Auqib Javeed purge for stepping into his cop area of Srinagar on April1. family, he had earlier succeeded KHASHIPORA, ANANTNAG: father’s shoes. Raja was guarding a BJP leader, his late father. But before that The mournful world of a for- “He was an excellent math- when militants opened fire on he was teaching mathematics mer mathematics teacher is a ematics teacher,” said tear- the residence, leaving him dead. at Moral High School, Dailgam. WE WILL SURELY throwback to his captive class- ful Danish Farooq—a former Medical Superintendent “Our father was head con- room for his students. student of teacher-turned- of SMHS Hospital, Dr Nazir stable in J&K police but he MISS HIM—like we Struggling with silence cop from Ara Khashipora in Chowdhary said the cop was died because of tumour in did when he chose and sentiments, they the Dialgam area of South “brought dead” to the hospital. 2011,” Aaqib, 27, Raja’s younger recall their beloved Kashmir’s Anantnag district. “I saw five bullets on his brother told Kashmir Observer combatant training tutor’s passion “We will surely miss him— body,” his uncle told Kashmir in a room full of mourners. over classroom like we did when he chose Observer at his home.“He “Raja was the eldest, so he combatant training over class- might have lost enough blood decided to step into our father’s teaching.” room teaching.” at the spot.” shoes to support the family.” Danish, 24, had arrived at Cop Raja is survived by his The cop’s departure has left the residence of Rameez Raja, younger brother, and a widow the two families devastated. the 30-year-oldcop killed in mother, Naseema (55). He was scheduled to get mar- militant attack in the Nowgam As a sole breadwinner of the ried after Eid-ul-Fitr.