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Widom 65 Media Persons Killed In 2020: IFJ Rains Drench Valley, Age is a hell of a price to Agencies pay for wisdom —George Carlin BRUSSELS: A total of 65 jour- Snowfall In Parts nalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2020 while Of North Kashmir doing their jobs, according to the International Federation of Journalists. That is 17 more than in 2019, and the death toll is around the same level as in the 1990s, the Heart Attack Kills federation said Friday as it pub- KAS Officer lished details of its annual re- port on killings. SRINAGAR: A Kashmir Administra- The IFJ said the killings took tive Service (KAS) officer on Friday place in 16 different countries died after suffering a massive during targeted attacks, bomb heart attack in Udhampur district attacks and crossfire incidents. of Jammu division. Sajad Sumbria, A man raises his hands in supplication as the unseen cleric of Hazratbal Shrine displays a relic believed to be A total of 2,680 journalists who was presently posted as Dis- from beard of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on the occasion of Me'raj-e-Aalam on Friday. KO Photo, Abid Bhat have been killed since the IFJ trict Information Officer suffered started keeping count in 1990. a heart attack at his residence in The ruthless reign of crime Photo: Abid Bhat KO Udhampur on early Friday morning barons in Mexico, the violence Agencies Gulmarg and Kupwara be- following which he More On P6 Me’raj-e-Aalam of extremists More On P6 sides Pahalgam received SRInaGAR: Most parts of fresh snowfall even as inces- 2 Deaths, 73 New north Kashmir including sant rains More On P6 Cases In J&K Celebrated With Religious Basharat Bukhari he 270-km Jammu-Srinagar Na- SRINAGAR: Coronavirus claimed 500 Vehicles tional Highway was closed for lives of two more people in Jammu Bids Farewell To NC traffic after heavy rain triggered and Kashmir on Friday, while 73 Fervor Across Kashmir Observer News Service Stranded As T a landslide in Jammu and Kashmir's fresh cases of infection, includ- Ramban district, officials said. Over ing twenty-three travellers were Thousands Converge At Hazratbal Shrine To Have Glimpse Of Holy Relic Landslide SRInaGAR: Senior National 500 vehicles are stranded along the detected across the Union Territory Agencies signifies a physical journey. all the prayers today. Conference leader and former Blocks Highway highway, the only More On P6 during the last 24 hours. During Me’raj, the com- Emotional scenes were Law Minister Syed Basharat Both the deaths, officials said, were SRInaGAR: Amid COVID-19 mand for five daily prayers witnessed at Hazratbal shrine Bukhari on Friday announced his reported from Kashmir Valley thus pandemic and inclement (Salaat) was also given to the when the holy relic was dis- disassociation from the party. raising the total number of Covid-19 weather conditions, Shab- Holy Prophet. played after every prayer es- Bukhari conveyed his decision related fatalities in More On P6 e-Me’raj, the night of as- Thousands of devotees from pecially after the Friday con- through a handwritten com- cent when the Holy Prophet the different parts of the Valley gregational prayers during muniqué to Party President Dr. PDD To Issue New Power Soldier Dies After Vehicle Muhammad (SAW) ascended thronged Dargah Hazratbal which they raised their hands Farooq Abdullah and urged him to the heavens, was on Friday shrine, housing the relic of the for prayer. to acknowledge the “expression.” Schedule From March 15 Rolls Into Stream observed with religious fervor Prophet (Pbuh). However, un- Special prayers were held “Very respectfully, I hereby SRINAGAR: A soldier was killed across Jammu and Kashmir. like previous years, no night at almost all the shrines and disassociate from the party (J&K Agencies Lieutenant Governor, Baseer and three others injured in a road Notably, Muslims every long prayers were held at local Masjids here in Kashmir National Conference) from this Ahmad Khan has directed offi- accident in Damhal Hanjipora in year celebrate on 27th of Rajab Dargah Hazratbal shrine and where the religious clerics day 12th of March 2021, Friday SRInaGAR: The Power cers to prepare the new sched- south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on (Islamic calendar), the Israʾ at the historic Jamia Masjid. highlighted the importance onwards. Please be kind enough Department has decided to ule for supplying electricity Friday morning. An official said that and Me’raj, the two parts of Nonetheless, the devotees of the night and its bless- to acknowledge the above-men- come out with a new curtail- from March 15. an Army vehicle of 9 Rashtriya Rifles a Night Journey that prophet offered mandatory Friday ings. The teachings and as- tioned expression and oblige.” ment schedule from March Chief Engineer PDD Aijaz (PARA) met with an accident near Muhammad (pbuh) took congregational prayers at pects of the life of Prophet Bukhari wrote in his letter to Dr 15 if there is improvement in Ahmad Dar said they were Adijan bypass, DH Pora, according to during a single night around Hazratbal shrine and had a Muhammad (Pbuh) were also Farooq. Meanwhile in a separate weather in next few days. working to frame a new power news agency KNO. He said that the the year 621. Within Islam it glimpse of the holy relic after highlighted More On P6 letter to Party’s More On P6 Sources said that Advisor to curtailment More On P6 vehicle fell into a nallah, in which water flow was More On P6 NARCO-MILITANCY CASE Youth Found Dead Grameen Bank STATUS ROW BJP MLA Attempts In Orchard Branch ‘Looted’ Suicide By SRINAGAR: A youth was found In Baramulla NIA Seizes Rs 91L Drug DDC Members Meet LG, Consuming Sanitiser dead on Friday in an orchard in Bellow area of south Kashmir’s Agencies Proceeds In Samba Govt Says ‘Issues Resolved’ Agencies Pulwama district. 30-year-old Sameer Ahmad Rather Srinagar: An unknown pis- Press Trust Of India accused persons, the NIA Observer Monitoring Desk to empower the grass-root BHUbanESWAR: A BJP legisla- was found dead in an orchard at tol-borne person on Friday conducted searches and re- democracy.” tor on Friday attempted suicide Bellow, almost seven kilometres afternoon looted a branch JAMMU: In the ongoing covered proceeds of narcotics JAMMU: The Jammu and It further reads: “said Now, by consuming sanitiser in the from his residence in Arigam in of Grameen Bank Branch in probe into the Handwara smuggling to the tune of 91 Kashmir government said on the true democracy is flourish- Odisha Assembly over paddy south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, Ogmuna, Kunzer Tangmarg narco-militancy case, the lakh. The amount was found Friday that “all issues of District ing in the UT, which is not merely procurement issues in the state. officials said Friday. Rather, they area of north-Kashmir's National Investigation concealed in a field in Gurwal development Council (DDC) about governance but feeling of Subash Chandra Panigrahi, said, had left his More On P6 Baramulla district. Agency on Friday recovered village in the jurisdiction of representatives have been re- fraternity, brotherhood, and at- an MLA from Deogarh constitu- Reports said that a person Rs 91 lakh concealed police station Ramgarh solved amicably”. titude of respect and reverence ency, tried to consume sanitiser made the heist at the bank in a field in Samba (Samba)," the As per a statement issued towards each other. We have to as a mark of protest when Food Militant Arrested branch and ran away with cash. district of Jammu spokesperson said. here, District Development work together to meet the de- Supplies and Consumer Welfare In Doda: Police A police official said that and Kashmir, an He said an Council delegates met the velopmental aspirations of the Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain as per bank officials the un- NIA spokesper- investigation Lieutenant Governor, Manoj people. The administration will was replying to the House on JAMMU: Security forces arrested a known gunman fired one son said. revealed that Sinha here at Raj Bhavan. ensure the three-tier Panchayati the paddy procurement issues. militant and seized arms and am- pistol round in air this after- The recovery the arrested ac- “The interaction was held Raj system is strengthened in Parliamentary Affairs munition from a house in Jammu noon when most of the staff was made on cused, Romesh in a pleasant and amicable at- the UT, the Lt Governor told the Minister Bikram Keshari Arukha and Kashmir’s Doda district on had gone to offer prayers. the disclosure Kumar, had re- mosphere,” reads the official DDC members.” and other legislators managed Friday, officials said. A joint cordon Later the gunman, as per of five persons, ceived the cash statement, adding, “Reiterating The delegation comprised to prevent Panigrahi from con- and search operation was launched bank staff, decamped with who were arrested proceeds of drugs J&K Government’s commit- of DDC Chairpersons, Vice- suming sanitiser and recovered by the Army, the CRPF, the SSB and around Rs 2.24 lakh, the of- on March 1 from Srinagar from narco-smugglers ment to safeguarding the Chairpersons, and members in- the toxic material from him.