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'Want Early Assembly Polls — Fyodor Dostoevsky In Kashmir Observer Monitoring Desk Srinagar: In a reminiscence Cooperate With Delimitation Panel' of 90s era, Special Operations From Today Group (SOG) of police and CRPF Press Trust Of India on Monday carried out a crackdown in Lal Chowk area of this Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Flight Operations, Highway Traffic capital city and subjected the Manoj Sinha on Monday said people to frisking and identifica- political parties should co- IED Defused In Likely To Be Affected On Feb 26 tion checks. operate in the completion of SOG personnel assisted by the delimitation exercise if Srinagar Outskirts Observer News Service Jammu region from 25th on- paramilitary CRPF cordoned off they want early elections in Srinagar: An Improvised Explo- wards,” he said. a stretch from court road to Hari Jammu and Kashmir. sive Device (IED) was diffused in Srinagar: The meteorolog- He further said that heavy Singh High Street here and car- "Those who want early as- Nowgam area of the Srinagar city ical department on Monday rain and snow are expect- ried out a surprise crackdown, sembly elections in J-K are re- outskirts on Monday, police said. predicted five day wet spells ed at some places during reports said. The commuters and quested to help and cooperate CRPF personnel, patrolling the in Jammu and Kashmir from February 25-26th and it its pedestrians, the report said were with the delimitation com- Srinagar-Baramulla highway, found Tuesday, while issuing a yel- probable impacts include made to stay in a queue and sub- mission, instead of making an IED by the roadside, a police of- low warning for isolated slippery road conditions jected to frisking and identifica- excuses," Sinha told reporters. ficial said. He said the traffic along heavy rain and on Banihal-Ramban, Zojila, tion checks. He was asked about the the arterial road had to be stopped. snowfall on Mughal road etc and May The videos and photographs demand raised by the PDP on the process of delimita- redrawing parliamentary Later the bomb disposal squad February 26 cause disruption of of HSHS and Amira Kadal frisk- and the NC for holding early tion of the Union Territory of and assembly constituencies. defused the IED and More On P10 that could flights on 26th,” the ing went viral on social media. assembly polls. Jammu and Kashmir. However, National disrupt flight official added. Most of the netizens said that The Delimitation Associate members are Conference's Farooq Abdullah, Cardiac Arrest Kills operations Meanwhile, the crackdown was reminiscent Commission met on lawmakers from their re- Mohammad Akbar Lone and Doctor In Anantnag and make the tempera- of 1990’s when people would be Thursday to seek suggestions spective states who assist Hasnain Masoodi skipped the Srinagar: A doctor died on road condi- tures in- lined up only to be frisked and from the associate members the delimitation panel in meeting. More On P10 Monday after suffering a massive tions on the creased above questioned and More On P10 cardiac arrest in south Kashmir’s highways slippery. sub-zero level Anantnag district. Dr Ashiq Hussain According to across Kashmir from Srinagar’s Lal Bazar locality a meteorological Valley with MPs To Present suffered a massive cardiac arrest department official, Srinagar recording Mehbooba Strikes A Defiant Note at his clinic in Anantnag town on scattered to wide- a low of 5.8 degree 'Real Hero Awards' Monday afternoon, Chief Medical spread rain and snow Celsius against 1.4 ‘Let IGP Kashmir Do His Duty, I Will Do Mine’ In Kashmir Officer(CMO) Anantnag, Mukhtar is most likely in Jammu and degree Celsius on the previ- Ahmad Shah said. Ashiq, he said, Kashmir during Tuesday to ous night, the official said. Agencies was immediately More On P10 ending February under the The temperature was 4.9 influence of two Western degrees above the normal Retains PDP Srinagar: A group of par- Fake Job Racket Disturbances. for this time of the year in Presidency For liamentarians are visiting Busted, 5 Held: Police “This system is most like- Srinagar, the official said. Jammu and Kashmir next ly to affect North Kashmir, Qazigund recorded a low of 3 Years month to honour persons Srinagar: Police claimed to have extreme western Ladakh 3.0 degree Celsius against 0.0 he former chief minister who have outstanding perfor- busted a fake job racket by arresting during next 2days, central, degree Celsius on the previ- of Jammu and Kashmir mance in different fields. five people, including two consta- south Kashmir, Pirpanjal and ous night. More On P10 TMehbooba Mufti was Highly placed sources bles of the railway protection force on Monday re-elected as the said that during the mega (RPF), officials said Monday. president of Peoples Democratic award event titled “Real Hero Ashiq Hussain Naik of Kulgam, Party (PDP). Mehbooba was Awards” the Members of KO Photo: Abid Bhat KO Ajaz Ahmad Lone of Sopore, Abdul unanimously re-elected as party Parliament (MPs) will present Rashid Wani of Budgam and Hafi- Train Services Resume In Agencies Vijay Kumar warned main- president for the period of three awards to youth icons, me- zulla Lone and Ather-ul-Islam, both stream leaders for instigating years, said a party spokesperson. dia persons, social activists, residents of Lolab were arrested by Srinagar: Days after Inspector masses with fake news and ru- He said that her More On P10 medicos, para medics, sports police with fake and forged ap- Kashmir After 11 Months General of Police (IGP) Kashmir, mours, the Peoples More On P10 persons and others. pointment orders in More On P10 Sources said that some offi- I want to see the end to sufferings of people that include denial cials from civil and police ad- Youth Held In Petrol ministration having outstand- Pump Loot Case of body of a slain son to his father. I won’t allow Kashmir to become a ring of war ing performance will also be for India and Pakistan and instead Kashmir should become a bridge of peace honoured during the event. Srinagar: Police have reportedly “The event will More On P10 arrested a youth in connection with between the two nations. Dialogue is the best way to resolve issues.” the robbery incident at a fuel sta- tion in central Kashmir’s Budgam district last week. Bird Flu Case A 27-year-old mechanic from Be- Schools To Reopen In 'Staggered mina has been rounded up by police Detected In A’nag in its probe into the loot of Rs 4 lakh Agencies cash from a petrol pump in Nadi- Manner' Next Month gam area of Budgam few days ago, Srinagar: A case of H5N8 Agencies will reopen for physical aca- zone of Jammu division for news agency KNT reported Monday. (Avian influenza) also known demic activities from March-08. Class 9th to 12h will function Quoting More On P10 as bird flu has been reported Srinagar: The government on “In continuation of govern- from March-01-2021,” reads from Dooru area in south Monday ordered reopening of all ment order, it is hereby or- the order issued by the admin- BSF Director General Kashmir's Anantnag district. schools in Kashmir Valley in a stag- dered that all government edu- istrative secretary to the gov- Visits Border Posts Officials said that the samples gered manner from next month. cational institutions including ernment, B K Singh. of dead crows taken ten days ear- The government said that recognized private schools It further reads that in case of Jaisalmer: Border Security Force Photo: Abid Bhat KO Director General Rakesh Asthana on lier in Arbal area of Dooru have the schools will only reopen shall physically open in a stag- elementary classes’ upto class Sunday visited forward posts along come out positive. They said on March-01 for the students’ gered manner for academic 8th, teachers shall attend the the India-Pakistan border here and early 1,100 people trav- railway authorities resumed the soon after the confirmation of of 9th to 12th standard and the activities wherein schools of schools from March-01-2021 interacted with jawans. He also elled between Banihal and services partially, they said. the case, a rapid response team students of elementary classes Kashmir division and winter for preparation More On P10 inaugurated a government housing NBaramulla railway sta- The officials said nearly 1,100 has been deployed in the area. tions as train services resumed passengers used the service on Officials said that SOPs are complex for the families of BSF per- Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has formally transferred the satellite campus of in Kashmir on Monday after re- the first day after the resump- to be adopted fully by the rapid sonnel of the 119th Corps under the KU’s Leh, University of Kashmir located at Leh and Kargil to the Union Territory of Ladakh on “as is maining suspended for around tion of the service. response team besides that de- Regional Headquarters. Asthana, where is basis” along with staff. In an order, commissioner secretary to the government, 11 months due to the COVID-19 "We will be following this sched- marcation of the infected and Kargil Satellite who started his three-day visit to Manoj Kumar Dwivedi (IAS), said that the Lt. Governor has transferred Leh and Kargil pandemic, officials said. ule -- one train up from Banihal surveillance zone along with Jaisalmer on Sunday, paid tributes Campus Shifted satellite campus’ of University of Kashmir to Ladakh UT. “In terms of Two trains chugged on the and one down from Baramulla -- disinfection of the area is also to martyrs at the More On P10 To Ladakh UT section 84(3) read with section 85(2) of the More On P10 railway tracks in Kashmir as the for the time being," they said. being done. More On P10

‘We Have Lost Everything’: Grieving Grandfather At Aishmuqam

Auqib Javeed Mohammad Abdullah Ahanger The slain cop is survived by his what was written in their fate?” sits numb with grief. young widow, two orphans, his To express solidarities, LOGRIPORA, His frozen face makes griev- aged ‘half-widow’ mother, and his the villagers arrive in twos Aishmuqam; In a ers believe that he’s shattered by yet-to-be-named conflict-torn par- and threes at the Ahanger room full of mourn- his cop grandson, Sohail Ahmad entage of Kashmir, his grandfather. home, nestled 70 kilome- ers, septua- Ahanger’s killing. Amid cries and shrieks, Sohail’s in- ters from Srinagar. genarian Ahanger Jr. along with his col- nocent twain—Sehal (4) and Usman This is the second strife league Mohammad Yousuf was killed (2)—are still wondering about their tragedy that has struck to the in a militant attack at Bhagat Barzulla Janu, their father’s routine calls. family in last thirty years. area of Srinagar on February 19. “Since those calls have forever Sohail was 7-months old CCTV footage of the killing went stopped now, they’re enquiring when his father, Mushtaq viral on social media sites, and about their father,” the grieving Ahmad Ahanger, a flour mill drew raging reactions. grandfather said. clerk, disappeared during nine- “Kam’bar phutum (I’m shattered),” “We haven’t told them anything. ties. Like many other Kashmiris, Abdullah, a retired government And what’re we supposed to tell his whereabouts are still un- teacher, told Kashmir Observer. them! Should I tell them that this is known. More On P10