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News Digest J&K Govt Issues Fresh List Of 26TH RAMAZAN Hizb Commander IFTAR SEHRI Red, Orange; Green Districts TODAY TOMMOROW FIQAH Except Ganderbal, Bandipora; All Kashmir Districts Red Zones HANAFIYA 07:32 03:48 FIQAH Junaid Sehrai Killed Observer News Service and Bandipora are listed JAFARIYA 07:41 03:46 as Red zones, while as JAMMU- The Jammu and Kathua, Samba and Ram- RED Kashmir Government ban districts of Jammu ANANTNAG today issued the fresh Province have been de- In Srinagar Encounter BARAMULLA classification of districts clared Red zones. in order to implement Similarly, Bandipora, BUDGAM the lockdown 4.0 from Ganderbal, Reasi, Ud- SHOPIAN May 20, 2020 (Tuesday). hampur and Jammu dis- SRINAGAR In an order issued by tricts have been classified KUPWARA ORANGE State Executive Commit- under Orange category. KULGAM BANDIPORA tee (SEC) headed by Chief Likewise, Doda, Kishtwar, Secretary BVR Subrah- Poonch and Rajouri dis- PULWAMA GANDERBAL GREEN manyam, the government tricts have been put in KATHUA REASI DODA announced classification Green category. SAMBA UDHAMPUR KISHTWAR POONCH of districts in Jammu & The order further stat- RAMBAN JAMMU RAJOURI LG Visits Udhampur Kashmir as Red, Orange ed that the Government and Green for the pur- of India vide its Order and Family Welfare (Mo- and other officers on the Railway Station pose of implementing No. 40-3/2020-DM-I(A) HFW), Govt. of India. basis of “an overall as- Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Lieu- the lockdown, with effect dated 17.05.2020 has It added that a detailed sessment of the situation tenant Governor Girish Chandra from May 20, 2020. authorized States/ UT review of the current pertaining to the spread Murmu visited the Udhampur The order was issued Governments to delineate COVID-19 situation in of COVID-19 in Jammu railway station on Tuesday to take by Chief Secretary, who districts into Red, Orange J&K was conducted with and Kashmir; the trend stock of the facilities being pro- is also chairman of SEC and Green category after Financial Commissioner, in new cases particularly vided to stranded people brought and it stated that all the taking into consideration Health; Divisional Com- the recent spread/ spike back in special trains. LG Murmu districts of Kashmir prov- parameters laid down by missioners of Jammu in new cases in view of and his wife, Dr Smita Murmu, ince, except Ganderbal the Ministry of Health and Kashmir divisions the movement PAGE 02 were briefed by Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, Commissioner Secretary, Industries and Commerce Depart- A LAYER OF THICK SMOKE EMANATING on Tuesday from the debris of houses damaged ment, who is the nodal officer for during overnight gunfight in Nawa Kadal area of Srinagar. Pic Abid Bhat Baramulla Man Dies At 3 Expecting Mothers Among management P-02 28 Test Covid-19 Positive Observer News Service around 2 AM Tuesday after a search party and there was inter- SKIMS, J&K Toll 17 India, Pak Troops Trade joint team of the CRPF and Jam- mittent exchange of fire. Observer News Service in Jammu and Kashmir Observer News Service of infected people across Fire Along LoC SRINAGAR: Junaid Sehrai, son mu and Kashmir Police launched Addressing press conference in to 17, officials said. Union Territory to 1317. Jammu:India and Pakistan of Hurriyat leader Muhammad a cordon and search operation in Srinagar DGP Dibagh Singh said SRINAGAR- A 55-year- The man from Rafi- Srinagar: Coronavirus Out of the 28 fresh troops exchanged gunfire along Ashraf Sehrai, was among two Kani Mazar locality of Nawakadal that in the operation Hizbul Mu- old man, who had tested abad area of north Kash- cases in Jammu and Kash- cases that were reported the Line of Control (LoC) in militants killed in an encoun- area in Srinagar city. jahideen’s divisional commander positive for COVID-19, mir’s Baramulla district mir on Tuesday crossed today, 22 are from Val- Rajouri district of Jammu and ter with government forces in Shortly after the area was for Central Kashmir Junaid Sehrai died at Sher-i-Kashmir at tertiary care hospital 1300 mark as 28 people, ley and the remaining six Kashmir. "At about 0730 hours downtown Srinagar on early brought under siege, mobile in- was killed. “Sehrai was assigned Institute of Medical this morning, said Dr including two expecting from Jammu province, of- today, Pakistan Army initiated Tuesday. ternet and mobile telephony ser- the task of heading Central Kash- Sciences (SKIMS) Soura Farooq Jan, Medical Su- mothers and two minors ficials said. The new cases unprovoked ceasefire violation The second militant was iden- vices, except on BSNL postpaid, mir areas,” Singh said. The DGP on Tuesday, taking the perintendent, SKIMS tested positive for virus, in a day brought the tally by small arm firing and mortar tified as Tariq Ahmed Sheikh, a were snapped in Srinagar. said that Nawa Kadal operation coronavirus death toll Soura. P-02 taking the total number to 1,317 in Jammu P-02 shelling along LoC in Sunderbani resident of Pulwama. A police official said militants was a clean one as only one resi- sector", a defence spokesperson said, adding the Indian Army The encounter began at trapped in the house, fired upon dential house caught PAGE 02 retaliated befittingly. This is sec- ond ceasefire violation P-02 Nawa Kadal Locals Allege Arson, Loot 4 Injured After House Militant Aide Held In New Domicile Law for Kashmir Cops Taking Rs 50,000 Salary Can’t Resort To Loot: SSP Falls At Gunfight Site Baramulla: Police Auqib Javeed two militants, including a com- SRINAGAR: At least four people Srinagar: Police on Tuesday mander of Hizbul Mujahideen were injured when a house col- Evokes Sharp Reaction claimed to have arrested a SRINAGAR: The residents of dead, a charge strongly con- lapsed near a gunfight site in Nawa militant associate in Kreeri area Kani Mazar in Nawa Kadal tested by police. Observer News Service Kadal area on Tuesday evening. File Pic - Abid Bhat of north Kashmir's Baramulla area of Downtown Srinagar on Residents alleged that con- According to the reports, after district. In a statement issued Tuesday accused government tingents of police and CRPF ap- SRINAGAR: Parties cutting across here, a police spokesperson ending their Ramzan fast, many forces of arson and loot during peared in Kani Mazar locality people thronged the encoun- ideological lines have flayed the said that a joint team of police, the pre-dawn gunfight that left on Monday night and P-02 newly introduced Domicile Law army’s 29RR and 176 Battalion ter site in Kani Mazar locality of Nawa Kadal where two Hiz- for Jammu and Kashmir known as CRPF nabbed a militant associ- Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisa- ate at a checkpoint in Kreeri area bul Mujahideen militants were tion (Adaptation of State Laws) of the district this morning. Junaid Sehrai: From MBA To Militant killed in a gunfight earlier. Order, 2020 and Jammu and Kash- “From his possession one Chi- hirty two-year-old Junaid of Business Administration de- They said as the people were nese pistol, one pistol magazine, Sehrai had closely fol- gree from University of Kash- watching the devastation, a par- mir Grant of Domicile Certificate eight pistol rounds and a matrix lowed and was inspired mir, Junaid worked with two tially damaged house collapsed, (Procedure) Rules 2020 with many T unionist parties demanding its im- sheet were recovered,” a P-02 by the politics of his father Mo- multinational companies before leaving four persons wounded. hammed Ashraf Khan 'Sehrai' returning to Kashmir where he Injured were shifted to SMHS mediate revocation. Doctor, 4 Others till he finally joined the militant actively participated in protests hospital in Srinagar for treat- Aimed at demographic ranks in 2018. Holding a Master and demonstrations P-02 ment, officials said. change: Hurriyat Suspended Mirwaiz Umar Farooq led Hurri- Poonch: The authorities in this yat Conference on Tuesday accused mountainous district suspended Sehrai Leads Son’s Funeral Prayers DGP Visits Injured Cops, CRPF Men BJP led government in New Delhi of five Health Department officials speeding up new ordinances in the ment of India was rapidly execut- fect demographic change in Jammu including a medical officer for ehreek-e-Hurriyat chairman Mohammad rinagar: Director General of Police J&K Dil- midst of a pandemic to change de- ing its plan of turning Kashmir into and Kashmir and turn its residents “negligence” in connection with Ashraf Sehrai on Tuesday led funeral prayers bag Singh on Tuesday visited army’s 92 Base mography of Jammu and Kashmir.