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Widom Recognizing power Statehood To J&K At 160 Earthquakes in another does not diminish your own. — Joss Whedon Jolted Kashmir Appropriate Time: Amit Shah In 12 Years Says ‘No One Will Lose Their Land’, Promises 25000 Jobs In 2022 2 Charged Over Forged ‘Cricket Bats Have Bank Guarantee Replaced Guns In Kashmir’ JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Crime Branch on Saturday Agencies new heights in a place that filed a chargesheet against two was ignored for 70-years. accused in a seven-year-old case nion Home Minister “I was forced to give related to issuance of a forged bank Amit Shah on a detailed reply as some guarantee bond for an amount of Rs USaturday said that the members alleged that no 1 crore fraudulently to a New Delhi- biggest achieve of the Prime development was taking based businessman, an official said. Minister Narendera Modi led place in J&K after Article The chargesheet was filed against government in Jammu and 370 revocation,” Shah told File Photo Vishal Mahajan of Jammu and Vi- Kashmir was that the youth Parliament while replying nay Mittal of Delhi in the passenger in the Union Territory are to the discussion on the J&K Observer Monitoring Desk of mild and moderate inten- tax More On P10 holding cricket bats instead Reorganisation Bill-2020. sity while in 2014 nineteen of guns in their hands while He said the biggest achieve- SRINAGAR: Jammu and tremors were reported. J&K Logs 66 New as development is touching ment of More On P10 Kashmir which falls un- However, a powerful Corona Cases, 1 Death Press Trust Of India will grant full statehood to Jammu der Seismic Zone V, has earthquake measuring 7.5 and Kashmir at an appropriate time witnessed over 160 earth- on the Richter scale killed SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir NEW DELHI: Home Minister Amit and asserted that the government Promise Of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul quakes, including a massive three people in Jammu and recorded 60 fresh cases of the novel Shah gave an assurance in Lok has done more for it since Article Muslimeen (AIMIM) tremor of 7.5 magnitude Kashmir in October 2015, coronavirus on Saturday, taking Statehood Sabha on Saturday that the Centre 370 was scrapped in More On P10 leader Asaduddin Owaisi on over the last twelve years, exactly a decade after an the tally to 1,25,268, while another A 'Jumla': Saturday slammed BJP-led reports said Saturday. earthquake of 7.6 mag- death raised the toll to 1,949, offi- Owaisi government More On P10 According to the reports, nitude killed more than cials said. Thirteen of the fresh cases bill to merge the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Kashmir was hit by seven 80,000 people, injured were from the Jammu division and LS Passes cadre of all-India services officers with the earthquakes in the year more than 100,000, and 47 from the Kashmir division of the NC Welcomes HM’s Statement Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram Union 2011 and eleven in the year left 3 million homeless in Union Territory, they said. The of- Bill To Merge A Territory (AGMUT) cadre was passed by Lok Sabha National Conference Provincial President Devender Singh Rana on 2012. In 2013, the Valley ex- Pakistani side of Kashmir. ficials said Srinagar district recorded J&K Cadre on Saturday by a voice vote. The Jammu and Kashmir Saturday welcomed the statement of Union Home Minister Amit perienced 25 earthquakes The year also More On P10 a maximum More On P10 Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2021 has already Shah on restoration of statehood to Jammu More On P10 With AGMUT been passed by Rajya Sabha. More On P10 Heart Attack Kills Tourist In Pahalgam SRINAGAR: A middle-aged tourist Top Militant Held died of a heart attack at the famous Polls for DDC Chiefs Held In tourist resort Pahalgam in South In Samba: Police Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Sat- 2 Kashmir Districts Adjourned urday. 56-year-old KM Pradeepan, Press Trust Of India son of PVK Nair of Cochin, Kerala, In 3 Jammu Districts fell unconscious at Pahalgam and JAMMU: A top militant affili- was rushed to a nearby hospital Press Trust Of India ated with The Resistance Front where doctors declared him brought (TRF), wanted in connection dead, reports said. The slain was on SRINAGAR: Elections for posts with the killing of three BJP tour to Kashmir Valley with nine of of chairperson and vice- workers and a policeman in his family members More On P10 chairpersons of the District south Kashmir last year, was Development Council (DDC) arrested in Samba district of Leopard Caught were held in two districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police Kashmir in the final phase on said on Saturday. In Balhama Saturday, while a lack of quo- Zahoor Ahmad Rather alias SRINAGAR: Wildlife officials on rum forced adjournment of "Sahil", "Khalid" was hiding Saturday caught a leopard in Bal- polls in three of the four dis- in Samba district of Jammu hama area of the city outskirts. tricts in Jammu region. region and was arrested on A leopard was spotted by locals In the fifth and the last Saturday, the officials said. a specific information by roaming in residential area of phase of the polls, the chair- They said that People's Anantnag police, a senior po- Balhama in the Srinagar outskirts persons and vice-chairpersons Alliance for Gupkar Declaration lice official said. on Saturday morning after which for the DDCs in Baramulla (PAGD) won the election for The TRF is considered an they informed the wildlife officials, and Bandipora, both in north the post of the chairperson in offshoot of Lashker-e-Taiba reports said. After receiving the Kashmir, were elected on Bandipora More On P10 KO lensman Abid Bhat captures a view of Hokersar wetland which is abuzz after the arrival of migratory birds this winter. (LeT) militant More On P10 news, a team of wildlife officials reached the area and trapped the beast in a net. More On P10 Govt Panel Absconder Arrested 41 Years After Crime: Police 3 CISF Men Injured To Supervise Choudhary Given Additional In Uri Accident Websites Updation Observer News Service 379 RPC , 6 Forest Act at Police Station, Saddar in 1980, he said. Charge Of Div Com Kashmir SRINAGAR: At least three CISF Observer Monitoring Desk SRINAGAR: The Jammu and “He might have stolen any personnel sustained injuries when a Kashmir Police on Saturday forest-produce and gone ab- vehicle they were travelling in, skid- J&K Recalls 2 IAS SRINAGAR: The Jammu and arrested an absconder from sconding to evade his arrest Officers, Deputes As ded off the road in Uri in Baramulla Kashmir administration on Saturday central Kashmir’s Ganderbal from the last 41 years,” said district on Saturday. Reports said constituted a committee headed district over four decades af- the police official on the con- Many Others To Ladakh that a vehicle (JK-05 7458) on by Secretary to the Government ter he was charged for theft. dition of anonymity. Observer Monitoring Desk its way from NHPC-II Chandayan Information Technology Majeed Tanch, son of Fateh When asked why the case towards Uri when it met with the Department to supervise the upda- Tanch was arrested by a po- a police official told Kashmir took 41 years to crack, he said SRINAGAR: The government accident near Salamabad Uri, tion of official websites of various lice team from his house in Observer. Majeed, who is origi- that every police station has a file on Saturday directed Deputy resulting in injuries to three persons. government departments and dis- Anderwan village of Kangan nally from Check Dara Harwan of absconding cases that needs Commissioner Srinagar A senior police officer confirming tricts of Union Territory. In an order on Saturday in a theft case was evading arrest after police to be produced in the court. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary to the incident told More On P10 issued More On P10 filed against him 41 years ago, slapped charges under section “…and it’s up to More On P10 hold the charge of Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir for a temporary period of six days of six days has been sanc- ....LAWAYPORA ‘EncoUNTER’ According to an or- tioned to Pandurang K. Pole. Panchayat Related Barring Gulmarg, der issued by the General Meanwhile, the J&K admin- Mercury Rises Administration Department istration on Saturday recalled Machinery Overhauled In J&K Mehbooba ‘Barred’ From (GAD) Choudhary will hold two IAS officers from Lakdakh In Kashmir additional charge of Div Com and deputed as many others Press Trust Of India an assistant commissioner Visiting Pulwama Teen’s Family Kashmir from February 15 to to the UT.