LAST PAGE...P.8 WEDNESDAY C AUGUST-2020 KASHMIR M 23 Y SRINAGAR TODAY : PARTLY CLOUDY Contact 19 : -0194-2502327 K FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS & YOUR COPY OF Maximum : 32°c SUNSET Today 07:13 PM Minmum : 20°c SUNRISE Humidity : 58% Tommrow 05:55 AM 28 Zilhijjat-ul-Haraaml | 1441 Hijri | Vol: 23 | Issue: 179 | Pages: 08 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com / kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver Postal Regn: L/159/KO/SK/2014-2016 Morning Showers Break Hundreds Protest News Digest Dry Spell In Kashmir Pak Begins Phase-III SRINAGAR- A spell of early morn- Across Valley Against Kreeri Gun-Battle ing rainfall broke the prolonged Trial OfCOVID Vaccine dry spell in Kashmir valley even as Islamabad: The Drug Regulatory Au- the summer capital Srinagar had Blasphemy Video thority of Pakistan (DRAP) has given on Monday recorded the hottest a nod for phase-III clinical trial of a August day in the last nearly four COVID-19 vaccine developed in col- Ends After Two Days File Pic laboration with a Chinese company, decades, officials said on Tuesday. a media report said on Tuesday. 5 Security Personnel, Lashkar Commander Among 3 Militants Dead Many places in the Kashmir val- According to a statement from the ley received a spell of rainfall dur- National Institute of Health (NIH), Agencies ing the night, the officials said. They it has obtained "formal approval" said the valley witnessed rains and from the DRAP for phase-III Clinical SRINAGAR: The two-day long thunderstorm with lightning and Trial of Recombinant Novel Coro- encounter between militants gusty winds which continued at navirus Vaccine Adenovirus Type and the joint team of police, few places till the morning. 5 vector (Ad5-nCoV) developed by CRPF and army in the orchards Srinagar city recorded 20.2 mm CanSinoBio and Beijing Institute of of Kreeri in Baramulla district rainfall, while Qazigund 12.2 mm, Biotechnology China (BIB)". ended on Tuesday, consuming Pahalgam 6.2 mm, Kupwara 5.2 The NIH said this would be the eight lives in all—three of them mm, Gulmarg 2.6 mm, and Koker- first-ever phase-III clinical trial for militants including two Lashker- nag 1.8 mm, they said. any vaccine in Pakistan. "It is a e-Taiba commanders, two army The clouds dispersed in the morn- multi-country multi-centre clinical soldiers, as many paramilitary ing, the officials said, adding, there trial which CanSinoBio is already CRPF men besides a policeman. was no forecast of any major rainfall conducting in China, Russia, P-02 Having been suspended on activity for next three days. However, Monday night, the firefight re- he stated that scattered rain is ex- India, Pak Troops sumed at first light today (Tues- File Pic pected around 20-21st August. day), leading to the killing of the The rainfall broke the prolonged Trade Fire Along IB trapped militant, Usman report- his father and brother have been CRPF men and an SPO were killed. dry spell in Kashmir valley which Jammu:India and Pakistan troops edly a Pakistani national. killed,” Inspector General of Police “At about 0915hrs on Monday, had been witnessing hotter days exchanged heavy gunfire along the Also, one among the two sol- (IGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar said. (militants) fired indiscriminately in the recent weeks. International Border in Kathua dis- diers succumbed to the injuries, “Haider was also instrumental upon a joint naka party of Police On Monday, Srinagar city re- trict of Jammu region, sources said taking the fatality toll of soldiers in recruiting youth into militant and security forces from nearby corded a maximum temperature Tuesday. Pakistani Rangers opened of 35.7 degrees Celsius, which was fire on border out posts (BoPs) in the gunfight to two. folds and was involved in several orchards at Nawan mode Kreeri Observer Monitoring Desk (Pbuh) triggering massive outrage. along the International Border in “Two soldiers who were criti- attacks on Police, security forces, area of Baramulla,” a police the hottest August day in the last On Sunday, police arrested Satpal Kathua district, sources said told cally injured succumbed to their civilians and political workers,” he spokesperson said. In the militant 39 years, the officials said. SRINAGAR: Hundreds of people Sharma, the main accused and his PTI. BSF troops guarding the border injuries,” Army spokesperson Lt. said. The search operation in the attack, he said, two CRPF person- They said Monday’s maximum on Tuesday held protests in sev- associate Deepak soon after the retaliated, resulting in exchanges, Col Rajesh Kalai said. He said two area is in process, the official said nel of 119 battalion and a police temperature was six degrees eral parts of the Valley against the video containing derogatory re- they added. Sources said Pakistani AK rifles and three pistols were The encounter had ensued after personnel (SPO) sustained griev- above the normal. members of an extremist Hindu marks against Prophet of Islam Rangers fired from machine guns recovered from the encounter site. a joint team of Police, CRPF and ous gunshot injuries. The city remained hotter than group in Jammu’s Reasi for mak- (Pbuh) went viral. Rohit Sharma, at forward BoPs of Chandwa and “Conspirator Sajad alias Haider army launched a cordon-and- “The injured were evacuated to Jammu — the winter capital of the ing blasphemous remarks against a resident of Pacca Danga locality, Karol Matraya in Hiranagar sector and one foreign militant Usman of search-operation following the at- nearby hospital for the treatment of UT — which had recorded 32.1 de- Prophet of Islam (Pbuh). was the third accused arrested in on Monday night. There were no killing BJP leader late Waseem Bari, tack in the morning in which two their injuries. However, PAGE 02 grees Celsius on Monday. According to reports, protests connection with the case related to casualties in the firing. While the Met office had an- were held in many parts of Sri- the communally sensitive video. nounced the arrival of monsoon nagar, Anantnag, Pulwama and Police had also filed a case under Lashkar Militant Held TWO SOLDIERS WHO WERE CRITICALLY INJURED SUCCUMBED on June 24 this year, the valley Baramulla districts against the section 153A IPC (promoting en- In Hajin: Police to their injuries,” Army spokesperson Lt. Col Rajesh Kalai said. He said two AK rifles and witnessed dry weather conditions members of members of righ- mity between different groups) and amid soaring temperatures. twing Sentinel Bharat Raksha 295A IPC (deliberate and malicious Srinagar: Police on Tuesday three pistols were recovered from the encounter site. “ Pertinently, Divisional Commis- Manch, who had made derogatory acts, intended to outrage religious claimed to have arrested a sioner Kashmir, Pandurang P-02 remarks against Prophet of Islam feelings of any class by PAGE Lashkar-e-Taiba militant from Ban- 02 dipora district of north Kashmir. Based on credible information, po- lice, army’s 13RR and the person- nel of IRP 8th battalion arrested Shopian Encounter: Court Of Flash Floods Threaten Lashkar militant Subzar Ahmad IB Fencing In J&K Rather alias Aatish Bhai from Jamia Masjid Reopens For Prayers After 150 Days Check Chandrageer area of Hajin Inquiry In Progress, Says Army JAMMU: Flash floods triggered by in Bandipora, a police spokesper- Observer News Service heavy rains are threatening the son said. He said that incriminat- Press Trust Of India is being headed by a Brigadier rank three-tier border fencing along ing materials, arms & ammunition officer as the unit involved in the SRINAGAR: Hundreds of people, in- the Indo-Pak International Border including a pistol, one magazine SRINAGAR: An army court of in- encounter was headed by a Colonel. cluding women on Tuesday offered and have caused minor damage to and four rounds were recovered quiry on Tuesday began recording The incident took place on July prayers at the historic Jamia Mas- a section of the fencing in Jammu from the militant, who hails from statements of witnesses in con- 18 when the army claimed to have jid in the Old City here; nearly five frontier belt, officials said. Awneera area of Shopian Rather, nection with the killing of three killed three militants at Ashimpora months after the religious places Heavy rains have caused flash the police spokesperson said had alleged militants in an encounter in the higher reaches of Shopian in were shut down by the authorities recently joined the outfit and was floods in various rivers along the bor- last month in Shopian in South South Kashmir. to combat coronavirus pandemic. der, threatening the border fencing tasked to carry out P-02 Photo Abid Bhat Ko Kashmir, following allegations by However, little over two weeks According to reports, hundreds in Samba-Kathua-Jammu belt, they families in Rajouri area of Jammu thereafter, missing complaints were of people, including locals and said. A senior BSF officer said that Youth Dies Of region that as many of their kin lodged by the families of three youths, the members of the traders’ com- parts of the fence in Basantar river Drowning In Shopian were missing from the same place. working as labourers in apple and munity rushed to the Grand Mas- area are likely to get washed away. Srinagar-based Defence spokes- walnut orchards, who had disap- jid as soon as the muezzin gave "It is 150 to 200 metres of patch. Srinagar: A youth on Tuesday died person Colonel Rajesh Kalia asked peared from the same region and they call for Zuhr prayers. Emotional cheering, were seen kissing the ter 150 days of lockdown. of drowning in a stream in south There was partial damage to it. If additional civil witnesses to de- had last talked to them on July 17.