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Says WD affecting Kashmir from Feb 04

Srinagar, Jan 28: As the Valley experienced adequate snowfall this January, the local weatherman on Monday predicted fresh snowfall across the Valley in between Jan 30-31.
Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Deputy Director Meteorological department (MeT), Mukhtar Ahmad said that there is possibility of light snowfall across the Valley from Jan 320 evening to Jan 31 evening.
He added that the higher reaches would also receive moderate snowfall from Jan 30 evening here.
Ahmad further informed that a Western Disturbance (WD) is affecting Kashmir from February 04 or 05, saying that intensity of WD could not be forecasted so far and would be made public soon.
He added that weather in coming days would remain mostly cloudy.
Earlier, the Valley received adequate snowfall this January as forecasted by MeT department here. The first snowfall was experienced in Kashmir on Jan 01, which continued intermittently.
The snowfall also led to the closure of Srinagar-Jammu highway several times in this month and reopened after six day long closure today. (KNS)

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir will be facing more rain and snow over the coming week, rainfall on Jan 30 and 31

The forecaster says the coming week will feature heavy rain and snowfall on January 30 and 31 at isolated places, although few days in the three divisions of the state are predicted to remain dry.

According to India Meteorological Department.

The forecaster says the coming week will feature heavy rain and snowfall on January 30 and 31 at isolated places, although few days in the three divisions of the state are predicted to remain dry.

According to weatherman’s prediction from Jan 28 to Feb 3 in Kashmir valley weather from Jan 29 will begin to remain wet.

“Jan 28 will be dry and on Jan 29 there might be rain, snowfall at isolated places. On Jan 30, 31 a widespread snowfall, rainfall is expected at most places,” he said, adding that on Feb 1 and 2 there might be rain, snow on scattered areas and on Feb 3 there is a prediction of rain, snowfall at isolated places.

“Weather in Jammu, Ladakh will remain as of Kashmir,” he said. Weatherman asked people to stay updated and informed about the weather prediction for Jan 30 and 31 due to expectation of heavy snow, rainfall in valley.

Mercury on Monday dipped to lowest in Drass town of Jammu and Kashmir with minimum temperature plunging to minus 31.4 degrees Celsius.

Kashmir Meteorological Office said that the clear skies led to return of severe cold wave in the state particularly Kashmir valley.

The neighbouring town of Drass, Leh recorded a recorded a minimum temperature of minus 17.5.

Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar recorded minus 3.5 while tourist resorts Gulmarg and Pahalgam recorded a low of minus 12.6 and 13.6 degrees Celsius respectively.

Baramulla, Jan 28: A police head constable shot himself dead with his service rifle in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Monday.

Reports reaching GNS said that a head constable Mohammad Shafi Mir (46) son of Mohammad Ismail Mir resident of Sadoora Anantnag who was posted at District Police Line (DPL) Budgam shot himself dead with his service rifle on Monday morning.

SP Budgam Amod Nagpure told that cop committed suicide by firing upon himself at DPL Budgam today early morning.
Reasons are being ascertained, officer said. (GNS)

Srinagar, Jan 27: Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has said it carried out an Under Barrel Launcher (UBL) grenade attack on Indian army camp at Aahgam in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday.

A JeM spokesperson Mohammad Hassan in a statement issued to GNS said that the outfit’s men also attacked the forces with automatic weapons, resulting in serious injuries to several personnel.

The spokesperson also said that JeM carried out an Under Barrel Launcher (UBL) grenade attack on CRPF 180 bn at Nodal, Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday.

He said the grenade blasted inside the camp resulting in serious injuries to several Indian forces.

“We will continue our fight till the last soldier leaves Kashmir,” he said. (GNS)

Srinagar, Jan 27: SSP National Highway Sanjeev Khujuria today said that all the stranded vehicles on Srinagar-Jammu highway will be allowed to move towards Srinagar.
Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Sanjeev said they have cleared around 2000 vehicles and if the climate remains clear, all the vehicles will be allowed to move towards Srinagar.
He, however said, they will try to clear the stranded vehicles given the weather remains fine.
The 270-km highway, the only all weather road linking Kashmir with rest of the country, was closed on January 21 following heavy snowfall in the Jawahar Tunnel area – the gateway to Kashmir – and multiple landslides triggered by the incessant rains between Banihal and Ramban over the past week. (KNS)

To organise Road Show in Mumbai.

Srinagar, Jan 27: To attract tourists to Kashmir, J&K Hoteliers Club is scheduled to organise road show at Mumbai to tap Maharashtra market and Bollywood.
Chairman Hoteliers Club Mushtaq Chaya said they been in Mumbai for past couple of days in connection with their road show in the city.
“We will be inviting leading tour operators and destination sellers during our show and showcase them our tourism products. We are also in touch with famous bollywood stars and also filmmakers who will attend our show. Bollywood shooting promotes Kashmir as a scenic destination at global level. Their participation is must for our show. During the shows, we also invite both regional and national media to cover the event and sensitize them how important it is for them to cover positive stories,” said Chaya while talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS).
Chaya visited Mumbai during Out Bound Travel Mart (OTM) and promoted J&K’s tourism potential. On the sidelines of the OTM, Hoteliers Club met various travel trade bodies from Mumbai and also set meetings for Bollywood filmmakers for the first week of February to invite them for road show.
Chaya said Road Show are important to create a buzz about Kashmir and send a positive message among travellers that they should not miss visiting Kashmir.
“Though, our state gets meager funding for tourism promotion, the hotel, travel and houseboat associations have been doing commendable job by organising road shows across many cities in India.”
Recently, Kashmir Hotel and Restaurant Owners Association conducted its Road Show in Pune wherein over 100 travel agents participated. The travel agents are the main sellers of the destination who we mostly target during these road shows. It benefits us a big deal. Our state needs more and aggressive promotions than other state as we are receiving lesser number of tourists.
The members who participate in these shows also get an opportunity to network with their potential clients and agents to promote their companies.
Chaya said they are organizing road shows in collaboration with the department of tourism.
“We are thankful to the department of tourism for taking tourism stakeholders on board for its publicity campaigns. Overall it is a joint effort, in which we need to collaborate with each other.”
Besides road shows, the Hoteliers Club will also engage PR company from Mumbai for maximum coverage to the road show and also create liaison with the company for tourism promotion.
“Kashmir is already in the hearts and minds of the travellers. They crave to visit JK especially Kashmir which is truly a paradise on Earth. However, we suffer from wrong perception that Kashmir is not safe for tourists, which hinders our growth.
We need to develop PR with regional media. During our show, we will be hiring PR agency, which will give mileage to our show and create a positive buzz in the city, he said.
Chaya expressed optimism that the year 2019 will be good for Kashmir tourism.
“During our campaigning in several cities, we are getting good response from the travellers and our principal agents across the country. Allah has also been benevolent with timely and plenty snowfall this season which brings cheers among travellers. We are hopeful of this year’s tourism will be good.”

Srinagar, January 27, 2019: Brutality of the oppressor and their trigger happy armed forces have converted this paradise on the earth into a hell, suffocating every living creature in this piece of land- this was stated by All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman, Syed Ali Geelani in response to the Indian Republic Day speech of the Jammu and Kashmir Governor.

He said that our healthy and clean environment has been polluted by the filthy and suffocating fumes of bullets, pallets and other ammunitions. Our peaceful and happy habitat has been blown up and converted into rubble by occupation forces.

He said that India very deceitfully and cunningly forced their army in this unfortunate land 7 decades ago and since then we are struggling to free ourselves from this barbaric and brute occupation resulting in lakhs of innocent killings, thousands of un marked graves and hundreds of graveyards.

He said that disproportionate use of force to quell and crush our legitimate struggle seems to have no end. Even today our youth are killed, maimed, blinded and arrested. Our women folk are molested and raped. This unbearable and pathetic scenario is created by none other than our occupier and surprisingly its representative very cleverly tries to befool the people by parroting same old narrative.

He said that only remedy for all the ills is adopt a realistic approach to address the root cause, in accordance with the aspiration of this majority of this population, which only can guarantee peace and harmony in this region, otherwise this deceitful lip service has no takers here.

Srinagar: Former IAS officer Shah Faesal Sunday said now was the time for resolution of the Kashmir issue as attempting “military solutions to political problems would lead to nothing but graveyards”.
Faesal, who has launched a crowdfunding campaign for his political foray was commenting on the killing of 27 persons and injuries to 38 others in Kupwara town on this day in 1994.

“Attempting military solutions to political problems will lead to nothing but graveyards on this side and graveyards on that side,” Faesal said in a tweet.
“Today, on the 25th anniversary of Kupwara Massacre, my solidarities are with the people of Kashmir and their sacrifices,” he added.
“Time for resolution is now,” Faesal said.
Faesal had resigned as an IAS officer on January 9.

Rajouri, January 27: India and Pakistan armies on Sunday exchanged gunfire along Line of Control on Rajouri districts Nkwshera Sector.

Officials told KNO that Pakistan tended to violation of ceasefire which was retaliated by the Indian Army.

“Fiing started at about 01:15 PM and was going on,” the official said.

He said that both armies are using small arms against each other as well as shelling each other with mortars too. (KNO)