Skating player Vanshaj has made entire Jammu and Kashmir proud by winning his first ever bronze medal in ‘Senior inline speed skating category’ after a span of 12 years.
The Roller Skating Federation of India took to social media and congratulated to the entire team of Indian Hawks of the J&K union territory and their parents.
The J&K Power Development Department on Tuesday warned against fraudulent messages asking consumers to clear “pending bills”.
In the fake messages, sent on whatsApp in the name of the power department, the sender tells consumers that their connection will be disconnected “because your previous month bill was not updated”.
The consumers are asked to contact the ” electricity officer ” over the matter. However calling out the fraudulent nature of the messages, the JKPDD asked consumers to be aware of the texts that scammers are floating to the masses.
“Unless a communication contains your Consumer Name and ID, please do not respond, ” the JKPDD said in a statement.
Nine members of a family were found dead in their house in Maharashtra’s Sangli district on Monday, police said, adding that the police suspect it to be a case of suicide.
The two brothers – one of them a teacher and the other a veterinarian – and seven of their other family members were found dead on Monday at two separate homes of the siblings in Mhaisal village of Sangli district, police had said.
Suicide notes were found at the homes, located 1.5 km apart in the village, over 350 km from the state capital Mumbai, they had said.
A preliminary probe suggested the two brothers had heavily borrowed money from various people, police said.
Addressing a press conference, Sangli Superintendent of Police Dikshit Gedam said, “The contents of the suicide notes indicate the family had borrowed money from some people and they were finding it difficult to repay it.” “As they were humiliated for it, they took the extreme step,” the official said.
Prima facie, it looks like they had taken the loan for some business, he said.
“We have already registered a case against 25 people from whom the family had taken money. The family was harassed and humiliated by these people, who forced them to take the extreme step,” he said.
Out of these 25 people, the police have so far arrested 13 people under Indian Penal Code Sections 306 (abetment of suicide), 341 (wrongful restraint), and relevant sections of the Maharashtra Money Lending (Regulation ) Act and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the official said.
Some of the arrested accused already have cases related to money lending against them, he said.
Police teams have been formed to trace the other accused in the case, he added.
Asked if all the family members consumed a poisonous substance together, the official said they were still conducting a probe into what and how they consumed.
“The cause of the death is still reserved and what substance was used is under investigation,” he said.
When asked if there are any superstition angle to the case, the official said so far debt is the prima facie reason behind the incident, but the case will be probed from all angles.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday performed yoga asanas at an event on the banks of the Dal Lake here as he led the International Yoga Day celebrations in the union territory and urged all to embrace the ancient practice.
Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj Kapil Patil, Chief Secretary A K Mehta and Srinagar Municipal Corporation Mayor Junaid Mattu, among others, participated in the event.
“Greetings on #InternationalDayofYoga. Participated in #YogaDay2022 along with Hon’ble Union MoS Shri @KapilPatil_ and hundreds of people at Dal Lake in Srinagar. I urged all to embrace Yoga as an integral part of life for holistic approach to health & well-being,” Sinha tweeted.
“This invaluable gift to humanity is being used as a therapeutic intervention for various disorders & bringing equilibrium of body, mind and intellect,” he said.
Sinha said the theme for this year’s International Yoga Day, ‘Yoga For Humanity’, underlines the message of universal brotherhood in trying times.
On the occasion of International Yoga day former BJP minister Chowdhary Sham Lal participated in a programme organised at Octroi Post, Suchetgarh on the India-Pak International Border. From PMO Dr Jatinder Singh to BJP minister Jugal Kishore Sharma and several many prominent leaders along with the party workers of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) also participated in the programme.
Speaking on the occasion former minister, Chowdhary Sham Lal said that with the efforts of our honourable Prime mininster Narendra Modi today whole world is celebrating International yoga day.
He further said, but much more crucial thing is that such a big event has been organised at this international Indo-Pak border of Suchetgarh.
“Due to the strong bjp government at the centre there are no tensions at our borders and it has become possible to organise such events here on the international India-Pakistan border”,he further added.
In a recent update, Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district Police cracked the Kathua bank robbery case in 24 hours. Burglars broke into a private bank in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday and looted nearly Rs 1.65 crores in cash.
Kathua district police informed that Rs 1.65 crores of cash have been recovered which were looted by the burglars and one accused has been arrested so far. The accused is being interrogated by the district police. Police have also retrieved some amount from the bank roof and apprehended two guards during the initial probe on Monday.
An HDFC bank was looted by unknown persons in the Hatli Morh area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Monday. Officials said the gunmen had held the security guard hostage before looting the bank. He was left unconscious after the incident.
Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad has tested positive for Covid-19.
Azad informed through a tweet that he has tested positive for Covid-19 and is under home quarantine.
Jammu and Kashmir police claimed to have booked a news portal for spreading fake and baseless news.
“Shopian police registered FIR No. 43/2022 U/s 153 and 505(1)b IPC against the handler of Facebook news portal THE REAL KASHMIR NEWS for spreading fake and baseless news with the intention to mislead the general public about the Chandigam Lolab encounter and investigation has been set into motion,” police said in a statement.
Meanwhile, police urged people not to pay heed towards these rumours and legal action will be taken against those spreading fake and baseless information on the social media
The minimum temperature continued to hover below normal in Jammu and Kashmir as intermittent light to moderate rain continued on Tuesday.
While predicting an overall improvement in the weather from June 23 onwards, a meteorological department official here said that there was possibility of heavy rain at “scattered places” of South Kashmir and Jammu region from this afternoon to forenoon on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, he said, Srinagar received 2.8 mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours till 0830 hours today and recorded a low of 13.3°C against 13.5°C on the previous night. The temperature, he said, was 2.5°C below normal during this time of the year for the summer capital.
Qazigund had 1.4 mm of rainfall during the time and recorded a low of 12.0°C against 10.4°C on the previous night. The temperature was 2.3°C ‘below’ normal for the gateway town of Kashmir, he said.
Pahalgam received 2.9 mm of rainfall during the time and recorded a minimum of 8.6°C against 7.6°C on the previous night. The temperature was 0.5°C below normal for the famous resort in south Kashmir during this time of the season, he said.
Kokernag had 3.0 mm of rain and recorded a low of 11.1°C against 9.3°C on the previous night. It was 3.0°C ‘below’ normal for the place in south Kashmir during this time of the season, the official said.
Gulmarg received 12.4 mm of rain during the time and recorded a low of 4.6°C against 4.4°C on the previous night, the official said. While 10.2°C is normal for the world famous skiing resort during this time of the season, the official said that the temperature was 5.6°C below normal for the famous place in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Kupwara town in north Kashmir received 6.7 mm of rainfall and recorded a low of 11.3°C against 11.8°C on the previous night. The temperature was 2.8°C below normal for the district, the official said.
Jammu had 1.0 mm of rain and recorded a low of 22.2°C against 23.0°C on the previous night, the official said.
The temperature was 4.3°C ‘below’ normal for J&K’s winter capital, he said. Banihal had 4.6 mm of rain and recorded a low of 11.6°C; Batote had 4.7 mm of rain and recorded a low of 12.0°C; Katra received 1.2 mm of rain and recorded low of 20.4°C while Bhadarwah received 5.2 mm of rain and had a minimum of 12.1°C, the official said.
Kashmiri Pandit employees, who are working in the valley under the Prime Minister’s Package demanded that the government give them in writing that there would be no more targeted killings of minorities and only then they would resume their duties.
Addressing media persons at Sheikhpora migrant camp in Budgam on Monday under the banner of All Minority Employees of Kashmir they said “We will come back to join our offices and resume our duties, but until and unless government assures and gives it in writing that no more migrant or minority killings take place”.
“Government may tell us if they have some concrete road map, some directions or policies or stately arrangements or give in writing that no minority killings will happen, we will resume our duties”, the speakers said.
They said “the brute force are hell bound to count in the chart of genocide…they are not seeing faces now they are seeing numbers. One day one killing is there news”.
They said the government should consider the issue of migrant employees as a grave issue in view of the situation. “We are totally unsafe in this place as we don’t want to become news only. We feel that our families, Children have to be secured, we have to be in a conducive environment”, they added.
They said that they had asked Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and higher ups to locate them to other safer places till the situation gets normal in Kashmir valley. “But we had been hopeful and things would turn and they would understand our agony and pain and help us out”, they added.
“Since it has been a month the government is deliberating mulling on the issues like transferring employees to nearby places in the headquarters or giving parallel seniority to our PM package employees. But this is not the solution because brute forces are very focal and very ruthless”, the Kashmiri Pandits said.
They said “It is not worth that government may post an employee in a safer place 3 km away from his residence …life is not just to go office and come back even they assure us we would not be harmed..after all we are human beings and there are dignity of life and there has to be a conducive environment where we feel safe to move around.”
The Kashmiri pandits said that “life is not working only. We have a family, our children. They have to move around out to places to live like a common person lives in the society. ”
They said “there remains no option for us even though there had been a little dampener in the targeted killings because the majority of minority people left the Kashmir valley to save their lives. There are a handful of people like us here who stayed due to certain concerns…definitely we also want to leave earliest as the situation is not conducive in Kashmir”.
“The All Minority Employees of Kashmir requested LG and the government of India for help and to save our lives and locate us in safer places until you are able to control the situation on the ground”, they added.
