Shopian: Mobile numbers put out as helplines were switched off when they were needed for snow clearance, electricity or water supply restoration in Shopian district on Monday, while almost all the link roads remained under snow for the second consecutive day. Locals from many areas of the district informed Kashmir Reader that the helpline numbers […]
Shopian: A JCB skidded off the road and turned turtle while clearing snow in Awneera village in Zainapora area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district injuring two persons. An official in the local R&B department identified the duo as Arshid Ahmad and Gayas Ahmad saying they received minor injuries and were shifted to the nearby health […]
Shopian: The season’s first heavy snowfall disrupted normal life in mountainous district Shopian. According to officials, one to two feet of snow was witnessed in the district. The uninterrupted snowfall since Saturday midnight in Shopian not only disrupted road connectivity but many areas remained without electricity and drinking water services. Efforts to clear the roads […]
Shopian: The overhead barricades installed by the Roads and Buildings Department at the entry points of Shopian town keep being broken, without any trace of the vandals and without any purpose served by the barricades at all. These overhead barriers were installed to prevent heavy vehicles from entering the town, so that the problem of […]
Shopian: Hundreds of women and girls were sitting with Sara Bano in a makeshift tent outside her two-storey house in Turkwangam village, Shopian district, on Thursday, while she wailed, “I swear to all, to his blood: he was not a militant.” In another corner of the tent, Sara Bano’s daughter wailed, “We searched for you […]
Shopian: A policeman from Shopian who had buried many militants at the government-designated graveyard in Sonamarg this year was unaware that today he had to bury his own younger brother in the same graveyard. Zubair Ahmad Lone, a resident of Turkwagam village of Shopian, was killed along with two other youths in an encounter which […]
Fire service vehicles, reinforcements brought; second night of ‘thorough’ searches underway Shopian: A military operation launched at Kapran village, some 12 kilometers from district headquarters Shopian, entered its second night on Tuesday, with no trace of militants found so far. This is the 7th such operation in Kapran village in the past 22 days. Locals […]
Shopian: The Sher-i-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) is responsible for the near extinction of the famous Hirpora potato, indigenous to Hirpora region in south Kashmir, officials in the Agriculture department told Kashmir Reader. “New varieties like Kufri Joti and Kufri Himalayan were brought by the SKUAST and distributed in villages instead […]
Shopian: Two local militants belonging to Al-Badr outfit were killed in an overnight 20-hour-long gunfight at Kenigam village, some 10 kilometers from district headquarters Shopian. Two army men were also injured in the encounter. The firefight between militants and government forces started on Friday evening when a group of militants fired upon a party of […]
Shopian: An encounter erupted between government forces and militants in south Kashmir’s Shopian on Friday. Local sources told Kashmir Reader that gunshots were heard at around 4 pm in Shopian’s Kenigam village peripheries soon after the joint team of government forces launched a cordon and search operation. Police sources said that a joint team of […]