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  • Undeterred by means of Baltal tragedy, Amarnath pilgrims proceed to throng Jammu in hordes 

    By means of PTI

    JAMMU: Undeterred by means of the fatal flash floods that experience claimed no less than 16 lives at Baltal, devotees thronged the Amarnath Yatra base camp in Jammu on Saturday with a “top stage of enthusiasm and devotion” for his or her onward adventure to the cave shrine positioned at a top of three,880 metres within the south Kashmir Himalayas.

    Expressing grief over the tragedy that happened on Friday, the pilgrims stated they have got no concern as they have got complete religion in Lord Shiva, including that it will be an excellent privilege for them in the event that they die within the home of the god.

    The 43-day annual pilgrimage began on June 30 from the dual routes — the normal 48-km direction from Nunwan in Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag and the 14-km shorter however steep Baltal direction in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir.

    Over one lakh pilgrims have paid obeisance on the cave shrine because the yatra is scheduled to finish on August 11 at the instance of Raksha Bandhan.

    “We reached Jammu on Saturday. We haven’t any concern. We have now come right here taking the title of Lord Shiva. If the god takes our lives right here, we will be able to settle for it. However we’ve got come to have darshan of Bholenath and not anything can prevent us from doing that,” Anantajit, who has come along side his spouse and two youngsters from Tripura, stated.

    Declaring that those that had been born may also must die someday, he stated, “If the loss of life happens within the home of Shiva, it will be the maximum pious factor to occur to any individual.” 

    Chanting “Bam Bam Bhole”, “Har Har Mahadev” and “Bholenath Ki Jai”, a gaggle of 60 enthusiastic pilgrims from Rajkot in Gujrat entered the Bhagwati Nagar base camp right here for his or her onward adventure to the dual base camps of Pahalgam and Baltal on Sunday.

    “We haven’t any concern in our hearts and minds. Whether or not there’s a cloudburst or flash floods, we will be able to move to Amarnath with the blessings of Bholenath. We’re enthusiastic to have darshan of the ice lingam as lets no longer consult with the shrine within the remaining two years because of COVID-19,” Surinder Singh of Kanpur stated.

    Over 6,000 pilgrims have arrived in Jammu from more than a few portions of the rustic for his or her adventure to Kashmir to pay obeisance on the cave shrine.

    A heavy rush was once observed on the registration counters, token centres and accommodation centres, except the bottom camp in Jammu.

    The shrine properties an ice stalagmite construction referred to as the “lingam” that wanes and waxes with the levels of the moon.

    Devotees imagine that the “lingam” symbolises the legendary powers of Shiva.

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    The flash floods brought about by means of heavy rains have failed to vary the non secular fervour and devotional temper in Jammu, officers stated.

    “Pilgrims devoid of concern and with top enthusiasm are coming in loads. There was no fall in pilgrim arrivals,” an legitimate stated.

    Over 3.42 lakh pilgrims had paid obeisance on the shrine from July 1 to August 1, 2019, earlier than the Centre cancelled the pilgrimage halfway, forward of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Charter and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into Union territories.

    A minimum of 16 folks had been killed whilst 15,000 pilgrims, who have been stranded close to the holy cave because of the flash floods, had been shifted to the decrease base camp of Panjtarni, officers stated.

    A large operation is on to track the lacking folks.

  • Curfew in portions of Jammu area’s Chenab valley; efforts directly to defuse stress 

    Via PTI

    BHADERWAH/JAMMU: A curfew clamped in portions of Jammu’s Chenab valley was once in impact on Saturday, whilst a day-long shutdown known as towards contemporary remarks on Prophet Mohammad via two now-suspended BJP leaders disrupted lifestyles within the Peer Panchal area, officers stated.

    At the same time as efforts had been intensified to defuse communal stress, distinguished voters from each the communities asked the federal government to take strict motion towards “mischievous parts” bent on tense peace.

    Broadband and cell web services and products remained suspended in numerous spaces, together with Bhaderwah and Kishtwar cities, as a precautionary measure.

    Stress had fastened in Bhaderwah township of Doda district and a few spaces of within sight Kishtwar and Ramban districts of Chenab valley area, prompting the government to impose restrictions below phase 144 of the CrPC past due Thursday night time.

    A curfew was once therefore clamped in Bhaderwah and a few different portions of Doda district at the side of Kishtwar the city as a precautionary measure, the officers stated, including that barring a stone-pelting incident in Bhaderwah, there was once no untoward incident reported from any place.

    They stated scholars showing within the bi-annual Magnificence 12 ultimate examinations had been allowed during the curfew-bound spaces on furnishing their admit playing cards.

    Deputy Inspector Common of Police, Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban vary, Sunil Gupta went spherical Bhaderwah the city at the side of a contingent of police team of workers and requested folks to stick indoors.

    A girls team of workers contingent was once additionally deployed within the the city, the officers stated, including that efforts had been intensified to defuse the stress via encouraging conferences between senior voters of the 2 communities.

    One such assembly was once held in Bhaderwah the city below the chairmanship of District Construction Council (DDC) chairman D S Kotwal, by which participants of the Shri Sanatan Dharam Sabha and representatives of the Sarafa Jamia Masjid Committee participated and confident complete cooperation to the management in coping with mischievous parts.

    “The assembly was once held in a cordial environment, and the contributors unanimously asked for stern motion towards mischievous parts bent upon tense peace,” Jamia Masjid Committee president Imtiaz-ur-Rehman Bhat stated.

    Deputy president of Dharam Sabha Manoj Kotwal stated some parts had been misusing social media to pressure a wedge between the 2 communities and this must be handled “iron fingers”.

    “There are some parts who need disturbance. They must be recognized and thrown in jail. We had been having a look ahead for a just right tourism season after 3 lengthy years however the entire efforts to restore tourism suffered a setback,” he stated.

    Reviews from the dual border districts of Rajouri and Poonch in Peer Panchal area of Jammu spoke of a calm shutdown as a part of a protest towards the new remarks via the suspended BJP leaders.

    The shutdown name was once sounded via a frame of Muslim preachers and supported via president of Sanatan Dharam Sabha, Mendhar, Balram Sharma.

    The protests began in Bhaderwah the city of Doda on Thursday when masses of folks staged a sit-in towards the remarks made via now-suspended BJP leaders Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal on Prophet Mohammad and the social media posts via right-wing activists in fortify of the BJP leaders.

    After intense negotiations, the protestors agreed to transparent the street and entered the neighbouring Jama Masjid.

    Purported video clips of the inflammatory speeches went viral on social media.

    The police have registered a case and warned folks towards taking the legislation into their very own fingers.

    On the other hand, stress higher round nighttime when two girls, who got here out of the mosque, claimed that they had been roughed up via the protection forces who had been enforcing the curfew within the the city.
     

  • BJP the use of diversionary ways because it failed to offer justice to folks in Jammu and Kashmir: Omar Abdullah

    Omar Abdullah stated his birthday celebration will scuttle each try of the BJP and can safeguard the rights of the folk to begin a brand new segment of construction, as soon as it returns to energy.

  • Detailed forensic probe on to spot purpose of new bus fireplace in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi: NIA

    A workforce of NIA inspected the wreckage of the bus on Saturday and picked up samples right through their one-and-a-half hour keep on the scene.

  • Pakistani guy arrested alongside LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri

    Via PTI

    JAMMU: A 55-year-old Pakistani guy used to be arrested alongside the Line of Keep an eye on when he crossed into this aspect of the borderline in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Friday, officers stated.

    Troops guarding the Line of Keep an eye on (LoC) arrested the person who used to be transferring below suspicious instances in ahead house in Turkundi house, they stated.

    A couple of Pakistani foreign money notes and an awl have been present in his ownership, officers stated.

    Later, he used to be passed over to Manjakote police station.

  • Jammu come upon: Had misplaced all hope, however military answered in time, rescued us, says circle of relatives stuck in gunbattle

    By way of PTI

    JALALABAD: “We concept we’d by no means see every different once more,” stated Zulfikar Ali as he recounted the hours that adopted after a fierce gunbattle broke out between terrorists and safety forces right here early Friday.

    There was once heavy firing and grenade explosions, and little likelihood of having out alive, stated the 34-year-old, who concealed in a nook of his space at the side of his circle of relatives as bullets and splinters hit partitions and cars outdoor.

    It was once amid this terrifying state of affairs {that a} workforce of the military entered the home and underneath heavy coverage began rescuing each member, he stated.

    “The workforce took us to a secure position and we’re alive nowadays,” stated Ali, claiming that the gunbattle broke out within the densely populated Jalalabad house someday after 4 am.

    In keeping with officers, the gunbattle, during which two terrorists — a part of a suicide squad from Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed — had been killed, lasted about six hours with sanitisation operations nonetheless on within the house.

    “A noisy explosion within the compound of the home woke us up. This was once adopted through the deafening noise of firing of automated rifles and extra explosions,” stated Ali.

    Masarat Hussain, any other resident, stated, “We had awoke for sahar (morning foods throughout Roza within the month of Ramzan) when firing and blasts rattle us.”

    Doorways and home windows had been closed, and the sound outdoor was once terrifying, he recalled.

    Ali stated that when being woken up through the grenade blast, he instantly known as the native police station space officer for lend a hand and rescue.

    They answered in time, he stated and confirmed his space’s compound partitions which have been riddled with bullets.

    “We have now by no means observed this taking place. We don’t wish to see this once more I’m grateful to the military from the core of my middle. They introduced us out of the home,” Ali stated.

    The terrorists entered the Jalalabad locality after lobbing a grenade and firing at a bus wearing 15 CISF workforce round 4.

    25 am close to the Chaddha camp house, killing an assistant sub-inspector and injuring two others Safety forces zeroed in at the space during which the terrorists concealed and compelled them into an deserted rest room, officers stated, including that they had been neutralized with heavy hearth and grenade hits.

  • BJP looking to wreck Jammu and Kashmir’s financial system, however PM Narendra Modi gazing silently: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti

    Peoples Democratic Celebration president Mehbooba Mufti alleged that the formative years have been being arrested with none proof.

  • Come across breaks out in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian

    By way of PTI

    SRINAGAR: A gunbattle broke out between militants and safety forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, police stated.

    Safety forces introduced a cordon and seek operation in Shopian’s Heripora village following details about the presence of militants there, a police respectable stated.

    The hunt operation was an stumble upon which used to be happening until stories final got here in, the respectable added.

    There have been no stories of any casualties thus far.

  • 43-day annual Amarnath yatra in J&Ok to start out on June 30

    By way of PTI

    JAMMU: The yearly pilgrimage to the shrine of Amarnath positioned at a peak of three,880 metres in south Kashmir Himalayas has been scheduled to start on June 30, an professional stated on Sunday.

    The verdict to agenda the 43-day pilgrimage used to be taken at a gathering of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board chaired via Lt Governor Manoj Sinha.

    “Nowadays chaired Board assembly of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board. The 43-day holy pilgrimage will start on thirtieth June with all covid protocols in position & culminate, as in line with the custom, at the day of Raksha Bandhan. We had in-depth dialogue on more than a few problems additionally on upcoming Yatra,” Sinha wrote on twitter.

    The Amarnath yatra used to be cancelled halfway in 2019 forward of abrogation of Article 370 in August that yr, whilst just a symbolic yatra used to be seen the previous two years because of the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic.

  • 4 useless, 15 injured as hearth breaks out in Jammu development

    Through PTI

    JAMMU: 4 other people, together with a girl and a kid, had been killed and 15 others injured after a large hearth broke out in a development right here on Monday, police stated.

    The hearth broke out within the night time in a scrap store at the floor ground of the development in Residency Street space it sounds as if because of a brief circuit.

    Quickly the flames engulfed all of the development and one of the crucial LPG cylinders saved inside of exploded, stated Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu, Chandan Kohli.

    Jammu and Kashmir | 4 other people died and 14 were given injured after a fireplace broke out in a scrap store round 6.15 pm. Cylinders within the store additionally exploded. Rescue operation underway: Mukesh Singh, ADGP Jammu Zone %.twitter.com/8Nu4xf1rjj

    — ANI (@ANI) March 14, 2022

    He stated 3 other people, together with a kid, had been charred to demise within the incident and 15 others had been rescued and rushed to the medical institution. Some other frame was once recovered later.

    Citizens of the development had been most commonly staff from Assam, the officers stated. They stated the situation of probably the most injured, who had suffered 80 consistent with cent burns, was once mentioned to be important. The identities of the deceased may no longer be established instantly, they added.

    A spokesperson of the Fireplace and Emergency Products and services Division stated they won a decision in regards to the hearth round 6.10 pm and instantly rushed hearth tenders to the spot.

    Further Director Basic of Police, Jammu, Mukesh Singh additionally rushed to the scene to oversee the firefighting and rescue operation.

    Singh has directed SSP, Jammu to analyze the incident, a police spokesperson stated. “Over a dozen households had been dwelling within the development. The hearth unfold very speedy, most of the citizens may no longer get away instantly,” stated a development resident Anwar Hussain.

    Some other survivor, Yasmeena Khatoon, stated the development citizens misplaced the whole thing within the hearth. “Lets no longer retrieve the rest and attempted to escape the raging hearth,” she stated, including that lots of her kin are both injured or lacking after the incident.

    Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha condoled the lack of lives within the hearth and introduced a reimbursement of Rs 5 lakh every for the households of the deceased.

    “My condolences to the bereaved households and prayers for quick restoration of the injured,” he stated in a sequence of tweets.

    “An ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh every to be given to the households of the deceased whilst Rs 1 lakh be given to the significantly injured and Rs 25,000 to these with minor accidents,” he stated.

    Sinha additionally directed the management to offer all vital help to the affected households.