Srinagar, Oct 5: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday claimed that she has been placed under house arrest to prevent her from visiting north Kashmir’s Pattan town.
“While HM (Home Minister) is going around Kashmir beating drums of normalcy, I am under house arrest for simply wanting to visit Pattan for a worker’s wedding,” she tweeted.
“If an ex CM’s fundamental rights can be suspended so easily, one can’t even imagine the plight of a commoner,” she added.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to address a public rally in Baramulla town later today. (Agencies)

Jammu, Oct 5: Weather was dry in J&K during the last 24 hours as the MeT office said on Wednesday, and that same conditions are likely to continue in the next 24 hours.

“Mainly dry weather is expected to continue in J&K during the next 24 hours”, said an official of the MeT department.

Srinagar had 9.2, Pahalgam 5.1 and Gulmarg 5.5 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature today.

In Ladakh region, Drass town had 0.4 and Leh 2 as the minimum temperature.

Jammu had 19.6, Katra 18.2, Batote 12.1, Banihal 7.8 and Bhaderwah 10.1 as the minimum temperature.

Jammu, October 5: The construction of the 6-km flyover from Kanal Road to Mithi on the Jammu-Akhnoor highway has been completed on which two-way traffic has been flowing for the past few days.
The construction of a four-lane flyover on the 32-km Jammu-Akhnoor road up to Ganesh Vihar has greatly reduced traffic pressure. Traffic jams in Kanal Road, Talab Talu, Nahar, Mithi, Dumana had became a regular occurrence. Now this will reduce the traffic pressure.
The Rs 5,100 crore project was announced under the Prime Minister’s Development Package in November 2015 for the construction of the Rajouri-Poonch highway NH-144-A, of which Rs 917 crore is being spent on the Jammu-Akhnoor road.
The beautiful view of the city of Jammu can be seen while travelling on the flyover. It has been made very beautiful which also has a reasonable arrangement of light. The section where this six-km flyover is constructed, which used to take at least 30 to 45 minutes to pass through, causing severe hardship to employees, students and patients, has now been resolved. Vehicles going to Akhnoor, Poonch, or Rajouri will go directly through the flyover, while local vehicles will run on the road below the flyover.
Earlier, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari sanctioned release of Rs 562.45 crore worth of funds with a view to further boost work on Akhnoor-Poonch National Highway.
The funds were released for upgradation, widening and strengthening of two-lane with paved shoulders.
“The project for upgradation, widening and strengthening of two lanes with paved shoulders (length 35.38 kilometres) under 31 TF on Akhnoor-Poonch road (National Highway 144A) in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been sanctioned at the cost of Rs 562.45 crore,” Gadkari announced in a tweet. (Agencies)

SRINAGAR, Oct 5: Four terrorists were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, police said.
Three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists were killed in the Drach area of Shopian, while a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist was killed in the Moolu area of the south Kashmir district, they said.
“Three local #terrorists linked with proscribed #terror outfit JeM killed in #encounter at Drach #Shopian,” Additional Director General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said on Twitter.
He said a local terrorist of the proscribed outfit LeT was killed in an encounter in Moolu.
In the Drach operation, two of the three killed terrorists were identified as Hanan Bin Yaqoob and Jamshed, Kumar said.
They were involved in the killing of Special Police Officer (SPO) Javed Dar on October 2 at Pinglana in Pulwama and a migrant labourer from West Bengal on September 24 in the district, he said. (Agencies)

JAMMU, Oct: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tuesday arrived in Srinagar as part of his three-day tour to the Union territory, officials said.
They said Mr Shah arrived at the Srinagar airport from the Jammu region at around 7 pm.
The Union home minister set off the three-day tour of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. He met several delegations on Monday, and on Tuesday, he visited Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine at Katra and addressed a public rally in Rajouri.
On Amit Shah’s Kashmir itinerary is a public rally in Baramulla on Wednesday and a security review meeting, the officials said.
They said the focus of the meeting will be on tackling the attacks on the non-locals in the Kashmir valley.
The launch and foundation laying of various development projects in Srinagar is also on Mr Shah’s list, the officials said, adding he will then return to Delhi the same evening.
Security has been tightened in the valley for Amit Shah’s visit. The officials said multi-tier security has been put in place and drones are being used for aerial surveillance as well.
The checking on Srinagar-Baramulla highway has been intensified, while additional police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed to keep a close watch on the situation, they said.
Patrolling has been intensified at many places, especially on the Srinagar-Baramulla-Kupwara highway, the officials added.
The rally venue has been turned into a fortress, they said.
The BJP has said Amit Shah’s Baramulla rally will be historic. “This will be the biggest rally in the history of north Kashmir,” BJP’s J-K unit president Ravinder Raina said. (Agencies)

Srinagar, 4 Oct: An unidentified female body was recovered from Jhel Jhelum at Sher Colony Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday afternoon.

The body was seen floating by some locals in the river at Sher colony Sopore in the afternoon who accordingly informed the concerned police about it, news agency GNS reported.

Soon after receiving the information a police team reached to the spot and taken the body to hospital for medico legal formalities.An official said that a femal body have been recovered from river Jhelum , identification of the deceased is yet to be ascertained. A case has been registered in this connection and further investigation has been taken up.

Rajouri/Jammu: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today declared at Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir that the Pahari community, besides the Gujjars and Bakarwals, will soon get reservation in education and jobs as Scheduled Tribe (ST).
If ST status is granted to the Paharis, it will be the first instance of a linguistic group earning reservations in India. For this to happen, the Central government needs to amend the Reservations Act in Parliament.
“The commission (set up by Lieutenant Governor) has sent the report and recommended reservation for Gujjar, Bakarwal and Pahari communities. It will be given soon,” he said at a rally that marked the start of the BJP’s campaign for elections likely next year.
Mr Shah claimed the reservation became possible only after special status under Article 370 was removed. “Now, minorities, Dalits, tribals, Paharis will get their rights,” he said.
He said that “some people” unsuccessfully tried to “instigate” Gujjars and Bakerwals over Paharis too getting ST status.
He urged crowds to thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the move on August 5, 2019, when Articles 35A and 370, Constitutional provisions that gave some autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir, were hollowed out. The state was divided into two UTs — Ladakh was thus separated — of which Jammu and Kashmir can have an elected assembly. Its first elections are likely early next year as the process of demarcating constituencies and finalising voter rolls is almost finished.
Mr Shah said, “I want to appeal to you to free Jammu and Kashmir from the clutches of three families that ruled here.” He did not namethe families, though the PDP of the Muftis and National Conference of the Abdullahs have been his targets, as have been the Gandhis of the Congress.
Jammu and Kashmir, the state that was, last had an elected government in 2018, in which the BJP was a junior partner and Mehbooba Mufti of the PDP was Chief Minister. The NC, too, was once BJP’s partner at the Centre.
Mr Shah said “power is now with 30,000 people who were elected to panchayats and district councils through fair elections” underlining that village-level elections had already been held.
“Earlier, all money sent by the Centre for development was usurped by a few, but now everything is spent on people’s welfare,” he claimed.
He also claimed that the security situation is “far better” now due to the “strong action” taken against terrorists by the Modi government. (Agencies)

‘After Article 370 abrogation, reservation benefits being given to Dalits, backwards and those living in hills’, says Amit Shah in Rajouri

Would it have been possible to get tribal reservation if Articles 370 & 35A were not removed? With their removal now, minorities, Dalits, tribals & Paharis will get their rights: Union Minister Amit Shah at a public rally in Rajouri

The PM is in favour of reservation for Pahadi, Gujjar & Bakarwal communities: Home minister Amit Shah

After Article 370 abrogation, reservation benefits being given to Dalits, backwards and those living in hills: Amit Shah in Rajouri

J&K | After the abrogation of 370A, the process for reservation has been cleared. Justice Sharma’s commission has sent the report and recommended reservation for Gujjar, Bakarwal and Pahari communities and it will be given soon: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in Rajouri

Deaths of security personnel came down from 1,200 per year to 136 this year due to Modi govt’s strong action against terrorists: Union Home Minister Amit Shah.