Air traffic affected, 21 flights cancelled
Air traffic was badly
affected in Kashmir Valley due to inclement weather today as dense fog forced cancellation of all flights to and fro Srinagar Airport, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded, officials said.
"All flights for today have been cancelled due to bad weather as no airline could operate," an official of the Airport Authority of India said that 21 flights were scheduled at the airport for today.
3 militants killed in Ashmuqam gunfight
Srinagar: Three militants were killed in an encounter between militants and security forces in south Kashmir’s Ashmuqam area on Monday.According to the police, three Hizbul Mujahideen militants namely Adil, Amir and Arif all residents of Bijbehara were killed in Siligam area of Ashmuqam.According to the reports, Army’s 3 RR & and Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Special Operation Group (SOG) cordoned off the area after receiving the tip off of the presence of the militants in the area.Reports added that as soon as the Security forces launched search operation, the hiding militants start firing on them resulting into the firece encounter.Three militants have been killed so far and search operation is underway in the area.
Encounter starts in Siligam Aishmuqam in Anantnag
An encounter broke out on Monday between government forces and militants in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said.
However Sources said that militants fired on a search party in Silgam area of Aishmuqam today afternoon, following which the forces retaliated, triggering an encounter.More details awaited
1 dead, 2 injured in road accident at Mirgund Baramulla
One person died while two others were grievously hurt in a road accident, apparently caused due to heavy fog in north Kashmir’s Mirgund area on Monday morning.
Reports said that a Tavera carrying newspapers from Srinagar to Kupwara collided with a cement mixer on Srinagar-Baramulla road near Mirgund, resulting in critical injuries to three persons.
The driver of the vehicle identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat Son of Ali Mohammad a resident of Ratnipora Pulwama died on the spot, said a police official. The two others have been shifted to a hospital for treatment.
Seven killed after chopper crashes at Katra in Jammu
Seven people, including a pilot, were killed after a chopper crashed in Katra area of Jammu region on Monday.
Police said that a chopper belonging to Himalayan Heli Services crashed in Katra popular with religious tourists.
The helicopter was ferrying pilgrims to the Vaishno Devi temple crashed near Katra, said an official to INB news agency.
Terrorism should not be linked with religion: Naqvi
Terrorism, the biggest threat to the world's peace, should not be linked with any religion, union Minister of State for Parliamentary and Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Sunday.
"...growing terror incidents across the world have strengthened India's view that terrorism has not remained problem of a particular country or region but the devil of terrorism has extended its presence across the world and it has become the biggest threat to the world's peace, stability and economy," he said in his blog titled 'Murder of Humanity to Establish Evil Empire'.
Urging the world to stand united against terrorism and radicalism, Naqvi said people should not look at terrorism through the "spectacles of religion for political motive".
"The day we will link terrorism with religion we will be trapped into ill design of terror elements. Those elements who are indulged into such cruelty have nothing to do with Islam or humanity."
He called for a united war against terrorism at the global level.
"There is need for united efforts by all the countries, Muslim world, religious leaders, intellectuals against the menace of terrorism and radicalism."
He also called for communication and coordination among the society, religious leaders, government agencies and the media to defeat the menace of terrorism.
3 arrested, booked for attempt to murder over attack on Kashmiri truck driver near Nandni
Srinagar, Nov 22 : Police on Sunday arrested three persons and booked them for attempt to murder in connection with an attack on Kashmir bound truck driver last evening.
According to reports that a Kashmir bound oil tanker (JK01W-7638) driver Farooq Ahmad of Keegam, Shopian was injured after a group of goons attacked him near Nandini on Srinagar-Jammu highway on Saturday night.Shouting anti-Kashmiri slogans, the group beat up the driver to pulp before they left the spot, leaving Farooq in injured condition on the highway, reports had said.
“The timely intervention of police and paramilitary CRPF men had saved the life of trucker and the oil tanker vehicle as they tried to set it ablaze.”Acting swiftly, SHO Jajjer Kotli told that they have identified five attackers. “Out of them three have been arrested today in the morning and a vehicle bearing registration number JK02A-J0070 was also seized,” he said.
Three accused persons Sanjeev Kumar, Sumit Kumar and Rajender Singh, all residents of Katra have been arrested. “All were booked under section 307 RPC (Attempt to murder),” he said.When asked why the trucker was attacked, the SHO said they were travelling in two vehicles and all of them were drunk. “They tried to overtake from the oil tanker (vehicle) and in the meantime, the drunken men caught hold of the driver and thrashed him.Earlier, the police had filed the case under FIR No. 134/2015 under RPC sections of 341 (wrongful restraint) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt).
The other two accused
were at large and the vehicle found at the time of attack without the number plate has also been identified as JK020-6199 (Swift Desire), the SHO said.SHO said that the driver of the oil tanker has been immediately hospitalized and is stable.
The incident comes little over a month after one of the two persons injured in the attack on a valley-bound truck in Udhampur on October 9-10 night died in the Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital nearly after a week, provoking massive protests in valley.
