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Kashmir gets fresh snowfall

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDvJzv5x-rynUJb9rAXeHL8EK8NafvdP5BbY8gFZBvs4iiqXcJUdJs5sfDfr6xegyQINSW-obOwlZk4eNTrrntC-wciz3Znw1W_IMRH4z7XT0Jiu4LLFb0dLmK-PD5ZMdJWrsEhyg_7s/s1600/IMG_3639.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDvJzv5x-rynUJb9rAXeHL8EK8NafvdP5BbY8gFZBvs4iiqXcJUdJs5sfDfr6xegyQINSW-obOwlZk4eNTrrntC-wciz3Znw1W_IMRH4z7XT0Jiu4LLFb0dLmK-PD5ZMdJWrsEhyg_7s/s1600/IMG_3639.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #121212; text-align: justify;">Srinagar, Jan 5: Kashmir today received fresh bout of snowfall as temperature in the summer capital Srinagar dipped to 2.0 degrees Celsius, five notches below the normal level.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">“Light snowfall was recorded at many places in Kashmir including Srinagar, Gulmarg, Kokernag, Kulgam and Kupwara,” a MET department official said here.He said the famous ski-resort of Gulmarg received around 2 inch of snowfall, while Srinagar recorded 0.5 cm of snow.The official said the weather would be cloudy tomorrow but it is expected to be dry.Owing to the overcast conditions the day temperature across the Valley went down.Srinagar recorded a maximum of 2.0 degrees Celsius, which is five degrees below the normal for this part of the season, he said.The city had recorded the lowest day temperature of 0.5 degree Celsius on Tuesday.The valley is currently going through ‘Chillai-Kalan’, considered as the harshest 40-day winter period, which began on December 21.During this period, the Valley and Ladakh region experience intense cold conditions and possibility of snowfall is also maximum and most frequent.The Valley received heavy snowfall on the New Year’s eve which disrupted normal life as authorities snapped electricity to many parts as a precautionary measure.Srinagar-Jammu highway was open for one-way traffic Sunday and the authorities said snowfall started at some places along the road. The traffic authorities have asked passengers to verify the status of the highway before leaving for their destinations on Monday.Fresh snowfall started in most parts of Kashmir Sunday afternoon. “This hangover will remain for quite some time and it would not affect normal life at all,” Director MeT Department Sonam Lotus  told Greater Kashmir adding that they expect snow and rainfall in Kashmir on January 8 and 9. “On Monday the sky would be cloudy but hopefully there would be no rains or snow,” he said.With chill intensifying on Sunday, normal life across Kashmir was affected. Further drop in temperature resulted in freezing of taps and water bodies including Dal Lake.Night temperature in Srinagar was recorded at minus 4.2 degree Celsius. The taps in residential houses were frozen, affecting water supply. At various places in Srinagar, the people were seen burning wood to defreeze frozen taps.This was second coldest night of this winter so far, MeT officials said adding that earlier the coldest night was recorded on December 30 with temperature dipping to minus 5.3 degree Celsius. Reports said that parts of Dal Lake were frozen today.MeT officials said minimum temperature in Pahalgam, in south Kashmir, went over four degrees down from the previous night’s minus 7.7 degrees Celsius to settle at minus 12.4 degrees Celsius last night, while as the ski-resort of Gulmarg registered a low of minus 9.8 degrees Celsius, as against the previous night’s minus 11.6 degrees Celsius. They said the minimum temperature in Qazigund decreased by over four degrees to settle at minus 8.0 degrees Celsius, compared to minus 3.8 degrees Celsius the previous night, while as Kokernag recorded a low of minus 10.6 degrees Celsius, down by over four degrees from minus 6.3 degrees Celsius the previous night.The minimum temperature in Kupwara, in north Kashmir, settled at minus 2.8 degrees Celsius compared to the previous night’s minus 0.8 degree Celsius, official said.MeT officials said that Leh area of Ladakh region, recorded a low of minus 8.6 degrees Celsius against the previous night’s minus 14.7 degrees Celsius while as the mercury in Kargil settled at a low of minus 16.1 degrees Celsius, over three degrees down from minus 13.0 degrees Celsius the previous night.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">HIGHWAY OPENSrinagar- Jammu highway was open for one-way traffic on Sunday. However, there are reports of fresh snowfall on the road at least at two places. Traffic police officials said that on Monday travelers must verify the status of the highway before leaving for their destinations.Inspector General of Police (IGP) Traffic, Muneer Ahmad Khan said that around 3000 vehicles crossed Jawahar tunnel Sunday.  He said that Patnitop and Jawahar tunnel areas received fresh snowfall on Sunday. “It snowing at these places heavily,” IGP Khan said adding that they can’t say anything about the traffic movement on highway on Monday. Traffic is scheduled to move from Srinagar to Jammu on Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(With inputs from PTI)</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><ins style="border: none; color: #121212; display: inline-table; height: 60px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify; visibility: visible; width: 468px;"></ins> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></div>

Kashmir gets fresh snowfall

Srinagar, Jan 5: Kashmir today received fresh bout of snowfall as temperature in the summer capital Srinagar dipped to 2.0 degrees Celsius, ...

11 lakh tourists break Valley's 25-yr record

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMxi3tsbfEa9fgLpMxz38WuS1qKyS5WCP2vOTxDSl-UthfdxJPa_EzkbAB0iX5CVKQrQ1RuRk0ekAPSvbgzRYxf9FUKOkcAfCV_YXJsxwZYpnAQGtclJnFZeOJfYx2RT3cSlDADqTP6Nw/s1600/dal+lake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMxi3tsbfEa9fgLpMxz38WuS1qKyS5WCP2vOTxDSl-UthfdxJPa_EzkbAB0iX5CVKQrQ1RuRk0ekAPSvbgzRYxf9FUKOkcAfCV_YXJsxwZYpnAQGtclJnFZeOJfYx2RT3cSlDADqTP6Nw/s200/dal+lake.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">New Delhi, Oct 16: An unprecedented 10.73 lakh tourists have visited Kashmir till October this year. This is believed to be the</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"></div>highest number of tourist arrivals in the past 25 years.The valley has surpassed last year's tourist count of 7.38 lakh, and the state tourism department's tally shows both Indians and foreigners have given Kashmir a thumbs up despite fears about security.From a few thousand foreigners visiting Kashmir, the figure jumped to 22,000. Ladakh and Amarnath have benefited as well. At 1.48 lakh tourists, Ladakh's footfall doubled this year. The number of Amarnath yatris is at a high of 6.35 lakh - a jump of 2 lakh from last year.Director tourism Farooq A Shah said, "This is the highest number of tourist arrivals recorded in the last 25 years. It has been a very good season for us. But Kashmir's potential is unparalleled and we hope to do more work."Hotel and Restaurant Association of Katra's senior vice president Rakesh Wazir endorsed the tourist season's success. He said he expected the number of pilgrims arriving at Mata Vaishno Devi shrine to increase further from the current 75 lakh estimated by the tourism department."There has been a lot of improvement in infrastructure and with the (new) rail link we are sure to cross the 1 crore mark by 2012," he said.The state government is advocating against travel advisories issued by some countries, pointing to the vote of confidence tourists have delivered. <div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">The Union tourism ministry had in recent years launched an advertisement campaign, with J&K as a special focus. State officials and political representatives have also made their presence felt in the international market through trade fairs and other initiatives.</div>

11 lakh tourists break Valley's 25-yr record

New Delhi, Oct 16 : An unprecedented 10.73 lakh tourists have visited Kashmir till October this year. This is believed to be the highest num...

JKLF announces merger after 16 years

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0X35SXhsDE7Zj_O4pEWQrW7Hwhk8Kp4FOsA1_nuAsrP7wDpJ689NTAL_zk2RI46w7M_m3QbRtvzse9cuGv8gWQ09qiepnuo7yvmH33-mtOGOatssXl82d9e1k3XSvHKVvsOCngO58lpI/s1600/316939_276759785679180_100000354819022_951598_1060757355_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0X35SXhsDE7Zj_O4pEWQrW7Hwhk8Kp4FOsA1_nuAsrP7wDpJ689NTAL_zk2RI46w7M_m3QbRtvzse9cuGv8gWQ09qiepnuo7yvmH33-mtOGOatssXl82d9e1k3XSvHKVvsOCngO58lpI/s200/316939_276759785679180_100000354819022_951598_1060757355_n.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> To stage protest against Guru hanging SRINAGAR,  Oct  6: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front today formally announced the merger of its Kashmir and Pakistan based two factions, to be supreme headed for lifetime by Amanullah Khan.The reunited front will stage a sit-in in apple town Sopore tomorrow against the hanging of Parliament attack convict, Mohammed Afzal Guru.The merger follows the meeting between Pakistan based Khan and JKLF chairman Mohammed Yasin Malik at Rawalpindi recently. "The two main factions of JKLF have been merged following my meeting with Ammanullah Khan at his residence in Rawalpindi wherein it was in principle decided to reunite the party," Malik told reporters at the party headquarters at Maisuma here.Amanullah Khan would be the supreme head of the amalgam while Malik would be the chairman till the central convention is held, he announced.“The office of the supreme head shall specially and specifically remain assigned to Ammanullah Khan only, who shall be the most respectable personality to every member, office bearer and leader of JKLF,” he said. “Mohammad Yasin Malik shall run the overall organisational work as well as the affairs of freedom movement, leading a 19 member committee with proportionately divided representation from every zone.”The chairman also announced that a JKLF group would lead a protest sit-in tomorrow against the hanging of Afzal Guru at Sopore—the hometown of the parliament convict.Pertinently, the JKLF had recently announced to launch campaign against the hanging of the convict, following the failure of the mainstream parties in passing a clemency resolution for him in the legislative assembly.ISLAMABAD (Agencies): The factions formed a special committee to oversee the merger and this body finalised the process on September 18, JKLF leader Muhammad Rafiq Dar said.The JKLF, which was formed to wage an armed struggle, split into two factions in 1995 after Malik publicly renounced violence.Dar and Amanullah Khan told a news conference at the Press Club here that leaders of the JKLF in both parts of Kashmir will now jointly work on issues, including moves to highlight alleged human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir and the "Save Afzal Guru Campaign" launched by Malik.Guru, a Kashmiri who was convicted for conspiracy in the December 2001 terror attack on the Indian parliament, was sentenced to death in 2004.He is currently on death row and parties like the BJP have been pressing the government to carry out his execution.During the news conference, Dar said Amanullah, who founded the JKLF in 1977, would be the "lifetime supreme head" of the organisation.Malik would be the chairman of the JKLF till a supreme council is formed and a central convention is held to give shape to the future plans of the organisation. <div class="detailsItemAttrib" style="background-color: #eeeeee; 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JKLF announces merger after 16 years

To stage protest against Guru hanging SRINAGAR, Oct 6: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front today formally announced the merger of its Kas...

NASA astronaut shares space experience with students of Kashmir

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<h3 style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">‘Cities Look Like Jewellery Adorning Earth; No Countries, No Borders Visible’</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUKrjQzOPs8gsIBJK8syoojQKwVpP5pDNzdTECMhh-KVv1Ba2zOyQjJsqzI89dFG9YzbxsaM19UbeKCfnwF9vRzDYafUWWFmK8x3QX08IimIaPH-TMJUQErP3gdhcKKv5BKTqoNnZOI0Yv/s1600/nasa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUKrjQzOPs8gsIBJK8syoojQKwVpP5pDNzdTECMhh-KVv1Ba2zOyQjJsqzI89dFG9YzbxsaM19UbeKCfnwF9vRzDYafUWWFmK8x3QX08IimIaPH-TMJUQErP3gdhcKKv5BKTqoNnZOI0Yv/s200/nasa.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Srinagar, Oct 4: First “I saw how beautiful the horizon is” and then “I observed lights of cities donning the plant earth like glittering jewellery” and finally “I observed the Himalayas bordering Kashmir and China.” That is how the two-time NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut, Dr Mary Ellen Weber, described her journey into the space, first in 1995 and then in 2000.</div>Weber, one of the youngest astronauts ever to be selected by NASA, shared her experiences in space with the students at Kothibagh Higher Secondary School here. But before that, Weber had a message for the young students: “It is important for you to keep your eyes open for opportunities and experiences, especially the rare ones.”Dr Weber has been a NASA Astronaut for 10 years and is the 30th woman to fly in space, having travelled 297 earth orbits and 7.8 million miles.“Astronauts get to do many things in life and one among them is to share their experiences at space with people on ground. For many thousands of years, human beings have looked at the night sky with curiosity as to what is out there. And in this history of planet earth and history of mankind, we happen to be born at a tiny moment in this great history,” she says, as she begins sharing her experiences.“I was older when occurred to me that I could visit space. I thought of it when women were not allowed to fly into the space. And during my college, when I decided to fly to space, I’d never believe that is going to happen one day. But I took it as a goal, a goal beyond one’s imagination. As I felt asleep, I would dream about it. I thought to do more and be more and try this.”Having hogged over 4000 skydives as on date, Weber told the students that “in my college when I would study chemical engineering, I saw an ad in a newspaper on sky diving. I talked to friends about it. I tried and made it happen. Had I been afraid to take that opportunity, my life would have been different. I took the opportunity about the world that I knew nothing about.”Wearing a blue-flight suit, Dr Weber, who is presently the President of Texas University in USA, said “this suit that I am wearing is the one astronauts wear in jets. These suits only look blue but they are very useful: they won’t burn in accidents.”And she continued: “Space driving is about studying and learning. The technical background about mathematics and sciences is very important. We got to understand how space shuttle works, understand how its various components work and how to navigate. There is a lot of book learning and studying that is required to become an astronaut.”Dr Weber’s lecture, first of its kind in Kashmir, was organized by the US-based Non-Governmental Organization, Mercy Crops, in collaboration with American Centre. This is for the first time that the American Centre has organized such an activity in Kashmir since 1989, according to David Mees, who was part of the endeavor. Mees is Cultural Attaché at US Embassy New Delhi.“This is for the first time the US State Department has asked a NASA astronaut to share experiences in Kashmir. We are here after over two decades,” Mees said.He said since the “situation in valley has improved after a lot of political strife, the Department has taken this initiative as part of a people-to-people contact endeavor,” he said.THE FLIGHTWeber said it is going up thousands and thousands of miles. “And at one point in time you would feel as if you are coming down. You have to go up at an incredible speed, very fast. It is like a baseball. If you won’t hit that with speed, it would come down to earth. So the space shuttle, like that baseball, is to be thrown at an amazingly fast speed so that the shape of the curve, which it makes in the air, would be larger and the shuttle would not hit back earth.”Alen says “you have to go with the speed which is 25 times more than the speed of sound. It is 17000 miles per hour. And it is this speed that makes space flights so risky an affair. It requires incredible power to get you going on that speed. You have to be fully able to navigate and control things.”THE RISKWeber, who has set a world record for the largest freefall formation with 300 skydivers, said the space flight is a huge risk. “If commercial flights at the Delhi airport were as risky as space shuttles, there would be at least 10 catastrophic crashes every single day there. The astronauts therefore go up in space with a huge risk which they embrace. But you got to understand that what you are doing is worth a risk: helping humankind get to that goal. It is therefore important to have goals and careers that you are willing to risk you life for,” she told the students.Referring to astronaut Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born American astronaut who died in a space shuttle crash in 2003, Weber said she knew the risk. “I also knew the risks. But it was worth it. It was my dream to go to the space,” she said.‘CITY LIGHTS APPEAR LIKE JEWELLARY’According to Dr Weber, life in space is entirely different than what is being perceived. “Everything floats in space. When you try to brush your teeth, you got to catch hold of the cap of the toothpaste and the tooth brush itself. So you can understand how complicated it would be to manage equipments there,” she said.She said “looking back at planet earth from space is one of my vivid memories. It is for the first time I saw the horizon much above earth. It is so beautiful. You see earth as a planet. You don’t see countries. There are no borders. There is no evidence of human beings during the day. But yes during night, you see cities as jewellery adorning the planet earth. On ground, human beings feel we are something. But above, you feel you are nothing.”Meteorites, Weber said, is another thing you experience so closely. “I saw 13 meteorites hitting our planet. I saw the power of planet earth; Saw Himalayan mountains surrounding Kashmir and China.”She said in space you observe how fragile and small our atmosphere is. “It appears like a very thin and delicate area. And when radiations from sun hit this atmosphere, it glows like a delicate air blanket.”THE POWER-POINT PRESENTATIONDr Weber gave a power-point presentation revealing their journey to space: the way astronauts live there, communicate there and the journey back to ground zero.In 2000, Weber flew abroad Atlantis on mission STS-1010, a pioneering and critical early construction mission for the International Space Station. She also flew abroad Discovery in 1995 on mission STS-70. Dr Weber received an MBA from Southern Methodist University and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California.IMPRESSIVE QUESTIONSThe students asked her a number of questions. The questions, according to Dr Weber, were “very impressive and reflected the urge of the Kashmiris students for information and knowledge.”And finally, Dr Weber had a word about Kashmir as well. “I knew about Kashmir but I had never been to the Valley. Now that I am here for the past two days, I am overwhelmed at how intelligent, warm and talented people of Kashmir are,” she said.Weber said the purpose of her visit to Kashmir “is to share my experiences about space.”Fatal AddictionBEFORE Dr Weber spoke, Valley’s noted psychiatrist Dr Arshid Hussain made a passionate appeal to the students to “be the agents of change.” Hussain made the appeal in the backdrop of a couple of bitter experiences he had at a city hospital recently.“I recently visited Bed No. 13 at Ward 6 of the SMHS Hospital where I saw a woman sobbing. I tried to console her. I looked at the file of her 25-year-old son who was suffering from convulsions. I tried to dig out his history. His brother had died four days back. This boy was taking all types of harmful substances like shoe polish and codeine. He had suffered convulsions because of the grief of his bother when he didn’t get these substances for many days,” Hussain said. “His bother told me that her elder son died because he too was addicted to same substances. And his uncle told me that their youngest brother has also started taking the same substances. I wondered as to what their mother would have thought about them on their birth. And that is why I thought this occasion to be an opportunity to pass on the message to youth that they must be the agents of change for a better future.”Hussain had another experience to share. “A person had opened a medical shop in a village in Pattan as a side business. Within a short span of time, he found that the business of selling substances and drugs, which the youth consume, is picking up fast. But one day, he was shell-shocked to see his own son falling to these substances.”

NASA astronaut shares space experience with students of Kashmir

‘Cities Look Like Jewellery Adorning Earth; No Countries, No Borders Visible’ Srinagar, Oct 4: First “I saw how beautiful the horizon is” an...