K H Snippets: J&K This Week

Srinagar: Below is the timeline of public events held within and outside J&K this week:-

A hoax bomb threat targeting a Srinagar-bound Vistara flight carrying 177 passengers and one infant prompted a swift response from Srinagar airport authorities and security forces. According to airport officials, the Vistara flight (UK-611) that departed from Delhi received a bomb threat while enroute to Srinagar. Upon receiving the information, security officials and airport authorities promptly initiated actions to ensure the safety and security of all passengers.
Amid an intense heat wave and prolonged dry spell, multiple forest fires are raging across Udhampur, Poonch, Rajouri, and Samba districts, with authorities struggling to contain the flames. In Udhampur, the Nehra Nalla Rakh area in Krimchi has been burning for the past two days. Similarly, the Nudh block in Samba is battling severe fires. Significant efforts are being made to extinguish the flames.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police has named 16 army personnel, including three Lieutenant Colonels in First Information Report (FIR), in connection with an assault on a police station in Kupwara district of north Kashmir.
The Jammu and Kashmir Government has reconstituted the screening committee for the registration of Kashmiri migrants. As per an official order, the committee will supersede all previous orders on the subject. Administrative Secretary, Home Department will be the chairman of the committee while as Additional Director General of Police, CID, J&K, Administrative Secretary, Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation & Reconstruction, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir/Jammu, Relief & Rehabilitation Commissioner (M), J&K will be its members.
Chief Secretary AtalDulloo chaired a high-level meeting with senior officials from the Home, Police, and Law Departments to evaluate preparations for implementing three new criminal laws recently passed by Parliament in Jammu and Kashmir. Key officials including the Principal Secretary Home, Director General Prisons, ADGP Headquarters, Director Prosecution, Secretary Law, and Director FSL attended the meeting, with Jammu-based officers participating virtually.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached seven Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar-based immovable properties worth Rs 1.56 crore of Imran Baba and his wife SageenaYaseen, Partners of Baba Enterprises under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. ED’s Srinagar unit attached these properties that include 17 Marlas land at Khasra No 1329, 1330,1331,1332, 1334 and 1335, Khewat No.92 and Khata No.182 in MoujaBarinambal in Srinagar; 26 Marlas land at Hyderpora and a Residential House at Hyderpora in Srinagar.
After successful test on drug peddlers, the Jammu and Kashmir police  set-up the GPS anklet on under trial associate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit in Uri sector of Baramulla district in north Kashmir.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Article 370 was neither the agenda of the people of Kashmir nor of the country but only of “four-five families” and that it is a matter of greatest satisfaction for him that the brothers and sisters in Kashmir came forward to vote with great enthusiasm in the LokSabha polls.
A joint team of security forces in Anantnag district has apprehended two hybrid militants responsible for the recent attack on a tourist couple in Pahalgam. Officials reported the recovery of arms and ammunition from their possession.
Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir has amended the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Rules, 2005, utilising the powers conferred by Section 24 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004. According to an official order, the amendments include a revised reservation roster in Rule 5, Sub-rule (1). The new table specifies the sequence of reservation categories for various positions, including Open Merit, Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe 1 and 2, Backward Area, Other Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Section, and Line of Actual Control/International Border.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the Modi government’s Kashmir policy has been vindicated by the successful polling in Jammu and Kashmir, where even separatists have voted “overwhelmingly”, as he assured that the assembly elections in the region will be held before September 30.Once the elections are over, the government will start the process of restoring statehood to J&K , Shah said.
Kashmir is witnessing hot and dry weather conditions for the past one week, Qazigund town in south Kashmir, recorded the second highest temperature at 33.5°C on this week. This is the second-highest temperature recorded in May in the past 43 years.