{"id":29984,"date":"2012-12-12T11:52:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T09:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=29984"},"modified":"2012-12-12T14:12:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T12:12:52","slug":"cosmic-ray-rumours-trigger-panic-in-indian-kashmir-29984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/cosmic-ray-rumours-trigger-panic-in-indian-kashmir-29984\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic ray rumours trigger panic in Indian Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29985\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dont-panic-Nationalturk-12-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Panic\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dont-panic-Nationalturk-12-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dont-panic-Nationalturk-12-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dont-panic-Nationalturk-12.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#039;t Panic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Rumours of cosmic rays from Mars having entered earth and can have harmful effects on mobile users triggered panic in Indian \u00a0Kashmir.<\/h1>\n<p>Srinagar, Dec 12\/Nationalturk \u2013 The rumours that cosmic rays from Mars had entered earth and can lead to harmful effects on mobile users triggered panic among residents of Indian administered Kashmir, prompting authorities to issue \u201cDon\u2019t Panic\u201d advisory.<\/p>\n<p>The rumours about cosmic rays from Mars having entered earth and can lead to harmful effects on mobile users started doing rounds of Kashmir last evening. The people began calling newspaper offices and their friends and family members outside Kashmir to check authenticity of the reports.<\/p>\n<p>An official a telecom company said the call traffic increased manifold during late hours in Kashmir as people made frantic calls to check authenticity of the reports.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Don\u2019t panic&#8230; It\u2019s just a rumour\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>An official of Disaster Management Cell clarified that there was no truth in the reports and urged people not to panic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are reports that people all around the world are receiving false messages attributed to NASA and BBC that Cosmo rays are entering Earth from Mars and have asked people to switch off their mobile phones at night and not to keep them inside and to put it away while sleeping.\u00a0 It is clarified that neither BBC nor NASA has released any such news related to Cosmo rays and it is only a rumour,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>He advised people not to pay any heed to these rumours and help educate others. \u201cSpreading rumours and unsubstantiated warnings is unethical and against the law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumours about cosmic rays from Mars had having entered earth and can have harmful effects on mobile users triggered panic in Indian administered Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,109,1,118,85,14],"tags":[40709,10984,40711,40704,40702,40710,40708,40707,37749,8011,13828,77167,2671,40705,13126,7715,39493,40706,40703,40713,40714,40712],"class_list":["post-29984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-dont-miss","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-world","tag-authenticity","tag-bbc","tag-clarified","tag-cosmic-ray-rumours","tag-cosmic-rays","tag-disaster-management-cell","tag-frantic-calls","tag-harmful-effects","tag-indian-administered-kashmir","tag-indian-kashmir","tag-law","tag-media","tag-mobile-phones","tag-mobile-users","tag-nasa","tag-panic","tag-reports","tag-residents","tag-rumours","tag-unethical","tag-unsubstantiated","tag-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}