Month: July 2018

July 29 Local youths joining Militant groups in the Kashmir Valley this year stood at 110 till July 15, with Shopian in south Kashmir accounting for the maximum recruitment at 28, officials said. The numbers have drastically gone up as being constantly in 2018 reported by The Kashmiriyat.  In 2017, the total recruitment stood at 126. Indian Security agency officials said highly volatile south Kashmir, comprising Shopian, Pulwama, Anantnag and Kulgam districts, remained a region accounting for a higher number of youths joining militant groups as 91 youths joined various Militant outfits from here. If this trend continues, 2018 may end up as the worst year in terms of number of youths joining various militant groups, according to the officials. South Kashmir districts have ...

July 29 Jammu Kashmir is annually loosing crores due to illegal extraction of sand,gravel and boulders from rivers. The unabated extraction is damaging bridges, triggering floods and taking away the pristine of the rivers. Though some sites have been auctioned by Geology and mining department however most of the sites are still unauctioned and the illegal extraction at these places is unabated. As observed by The Kashmiriyat, Hundreds of tractors, trippers, trucks and JCBs can be seen stripping the rivers beds daily from unauctioned sites despite repeated ban orders by administration. A top source within Geology and Mining Department told The Kashmiriyat that only block 12 has been auctioned in area between sangam to kakapora, however most of extraction goes on at unauctioned p...