Month: July 2020

Sheikh Nadeem The inhabitants of Gujjar Basti in Batagund top in South Kashmir’s Islamabad (Anantnag) district on Friday alleged that the government has failed to  provide basic amenities to them. “Our area is yet to be connected through a road link and we have to walk several miles from Batagund Top to reach other destinations,” the residents of Gujjar Basti, Batagund Top Dooru told The Kashmiriyat. “Due to the absence of the road the elderly people, particularly the patients and expecting mothers, have to face many hardships as they have to walk several miles to reach a hospital, The problem worsens during winter. So, we urge the authorities to start the work on the road at an earliest so that our sufferings are mitigated,” locals added. The residents further said that the village ha...

The State General Secretary Ram Madhav, one of the BJP's high-profile face, in a special interview to IANS on Friday, Madhav spoke openly on issues ranging from Jammu & Kashmir to the China border issue and Nepal. Madhav, on the question of restoring full statehood to Jammu Kashmir, said that his party supports it. He said, BJPs Jammu Kashmir unit is of the opinion that statehood should be given back when the time is favourable. "We want JK to be restored to a full state''s status. Home Minister Amit Shah himself said while granting UT status that work would be done to get full statehood back very soon. The Assembly is yet to be constituted and delimitation for UT is pending." He admitted that there was opposition from people after the removal of special status on August 0...

As many as 27 women including one from Jammu Kashmir have been rescued from a brothel in Bengaluru in a Central Crime Branch police raid on Thursday night, an official said on Friday. “On Thursday night CCB women’s wing lead by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Mudvi and team detected a prostitution racket and raided a big brothel house,” said CCB Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Kuldeep Jain to IANS. Among the rescued women, Jain said there were nine each from Nepal and Punjab, four from Delhi, two from Maharashtra and one each from Jammu Kashmir, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. “Main pimp Yogesh from Rajasthan and two others have also been arrested,” said Jain.

Nearly three months after his release from Public safety Act, the authorities on Friday booked Advocate Zahid Ali, a former Jamaat e Islami member under Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted him to Central Jail Srinagar. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat the family of Zahid Ali said that he was taken away by Jammu Kashmir police on 30 June from his residence Nehama, Pulwama, and detained at the Police Station Kakapora, he was later shifted to Srinagar Central Jail and subsequently booked under Public Safety Act. Police in its dossier mentioned that “Zahid Ali provoked the general public and released pro-independence/anti-India slogans, instigated people for stone pelting upon security forces and police deployment, besides close associate of Nonagenarian Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani and f...

A 70-year-old man from north Kashmir's Baramulla district died on Friday afternoon at CD hospital, thus taking the overall toll of deaths due to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 118. Dr Saleem Tak, Medical Superintendent at CD hospital told that a 70-year-old man from Baramulla, who was tested positive for COVID-19 and was referred from SMHS on Thursday, died at CD hospital on Friday afternoon. The patient was very critical and was on ventilator, he said, adding that the patient was suffering from Hypertension, Diabetes, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and other ailments. With his death, the death toll due to COVID-19 in J&K has reached to 118 including 104 from Kashmir division and 14 from Jammu division—(KNO)