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Month: November 2021

Meet This 23 Year Old Islamic Calligrapher From Zamalgam Anantnag

Meet This 23 Year Old Islamic Calligrapher From Zamalgam Anantnag

WRITE-UPS
Sheikh Nadeem The 23-year-old Haji Bisma Bashir, an Islamic Calligrapher from the remote village Zamalgam of Dooru belt of Anantnag district completed the Aailimayat course and is currently pursuing graduation from the IGNOU. "Since childhood, I was inclined to art and whenever I used to see a painting or a design anywhere I used to get curious and would think to myself that how blissful it would have been for the artist to make such a perfect and complete piece of art," she said while talking to The Kashmiriyat. "Every artwork that I witnessed since childhood sublimely shaped me into an artist," Bisma added. Bisma said that she watched some videos on YouTube and started practicing calligraphy at home. "I brought the required equipments and wrote Quranic verses," she said. ...

J-K Fee regulation committee calls for inquiry into financial affairs of PVT School in Srinagar

EDUCATION
A committee for school fee regulation in Jammu and Kashmir has called for a thorough inquiry into the financial affairs of a leading private school here and asked the Union Territory's administration to appoint an independent authority to investigate the matter. The Committee for Fixation and Regulation of Fee of Private Schools (FFRC) has also asked the authority to submit a report within two months. Prima facie it appears that by a "well-thought-out" plan, the "Delhi Public School, Athwajan in Srinagar" is being used for earning huge money, said the FFRC, which has former Jammu and Kashmir Judge Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar as its chairperson. "The FFRC is under statutory obligation to ensure that there is no commercialisation of education," the panel said in an order passed o...

HCI invites online application for Hajj 2022

INDIA, REGIONAL
The aspirants who wish to undertake Hajj journey during 1443(H)—2022(CE) have been informed that the Hajj Committee of India (HCI) has invited online application forms with effect from 01 November 2021. As per a notification, the aspirants are being informed that before filing the application form online, the aspirants should go through the provisional Hajj guidelines for Hajj-2022 at the Haj Committee websitewww.hajcommittee.gov.in. The aspirants have also been informed that the last date for submission of the application form has been fixed as 31 November 2022. The intending Pilgrims have to make Haj Application Forms online only at the website of Haj Committee of India www.hajcommittee.gov.in or on Haj App through Android Mobile App “HAJ COMMITTEE OF INDIA” available on Google ...

Poor Father Sells Land to Marry His Daughter- Burglars Steal jewellery on gun point in Srinagar

REGIONAL
Reyaz Ahmed Dar, a resident of Zafran Colony, Pantha Chowk, Srinagar sold his half-a-Kanal land to marry off his daughter Sabreena. The Nikah ceremony of Sabreena 19, was solemnized on September 4 this year and the bride was living a happy life with her husband and in-laws at Bemina area of Srinagar outskirts. But the wheel of fate catapulted for Sabreena on October 30, when three burglars, two of them masked, holding knives and a pistol barged into the in-laws’ house at Ganai Mohalla and kept a knife on the throat of Sabreena and her husband Umar Ahmed and his mother. “The three men barged into our house and right away kept knives on my throat. They kept a pistol on the head of my mother-in-law. They also kept the pistol on the head of my husband and asked him to lift the front port...

Crop compensation among affected Orchardists kick-started at Shopian

REGIONAL
On the directions of Deputy Commissioner, Shopian, Sachin Kumar Vaishya, the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Shopian, Mushtaq Ahmed Simnani today kick-started the distribution of compensation, to the tune of Rs 4.96 crore, for the loss of crops to the farmer’s of Shopian district whose orchards got damaged due to the untimely snowfall on 23rd, 24th October, 2021, here. It is for the first time in the district when the farmers will get crop damage compensation well on time. The government has declared the untimely snowfall as the national disaster and after assessing the damages all across the district, a detailed report also depicting a compensation component was submitted for its early release. While speaking on the occasion, the Additional Deputy Commissioner emphasized upon all...

J&K Administration Sacks Deputy Superintendent of Jails, School Principal For Alleged Militant Links

REGIONAL
The Jammu Kashmir administration has sacked a deputy superintendent of jails and a government school’s principal in South Kashmir for having alleged links with Militants. Feroz Ahmad Lone of the Prisons Department and Javid Ahmad Shah, principal of the Government Girls Higher Secondary School at Bijbehara, have been terminated from service for allegedly actively working with Militant outfits. According to officials, DSP Lone hatched criminal conspiracy with Militant commanders to send youths illegally into Pakistan so as to give them weapons training and later push them back into Kashmir as active Militants of Hizbul Mujahideen. DSP Lone was working for slain HM commander, Riyaz Naikoo. Investigation reveals that two youth namely Danish Ghulam Lone of Braw Bandina, Litter of Pulwa...

2 AK-47 Rifles, 4 Pistols Recovered; ‘OGW’ Apprehended in Kupwara

OTHERS
An Over-ground Worker (OGW) was apprehended by police and two AK-47 rifles and four pistols were recovered from his “possession or on his disclosure” in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said on Tuesday afternoon. They told GNS that upon receipt of specific input, a search was launched in the house of one Adil Hussain son of Mir Haider Shah at Takia Badarkote. A police officer told GNS that Shah is an “OGW besides being involved in narco-militancy’. During the searches, he said, two AK-47 rifles, two magazines and 208 AK rounds were seized from his house. “Upon further questioning, the accused disclosed that another person Faraz Ahmed son of Mir Shah, a resident of Padna Prara is the main supplier of weapons to militants and that he received the seized weapons from the s...

CBK Files Chargesheet Against Employee For Fake Promotion Order In 2010

OTHERS
Crime Branch Kashmir on Tuesday filed charge sheet against a class-IV employee in tourism department for allegedly producing fake promotion order more than decade ago. The case (FIR No: 34/2010) under section 420,468,471 RPC at police station CBK was registered in 2010 and the chargesheet against one Sonullah Buhroo (Chowkidar Class IV, Department of Tourism Kashmir) of Nadihal Bandipora was produced before the Court of Passenger Tax, Srinagar, the Crime Branch said. “The Crime Branch Kashmir received a communication from Deputy Director Tourism Kashmir, alleging therein that Sonaullah Bhuroo has been shown adjusted against the available post of Sr. Yatchman and placed in the grade of 4000-6000 till he successfully completes two year probation,” the statement to reads. “The order ...

BJP relieves Vikram Randhawa from all posts

Politics
The Jammu Kashmir unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday removed party leader and former MLC Vikram Randhawa from all party posts. According to news agency-Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Randhawa, as per the order issued by BJP's J&K president, Ravinder Raina has been relieved from all the posts including that of J&K BJP Secretary post, with immediate effect. Randhawa has been removed days after he made anti-Muslim statement. "Mr. Vikram Randhawa (Former MLC) is relieved from all party posts/responsibilities including the post of BJP J&K-UT secretary post with immediate effect" the order reads-(KNO)

1 Dies, 2 Others Hospitalised of ‘Asphyxiation’ in Shopian

OTHERS
A non-local labourer died and two of his colleagues are being treated upon, due to ‘asphyxiation’ in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, official sources said. They told GNS that three persons Ansar (20) Azim (22) – residents of Uttar Pradesh and Ubaid Ahmad Parra son of Bashir Ahmad Parra, resident of Homehana Nagbal were brought to a local hospital at Zainapora in unconscious condition. Upon assessment, the doctors declared one labourer namely Ansar as brought dead on arrival, they said. The two other labourers after being kept under observation were later on referred to a Srinagar hospital for treatment, they said. The labourers were lodged at a rented accommodation at Nagbal in Zainapora area, they further said. A police official told GNS that the incident primarily seems to ...