Month: July 2022

Suspected militants Tuesday opened fire on Government forces in the Lal Bazar area of Srinagar in Central Kashmir. Official sources told The Kashmiriyat that militants attacked police Naka at Lal Bazaar by firing a few rounds of bullets in the Srinagar area. They said that three police personnel got injured and they have been shifted to hospital. The whole area has been cordoned off by Government forces. Details rushing in.

Police on Tuesday requested shop keepers and tailors to not sell or stitch uniforms of Police and security forces to any civilians except those carrying valid identity cards. In a tweet Srinagar police wrote, "In view of reported misuse, all Cloth/Garment sellers, Tailors etc. are requested not to sell Police/CAPF/army type uniform & camouflage pattern wear to any civilian. Further record to be maintained of all such sales even if they are made to police/CAPF/army(after seeing I Cards)". A senior police officer told GNS that although order has been passed earlier about Ban of selling Police and security force uniform to civilians, It will be vigorously implemented this time.(GNS)

Srinagar's Government Medical College has seen a 2000 per cent hike in heroin abuse cases in the last five years, News 18 reported. In 2016, the Oral Substitution Therapy (OST) Centre at the Government Medical College in Srinagar reported 489 cases, In 2017 to 3,000, a growth of seven times than the previous year.. In 2019, the number climbed to 7,000 and crossed the 10,000 mark in 2021 with an overall 2,000% spike in the last five years. Officials quoted by the report stated that the number of drug addicts in Jammu Kashmir is on a “scary constant rise”. "What’s more worrying is that these patients range from across the socioeconomic classes, from different regions in Jammu Kashmir, and from the age group as young as ten to twelve years." The rising drug abuse particularly in suc...

A five-member delegation of the Akhil Bhartiya Teerth Purohit Mahasabha (ABTPM) from Delhi has left for Jammu and Kashmir to know about the condition of the teerth purohits and Kashmiri Pandits, an official said. ABTPM national president Mahesh Pathak Chaturvedi on Tuesday said that the Delhi delegation left on Monday, with more to follow from other states. Chaturvedi said that they are in touch with the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, who has assured the teerth purohits of full security during their visit to religious places in Srinagar and nearby places. He added that the visit is completely non-political. "We are going there to know about the problems faced in implementing the Hindu rituals and customs, and find a solution to it," he said. -PTI

Kashmir-based artisan Maqbool Ahmad Dar is the first artisan from the valley who prepared the first carpet with a 'National Flag' design with the aim to uplift his art. Dar who hails from Ashtangoo village of Bandipora district left his school due to a financial crisis and decided to become a carpet artisan at an early age. "I left school after seven standards as my family was struggling due to the financial crisis. Therefore, at an early age, I decided to become a carpet artisan. It took me one year to learn the skills. My maternal uncle helped me to learn the basics of carpet weaving," Dar told ANI. Twenty-five years ago, Maqbool was weaving carpets to earn their livelihood and he was very much satisfied with his work. As COVID-19 hits badly in Kashmir, it affected Maqbool's busine...

An unidentified semi-decomposed body was recovered from Bajri Nallah near Baltal area of Central Kashmir's Ganderbal district late last night late Hours , officials said here on Tuesday. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that some locals spotted the body floating in the Sindh and informed the concerned police station immediately. He said that soon after being informed, a police team reached to the spot and retrieved the body. He added that the body was taken to a nearby hospital for medico-legal formalities and identity of the deceased was being ascertained —(KNO)

Sheikh Nadeem At least five residential houses were gutted in a fire mishap at Buchoo Kokernag in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district during the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. Confirming the incident, an official said that the fire broke out from a residential house and later engulfed the nearby residential structures as well. “Following the incident, the firefighters and locals rushed to the spot and doused the flames. However, five houses were damaged in the massive blaze in this incident," the official told The Kashmiriyat. He said that the properties worth lacs of rupees were completely gutted in the blaze, adding, "The cause of the fire is said to be a short circuit, but thankfully, there was no report of any loss of life or injury during the incident." The hous...