October 2022 - Page 6 of 35

Oct272022 by News DeskNo Comments

Forces resume searches at Baramulla gunfight site

REGIONAL

The police and security forces resumed the searches at the site of a gunfight that broke out yesterday in a forest area in Sheeri Chandoosa in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Sources said that the search operation which was halted last night due to darkness was resumed at first light today. A soldier was injured in the exchange of fire yesterday. He was shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment, where his condition is stated to be ‘stable’. The operation is underway in a dense forest area in Sultanpora.

Oct272022 by News DeskNo Comments

Inspired by Nund Reshi, 21-yr-old Pulwama youth is on a mission to revive Kashmiri language

EDUCATION

21-year-old youth from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district is on a mission to create an awakening among the young generation to revive the dying Kashmiri language. Though the journey is in its nascent stage, he is hopeful of creating an impact through his writing. Touqeer Ashraf, hailing from Pulwama’s Goosu area, has pursued a Bachelor of Science (B Sc) from Government Degree College (Boys) Pulwama. Now he is a budding Sufi poet writing in Kashmiri. “I have been writing for the last three years. However, I recently started writing Kashmiri Sufi poetry. And it gave me immense satisfaction. I feel much more confident and relaxed,” Touqeer told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). In October 2021, Touqeer started a page on Instagram under the name ‘Keashur Praw’ and began sharing K...

Oct262022 by News DeskNo Comments

Admin rebuts ‘’10 Kashmiri Pandit families leave their village in Shopian’’

REGIONAL

Calls it fake news, misinformation, "many families migrate after harvesting period is over & due to onset of winter; there are no instances of migration due to fear", Distt Admin The District Administration Shopian today issued a rebuttal in reference to a news item of news agency PTI and published by local dailies Kashmir Images and Kashmir Observer titled “10 Kashmiri Pandit Families leave their Village in Shopian” on 26 October, 2022. The District Administration Shopian through a statement issued here has termed the claims made by the news agency (PTI) and as published by Kashmir Images and Kashmir Observer Newspapers, regarding leaving of Kashmiri Non migrant Hindu population at Chodrigund Shopian as baseless and called it fake/ misinformation. The Dist...

Oct262022 by News DeskNo Comments

Body found in premises of GMC Anantnag

REGIONAL

A male body was found in premises of GMC in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday. Official sources told Kashmir News Apex-(KNA) that some passersby informed the police about the laying of the body in premises of GMC Soon, they said, a police party rushed to the spot and recovered the body of around 70 year old male. So far, they said, the identity of the deceased could not be made and the same is being carried out. The body, they said, has been shifted to mortuary at GMC Anantnag. “After completing medico-legal formalities and confirming the identification, the body would be handed over to his legal heirs,” they added. (KNA)

Oct262022 by News DeskNo Comments

Awami Action Committee pays rich tribute to Moulana Abbas Ansari, organises condolence meet

REGIONAL

Jammu and Kashmir Awami Action Committee (AAC) has expressed deep grief and sorrow over the demise of a well-known religious scholar and founder of the Ittehadul Muslimeen Moulana Muhammad Abbas Ansari who passed away yesterday. According to a statement, the AAC today organised a condolence meeting . The meeting on behalf of on behalf of the party , especially its incarcerated Chairman Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq who continues to be under house arrest for the last more than three years, paid glowing tribute to the senior religious and political leader Moulana Abbas Ansari for his invaluable religious, social and political services. In the meeting, Moulana Abbas Ansari’s sincere sacrifices towards the Kashmiri people were described as unforgett...

Oct262022 by News DeskNo Comments

After abrogation, Jammu Kashmir’s relationship with India has become ‘illegitimate’: Mehbooba Mufti

REGIONAL

Former Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday demanded the restoration of the Instrument of Accession signed on this day in 1947. She also termed the relationship of Jammu Kashmir with the rest of the country “illegitimate” after the erstwhile state’s special status was scrapped in 2019.“We don't need a holiday on this day (accession day). We need a complete implementation of an agreement that has been promised and signed at the time of accession,” she said at the party headquarters here. She said Jammu Kashmir's accession with the Union of India was based on certain conditions which she said had been ruined with the scrapping of Article 370. "If the instrument of accession is accepted, then abrogation of Article 370 is illegal and the relationship between J&K and...

Oct262022 by News DeskNo Comments

Assam Government shuts museum set up by Muslims

INDIA

Amid the controversy around the setting up of private “Miya Museum” in Assam’s Goalpara, the district administration sealed the museum soon after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma raised questions on its funding. The museum was inaugurated in Dapkarbhita area of the district on Sunday. The term “Miya” is used mostly by the indigenous communities to refer to Bengali or Bengal-origin Muslims who have settled on both sides of the Brahmaputra river in Assam since the late 1890s after the British brought them for commercial farming and other work. A notice of Lakhipur Revenue Circle was pasted at the door of the Miya museum said: “As per the direction of the DC, this PMAY-G house of Mohar Ali S/O Somesh Ali of village Dapkarbhita is hereby closed until further order.” The Chief Min...

Oct262022 by News DeskNo Comments

Nobody has absolute right to deny burial in public graveyards: Court

REGIONAL

In a significant decision, a local court here has held there is no absolute right of burial to the exclusion of others in a graveyard that is recorded to be in possession of Ahl-i-Islam in revenue records. The Court of Munsiff/Sub Registrar Srinagar presided by Touseef Ahmad Magray held this while disposing of a 13-year-old case filed in 2009 wherein the parties were in dispute with regard to the rights of burial of their dead in a graveyard situated at Gasoo, Hazratbal in Srinagar. The plaintiffs, residents of Gasso, had alleged that they had the absolute right of burial in the graveyard to the exclusion of another side (defendants) who were residents of Village Homehair, Srinagar. The Court after hearing both sides and quoting from various works of scholars of Muslim Law and jud...

Oct262022 by News DeskNo Comments

‘An era has truly come to an end’, Hurriyat pays tributes to Molvi Abbas Ansari

REGIONAL

"Hurriyat strongly condemns the regime's decision not to allow large number of people to assemble for the late leader's namaz e jinaza at Eidgah. Authorities instead directed people to offer funeral prayers locally at Alamgari Bazar, once again hurting people's sentiments and displaying their authoritarian outlook even in times of grief," the Hurriyat statement read. All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) expressed deep sorrow and grief over the demise of veteran Hurriyat Executive Member, its former chairman, and leading religious scholar of J&K, Moulana Muhammad Abbas Ansari who passed away tuesday morning. Paying glorious tributes to the late leader, APHC said that throughout his life he resolutely and unyieldingly advocated resolution of the Kashmir conflict in accordance wit...

Oct262022 by News DeskNo Comments

Encounter breaks out in Baramulla, One Army man injured

REGIONAL

An Army trooper was injured after a gunfight broke out between militants and security forces in Sheeri Chandoosa area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday. A top police officer said that contact was established during cordon and search operation launched by police and army in Sultanpura forests. In initial exchange of fire one army trooper received a bullet wound in leg, has been shifted to nearby hospital for treatment. Till this report was being filed, intermittent exchange of firing was going on.(GNS)