Month: November 2022

The State Investigating Agency (SIA) on Saturday sealed a property associated with Jamaat e Islami, a socio-political organization, in the Zablipora area of south Kashmir's Anantnag district. Locals news reports said that SIA has "discovered" more Jamaat-e-Islami properties in South Kashmir’s Anantnag. Quoting official sources, news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that under section 8 of UAPA, district magistrate, Anantnag has notified these properties as to be under the unlawful use of JeI. “Properties include orchards, shopping complexes, agriculture land, and residential properties as well. The notified properties also include 1 Kanal 4 marlas of land with a two-storey building housing the office of Falah-e-Aam Trust (FAT),” the sources said, adding, the notified prope...

People in Srinagar woke up to a freezing and misty morning as the minimum temperature continued to hover below sub-zero in Kashmir Valley on Saturday. A Meteorological Department official told a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS), that Srinagar witnessed mist this morning and recorded a low of minus 1.0°C against minus 1.4°C on the previous night. The temperature was 1.1°C below normal during this time of the year for the capital city so far, he said. Qazigund also witnessed a special weather phenomenon of haze and recorded a low of minus 1.4°C against minus 2.2°C on the previous night. The temperature was 1.5°C below normal for the gateway town of Kashmir, he said. In Pahalgam, the mercury settled at minus 3.0°C against minus 3.6°C on the previous night and it was 0.6°C...

In a joint operation by Shopian Police and Indian Army’s 44 Rashtriya Rifles on Friday, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted in a cooker was detected at Imamsahib in Shopian. The detection of the explosive device planted inside a cooker before it went off is believed that a major tragedy was averted by the efforts of police and 44 Rashtriya Rifles, ANI reported. Earlier this month, an improvised explosive device (IED) was found in a mini-bus after it was intercepted and searched near the Nashri Naka in the Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. “Bomb Disposal Squad teams of the police, CRPF and the Army reached the spot and diffused the IED,” informed the Jammu Kashmir police. In a statement on the recovery of the explosive device, the Jammu & Kashmir Po...

In Kashmir's capital Srinagar, many private hospitals claim to offer the best services when it comes to patient care management and hygiene. However, many private hospitals are already in the news for the wrong reasons. A hospital was recently in the news after back-to-back cases of alleged medical negligence were witnessed there, prompting authorities to shut its Operation Theater. Many attendants told the news agency Kashmir News Trust that the management at New City Hospital, located in Tengpora Bypass doesn’t entertain Golden Cards, though dozens of posters and banners are pasted on the hospital walls and gates highlighting the benefits of the Golden Card and the advantages being reaped by the patients. One of the attendants Zubair Ahmed Khan from Alochi Bagah area of Srinagar sa...

The National Investigation Agency on Friday filed a supplementary chargesheet against a Jammu Kashmir resident in a case related to criminal conspiracy of carrying put militant attacks at different places in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country. In a statement, issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), a spokesperson said NIA filed supplementary chargesheet against an accused in case relating to a criminal conspiracy for carrying out militant attacks by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen cadres at different places in UP and other parts of India. The statement reads the case was initially registered as FIR No. 06/2018 dated 12.09.2018 at PS-ATS, Lucknow and re-registered by NIA on 24.09.2018 against Danish Naseer of Kishtwar, under section 120B of IPC and section 17, 18 & 38 ...

Meer Irfan Tribal residents of Dandroo village of Keller area in south Kashmir’s Shopian district expressed anguish over sudden hike in electricity bills. The locals speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that sudden hike in their electricity bill from Rs 160 to Rs 460 is an absolute injustice with the residents. They said that their village is economically and socially backward, “We struggle to provide food to our families and cannot afford Rs 460 electricity bill per month.” The sudden hike in the electricity bills is absolute injustice with Tribal community as they are not having any good source of income, they said. “We only use electricity for light and we don't use electricity gadgets. We cook on traditional Daan which also warms the water but despite that the PDD department...

Jammu Kashmir has registered an increase of 7,72,872 voters during the special summary revision exercise conducted by the Election Commission of India this year, Jammu Kashmir’s joint chief electoral officer Anil Salgotra said on Friday. The joint CEO today said that there has been net increase of 772872 electors in the final electoral roll, i.e. a 10.19% net increase of the registered electors over the draft roll. “The final electoral rolls have a total of 8359771 electors, out of which 4291687 are male, 184 are third gender and 4067900 are females,” he said, according to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). An official told KNO that there has been no abnormal increase of voters and increase of 10 percent after 3 years is a normal thing. After the completion of delimitation e...

The Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Wednesday ruled that mere registration of an FIR or pendency of investigation by the Investigating Agency is no ground to refuse issue or renewal of passport under the Passport Act 1967, Live Law reported. As per the report, the pronouncement was made by Justice Sanjeev Kumar while hearing a plea in terms of which the petitioner had challenged the closure of his passport renewal application by the Passport Authority. Additionally, the report stated that the petitioner had prayed for a writ of mandamus directing the Passport authority to renew/re-issue the passport in his favour. The facts of the instant matter were that the petitioner had filed an application on 20th December, 2021 for renewal/re-issue of the passport in his favour, which...