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Mother of Kashmiri leader jailed in UP passes away

REGIONAL

The mother of incarcerated separatist leader Abdul Samad Inqalabi passed away at her residence in Ganistan Sumbal after a brief illness. Family sources said that Azeeza Begum was not keeping well for some time and she breathed her last at her house. A large number of people participated in her last rites and prayed for the departed soul. Muhammad Yousuf, the brother of Abdul Samad Inqalabi while talking to the news agency Kashmir News Trust appealed to authorities to release Inqalabi on humanitarian grounds. Abdul Samad Inqalabi is currently lodged at Varanasi Jail of Uttar Pradesh. “My brother who was released after spending years in different prisons was re-arrested in April 2022 and later was shifted to Varanasi Jail from Kot Bhalwal Jammu. We appeal to authorities to rel...

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Kashmiri youth cracks Indian Statistical Services exam, second Kashmiri in nearly three decades

REGIONAL

Syed Adil Zahoor has become the second individual from Kashmir to qualify for the famed Indian Statistical Services test. The Union Public Service Commission on Wednesday released the results of the UPSC IES/ISS Final Result exam. A resident of the Haijbal area in Baramulla district, Zahoor is currently posted as an accounts assistant at the Block Development Office in Ghaziabad. He was successful on his first try at the test. Zahoor attended the Middle School in Hajibal for his primary education and the Central High School in Baramulla for his secondary education. He comes from a low-income family. He attended Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Baramulla for his upper secondary education before transferring to Government Degree College Boys in Baramulla to get his bach...

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Kashmiri driver mercilessly assaulted in Banihal, one arrested

REGIONAL

Meer Irfan/ Suhail Dar A Kashmiri driver was allegedly assaulted in the Sharbibi area of Banihal on the Jammu-Srinagar Highway late on Wednesday night. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, Drivers Association president Shopian said that a driver identified as Aqib Ahmed Dar who is a resident of the Tulkhun area of south Kashmir's Bijbehara area is admitted at the hospital after he was ruthlessly beaten by goons in the Banihal area. https://twitter.com/glblink/status/1608191021065592833 "Aqib Ahmad Dar, who was driving his truck, coming from Jammu towards Srinagar was stopped by some people in a car (Verna) after a minor argument. He (the driver of the Verna car) verbally abused the Kashmiri driver and his accomplice, even though it was the mistake of the car driver," he said. The ma...

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Admin to attach 250 properties belonging to militants, OGWs, Jamaat e Islami: Report

FEATURED

The Jammu Kashmir administration has planned to launch a major crackdown on the assets of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), militants and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) by sealing the major properties belonging to them, Daily Excelsior reported. Quoting official sources, the report said, that nearly 250 assets of militants, OGWs and Jamaat e Islami are under the radar and the majority of them have been identified by different investigating agencies with the help of civil administration across Jammu Kashmir. Around 60 properties are in Jammu division and the rest are in the Kashmir valley. Properties of proscribed organizations’ cadre in Jammu division are mostly confined in Jammu, Kishtwar, Doda, Ramban, Rajouri, and Poonch districts, they said. However, in Kashmir, it is spread across all 10 distr...

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Will punish those found guilty, AMU issues statement over alleged assault of Kashmiri student

INDIA

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has announced strict action in the case related to beating of a Kashmiri reaserch scholar at the university. In its official communique, the university said, "strict action will be taken against students found guilty of violence, bullying and troublemaking." The University Proctor, Prof Mohd Wasim Ali said, “The University is running smoothly, classes for the first semester are going on in full swing and the examinations of the third semester are being conducted. No one will be allowed to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere”. In the recent scuffle at the Badminton Court in a residential hall, in which some students clashed; the warden and other authorities immediately reached there and tried to resolve the issue. The university has constituted a fact...

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SIU conducts raids at multiple locations in South Kashmir, two arrested

REGIONAL

Special Investigation Unit of Police conducted multiple Raids in South Kashmir’s Shopian and Pulwama district on Wednesday. In a handout to GNS, the police said that continuing efforts to dismantle the militancy ecosystem, the State Investigation Unit ( SIU) Shopian today conducted raids and carried out search at various locations in district Shopian and Pulwama in connection with investigation of militancy related FIR. In district Shopian, sleuths of SIU Shopian conducted raids and search at two suspected location at Zainpora and in district Pulwama, raids and subsequent search was carried out at suspected location in Naina Bhatpora village. Search warrants were obtained from the concerned court of law. The spokesman further said that during search sleuths of SIU collected and seize...

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Ready to attack Iran’s nuclear sites: Israel Army chief

INTERNATIONAL

Israel’s Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi said Tuesday that the army’s preparedness to launch strikes against Iranian nuclear sites has improved. “The level of preparedness for an operation in Iran has dramatically improved,” Kochavi said in a speech for the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies cited by The Jerusalem Post newspaper. If the army is ordered to act against the Iranian nuclear program, he said, “it will fulfill the mission that is given.” Kochavi said Iran seeks to deploy hundreds of missiles in Syria along with deploying “thousands of Shia militiamen.” The army chief said Israel managed to disrupt the Iranian vision in Syria “to establish a second Hezbollah in Syria.” Israel frequently accuses Tehran of exploiting the ongoing conflict in Syria — where Ira...

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Nehru responsible for ‘difficult’ situation in Kashmir: BJP

REGIONAL

The BJP has deemed the country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, responsible for the situation in Kashmir, and said that the Valley was divided in 1948, because of Nehru. The BJP, on Wednesday, shared a date-wise description of related events on its Twitter handle and wrote, “Nehru took the Kashmir issue to the UN, leading to the breaking of Kashmir.” The party shared a poster with a picture of Nehru and stated that tribals with the support of Pakistan’s Army invaded JK on October 22, 1947. Adding that, following the UN’s interference, a ceasefire came into force on December 31, 1948, which resulted in one-third of the valley going under Pakistan. Continuing the political attack on the Congress, the BJP said that it was because of them that Pakistan occupied Kashmir (Po...

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Srinagar court convicts south Kashmir militant, sentences him to 15 years imprisonment

REGIONAL

Srinagar UAPA court has convicted a State Investigation Agency (SIA) investigated militant and has convicted him for six years of imprisonment for being active member of militant organization. An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that Amir Nabi Wagay son of Ghulam Nabi Wagay of Goriwan in Bijbehara area of Anantnag District was convicted by UAPA Court in Srinagar on 27 December 2022 and sentenced him to 6 years imprisonment under section 20 of UAPA for being an active member of Hizbul Mujahideen, a banned militant outfit; another 6 years under section 7/25 Indian Arms Act for possession of illegally acquired firearm and ammunition and 03 years under section 13 UAPA for indulging in unlawful activities especially promoting separatism and disrupting the sovereignty and...

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Rs.60k fine recovered from erring FBOs at Shopian

REGIONAL

The Court of Adjudicating Officer, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC), Shopian, Yar Ali Khan today imposed a fine of Rs.60,000 from the erring Food Business Operators (FBOs) of the district. During the hearing, the Adjudicating Officer disposed of 18 Cases of Food Business Operators (FBOs) for violation of the prescribed provisions/ norms of Food Safety and Standard Act and Rules and Regulations and imposed and recovered a fine from them. The Food Business Operators of Shopian were warned against any kind of violation in future and were instructed to show adherence to the rules and regulations in letter and spirit. They were also stressed for maintaining cleanliness in and around their Food Business Units to avoid any kind of infection. Assistant Commissioner, Food Safety, Sh...