Month: February 2023

JK State Health Agency (SHA) has suspended the empanelment of 13 hospitals and imposed heavy penalties on 17 others for their involvement in fraud while implementing the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY). Officials said over Rs 1.77 crore have been imposed as a penalty on the hospitals involved in fraudulent activities in 2022 out of which over Rs 1.34 crore have been recovered so far by the SHA. As per official sources, the hospitals which have faced the action include Ibn Sina Hospital, Rs 24 lakh penalty imposed and empanelment suspended; Quality Care Hospital, Rs 6.64 lakh penalty imposed; Narayana Hospital, Rs 54.62 lakh penalty imposed; Ess Bee Hospital, empanelment suspended; Waseem Memorial Hospital, empanelment suspended. In...

Hizb ul Mujahideen's launching commander, Bashir Ahmad Peer alias Imtiyaz Alam, was killed in Pakistan's Rawalpindi on Monday evening. According to reports in Pakistani local media, an unknown assailant shot at Imtiyaz from point-blank range outside a shop in Rawalpindi, killing the top Hizb commander who was wanted in India. A resident of Kupwara district in north Kashmir, Narendra Modi government designated Peer as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in October last year. He was involved in providing logistics to the banned outfits, especially for infiltration into the Kupwara district in Jammu Kashmir.

Seven women as young as fifteen years old and two children have been rescued from a gang of human traffickers in Jammu district. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that the Jammu Kashmir Police on Saturday busted a gang involved in the trafficking of young women in Jammu. They said that Police, following credible inputs, raided Bus stand area in Jammu where four persons from Myanmar, another from central Kashmir’s Budgam District were arrested. During the raid, Police also recovered cash worth over 1,50,000 from an accused identified as Rohia Akhtar, 30 of Naslapura, Budgam, Mohammed Arif, 16, Mohammed Rafiq, 28, Asma, 25, all presently residing in Delhi. “Seven victims including girls as young as 15 years old and, two children have been rescued from the clutches of the accused,” Polic...

The quality of mutton in Kashmir Valley is not up to the mark and it also is not ‘Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’ (FSSAI) compliant, thus putting consumers at risk. The majority of the consumers across Kashmir Valley have been consuming ‘C’ grade meat as is being sold to them by the butchers. Those who are in the mutton trade told news agency Kashmir News Trust that low productivity and low profits in this business are due to the traditional methods of farming adopted by nomads who take care of the livestock population in Jammu and Kashmir. “When there is low productivity, some mutton dealers procure ‘C’ grade meat from the outside Kashmir to make quick bucks. The problem is unawareness among consumers who are unable to differentiate between ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’ grade q...

Srinagar Police on Monday said it have arrested 07 absconders in the last one month as they were involved in heinous cases, registered against them in different police stations of the district. According to a statement, issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the absconders include Farooq Ahmad Bhaga s/of Dalgate, Dr Arifat Jan of Nigeen, Zameer Ahmad Shah of Nowgam, Manzoor Ahmad Bhat of Rainawari, Rashid Iqbal Malik of Check Narwa Banihal, Nazir Ahmad Shigun of Batamaloo, Mohammad Qasim Shah of Beerwah and Aijaz Ahmad Gujree of Baramulla. The statement reads one of the absconders was involved in a case filed in 1990 and was absconding since 2013. “All the absconders have been produced before the courts for further action under law,” it reads—(KNO)