Month: March 2023

In an initiative to bring Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims closer, a cultural organization held an event that brought together artists, writers, poets, and intellectuals from the two communities on one stage. ‘Yom-e-sout-e-Kashmir’ was organized by the Gayoor Foundation in collaboration with the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Language on Wednesday. The foundation is named after veteran writer-poet Syed Ghulam Rasool Gayoor, who was shot dead by militants in 2005. “We organised Yom-e-Sout-e-Kashmir here. The aim behind organising it is to bring Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims, who were distanced from each other (due to the eruption of militancy),” Gayoor Foundation chairman Showkat Gayoor Andrabi said. “We want to restore the compositeness,” he said. The focus of the ...

A local from Central Kashmir’s Budgam district has been arrested by police in Bihar for his suspicious movement in the Shaheed Chowk of Katihar in Bihar. The arrested youth has been identified as Nasir Yusuf Waza. Reports said that Muhammad Yousuf, the father of the arrested youth had been killed in an encounter in Kashmir valley. Reports said after reaching Katihar from Nepal, he was going to Kolkata by train, but he missed the train. Therefore he checked into a hotel at Shaheed Chowk in the Nagar police station area. Locals informed police after they spotted him roaming. Katihar SP Jitendra Kumar said, “A youth has been arrested under suspicious circumstances. In the interrogation, it has been found that he is from Kashmir. Something can be clearly said in this matter only after...

Authorities on Friday attached property of a man for providing Shelter and logistic support to the militants in North Kashmir's Handwara.Authorities on Friday attached property of a man for providing Shelter and logistic support to the militants in North Kashmir's Handwara. In a handout to GNS, the police said that today in an order of attachment of property under S. 25 of the UA(P) Act of an OGW was executed at Yaroo. The order of attachment of property had been confirmed by the Office of Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir against Mohd Abdullah Mir, son of Khazir Mohd Mir, resident of Yaroo for his involvement in providing logistics and shelter to militants, in relation to which FIR no. 327/2018 U/S 307-RPC 7/27-Act,18,19,25 UA(P) Act had been registered at Police Station Handwara.(GN...

Three more people posing as part of an 'official team' led by a conman from Gujarat, Kiran Bhai Patel, may have escaped from Kashmir before police arrested the "senior PMO official" early this month in Srinagar, NDTV reported. The imposter had taken the Jammu and Kashmir administration and security structure for a ride by securing Z-plus security cover, a bulletproof Mahindra Scorpio SUV, official accommodation at a five-star hotel, and a lot more. Patel, who was impersonating an Additional Director for strategy and campaigns in the Prime Minister's Office, was arrested on March 2, but his arrest was kept a secret by the police. On Thursday, details of his arrest emerged after a magistrate sent him to judicial custody. Sources say Amit Hitesh Pandiya and Jay Sitapara from Gujarat,...

A group of Kashmiri Pandits of village Dever , at present Jammu, visited Dever village of Tehsil Tral, comprising C L Butt, Koul Ji, and others received by Additional Deputy Commissioner Tral S A Raina and Muslim and Sikh Community. The group was welcomed in a gesture of love and Communal harmony. The Muslim community hugged and shook hands with tearful eyes. They shared periods of childhood, youth, joy sorrows and Kashmiriyat with tears. On the occasion, the Additional Deputy Commissioner Tral said that this is our syncretic culture. He further said that people of both the communities have in personal capacity reclaimed Kashmiriyat, the idea of harmony and coexistence. The group visited various householders, friends and neighbours.

A man from Srinagar’s old city was bitten by a rat on Friday morning. Much agony to the family, no vaccine for rat bites was available neither at SKIMS Soura or at SMHS Hospital. The victim identified as Muhammad Maqbool Ganai, a resident of Noorbagh Guzarbal was taken to SKIMS Soura by his family for treatment shortly after his right finger was bitten by a rodent at his home. Jan Muhammad, the son of the victim told the news agency Kashmir News Trust that doctors at SKIMS asked him to take his father to SMHS Hospital as no vaccine for a rat bite is available in the hospital. “Though rats don’t cause rabies, and my father didn’t need it but to my surprise, even anti-rabies vaccines are not available at SKIMS,” he said adding that the same scenario prevails at SMHS hospital where n...