Month: March 2023

The Jammu Kashmir police have arrested a Sikh couple from the RS Pura area of Jammu for their alleged links with Amritpal Singh, the head of Waris Punjab de. Over 150 people have been arrested in Punjab after the Government launched a major crackdown to detain Amritpal Singh, many of them under the arms act and NSA. The Jammu Kashmir police said that Jammu residents identified as Amrik Singh and his wife namely Paramjit Kour were detained by Jammu Police for their links with Amritpal Singh. After being arrested, the two were handed over to Punjab Police for their alleged links with Papalpreet Singh, a close aide of Amritpal Singh.

Shah Basit Moulana Kaiser Attari, a young religious cleric from Budgam died in a road accident in the Budgam district of central Kashmir. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, one of his close aides said that Kaiser Ahmed Attari (30), a resident of Fraw Ganderbal met an accident near Bonibagh when he was on the way to his home after delivering a Friday sermon at a mosque in Kangan. The cleric was driving his Alto car when it met an accident, after which he was rushed to the nearby hospital. He succumbed to his injuries near Iftar time, his aide said. Kaiser Attari, who ha graduated from Idara Tehqiqat e Islami, one of the primary religious institutes of the Kashmir valley got married nearly ten months back after which he shifted to Ganderbal. The 30-year-old cleric has spent nearl...

On World Tuberculosis Day, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases are on the rise in Kashmir hospitals. “We see many patients coming to our hospitals with tuberculosis of brain, spine, intestines, genitourinary tract, heart and lymph nodes,” said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement issued to GNS. Dr Hassan said tuberculosis commonly affects lungs, but if it affects other parts of the body other than the lung, it is known as extrapulmonary tuberculosis. “The number of undetected extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases in the community could be greater than the number of notified cases,” he said. The DAK President said despite advances in diagnosis and expansion of TB services, extrapulmonary case detection efforts are usually uns...

A video of LG Manoj Sinha has gone viral on social media in which he can be heard stating that Mahatma Gandhi had no degree. "It is a lie mostly told to the educated people of India that Mahatma Gandhi had a degree in Law, however, he had no degree," the LG of the Jammu Kashmir administration is heard saying in the video. Did you know he did not have a single university degree or qualification? His only qualification was a high school diploma. He qualified to practise law. He had no degree, just look at how qualified he was that he became the father of the nation, LG Manoj Sinha said, while delivering keynote address for Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Memorial Lecture at ITM, Gwalior. LG Manoj Sinha even said that he can prove his claims. Sinha’s statement comes just a day after Delhi C...

The Jammu Kashmir administration has issued an order asking the Government employees to not criticize any policies of the Government In a copy of an order titled, 'Use of social media by the Government Employees of Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir' of which a copy is available with The Kashmiriyat, the admin said, No Government employee shall, by any utterance, writing or otherwise discuss or criticize in public or in any meeting of any association or body any policy pursued or action taken by the Government nor shall he in any manner participate in any such discussion or criticism. "No Government employee shall, in any radio broadcast or in any document published in his own name or anonymously, pseudonymously or in the name of any other person or in any communication to the pres...

Zaroo Gun factory in Rainawari area of Srinagar, the Kashmir's one of the last surviving gun factory is facing a bleak future and gun makers are struggling for their survival. As per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Burhan Farooq Zaroo owner of the Zaroo Gun Factory located in Sikandar Pora Rainawari has now four workers where over 30 people were working sometime before. Burhan Farooq told KNO that Zaroo Gun Factory was started in 1964 and has been making 12-bore rifles since then. “My grandfather, father and uncle were working here but grandfather passed away and father and uncle are old now and I am handling it now,” he said. “After pursuing graduation, I started working here and have been making guns but demand is very low now,” he said, adding they are hardly earnin...