Month: April 2023

Seventeen-year-old Tejas Singh, a Sikh boy from Jammu and Kashmir, has achieved the top position in JEE (Mains) with a percentile of 99.91, The Hindustan Times reported. Tejas secured an all-India rank of 1123 when the JEE Mains results were announced on Saturday. Tejas is the son of Sukhpal Singh, Additional Secretary in the Public Health Engineering Department (Jal Shakti), and government teacher Sonia Singh. He aims to crack JEE (Advanced) on June 4. Tejas attended Delhi Public School and achieved 93% in his matriculation. “My father had told me about JEE exams. Since I also liked mathematics, I opted for the non-medical stream and started preparing for it. Though I joined the coaching centre in Class 10. The Covid-19 pandemic hampered my preparation in 2020 and 2021,” Tejas said....

Jammu Kashmir Police on Saturday claimed to have launched a poppy destruction drive in Kulgam along with officers of Revenue department and destroyed huge cultivation of poppy. The special team of Police headed by SHO Police Station Qazigund along with officers of Revenue department launched a special drive against narcotic drug cultivation and carried out the drive at Village Bonigam, Baihama, Babapora and other adjacent areas. Illegal poppy cultivation spread on about 06 Kanals of land was destroyed during the drive, a police spokesman said in a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). General public of these areas have widely appreciated the action taken by the Police and assured their full cooperation in future as well to eradicate the menace of drugs from...

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday alleged that the people of Poonch and Rajouri districts were being harassed and tortured by the security forces after the recent attack in Poonch that left five soldiers dead. She also demanded an in-depth probe into the attack. Addressing a press conference at party headquarters here, Mehbooba, according to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) asked, “How did the attack happen in a highly-secured area that is under the heavy presence of troops? There should be an investigation into the incident so that the truth comes forward.” “But that (truth) should not come at the cost of harassing the people of Rajouri and Poonch,” she added. The PDP chief said that since the attack last week, authorities have been “opp...

Expanding the horizon of investigation into the Poonch attack, Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday detained a religious cleric (Moulvi) from Jammu’s Bathindi area for allegedly having his links with the terrorists involved in the recent attack. As per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), though the security forces are tight- lipped on the incident and restricted for sharing news with media, but reliable sources informed that during interrogation and questioning of detainees, a name of Poonch based Moulvi was surfaced for allegedly having links with militants and across the border. “A team of SOG lifted Moulvi namely Manzoor from the Madrassa, Markaz -UL- Marrif in Bathindi on suspicion of having links with Poonch attack,” sources said adding that...

A 19-year-old youth from the Khawajabagh area in north Kashmir's Baramulla district has gone missing today afternoon. The family of the youth identified as Aman Ayaz Khan a resident of Baramulla said that today afternoon he left home and has been missing since then. “Since then we have been trying to find him, however, we have not succeeded yet, we ask the general public and people to help us trace him,” Aman's relative told The Kashmiriyat. The family has appealed general public to call them on 6006962056, 7006349596 in case their son is spotted anywhere.