Month: April 2023

Panun Kashmir, a prominent organisation of migrant Kashmiri Pandits, on Tuesday, asked the Government of India “to recognise that its perceptions about fast unfolding normalcy in Jammu Kashmir are not more than delusions driven by political expediency”, reported Indian Express. In a press statement issued in Jammu, Panun Kashmir chairman Dr Ajay Chrungoo expressed shock over the terrorist attacks on security forces in Poonch and Rajouri districts during the past one-and-a-half-years, and asked the Government of India “Are the jungles of Rajouri-Poonch area adjacent to Pakistan actually in our control?”. How could terrorists inflict heavy casualties on our security forces since October 2021 in this area again and again? Is GoI aware about the intense radicalisation inside in Rajouri P...

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday raided an NGO office of jailed Khurram Parvaiz in central Kashmir’s Budgam A team of NIA conducted searches at an NGO office at Dandoosa area in Budgam. The office is of Khurram Parvaiz, they said. An official confirmed and said “Yes, the NIA team conducted searches at the NGO office at Dandoosa Budgam, some documents have been seized during searches”. The searches were conducted in an NGO terror funding case. Parvaz is already in jail in a terror-funding case and was chargesheeted in May last year. “Following the first arrest made in the NGO terror funding case on March 20, 2023, the National Investigation Agency arrested Khurram Parvez, the program coordinator of Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Societies (JKCCS) and ch...

A whopping 6,875 bite victims, mostly of dog bites, were reported to the Anti-Rabies Clinic at Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital in last one year. The presence of dogs on every nook and corner has led to man-dog confrontation due to which the number of cases of dog bites has increased in the region, doctors say. An official from anti rabies clinic SMHS told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that from 1st April 2022 till 3Ist March 2023 as many as 6,875 bite cases were reported to ARC SMHS and most of them were from Srinagar. Giving details, he said that among animal bites in last one year 4,912 animal bite cases were reported from Srinagar at ARC SMHS, 317 from Budgam, 201 from Baramulla, 134 from Kupwara, 168 from Bandipora, 301 from Ganderbal, 221 from Pu...

About 2,272 water bodies in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are "not in use" due to several reasons including dried up and destroyed beyond repair, Ministry of Jal Shakti census report has revealed. Ministry of Jal Shakti released the first ever census of Water Bodies in convergence with the 6th Minor Irrigation (MI) Census under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme “Irrigation Census.” The census report, a copy of which lies with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) has revealed that there are 9,765 water bodies in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh and among them 7,493 are in use while as 2,272 water bodies are not in use. The report has revealed that the 1,051 water bodies are not in use as they have dried up, 24 due to construction, 20 siltation, 214 destroyed behind repair, 01 salini...

The Jammu Kashmir police have busted an sex racket in the Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district. As per an official press release received by The Kashmiriyat, P.S Kralgund busted a racket involved in immoral trafficking and arrested five persons. In its press release, Police said, Today on April 25, 2023, information was received from reliable sources about a racket of immoral activities operating from the house of an individual in Reshipora. Accordingly, a search party conducted a raid in the house of Shabir Ahmad War, a resident of Reshipora, where a sex racket was busted. Five persons were arrested from the spot, including the house owner and his wife, one sex worker and two customers. Cash amounting to Rs 47,800/- was also recovered from the spot. Five persons ...

A Kashmiri woman has changed her counsel with the hope to get speedy justice and to prove that an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer is the biological father of her female baby reported KNT. As per the victim, an IAS officer married her and during wedlock, a baby girl was born. Later, she and her child were abandoned by the said officer. After hearing the counsel for victim Advocate Mir Naveed Gul, the Court of Second Additional Munsiff, Srinagar, issued fresh directions to defendant Sundhanshu Pandey to appear in person for the recording of the statement. The court directed Pandey to appear in person before it and file in writing whether he consents if the court contemplates passing an order for his DNA test to check whether the girl born from the victim is his biologica...

Danishwar Hameed A CRPF trooper died of cardiac arrest in Kulgam district of the Kashmir valley. An official told The Kashmiriyat that a CRPF trooper posted with the 120 BN of CRPF at Nillow Kulgam suffered a cardiac arrest inside the camp. The trooper identified as Raj kishore son of Shankar Dyal Pandey, a resident of Bulili Ballia in Uttar Pradesh was shifted to the nearby hospital. However, the 44 year old was declared brought dead upon arrival at the hospital, the official said. He said that after post mortem the body will be taken to Uttar Pradesh and handed over to his family members.