Month: May 2023

State President CITU J-K, Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami Thursday appreciated the J-K government’s decision to absorb 145 employees of Hotel Corporation of India (HCI) working at Centour Lake View Hotel Srinagar in different corporations under the tourism department on existing terms and conditions while the retirement benefits for the period they had worked with Hotel Corporation of India would be borne by HCI. As per the decision, employees will be absorbed on the same and similar terms and conditions of service in the J-K Tourism Department, Cable Car Corporation, and Sher-i-Kashmir International Convocation Centre (SKICC) Srinagar. This decision was taken on the recommendations of the committee and approved by the administrative Council, Tarigami said in a statement issued to the news agen...

A government official has been suspended after allegedly getting 21 lakh litres of water drained from a reservoir to recover his expensive phone that had fallen into it. According to NDTV, He was quick to clarify, though, saying the water was “unusable” and he got prior verbal permission from the local Sub Divisional Officer. The District Collector suspended him on charges of misusing his position and not taking permission from the concerned official. Rajesh Vishwas, a food officer in Koilibeda block of Kanker district, was enjoying his holiday at the Kherkatta Dam when he accidentally dropped his smartphone worth Rs 1 lakh in the overflow area with 15 feet deep water, after which locals dived in to try to locate it. When the physical extraction effort failed, the officer got t...

Danishwar Hameed A 42-year-old woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances at her residence in Kulgam district of south Kashmir. An official told The Kashmiriyat that on Friday morning, a woman (name withheld) was found lying unconscious at her home in the Bathpora area of Damhal Hanjipora belt of Kulgam. He said the 42-year-old woman was rushed to the nearby hospital, where she was declared dead. Though the cause of the death is not known, the official said that the woman died of consuming poison. Police have registered a case in this regard and launched further investigation.

The National Investigation Agency of India has moved to the supreme court seeking the death penalty for JKLF leader Mohammed Yasin Malik, Live Law reported. Malik was sentenced to life by a court in New Delhi on militancy charges in the month of May 2022. Malik had told the court that he was not contesting the charges leveled against him that included sections 16 (militant act), 17 (raising funds for militant act), 18 (conspiracy to commit militant act) and 20 (being member of militant gang or organisation) of the UAPA and sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the IPC. Yasin Malik, 54, is lodged in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail after he was arrested under the Public Safety Act in March 2019, but a month later his custody was shifted to National Investigation Agency...

Suhail Dar Bakir Bashir, a resident of Gadisera Bijbehara in south Kashmir's Anantnag district has been missing from his home since yesterday. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat,  a family member of the 17-year-old youth said that he left his home on Thursday after from home, after which he did not return home. The family has also filed a missing report at the concerned police station and appealed to the general public to help them trace their kin. " If anyone has any information, please contact 7006318482 / 9999123531," the family appealed.  

The Jammu Kashmir police arrested two persons in Shopian and received contraband substances from their possession. In a press release Police said, During a Naka checking at Pirpora crossing Keegam in Shopian, Police recovered 184g of charas from the possession of two persons. The duo was identified as Bilal Dar and Aakir Hakim, both residents of Arihal Pulwama. Police registered a case in this regard and further investigation has been taken up, the press release added.

Four residents of Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district have been booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) for their alleged anti-national activities, police said. The PSA allows detention without trial for a year. A police statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir Scroll that four persons hailing from various areas of Pattan Baramulla were booked under PSA for being involved in anti-national activities. They were subsequently detained and lodged in Kot-Bhalwal jail in Jammu. The four were identified as Javaid Hussain Yatoo of Goshbugh Pattan; Jan Nisar Khaliq Ganai of Chanderhama Pattan, Abid Parvaiz Hajam of Andergam Pattan, and Nisar Ahmad Wani of Sultanpora Pattan. Police said many cases were registered against these persons and were involved in anti-national acti...

Baramulla Police today rescued a tourist family comprising 3 adults & 4 kids of Telengana who arrived in Gulmarg and went for a Gondola ride to Kangdoori Gulmarg. An official told the news agency—Kashmir Scroll that on return to Gondola Phase 2nd, they lost their way and got stuck in the Kangdoori area. Acting upon this, police rescue teams of PS Gulmarg led by SHO PS Gulmarg Insp Irshad with the assistance of ATVs and Pony Walas were formed who followed around the Kangdoori area and finally reached the location of the tourist family and rescued them from the area and brought them back to Gulmarg safely, he said. The tourist family expressed their gratitude towards Baramulla Police for timely help—(KS)