Day: June 19, 2023

Jammu Kashmir Apni Party Monday held a protest against a host of issues being faced by people including price rise, installation of smart meters, and curtailment in ration quota. Apni Party workers and several leaders assembled outside the party headquarters at Church Lane Srinagar. Police however didn’t allow them to proceed towards the road and detained some workers and leaders. The party said that the protest had been planned against the administration’s failure to provide essential commodities to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, the police arrested several party leaders and workers including the party’s district president Srinagar, Noor Muhammad Sheikh. The demonstrators carried placards demanding the availability of rations on the Ghats, uninterrupted power service, and suffi...

Grand Mufti Jammu Kashmir Mufti Nasir-ul- Islam Monday announced that the Eid-Ul- Adha will be celebrated on June 29 in J&K as the Zil Haj moon has been sighted. The Grand Mufti told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the Zil Hajj moon has been sighted on Monday evening following which the Eid-ul- Adha will be celebrated on June 29. “Zil Hajj moon has been sighted today evening, so Eid-ul-Adha will be celebrated on June 29," he said, adding that enough evidence has been received about moon sighting. He said that it was the collective decision of Ulema to announce the decision about Eid-ul- Adha. He said there is a perception among some people that sacrificial animals are costly, and they will offer ‘Sadka’ which in no way acceptable in Islam as the condition for t...

Recently, news hit the online media that a man had filed a petition in the court seeking compensation from the Indian army for cutting the trees from his land that was in possession of the Indian Army in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. As per the news report, the Indian Army cited the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) saying that it cannot be persecuted. The court recently rejected its contention. Bandipora Principal Sessions Judge Amit Kumar ruled that there is “no need for the plaintiff to obtain sanction from the Central government before filing a suit in such type of controversy”. The case has been listed for hearing on July 4. When the Army chopped down six walnut trees, some of them nearly 70 years old, in his ancestral orchard in north Kashmir’s Chuntimulla village i...

Shah Basit Scores of women of Pati Shallabugh area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Monday held a protest at Ganderbal against the water scarcity in their area. The female protesters raised slogans against the PHE Department for failing to provide uninterrupted water supply to their area. A lady protester speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that they are without water for the last two years and are forced to drink contaminated water. "There are apprehensions of the outbreak of water-borne diseases," she said. Locals appealed the higher-ups to look into the matter at the earliest so that they can breathe a sigh of relief. Later SHO Ganderbal Manzoor Ahmed reached the spot and pacified the protestors by assuring them that their problem will be taken up with concerned au...

Jammu and Kashmir Police in Rajouri on Monday claimed to have arrested five persons, related to the murder case of a man in Khablan village of Thanamandi in the district. Police said that the raids are going on to nab three more accused, who are still at large. Sharing details about the incident, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rajouri, Amritpal Singh said that on 18th of June, a case under FIR number 82/2023 under sections 307/323/147 IPC was registered in Thanamandi Police Station after receipt of written complaint of Nagina Akhtar, wife of Shafiq Ahmed of Khablan village. “The murderous assault on complainant's husband was filed against eight accused persons namely Mohd Taj son of Bir Mohd, Javed Ahmed son of Mohd Taj, Mushtaq Ahmed son of Mohd Taj, Ashfaq Ahmed son of Mo...