Month: August 2023

Following 725 human-animal conflict incidents in the past five years resulting in the loss of 10 lives and injuries to 19 others, demand for setting up of Wildlife Control Room (WCR) in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district is getting louder with each passing day. Official data from the Wildlife Department accessed by the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) suggests that Kulgam district has witnessed 725 human-animal conflict incidents in the past five years, resulting in the death of 10 people and injuries to 19 others. A wildlife official, wishing not to be named, said that the majority of these incidents have taken place in the Damhal Hanjipora area, which is home to a large number of wild animals, including leopards, bears, and wolves. He said that the lone wildlife control room in...

A 19-year-old boy was hospitalised after allegedly stabbed by a duo at Government Polytechnic College Bemina in central Kashmir’s Srinagar district this afternoon. Sources said that one Mehran Ahmad, son of Parvaiz Ahmad Khuroo of Sopore was stabbed and injured in his chest, lower back and head after an altercation broke out in the College premises. “The teenager boy was soon evacuated from the site and taken to JVC Hospital Bemina, where his overall condition is said to be stable”, they said. A police official said that they have registered a case into the matter and arrested the duo alleged of committing the crime. The official identified the alleged duo as Abrar Shabir, son of Shabir Ahmad Dar of Doniwari Chadoora and Rahil Ali son of Ali Mohammad Phaloo of Lal Chowk (at pre...

The Supreme Court of India, presently hearing a bunch of pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370 asked the Centre to indicate if there is a time frame to restore the statehood for Jammu Kashmir. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who is representing the Centre, has been asked to come back with instructions on this post the lunch break. On Tuesday, the hearing of a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 in the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir resumed for day 12. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta argued that any change in the constitution that "brings everyone at par can never be faulted". Quoting the petitioners' argument that article 370 is to be treated as permanent, SG Mehta said, "This argument came up first in the Madharao Scindia case after the govt...

Unknown gunmen fired upon a local inhabitant in Karnah of north Kashmir's Kupwara district on intervening Monday and Tuesday night, resulting in his death, officials said. They told GNS that one Mukhtar Ahmad Shah, son of Syed Akbar Shah, resident of Panjtaran Karnah was shot at by unknown gunmen at Pingla Haridal. "The body of slain was evacuated from the site and is currently lying at SDH Tangdhar for medical formalities", they said. Meanwhile a police official told GNS that they have taken up investigations into the matter to nab the culprits behind the man's killing. (GNS)

A man has been arrested for sodomizing a nine-year-old boy in the Srinagar district of central Kashmir. An official confirming the development to The Kashmiriyat said that Waseem Raja, a resident of Noorbagh who was posted as an Imam at Masjid Aisha at Malikaagun was accused of committing "unnatural" sex with nine-year-old boy As the Police received the complaint, the accused was taken into detention. The official said that an FIR 30/2023 has been registered at Police Station Mahraj Gunj in Srinagar under sections 377 of IPC and 5, 6 of POCSO Act.