Month: February 2024

Residents of scores of villages in Anantnag have complained of shortage of drinking water in their villages. Earlier this week, The Kashmiriyat reported that the locals of Panzath area protested against the construction of a pipeline project in Panzath, Qazigund. The locals expressed, “We have no issue with the pipeline if it is constructed near the dam, but the spring we have here that they want to withdraw water from has a limited discharge of water, so the pipeline will cause water shortage to us." As the Department of Public Health Engineering is determined to proceed with the project using the spring as the water source, despite its inadequacy for Panzath, the residents of the the villages where the pipeline is being taken staged a protest against its construction. They de...

A family from Srinagar has pleaded to the public and Police to help them trace their kin after he has gone missing from his home. As per news report, Basharat Ahmed Bhat son of late Ali Mohammed Bhat, a resident of Naid Kadal, Srinagar has been missing for the last six days. In a video circulated on social media, his sister has a tearful appeal asking him to return home. “We have looked for him everywhere, he is nowhere to be found. If we made any mistakes, please forgive us, but come back to us”, she added. According to his sister, Basharat left home on 04 February, 2024 and has not returned since. His absence has left the family deeply concerned, especially considering the passing of his father, leaving Basharat, his sister and mother behind. Anyone with information regard...

BJP National General Secretary and In-Charge JK Tarun Chugh Saturday said that Assembly polls in Jammu Kashmir will be held before September 2024. He however said that it is ECI who has to take a final call on its schedule. Quoting Chugh, news agency KNS reported that BJP is ready for elections and wants Assembly elections in the Union Territory at the earliest. He said that though Election Comission of India has to take final call on election schedule, but it is already decided that elections will take place before September 2024. He said after August 5, 2019 the JK has started the journey of peace, prosperity and development. “Under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi the BJP government has empowered people of JK in every respect. The ignored sections of the society have been roped in r...

In Pattan area of Baramulla, a teenage youth attacked his own brother with an axe over a land dispute. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that the dispute between the siblings in Hanjivera Pattan after which Muzaffar Ahmed Dar was critically wounded. They said that on on Saturday afternoon a verbal brawl started between the two, which resulted in a heated argument and it soon changed into a physical fight. "During the fight, Muzaffar was attacked by Sameer, aged 19, with an axe after which he had to be rushed to the local hospital in Hanjiwara in north Kashmir, where the doctors rushed him to the Srinagar hospital," the locals said. A senior police also confirmed the incident stating that Muzaffar Hussain Dar the younger son of Ghulam Mohammad Dar (30) was injured during in the fight....

Yet again, disturbing and shocking news comes from the northern region of Kashmir, where a fight between two brothers leaves one critically injured, sources said. Reliable sources told Srinagar-based news gathering agency Kashmir Scroll that an argument between two brothers in the Hanjivera area of Pattan left one critically injured. Sources said immediately the injured one was taken to Pattan Hospital, where doctors referred him to Srinagar Medical Institution for advanced treatment. A senior police also confirmed this unfortunate incident to news agency Kashmir Scroll and identified injured as Muzaffar Hussain Dar son of Ghulam Mohammad Dar (30) resident of Hanjiweera Pattan. He said a case has been registered and further investigation has been initiated. Pertinently, the pol...

An RTI disclosure indicates that out of the 601 sanctioned posts at Government Medical College (GMC) and Associated Hospital Udhampur, 501 positions are vacant. Of the total sanctioned posts, only 100 are currently filled, highlighting a significant staffing gap. It has come to the fore that to meet deficiencies, authorities have been regularly recruiting the staff based on academic arrangements. Details reveal that out of sanctioned 24 posts of professor (HoD), 10 are in position while 24 are vacant, out of 34 sanctioned posts of associate professors just two are in position while 32 are vacant and similarly out of 52 assistant professors, 32 are in position and 20 are vacant. The details further reveal that out of 84 senior residents or demonstrators, 30 are in position while 54...

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches in parts of Kashmir on Saturday in the case of terror funding by Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, an unlawful association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Reliable sources told News Agency Kashmir Scroll that the agency sleuths are carrying out these raids in the Southern region of Kashmir and also in Srinagar. Sources said the raids are underway in close coordination with the Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs). Jamaat-e-Islami has been found carrying out terror funding activities in Jammu Kashmir, even after being declared an unlawful association under the UA (P) Act on February 28, 2019. (KS)