Month: February 2024

Abdul Gani Madhosh, a prominent educationist from Srinagar has passed away in Kashmir. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that the renowned educationist and former dean faculty of education and director state resource centre in University of Kashmir, Dr Abdul Gani Madhosh passed away following a brief illness residence in Srinagar on Saturday morning. Professor Madhosh has made significant contributions to education policy and planning, having played crucial roles at both the state and national levels. His death has been widely condoled and people from all the sections of the society are visiting his residence in large numbers. He will be laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Kashmir capital.

Jammu Kashmir National Conference General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar on Thursday said democracy was necessary for restoring a sense of entitlement, security and enfranchisement among the people of Jammu Kashmir. Sagar said this while presiding over a meeting of prominent block office bearers of Harwan-Khanyar-Munawarabad Block at party headquarters Nawa-e-Subah, Srinagar. Upcoming party programmes and parliamentary elections were on the agenda of the meeting. Provincial President YNC Salman Ali Sagar, Block President Bashir Ahmad, and party functionaries were present at the meeting. Addressing the participants, Sagar said democracy forms the core of India’s identity, permeating every facet of life in the nation. "Our principles of democracy played a pivotal role in our strugg...

Peoples Democratic Party (J&KPDP) has expressed deep anguish over high water surcharges being slapped on general public by the Government as water supply bills for last several years in one go and has termed it as atrocious. A party spokesperson in a statement issued here today said the move exhibits total insensitiveness towards the poor people by burdening them with huge bills through concerned PHE department. “Instead of owning their own mistakes of not determining water bills at regular intervals for the consumers, the concerned authorities are blaming general public for the delay in their annual payment,” the spokesman said. Demanding an immediate amnesty and rationalisation for the payments the party said that the people from humble background would otherwise not be able...

A Border Security Forces (BSF) Jawan from North Kashmir’s Kupwara district died after drowning in a river in West Bengal on Thursday evening. Official sources told Kashmir Scroll that Reyaz Ahmad Rather, the son of Ghulam Ahmad Rather from the Macncher Lolab area of Kupwara, who served as a BSF Jawan stationed in West Bengal, lost his life due to drowning on Thursday evening. They said the body, however, was retrieved immediately, but by then he was no more. The mortal remains of Reyaz are arriving today in his hometown for last rites, officials said. Kashmir Scroll

The Jammu Kashmir administration has approved the setting up of seven new industrial estates at a cost of Rs 304.51 crore, a DIPR statement said. The estimated investment in these industrial estates, spread over 5,290 kanal across six districts, is Rs 8,700.16 crore with employment potential of 28376 persons. The Administrative Council (AC) which met under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, accorded administrative approval for the development new Industrial Estates in the UT of JK. The new Industrial Estates are situated at Banderpora Budgam, Sempora Medicity, Srinagar, Bhagthali, Kathua, Karandi, Samba, Trenz, Shopian, Hariparigam Tral Pulwama and Khunmoh, Pantha Chowk Srinagar. New Industrial Estate Banderpora Budgam involving 64 kanals of State Land shall ...

Amid largely clear skies, freezing night temperature continued unabated and stayed several degrees Celsius below normal in Kashmir Valley with Gulmarg recording a low of minus 10.0°C and Pahalgam minus 9.5°C on Friday, officials said. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar recorded a low of minus 2.6°C and it was below normal by 1.0°C for the summer capital of J&K for this time of the year, he said. Qazigund recorded a minimum of minus 3.8°C against minus 4.4°C on the previous night and it was 3.7°C below normal for the gateway town of Kashmir, the MeT official said. Pahalgam recorded a low of minus 9.5°C against minus 8.6°C on the previous night and it was 5.5°C below normal for the famous resort in south Kashmir. Kokernag, also in south Kashmir, ...

Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s electrifying kickoff to the election campaign with a resounding public rally at Maulana Azad Stadium Jammu, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now orchestrating a thorough evaluation of its readiness for the crucial 2024 parliamentary elections in the strategically vital region of Jammu Kashmir. With top BJP National leaders set to embark on this pivotal mission in the coming weeks, the timing couldn’t be more crucial. This assessment aims to foster focused deliberations with senior party functionaries, and key stakeholders, as the party meticulously fine-tunes its groundwork for the upcoming electoral challenge. “At the forefront of this mission is the objective to scrutinize and optimize the BJP’s campaign strategies, candidate selection pr...