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The Kashmir valley witnessed a rise of over 30 per cent in the total number of fire incidents recorded in the year 2022 against the year 2020. According to official figures in 2020, 1900 fire incidents were reported around the Kashmir valley while in 2022, 2500 fire incidents were recorded in Kashmir valley from January 01 to December 31. During these fire incidents, a total of 1700 structures were damaged and 37 persons lost their lives. Figures provided by Jammu Kashmir's Fire & Emergency Services claimed that property worth billions of rupees including residential houses, business establishments, and religious centers were gutted in the fire during the last year. The official data of the Department suggests that the lowest number of incidents were recorded in south Kashmir'...

Suhail Dar Not for the first time, the Kashmir valley was shocked at the visuals that emerged from the Kadalbal area of Pampore in south Kashmir's Pulwama district where a family alleged that a woman was murdered by her in-laws, a claim Jammu Kashmir Police is investigating. Late-night protests erupted in the Kadalbal Pampore area where locals alleged that the woman was murdered by her in-laws, demanding punishment for the culprits. A resident of Pulwama, the 37-year-old woman has an 11-year-old daughter who saw her mother had died when she returned from her maternal house on Sunday around 4 PM. Ghulam Rasool Pushoo, an uncle of the deceased speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that the deceased woman (name withheld) had disputes with her in-laws for a long time. "We spoke to her h...

Kashmiri photojournalist, Mannan Dar who was detained at the Tihar jail for over a year has been granted bail by the court. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat,  a family member of Mannan Dar confirmed that NIA court of Patiala house Delhi granted bail to the 24-year-old journalist on Monday afternoon. "We are expecting his release tomorrow. We have not received any formal orders of the bail as of yet, however, the counsel of Mannan is hopeful that he will be released as soon as the papers are ready," the family member said. On October 10, 2021, police in Srinagar summoned Dar for questioning at Batamaloo Police Station in Srinagar where he was detained. Officials with the NIA formally arrested him on October 22, as per the family. He was arrested along with 23 others in the FIR regist...

Former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency, Amarjit Singh Dulat, has said that there is a trust deficit between New Delhi and Kashmiris. In an exclusive interview with Rediff.com, te former R&AW chief, A.S Dulat said, "Following the arrest of Sheikh Abdullah in 1953, There is a trust deficit between Delhi and Srinagar. It is there even today." A.S Dulat also noted that the present government claims funding from across the border has been stopped. "It has never stopped. It may go up and it may go down, but it will never stop." Kashmir politics has always been volatile. In 1991, when I returned to the Valley (after P V Narasimha Rao became prime minister), one of our major successes was that we managed to find Shabir Shah. "He had been u...

The former Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir and People's Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) on the "worrying" situation in Jammu Kashmir. In her two paged letter, the former Chief Minster said that fundamental rights are " brazenly impinged upon" in the region and basic rights have become luxuries available to those "who toe Government's line." She said that Government's iron-fist policy in Jammu Kashmir was being justified in the name of national security and investigating agencies are being used to hound Kashmiris- businessmen, political leaders, youngsters, and other Kashmiris. Demanding a shit of Kashmiris to jails in Jammu Kashmir, she said that hundreds of our youngsters are languishing in jails outside J-K as undert...

The Jammu Kashmir administration has planned to launch a major crackdown on the assets of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), militants and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) by sealing the major properties belonging to them, Daily Excelsior reported. Quoting official sources, the report said, that nearly 250 assets of militants, OGWs and Jamaat e Islami are under the radar and the majority of them have been identified by different investigating agencies with the help of civil administration across Jammu Kashmir. Around 60 properties are in Jammu division and the rest are in the Kashmir valley. Properties of proscribed organizations’ cadre in Jammu division are mostly confined in Jammu, Kishtwar, Doda, Ramban, Rajouri, and Poonch districts, they said. However, in Kashmir, it is spread across all 10 distr...

India has witnessed at least 690 internet shutdowns for the last ten years, Jammu Kashmir tops that list with a total of 418 documented internet shutdowns, Internetshutdowns.in reported. In the past ten years, the longest communication blockade was imposed in Kashmir. The Internet was shut down on the evening of 4th August 2019 for 552 days. On 5 August 2019 Article 370 of the Constitution was abrogated by the Modi-led Government. Kargil district of Ladakh faced a shutdown of 145 days, which was imposed in August 2019 on the erstwhile State of Jammu Kashmir. The real-time database of its kind in India documented "almost" every single Internet shutdown since 2012, starting with the first imposed in Jammu Kashmir on January 26. However, in the same year, the database puts the tot...

Three persons have made serious allegations against the Bhartiya Janta Party leader Naseer Ahmad Lone accusing him of minting money from them in name of providing jobs to their kin. Watch Video https://youtu.be/BDilcZiiPyg Residents of Nowgam Sumbal in Bandipora said that initially, the accused leader promised us that he will give jobs to the local residents if they join BJP, after we did, he sought money for jobs- the money never came, nor did the jobs. During the two meetings, he held with the residents, the BJP leader extorted 29,500, 15,000, and 15,000 from three local residents identified as Ghulam Mohiuddin Dar, Mohammed Jafar Zadoo, and Ghulam Hussain Malik. It was around eight months ago that Mohammed Afzal Dar from Sumbul joined the Bhartiya Janta party along with s...

Shabir Khan Mohammad Jaffer, 27, from Khawja Gilget area in Sopore who is a Bachelor in Computer Applications has become an inspiration for several youths by engaging in social work in the north Kashmir township of Sopore. Although he studied computers, from a very young age he aspired to help the needy. In 2010, Jaffer says, helping people gave him unmatched happiness and relief really happiness, As everyone is aware of the troubled times Kashmir has gone through and as a result of which many people suffered. "The sufferings of the people were overwhelming for me personally and from an early age had a profound impact on my imagination. For many years the desire to do something for my people remained just an aspiration till Covid 19 lockdowns," Jaffer said. However, the turning...

Suhail Dar The incident in Anantnag where a "drunk" man allegedly killed three persons and injured several others has left the Kashmir valley in deep shock. Javid Ahmed Rather, who has been arrested by the Jammu Kashmir Police in connection with the alleged murder of three people including his mother is a baker by profession and has more than twenty people working at his shop in Pahalgam, Locals said. Ghulam Hassan Rather, his father speaking to The Kashmiriyat that on Friday morning, Javid told that he wanted to go to his relative's house in Aishmuqam town, around a distance of roughly one kilometer from his house in Litroo. As per his neighbors of Hassan, Javed had been drinking for several weeks and had been under the influence of some drugs. "we caught him several times roa...