FEATURED

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...

The Manoj Sinha-led administration in Jammu Kashmir recently notified new Land lease laws in Jammu Kashmir, which has drawn flak from several quarters of the society including politicians, hoteliers, and industrialists among others. What are the new Laws? According to the Land Grant Rules-2022, all outgoing lessees—aside from those with active or expired residential leases—must give the administration instant possession of the land they have taken on lease. If they fail to do so, the lessee will be evicted, under the provisions of public premises (eviction of the un-authorized occupant) Act, 1988. After the J&K Reorganisation Act 2019 was passed on August 5, 2019, the former J&K Land Grants Rules 1960 that allowed for 99-year leases with the option of extensions is no long...

"Eiy mein kouri, lookh hye chu praraan (Oh my daughter, people are waiting for you)"– the inconsolable mother of the Sopore girl who jumped in the river Jhelum keeps wailing. On Monday (12 December), a 9th standard girl Basma (name changed) in north Kashmir's Sopore area ended her life by jumping into river Jhelum and the body still remains unrecovered. Her relatives and friends are eagerly waiting for her remains on Jhelum embankments, even as people continue praying for early recovery. Social media is abuzz with speculations about Basma's suicide but it's still unclear. However, her mother indicates that depression as a result of poverty was the reason behind her daughter's suicide. Basma's father had passed some twelve years ago and her brother is suffering from a kidney ailmen...

Kashmiri Pandits who have been on a protest since June seeking their transfer from the Valley due to targeted killings have asked the Lieutenant Governor and the top government officials to enter Kashmir without security, Daily newspaper Tribune reported. "Only this will help the top brass understand the pain Kashmiri Pandit employees are going through," they said. The protestors have also accused the BJP Government of using the employees for political gains, the report added. The protest on Tuesday was organized by the All Jammu Based Reserved Category Employees Association at Ambedkar Chowk while Kashmiri Pandit employees held their protest in front of the Jammu Press Club. Sunita, who didn’t want to be identified by her surname, said, “Senior politicians and officials get hi...

The Jammu Kashmir administration has notified that all the outgoing lessees, except in the case of subsisting/expired leases for residential purposes, shall immediately handover the possession of the land taken on lease to the government, failing which the outgoing lessee shall be evicted. According to The Jammu & Kashmir Land Grant Rules-2022 notified by the Revenue Department, all the outgoing lessees (except in the case of subsisting/expired leases for residential purposes) shall immediately handover the possession of the land taken on lease to the government, failing which the outgoing lessee shall be evicted as per the provisions of public premises (eviction of the un-authorized occupant) Act, 1988. The Rules, however, state that the outgoing lessees shall, however, be paid ...