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Danishwar Hameed Aayat al Qursi- the longest verse and believed to be one of the most powerful verses of the Quran by Muslims, has been inscribed by a Kulgam woman on her hand-made shawl. A white colour cotton shawl which is about five feet wide and three feet tall has the Quranic verse at the face of it with neat and polished handicraft work. Shaheena Banoo(42), who is a resident of Gopalpora Kulgam has worked on the completion of this Shawl for several days and nights. "The Arabic words are not easy to write and then the symbols also require a lot of patience and pure art. This is not overnight work," Shaheena told The Kashmiriyat. The Shawl is precious to Shaheena and she could not fix a cost for it. "I have also crafted nature, flowers and some words on the shawls. But this...

Rayees Shah 50 kilometers away from Srinagar, at the foothills of the magnificent Haramukh, Gangbal –an alpine fresh water lake stands still. The lake is surrounded by mountains like a precious jewel. Situated at an elevation of about 3600 meters, this high-altitude lake is about 2.5 km long and a kilometer wide. Water from rain, springs and melting glaciers feeds this lake, which is the origin of Wangath – a tributary of the Sindh River. The river serves as a habitat for different varieties of freshwater fish, especially brown trout.      

The drug trade has been on the rise in Kashmir in the first six months of 2022. According to official statistics, heroin is the substance that security personnel has recently seized in the largest quantity in Kashmir. 16.23746 kg of heroin worth over Rs 32 crore was seized from drug dealers in Kashmir in the first half of 2022, as per the data. A total of 2.017 kg of heroin was found in January, while 5.805 kg was found in February. In March, when 82.5 grams of heroin were recovered, the recovery rate fell. The most heroin was found in the month of April, where 7.355 kilograms of it was found, followed by 903.96 grams in May, and 35 and 39 grams from drug traffickers in the months of June and July, respectively. The Jammu Kashmir Police stated that it is taking multiple s...

Authorities have tightened security across the Lal chowk area of Srinagar in view of the Bhartiya Janta Party's (BJP) Tiranga Yatra on the occasion of Vijay Divas- celebrated in memory of the Kargil war victims. The Bhartiya Janta Party said that at least 300 bikers from different parts of India participated in the rally which was flagged off by BJP General Secretary Tarun Chug. Targeting Abdullahs and Muftis, Chug said the twin families have failed to serve the people in the last 70 years, and “the two families have made J&K terrorism capital while the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made it tourism and progress capital.” “Mehbooba Mufti had claimed that after the abrogation of Article 370, no one will raise tricolor in J&K, let she visit Lal Chowk and see how ev...

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has revealed, in its latest survey, that Jammu Kashmir has the highest number of unmarried youth. According to the survey "Youth in India 2022," Jammu Kashmir has the highest percentage of young people (aged up to 29 years) who are not married than the national average at 29.1%. In 2019, 25% of young people nationwide were not married. The percentage was 18 percent in 2011. In Jammu Kashmir, 25.3% of youth between the ages of 15 and 29 were single in 2011. There were 27.1 percent of men and 23.5 percent of women who were single either by choice or necessity. In 2015, the percentage rose to 25.9% and then to 29.1% in 2019. The report also showed that in and Kashmir, more men than women between the ages of 15 and 29 are sing...

Weeks after passing the resolution banning loudspeakers, the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) passed a resolution to rename two Chowks in Jammu. Chander Mohan Gupta, the Mayor of JMC on Saturday informed that JMC has passed a resolution to change the name of Sheikh Nagar to Shivnagar, and Amphalla Chowk will now be known as Hanuman Chowk. “Jammu Municipal Corporation has passed a resolution to change the name of Sheikh Nagar to Shivnagar and Amphalla Chowk to Hanuman Chowk,” said JMC Mayor Chander Mohan Gupta said. Sharda Kumari, the BJP corporator who moved the resolution on June 11 during the JMC meeting said that the resolution was moved keeping in view the demands of the public. "There is Shiv Mandir in the area and the people also wanted the place to be renamed. Therefore...

Sahil Gulzar The Jammu Kashmir, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh has ordered the establishment of Special Investigation Units (SIUs) in six districts of the Kashmir valley. The development comes at a time when security review meetings are being held from New Delhi to Srinagar in view of the recent targeted killings which have led to widespread demand by the Migrant Kashmiri Pandits for their mass transfer out of the Kashmir valley. The Home Minister during the security meeting asked for the strengthening of the Policing system and the establishment of six "safe zones", according to news reports. The SIUs, according to an order issued by the DGP, of which a copy lies with The Kashmiriyat, reads, six Special Investigations Units (SIUs), will be established in Kashmir capital ...

Seventeen civilians were killed in Kashmir in the last five months so far this year. As per the local news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), they include 12 Kashmiri Muslims, two from the minority community, a Hindu teacher, a bank manager from Rajasthan, a migrant labourer and an employee of a liquor shop. On 25 Feb, A civilian identified as Shakeel Ahmad Khan resident of Shopian was killed during a gunfight in Amshipora Shopian in which two militants were killed as well. On 02 March a Panch identified as Mohammad Yaqoob Dar of Kulpora Srandroo Kulgam was shot dead at his residence. On 6 March, two persons namely Mohammad Aslam and Rafiya Jan were killed in a grenade attack in Amira Kadal Srinagar. On 9 March, a PDP sarpanch Sameer Bhat was killed in the Khonmoh area of S...

The Indian Congress Thursday said that during the last eight years since Narendra Modi came into power, 10,000 incidents of communal violence have taken different parts of India. At a press conference here today, the Congress released the Modi government’s "report card", titled "8 Saal, 8 Chhal; Bhajpa(BJP) Sarkar Vifal". Ajay Makan, a senior Congress leader and former union minister, told the journalists at the party’s headquarters that the country had seen over 10,000 religious riots in the last eight years. The Prime Minister, on the other hand, said nothing about the incident, he said. He said that the government comes to power on the promise of 'vikas’ (development) but it has been spreading ‘nafrat’ (hatred) in order to divert attention from its failures. “Everyone knows ...

The Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by an NIA court in Delhi has been confined to a solitary cell under tight security, News Agency PTI reported Thursday. Yasin Malik’s conviction in a 2017 case was a foregone conclusion. There is a parallel case in which he is accused of the brutal killing of four Indian Air Force officers. Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh awarded two life sentences and varying jail terms, which will all run concurrently, and a fine of Rs 10,65,000 for offenses under the stringent anti-terror law — Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) — and the IPC. Akhand Pratap, Amicus Curiae in the case, appointed by the court went public to say that Yasin Malik was adamant to not contest the charges. He also sai...