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As May 20 is celebrated as World Honey Bee Day, experts in Kashmir Friday called for a collective approach for saving the flora and fauna of bees stating that Valley produces quality and number one honey. Talking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Director Agirculture Kashmir Chowdhary Muhammad Iqbal said that May 20 is observed as the World Honey Bee Day across the globe and also in Kashmir. “We have a huge potential but there are some challenges as well. At present 90,000 youth are associated with the Honey production job. There is a huge scope for this business as it can provide livelihood to lakhs of youth,” he said. He said that Kashmir produces 14 types of honey and Valley’s honey is number one across the globe. “We have faced some challenges due to the spraying of ...

The National Family Health Survey -5 has revealed that with 23.7 percent Jammu Kashmir has the third-highest number of cars after Goa and Kerala. Goa has 45.2 percent of the total households that possess cars. The figures place Jammu Kashmir at the second-highest spot of people in possession of cars, while Bihar stands at the bottom of the list with 2 percent. India overall has a total of 7.5 percent of the population that possesses cars, according to the Survey. Another survey by Stats of India showed that around 16 percent of the total population in India owns three appliances, Television, Fridge and Refrigerator. In Jammu Kashmir, the survey stated, more than 41.5 percent of the households owned all three appliances while in Uttar Pradesh the number was at 15.7 percent. T...

Barely a week after his killing, the Hindu right-wing has started heckling the deceased Kashmiri Pandit, Rahul Bhatt, who was killed by suspected militants in the Tehsil office at Beerwah Budgam last Thursday. The Kashmiri Pandits have been up in arms against the local admin and openly raising Anti-BJP slogans as security remains their primary concern, however, the Right-wing has not given up on sharing what many say is a morphed image of Rahul Bhatt. Many are even using the slanderous comments against the deceased. https://twitter.com/iamgowda_sushma/status/1526818914826866688 In this Photo, which is being claimed to be a display photo of Rahul Bhatt's Facebook page, the deceased has allegedly used the banner in support of Rohingya Muslims, who were massacred in their country Bur...

Bhat Yasir A family on Friday staged a protest in Pattan's Warpora area demanding justice for a 30-year-old, a victim of domestic violence. The 30-year-old, married in the Kokathal area in Baramulla was wounded after being beaten by her husband in the Kreeri in the Baramulla district. Family members of the woman speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that the woman who has a young daughter was tortured by her in-laws for dowry for several years over the issue of dowry. On Eid Day, her family members said, that she was beaten inhumanely by her husband over the same issue of dowry after which she was taken to the SDH Kreeri Baramulla from where she was referred to Baramulla District Hospital. "The Doctors there referred to SKIMS in Soura from where they informed the family members of t...

Mohammed Ashraf Khan alias Ash Molvi who had appeared on the list of the most-wanted militants had escaped several anti-militancy operations during the past few years, but today was not his day as he was killed during an encounter, far away from his normal operating zone in the Breng belt (Kokernag), Anantnag district. On January 09, 2018, the Government forces received input about his presence in the Pehlipora area of Kokernag area of south Kashmir. Ashraf was shot at, while his colleague Farhan Ahmad Wani, a resident of Redwani Khudwani, Kulgam was killed during the encounter. The cordon continued for several hours, but Ashraf managed to escape. Sources say that Ashraf had escaped several gunfights and cordons laid down specifically for him in the Kokernag and Sirigufara belts of s...

Long before the firstly commonly known uprising of 1931, at least 28 Kashmiris were shot dead by Dogra forces on April 29, 1865, when they were protesting against the cruel taxation by the government. In 1865 around 125 thousand people were involved in the shawl industry. These included weavers, washer men, and skilled laborers having the know-how of printing. The industry generated more than Rs 50 lakhs annually. In that year, shawls worth 254 thousand British Pounds were exported from Kashmir. Veteran Journalist Zaheer u Din states that despite the hard work of the weavers most of them made around Rs 5 to 7 every month and that too after working 16-18 hours a day. They had to pay tax to the tune of Rs 5 monthly. They could not change their profession or stop working. A heavy fine w...

Amid a raging debate over Hijab in parts of India, A school in Baramulla has asked teachers to remove Hijab during school hours to allow students to communicate freely with the teachers, the school, however, has said that the "issue has been resolved." The letter is doing rounds on social media and has evoked widespread anguish, While many others have appreciated the move. A Twitter user wrote, "Their main motive is to remove hijab from our sisters and look at comments section instead of targeting school management they are targeting one who post-it " https://twitter.com/Attitudeaddict4/status/1518839033979277312 "Principle meant for specially abled students of #Baramullah, but the circular simply instructs the school staff to ban the Hijab during school hours. #Hijab is part o...

Five Kashmiri youth are making a huge effort to create Wikipedia in the Kashmiri language so that vast literature in the Kashmiri Language could be brought to the digital format. Kashmiri language Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia project written and maintained by the Kashmiri youth – Iflaq, Iman Qazi, Tajamul, Risha Bhat. The project led by Syed iflaq, a radiology student from Srinagar is open-source on the web in collaboration with the Wiki-based editing system. Iflaq said that most of the volunteers working for the project of Kashmiri Wikipedia are not language experts but their love for their mother tongue is driving them to take up this work. Since 2021, these volunteers have been creating new pages and checking the dictionaries for spellings so that the pages remain err...

Jammu Kashmir has the second-highest carbon reserves in the country after Andaman and Nicobar Islands, according to a report published by the Indian Government's NITI Aayog. Carbon reserves is the amount of carbon that has been sequestered from the atmosphere and is now stored within the forest ecosystem, mainly within living biomass and soil, and to a lesser extent also in deadwood and litter. In its report titled `State Energy and Climate Index’, NITI Aayog has revealed that Jammu Kashmir has 94.5 tonnes of carbon stock per hectare of forest land while the emission intensity of Carbon in Jammu Kashmir forests is 98.2 tonnes per hectare. The report also revealed that the increase in the forest cover from 21,358 sq. km in 2019 to 21,387 sq KM in 2021, has led to the improvement in...