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Former IAS officers Basharat Ahmad Dhar, Mehboob Iqbal, Ejaz Iqbal, Mushtaq Ahmad Malik, Akram Khan, and Sajad Parvez have been charged by Special Judge CBI Srinagar SC Katal in the Roshni land scam. The case, initially registered under FIR No 26/2015 by the Vigilance Organisation Kashmir (now ACB Kashmir), was later transferred to the CBI following a direction from the High Court of J&K in PIL No 19 of 2011. The CBI registered the case RC 1232020A0004 on November 20, 2020, charging the accused under Sections 120-B/420/RPC & Section 5(1)(d) read with 5(2) of J&K Prevention of Corruption Act. The CBI alleges that in 2007, ownership rights of state land measuring 07 kanals and 07 marlas were given to Sajjad Parvaiz at the rate of Rs 45 lakh per kanal by the empowerment comm...

Upper caste Hindus assaulted a Dalit man for trying to go inside the temple in the Doda town of Chenab valley, following which Jammu Kashmir Police has filed an F.I.R. against the accused. As per reports reaching The Kashmiriyat, Bittu Ram, a resident of Hiller Ramban entered a temple in the Ghala Dhar area of Doda on 18 June 2023 after which he was kidnapped and brutally assaulted by upper caste men. "I was walking back from the temple when five to six men from the upper caste kidnapped me from a street and started abusing me after taking me inside a house. They took off my clothes and beat me on my private parts for merely trying to enter the temple," Bittu explaining his ordeal said. He said that the upper caste men shouted him down when he said he had gone to the temple to say...

Members of All Jammu Kashmir Panchayat Conference on Wednesday staged a protest in Srinagar demanding the Manoj Sinha-led administration to fulfil ‘genuine demands’ of the people. The body consisting of all elected Sarpanchs and Panchs assembled in the Press Enclave and put forth five demands and sought the administration to fulfill them at an earliest. The first demand is to hold three-tier panchayat election for all District Development Council (DCC) and Block Development Council (BDC) candidates. The second is to restore old scale supply at ration stores, as people across valley are expressing anguish over a 50% reduction in the ration quota over the last three years, with each individual in a Priority Household (PHH) category now receiving only 5 kilograms of rice instead of t...

Hundreds of people flocked to picnic destinations in the Kashmir valley on the occasion of annual Eid festival observed from 29 June to 1 July. A huge influx of people, mostly locals, was witnessed on all three days of Eid ul Adha at Doodhpathri in Budgam, a local from Budgam told The Kashmiriyat. Adil Syed said that the people visited with food, packed food items and other eatables, however, due to the absence of a dustbin resulting in the accumulation of waste throughout the area. Furthermore, he said, no efforts were made by the authorities to collect these wastes during the holiday period, leading to a high level of pollution at Doodhpathri. "It is evident that there has been a significant failure on the part of the public in fulfilling their civic responsibility to protect...

The demise of Sampat Prakash is widely mourned in the Kashmir valley even as scores of Muslims thronged to his residence in Srinagar district to express solidarity with the bereaved family. Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that scores of Muslims and Sikhs thronged the residence of Sampat Prakash in Srinagar to bid a farewell to the 85-year-old who passed away due to cardiac arrest on Saturday afternoon. Awami National Conference president, Muzaffar Shah visited the residence of the deceased and defined Sampat Prakash as a nationalist saying, "He never left Kashmir because Kashmir lived in his blood till, he breathed his last." On Sunday, leaders of business community, trade unions visited his residence in large numbers. Sampat Prakash's last rites will be performed at Karan Nagar...

Shah Basit A 15-year-old boy was attacked and stabbed by his friends in north Kashmir's Kupwara district. As per reports reaching The Kashmiriyat the incident took place on Sunday afternoon when a 15-year-old boy was attacked by his friends when they were taking bath at a rivulet (Kahimil) in the Gundmomin area of Trehgam area in north Kashmir. The minor boy, Saqib Ahmed Lone was attacked with a knife after which he had to be rushed to Sub District Hospital in Kupwara in an injured action. As per Police, the Jammu Kashmir Police has filed an FIR against the accused in Police Station Villigam Kupwara and further investigation has been started in the incident. In May, at least seven incidents of stabbing have been reported. Police arrested a teenager (16) after he stabbed a 46...

Jammu Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) has received over 26 lakh applications for nearly 27,000 positions during the last four years. According to a Greater Kashmir report, a total of 26,22.285 applications were received by the JKSSB from 2019 to 2022 for over 26,687 advertised positions. Out of these candidates have been selected for 17,668 positions. In the year 2019, the board announced 2026 positions for which it received 1.30 lakh applications, and 13.66 lakh applications were received for 15,429 positions in 2020. For the years 2021 and ’22, JKSSB received 6.6 lakh and 4.59 applications for the 5729 and 3503 positions respectively. Directorate of Employment in 2021 witnessed three lakh registrations by postgraduates and PhD degree holders for jobs. In the same yea...

On a hot summer Tuesday, the former chief minister was in a cabinet meeting when her phone rang. “Madam, BJP has withdrawn support from the coalition Government,” the caller stated. It was 19 June 2018, when direct central rule was imposed on Jammu Kashmir. It has been over five years now with no signs of polls for the assembly which was dissolved by the former Governor Satya Pal Malik in November that year. This is not the first time that Jammu Kashmir has witnessed direct central rule. The area has been subject to direct Central rule eight times since 1977 without any local representatives in the region’s legislative assembly. Jammu Kashmir was degraded into a union territory and the Governor’s position needed for the state demoted into a Lieutenant Governor after the uniletral ...

The earthquake of magnitude 5.4 that hit Jammu Kashmir on Tuesday with its epicenter in Doda and a depth of six kilometers inside the earth has refreshed the concerns of a major environmental disaster among experts. The earthquake was felt in the neighboring regions including Punjab. It has led to many speculations and confusion around the seismic activity in the region and many wondering if we are heading to a major catastrophe. Five earthquakes have been recorded following yesterday's event, which are likely the aftershocks of the Tuesday earthquake. An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 occurred at 2:20 a.m. on 14 June, Depth 10 km, Nearest Town: 19 km S of Kishtwar, 23 km E of Doda another one with Magnitude 2.8 occurred at 2:41 a.m. on 14 June with a depth of 10 km, Nearest Town: 20 km...

Amid the major anti militancy grid launched to wipe out militancy from the region, the government forces have arrested over 300 people in Jammu Kashmir over militancy charges in the year 2022, stats have revealed. Police chief Dilbagh Singh recently said that militancy was rapidly declining in the Kashmir valley and in Jammu as well. "Militancy is not over, but it is surely declining rapidly, and the government forces are working hard to eliminate the remaining militants in the months ahead," he told media in April 2023. He also directed the officers to maintain close coordination besides keeping a close watch on suspects while increasing the patrolling during the night. He asked Police officers to carry out counter-insurgency operations and to target the Over Ground Network of milit...