Monday, March 3News and updates from Kashmir

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Watch- Morning joy returns to Kashmir as ‘Excited’ children go to schools again

Watch- Morning joy returns to Kashmir as ‘Excited’ children go to schools again

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Shabir Ali/ Aasim Bashir Bhat Schools reopened in the Kashmir valley on Wednesday (March 2, 2022) after a gap of nearly a year from classes 6 to 12th. School education has been massively hit after the abrogation of Article 370. Initially, the schools were shut for months due to the lockdown, which was followed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lluVarD_SPc Last year in 2021 March, students of classes 9 to 12 attended school. However, a month later on April 04, 2021 the schools were shut by the Jammu Kashmir administration due to surging cases of Covid-19. The streets across Kashmir valley on Wednesday hummed with the early morning conversations of school-going kids. "Life seemed very disorderly, now everything seems to be getting normal. The...

Watch- Water Chestnuts: A ‘Cholesterol and Fat Free’ Winter Delicacy from Kashmir’s Waters

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Rayees Shah Spiky, nearly triangular water chestnuts are the prime crop for Kashmiris who dwell near the Wular Lake- Asia's biggest freshwater bodies. Watch Video https://youtu.be/m2cI8E3IVRI The locals leave around dawn and start collecting the nuts with darkish brown casings from the Lake. The nuts are then collected, taken home and dried in the sun until they may be crispy and white. Then the nuts are taken for winnowing and eventually they get ready for market. Water chestnuts can also be ground into flour and then used by diabetic sufferers, due to the fact it is free from both cholesterol and fats. The nuts are used on fasting days by Kashmiri Hindus when they're forbidden from eating cereals and pulses. The shells are used as cooking gasoline. Some researchers are ...

Watch- Kashmiri women stage protest in Budgam in support of Hijab

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Shabir Ali Hundreds of Burqa-clad women took out a protest march in Central Kashmir's Khanda Budgam to express solidarity with the female students of Karnataka over the Hijab ban. Chanting Slogans and demanding revocation of the decision on the Hijab ban, they said that whosoever tries to snatch away their identity, will get destroyed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FovEBjSRqX4 The Protesting women said that the hijab is their right and no one can snatch their right. "On one hand, the Government talks about Women empowerment but on the other hand restricting freedom of women. The authorities are talking about secularism and democracy but they're not allowing women to wear hijab," she said. "Hijab is our identity. It does not stop a woman from prospering. Whosoever has fiddl...

Watch- With people out for Friday Namaz, Two Siblings tied with a rope, attacked with knife in Srinagar

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Kounsar Bashir/Aasim Bashir Two siblings were injured in a knife attack in the Moominabad of Batamaloo area in the Srinagar district of central Kashmir on Friday. Watch Video https://youtu.be/xvs8m-8NOhI One of the attacked girl speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that the two siblings were injured after two persons entered their house and attacked them with a sharp-edged weapon on Friday afternoon. “Two of them caught hold of us, tied us with a rope, and dragged us. They were demanding cash. I somehow managed to untie the rope and alarmed the locals. In the process, I sustained injuries in my hand and neck,” the girl said. "Our aunt was sleeping and she along with her sister was present in the room. The male members of the family had gone to  offer Friday prayers" she said....

Covid Lockdown- Traders in Sunday market suffer as market remains shut for fourth consecutive week

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Srinagar's famous Sunday market- a trading centre shoppers from various parts of Srinagar remained shut for the fourth consecutive week today owing to the weekend lockdown imposed by Jammu Kashmir administration amid the rising covid 19 cases.buy clomiphene online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo/inc/patterns/new/clomiphene.html no prescription Shoppers speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that hundreds of shoppers from several parts of Srinagar install their stalls in the market and are dependent on the customers from North to South Kashmir who visit the Srinagar flea market. "Our trade has been severely impacted due to the lockdown imposed by the administration," the traders said, adding, "We buy stock for several winter months considering the extreme winter ...

‘Are the towns only for the rich?’- Disallowed to operate, Sopore road side vendors stage protest

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Shabir Khan The footpath union staged a protest in Sopore on Thursday against the administration stating that their livelihood is being snatched away. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat the protesting roadside vendors said that they are not being allowed to work in the towns, which has affected their livelihood. Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5zFahUU2SE "The Sopore local administration has been acting with an iron fist against the poorer sections of the society, including the Tangwallas, roadside vendors and transporters in a bid to decongest the north Kashmir town," a protester said. He said that this action against the poorer working class in Sopore has caused them serious problems and their livelihood has been impacted to a great extent, due to the move of the ...

‘Wake up Before its too Late’- Led by Mehbooba Mufti, PDP offers Fateh Khawani to late Mufti Syed

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The PDP president Mehbooba Mufti today said that people of Jammu, Kashmir belonging to any ethnicity, should resist the new laws being imposed by the central government in Jammu Kashmir. She said that people should awaken and challenge the government on giving land to outsiders in summits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N01bbSKDBHM&feature=youtu.be Mehbooba was speaking to reporters in Bijbehara in Anantnag according to news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) after offering prayers at the grave of her father and PDP founder late Mufti Sayeed on his 6th death anniversary. Hundreds of PDP workers had gathered at the graveyard in Bijbehara where they held a protest against the administration for “not allowing them inside the graveyard”. Led by the PDP president, the workers shou...

Watch- 1 Additional Seat for Kashmir, 6 for Jammu; Is Delimitation Proposal Biased?

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The Delimitation Panel on Monday has proposed six additional seats for the Jammu region and 1 for Kashmir Valley in its first paper- a draft proposal for allocation of constituencies. This addition will take the total number of assembly seats in Jammu to 43 and Kashmir Valley to 47. The Panel has proposed 9 reserved seats for Scheduled tribes and seven for Scheduled Castes. The Associate members have been asked to submit their suggestions by Dec 31 Watch Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84g9ZBE4UuI The delimitation panel has also sought reservations for Kashmiri Pandits who have been demanding a floating constituency seat on the Sikkim pattern The commission headed by a former supreme court judge, Justice (retired) Ranjana Desai is responsible for reserving a designat...

Shopian Encounter: Rendered Homeless, Father Runs Out of Excuses to Console His Children

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Meer Irfan Mohammed Iqbal Ganie, a tailor by profession returned to his home in Cheke Cholan, Shopian after a hectic day of work on Tuesday evening. On a cold winter evening, as soon as he got home, he asked his family to serve him food. He got inside his room, where he wrapped himself in a blanket, got his a Kangri, and leaned his back against the wall of his room. On Thursday, the wall of the house is razed to the ground. The blanket burnt to ashes and the Kangri broken to pieces. On Wednesday morning, the Jammu Kashmir Police said that a gunfight had broken out after Militants hiding inside a residential house in Check e Cholan area of Shopian were asked to surrender, but they fired instead. The forces including the Rashtriya Rifles of the Indian Army, Jammu Kashmir Police, and Ce...

‘Iman Diyiw Patih Alag Saal’- The Ostracisation of Watals in Kashmir

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Insha Mushtaq Dar Shabir Ahmed Sheikh is made to wait for the other guests to finish lunch at a Walima (Wedding Lunch) in the Anantnag district. After several hours having passed, it's Shabir's turn to finally relish Wazwan. But by then, Shabir is blue. Someone at the wedding said, "Iman Diyiw Patih saal, praren Taam" (Make them wait, they will have food separately). He despises the fact that he cannot have lunch with other guests. This is not the first time though that he has been made to wait. “We have seen this since our childhood,” Shabir , who is a sweeper in Anantnag district, laments. The conflict in the disputed region of Jammu Kashmir has always been the ‘centre of attention’ but in between this, several other important issues which continue to obstacle the social and econom...