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What else can be more tiring than waiting and waiting for hours together doing nothing?It is no assumption or imagination but was the plight of truckers only a week back on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. These goods carriers were halted by the traffic authorities both during their up or down movement for hours or sometimes days together as a measure to manage the traffic better on this mountainous road. Then what could be termed as a greatest relief measure for all the truckers traversing the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on routine basis than to allow them ply freely with no more halts in-between the two capitals. These drivers can’t be more happy than to use this road without any undue interruptions. They are fortunate to see the end of that tiring waiting period which they...

A 75- year- old Kashmiri Sikh was found dead in a paddy field in the Tral area of Pulwama. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that on Friday evening, Karan Singh, 75, was found lying unconscious in his paddy field in the Kangloora area of Pulwama. The locals rushed Karan to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead upon arrival. Meanwhile, Police also rushed to the spot after they received an information that a dead body of a person is lying in the paddy fields of Kangloora Tral. Postmortem was conducted on the body, the details of which are awaited, Police said. "Initial examination reveals that there are no external injuries on dead body. The FSL inspection,  scrutiny & crime scene photography has been done," they told The Kashmiriyat.

Suhail Dar For the past five months, nearly forty junior resident doctors posted at Government Medical College Anantnag have been without salary triggering protests from the doctors inside the hospital premises. ALSO READ: Anantnag: Patients pay extra money at private clinics as GMC doesn’t conduct various tests Holding placards and raising slogans, the doctors said despite reaching to every possible official including the hospital authorities at Anantnag, their issues have remain unaddressed. The doctors have demanded an early redressal of their issues, following which the officials have taken up the issue with senior officials. The Postgraduate DNB students alleged that they have received only one stipend which was back in March. ALSO READ: Day after power breakdown in south Kas...

A fake marriage-holding nexus has been busted in the Kunzer area of Baramulla in north Kashmir and four persons detained in the connection. Police in a statement said that the case was brought to police's attention through an application submitted by some persons of Kunzer area. According to the complaint, the accused individuals were operating as middlemen during marriage functions. "They used WhatsApp to send photos of various young women, falsely claiming they were ready for marriage. These individuals convinced the victims on the other side to agree to marriage proposals, fix the Mehr money, and make payments. However, despite the financial transactions, no marriages were conducted, and the money was not returned," the Police statement said. The Police claimed that this gro...

Danishwar Hameed A truck driver from Kulgam district in south Kashmir died in Rajasthan. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, a family member said that Waseem Ahmed Bhat, a resident of Kulgam's Laroo area died in a road accident in the Bhilwara area of Rajasthan. Waseem, aged 33 was driving his truck on the highway carrying loaded with bananas was driving his truck to Kashmir when he met an accident in the Bhilwara district of Rajasthan. He was rushed to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, the family member said. Waseem has left behind his wife and 2 year old daughter.

High Court of J&K and Ladakh quashed the detention orders of four persons booked under the Public Safety Act and ordered their release "if not needed in any other case." A bench of Justice Sanjay Dhar quashed detention orders against Saqib Ahmed Waza of Tral and Imran Ganie of Baramulla and Shakir Ahmed Kumar of Shopian. Imran was booked under the Public Safety Act since April 9 April 2022, Saqib was detained on 16 December 2021. and Shakir was jailed under PSA since 28 June, 2022. The PSA detention of Manzoor Ahmad Wani of Qaimoh Kulgam, detained since 27 August, 2022 was quashed by Justice M A Chowdhary.

Supreme court's five-judge constitution bench has on Friday resumed the hearing of the petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution that granted special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir. Over 20 petitions were filed in India's apex court to challenge the central government's 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution/. The erstwhile State was subsequently bifurcated into two Union Territories- Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh. The Court began hearing the petitions on August 2 on a day to day basis to check the legality of the "unliteral" abrogation of Articles 370 and 35a. On August 24, the Central government began its arguments in Supreme Court to defend its 2019 move to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution. The Solicitor Gen...

Bhat Yasir The drug trade in Kashmir has seen a drastic rise in the Kashmir valley during the past few years. Official figures reveal that drugs worth over 12 crores have been recovered from north Kashmir's Baramulla district alone during the present year. As per official figures, accessed by The Kashmiriyat, during the first eight months of 2023 drugs, including cash used for drugs, worth twelve crore, seven lakh and fifty nine thousand were recovered by Police in the Baramulla district. Police data revealed that a total of 213 cases were registered against 313 persons in drug related cases- out of which 289 persons were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Three houses have also been attached by Jammu Kashmir Police in the north Kashmir distr...

The Jammu Kashmir administration's move to issue a "Unique Identification Number" (UID) to the Srinagar residents has been criticized by the regional political parties. The LG-Manoj Sinha-led admin had said that UID will be issued in the coming days to Srinagar residents so that every house and its occupants can get "social welfare benefits". Opposition political parties of Jammu Kashmir expressed their anger over this, saying that this number is aimed at increasing surveillance on people and insecurity of personal details of people and a loot of public money as Adhaar already has the details if they are only meant for social benefits. Divisional commissioner of Kashmir province, Vijay Kumar Budhuri, said that the administration is preparing to give UID to every household, which w...