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Dozens of houses and shops were damaged in flash floods, triggered by heavy rainfall at Surankote area of Poonch. The flash flood hit parts of town in the intervening night of Sunday-Monday. As per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), heavy rainfall occured in the region late Sunday evening, resulting in flash flood. Locals said that there are scenes of destruction everywhere with dozens of houses and shops suffered damage due to water flow and stones that were flowing in water while traders have suffered loss worth lakhs of rupees as the commodities got washed away in the flood. The locals further added that more than one dozen vehicles, two wheelers and four wheelers, either got washed away or got toppled in flood water. Authorities informed that exact details of l...

At least fourteen shops and a seminary sustained damage in two fire incidents, last night, in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, official sources said. They told GNS that a fire broke at Khah Bazar Anantnag which involved a three-storeyed building, by the name ‘Shiekh Complex’ belonging to one Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Sheikh. In the incident, they said, fourteen shops sustained damage before fire tenders doused off the flames. The enormity of damage to the stuff inside the shops is being ascertained, the sources said. In another incident, a fire broke out at Dar-ul-Uloom Pindar at Aishmuqam during which the seminary got partially damaged. The fire was put out after sustained efforts by the Fire and Emergency Department assisted by locals. In the incident however, a seminary student Suhail ...

One of the longest-serving doctors of the Anantnag district passed away after a brief illness at his residence in the south Kashmir district. Family sources told The Kashmiriyat that Dr. Mir Mohammed Ishaq passed away at his residence in Monghall area of Anantnag on Tuesday evening. Hundreds of people from the nearby areas attended the funeral of the deceased physician who served the people of Anantnag for decades. Dr. Mohammed Ishaq opened a clinic near Anantnag town's Janglat Mandi in mid-1990s where patients from nooks and corners of south Kashmir got treated, many of them free of cost. The market (Janglat Mandi) later developed into a hub of medical activity. Several chemist shops and doctors' clinics later came up in the area. Civil society from Anantnag including the m...

Aakash Hassan an independent Kashmiri journalist alleges being stopped from travelling abroad. In a tweet he wrote, Immigration officials at IGI airport New Delhi barred me from boarding a flight to Colombo, Sri Lanka. I was headed to report on the current crises in the country. The immigration officials took my passport, boarding pass and have made me sit in a room for last four hours. https://twitter.com/AakashHassan/status/1551942808730488832?s=20&t=sIbvTjj89xh5Zex15rU8Bw This is the second incident when a Kashmiri journalist was stopped to fly abroad. Earlier, Sanna Irshad Mattoo a Pulitzer prize winner was stopped travelling abroad

Banned Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik, who has been on a hunger strike since the morning of July 22, was given intravenous fluids (IV fluids) in Delhi’s Tihar jail, ‘Mint’ reported after quoting prison officials. “He has refused to eat anything. This is why he had to be put on intravenous (IV) fluids. We send a report about his health update to the top brass of the headquarters every evening,” remarked a prison guard who asked to remain anonymous. “The officials urged him to end his fast, but he has refused this. If need be, he could be shifted to a hospital amidst tight security.” The leader of the outlawed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) is serving a life sentence in a case related to militant funding. He has been moved to the prison’s medica...

Jammu Kashmir Teachers’ Forum has alleged that the students and teachers are “forced” to contribute money to buy the Indian National Flag to promote the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign, Hindustan Times reported. The circular issued by the office of zonal education officer, Government of Jammu Kashmir, read, “As per the directions from the chief education officer Budgam, all the HOIs of this zone are asked to collect Rs 20 per student and the staff members of the school to deposit the same in the ZEO office within 4 days.” “In case of more than one student belonging to the same family, charges from only one student should be collected as per instructions,” it added. The circular dated July 16, 2022, was issued after the ministry of education instructed all officials of state education de...

The first-ever Tiranga rally to Kargil was organized by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at clock tower, Lal Chowk in Srinagar in which 300 bikers participated. The rally was flagged off by BJP General Secretary Tarun Chug. It will culuminate at Kargil War Memorial on July 26 on the occasion of Vijay Diwas. However, all the roads leading to Ganta Ghar were sealed by the authorities and the shops remained closed in the wake of the rally. The participants belonged to BJP’s Yuva Morcha who had come from different places of the country. Chug while addressing the gathering, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said the twin families in Jammu and Kashmir, who ruled here for the past 70 years have made it terrorism capital, but the Prime Minister has made it tourism capital. ...

In a first, Union Minister Simriti Iran will flag off Tiranga rally of at least 300 bikers from famous clock tower (Ghanta Ghar) Srinagar on July 25 that will culminate on July 26 at Kargil War Memorial to mark the Vijay Diwas. Reliable sources in the BJP told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Irani will flag off the Tiranga rally in presence of Alll India Youth BJP Presidents and General Secretaries of BJP besides National General Secretary BJP Tarun Chug and BJP JK Genral secratary and incharge JK affairs Sunil Sharma. Other leaders will also be present on the occasion. Sources said this will be first time that any top BJP leader will flag off such a huge rally from Srinagar's Lal Chowk to Kargil. " Irani will also address the bikers at 11 am on July 25," sources in BJP said...

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking direction for removing designated smoking zones from commercial places and airports, increasing the age of smoking, banning the sale of cigarettes near educational institutions, healthcare institutions and places of worship. A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul while declining to entertain the plea said, "If you want publicity argue a good case... Don't file publicity interest litigation". The plea had sought direction for increasing the penalty for smoking in public places, ban of the sale of loose cigerrates, creation of guidelines to handle filtration of air at places that have smoking zones, "Issue guidelines and direct dedicated ions for closing the smoking zones at airports, clubs, restaurants, hotels, public places a...

Bhat Imtiyaz/ Toibah Kirmani Humans of the world are nowadays inspired by quotes and social media influencers. Far away from the noise of the cities is a small village in the Anantnag district of south Kashmir called Jaybal, where Parvez Ahmed Dar has inspired the youth to take to sports activities. Parvez Ahmed Dar, from Jaybal Shangran, who is physically disabled has been playing volleyball for the past 27 years. He was in 10th grade when two miserable things happened to him. First, his right hand got paralyzed after he received an electric jolt from an overhanging high tension wire while moving across a forest. Second, he lost his father. Due to his disability, which prevented him from working, his mother was left to take on the full burden of the family comprising of him an...