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Body of a 17-year-old was handed over by Pakistan army to their India counterparts at Chakan-Da-Bagh Crossing Point along the Line of Control in Poonch district on Saturday. The teenager, Zaffer Ahmed son of Mushtaq Ahmed of Kali in Poonch district had drowned and his body washed away in Kalai river on July 31. Official sources told GNS that the gate opened at Chakan-Da-Bagh Crossing Point at 1354 hours, and Pakistani army officials handed over the body for the last rites by his family. From Indian side, Maj. Aditya 3/3 GR, Akhtar Abbass, Naib Tehsildar Ajote, Dr. Harpreet Singh PHC Ajote and PSI Davinder Singh of PP Khari were present while those from Pakistan include Capt. Shabir 41 Balooch Pak Army and Assistant Commissioner Hajira Waled Hajira and Dr. Liaqat, SHO Hajira Umair, th...

The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against 33 accused persons in alleged irregularities in the examination of JK police sub-inspector conducted by JKSSB. In a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the CBI said it has registered a case on the request of J&K Government against 33 accused including then Medical Officer, BSF Frontier headquarters, Paloura, then Member JKSSB, then Under Secretary, then Section Officer (both of JKSSB), Ex Official of CRPF, ASI of J&K Police, owner of a coaching centre, Akhnoor, private company based at Bengaluru, private persons and unknown others. The statement reads that the case has been registered on the allegations of irregularities in written examination for the posts of Sub-Inspectors in the ...

Nearly 200 under-trial prisoners have been identified in Jammu Kashmir for release on bail as part of the campaign launched on the 75th year of independence of the country and in order to unclog the prisons, Daily Excelsior reported. The orders in this regard will be passed by the respective Principal District and Sessions Judges before August 13. The report further added that the issue of under-trial prisoners was one of the moot points addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the joint conference of the Chief Ministers and High Court Chief Justices in the month of April this year. He had appealed to all the Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of the High Courts to give priority to the matters on basis of humanitarian sensibility and law. Quoting sources, the Daily Exce...

India Today, on Monday, reported a controversy which started brewing "when a Twitter handle posted the cover page of a CBSE Class 10 French textbook which showed Jammu Kashmir excluded from India." The report quoted a Twitter handle ‘Legal Rights Observatory- LRO’ or @LegalLro, which "claims to be an NGO which carries out legal activism in national interest and has over 47,000 followers." “Hey @cbseindia29 is this true? Don't U recognize Jammu n Kashmir as integral part of India? Or you still have leftist gang holding tight control over school book section? U r touching new heights- from Gender Confusion in kids to JK Separatism! Amazing,” the tweet quoted in the report said. The tweet also went on to tag Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the Indian Home Minister Ami...

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...