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Kashmiri Pandits are upset that the Himachal Pradesh government has drastically reduced the number of seats in government medical colleges for students from the community. Ashok Raina, a social activist, told UNI that after the Pandits fled the Kashmir Valley in the last 1980s, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray reserved seats for the community in every engineering and medical colleges of Maharashtra besides other institutions. Later, similar reservation was announced in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh too. In Himachal Pradesh, two medical seats were reserved for NEET-cleared Kashmiri Pandit migrant students in the Indira Gandhi Medical College in Shimla and the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College at Kangra. This number was later reduced to one seat ea...

Night temperature recorded a fall in the twin capitals of J&K and world famous Gulmarg resort following overnight rainfall, officials said on Saturday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar received 12.2 mm of rain in 24 hours till 8:30 a.m. today and recorded a low of 13.2°C against 13.6°C on the previous night. The temperature, he said, was above normal by 1.2°C during this time of the year for the summer capital. Qazigund had 3.2 mm of rainfall and recorded a low of 13.0°C against 10.6°C on the previous night. The temperature was 2.3°C below normal for the gateway town of Kashmir, he said. Pahalgam received 11.1 mm of rain and recorded a minimum of 10.3°C against 6.7°C on the previous night. The temperature was 4.2°C above normal for the famous re...

Yasin Malik, chief of the banned JKLF who has recently been sentenced to life imprisonment in a terror funding case, is an accused in the Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case. A CBI court in Jammu and Kashmir has issued summons to Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, to appear before it on July 15 in a case related to her abduction in 1989, officials said on Friday. This is the first time that Rubaiya Sayeed has been asked to appear in the case. She had been freed after five militants were released in exchange. Rubaiya Sayeed, who stays in Tamil Nadu, is listed as a prosecution witness by the CBI which took over the investigations into the case in early 1990. Yasin Malik, chief of the banned JKLF who has recently been sentenced to...

Mehbooba Mufti, The former Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir visited the house of deceased Amreen Bhat, a TV actress who was shot dead by gunmen in the Chadoora area of Budgam. The Kashmiriyat on Thursday repported that around evening time on Wednesday, Two men came inside the house of Amreen Bhat, 35, in Hushroo area of Budgam’s Chadoora belt. The men asked a young nephew of the TV artist, Amreen to call her out. As soon as she came out, the two men fired bullets at her injuring the TV artist and her 10-year-old nephew. Amreen has left behind an old father and a sister. Amreen had been acting in various television programs to earn a livelihood for her family. “She was the sole bread earner to the family,” her father Khazir Mohammed told The Kashmiriyat. “Nobody has come here as of ...

A day after a Delhi court awarded life imprisonment to Yasin Malik in a militant funding case, Tihar prison authorities here on Thursday said the separatist leader has been kept in a separate cell under heavy security. "For security reasons, Mailk may not be assigned any work in the jail. He has been kept in a separate cell in jail number seven under heavy security. His security will be regularly monitored and reviewed from time to time," a senior jail official said. Malik will also not be entitled to any parole or furlough since he is a convict in a case of terror funding, jail officials said. Even before being awarded life imprisonment, Malik was kept in a separate cell where he stayed alone in jail number seven, they said. A Delhi court on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to...

Former Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir and Chairperson of People's Democratic Party Tuesday lashed out at the Bhartiya Janta Party for removing the photograph of Sheikh Abdullah from the Police media. On Monday, the Jammu Kashmir admin ordered the replacement of the Sheikh Abdullah's inscription on Police medal with the Indian National emblem, a move that has evoked widespread condemnation. "Removing his photograph will not affect the personality of Sheikh Abdullah who has spent his life serving common people in Jammu Kashmir. It just reflects the mentality of the BJP Government. They should think that Sheikh Abdullah risked his life-long credibility by merging with India despite a Muslim majority in the region and the Government's move of removing him from the Police medal is just a...

Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha Monday reached out to protesting Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) at Sheikhpora, Budgam and stated that in the past few years security forces were having upper hand ‘but’ even shadows are suspects in Kashmir. He, however, was quick that the roots of militancy have been strong in the Valley and besides that the eco-system that provided oxygen to it remained ticking but his government is committed to root-out militancy from Kashmir soil. As per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), addressing agitating Kashmiri Pandits at Sheikhpora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district, Sinha said security forces in Kashmir have been having an upper hand in the Valley. “But we can’t even trust shadows as for us, even shadows are suspects…,” he said. “Who knows someone am...

Twelve passengers, including five children, trapped inside an overturned mini-bus following an accident were rescued by the Army and provided necessary medical assistance here, a defence spokesperson said on Tuesday.ar Two passenger mini-buses collided with each other on the Shyok-Durbuk road on Monday, following which one of the vehicles turned turtle, he said. The spokesperson said a team of 12 soldiers of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI) returning from Durbukh witnessed the accident. “As first responders, the team immediately swung into action and evacuated the trapped civilians from the bus and also provided first-aid,” he said, adding that there was mo loss of life in the accident. A second quick-reaction team, along with an ambulance, was also sent from the ba...

A 53-year old man ended his life by jumping into the river Jehlum at Budshah Bridge of Kashmir capital Srinagar. Family sources of the victim told news agency Kashmir News Trust that he jumped into the river during the intervening night. The victim whose body has yet to be retrieved has been identified as Nisar Ahmed Mughal son of Late Habibullah Mughal, a resident of Maharaja Bazar Srinagar. The victims was currently living in Natipora area of Srinagar outskirts. SDRF and River Police have already launched an operation to retrieve the body of the elderly man. (KNT