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Gund Hassi Bhat, the Shia-dominated area at the outskirts of Srinagar city is in the news again. Last month, as The Kashmiriyat reported, nearly eight Shia mourners from the area were detained under UAPA in a case from Muharram last year, i.e., 2021. One of the detainees, the 27-year-old son Mohammed Yaseen Rather, got engaged within the premises of the jail he’s been detained at, in the presence of a couple of male members from the family. This Friday, at around 4:30 p.m., unprecedented crowd gathered outside Ali Mohammed Mir's house at Gund Hassi Bhat, Srinagar district of central Kashmir, creating panic among the family members. Shabir Ali, one of the inmates went out to check what the matter was. He was told that "something had happened to Shabar, his younger brother." People sta...

In a bid to enhance security and privacy on Android, Google is taking stringent measures to prevent applications from offering call recording features to users. Google has updated its developer policies that reflect many changes, including those in Android’s accessibility settings to stop remote call audio recording — a functionality that is quite popular among Android users. A Reddit user pointed out that the upcoming changes in Google’s new Play Store policies will not permit any app to record calls remotely. Google has been pushing to stop call recording on Android for some time. It had blocked real-time call recording on Android 6, while with Android 10, Google removed in-call audio recording over the microphone. However, some apps found a loophole in Android to access the Accessibi...

The Jammu Kashmir administration revenue department has failed to protect the temple properties and has been unable to vacate the temple properties premises which have been leased out by the respective managements illegally for personal favours, said Satish Mahaldar, Chairman, Reconciliation, Return and Rehabilitation of Migrants. In the absence of Kashmiri Pandit community in the valley, a few selective people in connivance with the JK government officials operated defunct Temple Trusts in between 1989 till 2022 and sold out or leased out temple properties. Despite the JK High Court orders it is surprising how non-resident Kashmiri migrants are allowed to sell the temple properties when the respective district deputy commissioners (J&K government) are the custodians of all migra...

A local Sikh trader in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has distributed “Ramadan packages” among residents to promote religious harmony in the Muslim-majority country, according to a media report on Saturday. Parlat Singh, a resident of Tirah valley in the restive province, on Friday distributed 200 kg of dates and hundreds of packs of sugar as part of a “Ramadan package”, The Express Tribune newspaper reported. According to the residents, Singh also donated 100 bags of cement for the construction of three mosques, as well as mattresses to the mosques. Charity is an essential part of the Sikh religion and members of the Sikh community regularly feed the poor through their community kitchen service across the world. Thanking Singh for his services, Haji Sher Muhammad Afridi, ...

The Indian Army today, paid tribute to Lance Naik Nishan Singh, who was killed on 16 Apr 2022, in the Watnar area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district during Gunfight between militants and Indian army. In a press release, the Indian Army said, In a solemn ceremony at BB Cantt, Lt Gen DP Pandey, Chinar Corps Commander and all ranks paid homage to the gallant soldier on behalf of the proud Nation. While the initial cordon was being laid, militants opened heavy fire on Cordon party. Unmindful of his own safety, Lance Naik Nishan Singh, who was part of the initial cordon party, Nishan retaliating in returning fire and in doing so sustained a Gun Shot Wound on his chest. He was immediately evacuated to 92 Base Hospital, where he was declared dead by medical team. "Braveheart Lance N...

Amid forecast for mainly dry weather over Jammu and Kashmir in the next 24 hours, night temperature recorded an increase barring the winter capital and Bhaderwah on Sunday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar recorded a low of 9.9°C against 8.9°C on the previous night. The temperature, he said, was 1.7°C above normal during this time of the year for the summer capital. Qazigund recorded a low of 7.4°C against 6.8°C on the previous night. The temperature was above normal by 0.9°C for the gateway town of Kashmir, he said. Kokernag, also in south Kashmir, recorded a low of 9.3°C against 8.0°C on the previous night. It was 2.8°C less than normal during this time of the season for the place, the official said. Pahalgam, the famous resort in south Kashmir...

Nine girls, mostly teenagers from an Islamic seminary have memorized the holy Quran in less than a year. These girls who study at the Jamia Syeda Hafsa Darul Aloom hail from Kashmir's Bandipora, Kupwara, Pulwama and Srinagar districts. Another girl from the Darul Uloom, as per the teachers, has memorized the Quran in merely 38 days. Anjum Binti Javed from Karnah, Haditre says that first she used to study at Maqtab from where she got interest in Hifz e Quran , her parents also encouraged her to do so. “Quran is in our heart we will never stop reciting Quran, where ever we go, we will do Quran Tilawat InshaAllah. I would to love teach people Quran in Future. I also to become ‘Quran Aalimah’, I want to learn alum of Quran”. Shafia binti Bashir Ahmad Shah from Lolab memorised the H...

Army on Saturday paid tribute to its three colleagues killed in a fatal road mishap in near Kanipora area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district yesterday. “In a solemn ceremony at BB Cantt, Lt Gen DP Pandey, Chinar Corps Commander and all ranks paid homage to the gallant soldiers – Subedar Shri Om, Havildar Ramautar and Sepahi Pawan Singh Gurjar –on behalf of the proud Nation”, reads a statement received here. The three Bravehearts, the statement reads, were injured after the vehicle they were travelling in overturned near Kanipora village, Shopian district, enroute to an encounter site at Badigam, Shopian. Owing to the wet road conditions, the driver had seemingly lost control over the vehicle and it skidded off the road. Late Subedar Shri Om, was 41 years old and had joined the Ar...

At least 4 persons were injured in an LPG cylinder blast inside Kitchen of a house in Kupwara district of north Kashmir on Saturday. All the injured suffered minor injuries in the blast that took place at around 12:45 p.m., official sources told GNS. They said that the LPG gas cylinder blast occurred in the house of one Ghulam Mohi-ud- Din Wani at wani Mohalla in Mughalpora Kupwara, leading to the minor injuries to four persons. They include Tufail Ahmad Wani (18) son Ghulam Mohidin, Ghulam Mohidin Mir (60) son Mohammad Subhan (55), Naseema Begum (45) wife of Ghalam Rasool Lone and Ghulam Hassan Wani, all local residents. Meanwhile people and police besides Fire & Emergency personnel rushed to the spot and doused off the flames which ensued and griped the house. The timely act...

Government employee allegedly involved in the assault of Tehsildar Sunderbani has been suspended while police have registered two back-to-back FIRs after the said Tehsildar suffered injuries during the scuffle.buy super kamagra online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo/inc/patterns/new/super-kamagra.html no prescription “On Wednesday, when the Sunderbani administration was going to launch an anti-encroachment drive some persons entered the residence of Tehsildar Sunderbani and entered into a verbal duel with him and tried to pressurise the officer to shun the plan of this eviction drive, and later, there was a scuffle in which the Tehsildar was injured along with others”, said ADC Sunderbani. He also informed that the planned demolition drive was carried out ...