The INDIA alliance has won 12 seats and BJP 02 seats in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council- Kargil election.
The coalition has won 12 seats. Congress has won 07 seats, National Conference 05 and BJP 02
Another seat has won by an independent candidate.
More details awaited
On the third day, thousands of common people including political activists, lawyers, trade unionists, transporters, and other eminent citizens visited Qazi Manzil to express solidarity with the family members of Qazi Mubeena who passed away on Wednesday.
A Fateh Khawani event was held today at Qazi Manzil after Friday prayers. The Rasm-e-Chauram will be held tomorrow.
The deceased was known as a woman of substance. Her untimely demise is being widely condoled. People of the Anantnag town and its suburbs remember the deceased as a woman of high patience and kind character.
Stalls have been installed at various places in the town where water and food are being served to the needy and others.
Mubeena Abdullah was an education officer and the wife of Shaheed-i-Umat, Dr. Qazi Nisar ...
A blaze has broken out in a forest in Tral area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, official sources said.
They told GNS that a fire broke out in Chan Kitaab Tral this afternoon. “Soon as the locals sighted billowing smoke from the forest, the Fire and Emergency Services Department and Forest Protection Force were called in”, they said.
“Several teams from the departments reached the site”, they said adding however due to difficult terrain, nothing much could be done.
The flares were continuing – when this report was being filed. (GNS)
A short film 'Ayesha' produced by the department of Journalism GCW M.A road Srinagar won first prize in film competition at Media Festival Baramulla, on Wednesday.
'Ayesha'–a short film focuses on how Art therapy can prove beneficial for people suffering from anxiety, depression. It was scripted, shot, directed and produced by the students of Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Government College for Women M. A road Srinagar.
Day-long media festival was organised on 21th September by the Department of Media Studies Government Degree College (GDC) Baramulla in College campus on Wednesday.
The media institutions from Kashmir and other states and independent media professionals participated in the event.
HOD of Media Studies department, GDC Baramulla, Dr Danish Nabi s...
A woman was allegedly hammered to death by her husband in Mendhar area in Poonch district, officials said.
They told GNS that one Gazanfar Bi (55), wife of Mohammad Khalil, resident of Ari was found in a pool of blood at her house today.
"She has been prima-facie allegedly hammered on head by her husband", they said.
"A police team reached the site and took the body to a nearby hospital", they said.
Meanwhile, a police official told GNS that they have arrested the accused alongwith weapon of offence and also registered a case in this regard for further investigations. "The accused person stands arrested alongside the weapon of offence", the official said adding details once available will be shared accordingly. (GNS)
The residents of Mehtab Enclave in Bagh-e-Mehtab area of Srinagar, here have urged the authorities to macadamize the road.
Speaking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the residents said that the road in their enclave is in shambles as it has been neglected by the authorities for a long time. “We have approached several higher ups so far, but all in vain,” said Muthar Ahmed Shah, a local resident.
“We appeal to the authorities to macadamize our roads at an earliest,” said another local resident, Dr. Gulzar Ahmed.
Meanwhile, the residents of Ishber in Nishat area of Srinagar district also said the authorities have failed to repair the road despite several notices.
The locals from the area, while speaking to KNO said the condition of the road near Masjid Ishber Nishat...
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The dead body of Gurmeet Singh, a senior Government official with the Roads and Buildings Department of Jammu Kashmir who had been missing since August 25 has been found in Gantamulla area of Barmulla.
"He left home on August 25, around 6 P.M. for some work after which he did not return home till 9 P.M., that caused panic among his family members, We (family) along with neighbours, friends, colleagues, and police started to search for him everywhere including a hospital," a family member had told The Kashmiriyat.
During the search, his colleagues found his vehicle (wagonR) near a riverside Sheeri in Baramulla. "Inside his locked vehicle, his phone too was found on flight mode," the family members told The Kashmiriyat over the phone.
The family lodged a missing ...
The number of patients visiting OPDs in the Valley’s largest District De-addiction Centre in SMHS Hospital, Srinagar, jumped 75% to 41,110 in the year-ending March 2023, Indian Express reported.
This means that one patient walked into the OPD every 12 minutes.
As per the report, in the previous financial year, over 21,000 follow-up patients and 2,000 new patients had turned up at the DDC while in '22, the number of new users has gone past 3000 and follow-up patients beyond 38000.
Nearly 75 percent of the patients at the DDC are users of injected heroin, with many diagnosed with Hepatitis B, C, and in some cases HIV.
Eight out of 10 districts in Kashmir got an Addiction Treatment Facility (ATF); the remaining Kupwara has a de-addiction center and the other Ganderbal will have an...
A militant has been killed while two to three more likely trapped as forces thwarted repeated attempts of militants to escape.
Reliable sources told the news agency Kashmir Scroll that after initial contact, Indian Army troops moved to the area and pinned down militants assessed to be upto 2-3.
Additional troops of Rashtriya Rifles have been mobilised as terrain is undulating and forrested.
Special Forces were brought in by Indian Air Force helicopter they said .
"Repeated attempts by militants to break cordon thwarted by controlled fire throughout the night they added.
Night enabled Quadcopters, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Sniffer Dogs also used, he said, adding that one militant confirmed killed while firefight still on.
Rashtriya Rifles troops of Indian Army and Speci...
On the second day, the Government forces continued the cordon and search operation in the Manzgam area of Kulgam.
Earlier, officials said that the three troopers were killed during an encounter that raged in the area on Friday evening.
Two more troopers who were injured are being treated at the hospital, they said.
Meanwhile, an official said that there has been no contact with the militants after the initial one.
The searches are going on to trace the group of militants, he said.
