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Video Journalists Saturday alleged that they were beaten up by an army soldier during Jashn-e-Baramulla event organised in North Kashmir's Baramulla district by Chinar Corps of Indian Army to promote talent of the youth of Kashmir. After the incident, both Reporters and video journalists boycotted the event and as a mark of protest left the venue. The incident occurred when some video Journalists tried to interact with Bollywood actress Amisha Patel. The "Kaho Na Pyar Hai" actress was the chief guest of the event. "We tried to interact with the actress to know her experience about event and youth of Kashmir when an Army officer sitting beside the actress asked us not to come closer to the dice. Suddenly an armed soldier emerged and without any provocation, thrashed 3 video Journal...

A partial shutdown is being observed in the old town area of Sopore against the killing of a local youth who had joined Militancy during an encounter in Baramulla district on Thursday. Locals from Sopore told The Kashmiriyat that the shops and business establishments in old town of Sopore in shut in protest against the killing of Amir Siraj, who was a local resident. Amir, a resident of Sopore had gone missing in June this year after which he had joined the militant outfit Jaish e Muhammad. Amir was a known footballer from his area. On Thursday, Amir along with a foreign militant was killed during a gunfight in Wanigam area of Kreeri in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district

The Srinagar International Airport is getting a new terminal meant specially for transportation of commodities from the Kashmir valley. The Airport authority has said that this new terminal will be equipped with modern technology which wil also have storage rooms equipped with modern technology for food items including fruits, vegetables and mutton. The construction of this terminal will be completed by the end of next year. The existential terminal meant for such services at the Srinagar airport as per officials has a capacity of five metric tons and as many as six airline cargo planes operate from here. As per reports, the new terminal being built will be twice the capacity as the current one and will have special preservance material for the goods in the summer season to protec...

A CCTV footage showing manhandling of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker by a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislator and his supporters has gone viral on social media. According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the incident took place in Nowshera town of Rajouri district where Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) carried out a cerebration rally on Thursday afternoon after its candidate, who was jointly supported by all the parties under the banner of PAGD, won DDC elections. "We protest against this incident. This is the height of highhandedness,” BJP said in a statement issued by its Mandal unit from Nowshera. Police, however, said that a case under relevant sections of law has been registered in Nowshera Police Station and investigation of the matter is goi...

An Sashastra Seema Bal trooper was injured after militants hurled a grenade in Watergam area of north Kashmir's Sopore on thursday evening. Official sources told GNS said that suspected militants lobbed a grenade towards SSB in Watergam. In which one SSB personnel recieved minor injuries and was shifted to nearby hospital for treatment. Meanwhile joint security forces launch a cordon and search operation to nab the attackers

Shabir Khan Two Militants have been killed during the encounter that started early morning on Thursday between militants and Government forces in Wanigam area of Baramulla district in Kashmir. An official confirming the exchange of gunfire to The Kashmiriyat said that 29 Rashtriya Rifles of Indian Army, Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF had jointly laid a siege in Wanigam area of Baramulla. He said that the cordon was laid after the forces had received a tip-off about Militant movements in the area. As soon as the forces launched the searches, the Militants opened fire on them to which the forces responded, after which the Militants fled from the spot. During the search operations of nearly eight hours, the hiding militants again opened fire, and during this exchange of gunfire ...

A District Development Council candidate from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district has accused the Jammu Kashmir administration of having favoured the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in the run-up to the DDC polls. According to the candidate Rukiya Jaan, who recently lost the election from Pulwama’s Kakapora second constituency, the polling station for her opponents from BJP and Apni Party was placed just outside their homes while as the location for Rukiya Jaan was set more than five kilometres away from her village. “By doing this, the district administration whom we consider responsible for the act did this to created hurdles for the voters so that we get fewer votes,” said Rukiya’s husband Manzoor Ahmed, who believes that the alleged mismanagement has paved the way to their opponents. ...

Shabir Khan One militant was killed during a gunfight in the Wanigam area of Kreeri in North Kashmir's Baramulla district. An official told The Kashmiriyat that after a cordon and search operation of nearly eight hours, Militants opened fire on joint forces including 29 RR of Indian Army, to which the forces retaliated. During the exchange of gunfire, one Militant, who is yet to be identified, has been killed.buy sinequan online blackmenheal.org/wp-content/languages/new/noprescription/sinequan-no-prescription.html no prescription The cordon and search was launched early on Thursday morning and Militants had escaped from the spot in Wanigam area of Baramulla. As per the locals of the area, an intermittent exchange of Gunfire was going on when this report was filed.

There was slight improvement in cold conditions in Kashmir as the minimum temperature rose across the valley on Thursday, even as the MET Office forecast the possibility of light snow over two days from Saturday. The night temperature marked an improvement but continued to settle below the freezing point, MET officials said. The weather has remained dry and cold across Kashmir since the snowfall on December 12, with the night temperature staying several degrees below the freezing point, they said. The officials said Srinagar the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir recorded a low of minus 3.8 degrees Celsius up from the previous night’s minus 5 degrees Celsius. They said the mercury in Pahalgam tourist resort in south Kashmir went up from the previous night’s low of minus 6.6 de...

Mir Musavir In the recently concluded District Development Council elections, 38 candidates from the indigenous Gujjar and Bakerwal community have been elected to the Council of 280 members from 20 Districts in Jammu Kashmir. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, Gujjar community activist, Irshad Hussain said that a survey was taken in hand by the Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation of the Gujjar community, which found that 26 candidates have been elected to the DDC from Jammu region and 12 are from the Kashmir valley. He said that 15 among the 38 elected DDC Candidates are women, while the highest number (nine) have got elected from the Poonch district of the Jammu region. Irshad said that Gujjars and Bakerwals ave a populations of 824530 in Jammu Kashmir, which is the third-larges...