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DDC poll trends, results eye-opener for BJP, says Omar Abdullah Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday termed the results and emerging trends of the District Development Council polls as an eye-opener for the BJP and its “proxy political party”, and said people have rejected the decision of revoking the erstwhile state’s special status. Abdullah, who is the vice president of the National Conference (NC), told PTI that the results and trends are an “important milestone” for the People’s Alliance on Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) as they endorse the “out view” that revoking the special status of the erstwhile state of J-K and downgrading it into a Union Territory was not accepted by the people. “Now if the BJP and its proxy political party believe in d...

Mir Junaid The dead body of a female was found lying under mysterious circumstances at Takanwari area in the Eid Gah locality of Srinagar district. An official said that the body of a non-local labourer identified as Amrita Lohar, a resident Bhutan was found lying under mysterious conditions at Srinagar's Eid Gah area. The body was found at the house of a local resident, Hazullah Dar on Tuesday afternoon, as per the official. The Jammu Kashmir Police has registered a case in this regard and further investigations have been taken up.

The Government Forces on Tuesday afternoon launched Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in Bomai area of Sopore in Baramulla district of North Kashmir. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that a search operation has been launched jointly by forces including 22 RR of Indian Army, Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF in Sopore area. All the entry and exit points of the area have been sealed on Tuesday afternoon. A door to door search operation has begun, Locals told The Kashmiriyat. Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) was launched as an Anti Militancy operation on May 2, 2017 amid a rise in the local recruitment into Militant groups in the Kashmir valley. The Forces jointly conduct search operations in a specific area, locking down the area virtually and frisk houses on will.

Journalists working with different media organizations on Tuesday walked out of the mini-secretariat Bandipora and staged a sit-in protest against the administration for failing to provide adequate facilities to them for covering the election results, they said in a statement. In a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the media fraternity said, despite pleading with the authorities, no arrangements were made for them. Denouncing the treatment meted with the fraternity, the President Bandipora Journalist association president, Mohammad Syed Beigh said, “there are no proper arrangements for media and we are being made to move from pillar to post since early morning”. The association’s of both Sumbal and Bandipora have registered a strong protest against t...

The results for Jammu Kashmir District Development council are being declared on Tuesday, The Counting of votes for 280 seats of District Development Council is currently underway across 20 districts of Jammu Kashmir. With hundreds of paramilitary troopers deployed across major towns in the valley, the Bhartiya Janta party is leading as per the initial trends in 36 seats at 11 AM. Among the 280 seats, 140 constituencies are in Jammu Division and 140 are in Kashmir Division. Nearly 2,200 candidates were in the fray for 280 seats. State Election Commissioner KK Sharma yesterday reviewed preparations and other arrangements for the counting process. He said the Returning Officers will be in-charge of the counting process in each DDC constituency. The telecom authorities have sna...

Asserting that the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi have won the hearts of Kashmiri people, BJP national spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain on Monday said his party will win many seats in the valley in recently concluded District Development Council (DDC) elections. Mr Hussain said the national flag and the flag of BJP is flying high across Kashmir valley, where counting of votes for DDC polls will be held on Tuesday. “The results of a few hours away…. But, I must congratulate the people of Kashmir valley for participating in the elections in large numbers. The democracy has already won in the valley,” Mr. Hussain told reporters during a press conference here on Monday. He said people have sent a strong message to anti-national elements, who had some other intentions. “T...

Two top leaders of the People's Democratic Party PDP including Sartaj Madani, the maternal uncle Mehbooba Mufti, have been put under detention, a PDP Spokesman told The Kashmiriyat. The top leaders include Sartaj Madani and Peer Mansoor Ahmed, the former MLA of Shangus constituency. "They have been detained as a preventive measure," the spokesman of PDP said. The duo including dozens of mainstream workers and leaders were booked under the Public Safety Act last year after the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A. Their PSA detention orders were revoked by the administration in June this year. Mehbooba Mufti condemning the arrest on Twitter said, “Total lawlessness as PDPs Sartaj Madni & Mansoor Hussain have been arbitrarily detained today on the eve of DDC election results...

There has been an increase in cyber crime with Cyber Police Kashmir received over 300 complaints about misuse of social media in 2020. An official of Cyber Police Station Kashmir said new and powerful cyber-attacks are striking the internet regularly in the valley. The official and that a minor lapse in managing digital lives can open the door to cybercriminals. Cybercriminals can steal money or damage ones reputation. “Online frauds and misuse of cyber space is on rampant in entire world and the users in Kashmir valley are not immune to these threats. Cyber Police Station Kashmir Zone, Srinagar has been receiving scores of complaints with regard to misuse of cyber space mostly online financial frauds. The online fraudsters and scammers keep on changing their modus operandi in ord...

In a first of its kind, a month-long online ‘The Kashmir Festival’ has been organised by the Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora in association with ‘I Am Buddha’ Foundation. Over a course of one month, starting December 19, 2020 and ending on January 20, 2021, every night at 8 p.m., a series of episodes will be broadcast live on I Am Buddha YouTube and Facebook channels. Different aspects of Kashmir and the talent and contributions of its original (currently in exile) inhabitants will be discussed with leading luminaries in various fields like technology, arts, theatre, judiciary, health, food, media, entrepreneurship, sports, music, to name a few. The inaugural session was opened by Surinder Kaul, co-founder GKPD, who welcomed the panel and commended community activists and Kashmiri...

The General Secretary of CPI (M) Jammu Kashmir, MY Tarigami on Saturday condemned the attaching of the property of Senior Jammu Kashmir politician Farooq Abdullah. In a press release issued to The Kashmiriyat, MY Tarigami said, the media reports about Enforcement Directorate (ED) attaching the property of National Conference (NC) president Dr. Farooq Abdullah is nothing but a political vendetta as the BJP government has been unnerved by the support of people to Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Deceleration (PAGD) in the just-concluded DDC polls "Attaching the property of Dr Abdullah is part of vindictive politics practiced by the Central government to kill dissent and disagreement across the country and the present case has surfaced at a time when the District Development Council Polls h...