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Jammu  Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday evening arrested an Assistant professor of higher education department in a bribery case of principal of a degree college in Kashmir. Sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) that one professor identified as, Tariq Ashai, who is the principal of GDC Pattan, was arrested red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rupees 60000 at SP College in Srinagar. They said that on receipt of the complaint, a FIR was registered, under section 7 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 in Police Station ACB north Kashmir and investigation was taken up. Accordingly a trap team was constituted. The team laid a successful trap and caught Tariq Ashai while accepting a bribe of rupees 60,000 on the spot in presence of independent witnesses. During inves...

Over one dozer shops were sealed by the officials in the Hyderpora area of the Srinagar district on Tuesday evening. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that the Custodian Department of Jammu Kashmir sealed at least 15 shops in the IQ Mall at Srinagar's Hyderpora. They said that the officials of the said department have taken custody of the shops. Custodian Department of Jammu Kashmir, however, said that the shopkeepers have taken possession of the shops decades back and have not paid any rent to the department. "They have occupied the shops and despite several notices, these shopkeepers have failed to reach to the department," they said. They said that on Tuesday, the custodian department sealed the shops after having served several notices to the shopkeepers, who failed to respond. ...

Leh Apex Body and Kargil Democratic Alliance, an amalgam of trade unions, and social, political, and religious groups from Ladakh, are set to hold a protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Wednesday to raise the demand for statehood for the Union Territory, PTI reported. Ladakh became a Union Territory, along with Jammu and Kashmir, when Article 370 and 35 A were abrogated on August 5, 2019. While Jammu and Kashmir is a UT with the legislature, Ladakh does not have any provision for it. The two groups, which came together with a set of demands for Ladakh, will hold a daylong protest in the national capital on Wednesday, activist, and politician Sajjad Hussain told PTI. "When Ladakh was made a Union Territory, we were promised development. However, it's been four years and we cannot se...

An old Mortor rusted shell was found, destroyed by security forces in the Poonch area on Tuesday. A police officer told GNS that today around 11:20 am an old rusted shell was found in the Shahpur area during construction work on a road by GREF. Soon a joint team of Police and army along with a bomb disposal squad reached to the spot, he said. Subsequently, the BDS safely destroyed the old shell without any loss, he added. (GNS)

Two state seed certification agencies of Jammu Kashmir will go digital via government online portal Seed Authentication, Traceability and Holistic Inventory (SATHI). This was expressed by Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department (APD), Atal Dulloo, during the formal launch of SATHI portal for Jammu Kashmir, an official press release of the J-K admin said. Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Atal Dulloo said that to make seed certification more efficient and transparent with provisions for effective monitoring and traceability of seeds, India’s Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, conceived and developed an online system ‘SATHI’ for capturing various parameters such as grower details, seed testing details, lot details, sample details, Certific...

Two persons, including a migrant worker, were found dead in mysterious circumstances in the Bemina and Batmaloo areas of Srinagar city on Tuesday, reports said. Quoting an official, news agency KDC reported that Babu Ali (65), son of Hussain, a resident of Jalalpur in Uttar Pradesh, was found dead at his rented accommodation at SD colony in Bemina. In a separate incident, Naseer Ahmad Lone, son of Habibullah, a resident of Baramulla, was found dead in his vehicle (Tata mobile) bearing registration no JK13G-0150 near Tengpora in Batmaloo by CRPF jawans of 73 BN this morning. Police have taken cognizance of both the incidents and further investigations are on, it said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the restoration of statehood to Jammu Kashmir will come up after assembly polls and that a call on the timing of elections will be taken by the Election Commission. In an exclusive interview with the news agency, Shah also said there has been improvement in the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and terrorism-related figures were at their lowest. Shah said Article 370 about Jammu and Kashmir, which was abrogated by the BJP-led government in 2019, had harmed the country. He said the way development is taking place in Jammu and Kashmir, terrorism is gradually ending. “See all the figures, there is a lot of change in Jammu and Kashmir,” he said. Answering queries, Shah said the government has been effective in tacking Left Wing Extremism ...

A 62-year-old Kashmiri man on Umrah died in a road accident in Saudi Arabia's Mecca City. Identified as Ghulam Qadir Chopan, a resident of Awanpora in Budgam's Chadoora area, the Kashmiri man was reportedly hit by a vehicle in Mecca City. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. Earlier, a Kashmiri cleric Muzaffar Hussain Qasmi was injured after a car hit him in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca on last Friday.

On the fourth anniversary of Pulwama attack, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar on Tuesday said that out of 19 militants involved in the attack, 8 have been killed, 7 arrested and 4 including 3 Pakistanis are still alive. Talking to the media persons after paying tributes to the CRPF men, who were killed on this day in 2019, ADGP Kumar, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said the security forces are after Jaish-e-Muhammad and almost all their top commanders have been neutralized. "At present JeM has only 7-8 locals and 5-6 active Pakistanis including Mossa Solaimani," he said, adding that police are after them and they will be neutralized soon. He said they are busting militant modules, especially they are after narco-terrorism a...

Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation, Junaid Azim Mattu on Monday held a detailed meeting with the residents and community elders of various localities and colonies on the stretch of Aloochi Bagh to Chattabal Doodhganda Rejuvenation and Restoration Project and assured the residents that no colonies will be displaced, nor any houses demolished - including the downtrodden colonies and slum settlements on this stretch. In a press release, the SMC Mayor said, the meeting was also attended by Commissioner SMC and CEO Srinagar Smart City, Athar Aamir Khan, SE City Drainage in addition to senior officials and engineers. The Mayor assured the local residents that the Doodhganga Canal Restoration and Rejuvenation Project was a vital flood mitigation project that would first and foremost benefi...