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Eight cases were registered against land owners, including hoteliers, for not providing details of tenants to police in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district, officials said on Saturday. Four cases each were registered at the Katra and the Reasi police stations under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, the official said. He said all landlords and hotel owners had been directed to submit details of their tenants and domestic helps to the police stations concerned. Police have verified the identities of 326 tenants staying in different areas of the district so far, the official added. He said the verification process was initiated after several instances of anti-national elements staying in residential areas in the guise of tenants and domestic helps came to the fore in Jamm...

A 40-year-old Kashmiri businessman, who was abducted by his two business partners from Delhi’s Kashmiri Gate area, was rescued from Punjab, an official said on Saturday, NDTV reported. After six hours, Delhi Police along with its counterpart Punjab Police managed to rescue the victim and nabbed the kidnappers from Phagwara in Punjab. The accused have been identified as Nishar Ahmad (48) and Imtiyaz Ahmad (48) –both residents of village Pahroo Navgav, district Budgam in Jammu and Kashmir. Deputy Commissioner of Police (north), Sagar Singh Kalsi, said that on Friday, a Police Control Room (PCR) call was received at Kashmiri Gate police station regarding the kidnapping of a man from the area. “The call was received from a Kashmir-based number and on initial enquiry, it was reveale...

The district administration of Srinagar launched a massive anti-encroachment campaign across the district on Saturday. As a result, 409 kanal of State land worth more than Rs 240.58 crore were reclaimed from "powerful land grabbers." According to officials, the anti-encroachment operation was started in all 7 tehsils of the district, including the tehsils of Chanapora, Pantha Chowk, Khanyar, Eidgah, and north and south Srinagar. They claimed that with the assistance of the Police and other relevant departments, the special anti-encroachment squads organized by the Srinagar district administration and led by respective tehsildars carried out large-scale anti-encroachment drives. According to officials, a group of Revenue, Police, and officials led by Tehsildar North Srinagar Kaiser Me...

A 16-year-old girl from south Kashmir’s Anantnag district was awarded the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) 2023 award. Hanaya Nisar, a resident of Kokernag area of Anantnag, has been given this award as she had represented India and won the Gold Medal in the 3rd World SQAY Martial Arts Championship held in Chingju, South Korea in October 2018. Hanaya, who is an 11th class student said that she feels very much honoured to receive this prestigious award and everyone around her including Mir Salma Rashid, whole Sqay Federation of India, family and relatives are very much happy. Hanaya has so far won dozens of gold medals in Martial arts at International, National and state level. She has recently won gold medal in 23rd Sqay National Championship held in Jammu besides ...

Weather in Jammu Kashmir remained dry mostly during the last 24 hours, IANS reported. The MeT office said on Sunday that Jammu will have dry weather and Kashmir valley will have rain/snow at isolated places during the next 24 hours. "Weather would be dry in Jammu division with rain/snow at isolated places in the Valley during next 24 hours", an official of the MeT department said. Srinagar had 1.8, Pahalgam minus 5.4 and Gulmarg minus 6.4 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature today. In Ladakh region, Drass had minus 21.5, Kargil minus 15.4 and Leh minus 10.8 as the minimum temperature. Jammu had 8.3, Katra 9.1, Batote 3.8, Banihal 2.2 and Bhaderwah also had 2.2 as the minimum temperature. IANS

On world cancer day, the Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday called for population-based cancer screening in Kashmir valley. “With cancer reaching epidemic proportions in the valley, screening people for cancer is the need of the hour,” said DAK President Dr. Nisar ul Hassan. Dr. Hassan said cancer screening detects disease early and reduces the risk of dying from the disease. When cancer is detected at an early stage, the chances of survival are dramatically higher than when detected at a later stage when the tumor has spread and the disease is more advanced. “In a study survival rate for women diagnosed with cervical cancer at an advanced stage was just 15% compared to 93% when cancer was detected at an early stage,” he said. “Results from decades of research cle...

Danishwar Hameed A woman delivered a dead infant after she was carried on a stretcher for four kilometers from Hallan to Manzgam in south Kashmir's Kulgam district here on Saturday. According to locals, the route from Manzgam to Hallan has been cleared of snow but is impassable to date. A family member spoke to The Kashmiriyat and said that due to a lack of motorable roads, they took the expecting woman from Hallan village to Manzgam hospital on the shoulders day before. “A pregnant lady, Sakeena Akhtar, wife of Gulzar Ahmad, a resident of Hallan, was brought to the hospital on shoulders and she delivered a dead baby,” Mohammed Ishaq, a local said, adding that it took almost two hours to get to the hospital on foot. The woman was moved from Manzgam to Damhal Hanji Pora Sub D...

Under the patronage and guidance of Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh, Tashi Rabstan, the High Court today rolled out an initiative of taking up the Judicial matters of UT of Ladakh through virtual mode by allowing the parties and lawyers to appear and plead their cases from Ladakh itself. In its first kind of initiative, the Court of Justice Tashi Rabstan today heard the matters of UT of Ladakh virtually, in which the lawyers and government representatives who were petitioners and the respondents in the listed cases appeared on virtual mode from Leh and pleaded their cases. As many as, six (6) matters of the UT of Ladakh were listed today before the Bench, in which the virtual proceedings were conducted. In the today’s era of technology, conducting the ...