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A driver died after his vehicle was skidded off the road in Cherihar village of Sopore in North Kashmir's Baramulla district on Saturday. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a three-wheeler skidded off the road in Cherihar Botingoo, leading to on spot death of its driver. He identified the driver as Mudasir Ahmed Lone of Cherihar Botingoo. He said after completion of medico-legal formalities, body will be handed over to the family, while a case has also been registered—(KNO)

All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) said that for past more than three decades the abysmal human rights situation in Jammu Kashmir due to the lingering conflict, though highlighted globally at various fora, has shown no sign of improvement. In its statement, the Hurriyat said that Post-August 2019 unilateral changes brought about in the state of J&K by the Government of India, the human rights situation has been the biggest casualty. APHC said that all forms of human rights violations are condemnable and unacceptable be it from the state, or the killing of minority community members and non-locals living here. "The universal principle of upholding human rights applies to all human beings irrespective of their identity and should be observed," Hurriyat's statement read. It a...

Activists of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by former minister Harsh Dev Singh on Saturday staged a protest outside the Nirvachan Bhawan headquarters here, demanding early assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir. The protesters were carrying placards and raised slogans against the Election Commission, accusing it of working under the tutelage of the BJP and allowing its ''proxy rule'' to continue in the Union Territory. ''The ECI is holding elections in other states but is silent on the (assembly) polls in Jammu and Kashmir,'' Singh, who is also the chairman of the party's State Coordination Committee, told reporters. Maintaining that the elections continued to be denied on one pretext or the other, the AAP leader said flimsy excuses were being given from time to time to deprive the pe...

Masroor Abbas Mir, the class 10 student, who had gone missing from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been traced by the Aligarh Police, they tweet in response to The Kashmiriyat's tweet. "A high alert was issued by the police under Operation Khushi, it was reported that this boy has been found in his home district, in the investigation, the above boy was found to have left of his own free will," Aligarh Police tweeted. https://twitter.com/aligarhpolice/status/1601550020159111169 Meanwhile, Jammu Kashmir Police said that the boy was traced from the railway station in Sopore, from where he was taken to the Police station in Sopore. A family member of the 16-year-old boy confirmed the development to the Kashmiriyat and said Masroor is right now with the Sopore Police station who...

The National Investigation Agency has put up posters in several parts of the Kashmir valley seeking information on four militants of The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the proscribed outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. Among the four is Basit Ahmed Dar who went missing on 26 April 2021 and was earlier categorized as a C-category militant. On April 30, 2021, The Kashmiriyat reported that the family of a 16-year-old boy from the Redwani area of Kulgam district who had gone missing from his home in the South Kashmir district appealed to him to return home. Basit Ahmed Dar, the 16-year-old left his home for an errand and informed his family that he will return in a short span, but after that, his phone was switched off. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, the family members of the teenager ha...

Kashmir Valley has reported a spurt in influenza cases this season compared to the previous two years. Experts said that in the last nearly two months, there has been an increase in upper respiratory and lower respiratory tract infection cases. “Patients typically have fever, cough, sore throat, and runny or stuffy nose,” they said. However, they said, most patients recover with treatment. They said apparent reasons are likely to weather driven. “The air is cooler and less humid, which can help some viruses grow and spread more easily and thereby increase the number of viral infections.” Top Kashmir pulmonologist and Head of the Department at Chest Disease Hospital Srinagar, Dr. Naveed Nazir Shah, told GNS that of late there has been an “unprecedented” rise in respiratory infec...

There are around 10 thousand deaths in JK that are attributed to air pollution yearly and there is a need to act and control it by countering it, Director SKIMS Dr Parvaiz Koul said on Saturday. While talking exclusively with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) on the sidelines of the launch of Doctors for Clean Air and Climate Action, J&K Chapter, he said that yearly around 10 thousand deaths are attributed to particulate matter 2.5 (PM 2.5) exposure and there is need to control it by countering it. "Today's program was intended with an idea to create awareness among the public that the Air Pollution issue is not only in Delhi and Maharashtra but also in J&K due to the increasing number of vehicles, construction, brick kilns, cement factories that emit pollutants and...

A Kashmiri student has gone missing from Bangalore's Yeshwantpur railway station in the south Indian state of Karnataka. Auqib Javid, who is a resident of the Bijhama, Uri area in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, and a student of MVJ engineering college has been missing since November 30. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, his family member confirmed that Aqib has gone missing from 30 November 2022. "He was a student of MVJ college which is in the Whitefield area of the south Indian city of Bangalore," he said. The family member said that the last time he called his family was on 30 when he reached Bangalore after he had left home on 26 Nov. "He reached Delhi's Nizamuddin on 28 November, where he boarded a train for Bangalore," the family member told The Kashmiriyat. Since 30 Dece...

Suhail Dar Four Army troopers were injured after their vehicle met an accident in the Sirigufwara area of south Kashmir's Anantnag district. Official sources told The Kashmiriyat that on Saturday afternoon, an army vehicle met with an accident in the srigufwara area of Anantnag, where four army men were injured. The injured troopers were immediately rushed to the nearby hospital for treatment. Details rushing in.

Senior CPI (M) leader and former MLA Kulgam, Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami on Friday said that why was BJP hesitating and running away from holding elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), he said Jammu and Kashmir is without a popular government for the last four years and that BJP was interfering in every institution of the country for their political gains. “It is regretful BJP is ruling over the country but at the same time it is running away in holding assembly elections in J&K. Since 2018 there is no assembly which is unfortunate and unconstitutional,” Tarigami said. He said countrymen are being befooled in the name of Kashmir, investments and development. “The BJP government is misleading the entire country in the name of Kashmir. They are tal...