REGIONAL

A male body was found in premises of GMC in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday. Official sources told Kashmir News Apex-(KNA) that some passersby informed the police about the laying of the body in premises of GMC Soon, they said, a police party rushed to the spot and recovered the body of around 70 year old male. So far, they said, the identity of the deceased could not be made and the same is being carried out. The body, they said, has been shifted to mortuary at GMC Anantnag. “After completing medico-legal formalities and confirming the identification, the body would be handed over to his legal heirs,” they added. (KNA)

Jammu and Kashmir Awami Action Committee (AAC) has expressed deep grief and sorrow over the demise of a well-known religious scholar and founder of the Ittehadul Muslimeen Moulana Muhammad Abbas Ansari who passed away yesterday.   According to a statement, the AAC today organised a condolence meeting . The meeting on behalf of on behalf of the party , especially its incarcerated Chairman Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq who continues to be under house arrest for the last more than three years, paid glowing tribute to the senior religious and political leader Moulana Abbas Ansari for his invaluable religious, social and political services.   In the meeting, Moulana Abbas Ansari’s sincere sacrifices towards the Kashmiri people were described as unforgett...

 Former Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday demanded the restoration of the Instrument of Accession signed on this day in 1947. She also termed the relationship of Jammu Kashmir with the rest of the country “illegitimate” after the erstwhile state’s special status was scrapped in 2019.“We don't need a holiday on this day (accession day). We need a complete implementation of an agreement that has been promised and signed at the time of accession,” she said at the party headquarters here. She said Jammu Kashmir's accession with the Union of India was based on certain conditions which she said had been ruined with the scrapping of Article 370. "If the instrument of accession is accepted, then abrogation of Article 370 is illegal and the relationship between J&K and...

In a significant decision, a local court here has held there is no absolute right of burial to the exclusion of others in a graveyard that is recorded to be in possession of Ahl-i-Islam in revenue records. The Court of Munsiff/Sub Registrar Srinagar presided by Touseef Ahmad Magray held this while disposing of a 13-year-old case filed in 2009 wherein the parties were in dispute with regard to the rights of burial of their dead in a graveyard situated at Gasoo, Hazratbal in Srinagar. The plaintiffs, residents of Gasso, had alleged that they had the absolute right of burial in the graveyard to the exclusion of another side (defendants) who were residents of Village Homehair, Srinagar. The Court after hearing both sides and quoting from various works of scholars of Muslim Law and jud...

"Hurriyat strongly condemns the regime's decision not to allow large number of people to assemble for the late leader's namaz e jinaza at Eidgah. Authorities instead directed people to offer funeral prayers locally at Alamgari Bazar, once again hurting people's sentiments and displaying their authoritarian outlook even in times of grief," the Hurriyat statement read. All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) expressed deep sorrow and grief over the demise of veteran Hurriyat Executive Member, its former chairman, and leading religious scholar of J&K, Moulana Muhammad Abbas Ansari who passed away tuesday morning. Paying glorious tributes to the late leader, APHC said that throughout his life he resolutely and unyieldingly advocated resolution of the Kashmir conflict in accordance wit...

An Army trooper was injured after a gunfight broke out between militants and security forces in Sheeri Chandoosa area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday. A top police officer said that contact was established during cordon and search operation launched by police and army in Sultanpura forests. In initial exchange of fire one army trooper received a bullet wound in leg, has been shifted to nearby hospital for treatment. Till this report was being filed, intermittent exchange of firing was going on.(GNS)

BJP senior leader and former minister Sunil Sharma on Wednesday said that all those people including Hurriyat leaders and separatists will join the mainstream as they know all doors have been closed for them and they know their place is only in jail. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a celebratory function on the occasion of Accession Day in Srinagar, Sharma, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that Hurriyat leaders and separatists have only two options left, either join the mainstream or go to jail. Sharma was replying to a question about reports of Bilal Lone, a Hurriyat leader and brother of Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Lone, joining the mainstream. “All those people including Hurriyat leaders and separatists have to join the mainstream as they h...

The Meteorological department of Jammu Kashmir predicted Rain/ snow over the middle and higher reaches of Kashmir in first week of November. Director of Meteorological Department Sonam Lotus said that light to Moderate Rain/Snowfall over the plains and higher reaches of JK is very likely at many places of JK, and predictability chances are 75%. As per the Kashmir Weather, mostly dry weather is expected till 31 October, however, a Western Disturbance may cause light rain/snow activities in JK on 31st night and 01 November. Thereafter, between 05 and 10 November, there are chances of moderate rain/snow activities as back-to-back WDs will continue to affect JK. It is still too early to make any accurate predictions since there are many days to go before then, Kashmir weather said....

As militants carried out a number of targeted killings recently, 10 Kashmiri Pandit families have left their village in Shopian district in south Kashmir out of fear and reached Jammu. The residents of Choudharygund said the recent attacks have triggered a fear psychosis among the Pandits who lived in Kashmir through the most difficult period of 1990s and did not leave their homes. Kashmiri Pandit Puran Krishan Bhat was shot dead outside his ancestral house in Choudharygund village of Shopian district on October 15. On October 18, Monish Kumar and Ram Sagar were killed in a grenade attack while they were asleep in their rented accommodation in Shopian. “Ten families comprising 35 to 40 Kashmiri Pandits have migrated out of our village due to the fear psychosis,” a resident of Chou...

Five residential houses were damaged in a fire incident in Tanki mohalla near Jamia masjid area of Srinagar district on Tuesday evening. Official sources told Kashmir News Apex- (KNA) said that five residential houses belonging to Ghulam Qadir Bazaz, Ghulam Mohammad Gonri, Mohd Ayub, Abdul Guffar, Bashir Ahmad Teli were partially damaged in a fire incident that broke out in Tanki Mohalla this evening. They said that F&ES with the help of police and locals doused off the flames to prevent any further damages. Meanwhile, police have taken cognizance of the incident and investigation was underway to ascertain the cause of fire. (KNA)