THE KASHMIRIYAT

The Directorate of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs has fixed rates for different services offered by barbers, including hair cutting and shaving in the Kashmir valley. As per an order issued by Director FCSCA the previous notifications issued on the subject by this Directorate and pursuant to Section-2 of the Consumer Protection Act-2019 were revised. “Simple Hair Cutting (Adult) Rs 55, Baby hair Cutting Rs 55, Children Hair Cutting Rs 50, Razor Hair Cutting, Rs 55, Simple Shave Rs 55, Khat Shave Rs 45, French Cut Rs 50, Threading full face Rs 45, Threading half face Rs 35," the notification reads. “This notification shall have an immediate effect,” the order read.

Three students who had purportedly gone missing two days before from frontier north Kashmir’s Kupwara district are currently at Jaipur in Rajasthan, said one of the youth’s cousin. “We received a call today morning from them wherein they informed themselves to be at Jaipur”, the family member said. “When enquired about how come they reached there, they said that they were picked up by some unknown Bolero driver, who they said, drove them to the unknown place of which they come to know after enquiring the people”, he said adding they have informed us that they currently are at Police Station Sanganer Jaipur. “We have brought the matter into the notice of police here and we have been assured that a police team will be accompanying us to ferry them back home”, he said. Pertinently, t...

Srinagar, (KNO): Something fishy is happening inside, said the Finance Accounts Assistant (FAA) aspirants, who are protesting for the last three consecutive days at Srinagar’s Press enclave as they blame the authorities for shielding the culprits involved in the scam. “From the last three years, we have been preparing for the exams and finally the examination was held and the results of which were declared on April 22nd,” said Nelofar, one of the protesting aspirants. She said after the results, the final selection got delayed following which they approached the concerned authorities where they came to know that some “scam” had taken place and the recruitment will be “scrapped”. “I don’t understand the reason behind our hard work. Is this because of our hard work that we are force...

Special Investigation Agency on Friday said that NIA court Jammu dismissed bail application of Journalist Fahad Shah and other. In a hand out to GNS, the SIA said that today, the Hon’ble Special Judge NIA, Jammu has dismissed the bail application of accused persons namely Abdul Aala Fazili son of Late Mohd. Rafi Fazili resident Humhama Chowk near Airport Road, Tehsil and District Budgam, Kashmir, J&K and Peerzada Shah Fahad son of Basir Ahmed Shah resident of Samboora, Tehsil and District Pulwama, Kashmir at present Dawood Colony, Anchar, Soura, District Srinagar, Kashmir, J&K, involved in Unlawful Activities to propagate the false narrative of the secessionist as well as the terrorist to disintegrate the sovereignty and unity of Union of India and to motivate the Kashmiri youth...

An army soldier was killed and three others injured in an alleged fratricidal firing at a camp in Surankote area of Poonch district on Friday, official sources said. They told GNS that the fratricidal firing incident happened between soldiers of 156 Territorial Army and one of them Sepoy Ibrar Ahmed died on the spot while three others including Sepoy Makan Singh, Naik Khalil Ahmed and Naik Imtiaz Ahmed were injured. They said the injured were airlifted to army hospital in Udhampur and condition of one of them, Naik Imtiaz Ahmed, is stated to be very critical. More details including reason of the incident is awaited. (GNS)