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October 15 Protests erupted in Kashmir University on Monday against the killing of scholar turned militant Mannan Wani and bis accomplice. Sources said that hundreds of students marched in the varsity campus protesting against Mannan Wani’s killing amidst intense pro freedom sloganeering. Mannan Bashir, a former scholar in geology department of Aligarh Muslim University was killed along with an accomplice in northern Kashmir’s Handwara on Thursday.

October 08 After a brief dry spell, the weather department has predicted intermittent rain today in the Kashmir Valley. A MeT official said that there are chances of rain and snowfall in parts of the Kashmir Valley. “Higher reaches and plains can receive moderate to heavy rainfall on Monday and Tuesday,” he said adding that weather will be clear from Monday. Looking at the weather in Kashmir, over the next 7 days, the maximum temperature will be 25℃ on Saturday 13th October. In the same week the minimum temperature will be 5℃ on Thursday 11th October at around 5 am. The national weather service for Srinagar is reporting Tuesday 9th October to be the wettest day in the coming week.

October 08 Tawseef Nazir The Urban Local Body Polls have evoked negligible response from Locals in Kokernag Belt of  South Kashmir's Islamabad (Anantnag) belt as only 117 people have cast their ballot out of 1662 registered voters.   Live Updates.. Reports reached to The Kashmiriyat that till 3 pm, at ward 13 only 7 votes were casted out of 904, At ward 9, 02 vote was casted out of 264, 01 vote was exercised their franchise out of 218 at Ward 11, in Ward 05, 101 votes were casted out of 276.  

October  08 A presiding officer Monday was suspended  for violating polling rules in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, where first phase of urban and local body polls began this morning. Reports said that the presiding officer was suspended  for violating norms by allowing a woman to accompany a voter up to the voting compartment in Kaloosa area of Bandipora district here this morning. The presiding officer was replaced by the Polling officer 1 at higher secondary school Kaloosa. A presiding officer Monday was suspended  for violating polling rules in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, where first phase of urban and local body polls began this morning. Reports said that the presiding officer was suspended  for violating norms by allowing a wo...

October 03 SHABIR KHAN The Jammu Kashmir Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a Lashkar e Taiba Militant in Hadipora near Baramulla-Handwara in North Kashmir. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that Jammu Kashmir Police along with Army 32RR & 92 Bn CRPF arrested one local militant namely Amir Sultan War, a resident of Naidkhai Sumbal Bandipora during a NAKA checking. Amir had recently joined the LeT Outfit had issued a video in which he was seen asking the people of North Kashmir not to participate in the forthcoming Local Bodies and Panchayat elections. Case has been registered in P/S Dangiwacha and investigation taken up.

September 27 One Militant has been killed in the ongoing gunfighit in Panzan area of Chadoora in Budgam District of Jammu Kashmir on Thursday. Officials told The Kashmiriyat The Forces including 53 RR, Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF laid a joint operation in Paznan area of Chadoora in Budgam and cordoned off the locality. They said the militants holed up in the area opened fire upon the forces, triggering a gunfight. As per initial reports, two to three Militants are believed to be trapped in the area, the authorities are likely to suspend the Mobile internet Services. Meanwhile youth in large numbers have gathered near the encounter site and are throwing stones on the troopers shouting pro Militancy and Pro Freedom slogans. The troopers fired tear smoke shells to disperse...

September 27 The Jammu Kashmir State Board of School Education (JKBOSE) announced the dates for the Secondary School Examination (10th), Higher Secondary Examination Part – II (12th class) and 11th class examination for 2018 in Kashmir division. JKBOSE Class 10 date sheet The class 10 exam will start on October 24 and will end on November 14. The schedule is as below: The class 12 exam will start on October 22 and end on November 15. The exam will be conducted for all streams – Science, Arts, Home Science, and Commerce. The schedule for the same is as below: JKBOSE Class 11th date sheet 2018 The class 11th exam will start on October 26 and end on November 14.

September 25 The Jammu Kashmir government on Tuesday has finally accepted that "some" special police officers (SPOs) has resigned from their Police jobs to avoid the brunt of Militant attacks. State chief secretary BVR Subrahmanyam said there have been "negligible" cases of SPO resignations and the cases are confined to South Kashmir, while rest of the valley is peaceful adding that there were 30,000 SPOs in Jammu Kashmir and the number of them resigning is very negligible. He said that the SPOs have been instructed about their personal safety while the government is in process of enhancing their honorarium which had been increased from 3000 to six thousand, but it shall be increased further. On September 21, three Policemen were killed in Shopian after which a series of Police...

September 21 A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and limits Parliament’s power to make laws concerning the state. The plea has said the special provision was “temporary” in nature at the time of framing of the Constitution and Article 370(3) lapsed with the dissolution of the Jammu and Kashmir Constituent Assembly on January 26, 1957. The plea, filed by Delhi BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, also seeks a declaration from the apex court that the separate Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir was “arbitrary” and “unconstitutional” on grounds, including that it was against the “supremacy of the Constitution of India and contrary to dictum of ‘One...

September 15 A minor girl, who was allegedly kidnapped from her house in Rajouri, was rescued in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Saturday. The accused, Kapil Dev, of Jamola village of Rajouri was arrested during a rescue operation, a police spokesperson said. He said a man from Kharak village had lodged a missing report of her daughter on September 7 and during initial investigation it came to the fore that she has been kidnapped by Dev, who was living in a rented accommodation in Jawahar Nagar area of Rajouri. Police received some vital clues during investigation and subsequently a team from the Kalakote police station raided a suspected location at Chasana village of Reasi on Friday and found the girl, the spokesperson said. Her kidnapper has been arres...