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The Badami Bagh Cantonment Board (BBCB) has allegedly started imposing property tax in areas under its jurisdiction in Srinagar city. Locals from the Sonwar, Indra Nagar, Batwara areas in Srinagar city have reported that they have received tax bills for the present year on their residential properties. According to the latest report by Kashmir Life, the BBCB has issued these bills under the 'Section 66(a) Cantonment Act 2006'. The locals have said that higher taxes have been imposed on the commercial properties in the area. A local says, "I received a bill of Rs 25000 for the period beginning from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022." Although, he said that the quality of the civic facilities provided by the board was pathetic. The locals have said that they will not pay tax on...

Meer Irfan 38-year-old Mohammed Amin Malik was killed hours after he allegedly snatched a rifle from a Policeman inside a camp of the Special Operation Group of Jammu Kashmir Police in the Tral area of South Kashmir's Pulwama district. A Police official said that Amin took total control of the interrogation room and engaged the Police personnel by firing intermittently from the snatched weapon. “Sensing grave danger to the lives of Police personnel and that of Amin, his mother, and Executive Magistrate were brought on the site and repeated sincere efforts were made to persuade him to through away the weapon and surrender.” Amin displayed complete defiance to such persuasions and not only refused to surrender but also fired upon the Police party engaged in persuasion, the official....

Mohammed Amin Malik, the brother of a slain Militant killed during an encounter in 2019 in the Tral, has been trapped after he tried to snatch the rifle of a Government Force personnel inside a SOG camp in the Tral belt of South Kashmir's Pulwama district on Wednesday afternoon. A resident of the Nagbal area of Tral, Amin's brother Shabir Ahmed Malik who was an associate of Zakir Musa's Ansar Ghazwat ul Hind (AGH), was killed during an encounter with government forces on 26 June 2019. As per officials, Shabir was the spokesman of AGH. The Jammu Kashmir Police said that Mohammed Amin Malik, after snatching weapons during questions from police has fired several rounds from a room inside the camp. “Efforts are underway to persuade him to surrender. His mother and other family members ha...

Jammu Kashmir reported the highest-ever single-day spike in the number of covid-19 deaths as 73 persons succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, officials said on Monday. Also, 3344 new covid-19 cases have been reported, 1418 from Jammu Division and 1926 from Kashmir, taking the overall tally to 247952. Regarding the deaths, they said, 54 were reported from Jammu Division and 19 from Kashmir Valley, taking the fatality count 3222.buy amoxil online medstaff.englewoodhealth.org/wp-content/languages/new/amoxil.html no prescription Providing district-wise details, the officials told GNS that Srinagar reported 495 cases, Baramulla 118, Budgam 376, Pulwama 145, Kupwara 124, Anantnag 228, Bandipora 137, Ganderbal 82, Kulgam 164, Shopian 57, Jammu 613, Udhampur 228, Rajouri 106, Doda...

The Jammu Kashmir police have booked two sons of Late Hurriyat chairman Ashraf Sehrai under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for raising anti-national slogans at the funeral of their father. According to a report by Srinagar based- The Kashmir Walla, the inspector General of Jammu Kashmir Police confirmed that the siblings have been booked under UAPA, for raising anti-national slogans that attract UAPA. Identified as Mujahid Ashraf Khan and Rashid Ashraf, the duo was arrested from this residence in the Bhagat area of Srinagar on the 15th day of May. Family Sources informed The Kashmiriyat that Mujahid who is a postgraduate in Business Administration from Islamic University of Science and Technology in Awantipora returned from Saudi last year in wake of covid 19 that...

The Jammu Kashmir police on Saturday evening arrested two sons of late Ashraf Sehrai, who died on 5 May in a hospital during his imprisonment under Public Safety Act (PSA). The Tehreek-i-Hurriyat Chairman, Sehrai, passed away at the Government Medical College in Jammu, where he was brought from a Jammu jail. The family sources said that the duo was arrested from their residence at Bulbulbagh area of Barzulla, in Srinagar. They said a police party from Kupwara along with Srinagar police arrested Mujahid Sehrai and Rashid Sehrai, both sons of late Sehrai, and took them to Kupwara. Earlier, two close relatives of late Sehrai were also arrested in connection with the same case, sources said. Local sources adding that both the sons have been arrested in connection with a case reg...

The Jammu Kashmir administration in a major step is likely to notify the rules for SRO 520 and thousands of employees will be regularized across the region. Thousands of need based and casual labourers working in various departments for over a decade felt cheated after the Government failed to regularize their services through the same was announced by then People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition in 2017. Sources said that as a policy matter the administration in a few days is likely to regularize the services of 62,000 daily rated workers in Jammu Kashmir who area engaged in various departments for last two decades from time to time. They told The Kashmiriyat the process will be set in motion and the directives will be issued to all heads of dep...

The administration of Jammu Kashmir has turned down the Border Security Force’s proposal for allotment of 515 Kanals of land to the force for setting up the paramilitary force’s key location point (KLF) in Samba district of Jammu province and instead asked the district administration to identify 160 Kanals of state land for the purpose. The Financial Commissioner Revenue rejected the land acquisition case of BSF on the ground that huge chunk of land cannot be given to the force and asked BSF and DC Samba to identify suitable state Land measuring 160 Kanals. “……FCR has rejected the case file on the ground that huge chunk of land measuring 515 KI 18 MI cannot be given to BSF and asked BSF and DC Samba to identify suitable state land measuring 20 acres (160 Kanals),” reads the documents...

As major gatherings throughout the Kashmir valley have been barred in view of the massive spike in the covid-19 cases, Various religious clerics and organizations have asked Kashmiris to commemorate the Youm e Qudus (Last Friday) in solidarity with the people of Palestine on social media. Various Shia Muslim Clerics have taken to Twitter and asked Kashmiris irrespective of their religious ideologies to observe the Quds day on Twitter and use the hashtag #FromKashmirToPalestine Moulana Masroor Abbas Ansari, son of renowned Hurriyat leader, Abbas Ansari and currently the chairman of Itehad ul Musileem took to Twitter and said, "On the last Friday of Ramadan, let's respond to the voice of Late Imam and create a storm on Social media in support of the oppressed Palestinians on social med...

Shabir Khan An 80-year-old woman died of covid 19 on Saturday noon at the Sub District hospital in the Sopore division of Baramulla district in North Kashmir. A hospital official said that the lady was the first person to die of covid 19 at the SDH Sopore in the fresh wave of the Covid 19 that has ripped the Kashmir valley and is showing a massive surge for the last few weeks. He said that the woman, a resident of the Court road area in Sopore who was admitted to the hospital on 27 April 2021 succumbed to covid 19 early on Saturday. The Kashmir valley is under a complete lockdown for the second consecutive day on Saturday to "prevent the spread of the pandemic in the region." Meanwhile, 35 patients have died across Jammu Kashmir since last night, thus taking a total number o...