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Firdous Qadri Scores of women on Sunday staged a protest in Srinagar against the Fashion show being organized amid covid-19 by a group named J-K Youth Society at Tagore Hall in Srinagar. The women marched from Nehru Park to SKICC, where the event was held in which dozens of youth participated as models, designers, dancers, rap artists, and stand-up comedians. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat a woman protestor said such events have no place in a society like Kashmir. "We have not been forced to come here by anyone, but we will speak against what is against our culture and religion." She said that in the name of clothes, shamelessness and vulgarity are being promoted in Kashmir. "Such fashion shows are promoted to spread vulgarity in our younger generation which is against the basi...

Days after Jammu Kashmir Police issued an order banning the 'live' coverage of encounters between the Government forces and militants, various journalists alleged that they were stopping from covering the encounters that raged in South Kashmir's Shopian and Anantnag districts. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat over the phone, a journalist who wished to maintain anonymity said that a group of journalists was barred from covering the encounter that raged on Saturday evening in the Semthan area of Bijbehara in Anantnag district. "An official came and warned us to not come close to the site of the encounter, he asked to not do any coverage and said if the law (ban on live coverage) is not followed, legal action would be initiated against the journalists found in contravention with the law," he...

The 14-year-old boy, Faisal Gulzar who went missing a few days ago in the Chitragam Kalan area of Shopian is likely among the three Militants trapped at the site of the encounter in the Shopian district of South Kashmir. The family members of Faisal speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that Faisal called home informing that he has been trapped in the orchards of Satrajan in Shopian and is engaged in an encounter with Joint Forces. "he has said that he is trapped at the site of the encounter along with two others," Faisal told his family, according to the family member. The family member pleaded that Faisal should be given a chance, "He just went missing two days ago, and it is hard for us to believe that he has been trapped,"  the family member said amid loud sounds of wailing and mourni...

Kashmiri photo-journalist Ahmer Khan along with his four-member team have been awarded The Edward R Murrow Award by Overseas Press Club of America for the documentary film ‘India Burning’. Deeply honoured and humbled to receive @opcofamerica award for our documentary “India Burning” for #ViceonSHO. Kudos to our incredible team @Angadgsingh, @IsobelYeung @JackieJesko, Siddharth, Zach, Drew, David. https://twitter.com/ahmermkhan/status/1379641317089636356 — Ahmer Khan (@ahmermkhan) April 7, 2021 According to the Overseas Press Club of America, Angad Singh, Isobel Yeung, Jackie Jesko and Ahmer Khan are part of the team who have been chosen for the prestigious award. “The 2020 award winners wrote eloquently and vividly about war and disease, discrimination and exploitation, a...

Irshad Hussain In July last year, the three-time former MLA from Budgam Agha Ruhullah Mehdi created a sensation over the internet and the possible infighting within Kashmir's leading political party, the National Conference. Ruhullah believed to one of the many members of the National Conference who have silently or overtly started opposing the deafening silence of the party leadership over their silence on the Centre’s decision to abrogate J&K’s special status in August 2019 made a strong speech while speaking to his party workers in the Central Kashmir's Budgam district. Ruhullah, from the influential Aga clan, a strong Shia clergy in Kashmir that holds a popular base in the minority Shia population across the Kashmir valley.  He joined the National Conference after the assa...

Sheikh Nadeem After 37 students were tested positive for covid-19 in Kulgam, At least fourteen students were tested positive for covid 19 in the Katsoo area of Sirigufwara in Anantnag district of South Kashmir on Wednesday. An official of the Education Department posted in Sirigufwara told The Kashmiriyat that at least 14 students tested positive for COVID-19 at Government High School Katsoo Srigufwara in Anantnag School. The school has been ordered to shut for a period of seven days by the authorities, the official said. He said that a health team had been deputed by Branch Medical Officer Sallar to conduct a sampling of all the students studying in the High school. "out of the students, 14 have tested positive for covid 19, however, all these students were Asymptomatic.buy ef...

In a major achievement, six patients have undergone primary/rescue angioplasty in a government super specialty Hospital in Srinagar on Tuesday in just a day. An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that two among them were in cardiogenic shock. “The six patients include a 70-year-old smoker with diabetes, 48-year-old male smoker, 47-year-old male smoker, 37-year year-old male smoker, 58 years old female suffering from hypertension and 46-year-old army man, also a smoker,” he said. He added that all the six angioplasty were done free of cost under Ayushman Sehat Scheme. He further added that six patients are stable and are doing well and the previous record in J&K was five in SKIMS in the year 2015. He added that this data shows how rampant is heart attack ...

There was an increase in accumulated balances in 1,138 bank accounts of three departments in Jammu and Kashmir between 2014 and 2019 due to factors such as improper planning and undisbursed funds for relief or compensation to victims of militancy and natural disasters, the CAG has said. It is recommended that there is an effective monitoring mechanism in the union territory in this regard and government instructions are strictly implemented, it said in a report tabled in Parliament recently. The massive increase in balances were in accounts of 131 Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) of the public works, revenue and rural development departments, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India said. The CAG made the remarks in its Jammu and Kashmir report on the social, gener...

Encounters and militancy-related violence have increased in Kashmir after the February 15 ceasefire agreement between Indian and Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu Kashmir. Two encounters had taken place between militants and security forces from January 1 to February 15. However, in over a month since the ceasefire agreement was signed, the number of encounters has increased to at least eight. While three militants were killed in the two encounters before February 15, a total of 16 militants including two top commander of Al Badar Khwaja Gani and Jaish top commander Sajjad Afghani have been killed in the eight encounters post the ceasefire truce. Indian Army’s Northern Command chief Lt Gen Y K Joshi has said the border ceasefire agreement with Pakistan will be stri...

The NIA has alleged that PDP youth leader Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra is involved in "dirty" gunrunning, providing finance to Militant groups, and being "part of the larger conspiracy" hatched by Pakistan-based Militant outfits to make "inroads" into important institutions in Jammu and Kashmir to carry forward their secessionist agenda. According to a supplementary charge-sheet filed at a Jammu court recently in the terror funding case, which also involves a deputy superintendent of police, Davender Singh, the agency has listed Mr. Parra's activities since 2010 and alleged that he had formed a group of 20 to 25 youths who indulged in stone-pelting during protests at his behest. This was done by Mr. Parra to yield political mileage for himself from the People's Democratic Party (PDP), the ...