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Dec212021 by News DeskNo Comments

Minimum Wages Act: Hopes of Daily wagers, CEs, NB workers and CLs dying slowly in JK

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Bhat Yasir After abrogation of Jammu Kashmir's semi-autonomy and special status granted by Article 370 & 35A, the claims made by government for the welfare of people seem nothing but mere mirage. Hopes of thousands of daily wagers, casual labours and need base contractual workers are slowly dying. Thousands of contractual, daily rated workers and casual labourers working in various departments are demanding implementation of Minimum Wages Act in Jammu Kashmir since years. In August 2019, when Narendra Modi led BJP government abrogated the special status and bifurcated the state into two UTs, high claims were made for the welfare of the employees. Jammu based daily Early Times' December 12 edition's page-one lead said, 'In Delhi daily wagers get Rs 807 per day, in J&K they ...

Dec182021 by News DeskNo Comments

Hyderpora Killings- One Month Gone, Families Await Word From Officials

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Irshad Hussain More than a month has passed after his tragic killing, Amir Magray's family is worried about the deteriorating health of his mother, Mubeena Begum. She has to be taken to the doctor almost every day as she refuses to eat. The family was denied Amir's dead body for the final rites. "Every morning, as his mother gets up early in the morning, tears start rolling down her eyes as she repeats, 'Muje Apne bete ka chehra dikhao' (Show me the face of my son)," Amir's father, Latif Magray, told The Kashmiriyat over the phone. Latif Magray said that it was unfortunate that all his life, he fought against militancy and one day, his own son was killed in a controversial 'gunfight' at Hyderpora, Srinagar and was labelled as a militant. "'Woh Bechara Toh Mazdoor Tha' (The poor...

Dec172021 by News DeskNo Comments

‘Karewas are Kashmir’s heritage’, Pattan residents demand revocation of Soil extraction NOC

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Bhat Yasir Residents of Pattan, Baramulla are aghast over an administration order giving heads up to soil mining in the area. They allege that incessant mining will not only destroy Karewas, but will also affect the natural beauty of the area along with changing topography. ALSO READ: ‘After 370 Decision Illegal Mining has Increased Manifold’- Fear of Extinction Grows Among Shopian Orchardists The district administration Baramulla vide order number DCB/SQ/8042-8050 has granted consent/NOC to NKC Pvt. Ltd for extracting/levelling and lifting of soil in Zangam Pattan in Baramulla district, area of north Kashmir. As per order, a copy of which lies with The Kashmiriyat, the administration has inspected the site before granting permission for soil extraction. "Whereas Addl. Deputy Commi...

Dec132021 by News DeskNo Comments

Government claims no order passed to stop reportage; Journalists say there’s an atmosphere of fear

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Bhat Yasir/Nadeem Hassan Last week, the government informed the Parliament that the Jammu Kashmir administration has not issued any order under which journalists can be stopped from reporting if their work threatens peace and public tranquility. Nityanand Rai, Minister of State for Home Affairs informed the above in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. Mr. Rai was asked if the Jammu Kashmir administration had issued orders under which journalists can be stopped from reporting if their work threatens peace and public tranquility, and which directs unauthorized/unregistered journalists to complete their registration or obtain approval of the administration before they can be allowed to perform their duties. It is pertinent to mention that the Jammu Kashmir administration, last year, ...

Dec122021 by News DeskNo Comments

Amid rising cases of Omicron, how well prepared is Jammu Kashmir for the ‘fastest spreading’ variant?

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Kounsar Bashir The Coronavirus is showing a massive rise yet again. A new variant of coronavirus has emerged raising alarm all around the world. Scientists and Health Officials across the globe are bracing up their research about the new variant named after "Omicron." The Covid-19 or the Coronavirus was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019 but the outbreak spread quickly across the globe in the first few months of 2020. It was declared a Global Pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020, a lockdown was announced all across the globe. According to BBC, Covid-19 has so far, caused 5 million deaths and there are around 265 million confirmed cases across the planet. About the changing mutations of the 'Omicron' hospitals, doctors, scientists are preparing beforehand ...

Dec122021 by News DeskNo Comments

Kashmir: Son jailed since 2019, Mother passes away awaiting his release

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Meer Irfan Muneera Banoo, mother of Aijaz Ahmed Naik, who was the sole bread-earner to his family and has been in jail since 2019 passed away on Wednesday morning, ending her two-year-long wait for her incarcerated son. Muneera’s husband Mohammed Abdullah Naik passed away in 2000 leaving behind two young children for her to take care of. “She did well in taking care of her children. She did everything she could to bring them up,” Tariq Ahmed Naik, a relative told The Kashmiriyat. On 06 May 2019, Aijaz Ahmed Naik who owns a mobile-recharge shop in the Zainapora market of Shopian was arrested in a militancy-related case. He was initially lodged at Police Station, Zainapora, from where he was shifted to Pulwama Jail. “From Pulwama he was shifted to Srinagar. And from Srinagar, ...

Dec112021 by News DeskNo Comments

Brother lodged in Jail since 2017, Sister works day and night to earn for family of seven

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Javaid Mushtaq It is a cold winter day in Kashmir. Shaheen Bashir Ganie spends her entire day on her stitching machine as she has two orders to finish for the day. Stitching is not what she loves to do, but she cannot stop. Her brother, Khurshid Bashir Ganie, who was the sole bread earner to the family was arrested in 2017 in a militancy-related case. "The sky crashed down upon us when my brother was taken into jail," she said cutting to perfection the last piece of the cloth for a Salwar. Khurshid was initially sought on the charges of sheltering militants in 2017. As he surrendered to the court in early 2018, he was booked in the case related to the killing of six Policemen including the Station House Officer of Achabal, Feroz Ahmed. The case was registered in the Police Stat...

Dec92021 by News DeskNo Comments

Shopian Encounter: Rendered Homeless, Father Runs Out of Excuses to Console His Children

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Meer Irfan Mohammed Iqbal Ganie, a tailor by profession returned to his home in Cheke Cholan, Shopian after a hectic day of work on Tuesday evening. On a cold winter evening, as soon as he got home, he asked his family to serve him food. He got inside his room, where he wrapped himself in a blanket, got his a Kangri, and leaned his back against the wall of his room. On Thursday, the wall of the house is razed to the ground. The blanket burnt to ashes and the Kangri broken to pieces. On Wednesday morning, the Jammu Kashmir Police said that a gunfight had broken out after Militants hiding inside a residential house in Check e Cholan area of Shopian were asked to surrender, but they fired instead. The forces including the Rashtriya Rifles of the Indian Army, Jammu Kashmir Police, and Ce...

Dec82021 by News DeskNo Comments

Meet this young musician who has opened Baramulla’s first Music Academy

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Ulfat Bashir Tariq Rasool (35), a young singer cum composer from a small village namely Aalibagh, in Sopore area of district Baramulla was inclined to music and singing since childhood. Earlier, he used to sing at his school's functions. In order to make singing his full-time profession, he started learning music professionally and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts College, Srinagar. After that, he obtained his Post-Graduation and M.Phil degrees in 'Indian Classical Music.' Apart from that, he's pursuing research in "Philosophy Of Music And Religion" from Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana. While talking to The Kashmiriyat, Tariq said, "In the beginning, I worked with 'Jankar', which happens to be a musical group of the renowned Sufi singer Shafi Sopori, for...

Dec82021 by News DeskNo Comments

‘Sits by the Window, Waiting for Her Dead Son to Return’- The Wailing Wombs of Kashmir

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Suhail Dar The Kashmir valley in 2018 was gripped by deadly violence as the toll of deaths of civilians, Militants, and Government Forces kept on rising and it tarnished thousands of lives, many mothers losing their sole bread-earning sons and many fathers shouldering the coffin of their young sons. The raging violence has cut short the dreams of thousands of families and youth, who have become a victim of the decade’s long violence in the region claimed by both India and Pakistan, A teenager, Numan Bhat killed in the firing of Government Forces in Shopian on November 25, 2018, made news one month after his death, when the results of class 10th were declared, has passed the matriculation exams. The simmering conflict has left a seemingly catastrophic effect on mothers in Kashmir. ...