An elderly man hailing from Pakistan administered Kashmir was detained while he was trying to infiltrate from the Line of Control in Gulpur area of Poonch on Saturday. Officials told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the man was intercepted near a river on the LoC in Gulpur, following which he has was shifted to army camp. They said that the elderly man was being questioned—(KNO)

People especially nomads are worried as hundreds of animals have fallen sick following an outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in the meadows of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. The cases are being reported mostly from the meadows of Budgam including Phajen, Gadibal, Tosamaidan, Danwas, Phachpharan, Golgaldara in Khag. “There are over 50,000 animals including sheep, cows, horses, oxen, goats that are being grazed on daily basis in these meadows. This disease has affected hundreds of animals while it is spreading thick and fast,” said Muhamamd Rizwan The disease is communicable and are infecting animals rapidly. The locals said that government is in slumber and no measure is being taken to vaccinate the infected animals. “Animals are getting weak as the intake of food has be...

Mubashir Naik Twenty-Five Days after, the 17-year-old daughter of Mohammed Afzal of Bilawar area of Kathua was allegedly abducted by Vijay Kumar, the family has demanded the whereabouts of their daughter. "The SHO told me that my daughter had issued a video in which she had said that she accepted Hinduism by her own choice and was in love with a Hindu Guy," the father said. The family has not been in touch with her since. The family has filed a missing report with the concerned Police Station, however, there has been no clue of the girl as of yet. Afzal, the father of the girl alleged that they approached the family of Vijay to hand over their daughter to them. "The father however was in the hospital, so he did not listen to us on the first day," he said. On the second day, ...

Danishwar Hameed A daily wager of the power development department (PDD) was injured on Saturday morning in the Devsar area of Kulgam. An official told The Kashmiriyat that Abdul Hameed Nagar received severe burn injuries after he received an electric shock in Chowgam Devsar area of South Kashmir's Kulgam district. Abdul Hameed who came in contact with a live wire was shifted to the nearby hospital, where his condition is stated to be critical.

Rayees Shah/ Basit Shah At least eight laborers were injured after a Tempo, they were traveling in, turned turtle at Margund area of Kangan in Central Kashmir's Ganderbal district on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. An official told  The Kashmiriyat that a Tempo was traveling from Sonamarg to Srinagar when it turned turtle at Margund, leaving eight passengers injured. He said that the injured were rushed to sub-district hospital Kangan for treatment, from where two of them were referred to Srinagar hospital for specialized treatment. The official identified the injured as Ghulam Abass Nalvi (driver), Imtiaz Ahmad, Nawaz Ahmad, Tanveer Ahmed, Idrees Ahmed, Shakeel Ahmed, Mohammad Shafi and Mohammad Iqbal, all residents of Doda. The official said that Police have ...

Body of a mentally unsound person was found beneath a bridge in Poonch district on Saturday, officials said. They said the body of the man, who used to wander in the area, was spot by some passerby who informed the police. Accordingly, the body was recovered at around 8:30 hours from the banks of river below the Sher-e-Kashmir Bridge Poonch and taken into the possession by Police. Confirming it, Station House Officer Poonch S D Singh told GNS that the person was mentally unsound and used to wander in the area. The body was shifted to District Hospital Poonch. (GNS)

The Dal Khalsa, in a hard-hitting but considered statement based on facts and not rhetoric, have said that they consider the Sikh girls’ marriages out of faith, a personal and societal issue and that they strongly oppose the mischief role of Delhi Sikh leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa for playing BJP’s divisive politics of dividing the two communities in Jammu and Kashmir. Sikh-Kashmiri Muslim bonds cannot be damaged or destroyed by isolated incidents. There may be scope for personal and societal intervention but there is absolutely no scope for political meddling in such cases. The organization opposed forced conversions and forced marriages, irrespective of gender. “However, they were categorical that in the present case, in a cleverly orchestrated mischief, a 7-year-old marriage issue...