Jammu Kashmir Peoples Conference (JKPC) has condemned the government action for jailing a Ganderbal local merely for his remarks on non- local bureaucrats. The party has termed such an action as a reflection of the state of affairs in Jammu Kashmir and urged the LG to uphold democracy in UT. In a statement issued here, the party spokesman Adnan Ashraf Mir has said that imprisoning people for highlighting the hardships they face in getting their grievances addressed is frivolous and frighteningly undemocratic. He added that such state action is a direct assault on democratic principles and goes on to relay the hopeless and scary picture of the state of affairs. “Jailing a man merely for his views on administration and slapping him with severe charges is a step towards demolishing t...

A 50-year-old political activist from the Ganderbal district of Jammu Kashmir has been kept in “preventive custody” for being a threat to peace, police said on Tuesday. The activist is in police custody even after being granted bail by a court in a case registered against him for allegedly saying he had no expectations from officers who belong to outside Jammu Kashmir posted in the union territory. Sajad Sofi, a resident of Wani Mohalla in the Safapora area of the central Kashmir district, was booked under section 153 of the Indian Penal Code for speaking his mind during a public interaction with one of the advisors of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha. Sofi, who led a delegation of about half a dozen people to a public 'darbar' of advisor Baseer Ahmad Khan on Thursday, told him tha...

First remote Warwan village of Kishtwar district will get mobile connectivity, much to surprise and relief of the local residents, officials said here on Tuesday.buy doxycycline online http://padstyle.com/wp-content/languages/new/doxycycline.html no prescription Officials told the news agency that the private mobile service provider Jio will start its services in the Warwan block of Marwah sub-division in Kishtwar. Meanwhile, Deputy commissioner Kishtwar, Ashok Kumar Sharma informed public about the development through his official Twitter handle. “Good news coming in for Warwan area. Jio Tower at Afti Warwan has been made on Air and is radiating. If all goes well Basmina, Warwan tower to go on-air tomorrow,” he Tweeted. Notably, the village had no mobile connectivity and the ...

CPI (M) leader Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami Tuesday termed the incident in which a resident from central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district was jailed for just saying that he had “more expectations from local officers”, as unwarranted, uncalled for and brazen violation of the fundamental rights of people. In a Press release issued to The Kashmiriyat, Tarigami said fifty-year-old Sajad Rashid Sofi of Safapora in Ganderbal has been reportedly booked for his comment made during interaction of locals with the J&K Lieutenant Governor’s Advisor, Baseer Ahmad Khan on the directions of Ganderbal Deputy Commissioner, an IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. “He (Sofi) was part of a delegation which had gone to meet LG’s Advisor to demand a degree college in Safapora. If such incidents happen during t...

The weatherman Tuesday predicted “light to moderate thunderstorm with rain” for the next few days at scattered places in Jammu Kashmir. “Brief spell of light to moderate thunderstorm with rain will occur at scattered places of Kashmir like Gulmarg, Kupwara, Sopore, Baramulla, Srinagar and scattered places of Jammu and South Kashmir today,” Director Meteorological Department Sonam Lotus said. “Same weather is most likely to continue for next few days,” he said, adding, “There’s no forecast for any major rainfall. We expect slight relief from the scorching heat wave in both Jammu Kashmir regions.” He also advised farmers to avoid chemical spraying of orchards for next 2-3 days. Regarding Ladakh, he said, weather is likely to remain partly to generally cloudy. “There is no forecas...

Irshad hussain The wildlife department has caught a leopard in Central Kashmir's budgam district at Deputy commissioner (DC) complex office on tuesday morning. Leapord fell finally into the trap. The Leapord which had mauled to death 4 year old girl in Ompora area of central Budgam subsequently created fear among the Budgam residents was caught alive by wild life department at the Forest office, Budgam. The officials belonging to the department were rendered sleepless and restless laying day-night long seizures and had been putting all their efforts to neutralize the wild beast. The operation had come in the context of the recent heart-wrenching ompora incident which left everyone in Kashmir petrified. Eleven days after mauling a four-year-old girl to death, the leopard was cau...