Monday, December 15Latest news and updates from Kashmir

No Pilgrims from Outside Saudi to Be Allowed to Perform Hajj this Year

No Pilgrims from Outside Saudi to Be Allowed to Perform Hajj this Year

INTERNATIONAL
Saudi Arabia will only accept 60,000 citizens and residents to perform the Hajj pilgrimage this year, shutting the doors to pilgrims from abroad. Only 60,000 people from all nationalities living in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to perform the ritual due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah said in a written statement. It added that those who do not have chronic diseases, between the age of 18 and 65 and have been vaccinated will be allowed to perform Hajj. On May 9, the ministry had announced that this year’s pilgrimage will be held amid special health and safety measures in the shadow of the COVID-19 outbreak. The Hajj, the pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest site Kaaba in the city of Mecca, is one of the five pillars of Islam. Muslims are required to perfor...

Elections in Jammu Kashmir? Government Likely to Initiate Dialogue with Political Parties- Report

UPDATES
The BJP led Central Government is likely to start talks with the political parties of Jammu Kashmir, NDTV reported. The talks are being held to restore statehood and to hold elections in the region. The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration- an amalgam of various political groups operating in the region for the restoration of special status of Jammu Kashmir has not received any formal invitation from the Modi-led Government as of now, but they have expressed willingness to join talks with the centre. The National Conference has said that it may participate in the delimitation process, but the People's Democratic Party has outrightly denied to participate in the process saying, "we do not have any MLAs or MPs to participate in the delimitation process." In June 2018, Jammu Ka...

Rohingya Settlement in Southeast Delhi Set on Fire; Over 300 Refugees Left Homeless Overnight

INDIA
A Rohingya refugee camp in Delhi caught fire on Saturday night. The fire occurred close to Kalindi Kunj metro station which left about fifty-five families homeless. Although no casualties were reported, around 300 Rohingya refugees have become homeless overnight. Some of these refugees had fled their camp from Jammu two months back where their camp was set ablaze in April, this year. In about an hour’s time, all of their camps were reduced to rubble. As indicated by the police and a local group of firefighters, this incident occurred inadvertently and spread quickly in Rohingya refugee ghettos. They further added that they got information about this at around 12 o'clock in the night. As soon as the information was received, numerous firefighting apparatus including many firefighte...

Father killed, daughter injured in Budgam road accident

REGIONAL
A pedestrian was killed while his daughter was injured after they were hit by a vehicle in Khansahib area of Central Kashmir's Budgam district on Saturday afternoon. Sources told that a Maruti 800 bearing registration number JK04C-3956 hit two pedestrians at Khansahib, leaving them seriously injured. “Both the injuried were rushed to SDH Khansahab where from they were shifted to SMHS Srinagar,” an official said. He said, father succumbed to his injuries while his daughter is undergoing treatment.buy wellbutrin online medstaff.englewoodhealth.org/wp-content/languages/new/wellbutrin.html no prescription He identified the deceased as Ghulam Ahmad Mir age (60), son of Abdul Ahad Mir and injured girl as Humaira Jan (18). An official said the proceedings have been launched in thi...

‘Blade Cuts on Thighs, Fingers and Bosom’- A Rape, Just Another Day in Tribal Chhattisgarh

INDIA
Vikram Raj A tribal woman in Bastar was allegedly raped and then murdered under governmental supervision. The incident took place in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. Family members of the victim told that on the night of May 30, their daughter was sleeping along with the family in the courtyard. Around 11-12 o'clock in the night, a group of District Reserve Guard (Modern Salwa Judum, the individuals who are generally local tribals and who live in administrative repayment and are trained by Police and the CRPF, so they can help the public authority powers to penetrate in the tribal regions) encompassed their home and coercively removed their daughter in the forest. The following morning, when her family along with others of the village arrived at Dantewada with the expectat...

Caught on Camera- UP Police Plant Firearm Inside the Shop of Gulzar Ahmed

INDIA
A team of Uttar Pradesh Police has been caught on camera while planting an illegal firearm in the hardware shop of Gulzar Ahmed at Badal Garh village in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district. Ahmed, as per Muslim Mirror claimed that the UP Police carried out the act in order to frame him in a fake case. The act recorded in CCTV cameras installed in the shop which has gone viral on social media shows a Police cop accompanied by few other cops planting something in his shop. After that, he tries to nab Gulzar, but the cop lets him go after Gulzar tells him of the CCTV camera. Ahmad said that after planting the firearm in his shop, the cop said, "you are involved in an illegal business.” After listening to his accusation, Ahmad told him that two CCTV cameras have been installed in the shop...

Only dialogue can bring peace in Jammu Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti

REGIONAL
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti Saturday said that guns can't resolve any issue and only dialogue can bring peace in the Union Territory. She visited the fire affected families of Noor Bagh in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district along with other party leaders. Expressing her concern over the incident, Mehbooba while talking to reporters as per the news agency, said that everyone here has done a wonderful job by dousing the flames and deserve much appreciation. "I have talked to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Baramulla, there is a need to decongest the area and shift some families to some other place and facilitate them, which is important,” she said. "If such steps are not initiated in future similar incidents...

Lashkar Behind Sopore Militant Attack: DGP Dilbag Singh

REGIONAL
The Jammu Kashmir police chief Dilbag Singh on Saturday that Lashkar-e-Toiba militant outfit was behind the attack, in which two cops and two civilians were killed and three others were injured in Sopore town of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Talking to the reporters on the sidelines of wreath laying ceremony of two cops here, Dilbag Singh, according to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that LeT group was involved in this attack and they have identified the attackers, however, further details will not be shared at this moment. Singh said that to enforce Covid appropriate behaviour in view of the Covid-19 pandemic, a party from the Sopore police station under the charge of sub-inspector Mukesh Kumar was deployed in the chowk when the attack took place. He said t...

Article 370 Deserves to be Restored: Congress Leaders

REGIONAL
Former Finance Minister of Nagaland and Senior Congress Member Kewe Khape Therie has demanded the restoration of Article 370 in Jammu Kashmir. Therie took to twitter and wrote, "Art. 370 was practiced peacefully till BJP removed, it deserves to restored." Meanwhile the Bhartiya Janta Party  IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya alleged that Digvijaya’s statement saying the removal of Article 370 was unconstitional ‘goes along the line of Pakistan’. “In a Club House chat, Rahul Gandhi’s top aide Digvijaya Singh tells a Pakistani journalist that if Congress comes to power they will reconsider the decision of abrogating Article 370… Really? This is what Pakistan wants…” tweeted Malviya. https://twitter.com/SalmanNizami_/status/1403577162070847491 Meanwhile another Congress Leader, Sal...

Delayed Project, Damaged Irrigation Channel Causes Drinking Water Shortage in Baramulla Area

REGIONAL
Bhat Yasir The population of at least three thousand locals is facing acute water shortage as the lone source of water has damaged due to heavy winds in Wanigam Payeen Pattan village of north Kashmir's Baramulla district. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, the resident of Wanigam Payeen said that the irrigation water canal, wherefrom the Jal Shakti department supplies the water for the village and is the lone source of water to the whole village has got damaged due to heavy winds. Residents said that the poplar trees that were planted on the edge of the water canal have fallen down from roots which caused heavy damage to the water canal. A local Panch namely Mohd Yousuf Khan told The Kashmiriyat that due to the negligence of the Jal Shakti (PHE) department the whole population is fac...
Exit mobile version