A lady sustained bullet injury on Saturday after the vehicle she was travelling in, was fired upon by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) party due to mistaken identity over ‘suspicious act’ of the driver, who was hit a policeman and didn’t stop after being signaled to stop at twin places in Awantipora area of South Kashmir. Officials told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a vehicle Wagnor bearing registration number JK01J- 8038 was signaled to stop by Police person namely SgCt NaserUllah at Awantipora Chowk at about 03:15 PM but the driver hit him and escaped from spot. “The vehicle was again signaled to stop at Padgampora bridge but again it didn’t stop. The CRPF 130Bn deployed on naka there has fired warning aerial shots but the driver remained defiant and didn’...

The editors Guild of India has issued a statement asking the Jammu Kashmir police to withdraw the advisory forbidding journalists from reporting live encounters. ALSO READ: Days After Police Directive, Journalists Allege being Stopped from Covering Encounters in South Kashmir In its statement, the Editors Guild of India has said that, Visibly, the police are giving an impression of trying to maintain peace by attempting to control the fallout of violence in a high strung environment, but what is being instead done is an attempt by the security forces to escape from any kind of media scrutiny about the flow of events behind the violence. The statement further read, "Live reporting from conflict areas, including encounters between security forces and militants, is one of the most import...

Shah Basit/ Rayees Shah A 15-year-old-girl committed suicide in Devipora Kurag area of Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Friday. An official told The Kashmiriyat that the girl (name withheld) consumed some poisonous substance at her residence following which the family members rushed her to District hospital Ganderbal, wherefrom she was referred to SKIMS. However, doctors at SKIMS declared her as brought dead and the reason for the suicide was not immediately known. Meanwhile, police have registered a case in this read and further investigations’ have been taken up.

In yet another instance of communal harmony, the Muslim community of Gandoh Bhalessa area in Doda district here has collected donations for the treatment of a Hindu boy, who was critically injured in a road accident at Ghat Doda last week. The members of the Muslim community at Gandoh Bhalessa collected donations for the injured Hindu boy after mandatory Friday prayers yesterday. A video has also gone viral on social media in which the members of the Muslim community could be seen seeking help from the general public for the treatment of a boy identified as Deepak Kumar of Barshalla Thathri, presently admitted in ICU at GMC Jammu. A local from the area told KNO that the religious cleric during the Friday sermons asked them to collect donations for the needy Hindu boy. “Our Imam...