November 26, 2021 | Kashmir POST

J&K hosts 12.58% poor population: NITI Aayog

November 26, 2021 Editor

The first-ever Multidimensional Poor Index (MPI) report of India has revealed that 12.58 percent population in Jammu and Kashmir is poor. As per the report prepared by the government of India’s think-tank body – NITI Aayog, 12.58 percent population in the erstwhile state of J&K which included the newly created UT of Ladakh is poor. The multidimensional poor index has taken into consideration various factors which include the percentage of population deprived of nutrition, maternal health, and school education. The report states that 25.9 percent of the population is deprived…

Rambagh Killing: Amid Shutdown, Mobile internet suspended in old city

November 26, 2021 Editor

Most of the shops in the old areas of Srinagar were shut on Thursday while mobile internet remained suspended in many parts of the city a day after the killing of three militants, including the self-styled commander of The Resistance Front (TRF), in an encounter, officials said. The officials said mobile internet was suspended in several areas of the city as a precautionary measure. Police on Wednesday said security forces killed three militants in a brief encounter in the Rambagh area of the city. The slain included the self-styled commander…

Ghosts of graveyard: Where does Kashmir’s dead go?

November 26, 2021 Editor

Fahad Shah Kashmir is plunging into an uneasy silence, the blood is flowing on the streets, but the dead are missing. The graves dug near homes by fathers still lie empty, covered in dirt. “My son is 3-year-old; am I raising him to be killed in a gunfight?” asks a distraught mother. A sister sits by the window in Sopore, waiting for her brother who never returned home. Not even in death. Amid cries, a testament of mourning is missing. Where does Kashmir’s dead go? Among other areas, we found…