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Two fresh ‘Suicide’ incidents reported from Kashmir

June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Editor

Kashmir Valley reported two more suicide cases on Sunday morning. The deceased including a lady and a minor boy. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a lady (name withheld) wife of Bashir Ahmed Dar of Sather Sangam area of South Kashmir’s Bijbehara allegedly hung herself at her residential house. The lady was brought to Sub District Hospital Bijbehara by her legal heirs, where doctors declared her dead. Police initiated proceedings under section 174 CrPCc & after autopsy dead body was handed over to legal heirs for last rites.…

Wildlife Dept issues do’s and don’t as man-eater leopard remains at large

June 6, 2021June 6, 2021 Editor

Shaken by the killing of a five-year-old girl, wildlife authorities have issued a fresh list of dos’ and don’ts’ to ensure the safety of women and children as man-eater leopard remains at large in central Kashmir. On Saturday, Adda Yasir Mir became the latest victim of the man-animal conflict. Her mutilated body was found in a nursery near her home at Ompora Housing Colony in Budgam district. Wildlife Warden, Wetlands, Ifshan Dewaan told The Kashmir Post that there is a confirmed leopard presence in the forest nursery at Ompora. “It…

CID clearance mandatory for all employees: Orders SKUAST-K

June 6, 2021June 6, 2021 Editor

The administration today made the CID verification of the employees working including that of new entrants at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir (SKUAST-K) mandatory.The varsity said that the employees whose CID verification has not been submitted so far shall resolve the matter immediately with concerned authorities under intimation of the administration. It said that the salary of the incumbent employee will be stopped forthwith till verification by the CID.It said that the appointees shall give an undertaking in the shape of an affidavit to the effect that…

J&K to ease coronavirus curbs in phased manner

June 6, 2021June 6, 2021 Editor

In a bid to contain the virus spread, the COVID-induced lockdown imposed in Jammu and Kashmir has been extended till 15. However, the restrictions will be eased in a phased manner starting today. The Jammu and Kashmir administration has extended the coronavirus-induced lockdown in the Union Territory till June 15 in a bid to contain the COVID spread. However, the restrictions will be lifted in a phased manner starting Sunday. As part of the unlocking, stand-alone shops, salons and liquor shops will be allowed to operate three days a week,…

Pakistan to convene a meeting of FM’s of Muslim Nations on Kashmir Issue

June 6, 2021June 6, 2021 Editor

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday announced to convene a meeting of the foreign ministers of Muslim nations in Islamabad next year to highlight the issue of Kashmir and get their support. He was addressing a gathering of political workers of his Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party in his home town of Multan. ‘If God grants me time, then in March 2022 I will invite the foreign ministers of the Islamic world to Islamabad and try to rally them on the Kashmir issue,” he said. India has repeatedly said Jammu and…

GoI tightens grip on government-critical state employees

June 5, 2021June 5, 2021 Editor

A series of dismissals of public servants in Kashmir has triggered fears that India is clamping down on state workers in the region. The dismissals were issued under the pretext of protecting “state security.” Muhammad Yusuf Ganaie, a schoolteacher in Indian-administered Kashmir, found out that he was fired from his job through a Facebook post last month. He was the sixth employee in the region to be sacked under the pretext of protecting the “security of the state,” and the series of dismissals has sparked fears of a widespread effort…

Private schools flouting govt instructions: School Education Department

June 5, 2021June 5, 2021 Editor

The School Education Department (SED) Friday said the private schools in the Kashmir division are not ensuring full compliance with the various government orders issued from time to time. The department also said that the private schools were violating the government and Fee Fixation Committee (FFC) orders related to charging of tuition and transportation fee. In this regard, a circular was issued by the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) on Friday. “The circular instructions were passed on November18, 2017 followed by another circular on July 14, 2018 with regard…

Adha Yasir, 4-year kid mauled to death by a leopard in Budgam

June 5, 2021June 5, 2021 Editor

The four-year-old girl was playing on the lawn of her house in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district. Her parents, who were in the house, and neighbours in Ompora Housing Colony remember the girl running about. The parents rushed out, only to find their daughter nowhere. They alerted the neighbours, the local police and launched a massive search operation. Roughly one hour later, local residents found the girl’s necklace and slippers from the forest that surrounded the colony. “This raised suspicion that the girl was taken away by a leopard, which…

How lockdown-hit Kashmir is trying to revive tourism

June 4, 2021June 4, 2021 Editor

It’s been a terrible two years for the tourism sector in Jammu and Kashmir—already hit by militancy, then the political upheaval in 2019 and now the Covid pandemic. In March 2021, tourist arrivals had picked up to 125,000 from about 19,000 in January. But the spurt in advance bookings and inquiries came to a grinding halt by mid-April as the second wave of Covid-19 hit the country. Tourism accounts for close to 7 per cent of J&K’s GSDP, with more than a third of the Union territory’s 12 million population…

People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration: Done, Dead, and Dusted

June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Editor

Ishfaq-ul-Hassan Last week, National Conference (NC) sent feelers to end the boycott of the Centre’s delimitation commission. It marked a significant shift in the NC’s policy post-August 5, 2019 when the Centre abrogated Article 370 and downgraded Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories. Under Reorganization Act, 2019, the Union Territory of J&K will have an Assembly while Ladakh will not. Under the Act, the number of seats in the J&K Assembly would be increased from 107 to 114 after delimitation. According to the Delimitation Commission Act, 2002, the Delimitation…