Month: August 2023

Victim recounts hate rants, abuse, threats by RPF train killer in 2016

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Victim recounts hate rants, abuse, threats by RPF train killer in 2016

Years before Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh killed his senior and three Muslim men aboard the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Superfast Express in a hate crime on July 31, he harassed over the course of several days, and then unlawfully detained, assaulted and threatened to frame a 45-year-old Muslim auto driver in Ujjain as a “terrorist”, the victim of that abuse, Wahid Khan told HT. The incessant abuse, with constant communal overtones, forced Khan to file a complaint against Singh. An inquiry was launched more than a year after the…

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Kashmir Valley Grapples with Severe Air Pollution Crisis

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Kashmir Valley Grapples with Severe Air Pollution Crisis

Govt must seek an explanation from J&K Pollution Control Committee for allowing construction of fresh brick kilns Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat Last year in December the Director of Sher e Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences-SKIMS Dr Parvez Koul said that 10,000 deaths were attributed to air pollution in J&K every year. He said that Srinagar City has the highest incidence of lung cancer in India and a large number of people were suffering from chronic lung diseases in J&K. Dr Koul called for an urgent need to act and control…

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Emergence of the Canine Civilization: The Rise of the Planet of the Dogs

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Emergence of the Canine Civilization: The Rise of the Planet of the Dogs

For every 13 people, there is a dog in Srinagar meaning we have a personalised foe for nearly every household! Dr. Ambreen Hamadani They are everywhere, even in our nightmares. You should (or rather shouldn’t) see them after sunset. It is their reign. They run in packs and cast terrifying shadows under the streetlights. Their sight sends shivers down the spine of us humans, the weaker mortals. Needless to say, that the Gabbar Sighs who scare our toddlers into sleep are the hordes of these canines that howl under the…

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Mirwaiz seeks clarity on detention status, to send legal notice

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Mirwaiz seeks clarity on detention status, to send legal notice

Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid said that Mirwaiz e Kashmir Mohammed Umar Farooq was again disallowed from addressing and offering obligatory Friday prayers for the consecutive 208th Friday at Jama Masjid today. As per a statement, Anjuman said that the news was rife on social media since today morning that Mirwaiz might be allowed to come to Jama Masjid, after LG sahabs interview to a news channel where he said that “I have made up his mind … he ( Mirwaiz) will also offer Friday prayers at Jama Masjid“, people reached…

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SMHS De-addiction Centre sees 75% Increase in Patient Traffic in One Year

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At SMHS, One patient walks into de-addiction centre every 12 minutes: Report The number of patients visiting OPDs in the Valley’s largest District De-addiction Centre in SMHS Hospital, Srinagar, jumped 75% to 41,110 in the year-ending March 2023, Indian Express reported. This means that one patient walked into the OPD every 12 minutes. As per the report, in the previous financial year, over 21,000 follow-up patients and 2,000 new patients had turned up at the DDC while in ’22, the number of new users has gone past 3000 and follow-up patients…

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J&K HIV Cases Soar to 6,158 in First 6 Months of 2023, Experts Warn of Worsening Crisis

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J&K HIV Cases Soar to 6,158 in First 6 Months of 2023, Experts Warn of Worsening Crisis

The cases of HIV AIDS are increasing with each passing year in Jammu & Kashmir as 6,158 patients have tested positive in the union territory till June 2023. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that so far 1,400 HIV-positive patients have died while 3,478 patients are living on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART). He said 547 patients have left follow-up. He said that 5,060 cases of HIV have been reported at GMC Jammu and among them, 1,228 have died, 503 have left follow-up and 2718 are living on ART.…

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Govt extends deadline for Registration of Bonafide Migrants, DPs for Domicile Certificate

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Govt extends deadline for Registration of Bonafide Migrants, DPs for Domicile Certificate

J&K government Thursday extended the validity of its order providing for registration of bonafide migrants or Displaced Persons (DPs) for the purpose of issuance of Domicile certificate for a period of one year i.e., till May 15, 2024. “It Is hereby ordered that the validity of Government Order No 52-JK(DMRRR) of 2020 dated May 16, 2020 extended vide Government Order No 44-JK(DMRRR) of 2021 dated June 22, 2021 and Government Order No 30-JK(DMRRR) of 2022 dated June 10, 2022 is hereby further extended for a period of one year i.e.,…

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Supreme Court questions Gujarat on Selective Use of Policy for Early Release of Bilkis Bano Convicts

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Supreme Court questions Gujarat on Selective Use of Policy for Early Release of Bilkis Bano Convicts

The opportunity to reform must be given to all prisoners and not a few, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it asked Gujarat whether its remission policy was applied selectively and why the Mumbai court that convicted 11 people in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang rape case was not consulted when the men were released last year. The court was hearing a petition filed by the victim Bano along with a set of public interest litigations (PIL) challenging the release of the 11 convicts in August last year, despite…

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Excise Department Raids Brick Kilns in Budgam, Recovers Large Quantity of Illegally Manufactured Alcohol

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Excise Department Raids Brick Kilns in Budgam, Recovers Large Quantity of Illegally Manufactured Alcohol

The sleuths of the Excise Department of Jammu and Kashmir conducted raids at brick kilns in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Thursday, according to officials. “Under the directions of Excise Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Sharma and under the supervision of Deputy Excise Commissioner, Executive, Kashmir, Tazayun Mukhtar, raids were carried out at Brick Kilns in Nowbug, Chadoora, Budgam. These raids were led by the Excise and Taxation Officer of Central Kashmir, and they were accompanied by Range Inspectors from three districts and other field officials. This action was taken following complaints…

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Article 370 Abrogation Case: Arguments to Continue in Supreme Court on Day 7

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Article 370 Abrogation Case: Arguments to Continue in Supreme Court on Day 7

Several petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which split the erstwhile State into two Union Territories — Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh — were referred to a Constitution Bench in 2019. Senior advocate Dushyant Dave on Thursday argued in the Supreme Court that the abrogation of Article 370 is a colourable exercise of powers since the BJP government in its 2019 manifesto had proposed the repeal of Article 370. Mr. Dave also argued that Article 370 had ‘achieved its life’ and…

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