Category: Community

Army expels Kashmiri teacher from its school for calling slain militant ‘Shaheed’

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40 teachers resign in protest, parents told to take out students who wrote Azadi slogans on blackboard A Kashmiri teacher has been expelled from the Army Goodwill School at Sharifabad garrison for calling a slain militant ‘martyr’. After the expulsion, 40 teachers of the school have resigned in protest. Principal of the school Shaista Khan confirmed the expulsion of the teacher, Mudasir Abdullah. Two days after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Bhat was killed in Tral on May 27, Class 9 students wrote “Azadi” slogans on the board of their classroom,…

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No one Sleeps on footpaths Or looks for Food in dustbins in Kashmir: Dukhtaran-e-Millat

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Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) on Tuesday said that arbitrary raids by India’s ‘National Investigation Agency’ (NIA) on the resistance leadership and the businessmen in Kashmir and keeping the schools and colleges shut are the acts done to malign the image, harm the economy and education of Kashmiris. In a statement, the DeM general secretary, Nahida Nasreen, said that India and its puppets in Kashmir are frustrated as this movement has passed onto the fourth generation of Kashmiris and has become a people’s movement. “Everyone including young, elders, men, women and students are…

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Medical fitness, Age certificates compulsory for Amarnath Yatra

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Only those with medical fitness and age certificates will be allowed to undertake this year’s pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam district, it was announced on Tuesday. Only those with medical fitness and age certificates will be allowed to undertake this year’s pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam district, it was announced on Tuesday. An advisory issued by Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) on Tuesday said: “Pilgrims intending to visit the cave shrine of Amarnath in…

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Valley families fast-track their weddings, as uncertainty wary of Burhan Wani anniversary

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Faisal Raheem, a government official who is 29 years old, told Kashmir Post that he plans to get married on July 1. And at least eight in his extended family are getting married between June 28 and July 7. Summer is wedding season in Kashmir, that time of the year when people laze in the sun, drum fingers on tables as the tumbaknaer plays in the background while a feast is laid out. But this year, there’s an air of urgency as families, witness to the turmoil on the streets and…

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Panic at NIT as Pak group hacks institute website

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A day after Pakistan’s defeat in the ICC Champion’s Trophy against India, Pak Cyber Skullz, a Pakistan-based hacker group, today hacked the official website of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar. Students of the NIT said the official website was hacked in frustration as Pakistan lost the ICC champion’s Trophy match against India on Sunday. The hacker group has mentioned on the home page that it hacked the website to “free Kashmir from India.” The official NIT website www.nitsri.ac.in was hacked around 3:30 pm today, creating panic among students…

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Despite alarm clocks, Sahar Khan remains relevant to wake believers up for Suhoor

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During the holy month of Ramadan, when the believers fall asleep in the wee hours after staying up late praying, the reverberating drums of the Sahar Khan have long traditionally been useful to help people to get up for eating the pre-dawn meal, the Suhoor. Sehar Khan, the traditional human alarm clock chants the hymns and rouses people for Waqt-e-Sahar (pre-dawn meal) while beating a drum to wake the believers up. Abdul Gani, the Sahar Khan, while beating his drum loud and fast in the lanes and by-lanes of Pulwama…

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Mehbooba Mufti prays for ‘Dignified’ return of Pandits at Tullamulla shrine

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‘Socio-cultural milieu of Valley incomplete without Kashmiri Pandits’ Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today visited Tullamulla in Ganderbal district to greet members of the Pandit community, who had come to attend the Kheer Bhawani Mela. Interacting with devotees, Mehbooba Mufti said people in Kashmir were eagerly awaiting the return of their Kashmiri brethren. She said the socio-cultural milieu of the Valley was incomplete without Kashmiri Pandits. “This day is very revered for our Kashmiri Pandit brethren and they have come here in thousands today. We pray to God for their dignified…

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I-T warns against cash dealings of Rs 2 lakh or more, seeks tip-off

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Income Tax department on Friday warned people against indulging in cash transaction of Rs 2 lakh or more saying that the receiver of the amount will have to cough up an equal amount as penalty. It also advised people having knowledge of such dealings to tip-off the tax department by sending an email to ‘blackmoneyinfo@incometax.gov.in’. The government has banned cash transactions of Rs 2 lakh or more from April 1, 2017, through the Finance Act 2017. The newly inserted section 269ST in the Income Tax Act bans such cash dealings…

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600 Kashmiri Pandits heading for Kheer Bhawani shrine amid high security

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Amid tight security, a group of around 600 Kashmiri Pandits, including women and children, today left for annual pilgrimage to the Mata Kheer bhawani shrine in Kashmir valley. Amid chants of ‘Mata Kheer Bhawani Ki Jai’, the Kashmiri Pandits boarded around 20 State Road Transport Corporation buses and left this morning to pay obeisance at the Mata Kheer Bhawani Temple in Tulmulla area of Ganderbal district. Divisional Commissioner, Jammu region, Mandeep Bhandari and head of the Mata Kheer Bhawani 2017 reception committee and former bureaucrat Kiran Watal, flagged off the…

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Pellet guns with deflectors safe for eyes, fault lies with protesters who bend like bowlers: CRPF

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Amid tall claims that deflector-fitted pellet guns won’t target eyes of protesters, paramilitary CRPF Wednesday asserted that they tested the new gadget on a static target and that the fault lies on protesters as they “bend like bowlers.” The CRPF also advocated lessons for the stone pelters to ensure they are not hit in eyes during protests. According to figures available with the SMHS hospital, since Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Bhat and his aide Faizan Muzaffar were killed in an encounter in Tral Saturday last, 34 youth with pellet injuries…

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