Category: Community

Unemployment Hits Kashmir, Leaving Migrant Workers Struggling

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Unemployment Hits Kashmir, Leaving Migrant Workers Struggling

Jobs are drying up in Kashmir with CMIE reporting 23 per cent unemployment for April, even as the data was disputed by the government officials. A large number of workers — mostly from Bihar, Punjab, West Bengal, and Jharkhand — flocking to the valley to earn a good livelihood for decades are reporting finding little to now work as compared to pre-COVID levels. Naba Paswan, a daily wage labourer from Bihar, has been coming to Hawal Chowk every morning in the hope of getting some work. “Before COVID, work was…

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Electricity Schedule in Kashmir remains Uncertain: No fresh announcement made by PDD Officials

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Electricity Schedule in Kashmir remains Uncertain: No fresh announcement made by PDD Officials

Stating that no power curtailment schedule has been announced in the Valley, the Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) on Saturday said that the electricity is being supplied as per the availability. Talking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Chief Engineer, KPDCL, Javed Yousuf Dar said that there has been no circular with regard to the power curtailment in Kashmir. “The KPDCL has not announced any power curtailment,” he said when asked about the reports regarding two-hour power curtailment in morning and evening. However, he said that the KPDCL…

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Kashmiri authorities scramble to contain stray dog menace after two deaths

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Kashmiri authorities scramble to contain stray dog menace after two deaths

Dog terror has returned to haunt Kashmir. Latest victim being a 10-year-old boy. Ahmad Bin Javaid of Baran Pathar, Batamaloo passed away on Thursday afternoon. Ahmad was admitted to the hospital on May 28 after he was rescued from a drain in the locality. Ahmad along with other kids was chased by the stray dogs when he fell into the drain. Ahmad lost his battle with life after 13 days at Children’s Hospital here in Bemina. Last month, a seven-year-old girl was mauled by a pack of dogs in Kulgam.…

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Kashmir Faces Alarming Drug Addiction Crisis: Battling the Menace Head-On

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Kashmir Faces Alarming Drug Addiction Crisis: Battling the Menace Head-On

On a rainy morning in May, dozens of young men queued outside a drug drug rehabilitation centre in Srinagar city in Indian-administered Kashmir. Many of them were teens accompanied by their parents, waiting for their turn to receive medicines from the Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (IMHANS), the only government-run drug rehabilitation centre in Kashmir. The medicines help reduce their withdrawal symptoms and prevent the transmission of infectious diseases. “Did you take heroin again?” a doctor asks a young man after examining the size of his pupils. “Yes, I…

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Landmark conviction marks first success of Anti-Narcotics Task Force in Jammu and Kashmir

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Landmark conviction marks first success of Anti-Narcotics Task Force in Jammu and Kashmir

In its first conviction since the creation of the anti-narcotics task force (ANTF) in 2020, a court in north Kashmir’s Kupwara on Friday sentenced two drug peddlers to 10-year imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹1 lakh on each convict. The court of additional district and sessions judge Kupwara announced the judgment against Mohammad Shafi Lone and Bilal Ahmad Dar, both of Sopore in Baramulla district. Over two years ago, the ANTF intercepted their vehicle and found them in possession of 435 gm and 372 gm of commercial quantity heroin…

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Kashmir witnesses remarkable response as Rs 80 Lakh raised in 24 Hours for Cancer Patient through Crowd Funding

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Kashmir witnesses remarkable response as Rs 80 Lakh raised in 24 Hours for Cancer Patient through Crowd Funding

In less than 24 hours, over Rs 80 lakh were crowdfunded for a Leukemia patient from Pulwama. A family from Lassipora area of Pulwama had appealed for help on social media on Thursday and they managed to get over 80 lakh required for treatment of their daughter in less than 24 hours. Uzair Ahmad, brother of Leukemia patient (a 24-year-old woman) told news paper, that his sister was diagnosed with Leukemia in January 2022 following which she was shifted outside the Valley for treatment. “Her nine month treatment incurred about…

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J&K government to cease regulating mutton prices following the opinion of the central government

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J&K government to cease regulating mutton prices following the opinion of the central government

In a significant move, the J-K government has directed authorities to refrain from regulating prices of mutton and other livestock products. The Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs on Tuesday issued a notification directing authorities to refrain from regulating prices of livestock products. “…the Directorates of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer affairs, Jammu/Srinagar, all district administrations and other enforcement agencies who are regulating prices of livestock products by issuing price notifications quoting SRO-646 dated 19.12.1973 are henceforth directed to refrain from issuing or enforcing any order based on…

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According to the latest NHFS-5 data, approximately 32% of men and 1% of women in J&K are reported to be consuming tobacco

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According to the latest NHFS-5 data, approximately 32% of men and 1% of women in J&K are reported to be consuming tobacco

Around 32 percent men and one percent women consume tobacco in Jammu and Kashmir with cigarettes being the main tobacco product, NHFS-5 data revealed. Official data available showed that only 1 percent of women in the age 15-49 group use some form of tobacco. “Tobacco products mostly used by men are cigarettes (27% ), bidis (4%), hookah and cigars or pipe (2% each). Among women and men, the use of any form of tobacco is slightly higher in rural areas (1.4% for women and 35% for men) than in urban…

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Alarming rise in drug addiction grips Kashmir Region

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Alarming rise in drug addiction grips Kashmir Region

There is a major spurt in the cases of drug addiction and substance abuse in Jammu-Kashmir, a region battered by conflict and violence since the 1990s. According to the latest figures given in the Parliament, the region with a population of 14 million has almost 1 million drug addicts. The consequence of such a massive upswing in drug addiction has taken a heavy toll on a society pounded by conflict and political uncertainty. At Sopore, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Kashmir’s capital, Srinagar, anger has overtaken grief after a drug…

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Tragic Incident: 16 Year old boy killed man for objecting to ‘Relationship’ with his daughter

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Tragic Incident: 16 Year old boy killed man for objecting to ‘Relationship’ with his daughter

The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday claimed to have solved the murder case of a man in Srinagar in less than a day by arresting a teenager who was allegedly in a relationship with the slain man’s daughter. The police said that the boy, 16, stabbed the man on Tuesday evening at Batamaloo as the latter was against the boy’s ‘interest’ in the man’s daughter. Srinagar Police said that they arrested the juvenile for murder in broad daylight in Batamaloo yesterday. “He was having romantic interest in the daughter…

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