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For Progress, Implement UP style population bill In J&K: BJP leader Yudhvir Sethi

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Editor

Strongly advocating for the imposition of the population control law in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP on Wednesday said that Jammu & Kashmir should take a cue from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s proposed population policy to ensure population control. “We are impressed with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath’s proposed new population policy 2021-30 which he unveiled on Sunday,” said Yudhvir Sethi, vice president of the BJP in J&K. “J&K should go for a similar policy to ensure population control, which is prerequisite for ultimate growth and progress of any…

Entry of day picnickers to Sonamarg on weekends banned: Govt

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Editor

Entry of day picnickers in Sonamarg on weekends banned - Govt

The government on Wednesday issued an order citing that no day picnickers shall be allowed to visit Sonamarg on 17th, 18th, and 24th, 25th July 2021 (Saturday-Sunday).The order has been issued in view of a large number of local tourists thronging to Sonamarg tourist destination especially on weekends which poses the danger of a resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic in view of a possible violation of Covid appropriate behavior. The order further read that only such persons/tourists shall be allowed to proceed towards Sonamarg who possess proof of confirmed booking…

13 July 1931 Martyr’s Day: A historical perspective, When 22 were martyred to complete Zohar Azaan

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 Editor

The Kashmir Martyrs’ Day is observed on July 13, every year to commemorate the sacrifice of the 21 Kashmiris, who were killed outside the Srinagar Central Jail by the troops of Dogra Maharaja in 1931 during a revolt. There is a background to this painful event, which continues to be memorialized. Kashmiris have been oppressed since 1846 when the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was created and despite having an over 95pc Muslim population, the state was sold by the British East India Company to Hindu Maharaja Gulab Singh…

Abandoning Darbar Move; Why? Why Not?

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 Editor

Haroon Reshi Taking important decisions regarding Jammu and Kashmir in a hurried manner has become a new norm since New Delhi bifurcated the state into two Union Territories (UTs) and revoked its internal autonomy on August 5, 2019. Since then a range of political and administrative decisions was taken by just issuing circulars or statements either from Home Ministry in Delhi or Lieutenant Governor’s (LG) office in J&K. On June 20, LG Manoj Sinha, in a public address announced the ending of Jammu & Kashmir’s 149-year-old ritual of ‘Darbar Move’…

Suicide: A nightmarish trend

July 10, 2021July 10, 2021 Editor

Kulgam youth commits suicide, Budgam boy ends his life, Kupwara boy kills himself, 16 year old consumes poison, 35 year old hangs himself, boy jumps into river and ends his life. 18 year old boy from Baramulla ends his life. Woman commits suicide by jumping into Jhelum. These are the headlines flooding every news channel and social media. Shahid Shabeer Malik Apart from COVID-19, a new epidemic in the form of suicide has erupted in Kashmir. From the past few weeks, there has been a sudden rise in the number of…

PDP in Trouble over ED Summons, Notices to Leaders to vacate Govt Housing

July 10, 2021July 10, 2021 Editor

PDP President Mehooba Mufti addressing media during a press conference

With ED summons to Mehbooba Mufti’s mother over financial irregularities and eviction orders to PDP leaders living in official housing, the party is caught in a bind. The troubles for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) chief minister Mehbooba Mufti are far from over with the J&K administration asking a young PDP leader to vacate his official accommodation in the capital Srinagar. A former legislator from south Kashmir, Aijaz Ahmad Mir, was asked on Wednesday by the J&K’s estates department to vacate his accommodation…

‘Conversion Row’ won’t back down, ‘Will fight to get my wife back’; Muslim Husband reiterates

July 10, 2021July 10, 2021 Editor

Shahid Nazir Bhatt, 29, has been accused of forcefully converting a Sikh woman. But he claims she converted to Islam and married her of her free will. As Shahid Nazir Bhatt walked out of jail on 2 July, all he wanted was to start a new life with his wife, his love of six years — Manmeet Kaur. He rushed home, expecting to see her, but as he switched on his phone on the way, it was flooded with photographs of her wedding with another man, a Sikh, like her…

Tourists attack doctors, medical staff in Tangmarg

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Editor

A group of tourists from Mumbai allegedly attacked two doctors and two other government employees on covid-19 duty for not giving them a “negative report” for the covid-19, purportedly underhand, in Sub District hospital Tangmarg on Wednesday. Official sources told GNS that at least sixteen tourists comprising seven male and nine female members entered Sub-District Hospital Tangmarg and sought covid-19 negative without undergoing the required test for visiting some tourist destination in the area. On refusal by the staff on duty, they said, seven male tourists attacked the staff, injuring…

Kashmir interfaith marriage row: For politics of ‘Hate’ and ‘Honor’, a woman must perish

July 7, 2021July 7, 2021 Editor

Women are invisible in the narrative as the larger demons of ‘community and ‘honor’ take over. And nothing has changed in the last 70 years. By Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal A Kashmiri Sikh woman, allegedly forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man, was retrieved to her parents on June 27 after she submitted a statement in a court in Srinagar. There are still layers of mist about what she said in court and how the custody of an adult woman was given to her parents. Some reports have…

Noor Mohammad Shah: Kashmir folk singer’s rise from dusty street to music star

July 2, 2021July 2, 2021 Editor

Noor Mohammad Shah had always happily lived a life of obscurity. Born in a small village in the conflict-ridden state of Kashmir in India, Shah had been introduced to the mystical world of Sufi music as a child and for decades since had made a meagre but fulfilling living singing traditional songs and performing on his rabab, a lute-like music instrument, at weddings and village festivals. Yet it was a chance encounter between Shah and a group of young men, who happened to pass by as the god-fearing musician was…