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Blood Brother: Shabir Hussain Khan, the Kashmiri man who is India’s biggest donor

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 Editor

Shabir Hussain Khan was taking an afternoon nap when he heard a commotion outside his house. A friend had been injured in a football match and had lost a lot of blood. Khan, who did not have any transport, rushed to the hospital by foot to donate some. It was 4 July 1980. Yesterday the man known locally as the “blood man of Kashmir” donated his 174th pint of his blood to strangers at the public hospital close to his Srinagar home. “Blood is not something you can buy in…

In a unique way of protest, villagers in Chadoora plant paddy saplings on the road

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 Editor

Residents of Check Mohalla in Qazipora village of Chadoora in central Kashmir’s Budgam district Monday chose a unique way to protest against the government’s failure of repairing the important road link by planting paddy saplings on a muddy road stretch to attract the attention of authorities. Quoting locals, news agency KNO reported that villagers planted the paddy saplings as a mark of protest on the Chadoora-Check Mohalla Qazipora road to highlight its poor condition. Residents alleged that authorities had consistently failed to repair the road barely six km away from…

Fear and ‘Safe Zones’ in Kashmir

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021 Editor

By – Moazum Mohammad The dramatic and hostile reordering of Jammu and Kashmir’s political status vis-a-vis the Indian state on August 5, 2019, was followed by a systematic emasculation of the old political order and its replacement by a new set of elected leaders. The BJP-led central government felt that taking control of local governance institutions (panchayat and municipal committees) was the best way to neutralize the traditional political parties and their legislators in the absence of a functioning assembly. But nearly two years down the line, grassroots democracy has…

2000 – 20,000 Badami Bagh Cantonment Board begins levying Property Tax

June 10, 2021June 10, 2021 Editor

People living within the jurisdiction of Badami Bagh Cantonment Board (BBCB), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Defense, have begun receiving property tax bills from the board for their commercial and residential structures in Srinagar. Residents of several localities including Sonwar, Indra Nagar, Batwara, and Shivopora said that they have received property tax bills from the Board for the ongoing year. The bills have been charged as per the value of the property and range from Rs 2000-20,000. The authorities, according to locals, have unilaterally valued their properties and…

High flying rumors become Don Quixote’s windmills in Kashmir

June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 Editor

High flying rumours become Don Quixote's windmills in Kashmir

Kashmir has been agog since the last five days with rumours running high that ‘something big like August 5, 2019’ is going to happen. In 2019 also rumours flew wild saying ‘Delhi was planning something big’ and those rumours came true when articles 370, 35A and the statehood were scrapped by the Indian Parliament. What fuelled the rumours of 2019? The official advisory to tourists to leave the Valley, the curtailment of the Amarnath Yatra which was in full swing when the government decide to cut it short. The huge…

The man behind ‘Black Diary’ of Scams in J&K

June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Editor

With the transfer of Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, conjectures over his Diary of Scams gain momentum By: Naseer Ganai Despite being transferred to the Union ministry of commerce, outgoing chief secretary B.V.R. Subrahmanyam is yet to leave Jammu and Kashmir. He continues to meet officials and visit places. Besides his extended stay, what has generated a lot of curiosity in bureaucratic circles is Subrahmanyam’s ‘black diary’. “I have a black diary and its three pages are full of scams,” he had said last year, in a briefing in August. “If…

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…