SRINAGAR — “We are told we live in a democratic set-up where everyone enjoys freedom of expression, anyone can have an opinion, so that’s what I exercised,” said Kashmiri journalist Irfan Amin Malik. The act of expressing his fundamental right to speech has landed 30-year-old Malik – who contributes frequently to The Wire – in trouble. The […]
SRINAGAR — Unknown gunman on Monday shot dead a Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) Sarpanch and his wife in Lal Chowk area of Anantnag district in South Kashmir. Reports said, unknown gunman barged into the rented accommodation of BJP Sarpanch and fired indiscriminately, resulting in serious injuries to Sarpanch and his wife. The couple was shifted […]
ANANTNAG — The family of a 23-year-old youth who has gone missing from his home in the Veeri area of Bijbehara in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district has appealed to the public to help them trace out their missing family member. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat over the phone, a family member of the youth identified as Rayees Ahmed […]
PULWAMA — With covid cases day by day on the decline and 15% of people fully vaccinated, students in the Kashmir valley are itching to resume normal classes to continue their studies. They say they have been deprived of a regular education for three years and are struggling. College student Aijaz Ahmad Mir told The […]
NEW DELHI — Nearly 500 female students from Jammu and Kashmir and a similar number from Northeastern states were awarded the scholarship ‘Pragati’ by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for the year 2020-21. A technical education scholarship, ‘Pragati’ is awarded to female students pursuing courses such as engineering and management among others, […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday pitched for her party’s self-rule formula for the resolution of the Kashmir issue, saying it addresses both internal and external dimensions of the problem. Chairing a meeting of youth PDP leadership from all districts of the Valley, Mehbooba also underlined the need to initiate […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) with assistance of Jammu and Kashmir Police and CRPF raided around 40 locations on Sunday across Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a case registered by them against banned organization Jamaat-e-Islami. Reliable sources told that all but fourty locations were raided by the probing agency NIA with assistance of […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Conference received a shot in the arm to its expansion programme as five politicians, including two former PDP MPs, from various parts of Jammu and Kashmir joined the party on Saturday. Former MLC and ex-PDP leader Murtaza Khan, former PDP MPs Nazir Ahmad Laway and Mir Mohammad Fayaz, DDC chairman Baramulla Safina […]
July 10 was just another dull newsroom day at a leading English daily in Srinagar, copy editors formatting government handouts for the next day’s edition as they have been doing since New Delhi dismantled Jammu and Kashmir’s residual autonomy on August 5, 2019. In the evening, the newspaper received a J&K administration handout announcing that it […]
SRINAGAR — A militant was slain and another arrested in an anti-militancy operation in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Saturday morning. Reports said, joint team of government forces had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) in Manchowa area of Budgam district in Central Kashmir following the inputs about presence of militants in the area. As the searches were […]