Category: Union Territory

Srinagar, Jun 28: Amid heat wave, the Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department is likely to announce summer vacations for winter zones of Kashmir division from the first week of July, Officials said.

Top officials in the administration told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) “In Kashmir region, the department is likely to announce summer vacations for schools in Kashmir valley in the first week of July.”

Earlier in May, the authorities had announced summer vacations in Jammu region for all classes from May-23 and May-30 respectively:

KNO has reported that Director of School Education Jammu in an communiqué had said that in view of the prevailing hot weather conditions, all the government educational Institutions and recognized Private Schools shall observe Summer vacation from May-23 to July-09 upto 8th standard and for 9-12 classes, the vacation is slated May-30 to July-09—(KNO)

‘Completed the project after reading 30 Tafseer books’

Srinagar, Jun 28: Dr Muzaffar Hussain Nadvi, who hails from north Kashmir’s Bandipora district has completed translation of Quran into easy Arabic after working on the same for 14 long years.

He started working on the project in 2003 after reading 30 Tafaseer books from different Islamic scholars.

Talking to the news agency—Kashmir news observer (KNO) Muzaffar said that he started this tafseer titled “Khulasat-ul-Tafseer” when he was pursuing his PHD.

He said that he got to know about a tafseer written by famous saint and scholar of Kashmir Molana Mohideen Naqsbandi, who had written a translation “Zurda-dut-tafseer” comprising of 600 pages that was available in Khuda Bhaksh library.

“I took the film of the tafaseer and started to edit that and today it is ready in the form of new tafseer known as Khulasatul Tafseer. And being an Ajmi I have translated it into normal or easy Arabic. By easy Arabic I mean that a common can easily recite or learn this Tafseer as compared to the original one,” he said.

Dr Muzaffar said that he had to go through almost 30 tafaseers to complete this project and it took him 14 years to do that.

“Our Kashmiri language includes almost 27% of Arabic words, but of late, now the pattern and shape has been merged,” he said.

He further said that there is no age of learning Arabic or any language, it’s only a matter of passion.

He also said that he was thankful to UGC for providing him two projects for the same.

“Many people learn Arabic as they have passion to know Islam, while some are earning money by working in Gulf countries after learning Arabic. Nowadays more people are showing interest in learning Arabic in colleges and universities as compared to previous years,” he said—(KNO)

Srinagar, Jun 28 : Tragedy befell a family in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district as news about the death of his son in a road mishap, resulted in passing away of father.

Officials told GNS that a motorcycle (PB07AK-1407) rider namely Arif Ahmed son of Abdul Rehman, a resident of Panchalthan Chittergul collided with a passenger cab (JK02AB 1227) near Panchthan Shangus this morning, resulting in critical injuries to the rider. He was subsequently removed to SDH Shangus, where the doctors declared him as brought dead on arrival, they said.

Back home, on hearing the news about the death of his son, the father, Abdul Rehman Wani, suffered a massive cardiac arrest. He was shifted to SDH Shangus, where he also was declared as brought dead on arrival.

Confirming the deaths of the father son duo, a police official told GNS that a case under relevant sections of law has been registered into the accident involving death of the motorcyclist. “Both the bodies currently lie at SDH Shangus”, they added. (GNS)

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday asked the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to consider either on Tuesday or within a week the plea of a man seeking a direction to exhume the body of his son, who was dubbed a militant and killed in an encounter in November 2021 and to permit the family to conduct last religious rites at the same graveyard.
A vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and J B Pardiwala also requested the high court consider the plea for the grant of compensation to Mohammad Latief Magrey for the death of his son Aamir Magrey.
The bench took note of the submission of senior advocate Anand Grover, appearing for the father of the deceased, that now he does want to press for the first relief that the body be allowed to be exhumed for performing last religious rites at the family graveyard.
“Now I have taken the instruction. The single-judge bench order was that I would be handed over the body and I will be taking that to my own graveyard. That portion of the order I am not pressing anymore.
Because, I am prepared to go the graveyard where he is buried and remains will be exhumed and re-entered and I will perform the religious rites myself there only…,” the senior lawyer said, adding that there were judgements which say that the right to perform last rites lies with the family members.
The bench said that as the matter was listed for hearing before the high court on Tuesday, it will request the court to hear and decide the plea of Mohammad Latief Magrey either tomorrow or within a week thereafter.
The counsel for the petitioner, at the outset, states that he does not want to press for the first relief granted by the High Court for exhumation and handing over of the body remains of his deceased son…He, however, wants to perform the last rites as per the religious practices at the… graveyard where his son was buried, the bench noted in its order.
The bench disposed of the appeal without expressing any opinion on the merits and asked the high court to permit the counsel to appear through video conferencing mode.
Earlier on June 24, another vacation bench had agreed to hear the plea seeking exhumation of the body for performing the last rites by the family.
Grover had said that a single-judge bench of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court had allowed the exhuming of his son’s body but it was later stayed by a division bench.
He had said that his client has supported the Army all through his life, and the only need to exhume the body was to perform the last rites of his son Aamir Magrey, who was killed along with three others in the encounter.
On June 3, a division bench of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh stayed the single bench order for exhuming the body of Aamir Magrey and handing it to his family for last rites.

On May 27, the single judge bench had directed the Jammu and Kashmir authorities to make arrangements for exhuming the remains of the deceased from the Wadder Payeen graveyard in the presence of Latief Magrey.

The high court, however, had said if the body is “highly putrefied and is not in deliverable state or is likely to pose risk to public health and hygiene, the petitioner and his close relatives shall be allowed to perform last rites as per their tradition and religious beliefs in the graveyard itself”.

In that situation, the state shall pay petitioner Mohammad Latief Magrey a compensation of Rs five lakh for deprivation of his right to have the dead body of his son and give him a decent burial as per the family traditions, religious obligations, and faith which the deceased professed when he was alive, the single judge bench order had said.

Bodies of two more civilians, Altaf Ahmad Bhat and Dr. Mudasir Gul, who was killed in the Hyderpora encounter, were exhumed and returned to the families following an outcry days after the gunfight.

Four people were killed in the encounter on the outskirts of Srinagar on November 15, 2021.

While the police said all of them were terrorists and buried their bodies in Kupawara in North Kashmir, the families of the victims said that they were innocent civilians. PTI

Kulgam: Acting on specific information generated by Police regarding the presence of Militants in village Nowpora-Kherpora, Trubji area of Kulgam, a joint cordon & search operation was launched by Police, Army (1RR) and CRPF in the said area.

During the search operation, as the joint search party approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding Militants fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party which was retaliated effectively leading to an encounter. However in order to evacuate the civilians trapped around the encounter site, the joint team ensured the evacuation of all civilians to the safer places.

In the ensuing encounter, 02 local Militants of proscribed outfit LeT were killed and their bodies were retrieved from the site of encounter. They have been identified as Zubair Ahmad Mir resident of Qaimoh Kulgam and Idrees Ahmad Dar resident of Kulpora Kulgam.

As per police records, both the killed Militants were categorized and  involved in several crime cases including attacks on Police/security forces and civilian atrocities including killing of PRIs. It is pertinent to mention that, the killed terrorist Zubair Ahmad Mir was active since Aug-2021 and was trying to revive the Militant folds by recruiting & motivating the gullible youth including terrorist Idrees Ahmad to join Militant folds.

Incriminating materials, arms & ammunition have been recovered from the site of encounter. All the recovered materials have been taken into case records for further investigation.

In this regard, a case under relevant sections of law has been registered and investigation has been initiated. People are requested to cooperate with Police till the area at encounter site is completely sanitized and cleared of all the explosive materials, if any.

IGP Kashmir termed this operation an important as encounter site is very close to NHW (Yatra route) and LeT (TRF) has been issuing threats to Yatra.“`

Srinagar: Amid rise in Covid cases in various parts of country including a slight increase in the UT of JK, Director SKIMS Prof. Parvaiz A. Koul asks people not to panic and said following Covid appropriate behavior is critical to contain further spread of the infection. Prof Koul said that the situation is not worrisome as the positivity rate so far is not that high and hence there is no need to panic but lowering guard and paying no heed to Covid guidelines can degenerate the situation.

He advised people to exercise caution in the face of recent reports of increased number of COVID cases from various parts of the country. “The rising numbers call for adoption of measures like use of masks and frequent hand washing in exercise of abundant caution for prevention of the spread of respiratory viruses in general and SARS CoV2 in particular”, he added. He further said modelling studies from credible institutes like the IHME, University of Washington do not predict any fresh COVID wave in the immediate future for the region of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. However exercising caution is clearly beneficial so that we avoid any upsurge in the cases. The positivity rate among the tested samples is not high and the authorities are keeping a close watch on situation. Since there are areas globally as also in the country, where sporadic increase of cases is reported, it would be prudent to stay alert without any panic. We need not be complacent but at the same time, panic should not creep in.

New Delhi: Pakistan has opposed India’s plans to hold some G-20 events in Kashmir in the run-up to hosting the summit in 2023. “Pakistan completely rejects any such attempt by India,” said the Pakistan Foreign Office while stating that J&K is an “internationally recognised disputed” territory.

Privilege for UT

It is a matter of privilege for J&K to host G-20 summit. We will put in efforts to make it grand. Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor

“It is expected that in case of any such controversial proposal from India, the G20 members will be fully cognisant of the imperatives of law and justice and would reject it outright,” it said.

Pakistan also urged the international community to ask India to revoke its actions of August 5, 2019, and free all political prisoners. “The only way to lasting peace in South Asia is by granting the people of J&K their right to self-determination,” it added.

Srinagar, June 24: With rise of Covid-19 cases in Kashmir valley over the last few days, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said there is no need to panic.

“There is no increase in hospitalization, so the rise in cases should not be a cause of worry” said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan.

Dr Hassan said case counts have lost relevance; hospitalization numbers are now reliable markers when it comes to assessing the threat from pandemic.

Daily case count was used as a barometer early in the pandemic because that time a rise in cases inevitably led to increase in hospitalizations.

“But that has changed now,” he said.

“With most being immune either by way of vaccination or natural immunity, even with large number of infections we see miniscule numbers in hospitals.”

The DAK President said if we continue to highlight only the increase in cases, we run the risk of causing unnecessary public panic.

“The thinking around the pandemic and how we characterize and measure it needs to change,” he said.

“Covid-19 has entered into the endemic stage and the rise and fall in cases is going to be a routine process,” Dr Nisar said.

“What we are seeing in terms of a spike in Covid cases is on expected line,” he said adding the current surge is not a wave but an endemic spike and we expect these fluctuations in future too.

“People need to learn to live with Covid-19 as the virus is going to stay with us,” said General Secretary DAK Dr Arshad Ali.

“Covid-19 has become yet another infection joining many other diseases that humanity has learned to live,” he said.

COVID is back in Kashmir, (fever, sore throat, cough, body aches, chills) Stay Alert, Mask-up in outdoors: Tweets Dr Salim Khan HOD Community medicine GMC Srinagar

COVID is back in Kashmir,
(fever, sore throat, cough, body aches, chills)
Stay Alert,
Mask-up in outdoors

— Muhammad Salim Khan (@DrSalimKhan) June 20, 2022

Bandipora, Jun 19: 13-year-old boy, riding a bicycle, was killed after being hit by a speeding car near Bazipora area along Srinagar-Bandipora highway.

Reports reaching GNS said that one Mudasir Ahmad (alias Ayaan), son of Mohammad Rafiq, a resident of Kanae Mohalla, Saderkote Bala of Bandipora was hit by a ‘Wagon R’, resulting in critical injuries to him. The teenager was subsequently evacuated to a nearby hospital, however he died on way.

Confirming the incident, a police official told GNS that the accused has been arrested besides the vehicle involved in the incident also seized. “A case has been registered in this regard under relevant sections of law for further proceedings”, the official further said. (GNS)