Month: September 2015

Army told to vacate state land

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Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh today served notice to the Army for immediate vacating of land under its use in all the three regions of the state in the interest of the general public. The CM was chairing the Civil-Military Liaison conference at the Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre here. On the issue of vacation of Tattoo Ground in Batmaloo here, Mufti stressed expediting the vacating of the  ground. This, he said, would enable the government to develop basic facilities at the site in the…

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Healthcare facilities in J-K flout waste disposal laws

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State lacks common biomedical waste treatment facility Healthcare institutions, both government and private, in Jammu and Kashmir continue to flout biomedical waste management laws with impunity, courtesy government indifference and lackadaisical approach of the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB). The state government is yet to come up with a proposal to establish a full-fledged common biomedical waste treatment facility and depends solely on small units, two in Kashmir and one in Samba district of Jammu province, for treatment of bio-medical waste. These units, however, are unable to manage huge quantity…

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Lost identity of Kashmiris

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Ashok Kaul History does not allow us to pass judgments; even, you cannot draw lessons from it. However, we can interpret it, so that the consensus version acceptable in all times and to all multiplicity, if possible could be explored. Therefore, without carrying a baggage of ideology and confessionalism, dialectics of social forces and emerging of social formations seems to be a scientific approach to comprehend the social history. Why are we cursed a pathological case? True, displacement of minority en-masse, death of one lakh people, and vanishing of primary…

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Pakistan’s proposal for plebiscite in Kashmir irks India

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The Indian government has dismissed Pakistan’s suggestion for holding a plebiscite in Jammu Kashmir, saying the disputed territory was an ‘integral part’ of India, The Hindustan Times newspaper reported on Monday. “Kashmir is an ‘internal’ issue. It is an ‘integral part’ of India,” India’s State Minister for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju told reporters. It may be mentioned here that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon before his speech to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the United Nations on Sunday. According to the Pakistan mission, Nawaz…

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Indian firm supplying ‘Cow Urine’ based medicine to Kashmir, APHC (G)

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While taking serious and strong notice of supplying of ‘Cow Urine’ based medicine ‘Sanjeewani Vati’ prepared by the Indian System of Medicine (ISM) in Kashmir and free distribution of this medicine in the government dispensaries, All Parties Hurriyat Conference (G) said that it is a plot of the communal forces who want to hurt the sentiments of Muslim majority population by making them to eat a Haram substance. While demanding for complete ban over the supply of this Haram substance in Kashmir and removal of this drug from the government…

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‘Resistance leaders united under Geelani’s leadership’

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APHC lauded the role of Pak PM All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders in a joint statement hailed the stand taken by the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif at United Nations for the resolution of long standing Kashmir Issue as per UN resolutions by ascertaining the wishes of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. “The position taken by the Prime Minister of Pakistan reflects the Position taken by All Parties Hurriyat Conference headed by Syeed Ali Galani,” the separatist leaders including Ghulam Nabi Sumji, Advocate Muhammad Shafi Reshi, Hakeem Abdul…

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HC notice to Mufti govt on PIL seeking liquor ban

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State told to respond within a week on liquor shops near hospitals, schools The J&K High Court today issued a notice to Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led PDP-BJP coalition government in a public interest litigation seeking complete prohibition of the sale and consumption of liquor in the state. The High Court has also sought response of the government about the location of liquor shops along highways and near hospitals, educational institutions and religious places. These directions were issued today by a division bench of Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice Ali…

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Delhi HC admits plea challenging validity of Article 370

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Delhi High Court Monday agreed to hear a PIL challenging the constitutional validity of Article 370 that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath posted for October 19, the hearing on a plea by a 22-year-old girl who contended that Article 370 was a temporary provision that had lapsed with the dissolution of the state’s Constituent Assembly in 1957. The petitioner, Kumari Vijayalakshmi Jha, said a question before the court for its consideration was whether temporary provision lapsed automatically…

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Law Ministry under pressure to reinstate sacked lawyers – Beef Ban Row

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Will resign rather than succumb to pressure: Bukhari The Law ministry is under tremendous pressure from saffron parties to reinstate the law officers, who were sacked for failing to defend the government’s stand on beef ban issue in the High Court. According to a local news agency KNS, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Syed Basharat Bukhari, whose department disengaged two law officers after beef ban issue snowballed into major controversy, is being pressurized by both BJP and RSS to reinstate the services of these lawyers. On September 9, High Court…

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BJP, PDP divided over rejecting beef ban Bill

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The fate of the controversial Bill moved by the National Conference (NC), seeking revocation of beef ban, would be decided tomorrow because Speaker of Legislative Assembly Kavinder Gupta could not attend his office today to finalise the business calendar. The Speaker, who reached Srinagar this afternoon, straightway went to the residence of the Secretary, Legislative Assembly, Mohammad Ramzan, to condole the demise of his father, who died three days ago. The Assembly Secretariat had decided to finalise business agenda for the coming autumn session of the Assembly today but the…

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