February 17, 2016 | Kashmir POST

‘You think you’ll get Kashmir by barking in campus’, hackers write on JNU website

February 17, 2016 Editor

The website of JNU’s Central library was on Tuesday hacked with a message displaying ” You are thinking that you will get Kashmir just by barking in the Campus of JNU”. The hacking of the website comes amid a row over an event at the varsity against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and in solidarity with “struggle” of Kashmiri migrants, at varsity’s Sabarmati dhaba. The website claimed to be hacked by “Bl@Ck Dr@GoN” read “So, As You Said ‘Kashmir ki Aazadi Tak Jang Rahegi-Jang Rahegi’ You are thinking…

NFSA implementation sparks protests, people demand roll back

February 17, 2016 Editor

Terming the National Food Security Act (NFSA) an anti-public law, hundreds of people in various localities Tuesday staged protest, demanding its roll back. The law was implemented in J&K on February 15, this year. The law guarantees five Kg rice per person for a month. The protestors alleged that they were provided only three Kg rice for one person. People in various areas took streets as they alleged that they were provided just 3 Kg of rice. Scores of people from Abi Guzar and its adjacent areas staged demonstrations at…

Under fire, SKIMS director eyeing another extension

February 17, 2016 Editor

Will govt violate its own order yet again? While government has imposed a blanket ban on the re-employment of officials in Jammu and Kashmir, Director, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Dr Showkat Ali Zargar, who is facing various corruption charges approaching his good offices to for getting another extension. Dr Zargar’s term as faculty member superannuated on 31 May 2014 is trying his best for yet another extension beyond June 2nd, 2016 when he is completing 5 years tenure the maximum a Director can have if permitted. The government…

Guv directs security forces to avoid collateral damage

February 17, 2016 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra on Tuesday directed security agencies to avoid collateral damage during anti-militancy operations in the valley. Vohra, who flew here this afternoon to review the overall security situation in the valley, chaired a high-level meeting in the civil secretariat which was attended by top civil, army, paramilitary, police and intelligence officers, an official statement said. He directed that a maximum restraint should be exercised to minimize collateral damage while conducting operations against militants, and asked the state director general of police “to hold urgent discussions…

Santoor event on Feb 18 for sportspersons

February 17, 2016 Editor

In honour of sportspersons, a santoor event will be hosted by the Sports Council, Jammu, at the police auditorium here on February 18. Santoor maestro Pandit Bhajan Sopori and his son Pandit Abhay Sopori have agreed to enthral the audience. The step has been initiated by vice-president of the Sports Council, Jammu, Ranjeet Kalra, who is also member the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). “The main aim of the event is that all sportspersons will get together for an evening and witness the world-class performance. I am…

Two die in slab collapse

February 17, 2016 Editor

Two cousins were killed when an under-construction slab collapsed in the old city area this afternoon. The police said the labourers, identified as Abdul Majeed Sheikh and Farooq Sheikh, both residents of Housing Colony, Bemina, were at an under construction site in Zaldagar when the slab collapsed around 3 pm. Teams of police, State Disaster Rescue Force (SDRF) and fire brigade personnel rushed to the spot and launched a rescue operation.

Four-laning of Jammu-Srinagar NH hit by ‘political interference’

February 17, 2016 Editor

The prestigious four-laning project of the 300-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway, being executed to provide all-weather road connectivity to the Kashmir valley, has become a casualty to rampant ‘political interference’. The work on the treacherous 79-km Udhampur-Banihal stretch of the highway is yet to pick up pace due to “law and order” problems created by “political workers”. Given the difficulties faced by the executing agencies, the road project is likely to get delayed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone of the 79-km Udhampur-Banihal stretch —Ramban-Udhampur road (43-km) and…

Just one checking for vehicles carrying tourists, pilgrims to J&K

February 17, 2016 Editor

Taking a strong notice of the reports and complaints from different quarters that both, the Traffic as well as the Executive wings of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, were subjecting the non-J&K vehicles carrying tourists and pilgrims to unwarranted checking at around 25 points, Governor’s administration has ordered that such vehicles would be checked nowhere other than the entry point of Lakhanpur. Highly placed authoritative sources revealed to us that Governor’s Advisor Parvez Dewan last week directed Secretary Transport Kifayat Hussain Rizvi to come up with a policy that would ensure…

Kashmiri students on radar for anti-india event at JNU

February 17, 2016 Editor

Intelligence agencies are probing the role of Kashmiri students enrolled at various universities and educational institutions who could have been instrumental in garnering support for commemorating the hanging of Afzal Guru at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The JNU is in the news for an event organised by the students union where slogans were allegedly raised against hanging of convicted terrorist Afzal Guru. Earlier, similar protests were allegedly reported from university campus in Hyderabad. “There is a pattern in the events in support of a convicted terrorist. International NGOs will…

Cong tells PDP, BJP to clear air on govt formation

February 17, 2016 Editor

The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) has asked the PDP and the BJP to shun public posturing and come clear on the issue of government formation in the state as people were suffering because of the political uncertainty created by them. Addressing a meeting of senior Congress leaders at the party headquarters here today, JKPCC president Ghulam Ahmad Mir said the people of the state had been pushed into confusion and chaos because of the delay due to the public posturing by the two parties over government formation.…