Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday announced winter vacations for all schools in Kashmir division and winter zones of Jammu division. As per the orders issued by school education department, winter vacations from primary to class 8th will start from December 17 while as for High and Higher Secondary classes winter vacations will start from December 26. They said the last working day for classes up to class 8th will be December 15 while as December 24 will be last working day for classes 9th to 12th respectively. The vacations…
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Hit by unrest, Kashmir entrepreneurs pitch for ‘Business Interruption Insurance’
Federation Chamber of Industries Kashmir Sunday called for introduction of a special indemnity product—Business Interruption Insurance— in Kashmir to cover the losses the local enterprises suffer during untoward situations in Kashmir. The demand has come at the time when the local business community and industrialists are witnessing worst slump due to closure of commercial activities for about five months in the ongoing unrest in Kashmir. President, Federation Chamber of Industries Kashmir, FCIK, Er Mukhtar Yusuf, said the insurance product, once introduced, would relieve the industrialists from the anxiety and they…
Read MoreResistance working on transition from short-term agitation to long-term protest: Mirwaiz
Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that the united resistance leadership is working on a transition from short-term agitation to a long-term protest, a media report said today. In an interview with The Economic Times, the Mirwaiz has talked about the New Delhi’s Kashmir policy, ongoing protests and US President-elect Donald Trump. Asked to analyse five months of protests in Kashmir, Mirwaiz said that Kashmiris couldn’t always be in a sprint mode. “Every agitation or movement has a lifespan. Some people here are wrongly creating an impression that…
Read MoreAiling Dal Lake continues to shrink : Study
The Dal Lake, a jewel of Kashmir’s tourism industry, has shrunk by 24.49 per cent in the past 155 years and is becoming increasingly polluted with at least 32 per cent of it described as “severely degraded,” according to a latest research. The study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Kashmir has concluded that the lake had lost 24.49 per cent of its area between 1859 to 2013 as it faced “multiple pressures” from unplanned urbanisation, high population growth and nutrient load from intensive agriculture and…
Read MoreThree-day ‘Relaxation’ brings Valley to life
For the third consecutive day, normal life activities continued uninterrupted across Kashmir today. This happened for the first time since the unrest began over five months ago. The full-day relaxation for the third consecutive day in the separatists’ “protest calendar” this week was given in view of the Eid-e-Milad celebrations in the Valley. Two-day relaxation was given in the last two weeks to enable the people to make purchases of essentials and other merchandise ahead of the winter months. Separatists—Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik— have…
Read More‘If Yatra, RSS marches are facilitated, Why ban Islamic functions?’ Geelani
Angry over government not allowing a religious conference at Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani’s residence here, pro-freedom leaders on Monday questioned the government that if Amarnath Yatra and RSS marches are facilitated, why an Islamic function is disallowed by using force. Tehreek-e-Hurriyat had organised a Seerat conference on Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi (SAW), the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), at Geelani’s Hyderpora residence where Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Miwaiz Umar Farooq and JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik were also invited to address besides various other religious clerics of Kashmir. Since…
Read MoreSituation in Valley still grim: Wajahat Habibullah
Team unlikely to meet separatist leaders ‘Everybody wants peace to prevail; Delhi must understand situation in Kashmir’ The five-member delegation led by senior BJP leader and former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Monday said though situation has improved in many ways in Valley but it is still “very grim” and maintained that Kashmiris including Hurriyat leadership and civil society members want peace to prevail. The five-member delegation led by Sinha and including former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, former Air Vice-Marshal (Retd) Kapil Kak, Journalist Bharat Bhushan and Sushoba…
Read MoreMehbooba bats for better ties with Pak, advocates for opening trade routes with Pak for making JK Economic Corridor
‘J&K was gateway to Central Asia but we closed its doors’ Wants Centre, state to make collective efforts to settle all contentious issues ‘J&K will never go away from India; we need to have good relations with Pakistan’ Referring to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti Monday pitched for opening of all trade routes of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan for making it an economic corridor of the region. Recalling former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s peace overtures, she also stressed on the need for having good…
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