Landslides on Tuesday forced closure of the Jammu-Srinagar highway yet again stranding scores of vehicles carrying passengers and goods, a traffic department official said. Fresh landslides in Mehar area of Ramban district led to the disruption of traffic on the strategic highway in Jammu and Kashmir. No traffic would be allowed on the highway pending clearance, the official added. The clearing operations have started. Travellers were requested not to undertake any journey without contacting the traffic control rooms both in Jammu and Srinagar, the official said. Scores of vehicles carrying…
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As cardiac stents go cheaper, Kashmir hospitals overcharge: DAK
Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today welcomed slashing of prices of cardiac stents saying it would bring relief to patients burdened by spiralling costs of stents. Terming the decision extremely significant, President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that more people will now be able to afford this life-saving device. “The move would put an end to the corrupt practices associated with marketing of stents. National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) – the drug pricing watchdog – on February 13 has reduced prices of coronary stents by up to…
Read MoreKashmir is nearly lost: P Chidambaram
Former Union Minister P. Chidambaram said he had a sinking feeling that Kashmir was nearly lost for India because the Central government used brute force to quell dissent there. Addressing a meeting organised by Manthan, a public discourse platform, on Friday, Chidambaram said feared the situation would worsen if the Centre did not take up course correction like what was done by the Cabinet Committee on security in 2010. The graph of violence rapidly declined after that, but it grew at an alarming rate now. He said seven million persons…
Read MoreValley to witness another spell of rain and light snowfall
A three-day long spell of rain and snow was forecast for Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday as an overcast night sky caused night temperatures to rise. “There is a likelihood of isolated to widespread rain in the plains during this period while light snowfall is likely to occur in the mountains,” an official of the MET department said. The minimum temperature recorded in Srinagar on Tuesday was 4.8 while Pahalgam and Gulmarg recorded minus 0.2 and minus 2.6 respectively. Leh recorded minus 4.6 while it was minus 5.2 in Kargil.…
Read MoreNational Conference questions Modi for handling Kashmir through Army
‘Don’t treat Kashmir as law and order issue, start dialogue with Hurriyat, Pakistan’ Opposition National Conference (NC) President and three-time chief minister Farooq Abdullah Monday presided over the meeting of the party’s 15-member Core Group that questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s handling of Kashmir issue through Army and urged New Delhi not to treat Kashmir as a law and order problem and start dialogue with all stakeholders. The meeting attended by the Core Group members including NC Working President and former chief minister Omar Abdullah, General Secretary Ali Muhammad…
Read MoreNew Delhi again preparing for creating disturbances in Kashmir: Hurriyat (G)
Accusing New Delhi of implementing the “Doval Doctrine”, the Hurriyat Conference (G) today alleged that, “they are again preparing stage for bloodshed in Kashmir.” “The administration is hell-bent to make situation explosive and for this purpose they are trying to create disturbances and uncertainty in state,” the Hurriyat spokesman, in a statement today, said. Referring to the Army chief’s statement, recent arrests and rumors about unrest, the spokesman said, “New Delhi and its agencies are preparing a stage for one more bloodshed this year. State authorities are denying any political…
Read MoreDC’s, FCSCA Squad to fine, seize food items for Guest Control Violation
The state government has decided to empower the Deputy Commissioners to seize food items and even fine people who are found to be violating the ‘Guest Control Order’ issued by the government recently. Speaking to Kashmir Post, Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) Choudhary Zulfkar Ali said detailed modalities will be finalized shortly in this regard. He, however, said the Deputy Commissioners will be empowered to take action in case of violation of the order. “The Deputy Commissioners will exercise their powers under Section 188 of Cr PC to…
Read MoreFarooq’s statements are politically motivated: Hashim Qureshi
‘Man who had made allegiance at hands of Maqbool Bhat turned out to be power-hunger’ Hashim Qureshi, Chairman JKDLP has expressed regret on the recent statements of National Conference and Farooq Abdullah. He invited the attention of the people of Kashmir to the fact that it was Sheikh Abdullah who had got Maqbool Bhat, the martyr, shifted to the Tihar jail in 1976 and it was his son Farooq Abdullah who had signed the death warrant of Maqbool Bhat in 1984. Had he declined to sign, Delhi government would not…
Read MoreBJP-PDP struggle to implement Agenda of Alliance
Deteriorating security situation, squabbling within the coalition have led to slow progress in state Changing security situation and squabbling within coalition partners — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — on key issues has slowed down the process to implement key points in the Agenda of Alliance in Jammu and Kashmir. The alliance document, binding two ideologically different parties in the insurgency-hit Himalayan state, was termed as “Guiding framework for governance” by the late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed when he stitched the alliance with the BJP after the…
Read MoreBajrang Dal, VHP workers protest, burn Farooq’s effigy at NC’s Jammu office
Activists of right-wing Vishva Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal Monday protested against National Conference and burnt the effigy of NC president and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah. Over a dozen saffron activists assembled outside the NC office here in the afternoon, and some of them even attempted to climb over the gates, which were closed by SSB guards. The activists were carrying saffron flags and sharp edged weapons including knives. They shouted slogans against Farooq Abdullah and termed him anti-national for his statement in which he had said that “new…
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