With the viral infection among thousands of children continuing in Kashmir, samples of infected children examined by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New Delhi, have been found negative for swine flu, giving a big relief to doctors and people at large. The six samples taken by the epidemiology division of the Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir, (DHSK) on March 16 were sent to the NCDC for identification of the virus, which had infected over 68 children at Pethkot village of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. The samples were taken…
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Delhi alone can’t resolve Kashmir Issue need to engage all including separatists: Farooq Abdullah
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah has reminded Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh that the issues in Kashmir cannot be resolved unilaterally by New Delhi and sought engagement with all shades of opinion in the Valley. “Putting Hurriyat leaders under house arrest or detention will precipitate the already fragile situation rather than solving anything,” former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said. Farooq, who is the opposition NC-Congress candidate contesting against the ruling PDP in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency, was speaking at a joint election meeting of the NC and Congress in Ganderbal…
Read MorePost controversy, Mubarak Mandi–Bahu Fort Cable Car Project tender cancelled
After the J&K State Cable Car Corporation (JKSCCC) cancelled its controversial tender having change in the nomenclature of the Mubarak Mandi–Bahu Fort Cable Car Project to the Mubarak Mandi-Shahabad Project, the government tried to shield the officers who were responsible for issuing the controversial tender. Even as the government sought to clarify that there was no renaming of Bahu Fort, there was no formal notification in this regard. In a hurriedly called press briefing at her office chamber in the civil secretariat here, Priya Sethi, Minister of State for Tourism,…
Read More‘Kashmir Independence movement’ can be suppressed but not quelled: Abdul Basit
Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit on Thursday once again raked up Kashmir issue on the occasion of Pakistan Day. Abdul Basit said that Kashmir issue must be resolved as per the “aspirations of Kashmiris”. Basit went on to say that the aspirations of people and independence movement like in Jammu and Kashmir can be suppressed but not quelled (‘tarikh gawah hay ki azadi ki tehrik huyin hain unko waqti taur pe dabaya ja sakta lekin…Khatam nahin kiya ja sakta’). “As far as the Jammu and Kashmir issue is…
Read MoreVote for PDP to ensure state’s all-round development: Mehbooba Mufti
PDP president and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti kick started her party’s campaign for the Srinagar Parliamentary constituency today. She said a vote for her party would be an endorsement to transform J&Kthrough dialogue and development and getting the state out of the present crisis. The PDP president, addressing meetings of workers from Charar-i- Sharief and Budgam constituencies, said ever since her party was launched, it had worked on a specific political and developmental agenda in which the state had remained the focus. She said her party had been working to…
Read MoreOn Pak Day eve, JK Govt ‘Besieges’ Resistance Camp
In a first move its kind, the J&K government has barred Kashmir’s resistance leadership from attending the Pakistan National Day function in New Delhi on Thursday. While chiefs of both factions of Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq have been placed under house arrest, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik has been lodged in Central Jail Srinagar. And while senior resistance leader Shabir Ahmad Shah has been confined to his house, the National Front chairman Nayeem Ahmad Khan was detained at Srinagar airport…
Read MoreGoI ready to talk to all stakeholders in J&K: Rajnath Singh
‘Support of every political party and every citizen required to solve Kashmir problem’ After snubbing APD members, what do separatists expect from us? For talks, Pak should commit to end terror Home Minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday said Government of India (GoI) was ready to talk to all stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir. “The government was ready to talk to all stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir to normalise the situation there,” Rajnath told the Rajya Sabha. To questions over the situation in Kashmir, he said, “We are ready to talk to…
Read MoreModi to inaugurate Chenani – Nashri tunnel on April 2
Will reduce distance between Jammu and Srinagar by 31 km, travel time by 2 hours The wait is finally over for all-weather road connectivity to the Kashmir Valley as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the state on April 2 to inaugurate Southeast Asia’s longest road tunnel between Chenani and Nashri on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway. The 9.2-km tunnel, part of the ambitious 286-km-long four-laning project of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, will reduce the distance between the two capital cities — Jammu and Srinagar — by around 30 km and…
Read MoreDaesh executed hundreds of detainees, buried bodies in Mosul mass grave: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Daesh terrorist group has executed possibly hundreds of detainees in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul and buried them in a mass grave that could be the largest one discovered in the country so far. Witnesses told the New York-based rights organization that the victims, including several members of Iraqi security forces, were executed between June 2014 to May or June 2015, with their bodies being dumped in a sinkhole at a site in western Mosul. Terrorists had also laid landmines and booby-traps in the…
Read MoreMother Helpage Emergency Relief Appeal for Fire Victims in Anantnag
More than 4 families have been affected by the fire that engulfed at least 3 houses at kadipora Anantnag during the intervening night of 20th March 2017. These unfortunate people were forced to spend their nights in harsh cold winter under the open sky in absence of household goods as their whole belongings were reduced into ashes. Mother Helpage disaster response team along with MH Army( Volunteers of Mother Helpage ) have started rehabilitating these fire victims at kadipora Anantnag by providing emergency relief material .These fire victims are in need…
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