BJP MLA Raja Singh known to make controversial statements has brazenly asked all Hindus not purchase anything from Kashmiri Muslim traders. In a video message uploaded on his ‘Sri Ram Channel’ on YouTube on Wednesday, Singh says that in order to take ‘revenge’ on behalf of the Indian soldiers don’t buy anything from Kashmiri traders. “To those who visit Amarnath and other holy sites in May, June and July, my request is that don’t buy anything even worth Rs 1, of goods from these Kashmiri Muslim traders,’’ Raja Singh appealed.…
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Today Srinagar – Leh highway re-opens for traffic
The Leh-Srinagar highway will be re-opened for traffic on Friday after remaining closed for more than five months due to heavy snowfall. The Leh-Srinagar highway will be re-opened for traffic on Friday after remaining closed for more than five months due to heavy snowfall. Due to unprecedented snow for first time in last five years, clearing up the road on the Leh-Srinagar highway for traffic was a mammoth task this time. The road usually opens around 15th May but this year, timely planning and sincere efforts have led to opening…
Read MoreResistance leaders ask people to protest after Friday prayers
Strongly condemning the use of force on civilians in Shopian district during an anti-militancy operation, resistance leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik on Thursday urged people to protest against “state terrorism” after Friday prayers. “We express deep concern over increasing use of repressive measures from forces against civilians, students and continuous detention of pro-freedom activists,” said a joint statement issued by the trio. The leadership said the state authorities have waged a war against civilians and appealed to the youth to maintain discipline and order…
Read MoreBJP left red-faced as Jammu declared dirtiest in State
Ranks 251st in country despite promises to turn it into Smart City, Leh is ranked 100th, Anantnag 197th and Srinagar 241th. The “Swachh Sarvekshan-2017” survey has landed the ruling BJP in an embarrassing situation as Jammu, the winter capital of the state, holds 251st position in the country, making it the dirtiest city of the state. Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, in charge of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development Department (HUDD), has been repeatedly claiming for the last one year that Jammu would be declared a “Smart City…
Read MoreLocal cab driver ferrying soldiers killed post daylong Shopian Siege
3 Soldiers also injured 4000 soldiers carry out daylong anti-militancy operation Locals accuse forces of damaging properties Drones, choppers assist forces on ground during 8-hr operation Several youth injured in clashes A civilian Sumo driver ferrying soldiers returning from a daylong anti-militancy operation in Shopian was killed when militants ambushed the vehicle on Thursday. Three soldiers were also injured in the attack. Soldiers from army’s 62 Rashtriya Rifles battalion were returning in a private Tata Sumo vehicle to their Imam Sahib camp after carrying out searches in the area. The…
Read MorePakistani, Saudi channels beam into Kashmiri homes, stoke ‘Azadi’ rage
Saudi clerics and Pakistani news anchors are being beamed direct to Kashmiri homes, and are stoking the fires of ‘azadi’. Over 50 Saudi and Pakistani channels, including Zakir Naik’s banned Peace TV preaching Salafist Islam, and others indulging in anti-India propaganda are running without necessary clearances via private cable networks in Kashmir. All this is happening under the nose of the PDP-BJP government, which even subscribes to these cable services in some of its offices and buildings. Although satellite television service providers like Tata Sky , Airtel digital TV and…
Read MoreKashmir Tourism hit big time, almost all package bookings cancelled
Rs. 3,000-crore losses last year; shortfall to increase manifold this year Tourism, the mainstay of J&K’s economy, has been the worst hit by the ongoing turmoil in the Kashmir valley as the majority of the tourists have cancelled their bookings for the months of May and June. The state already witnessed an unprecedented decline in tourist footfalls in March and April. “Almost 100 per cent of the package bookings of tourists, who had planned to visit Kashmir after visiting the Vaishno Devi shrine and other religious places in the Jammu…
Read MoreWary of costly treatment, Pellet-hit boy’s family ‘Disowns’ him
With his right eye hit by pellets, Bilal Ahmad of Shopian walks towards the CT scan room of SMHS hospital. He asks his friend to call his parents who hurriedly dials the phone number. As the friend informs Bilal’s parents about his injury, they refuse to come, saying, “Let him die”. Bilal is disowned by his family as they don’t have money to spend on his treatment. “They are extremely poor people and his family cannot afford to take care of him, that’s the reason why they are disowning him,”…
Read MoreStudent Protests continue, several injured in Sopore
Student protests show no signs of dying down as dozens of students of the Government Higher Secondary School and Degree College in Sopore were injured when police foiled their protest march on Thursday. Students of Kashmir Government Polytechnic College at Gogji Bagh, Srinagar, also clashed with the police. Valley-wide student protests were sparked by use of force on the students of Degree College College Pulwama on April 15, prompting the government to suspend class work in colleges and higher secondary schools for several days. Sopore Dozens of students of Government…
Read MoreMassive door-to-door search operation conducted for 1st time since 90s in Shopian
Security forces called off a massive day-long cordon and search operation in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Thursday evening after no contact was made with any militant, the police said. “We had inputs about the presence of militants and it was a coordinated operation by the police, army and the CRPF,” said deputy inspector general of police, south Kashmir, SP Pani. An official at the police control room in Shopian said the operation was launched in around 20 villages of the district around 7am after security forces received information about…
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