Joint Resistance Leadership calls shutdown on Sunday against Rajnath’s Kashmir visit

Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called shutdown on September 10 against the upcoming visit of Rajnath Singh to Jammu and Kashmir. “By observing the strike, people of Kashmir will prove to the world community and the Indian leadership that by using military might against the people or harassing the leadership genuine and people’s movement in Kashmir cannot be crushed,” said a joint statement. The JRL said that Kashmir issue is not territorial or law and order dispute but a political dispute acknowledged by the highest world body called UN through…

Read More

One Killed, 14 injured in Grenade attack in Jehangir Chowk

One person was killed and 14 others were injured in a grenade attack at the busy Jehangir Chowk in Srinagar on Thursday. It was almost after three years that the militants carried out a grenade attack in the heart of Srinagar. The police said the grenade was lobbed by militants around 5.30 pm at the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel deployed in the area. It missed the target and exploded on the road. “The splinters hit at least 15 persons, including a traffic policeman. They were rushed to a…

Read More

Take urgent steps to stop cow vigilantism: SC tells Centre & States

The Supreme Court directed the Centre and states on Wednesday to take stern action to curb cow vigilantes by ensuring they don’t terrorise highways and sought the appointment of nodal officers in each district to coordinate measures against self-styled “gau rakshaks”. Stating that cow vigilantes should not be permitted to take the law in their hands or become a law unto themselves, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar reminded the Centre of its stand that it did not support cow vigilante…

Read More

Meat intake can increases diabetes risk: Study

Eating too much red meat and poultry may increase risk of developing diabetes, a large Asian study suggests. The study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, partially attributes the risk to the higher content of heme iron in these meats. The results suggest that eating fish/shellfish is not associated with risk of diabetes. These findings come from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, which recruited 63,257 adults aged 45-74 years between 1993 and 1998, and then followed them up for an average of about 11 years. In their analysis, Professor…

Read More

NIA raids carried out to implicate respectable citizens in fabricated cases: Hurriyat (G)

Hurriyat (G) Wednesday condemned NIA raids which the conglomerate said have been carried out in every nook and corner of State “to implicate respectable citizens in baseless and fabricated cases”. Statement said its main objective is to harass people in the State. “They are trying to frame false cases against resistance camp and putting pressure on us to weaken the resistance movement,” Hurriyat (G) spokesman said and added the coercive measures adopted by NIA are more dangerous than ASPA. Spokesman while referring to continuous detention of Shabir Ahmad Shah, Ayaz…

Read More

Abolish toll tax by Sept 20 or face strike, warn traders

Demanding immediate withdrawal of the toll tax, the traders’ associations of the old city under the banner of the Chamber of Traders’ Federation (CTF) held a massive protest demonstration at the Purani Mandi Chowk here today. Speaking during the protest demonstration, Neeraj Anand, CTF president, threatened to launch an agitation, if the government fails to remove the toll tax by September 20 this year. Raising slogans against the state government, the traders alleged that the continuation of the toll tax in our state, subsumed elsewhere in the rest of India,…

Read More

First phase of Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover to be completed by Oct: Govt

Government on Wednesday said the construction work on Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover was going on in “full swing” and the first phase of the project—from Rambagh to Amar Singh College—will be completed by October 2017. Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA)—responsible for construction of the flyover—had earlier said the first phase would be thrown open for vehicular traffic in September. Reviewing the project during a city tour, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan, said the work on the flyover is being done on double shift basis. A statement issued by the government said…

Read More

3 Years On, flood damaged infrastructure yet to be rebuild

The restoration of damaged infrastructure, including buildings and bridges, has been going on at a snail’s pace in the Jammu region since the floods ravaged government and private property in the first week of September 2014. The restoration work on damaged bridges and other structures has either been left midway or has not been started even after 36 months. Besides, the liabilities on works executed are pending with various departments. Official sources said one of the piers of the floodgates in the upcoming Artificial Lake on the Tawi was damaged…

Read More

27 Places raided by NIA in Srinagar & Delhi

Crackdown mainly on bizmen dealing with LoC trade; suspects being questioned The National Investigation Agency, probing the funding of secessionist activities in Kashmir, on Wednesday conducted fresh raids at establishments of 27 businessmen, mostly dealing with trade between Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The NIA, which has been monitoring the LoC trade for the past three months, searched houses and business establishments at 20 locations in Srinagar and seven in New Delhi. NIA Inspector General Alok Mittal said the houses and business establishments searched belonged to traders and hawala operators who…

Read More