Police were on their toes in Lakhimpur city on Friday morning after members of a community allegedly celebrated the release of Mumbai terror attack mastermind and co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan. Some residents of Begum Bagh colony in Shivpuri area allegedly decorated their houses with green flags and also raised slogans like ‘Hafiz Saeed zindabad’ and ‘Pakistan Zindabad’. The issue was immediately brought to district magistrate Akashdeep’s notice after which police force was rushed to the colony. Officials said that the administration acted promptly as members of some…
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Amnesty to Kashmir youth on Dineshwar Sharma’s urge, will it help his image?
On thursday, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti ordered review of cases lodged against “first-time stone pelters” in the past three years. An already constituted committee is to review the cases and furnish its recommendations within 10 days. But while Mehbooba has announced the measure, she wasn’t the one who decided on it. Days before, the proposal was okayed by the Home Ministry on the recommendation of the new J&K interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma. To highlight the genesis of the move, the state government announced the review on the eve…
Read MoreBullet riddled body of army man recovered who was abducted from his home in Pulwama
The body of an Indian Army jawan who was abducted Friday from his home in Kashmir’s Pulwama, has been recovered. Unknown gunmen on Saturday killed an army soldier on leave in Wothmula village of Shopian district of south Kashmir, army said. Sepoy Irfan Ahmad Dar, posted with 175 Territorial Army (Engineers) in Bandipora, had left home at Senzen village in his car on Friday but did not return. His bullet riddled body was found by the locals in an orchard in nearby Wothmula village of the district. “He was on…
Read MoreAuthorities construct road, allow camping site in restricted area at Pahalgam
The Authorities have allowed the construction in the restricted area at Pahalgam for which the trees have been cut and a road is being built at Aru Valley. A camping site is now being raised next to the river Lidder and the construction activity is going on close to Sarshaar park. Excavators and other heavy machinery has been pressed into service which have left the area ravaged and raised the environmental concerns. Governmnet has built an approach road and dug a large area which passes adjacent to river Lidder thereby…
Read MoreUP will celebrate another Diwali if BJP wins all municipal seats: CM Yogi Adityanath
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is sparing no efforts to target Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party before the upcoming state municipal elections. With the second phase of UP Municipal elections to be held soon, the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is sparing no efforts to target Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. Addressing an electoral meeting in Firozabad, Yogi Adityanath said that in the Samajwadi Party rule, the Municipal Corporations of UP had become bases of corruption. Now these industries of corruption, Gundaraj, anarchy and kidnappings won’t function. He…
Read MoreMajid and Mugees: A tale of two rebels
Kashmir has more than a single reality and this was demonstrated by the examples set by two young men recently. Both of them made news but for different reasons. The charming footballer from South Kashmir, Majid Khan, decided to return home by cutting short his new-found love with AK-47. Young Mugees returned home dead. He was killed in a shootout in the outskirts of Srinagar. A little towards the side track, there is the account of another young man, a police sub-inspector from Udhampur, Imran Tak, who was also killed…
Read MoreAtleast 235 killed in mosque attack in Egypt’s Sinai, world leaders condemn the attack
CAIRO: Attackers killed at least 235 worshippers Friday in a bomb and gun assault on a packed mosque in Egypt’s restive North Sinai province, in the country’s deadliest attack in recent memory. A bomb explosion ripped through the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, before gunmen opened fire on the Sufi worshippers gathered there for weekly Friday prayers, officials said. Witnesses said the assailants surrounded the mosque with all-terrain vehicles and then planted a bomb outside. The gunmen then mowed down…
Read MorePHE Dept presses for more tube wells for water needs
Rising pollution and decline in water discharge during dry months in the Tawi is forcing the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department to rely on costly tube wells to meet the supply of 15 lakh residents of the city. There are already 262 heavy tube wells operating in the temple city and over a dozen more are being planned in the coming months. Sources said with the fate of the Chenab water diversion project hanging in air and the Tawi being exploited to hilt, the PHE officials were seeking greater investment…
Read MoreNirmala Sitharaman raises Kashmir Issue to attack Congress in Gujarat
Nirmala Sitharaman said the Congress “talks in separatists’ voice and enthusiastically joins them. The Congress vice-president supports those misdirected youths of the JNU who talk about break-up of the country”. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman flagged off the last leg of the BJP’s mega campaign in Gujarat today, in which the party plans to carpet-bomb the state with 26 cabinet ministers, 6 Chief Ministers and a dozen parliamentarians. At a press conference in Ahmedabad, the Defence Minister, who never campaigned in Gujarat, took on the Congress, alleging that the party spoke…
Read MoreTalks and harassment can’t go together, Release political prisoners, revoke AFSPA: Mirwaiz to GoI
Hurriyat (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Friday said the government’s move to provide amnesty to first-time stone- pelters is “a cosmetic effort”. Addressing a Friday congregation here at Jamia Masjid, Mirwaiz said if the present government was serious “ there was a change of heart then it should release all the political prisoners without any further delay.” Mirwaiz said revoking the FIRs against “so called first-time stone-pelters” is a “good looking good cosmetic effort”. “Peace would return to Kashmir the day government of India decides to address the Kashmir dispute…
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