Day: December 9, 2017

Today over two crore voters to give verdict on gujarat development: Phase I

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Nearly half of Gujarat will go to the polls on Saturday in the first phase of elections in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state covering 89 assembly seats across Saurashtra and south Gujarat regions. This will be the first time when Election Commission will experiment with voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines in all booths. The new system verifies that the vote cast by a voter goes to the correct candidate. Over 2.11 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in a bi-polar election being held for the first…

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Modi Govt spent Rs 3755 crore on ads and publicity since April 2014: RTI

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The BJP and Congress had criticised AAP government in Delhi for spending Rs 526 crore on advertising its achievements in 2015. The Modi government has spent a whopping nearly Rs 3,755 crore in three and half years on its publicity till October this year, an RTI revealed on Friday. The expenditure on advertisements from April 2014 to October 2017 through electronic, print media and outdoor publicity is Rs 37,54,06,23,616, according to the RTI reply by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. The application was filed by Greater Noida-based social activist Ramveer Tanwar,…

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Golden Chinar leaves welcome tourists in Kashmir

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The mighty chinars at Naseem Bagh, the University of Kashmir, hold beauty in all seasons, but their grace increases manifolds in autumn when their leaves spread like a crimson blanket all over the campus. “Such scenic beauty is unique to this university and we keep waiting for the autumn for this purpose. The feeling of the university is incomplete without autumn,” says Saba Bhat, 23, who is pursuing post graduation in English. Not only students, but hundreds of visitors also come to the Naseem Bagh campus to see the autumn…

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Jammu & Kashmir erupts in protest against US decision on Jerusalem

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Massive protest rallies were held across Jammu and Kashmir on Friday against the controversial US decision declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, even as congregational prayers were disallowed by the government at historic Jamia Masjid in Downtown Srinagar. Thousands of protesters and numerous religious scholars said that the United Nations must urge the United States to roll back the outrageous move that has hurt the sentiments of Muslims across the globe. Massive protests across Kashmir Almost all shrines, masjids and imam baras in Kashmir reverberated with anti-US, pro-Palestine and…

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Saving Wular Lake is must for survival of Kashmir: Forest Minister Lal Singh

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Forest Minister Lal Singh is alarmed by the environmental degradation and shrinking of the Wular lake in north Kashmir and believes that saving Asia’s largest fresh water lake is must for the survival of Kashmir. Lal Singh has visited the lake several times and assessed the causes that have led to the shrinking of the lake from astonishing 130 sq km to 24 sq km and the flaws that continue to contribute to its deterioration. This, he underscores, is a serious situation for the Valley. He has embarked on an…

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Tanveer Hussain, Valley snowshoe racer pleads guilty to sexual abuse in US

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A 25-year-old Indian sportsman arrested in the US on charges of sexually abusing a minor girl has avoided trial by pleading guilty to endangering the welfare of a child and would be deported, the authorities said. Tanveer Hussain, a snowshoe racer from Kashmir, originally faced a felony charge of sexual abuse for what police termed “a passionate kiss” with a 12-year-old girl. He was arrested on March 1 following the incident, which took place on February 27. The athlete had travelled to Saranac Lake in upstate New York from Kashmir…

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Geelani warns parents against sending children to army-run schools

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Hurriyat (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani, has warned parents not to send their children to Army-run schools. Expressing apprehension over the reports of “mischievous activities”carried out by educational institutions run by the forces, Geelani said that teachers are making children “indifferent towards their religion and specific culture.” Taking serious note of this, Geelani warned parents to avoid these institutions. “For petty material gains, we are losing our next generation,” said Geelani. He asked parents to “be watchful and careful about their future.” “ We should never send our youth to…

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Job package leaves displaced Kashmiri Hindus families divided

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The much-touted Prime Minister’s employment package for displaced Kashmiri Hindus has left families divided and has disrupted the education of their children, defeating the purpose of the ambitious plan to resettle 3.5 lakh minority Hindus in their homeland. More than 2,500 youngsters have returned to the Valley since 2010 under the package, which is promoted as the biggest confidence building measure for the Pandits since 1989-90 when militancy broke out. Employees are living in makeshift camps called transit accommodation constructed at Veesu (Anantnag), Haal (Pulwama), Baramulla and multi-storey flats at…

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