Attention-grabbing ‘Dabaang’ IGP Traffic under fire for roughing up ‘Traffic Violators’

Complaints are raining against Inspector General of Police, Traffic, Jammu for misbehaving and roughing up ‘traffic violators’. A number of complaints have been filed against IGP Traffic, Jammu Basant Rath for his recent ‘misdemeanor’ of taking on some ‘traffic violators’ by using filthy language against them besides roughing them up. A number of complaints against Rath have already been registered with Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Minister for Law and Justice, Abdul Haq Khan, Minister of State for Law and Justice, Ajay Nanda, Director General of Police, Sheesh Paul Vaid, and…

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Restrictions in Srinagar to prevent Resistance called protest

Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar city on Saturday to prevent a separatist-called protest, police said. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a separatist conglomerate headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, has called for the protest against shifting of local detainees to jails outside, murder of a separatist activist by unidentified gunmen and deteriorating rights situation in Kashmir. Shops, other businesses and public transport remained shut in the city and other district headquarters of the Kashmir Valley, the police said. Train services between Jammu…

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Airfares go sky-high, Kashmir out off bound for common man

Travelling by air to Srinagar from Jammu or Delhi around this time will literally burn a hole in the pocket of a flier, especially if the passenger is a student or a person from modest economic backgrounds. Reason, the recent closure of Srinagar-Jammu highway coupled with a huge rush of passengers on Delhi-Srinagar sector has led to sky rocketing of airfares. Several people planning to travel from Jammu or Delhi to Srinagar said the airlines were making an “open loot”. A cursory look at various travel portals indicates that per…

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India trying to create national sentiment against Kashmir: Qazi Yasir

Prominent religious scholar and the Chairman of Ummat-e-Islami, Qazi Yasir has said that India is trying to create national sentiment against Kashmir and its people. Qazi Yasir addressing a public gathering at Jamia Masjid in Islamabad town said, “The civilians killed in Army firing in Shopian and later the FIR against them was a tricky disguise to create media hype around it wherein Indian forces were presented as victims and hence fired in self-defence which has ended the scope for anyone expressing sympathy with Kashmir.” He condemned the arrest of…

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Shocked over rally in support of Rape-and-Murder accused: Mehbooba Mufti

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday expressed shock over the protests rallies taken by Hindu Ekta Munch at Kathua in support of accused in the rape and murder of eight year old girl. Terming use of tri color by Hindu Ekta Munch as “desecration” to it, Mehooba said she was terrified by such act. In an veiled message to the group protesting in favor of the accused Mehbooba also said that law will take its own course. “Appalled by the marches & protests in defense of the…

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Padmaavat: An exercise in Islamophobia

Padmaavat—a Sanjay Leela Bhansali bollywood production has hardly anything that should have made Hindutva zealots run riot on streets. I got to see the movie in a Bradford cinematic theatre, during annual sojourn with my children and grandchildren living in England. Bradford has large Asian population, mostly Pakistanis. The rush to see the highly controversial movie was obvious. You had to have an advanced online booking to get in. We were in a packed hall. No surprises that the film netted 250 crore plus globally over first few weeks of…

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CBI arrests another SPO in Rape-n-Murder of Asifa Bano

Hindu Ekta Manch leaders to meet CM, threaten agitation With the arrest of one more Special Police Officer (SPO) in kidnapping and subsequent rape and murder of Asifa Bano, Hindu Ekta Manch (HEM) Friday threatened to force a shutdown over the issue. Members of the saffron party have planned to meet Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to seek a CBI probe into the rape and murder case of Gujjar girl at Hiranagar in Kathua district. “Yes, we have arrested another SPO Surinder Verma. He had proper information about Asifa’s case,” Additional…

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CBI files FIR against Gitanjali Group,Probe widens as I-T attaches Nirav Modi properties, banks accounts

The government suspended passports of Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi. In the CBI raids on the Gitanjali Group, officials said, gold, diamond and jewellery worth Rs 549 crore were seized. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party traded charges over the fraud at the state-owned Punjab National Bank involving jeweller Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi on a day when the Central Bureau of Investigation registered fresh complaints against the latter and some of his companies, the Ministry of External Affairs suspended their passports for four weeks, the Enforcement…

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Russian skier Stanislav dies in Gulmarg avalanche

Second foreign tourist killed this winter A foreign tourist died today and four others were rescued after being hit by an avalanche in a second such incident this winter at the famed skiing resort of Gulmarg, police and tourism officials said. “One Russian skier was hit by an avalanche in Gulmarg and died on the spot,” a police spokesman said, adding that four more skiers were rescued from the spot. The tourist has been identified as Stanislav, 30, a Russian national, who had arrived in Gulmarg on Wednesday. An official…

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Kashmir Problem won’t end by locking mosques: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

Behave like mature, sensible nations, Mirwaiz to India, Pak Little scope for military solution to K-issue At a time India and Pakistan are blazing guns on borders, Hurriyat (M) chairman and chief cleric, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Friday asked the two countries to “behave like mature and sensible nations.” Asking India and Pakistan to resolve Kashmir issue peacefully, Mirwaiz said there is little scope for a military solution to the 70-year old Kashmir issue. “Our past experience of 70 years is evident that there is little scope for a military solution…

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