Month: March 2018

Portrayal of Kashmir Human shield incident in ‘Baaghi 2’ is a new low for Bollywood

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In 2018, the industry still uses Pakistan-bashing and vein-popping bursts of patriotism as crutches. Tone-deaf, problematic, ignorant and insensitive are all epithets that can describe the garden variety Bollywood potboiler. Tiger Shroff’s latest “action movie” Baaghi 2 manages to tick all the boxes with just one scene. In an exceptional display of callousness, this new Sajid Nadiadwala film decided to address an issue that has continued to be contentious since April 2017, when Farooq Ahmad Dar, an innocent Kashmiri voter, was forcibly used as a human shield by Major Nitin…

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Man accused of raping minor lynched in Ghaziabad

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A man accused of raping an eight-year-old girl was allegedly beaten to death by his neighbours in Loni, Ghaziabad, on Friday night. Police rushed both the accused – 24-year-old Jitendra – and the victim to the hospital. While the girl was admitted for treatment, doctors declared her alleged attacker dead on arrival. Police said Jitendra had gone to attend a religious ceremony in the neighbourhood with his wife around 12.30 pm on Friday. After dropping her off at the venue, he brought the girl back home with him and allegedly…

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While travelling on roof of bus two persons electrocuted in Budgam

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Two persons were electrocuted after coming in contact in with a live high tension wire in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Saturday. Reports said the duo was travelling on top of a passenger bus when they came in contact with the wire in Watrehail area. Police identified the duo as Shabir Ahmad Baba s/o Abdul Majid Baba resident of Gund Ali and Rafiq Ahmad Dar of Watrehail. Officials said both were rushed to Srinagar’s SMHS hospital where condition of Shabir is said to be “critical”.

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Coalition’s Agenda lays stress on dialogue: PDP

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The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday said the delay in the resumption of sustainable dialogue and revival of peace initiatives between India and Pakistan had the potential of undermining the Agenda of Alliance of the coalition government in the state. “The Agenda of Alliance, which became instrumental in forming the coalition government in J&K between the PDP and the BJP, is an express commitment to the people of the state on the resolution of the Kashmir problem through reconciliation and dialogue,” PDP vice-president Sartaj Madni said in a…

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For owning riding horse, a dalit youth killed in Gujarat

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A Dalit youth was allegedly killed in Bhavnagar district by upper caste men for owning and riding a horse, police said. Pradip Rathod (21) was killed on Thursday at Timbi village of Umrala taluka in Bhavnagar district and three suspects have been detained for questioning, A M Saiyad, Deputy Superintendent of Police of the Bhavnagar SC/ST Cell said. “We have detained three persons for questioning. We have also acquired some CCTV footage showing Pradip on his horse before his dead body was found. We are probing this case from different…

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Today RSS-BJP meet in Jammu after roadmap ‘Chalked out in Nagpur’

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) senior leader Manmohan Vaidya, who is on two-day visit to Jammu to discuss future strategy of the rightwing Hindu organization in J&K, is meeting BJP ministers and office bearers on Saturday. “Vaidya has come with future roadmap and programmes for J&K, some of which were chalked out at the recently concluded Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha (all-India representatives’ meet) of the Sangh at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur,” party insiders said. Sources informed that besides discussing the overall political scenario of the state with the State BJP…

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Dead cop’s wife, Injured militant battling for life in same ICU

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A woman who tried to save her husband—she couldn’t—from suspected militants and a militant who sustained a serious bullet injury last evening are critical at the ICU of SKIMS, Soura. Fareeda Bano’s husband Mushtaq Ahmad Sheikh, a special police officer, was killed by suspected militants at his home in Bijbehara. In her attempt to save him, 45-year-old Fareeda sustained critical injuries to her lung and spinal cord. “Her lower limbs are paralysed due to spine injury,” said a doctor attending to her. The militant, Asif Ashraf Malik, 20, who was…

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318 Children killed since 2003, most shot dead: Report

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Eight children were killed due to pellet shotguns, seven were killed due to injuries by tear smoke shelling and one child reportedly died due to asphyxiation caused by Pelargonic Acid Vanillylamide (PAVA) shell, which are chilly-based munitions. Every year since 2003, at least 26 children were killed on an average in Jammu and Kashmir, either by government forces, militants, unidentified gunmen, explosions caused by littered shells or because of the shelling between Indian and Pakistani forces at the Line of Control (LOC), a report issued by the Valley’s top human…

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Ladakh rues delay in reopening of Srinagar-Leh highway

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The delay in the reopening of the strategic 434-km Srinagar-Leh national highway for vehicular traffic after snow clearance has caused great resentment among residents in Kargil and Leh districts. They have accused the authorities of “showing least concern” to their hardships. Residents said the snow clearance operation started on March 7 and it was completed on March 18. Since then, the road had not been thrown open to public on “flimsy ground”. The Beacon, the pioneer project of the Border Road Organisation (BRO), which is responsible for snow clearance and…

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Resistance leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani offers prayers in Srinagar after 8 years

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Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chief Ashraf Sehrai and others accompanied him to Jamia Masjid in Hyderpora Hurriyat Conference Chairperson Syed Ali Shah Geelani offered congregational prayers at the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar’s Hyderpora locality on Friday for the first time since 2010, the Kashmir News Service reported. Ashraf Sehrai, who succeeded Geelani at the helm of the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, and other leaders of the party accompanied him. Geelani has been under house arrest for the past eight years and has not been allowed to offer Friday prayers at the mosque. Jammu and Kashmir Director…

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