Day: March 5, 2018

Death toll in Shopian firing incident mounts to six

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The death toll in Sunday night’s firing incident in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir has climbed to six after one more body was recovered from the scene on Monday. “Another body has been found at a distance from Sunday evening’s incident at Pahnoo Shopian,” a police spokesman said. He said the deceased had been identified as Gowhar Ahmed Lone of Chitragam in Shopian. Sources said Lone’s body was recovered from a car. Four people, including a militant, were killed in a firing incident on Thursday night in Shopian district…

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Sangh to re-devise J&K strategy at Nagpur Conclave

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As the PDP-BJP coalition completes its half term, the top leadership of the Sangh Parivar will review the performance of this “experiment” during a four-day crucial conclave scheduled to be held from March 15 to 18 at Nagpur. All issues pertaining to J&K will be thoroughly discussed at the conclave to re-devise a future strategy for the state. Sources said it was the first time that the Sangh Parivar had decided to convene such a long meeting to deliberate on legal, political, economic, social and cultural issues of Jammu and…

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Kashmir’s Growing Crisis of Abandoned Babies

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This is just a tip of iceberg: Doctors Sending shock waves, the number of infants left abandoned along roadsides and hospital premises is rising sharply across Kashmir region here. Kashmir’s chief cleric and chairman Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq expressed shock over what he termed as “degrading values” of the society. Mirwaiz in a tweet said that he was unable to sleep whole night thinking about the recent degraded developments across Srinagar city. “Are we not going toward waywardness? How can Allah be so merciful towards us when we…

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BJP takes dig at PDP’s dynastic leadership

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BJP state general secretary (organisation) Ashok Kaul today took a jibe at the dynastic leadership of its coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “In our state, big parties are in the same state… They are dynastic parties. The party (PDP) with which we have a coalition has become more dynastic,” Kaul said while addressing a ‘Booth Workers’ Sammelan’ at Brakpora in Anantnag district. Stating that the BJP had “internal democracy,” Kaul said the party did not discriminate against people on the basis of religion or region. “The BJP treats all…

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Kathua Case being given communal colour; Mehbooba, PDP ‘Playing Politics’; Nirmal

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti attended a youth convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) here today. As some political parties and fringe groups are politicising the rape and murder of eight-year-old girl in Kathua, Mehbooba, in a veiled attack on her coalition partner BJP, said the gruesome act was being given a communal colour. “In Kathua, a big incident happened when an eight-year-old was raped and killed. However, unfortunately today that is being given a religious colour,” Mehbooba said. She asked the youth to defeat the nefarious designs of the…

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4 Civilians, Militant killed in Shopian shootout, JRL Calls for Shutdown

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Four civilians and a militant were killed when gunmen attacked an army vehicle in Shopian district on Sunday evening, an official said. Army’s Srinagar based spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia told Kashmir Post that all four were killed after militants attacked the Mobile Vehicle Check Post (MVCP) of army’s 44 Rashtriya Rifles at Pahnoo village this evening. “Militants travelling in a vehicle fired upon army personnel who retaliated by firing several shots, leading to a brief exchange of fire. During the exchange of fire one militant was killed instantly and later…

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