Karnataka polls about Ram Mandir Vs Babri Masjid: BJP legislator Sanjay Patil

Flaring up religious passion among the voters, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA has said that the election being held next month is Karnataka is “not about roads and drinking water but about Hindu-Muslim incidents”. The Kannada legislator made these remarks during his speech in Belagavi area of the state, reported The Indian Express. The video of Patil making these comments has been doing rounds on social media and has evoked criticism from many quarters. “This election is not about roads, water or other issues. This election is about Hindus…

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#KathuaRapeMurder: Student protests erupt at Boniyar, Rafiabad, Delina, Sopore, scores injured during violent clashes

12 students were injured during clashes between students and the government forces on Thursday morning. Kashmir Post has learnt that several students from local coaching centres were injured after government forces resorted to tear smoke shelling and pellet firing here to disperse the protesting students. A medico in SDH Shopian told Kashmir Post that twelve injured students were brought to the hospital, who had pellet injuries out of which two were referred to Srinagar for specialised treatment. A civilian sustained injuries during the clashes that erupted between students and government…

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Deadly Clashes and Simmering Hostility across Kashmir Valley

At least 20 soldiers, civilians and insurgents were killed and 200 wounded this week in clashes between Indian troops and Kashmiris who had taken to to the streets to protest Indian rule. Stones were hurled at the soldiers, who responded with live rounds and iron pellets. The big picture: This was the deadliest outbreak of fighting the region has seen this year, but Kashmiris have lived in the heart of the India–Pakistan conflict since the two countries — with Kashmir caught in the middle — split in 1947. Now, they’ve…

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Kashmiris to hold protest, demos against Modi’s visit in London today

Kashmiris will hold an anti-India demonstration in London on Wednesday to uncover the ugly face of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his arrival to participate in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, reported Radio Pakistan. Addressing a news conference in London, AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider said India is committing heinous crimes in the occupied valley and using all tactics to suppress the indigenous Liberation movement of Kashmiri people. Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front has urged the Commonwealth countries to constructively engage with India, Pakistan and…

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30 Students injured during anti-rape protests, Three hit by pellets face vision loss

Students’ protests calling for justice in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old child in January this year were held in several areas of the Valley on Wednesday. Some of these protests morphed into clashes in which at least 30 students were injured. At least 60 protesting students fainted after inhaling gases emanating from teargas canisters, chili grenades and PAVA shells. Anantnag Carrying placards and shouting pro-freedom slogans, students from various coaching centres along Khanabal-Pahalgam Road demonstrated and demanded punishment to the culprits of the crime. Soon government forces arrived…

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Only in Kashmir protestors are being showered pellets, bullets and lathis: Aasiya Andrabi

Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) chairperson Syeda Aasiya Andrabi on Wednesday sternly condemned, what she said, the use of indiscriminate force against the peacefully protesting students across Valley. “While protests over the brutal Kathua rape and murder are held across the world, it is only in Kashmir that protestors are being showered pellets, bullets and lathis,” Aasiya Andrabi. “It is an irony that we are not allowed to mourn and protest against the brutal rape and murder of our own child. World is protesting but when we come out to protest, bullets and…

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Something wrong with our society: Mehbooba Mufti

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday lamented that something was wrong with a society where men indulge in rape and murder of a child who is a manifestation of the Mother Goddess. Referring to the shocking abduction, gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua in January, the Chief Minister said: “How can someone do such a cruel thing to a small girl who is a manifestation of Mata Vaishno Devi? There is something wrong with the society.” Along with President Ram Nath Kovind, Mehbooba…

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Justice Delayed, Justice Denied: Another horror story of rape and intimidation

For almost three months, a minor girl was drugged, raped and forced to be part of a sex racket. She has alleged that a Jammu cop and PDP MLA were party to the crime. The police is yet to file a chargesheet in the case. It took three months for the nation’s conscience to wake up to the grisly rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua, Jammu. Around the same time as when the Bakerwal girl’s body was recovered in January, another minor girl from Kulgam, Kashmir, came out…

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167% Increase in civilian deaths in Kashmir Valley

The home ministry’s annual report for 2017-18 also showed a 2.44% decline in the number of security personnel deaths over the previous year. Civilian deaths in Jammu and Kashmir rose by a staggering 167% last year compared to 2015, official data released on Wednesday showed, underpinning the high price paid by the state while battling a surge in insurgency in recent years. The home ministry’s annual report for 2017-18 also showed a 2.44% decline in the number of security personnel deaths over the previous year. The report comes amid growing…

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Pravin Togadia slams Modi Govt over Ram Temple, Kashmir on 2nd day of fast

Togadia slammed the BJP over its handling of the Ayodhya temple issue and asked what the party would do if the Supreme Court gives its judgement in favour of the mosque. On the second day of his indefinite fast, former VHP leader Pravin Togadia on Wednesday asked the Narendra Modi government to implement the BJP’s promises regarding the Ram Temple, Uniform Civil Code and Article 370, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing his supporters at the fast venue here, he said the BJP government should honour the…

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