Day: November 14, 2020

Non-Kashmiris warned against setting up businesses in J&K: J&K Students Youth Forum

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Jammu and Kashmir Students Youth Forum put up posters across the territory warning the Indian industrialists and non-Kashmiris against settling or establishing their businesses in JK. The Jammu and Kashmir Students Youth Forum in a statement issued in Srinagar also called upon the people of JK to resist non-state subjects’ incursions into their motherland with full might as like erstwhile East India Company they would grab their lands and ultimately enslave them besides changing the demography of the occupied territory. The Jammu and Kashmir Students Youth Forum vowed to fight…

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J&K’s Roshni Act is gone, leaving thousands fearing that they will become landless

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In Jammu, the law has been used in communal rhetoric about ‘land jihad’. On October 31, the Jammu and Kashmir government declared the State Land (Vesting Ownership to the Occupants) Act, 2001, null and void. The law, which had proposed to transfer ownership of state land to its occupants for a fee determined by the government, was popularly known as the Roshni Act, as the proceeds from these transactions were to fund power projects in Jammu and Kashmir. Transactions under the Roshni Act had already been halted in 2018, as…

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Social outfit ‘Ikkjutt Jammu’ goes political, vows to fight for ‘Statehood for Jammu’

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After months of speculations in public domain, social organisation ‘Ikkjutt Jammu’ today took the political plunge with announcement of creation of political party with the same name, a statement today said. The party also vowed to contest the next elections on the plank of statehood for Jammu, according to a formal announcement by president of the newbie advocate Ankur Sharma and newly formed executive committee of the Ikkjutt Jammu. Various documents to be submitted to the Election Commission of India were displayed in front of the media by general secretary…

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India, Pakistan report deadly violence along LoC, Killing at-least ten civilians and five security personnel

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At least 10 civilians and five security personnel have been killed in cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan, in one of this year’s deadliest days along the heavily militarised frontier separating the nuclear-armed rivals, officials said. Indian officials said six civilians, three soldiers and a border guard were killed on their side. The Pakistan military said four civilians and one soldier were killed on the Pakistani side. Twenty two others were wounded in the Neelum Valley region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a Pakistani civil administration official told. “Deaths and damage are…

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