Day: December 15, 2020

100 Year old woman made to attends BJP rally “Promised to release jailed son in return”

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On Monday, a 100-year-old woman attended a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in Baniyari village of Hajin in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district to, she said, get her son released from jail. Fazi Begum was accompanied by her two neighbours, who helped her to walk and reach the venue. She told a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that she was attending the rally after “Jan Sahab of BJP” promised her that her son, who is in jail for the past ten years, “would be released if she attends the…

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Metro services to hit Jammu and Srinagar cities soon

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Commuting in Srinagar and Jammu is set to become smooth and pleasurable as the twin cities will soon get metro services. In this regard, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha chaired a meeting at Civil Secretariat to steer Light Metro Rail Projects for Jammu and Srinagar. Chief Secretary, BVR Subrahmanyam, Principal Secretary Housing and Urban Development Dheeraj Gupta, Principal Secretary to the Lt Governor Nitishwar Kumar, MD/ CEO, Jammu/Srinagar Mass Rapid Transit Corporation, Ankita Kar, besides representatives from MAHA-Metro and other senior officers were also present in the meeting. The representatives of…

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Kashmiri’s outraged as authorities fell thousands of apple trees

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Members of Gujjar tribal community say their trees – a major source of livelihood – were cut down as part of eviction drive by forest department. An arduous three-mile trek over an unpaved mountainous track leads to Shareef-Ud-Din Bajad’s mud and wood hut. Dressed in a “pheran” – a traditional woollen cloak worn by Kashmiris for warmth – Bajad stood in front of his house staring at the apple tree stumps left behind by the authorities last week. With tears in his eyes, the 70-year-old resident of Kanidajan village in…

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Snowfall brings new hopes to suffering tourism industry

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Amid the pandemic both domestic and foreign tourists have started to land in the Valley to welcome 2021 in the snow filled meadows of Gulmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to locals and hoteliers, the hill station is witnessing an abrupt flow of the tourists as the New Year is getting closer. Amid the pandemic both domestic and foreign tourists have started to land in the Valley to welcome 2021 in the snow filled meadows of Gulmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to locals and hoteliers, the hill…

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Jammu records season’s chilliest day, Cold wave grips Kashmir & Ladakh

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Drass freezes at minus 24.6 degrees Celsius, Gulmarg shivers at minus 9, Srinagar-Leh Highway, Mughal Road closed for 6th day While a cold wave has gripped Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, Drass froze at minus 24.6 degrees Celsius on Sunday night, making it the coldest recorded temperature of the season in the region so far. As per Meteorological Department, Leh recorded minus 13.2 degrees and Kargil minus 11.8 degrees Celsius on Sunday night.The ski-resort Gulmarg in Baramulla also recorded the coldest night of the season so far at minus 9…

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Kashmir’s struggle did not start in 1947 and will neither end today

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India’s decision to revoke Article 370 is just another chapter in Kashmir’s long history of imperial oppression. Tamoghna Halder On August 5, India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government issued a surprise executive decree stripping away the autonomy that the state of Jammu and Kashmir was granted in exchange for joining the Indian union after independence in 1947. Since the decree, Indian authorities also imposed an unprecedented lockdown in the region, cutting off all communication lines, restricting movement and putting prominent Kashmiri politicians under house arrest. The government’s decision…

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