Day: December 27, 2021

GoI opens Land, Housing in J&K to every citizen of India, Inks 39 MoUs worth ₹18,300 Cr with country’s real estate investors

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Govt opens land, housing in J&K to every citizen of India, inks 39 MoUs worth ₹18,300 cr with country's real estate investors

Opposition parties have urged the government to focus on job creation rather than investment or selling land, given J&K is facing a massive unemployment crisis The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday opened the union territory to the country’s real estate investors by signing 39 MoUs worth ₹18,300 crores for the development of housing and commercial projects. Terming the signing of the MoUs at J&K Real Estate Summit here “historic”, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said it is a major step towards the transformation of the UT.  Addressing a press conference…

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How the Article 370 Move, India-China Tensions and Erasure Politics altered Kashmir Forever

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How the Article 370 Move, India-China Tensions and Erasure Politics altered Kashmir Forever

Sumantra Bose’s ‘Kashmir at the Crossroads’ is an insightful and fascinating narrative that has succeeded in keeping the focus on the people of Jammu and Kashmir, notably those in the Valley. Kapil Kak In his preface to the 1997 book, The Challenge in Kashmir: Democracy, Self Determination, and a Just Peace, Sumantra Bose, the well-known academic and expert on the Kashmir conflict, raises the question: “Why another book on the conflict in and over Kashmir? Hasn’t the vexed topic been flogged to death already?” And then, unsurprisingly, given his deep…

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Farooq Abdullah hints at fighting J&K Polls with Allies

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Farooq Abdullah hints at fighting J&K Polls with Allies

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah said, “when the elections come, we’ll sit down together again to defeat the divisive and communal forces.” National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, who is the chairperson of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), has hinted his party will fight the next assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir together with the constituents of the new coalition to defeat “communal forces”. Talking about the situation in Kashmir, Mr. Abdullah claimed it is worse than the 90s — when terrorism erupted in Jammu and Kashmir — because…

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Kins, Relatives of slain ultras joining militancy in Kashmir: Study

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Kins, Relatives of slain ultras joining militancy in Kashmir: Study

The research further reveals that 68 percent of respondents in the study stated that before and after the death of the militant, they faced isolation from the society Zulfikar Majid The lingering conflict in Kashmir Valley is pushing people to quagmire as sons and close relatives of those militants, who were killed in the 1990s are joining militant outfits and subsequently getting killed. A recent Sociological study done by Dr. Asima Hassan from the University of Kashmir, reveals that in 21 percent of cases the second member of the family/extended…

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Two fatalities & 124 Covid infections recorded in J&K; Srinagar reports highest cases

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Two fatalities & 124 Covid infections recorded in J&K; Srinagar reports highest cases

Jammu and Kashmir reported two deaths and 124 fresh Covid infections on Sunday; Srinagar district has the highest number of active cases at 473 followed by Jammu and Baramulla Jammu and Kashmir reported two deaths and 124 fresh Covid-19 infections on Sunday, an official health bulletin said. Of the total cases, 93 cases and death were reported in Kashmir valley while the Jammu division saw 31 infections and a fatality. The union territory reported the highest 42 cases in summer capital Srinagar followed by 17 cases in Jammu and 12…

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‘Death to Santa Claus’; Right-wing Hindu group in UP burnt an effigy of Santa Claus and shouted slogans against the community

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‘Death to Santa Claus’; Right-wing Hindu group in UP burnt an effigy of Santa Claus and shouted slogans against the community

A right-wing Hindu group on Christmas evening burnt an effigy of Santa Claus in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra and shouted slogans against the Christian community. The right-wing group first shouted the slogan of ‘go back Santa Claus’ and then started beating the effigy of Santa Claus with their shoes and feet and later they burnt it in public to protest against alleged conversions. The angry mob shouted that they will not let happen the alleged religious conversion in India and the video of the same is now doing rounds on social…

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Sub-zero temperature across Kashmir; Gulmarg shivers at -7.5°C, Leh freezes at -10.4°C

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Sub-zero temperature across Kashmir; Gulmarg shivers at -7.5°C, Leh freezes at -10.4°C

Snowfall started in parts of Jammu and Kashmir; mercury plunged to lowest in the ski resort of Gulmarg to settle at -7.5°C, while it was -10.4°C in Leh during the night Snowfall started in parts of Jammu and Kashmir as another weather system hit the union territory on Sunday. Jammu and Kashmir’s meteorological (MeT) department said that western disturbance prompted an overcast sky and fresh precipitation in the union territory. The western disturbance is a weather system or winds blowing from the Mediterranean which brings most of the precipitation in…

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