August 2015 | Page 19 of 42

Minister’s ‘Bharat Mata Ki…’ slogan goes unanswered

August 18, 2015 Editor

Minister Sukhnandan Kumar on India’s Independence Day, had to face an embarrassing moment when he raised the ‘Bharat mata ki…’ slogan but no one answered. This happened after the minister unfurled the Indian flag and finished addressing the gathering at the official event held district in Baramulla Police Lines. After finishing his speech, the minister raised the slogan thrice, but no one – neither the assembled people nor schoolchildren, government forces, and officers — answered his slogan. After this, the minister actually asked, ‘Yahan koi nahi hai meray siwa jo…

‘No outside soldier be allowed to settle in J&K’

August 18, 2015 Editor

Challenging Article 35A legally flawed: Beigh Peoples Democratic Party Monday said that not a single non-local soldier working or retired from Indian Army will be allowed to settle in ‘Sanik Colony’ reportedly coming up at Humhama in the outskirts of Srinagar city. “If ever a colony will come up, only those soldiers and ex-servicemen will settle there who will be the permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir. It will be totally against the spirit of special status of Jammu and Kashmir if any non-local soldier will be allowed to settle…

Kashmir Inc to prepare vision document for handicraft industry

August 18, 2015 Editor

The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry shall prepare a ‘vision document’ for the upliftment of handicraft industry in Kashmir. This was revealed today by president KCCI at an event organized here where the artisans raised their issues and appealed the government for needful. The Valley-based artisan rehabilitation forum urged the state government to take effective steps for the upliftment of the handicrafts sector. The artisans along with the members of Kashmir Chamber of Commerce Industry (KCCI) held a discussion on ways to prevent the art and heritage associated with…

Kashmir’s maiden Cultural Centre to come up at Lal Mandi

August 18, 2015 Editor

Drabu visits Academy office, Tagore Hall; Reviews functioning, pace of work Minister for Finance, Labour Employment and Culture Dr Haseeb A Drabu has said that the Government intends to set up a an integrated Kashmir Cultural Centre on the pattern of India International Centre, Delhi so that a platform can be created for the local thinkers, writers and artists for exchange of ideas. The Minister was interacting with the officers during his visit to the Central Office of the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages to review…

Back to back FIR’s against Aasiya for hoisting Pakistani flags

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 Editor

‘I have right to hoist flag on my own soil’ Police Monday registered an FIR against the leading woman’s face of Kashmir’s Islamist movement Syeda Aasiya Andrabi under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and according to Police she could be jailed for up to seven years, if found guilty. Chief of radical women’s outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Asiya Andrabi is accused of hoisting Pakistani flag along with her activists on the eve of Pakistan’s Independence Day on August 14 Friday. “A case vide FIR number 84/2015 under Section 13 of Unlawful Activities…

Andrabi addresses Saeed rally over phone, triggers controversy

August 17, 2015 Editor

Chief of radical women’s outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Asiya Andrabi, has stoked a controversy by addressing a rally organised by Mumbai mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamat-ud Dawa in Pakistan. In her telephonic address to the rally, organised in Lahore on August 14, Andrabi greeted the people of the neighbouring country on their Independence day. Saeed was seen sitting on the stage during Andrabi’s address. Hours before her address, the DeM chief had celebrated Pakistan’s Independence Day at her residence. Dozens of DeM activists had gathered in Bachpora area of the city where they…

9 sleep mistakes you’re probably making after 9pm

August 17, 2015 Editor

It’s one thing to make sleep a priority and another to actually achieve those blissful seven-nine hours of unadulterated shut-eye. – Your ability to fall asleep at a reasonable time, stay asleep and wake up feeling well-rested the following morning depends on the steps you take hours before your head hits the pillow. And many of them go beyond basic sleep hygiene and focus more on daily habits that are surprisingly easy to rectify. Struggling with sleep despite your best efforts? These nine behaviours might be to blame if they’re…

Steps to lower blood pressure

August 17, 2015 Editor

Hypertension is directly responsible for 57% of all stroke deaths and 24% of all coronary heart disease deaths in India. This even though hypertension is a controllable disease and 2mmHg population-wide decrease in blood pressure can prevent 151,000 stroke and 153,000 coronary heart disease deaths in India. *mm HG IS a unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere) Hypertension: Relation between Sodium and High Blood Pressure “One of the effective ways to control hypertension is to restrict salt or to be more specific about sodium intake”, points RD Disha Jhaveri,…

Azad, Omar question PM’s silence

August 17, 2015 Editor

The former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Omar Abdullah have questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on the killing of civilians in Pakistani shelling. “Yesterday, a major attack had taken place, and a message should have gone to Pakistan but I feel sorry that the PM chose to remain mute on the issue,” Azad told reporters. He said he feels sorry that for the first time on August 15, Prime Minister talked about foreign policies. “While talking on foreign policies, the PM should have condemned Pakistan’s act…