Month: August 2015

Badamwari Musical Evening

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Artists mesmerise audience with Dolwal’s poetry Popular artistes mesmerised audience at Badamwari on Sunday through their renderings of the poetry of noted Kashmiri poet, Ghulam Nabi Dolwal. Popular Kashmiri singers including Raashid Jehangir and Firdous Ahmad showed their skills in singing the verses of the popular versifier. The J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages (JKAACL) in collaboration with Jammu and Kashmir Bank arranged the show to provide quality entertainment to the fun lovers of Srinagar. Ghulam Nabi Dolwal’s poetry involved the audience to participate in soul soothing vocals that…

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Tell BJP no one can touch Article 370: G A Mir to Mufti

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The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee Chief Ghulam Ahmed Mir on Sunday hit out at the Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed and questioned the need of touching the topic of safeguarding Article 370 in his I-Day speech. Mir said that the Chief Minister must make it clear to his allies that the Article 370 is permanent and nobody can touch it. Mufti on Sunday had said that the special status of J&K State should be safeguarded. His emphasis on protecting J&K’s special status came at a time when State…

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MHA seeks JK Govt’s ‘view’ on Article 35A petition

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The Government of India has sought ‘views’ of the J&K government on a petition challenging Article 35A of the Indian Constitution before the Supreme Court, sources said Sunday. Highly placed sources disclosed that the Union Home Ministry has sought the comments of the state government on the petition challenging the constitutional provision conferring special rights and privileges on permanent residents of J&K. “Yes, the Home Ministry has sought the state government’s views on the petition,” Advocate General, Jehangir Iqbal Ganai told. The Home Ministry, according to sources, has consulted the…

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‘Attempts being made to impose vedic culture on Muslims’

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Charging that efforts were being made to impose Hindu culture on other religions through introduction of yoga in schools, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board has sought support of other community leaders to launch a campaign against such attempts. The Board would decide its strategy in its convention to be held in Bhopal tomorrow. Working general secretary of AIMPLB Maulana Wali Rahmani charged that as part of a conspiracy an effort was being made to “imprint Hindu culture in the mindset of children of other religions, including Muslims”. He…

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Police excesses turned our son into militant, says HM Cmdr’s family

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Family members of one of the oldest surviving militants of Kashmir, Burhan-ud-Din Mohammad, said that he was forced to join militancy in his teen age due to atrocities committed by government forces. Father of the divisional commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahidin for south Kashmir , Mohammad Muzaffar Wani, said atrocities committed by government forces pushed his son into joining militant ranks at the age of 16 when he was in class 10th. “Burhan was pushed into joining militancy by government forces,” said Muzaffar Wani. ‘ I wished to see him as a doctor.…

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Tackling the Technology Addiction

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By Lalit Anjum “Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other.” ― C.P. Snow, English chemist and novelist Above quote is in sync with the impact of modern technology on each and every aspect of human lives. Advancement in digital technology has made our life much better than the past. However this in turn has made us addicted to digital technology as never before. Nowadays we are dependent on sophisticated technology even for our mundane tasks. Thousands…

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Woman killed as heavy firing by Pak continues in Poonch, toll rises to six

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A woman was killed in heavy firing and mortar bomb shelling by Pakistani troops at several Indian posts and civilian areas on Sunday, raising the death toll to six in multiple ceasefire violations along the LoC in Poonch district overnight. Army retaliated effectively and heavy exchanges are going on. Today is the eight day of continuous ceasefire violations by Pakistan, which has resorted to firing and mortar shelling along the LoC in Poonch district since August 9. Pakistani Army resorted to heavy firing and mortar shelling on forward posts and…

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Pakistan trying to destabilise BJP-PDP govt: Nirmal Singh

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Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh on Saturday unfurled the tricolour here and hit out at Pakistan for trying “every trick to destabilise” the BJP-PDP coalition government. Singh took the salute at the official Independence Day celebrations at Parade ground here. Addressing the gathering, Singh alleged that “Pakistan is to destabilise the BJP-PDP coalition government in the state, because it is baffled by the alliance of the PDP and BJP”. “It is very unfortunate. Pakistan is unable to digest that the BJP has formed government with the PDP…

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First batch of Haj pilgrims to leave for Medina today

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The first batch of Haj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir will leave from here directly to the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia from August 17, officials said on Wednesday. The flights for Hajj pilgrims from Srinagar to Saudi Arabia will operate from August 17. All arrangements have been finalized, an official spokesman said here after Hajj and?Auqaf Minister Abdul Rehman Veeri chaired a meeting to take stock of the arrangements. The minister was informed that while two daily flights will operate between Srinagar and Medina from August 17 to 21,?a single flight will operate on a…

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Buddha Amarnath Yatra to commence from today in Poonch hills

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The annual pilgrimage to holy shrine of Buddha Amarnath in Mandi hills of the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir will commence from August 17 this year. “The annual Buddha Amarnath yatra will commence from August 17 from Jammu. The first batch of pilgrims will leave for Poonch on the same day,” Deputy Commissioner, Poonch, Nisar Ahmed Wani said today. “Chhari Mubarak”, the holy mace of Lord Shiva, will be taken from Shree Dashami Akhara Mandir Poonch towards Himalayan shrine in Mandi Tehsil of Poonch district. Convening a meeting of…

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