Month: September 2015

‘We Need Pens, Computers Not Guns and Grenades’

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A member of British House of Lords, Nazir Ahmad on Tuesday said that ‘Tripartite negotiations between Governments of India, Pakistan and Kashmiri leadership’ is the only way to resolve the “outstanding dispute of Jammu & Kashmir.” He was speaking during the 52nd Annual Convention of Islamic Society of North America(ISNA), held in Chicago USA, on the subject: ‘Kashmir: A Case of Steadfastness’. Lord Nazir said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “reckless defiance to resolve the Kashmir dispute” is a “threat to the regional peace and stability”. “And the international community…

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NC-Cong mislead people over Kashmir’s paediatric hospital: Lal Singh

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Minister for Health and Medical Education, ARI and Trainings, Choudhary Lal Singh on Thursday lashed out at the former National Conference, Congress government for “misleading” people over establishment of paediatric hospital in summer capital Srinagar. “When I joined the government, I was astonished to see that there was no home work done by the previous government over the establishment of the paediatric hospital in Srinagar,” he told reporters at GB Pant hospital after inaugurating 30-bed causality at the healthcare institute. “NC- Congress government has misled people over the establishment of…

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Pulwama will soon Witness Transformation on Ground: Dr Drabu

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J&K Finance Minister, Dr Haseeb A Drabu Tuesday said that a holistic and futuristic plan of action has been devised for the overall development of district Pulwama to do away with the past “injustices” with the district. Addressing a PDP convention in South Kashmir district, along with PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, Drabu said, “despite being declared a district head quarter in early seventies, Pulwama continues to face colossal infrastructure deficit in almost all the crucial sectors including road communication, education, health, drinking water supply, horticulture and tourism resulting in sluggish…

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Deliver or Quit: Farooq tells Mufti

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Omar says Mufti sabotaged Indo-Pak NSA talks National Conference (NC) President and three-time chief minister, Farooq Abdullah Tuesday asked Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed to deliver proper compensation to the flood victims or quit office. Speaking to NC workers at the mausoleum of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah on his 33rd death anniversary, Farooq said Mufti had no business being in power if he could not deliver as a CM and provide compensation to last year’s flood victims. “I don’t have any personal problems with Mufti but if he formed a government,…

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Being a Kashmiri

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Mother tongue is a fundamental tag that ties people into a particular identity. More than geographical identities, it is the idiom you inherit that makes you a people. Humans tend to dream in their mother tongue and it is the language you speak that shapes up your perception. But it is to note with great concern that we are fast losing this peculiar identity. The Kashmiri language, which binds us into a distinctive character, is dying a leisurely death. The official apathy apart, the people who get identified by this…

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Ganai goes on protest leave after Sharma’s appointment as CS

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Kumar not to move court, to submit papers for VRS Miffed over government decision to appoint his junior, B R Sharma as chief secretary, Financial Commissioner (FC) Industries, Khurshid Ganai, Tuesday went on a “ protest leave’’ till  October 31, when he retires. A top government official said Ganai applied for the “preparatory leave’’ before his retirement with the General Administration Department (GAD). “Under the service rules, officers can take six month leave ahead of their retirement and Ganai has availed the leave,” he said. The official said both Ganai…

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PDP, BJP at loggerheads over tax imposition on chopper service

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A decision by the Jammu and Kashmir government to impose service tax on commercial helicopter services has brought the alliance partners BJP and PDP at loggerheads with each other. The decision, according to sources, has irked the Bharatiya Janata Party which has sought its roll back immediately, while Finance Minister Dr. Haseeb Drabu blamed “some parties” for “trying to communalize a simple administrative order applicable across J&K.” The two notifications issued by the Finance Ministry, which have become a bone of contention between the alliance partners, read: “SRO 296: In…

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RSS for tough action against separatists

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Stating that separatists were fomenting trouble in Kashmir, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has asked Central and Jammu and Kashmir government to act tough against them (separatists). “We have asked Central and J&K governments to take strict steps against separatists for their anti-national activities,” RSS ideologue and spokesman, Rakesh Sinha told. He said separatist were following “the agenda of ISI and Pakistan.” “It is only in liberal India where separatists have been tolerated till now despite their anti-national activities. It is because of their inciting that Islamic State and Pakistan flags…

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“Ashai Kocha” to be preserved as heritage building: Akhtar

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The State Government today said the erstwhile residence of Ghulam Ahmad Ashai, one of Kashmir’s leading educationists, will be preserved as a “Heritage Building”. The announcement was made by the Education Minister, Naeem Akhtar, while interacting with the staff and students of Government Girls High School in Fateh Kadal locality of Srinagar. “Our society lacks role models and it is a small effort by the Education Department to recognize the immense work of Ashai towards the Kashmiri society,” the Education Minister said, while recalling the contribution of Ashai towards the…

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Modi wants to dictate terms for Indo-Pak dialogue: Aziz

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In provocative remarks on the eve of Indo-Pak security talks, Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to dictate terms for dialogue with Islamabad which will never accept any parleys without Kashmir being on the agenda. “Narendra Modi contested elections on an anti-Pakistan platform and now wants to dictate terms for the dialogue with Pakistan but we will never accept this and we have already conveyed it to New Delhi,” Aziz was quoted as saying by Dawn News. He also asserted that a…

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