Year: 2015

Govt failed to stop attacks on the Kashmiri students outside the state: Hurriyat

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Expressing its deep concern and anguish over the attack on the Kashmiri students in Udhaipour Rajasthan, All Parties Hurriyat Conference criticized the state government for completely failing in stopping the mistreatment and attacks on the Kashmiri students studying outside the state and said that they are merely doing lip service over this issue. In a statement issued to GNV .Hurriyat conference said that the Kashmiris are looked with suspicious eyes everywhere in India and they are being harassed and punished for resisting the forced occupation of India. Hurriyat conference also…

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BJP leader to organize beef party in South Kashmir

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Even as BJP, a coalition partner in Jammu & Kashmir government, has welcomed the high court ruling asking police to strictly implement beef ban in the state, a party leader from south Kashmir will organize a beef party to send across a message of religious tolerance. “I have decided to organize a party for both Hindus and Muslims. The Muslims will be served beef and the Hindus an exclusively vegetarian meal. They will share a table and it will send a message of brotherhood and religious tolerance,” Khurshid Ahmad Malik,…

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Union Health Ministry recommends H1N1 vaccine to vulnerable group in J&K

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With the spurt in H1N1 cases this year in Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Health ministry has recommended vaccination for doctors, healthcare workers and other vulnerable groups for the three prevalent virus strains, including H1N1 in the month of September and October. As per the advisory issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), vaccination should be given to four to five vulnerable groups to prevent H1N1 epidemic in the coming months. The group includes children under the age of five, elderly and immune compromised patients and doctors and…

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Kashmir on the streets and Palestine at the UN

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Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani People of Jammu and Kashmir (Muslims in particular) and the people of Palestine (Muslim in particular) are engaged in opposition with two respective cruel administrations. Imprisonment, torture, taking the dissent (youth in particular) out of circulation and use of military force are common practices followed by Delhi and Tel Aviv. Kashmiri and Palestinian people continue to be on the streets and this semblance of unrest is a permanent feature in their daily lives. Palestinians however, have distinguished their method and wisdom, by being active off street…

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Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University

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For 20 days now, the Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) is closed and nobody seems to care. On one hand Chief Minister is promising education revolution and on the other hand 2200 students are staring at the loss of one academic year, depression and police harassment. The closure in this case is neither to ensure law and order nor summer vacations. Till date the government, particularly the education ministry has failed to solve the biggest crisis facing the education sector in its tenure. The crisis which could have been…

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Mehbooba, Omar, Akhtar express outrage over marathon violence

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Culprits won’t be spared: PDP chief  The violence during the ‘Big Kashmir Marathon’ has evoked criticism from the mainstream political parties with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party promising strict action against the miscreants. Speaking at a function in Bandipora, PDP president and MP, Mehbooba Mufti said: “It is highly regrettable and condemnable that some miscreants appeared on Boulevard and assaulted our daughters and sisters who were among the participants of the marathon.” “It is unfortunate that these miscreants have torn clothes of female participants,” she said, urging parents and civil…

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Hardline Geelani eclipses moderate Mirwaiz

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With several mid-ranking and veteran separatists gravitating around Syed Ali Geelani, the aging pro-Pakistan politician is overshadowing moderate Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. Geelani’s position strengthened last week when three senior separatists, who have been associated with anti-India politics for more than two decades, announced their decision to join his hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference. Since the split in the region’s main separatist amalgam Hurriyat Conference in 2003, the moderates had remained more acceptable to Pakistan than Geelani’s hardline camp, which is now reversing. The entry of Shabir Ahmad…

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BJP MLA forces way through under-construction tunnel, video goes viral

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On the heels of photos going viral online of a BJP MLA piggybacking on a policeman, a video has appeared on social media of another party legislator who is seen forcing his convoy through an under-construction tunnel after purportedly misbehaving with the workers at the site. The video shows the convoy of Ramban BJP MLA Neelam Langeh seeking to pass through the under-construction Nashri-Chenani surface tunnel and the staff of the company engaged in the project trying to advise them against doing so. The workers at the site are heard…

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BJP’s Adityanath concerned over plight of Kashmiri Pandits

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Extending “full” support to the displaced Kasmiri Pandits of Kashmir Valley, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath on Sunday criticised political parties, social organisations and human rights groups for “alienating” their cause. Addressing a function organised by Kashmiri Vichar Manch at Kalibari here, Adityanath said,”the Kashmiri Samaj had been facing atrocities for long time and even now they have been displaced in their own country.” The function was organised in the memory of BJP leader T L Taploo who was shot dead by militants in Kashmir Valley in 1989. “Bangladeshis live in this…

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Beef Ban only on paper for past 70 yrs

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The ban on beef, which is turning into a controversy in the state, has been in law books and on paper in the post-Independence era. The issue did not come to the fore in the past nearly seven decades. The Valley which has a majority Muslim population has been consuming beef since the Muslim rulers took over 600 years ago. Historians believe that Srinagar had established beef markets, which later spread out to rural areas of the Valley. With the advent of the Sikh rule followed by the Dogra rule…

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