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Four Youths arrested while trying to cross LoC for arms training

September 1, 2015 Editor

Army’s 6-Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operations Group on Tuesday arrested four youths when they were trying to cross Line Of Control in North Kashmir’s Kupwara area. According to the reports, all four youth belong to the Sopore area in North kashmir and have fled from their home on August 28. Police sources said that they were attempting to cross the LoC towards Pakistan for arms training, but were captured by army in Hafrooda forests area of Kupwara. The identity of youths are yet to ascertained. The news comes after a…

Kashmiri Separatist Masarat Alam Re-arrested in Jammu

September 1, 2015 Editor

Hardline Kashmiri separatist Masarat Alam was today re-arrested by police in Jammu jail premises after authorities released him following the Jammu and Kashmir High Court’s order. His Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League condemned his re-arrest and alleged he was taken to some unknown destination. “After Jammu jail authorities freed Masarat Alam following the court orders, a police party however, rearrested him and took him away to some unknown destination,” said a party spokesman. The separatist, who was arrested on April 17 for waving Pakistani flags in a separatist rally in…

Identity Card Obsession

September 1, 2015 Editor

Murtaza Raheem From the last few decades identity card has occupied a central importance in Kashmir. Our first reaction on noticing a cop is to confirm about the availability of our identity card. If we are going out without identity card we are committing a severe crime. Absence of identity cards can lead us to fateful results. And if you are carrying your identity card with you than you are liable to further questions, if you aren’t you are liable to stern punishments. Few months before in the blazing heat,…

Tragedy averted, explosive recovered from J&K highway

September 1, 2015 Editor

A tragedy was averted when an explosive TNT slab was seized from Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. A Road Opening Party (ROP) of CRPF was engaged in routine duty of sanitisation of the highway when they found a TNT slab on the side of highway in Kheri area of Udhampur district about 0530 hours today, police officials said. However, police said it may be left out during the clearance of landslides in this area, they said, adding, investigation is underway into the matter.

No question of change of guard in J&K: BJP

September 1, 2015 Editor

As rumours about change of guard gripped J&K amid reports that Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed is not keeping well and wants to replace himself with his daughter, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) National General Secretary Ram Madhav Monday said that there is no question of changing the Chief Minister in the State. “There is no question of change of Chief Minister in J&K,” Madhav told us in reply to a question. “When there is no question, how come BJP will know it?” The BJP National General Secretary said that coalition government…

Centre delays scholarship to students under PMSSS

September 1, 2015 Editor

There seems to be no end to the miseries of JK students pursuing different degrees under Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) in outside State colleges. A group of students who are pursuing B Tech degrees in SGT Institute of Engineering and Technology Gurgaon (Haryana) said Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has denied the scholarships to them during the last year of their degrees. “We never faced such problems during past years, but this year MHRD didn’t release our scholarships forcing college authorities to take extreme steps,” a group…

Hurriyat (G) flays ‘RSS propaganda against Muslims’

September 1, 2015 Editor

Hurriyat Conference (G) today strongly condemned, what it said, the venomous propaganda unleashed by the RSS and its partners against Muslims. “The hue and cry raised by the RSS and its allied communal and fascist partners over the increase in the population of Muslims in India is meaningless and reflection of their frustration,” a Hurriyat spokesman said, adding the issue came up for discussion at a meeting of amalgam central advisory council with general secretary Ghulam Nabi Sumji in chair. The central advisory council members on the occasion expressed grave…

Kashmiri Hajj pilgrims face hardships in Makkah

September 1, 2015 Editor

State Hajj Committee denies allegations, says CEO himself on pilgrimage has not received any complaint Hajj pilgrims from Kashmir Valley Monday accused the State government of leaving them in lurch in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. They said they have been spending nights under open sky for lack of accommodation and food facilities for them. A number of pilgrims from South Kashmir’s Pulwama district informed CNS over phone from Makkah that they have been facing a lot of hardship while the Hajj Committee has been doing nothing to redress their problems. “Over…

Affarwat gets season’s first snowfall

September 1, 2015 Editor

The high-altitude Affarwat area in ski-resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir Monday received season’s first snowfall, resulting in dip in temperatures across Kashmir, even as some other parts of the Valley witnessed rainfall, officials said. Meteorological department officials said Affarwat received slight snowfall on Monday morning. “There was an overall five-degree dip in temperature due to the snowfall,” they said. The temperature recorded on Monday was 23.2 degrees while it was 28.7 degrees on Sunday, a MeT official said. Director MeT, Sonam Lotus said weather will remain fine for next…