Year: 2015

Andrabi addresses Saeed rally over phone, triggers controversy

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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…

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9 sleep mistakes you’re probably making after 9pm

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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…

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Steps to lower blood pressure

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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,…

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Azad, Omar question PM’s silence

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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…

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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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