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Costly vegetables become unaffordable for common man

October 23, 2015 Editor

The prices of vegetables and pulses have suddenly gone up manifold in Kashmir when their consumption is high due to the arrival of the winter season. Local residents say that due to the approaching winter the family budgets are already upset by extra expenditures and now the spiralling prices of vegetables have put them into another difficulty. “The floods last year gave a setback to farmers who were not able to get much cultivation this year, with people mostly dependent on the outside production, the increase in the rates of…

Dasehra celebrated with religious fervour

October 23, 2015 Editor

A large number of people throng the famous Dasehra Ground, Gandhi Nagar, along with their families to see the effigies of Ravana along with his borther Kumbhkarna and son Meghnath go up in flames as Dasehra was celebrated with religious fervour and enthusiasm in Jammu. The festival of Navratras culminated today on Navmi with “Kanya Pujan” and immersing of “khetri” — seedlings (looking like long grass) — in the Tawi and Ranbir Canal. Effigies of Ravana, Kumbhkarana and Meghnath were burnt. Residents of the city of temples were celebrating the…

Leh council poll verdict today

October 23, 2015 Editor

Counting of votes for the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh, which governs the district politically, will be conducted tomorrow and results are likely to be available by 4 pm. The ruling alliance partner BJP and the Congress are locked in a straight contest in the election, which was held on October 17. The counting of votes, polled in all 26 constituencies of the Leh Council, will be held at Government Degree College, Leh. The counting process will be completed in two phases. The overall poll percentage in the…

Bathinda-Srinagar gas pipeline stuck in political quagmire

October 23, 2015 Editor

Haryana Govt yet to accord clearance to the Rs 880-crore project The 750-km-long gas pipeline between Bathinda and Srinagar via Jammu has been hanging fire following “political and administrative differences” between the J&K and Haryana Governments. The BJP-led Haryana Government is yet to accord clearance to the project, which has great importance for the hilly and mountainous Jammu and Kashmir. The Rs 880-crore project was envisaged to connect J&K with the National Gas Grid through a pipeline and ultimately link individual households with gas stations through a network of supply…

Curfew in parts of Srinagar, south Kashmir

October 22, 2015 Editor

South Kashmir’s towns of Anantnag and Bijbehara and capital Srinagar’s uptown areas were placed under curfew on Thursday. The move was made to contain rising violent protests in south Kashmir and to stop Shia mourners’ procession in the city. Tension was prevalent in various parts of south Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day today. Huge deployments of security personnel manned the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway and imposed strict curfew on the highway towns of Anantnag and Bijbehara. The death of Zahid Rasool Bhat, a trucker from south Kashmir’s Botengo village who…

Develop Kashmir as ‘must-see-many-times’ destination

October 22, 2015 Editor

To promote tourism and woo travelers back to Valley after 2014 September floods hit tourist influx to Kashmir badly, President Associated Chamber of Commerce & Industries-Kashmir and founder member Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Alliance Zahoor Tramboo suggests hiring leading PR companies. In a recently held Annual General Meeting, Tramboo presented a key note address wherein he urged government to develop Kashmir as must-see-many-times destination. Excerpts Many of us started with small businesses of tourism, operating in highly competitive domestic markets. We have faced difficult times along the way: going through…

22 October 1993 – Black Friday

October 22, 2015 Editor

When BSF men butchered 51 protesters in Kashmir ‘Pain lingers and horror still haunts survivors’ Twenty-two years have expired and the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel from 74th Battalion allegedly responsible for butchering scores of innocent and peaceful protestors in Bijbehara town of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district have not been brought to book and the ‘killers’ are still roaming free. Locals lament that justice has been eluding the families of the victims. Amnesty International reported that at least 51 people died and 200 were wounded on 22 October 1993, while the…

12 Misconceptions Indians Have About Kashmir

October 22, 2015 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir has been one of the most misunderstood states of the country. There are a lot of myths about J&K most of which have been created by media. Being born and brought up here, let me clarify some of these myths: 1. There’s a gun in every house: Yes, we do have a gun in almost every house. Toy guns, if they count as guns. Our kids play with them and so do YOURS. We don’t actually have a real gun. Holding unlicensed arms and ammunition is as much illegal in J&K…

Snap ties with BJP to protect Kashmiri Muslims: Karra to PDP

October 22, 2015 Editor

Senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Member Parliament from Srinagar Tariq Hamid Karra, who stayed away from the meeting on Thursday, said that the party should snap its ties with the right-wing BJP in the state if “it wants to protect the people of Kashmir”. “The RSS-BJP has unleashed terror across the country. And in Jammu and Kashmir the rabid Hindutva elements have also not spared Muslims. They attacked two Kashmiri drivers in Udhampur in which a youth was killed. Such incidents clearly indicate that Kashmiris are no longer safe…