January 2016 | Page 17 of 33

Policemen flout rules at traffic awareness rally

January 16, 2016 Editor

Instead of creating awareness during ongoing Traffic Week among public, policemen are performing “stunts’ and themselves not following rules. Latching onto police vehicles without registration numbers they brandished batons while observing Traffic Awareness Week. The ongoing Traffic Awareness Week, which was scheduled to start on January 10, started yesterday due to the state mourning of seven days after the death of the Chief Minister. The Traffic Police Department organised a cycle rally from Jammu University to Gandhi Nagar and back to the varsity, in which more than 200 riders, including…

Mehbooba attends prayer meet at Mufti’s grave

January 16, 2016 Editor

She will meet leaders on government formation soon: Naeem Akhter PDP president Mehbooba Mufti attended the congregational ‘fateha-khwani’ (prayers for the deceased) at her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s grave here today. Hundreds of PDP workers assembled at Dara Shikoh Garden. They attended prayers for their late leader after offering Friday congregational prayers at the park. Mehbooba arrived from Srinagar around 2 pm. A sombre Mehbooba walked holding the arm of her brother, Mufti Tasadduq. Her daughters and sisters accompanied her to the grave. Mehbooba stayed at her father’s grave for…

Experts express resentment over capturing of musk deer

January 16, 2016 Editor

Wildlife experts and animal rights activists in Kashmir have expressed concern and regret over capturing of a musk deer by locals in Lari area of Kangan in Ganderbal district. Wildlife experts said that these species of deer are extremely shy and usually prefer to stay away from human population. The deer if captured by humans can die before the captors realize it, as the animal is very fragile and frail. A wild life expert while talking to us said that locals should have called the wild life expert after spotting the…

With PDP-BJP 2.0 loading, Kashmir braces for yet another experiment

January 16, 2016 Editor

Suhail Ahmad Jammu and Kashmir has seen many political experiments with the latest in the list being the 2014 PDP-BJP alliance. At the end of these experiments, the political players often feign regret and even do a review exercise to see what went wrong. The latest we have heard is the PDP’s review of its coalition with BJP. Last year, they took almost two months to announce their alliance. And here we are again, PDP and BJP playing mind games ahead of government formation. It looks like a repeat telecast…

Boy battles for life after being mauled by stray dogs

January 16, 2016 Editor

A six-year-old boy is battling for life in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, after stray dogs mauled him while he was walking through a street in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The multiple canine bites have badly torn his face, head and neck. His face and scalp were badly mutilated. The attack has broken his facial bone and elbow as well. The doctors, who conducted emergency surgery on the boy, have put him on ventilator. His condition is said to be critical.…

PDP, BJP brass may soon meet for govt formation

January 16, 2016 Editor

Suspense over the government formation in J&K may soon be over as the Peoples Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janata Party are likely to make contact at the highest level to break the impasse. Sources in the PDP said channels of communication between the two parties were already open and they expected a decision on government formation soon. “With the eight-day mourning period over, there is all possibility that a contact at the highest level will be made in the coming days,” said a senior PDP leader and former minister in…

Kashmir for the Solo Female Traveler

January 15, 2016 Editor

By Shally Kashmir? Alone? Its not safe. You’ll get bored? What if something bad happens? There are terrorists in Kashmir. What if you got kidnapped?” These were responses not from my parents, but from people my own age. In this post I’d like to address these very legitimate concerns. Media has portrayed Kashmir as a war zone for so many years , So of course when I was about to embark on my solo trip to Kashmir I was nervous as hell. But from fellow travelers I had heard that it was very…

11 killed, 20 injured as bus falls into gorge in Udhampur

January 15, 2016 Editor

Eleven people were killed and over 20 others injured today when the bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir The vehicle bearing 32 to 35 passengers was on its way to Basantgarh in Ramnagar tehsil when the mishap occurred in the Kiya area, said Udhampur Deputy Commissioner, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary. Eleven persons were killed in the accident, including one woman and a child, he said, adding that 20 others were injured and are being hospitalised. Choudhary…

My Name is Mehbooba and I am not the CM

January 15, 2016 Editor

Just like you, my name is also Mehbooba. Just like you, I am also a daughter of Jammu & Kashmir living in the incomparable city of Srinagar. And just like you, I have also spent my life living in the shadow of men in this manly world of men. To the naked eye, those are the similarities we both share. Unlike you, I am a commoner. Someone, who has accepted to bow to practicalities and realities, which – unfortunately for you and me – have become too common. Unlike you,…

KREDA using renewable energy sources to reduce carbon emission in Kargil

January 15, 2016 Editor

From the last many years Ladakh has been witnessing untimely rain, snowfall and flash-flood. According to experts this is the effect global warming and in the next 30 to 40 years Ladakh will be facing acute water shortage. Although government is trying its best to conserve environment in Ladakh region, in Kargil, KREDA has also been working from the last many years to devise ways to do away with the dependence on diesel generators to save environment. They are busy in devising ways to provide energy through renewable sources which…