Month: March 2016

Farooq Abdullah bats for pre 1953 position

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‘Better Indo-Pak relations key to Kashmir peace’ National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah Tuesday called for restoration of pre-1953 position of the State. “Our struggle is for the restoration of autonomy of the state, pre-1953 position, and Article 370 in its original form as agreed in the 1952 Delhi Agreement,” he said addressing several deputations of party MLAs, MLCs and workers from Sangrama, Beerwah, Pahalgam, Hazratbal and Khanyar at Nawai Subh headquarters here. According to the pre-1953 position of the State, Jammu Kashmir was promised to have its own flag,…

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Unsafe drinking water infects 70% Kashmiris with H pylori

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The consumption of contaminated drinking water has infected 70% of Kashmir population by Helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) virus, which is considered as the main cause of gastric cancers. Doctors say the drinking water testing facilities of Kashmir lack equipment to detect the presence of H.pylori. “Government water-testing facilities rely on coliform bacteria, a bacterial indicator to evaluate the safety of source waters, but H.pylori has been found in waters where coliform indicators were absent,” said senior epidemiologist Dr Nisar ul Hassan. He said unsafe water supply was responsible for H.pylori infection.…

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Achen controversy erupts amid real estate investments

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Govt rejected land swap offer from private party over a decade ago While protests over dumping of garbage at Achen have again snowballed into a controversy between the residents and the Srinagar Municipal Corporation, the successive governments turned down the land swap offer from the private partners. We learnt landfill site wasn’t in use few years and there wasn’t any major problem. The city has city now turned into hostage over garbage disposal. Officials told the newspaper the major controversy erupted only in 2007, when a convoy of Srinagar Municipal Corporation…

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Kashmir fruit industry in doldrums

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General Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir Kisan Tehreek, Ghulam Nabi Malik today said the fruit industry of Kashmir is in doldrums and needs focused attention and huge public investment. In a statement here today, he said the horticulture is the most important income generating industry of J&K, and Kashmir is an ideal region in the world for growing fresh and dry fruits. “The demand for Kashmiri fruit within the country is huge and export potential is also very high,” he said. Malik said the fruit industry in Kashmir is generating Rs…

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Kashmir students at Mewar University attacked, detained for ‘consuming beef’

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Some Kashmiri students, studying at Mewar University in Chittorgarh of Rajasthan, were attacked by a group of locals belonging to a particular community for allegedly consuming beef in the varsity’s hostel last evening. Students hailing from Kashmir told Srinagar-based news agency GNS over phone from Mewar University said that some students from majority community ransacked their rooms and belonging and also pelted stones at them. “They also abused us and threatened us of dire consequences. We somehow hid ourselves in a room and saved ourselves from the unruly mob,” the…

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Governor wants strict action taken against absentee docs

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Governor NN Vohra has directed Health Secretary Dr MK Bhandari to ensure speedy and strict action, including termination of services, against doctors who remain unauthorisedly absent from duty at any point of time. He also directed Dr Bhandari to issue orders for withdrawing doctors who have been attached at any station, including Delhi, without availability of posts or are superfluous without any actual requirement or availability of posts. The Governor passed these directions at a detailed review of the Health and Medical Education Department in a meeting held here. Besides…

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Mamata Banerjee sidesteps Omar Abdullah’s request but welcomes all Kashmiris

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Citing a report by a national daily claiming that city police has asked all Kolkata colleges to provide details of their students hailing Jammu and Kashmir, Abdullah took to Twitter to urge Banerjee to look into the police order. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday sidestepped her former Jammu and Kashmir counterpart Omar Abdullah’s request to look into a media report about police enquiring about Kashmiri students in her state but extended welcome to all people from the northern state. Citing a report by a national daily claiming…

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IA put Kashmiri students under scanner in Kolkata

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Kashmiri students studying in West Bengal have been put under scanner by the state police. Reports reaching here said that Colleges in Kolkata have been issued circulars by the police, seeking information about students from Jammu and Kashmir. According to a report on The Indian Express, colleges across the city have received a note saying, “Please let me know that students, whose residential addresses is under the State of Jammu & Kashmir, studies in your Institution for onwards transmission to the Ministry of Home Affairs, North Block, New Delhi, Govt.…

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‘The gun cannot solve the Kashmir issue’

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‘The separatists are representatives of Pakistan.’ ‘They get paid from Islamabad for propagating that country’s policy and conniving in her ploy of accession of Kashmir to Pakistan.’ In January 30, 1971, a 17 year old Kashmiri, along with his cousin, hijacked a Srinagar-Delhi Indian Airlines Fokker Friendship flight — the Ganga — to Lahore. In the ensuing drama, the plane was set ablaze after releasing the passengers and the crew. India retaliated by banning overflights by any Pakistan aircraft which severely affected Pakistani troop movement during the the ensuing Bangladesh…

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Charging your iPhone overnight won’t destroy the battery; revealed

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You may have heard that charging your iPhone overnight is bad for the battery. According to Battery University, a website run by the company Cadex, charging your phone when its already fully charged keeps it in a high-stress, high-tension state, which wears down the chemistry within and does lasting damage. Well ignore that. In a brilliant and comprehensive Quora answer, tech author Jesse Hollington tells you everything you need to know about how your smartphone battery works: “Charging your iPhone overnight will not harm your battery in the slightest. “Charging…

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