Month: April 2016

Dal Lake Conservation Case

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Expressing displeasure over absence of top officers including Chief Secretary in Dal Lake conservation case, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday observed that all the constitutional, statutory and administrative authorities are “servants of laws.” “The court would have initiated action in accordance with law against these authorities but in view of the request by Senior Additional Advocate General N A Beigh, we defer at this stage initiation of proceedings against them,” a bench of Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar and Justice Ali Muhammad Magrey observed. Hearing a Public interest…

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Youth congress demands ban on sale of liquor in JK

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J&K Pradesh Youth Congress State General Secretary and Executive Member J&K Pradesh Congress committee Sheikh Aamir Rasool today demanded blanket ban on consumption and sale of liquor in J&K State. “Six states including Kerala, Bihar, Nagaland, Manipur, Gujarat and Mizoram have already banned the liquor. The J&K State government should also consider banning it in the state,” said Aamir Rasool in a statement today . Liquor is root cause of dwindling household economy and domestic and social violence across the state he said. Aamir Rasool further said that total prohibition…

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Govt bans sale, production of ‘unsafe’ Khyber milk products

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In the wake of orders of a court in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, the J&K government Wednesday ordered recall of milk and all milk products manufactured by Khyber Agro Farms and directed that these products should not be supplied till further directions. The government has issued orders for implementing the judgment of Judicial Magistrate Budgam and ordered Controller Drug and Food Control Organisation to “remove milk and milk products manufactured by Khyber Agro Farms Private Limited ‘immediately’.” The Health and Medical Education Department, in its order No HD/Legal/Drug/MR-56/2016 dated 06-04-2016…

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Centre assures safety of students as NIT crisis deepens; first litmus test for Mehbooba

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The Centre on Wednesday assured full safety of all outstation students studying at Srinagar’s National Institute of Technology days after a bitter clash between two groups of students, which posed the first major challenge for the newly-installed BJP-PDP coalition government in the state headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. A three-member team of central government officials also visited the volatile campus of a Kashmir college to take stock of the situation there. The three-member team, headed by Sanjeev Sharma, a director in the union Human Resources Development ministry, met officials…

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Late Marriages: Islamic and medical perspective

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The family of a woman seeks a man who is a government employee because it is a kind of job which has a secure tenure and other perks Kashmir is predominantly a Muslim-dominated region and the population of non-Muslims is almost negligible. The religion of Islam advocates and encourages early marriage, but contrary to the Islamic teachings, the anti-Islamic traditions and customs are being practiced and consequently promoted and endorsed. According to the National Health Profile 2015, compiled by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence under the Ministry of Health…

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Khrew truckers’ protest on for over a month

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Oppose new truck union, face tough police action Injured persons, damaged houses, deserted roads and hundreds of stranded trucks barely 20 km from the city centre in Srinagar show alleged police brutality against people of Khrew, an industrial area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district with big cement factories. For over a month, truckers in Khrew, where transportation of cement from both private and government-run factories was the main source of livelihood, had been protesting against private factory owners for allegedly floating a separate truck union, Alkhudam. To transport cement from…

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Geelani vouches for safety of non-local students

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Lashes out at GoI over harassment of Kashmiri students outside JK Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani on his return to Valley on Wednesday vouched for safety of non-local students in NIT campus and criticized Government of India (GoI) on harassment of Kashmiri students studying outside the State. “Our religion teaches us not to have any hatred with people on the basis of religion, race or nationality,” Geelani told reporters, here. He arrived here this afternoon after spending two months in New Delhi, where he underwent treatment. He was…

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Incessant rain exposes Srinagar’s drainage system

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Incessant rain since Tuesday has resulted in water logging on all major roads and lanes of the city creating difficulties for the people. In the summer capital, residents said they were forced to stay indoors as rain had resulted in flooding of all routes, restricting the pedestrian as well as vehicular movement. The locals were aghast at the authorities for failing to restore the defunct drainage system. “Due to water logged roads neither our children are able to go to school nor are we able to go to work. Despite…

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Hurray! India Lost! : Cricket As A Mode Of Kashmiri Resistance

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A few days back when India lost to West Indies in the T20 semi-finals, Kashmiris displayed their anti-India stance in full glory on social media. They heralded the West Indians as worthy allies who had inflicted the defeat. In the Valley, even the heavily surveilled historic downtown in Srinagar celebrated with late night fireworks–AFSPA or no AFSPA. Even though just a game, for Kashmiris cricket as an event is heavily infused with politics of resistance against India. The defeat of the Indian cricket team is a chronic Kashmiri desire. Cricket,…

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Conversion of REC into NIT ‘a big loss for Kashmiris’

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The conversion of Regional Engineering College Srinagar into National Institute of Technology has least benefitted Kashmiri students. According to educationists Kashmiris lost the engineering college and its assets worth hundreds of crores to Government of India way back in 2003 when it was converted into NIT from REC. An NIT professor told on the condition of anonymity that the most unfortunate part is that only 15% Kashmiri students get admitted in the college for engineering courses. “Though there is 50:50 ratio for admission for J&K state and outside state students,…

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