Month: June 2016

Unborn baby dies after woman gets stuck in lift at LD Hospital

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A baby died in the womb after a pregnant woman got stuck in a lift at the Valley’s lone tertiary care maternity hospital, Lal Ded (LD). Officials said the woman (name withheld) from south Kashmir was stuck in the lift in the wee hours of Friday when a doctor was taking her for surgery. “Due to some technical snag in the lift, both woman and the accompanying doctor got stuck inside for around 45 minutes,” said a senior doctor at LD Hospital. The patient was being taken to the operation…

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Jammu gears up to welcome Amarnath Pilgrims

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Spiritual ambience gripped Jammu ahead of the annual Amarnath yatra, set to commence on July 2 (Shivratri) and conclude on August 18 (Shravan Purnima and Raksha Bandhan). Sadhus started coming to Jammu to get registered for the yatra and the administration arranged their stay in different religious buildings and community halls. On-the-spot registration was arranged at Ram Mandir at Purani Mandi. Looking at the massive response of pilgrims, the state administration introduced token system at Sangam banquet hall near the railway station for on-the-spot registration. Simrandeep Singh, Deputy Commissioner (DC),…

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Srinagar records season’s hottest day, Heat wave on in Jammu

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Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar on Sunday recorded this season’s highest temperature at 33.5 degrees while the heat wave continued in Jammu where it was 35 degrees. “The maximum temperature in Srinagar was 33.5 degrees Celsius, three degrees above average, which is the highest recorded so far this season. Jammu city recorded 35 degrees as the heat wave continued there unabated,” a Met department official told IANS. “There would be some relief from sweltering heat in Srinagar during the next two to three days although we are not expecting…

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Withdraw separatists’ security : MLC Ramesh Arora

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today batted for withdrawal of security of separatist leaders of Kashmir. “We appeal to the government to withdraw security of CRPF and other local forces from the separatist leaders who boycotted Anantnag election where Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti got victory,” BJP senior leader and MLC Ramesh Arora said. He was addressing a press conference here. Joining the BJP chorus of hitting out at the Congress on the 41st anniversary of the imposition of internal Emergency by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Arora said: “Indira Gandhi…

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Mehbooba Mufti’s religion jibe stokes a major row

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Mehbooba had said that how could people spill blood in the name of Islam and that too in the holy month of Ramadan. Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has stoked a major controversy by dragging religion (Islam) in the Pampore terror attack that left eight CRPF men dead and 22 others injured. “It (terror attacks) will not achieve anything. We are only defaming our Kashmir and state. At the same time we dealing a blow to our religion (Islam) under whose garb we do such things,” Mehbooba told reporters…

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DAK anguished at Govt refusal to ban liquor

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‘Minister’s remark on alcohol provocative’ Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today expressed deep anguish at refusal of government to ban sale and trade of liquor in Jammu and Kashmir (JK). While in many states alcohol is banned for public safety, President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that liquor is being promoted in JK putting lives of people at risk. Finance Minister’s remark on the floor of the house that there should be freedom of choice for alcohol is highly provocative. This statement from a Muslim Minister is…

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Ashamed of bloodshed in name of Islam during Ramzan: Chief Minister

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An anguished J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, paying tributes to CRPF jawans killed by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists in Pampore on Saturday, said she couldn’t comprehend how such barbaric killings were carried out in the name of religion. Eight paramilitary personnel were killed and 25 others injured in the attack, the worst in the last three years in the restive state. “I am unable to understand how somebody can indulge in such shameful acts of bloodshed in the name of Islam, and that too in the holy month of Ramzan when…

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Mehbooba Mufti won Anantnag bypoll by more than 12,000 votes

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Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday won the bypoll to the Anantnag Assembly constituency by more than 12,000 votes. After 10 rounds of counting, Mehbooba secured more than 16,000 votes against her nearest rival and Congress candidate Hilal Ahmad Shah who got 5,529 votes. National Conference candidate Iftikhar Misger was a distant third, securing 2,702 votes, district election officials said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose party is in a coalition government with Mehbooba’s PDP, was quick to congratulate her. 57-year-old Mehbooba was among eight candidates in the…

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Counting disrupted in Anantnag after bogus vote allegation

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was leading by nearly 3,000 votes against her nearest rival as counting in this south Kashmir assembly constituency was briefly disrupted on Saturday after Congress supporters alleged that bogus votes were being counted in the name of postal ballots. But the vote count resumed immediately even as dozens of supporters of Congress candidate Hilal Ahmad Shah shouted anti-government slogans and protested over “unsealed” postal ballots. Shah alleged that postal ballots were “not properly sealed and were basically bogus votes”. The returning officer refused to entertain his…

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Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP leads in 3 seats, Congress in one : Anantnag by-poll

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Counting of votes is underway, Saturday, in south Kashmir’s Anantnag Assembly constituency. In the first round of counting of ballots so far, the Peoples Democratic Party has scored three votes, Congress one and NOTA one. The results should be known before midday. PDP leader and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Hilal Ahmad Shah of the Congress and Iftikhar Hussain Misgar of the National Conference are three of the eight candidates contesting from the constituency. The by-election in Anantnag was necessitated in the wake of the death of the then Chief Minister…

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