Year: 2016

Black marketers have field day as CAPD dept goes ‘missing’ on ground

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Common man hit as traders arbitrarily hike prices of commodities on Eid eve With people thronging the markets in Srinagar in large numbers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, black-marketers and hoarders are having a field day in absence of any monitoring by the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution department. On Monday, different markets across Kashmir, especially in Srinagar, were flooded with shoppers. The busy markets of Residency Road, Jamia Market in Nowhatta and other small and big markets in the summer capital witnessed a huge rush of customers who were mostly seen…

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Govt announces Eid Bonanza for 2014 flood-hit businesses

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Govt to transfer funds today to traders, farmers and others affected by 2014 deluge Ahead of the upcoming Eid festival, the state government is releasing cash relief to the flood-affected businesses, including traders, farmers, artisans, houseboat owners and others who were hit by the September 2014 deluge. The Chief Minister is going to set the cash-relief disbursement process rolling on Tuesday. The funds would be transferred directly to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries. Minister for Finance Haseeb A Drabu, at a meeting here today, said that the interest subvention…

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Review stone-throwing cases on priority: Mehbooba Mufti

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‘Give youth an opportunity to begin their lives afresh and live as productive citizens’ Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has urged the Home Department and the police to expedite the review of the cases of youths booked on the charges of stone-throwing between 2008 and 2014 so that those who had taken to the wrong path inadvertently get an opportunity to restart their normal lives. At a meeting on reforms in the prisons in the state here today, the Chief Minister said, “The Home Department and the police should expedite the…

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Lashkar posters in Valley calls for ‘Informers’ phone numbers

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The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has put out posters asking locals in the town of Pampore in south Kashmir to provide them with the phone numbers of Army and police informers so that they can be tracked and “action” can be taken. The police have spotted these posters near the Amir-i-Kabir mosque in Pampore. The posters also praised local youth for organising funerals prayers for two fidayeens (suicide attackers) killed in an attack in Pampore on June 25. It warned locals against sharing information with the “anti-Islam security agencies” and appealed to…

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Modi’s ‘Digital India’ initiative comes crashing down in Kashmir

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At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Digital India’ is hogging headlines across India, the much hyped initiative is coming crashing in Kashmir. Kashmir Post carries out a random survey and tried to look into the massive programme. While the government is trying to digitise its data and trying to promote Digital India to ensure that government services are made available to all the citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure and by increasing internet connectivity, it is neglecting the computer education at the primary level. In government-run schools there…

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Drugs supplied to hospitals in J&K not tested before given to patients: CAG report

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Putting lives of patients at risk, the J&K government has been approving use of medicines in hospitals without any quality check, an official report has revealed. In its latest report, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has brought to fore some damning revelations on how patients’ health is being compromised due to absence of a drug testing policy in Jammu and Kashmir. “The audit revealed that no policy mechanism was in place for testing of drugs before these are administered to patients,” reads the report which was tabled in…

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Security agencies on tenterhooks after inputs of militant movement along Yatra route

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The government agencies have received specific inputs about movement of militants in the areas that fall along the Amarnath Yatra route following which the security has been beefed up. Following the inputs about the movement of militants in Gund and Gutli Bagh areas along the yatra route in Ganderbal, officials said, multi-tier security arrangements have been put in place. Aerial surveillance has been carried out along both Pahalgam and Baltal routes due to the vast forest area to avoid any untoward incidents. The Gund forest area of Kachpathri and Surfraw…

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Four held with brown sugar worth Rs 5 crore in Jammu

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Four persons, including two residents of Kerala, have been arrested and over three kg of “high quality” Brown Sugar, worth about Rs five crore in local market, was seized from their possession in Jammu city. Mohammed Farooq and Javed Iqbal, residents of Rajouri district, had brought the consignment to Jammu and were to hand it over to Nawaf Khan and Mohammed Ajmel Roshan, both hailing from Kerala, when a police team arrested them, SP (city) Vinod Kumar told reporters today. On questioning, Farooq and Iqbal admitted they were in touch…

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Kashmiri separatists move to hardline path?

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With the channels of a dialogue or Track-II diplomacy being suspended by the BJP government, Kashmiri separatists with a moderate political outlook have moved toward the hardline secessionists, said the former interlocutors who have established contact with Kashmiri separatists at various stages. Radha Kumar, who engaged with the separatists in the aftermath of the 2010 summer agitation, told The Hindu that the dialogue process should be resumed to maintain the “possibility of reaching a peace agreement.” “When you don’t have a dialogue there is no possibility of peace making and…

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High Court issue notices to Govt, NHPC

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The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has issued notices to the state government and the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) on a petition by inhabitants of two villages in Gurez tehsil of Bandipora in north Kashmir which are getting dislocated by the ongoing construction of the 330-megawatt Kishanganga hydroelectric project. While issuing notices, a division Bench of the High Court directed the respondents to file their response to the petition, which has now been treated as a public interest litigation by the HC, within four weeks. The NHPC’s Kishanganga hydroelectric…

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