The city authorities on Wednesday imposed curfew-like restrictions here, causing inconvenience to people. Policemen standing beside coils of concertina wire put across the road in Residency Road and Lal Chowk commercial hubs of Srinagar city refused passage to everyone, including media persons who had to reach their offices in Press Enclave on the Residency Road. “Not allowed,” a police constable told media persons who showed their identity cards to him in the Residency Road area. The restrictions were imposed in five police station areas of Srinagar city on Tuesday to…
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Valley to witness rains, snowfall for next two days
Weather in Kashmir Wednesday remained dry but the Meteorological Department has predicted a spell of rains and snowfall beginning Wednesday night. “Snow and rains are expected from tonight,” Meteorological Department officials told KP. They said that erratic weather will continue for two days. “There is expectation of improvement in weather from Friday afternoon,” they said. MeT officials said that fresh Western Disturbance has approached the region. “There will be moderate to heavy snowfall on higher reaches. Most of the plains will receive moderate rains,” they said. MeT officials said that…
Read MoreScreening of film on Kashmir triggers row in IIT-Delhi
For the last six months, research scholars associated with the Centre of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D), watched films, a routine event on weekends at 5 p.m., which was followed inevitably by discussions, sometimes in the presence of the director. A process, the faculty and students looked forward to. On January 29, when the Film Society, brainchild of the centre, screened Iffat Fatima’s KhoonDiyBaarav (On a Trail of Vanished Blood), a film on Kashmir, not only were the proceedings disrupted, the viewers were…
Read MoreResidents in city periphery rue lack of public transport
The important routes in the winter capital may have no issues regarding availability of transport where private Matadors are plying till late evening, but the routes on the outskirts are deprived of this luxury as residents of many towns/villages adjoining Jammu city have to wait for long hours to reach their homes and offices. Sources said around 80 permits had been issued by the J&K Motor Vehicles Department to private Matadors plying on the Gandhi Nagar/Shastri Nagar to Panjtirthi route in the city, while on the Panjtirthi to Trikuta Nagar…
Read MoreMove cautiously, don’t skip core agenda: RSS to BJP
The Sangh Parivar has suggested to the BJP leadership to move cautiously while deciding on government formation with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The much-publicised meeting between leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the BJP at New Delhi this evening decided not to take any hasty decision on the crucial issue. The high-level meeting was held at the Pandit Deen Dayal Research Institute (DDRI), New Delhi, under the chairmanship of Krishan Gopal, RSS’s Sah-Srakaryavah, who coordinates between the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. Manmohan Vidhya, Akhil Bharatiya Parsar…
Read MoreBJP moves to finish uncertainty over Government in J&K
BJP Leader Amit Shah wishes the doubt over government development in Jammu to finish quickly. He’s debuted the BJP this past year in a coalition and also party secretary Ram Madhav, who performed a vital part in combining the Folks’s Democratic Party, to travel to Srinagar and keep talks and solve the disaster. Mr. Madhav may fulfill PDP leaders along with Ms. Mufti in a few days. Leading PDP resources, nevertheless, told NDTV, “(We’ve) no thought if anybody in the BJP is arriving for discussions.” The very first government went…
Read MoreJNU students clash over event against Afzal Guru hanging
The university turned into a battleground on Tuesday as the Right and the Left clashed when a group of Left-oriented students called a meet to commemorate the “judicial killing” of the duo. Afzal Guru, who was hanged on February 9, 2013 for his role in the 2001 attack on Parliament, and the lesser-known co-founder of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Maqbool Bhat, who was hanged in 1984, are “martyrs” in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The university turned into a battleground on Tuesday as the Right and the Left clashed…
Read MoreNow, Aadhaar-based biometric attendance must to draw salary
The authorities today announced that the government officers and officials would be paid salary from March onwards only if they have enrolled themselves for the Aadhaar-based biometric system. The order followed the February 7 decision of the State Administrative Council that all government offices in Jammu and Kashmir would have Aadhaar-based biometric attendance system in position by March 31 this year. The council was constituted by Governor NN Vohra on February 4. The authorities, while issuing the detailed guidelines, said it was being done “to ensure punctuality in the government…
Read MoreKilling militant will bring better reward
Jammu and Kashmir has enhanced the cash reward for killing militants in encounters. Any most wanted militant commander now carries a hefty bounty of Rs 12.5 lakh on his head. The order to enhance the reward for killing militants was issued almost two months ago during the PDP-BJP rule when the Home Department was under then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. The reward for killing a most wanted militant listed in “A plus plus” category has been enhanced from Rs 10 lakh to 12.5 lakh. The cash reward for all…
Read MoreSpurious medicine trade continues in JK: DAK
Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Tuesday said trade of spurious drugs was continuing unabated in Jammu and Kashmir and that nothing was being done to curb the menace. Alarmed by the reports of widespread presence of the spurious drugs, President DAK faction led by DrNisarul Hassan in a statement said JK has turned to be safe bastion for trade in substandard and fake drugs. “Everyday patients suffer and even die because of this menace. In a recent report, an anti-diabetic drug, Blisto-4MF, manufactured in Jammu was found spurious and the quantity…
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