Demand may double by 2024, but no back-up plan in place; PHE Dept expresses inability to fulfil need If your tap has been running dry lately, brace yourself for worse times ahead. The Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department has expressed its inability to meet the drinking water demand of a projected population of 20 lakh by 2024. With no alternative source and Tawi, the only natural source flowing through the winter capital being exploited ruthlessly, the city is heading for terrifying times. Its population is expected to reach 20 lakh…
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Local sympathy for militants up in Valley
Attempts of local residents, mostly youths, to storm encounter sites to divert the attention of security forces have been taking place with regularity in recent years. This has been going on for over five years now. It is a reversal of the earlier phase of insurgency when residents used to flee. The latest incident took place on Wednesday in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district where militants, initially believed to be two or three in number, were trapped by security forces in Naina village. As the encounter was under way amid intense…
Read MoreGeelani for shutdown in Gawkadal on Jan 21
Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani has called for complete shutdown in Gowkadal area, Handwara town and Kupwara town on January 21, 25 and 27 respectively, appealing people of these areas to organize special prayers for the victims of the massacres that have taken place there. “On the completion of 26 years of January 21, 1990 massacre of Gowkadal and January 25 of Handwara massacre and 22 years of January 27, 1994 massacre of Kupwara, Geelani appealed to the international human rights organizations to play their role in conducting…
Read MoreThis is why Geelani stayed home this winter?
Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani, according to his close aides, preferred to stay in Kashmir this winter to keep a close watch on the evolving political situation in view of the resumption of India-Pakistan dialogue and to complete third volume of his book “Iqbal Rooh-e- Deen Ka Shanasa”. The ailing separatist leader recently suffered asthma attack. He was administered oxygen by doctors on Sunday after suffering the asthma attack. The oxygen support was removed later after the infection subsided in the afternoon. He has been advised by the…
Read More27th yr in exile, KPs still uncertain about rehabilitation
Marking 26 years of their exile, displaced Kashmiri Pandits on Tuesday said that apart from facing “Islamic terrorism”, the community has also been a victim of the “administrative terrorism”, which they alleged has delayed their rehabilitation in Kashmir. “We were hounded out of our houses when the Islamic terrorism started in the Kashmir Valley, but in the past 26 years we have become victims of the administrative terrorism,” national spokesman of All Party Migrant Coordination Committee King Bharti said. “Neither the state nor the central government showed seriousness towards our…
Read MorePacked chicken kebabs declared unsafe for humans
The Jammu and Kashmir Food Control Organisation Tuesday declared packed chicken kebabs being sold in Kashmir as “unsafe” for consumption as the food analyst report has found the sample of kebabs lifted from the market containing chicken skin, feathers, charcoal and other odourable items. The Food control organisation after receiving complaints swung into action and sealed samples of the chicken kebab and sent it for analysis to Food Analyst for fact finding. The report accessed by us reveals that: “The sample contains maximum skin pieces, feathers, charcoal, discoloured onion pieces, masoor…
Read MorePolice crack murder case of Peerbagh youth, 4 persons held
Police on Monday claimed to have solved murder case of a youth of Peerbagh area here with the arrest of four persons. Addressing a press conference here, Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Central Kashmir Ghulam Hassan Bhat said on January 12, Owais Bashir Malik son of Bashir Ahmad Malik of Peerbagh went missing. “A missing report to this effect was entered in police post Humhama on January 13. In the wee hours of January 14, the body of the missing youth was recovered near Railway Bridge Humhama. A case…
Read MorePDP wants GoI’s assurance on Agenda of Alliance
‘Mehbooba reviewing implementation of Agenda during 10 months of PDP-BJP rule’ While PDP president Mehbooba Mufti is keeping a studied silence on government formation, a senior party leader Tuesday said they were looking for “concrete assurances” from the Government of India (GoI) on the issues listed in the Agenda of Alliance. He said Mehbooba was in the process of reviewing the implementation of the Agenda during the 10-month-rule of PDP-BJP government headed by her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and a decision would be taken in due course. The PDP core…
Read MorePandit couple returns to Muslim neighbourhood in Kashmir
One reason I stayed in Muslim colony is relate with my youthful days, says Omkar Razdan. A Kashmiri Pandit couple is back in the Kashmir Valley. What makes the return of Omkar Razdan (70) and Vijay Bazaz Razdan (65) unique is they refused to take the Prime Minister’s package. Instead, they preferred to move to a Muslim neighbourhood. Omkar Razdan and Vijay Bazaz Razdan, son-in-law and daughter of the widely-read Kashmiri Pandit, Prem Nath Bazaz, have constructed a three-storey house in the Muslim-majority Humhama colony of Srinagar to dispel the…
Read MoreKashmiri student goes missing from AMU
A Kashmiri student from Kunan Poshpora Kupwara has gone missing from Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh. Police said the recorded statement of missing boy’s family reveals that Umar Taimur had left the room of his cousin in distress as he had failed to pass the matriculation examination. “We have been looking at the case through different angles. The missing youth was extremely disturbed when he was last seen by his cousin. He can’t survive on Rs 400 for seven days while the bank statements reveal that he has made no…
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