Year: 2017

Censor Board clears ‘Padmavati’ with cuts, wants title changed

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The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has suggested few modifications in the controversial movie ‘Padmavati’, which include changing of the film’s title to ‘Padmavat’, after which it would be given a U/A certificate. The decision came after an examining committee meeting by CBFC was held on December 28. The examining committee consisted of regular committee members, along with CBFC officials and a special advisory panel in presence of chairman Prasoon Joshi. The other key modifications suggested in the meeting include those of the disclaimers, pertinently adding one regarding not…

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Is govt now following soft approach on separatists in valley?

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Signalling the soft approach on separatists, the government has recently released three separatist leaders including a woman Asiya Andrabi from jails and NIA reportedly withdrew summon to younger son of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani this week. On December 25, two women separatist leaders Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi and her close aide Sofi Fehmeeda were released from jail. Asiya and Fahmeeda were arrested on April 26 this year and booked under stringent Public Safety Act (PSA). On December 22, a court had ordered their release but they were rearrested…

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Promises not kept, Pandits spent another year in exile

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The year 2017 started with a hope for 3.5 lakh displaced Kashmiri Pandits after the Legislative Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution calling for their return to the Valley and setting up of transit camps for their resettlement, but at end of the year, promises have remained just a political rhetoric. As months passed by, hopes turned into dejection as the state PDP-BJP coalition government and the Centre led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed to come up with any concrete policy for the beleaguered Hindus of the Valley living as…

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After 3 weeks, Friday prayers allowed at Jamia Masjid

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Mirwaiz slams Govt for failing to provide sadak, bijli, pani to people After three weeks authorities allowed Friday congregational prayers at historic Jamia Masjid while Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in his sermon from the grand mosque slammed the government for failing to provide “better roads, adequate drinking water and power supply” to people in the winter. No restrictions were imposed in downtown areas today and there was no bar on people to offer Friday prayers at historic Jamia Masjd today. People including men and women in large…

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Triple-talaq bill getting ‘Full Support’ from J&K BJP

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The Bharatiya Janata Party, an ally of ruling People’s Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir, said on Friday that it fully supports the legislation criminalizing triple-talaq. The legislation was passed by the Lok Sabha on Thursday amid heated debate and opposition by several members. “We fully support the move (criminalizing triple-talaq). We will support any act by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” BJP’s general secretary (organisation) Ashok Koul told Kashmir Post. The triple-talaq bill is being passed under the leadership of Modi and we fully support it, he said However, he…

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Kashmir in Headlines 2017

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The main trigger for the violence in 2017 in Kashmir is the ‘Burhan aftermath’ – a series of violent protests in the Valley after the killing of Burhan Wani, militant commander of the Kashmir-based terrorist organization Hizbul Mujahideen by Indian security forces on 8 July 2016. The year 2017 has therefore been christened as ‘The Year of Kashmir’ by terrorist organization Jamaat–ud-Dawa (JuD), earlier Lashkar-e-Taiba and now called Tehreek Azadi Jammu and Kashmir (TAJK). The declaration is a clear indication of the surge of militancy in Kashmir in the days…

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Patients suffer as doctors go on long winter holidays

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‘Patients suffer immensely due to long winter holidays of doctors’ Come winter, senior doctors at Kashmir hospitals go for two-month-long winter holidays leaving patients to fend for themselves, said Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday in a communique. “Patients suffer immensely due to long winter holidays of doctors,” said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan. “It is that time of the year again when senior doctors abandon their places of work to evade the harsh winter of the valley and go on sojourn within and outside the country,” he said.…

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High Court asks govt to decide on easing schoolbag burden

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The High Court on Friday left it to the government to take a decision on easing the burden of school children saddled under heavy bags. “We leave it to the wise decision of the government to address the issue before February 2018,” a division bench of Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar and Justice M K Hanjura said. With this direction, the bench closed a contempt petition seeking action against the concerned officers for not implementing the court orders to lighten the school-going children of the bag burden. Before issuing its orders, the…

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Induction of Tassaduq Mufti brazen promotion of dynasty rule: Vakil

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President Jammu Kashmir Bachao Tehreek and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil Friday said that induction of Tassaduq Mufti brother of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti as a minister is a brazen promotion of dynasty rule in the State. He said BJP too is exposed by supporting induction as it speaks against dynastic rule at the national level. Vakil also lambasted NC and Congress and said they should correct their past on promotion of dynasty politics before raising fingers on others over the issue of dynasty politics. “National Conference has promoted and…

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Advt notice: 550 Posts of teacher for Srinagar, none for Jammu

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In an advertisement notice for teachers issued yesterday by the Jammu and Kashmir Service Selection Board (JKSSB) for district cadre posts of general, science/mathematics and Urdu teachers, the lion’s share has been given to Srinagar with 554 posts, whereas the winter capital has got none. The JKSSB has advertised 2,154 posts of teachers under the district cadre, but not a single post has been given to Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, Jammu, Poonch, Kathua, Kargil and Leh districts. After Srinagar, which is the home district of Education Minister, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s…

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