Month: May 2017

Chaos erupts in Mehbooba Mufti’s event at SKICC

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Chaos erupted on Tuesday in an event where Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was to address a gathering. Chaos erupted on Tuesday in an event where Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was to address a gathering. Mehbooba was to address an audience at Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) but the whole event got cancelled as panic was created in the premises. The reason of the chaos is unknown. “Women were present in large numbers and probably a lady fainted. Seeing that others panicked. Hope this programme…

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Social Media ban likely to continue in Kashmir

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No improvement in ground situation, state counsel tells HC The state government today indicated that it may continue with the social media ban in the Kashmir valley as the ground situation has still not improved. While seeking more time before the government actually reviews the order, the state counsel today submitted before the High Court that there was no improvement in the situation in the Valley and it was actually going from bad to worse. Observing that the social media ban cannot be a “permanent fixture”, the High Court today…

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Student protests continue; Scores injured

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Forces use teargas, pellet shelling to restrain protesters from blocking Srinagar highway At least 15 students were injured during clashes with security forces in north Kashmir after posters carrying the Hizbul Mujahideen stamp surfaced on the premises of educational institutes, asking students to protest. Hundreds of college and higher secondary school students came out on roads, chanting anti-India slogans and threw stones at the security forces personnel deployed at Pattan in Baramulla district, nearly 30 km north of Srinagar. Police officers said the students were asked to protest after the…

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Nine arrested for posing with Pakistan flags in photo

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Police has registered an FIR against the nine men, many of them students, and seized the handmade flag and the vehicle they were travelling in. Nine men were arrested on Monday after they posed for photographs with a Pakistani flag in the hill-resort of Pahalgam in Anantnag district in south Kashmir. A senior Anantnag district police officer told  “The young men are from Chadoora area of Budgam district and they were taking pictures for fun with the flag while on a tour to the hill station.” Police has registered an…

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16-year-old develops Kashbook, Kashmir’s own Facebook, after government banned social media websites

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Meet the 16-year-old Zeyan Shafiq who created KashBook, Kashmir’s own version of Facebook, and launched mobile app for it too. Three weeks since the Jammu and Kashmir government banned 22 social media services, including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, the valley has come up with its own version of Facebook. A 16-year-old boy from Anantnag district of Kashmir division developed Kashmir’s own social networking website and launched it within a week of the social media ban. Zeyan Shafiq, who finished his 10th standard exams few months ago, along with his now 19-year-old…

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Cinnamon for weight loss: Does it really work?

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Cinnamon seems to be having its fifteen-minute fame as the most popular superfood for losing weight. Everyone from overweight aunties to fit friends are recommending it to tone the body. But is there any truth in their claims? Does this food too, like many others, won’t last with its glory? Here we decode how good actually cinnamon is for weight loss. What is Cinnamon? Cinnamon is a spice used to flavour food and as a medicinal ingredient in several ancient natural medicine practices. We get it from the bark of…

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Merely abrogating Article 370 will not solve Kashmir problem: Amit Shah

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The BJP-led NDA government is handling the Kashmir issue ‘diplomatically’ and India will ultimately ‘prevail’ there, BJP President Amit Shah on Monday said adding that merely abrogating Article 370 will not solve the problem in the valley. Shah said the prime minister is keeping a ‘keen eye’ on Kashmir and the security agencies are doing a ‘fine job’ there. “I believe that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and security agencies’ intervention, India will ultimately prevail in Kashmir,” he said appearing in the ‘Samvaad’ conclave organised by India…

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Heatwave: Six students faint in classrooms at pvt school

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At least six students of a private school today fainted due to heat and humid conditions inside their classrooms, located on the top floor of the building, in the Janipur area of the city. The temperature was above 40°C in Jammu today. All the students who fainted were rushed to the Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) Hospital and given first aid. The condition of the students was stated to be stable. The parents of children slammed the authorities of Indira Public Higher Secondary School, Shanti Nagar, for “inadequate cooling arrangements”…

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Kashmiri youth who escaped from custody joins militants, blames injustice

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Zubair Ahmad Turray, who escaped from Keegam police station on May 1, says he was in jail for the last 4 years and was charged under the Jammu Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 that allows the state to detain a person without trial for at least 6 months. A 23-year-old man from Shopian, who escaped from police custody earlier this month, has released a video saying he has joined the militant ranks and that “tyranny’ and “illegal detention” led him to become an insurgent. District police authorities confirmed Zubair Ahmad…

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Punjab police ‘Force Eviction’ of 3 youths from Kashmir

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The police called the broker, who had helped them get accommodation, to remove them, said one of the youth Three Kashmiri youths have been “thrown out” of their rented accommodation in Punjab’s Zirakpur after police allegedly asked them to leave the place. The three were evicted hours after about a dozen policemen came to their house to verify their credentials on Sunday. “The policemen asked if we are Kashmiri and told us ‘yahan kuch karne aate ho aur wahan kuch aur karte ho’ and then asked us if we had…

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