Month: July 2017

Decades On, Vital road projects in limbo

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With several road widening projects missing deadlines, the summer capital is facing major infrastructural deficit and grappling with space constraints to meet requirements of bulging traffic and human population. Major road projects in Srinagar including widening of Qamarwari-Shalteng road, Khanyar-Zadibal-Pandach (KZP), Syed Meerak Shah Road from Dalgate to Zakura were conceptualized decades back. Despite passing of several decades, they are nowhere completion. As per officials, Srinagar city is the main victim of the government’s “non-seriousness” to complete road projects. The major road widening projects in Srinagar district have been put…

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NIA says it has got solid evidence: Terror funding

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Gets 10-day custody of seven arrested Hurriyat leaders As seven Kashmiri separatists, including son-in-law of Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani, were sent to 10-day NIA custody by a Delhi court in a terror funding case, the probe agency claimed that it could zero in on them after one and a half months of painstaking investigation which gave it electronic evidence to prove their complicity. Sources in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) confirmed that the agency managed to track the details of telephonic conversations of as many as 48 local youths,…

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NIA being used as war weapon against leadership: Hurriyat (G)

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Hurriyat Conference (G) Tuesday said NIA is being used as a war weapon against leadership and “local henchmen” are facilitating these arbitrary measures against leadership. Reacting sharply over arrests conducted by NIA and producing them in Delhi court, Hurriyat (G) said: “Indian government is frustrated to the extent that they frame and raid residences of Hurriyat leaders and activists on the pre-planned psychological crackdown, so that they surrender and stop voicing the sentiments of their nation, thereby covering and shielding their atrocities and barbarism against common and unarmed people.” Hurriyat…

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Failure to dredge Jhelum on scientific lines puts Kashmir at risk: Caution experts

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Experts Tuesday cautioned that dredging project has not helped to address the problem of floods in any way and Kashmir stands at same stage where it had been post 2014 devastating floods. They termed the dredging of Jhelum as “ill conceived project” and warned of consequences if immediate measures were not taken to correct the things. “Dredging, the project of utter importance didn’t get the desired results. The incompetence of authorities to execute the project has added woes of a common man who is yet to come out of the…

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No buyers for energy generated from Baglihar-II hydel project

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Existing power rates low; JKSPDC in loss, supplies 450 MW to state The big ‘slump’ in the market has made it difficult for the Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (JKSPDC) to find a buyer for the energy generated from the Baglihar-II hydropower project since it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 7, 2015. Consequently, the JKSPDC decided to supply the full 450-MW energy generated from the Baglihar-II project to the state’s Power Development Department (PDD) at minimal rates to meet the electricity needs of the…

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Stone-pelting incidents: Pakistan-based JuD using WhatsApp to foment trouble in Kashmir

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Seven people including Altaf Ahmed Shah, the son-in-law of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, were arrested on July 24 by the NIA. The National Investigating Agency (NIA), which is probing the terror funding cases in Jammu and Kashmir, has found at least 28 WhatsApp groups that are being administered by members residing in Pakistan, a report said on Wednesday. A report published in ‘The Times of India’ states some cadres of terror outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawaa are also involved in creating such WhatsApp groups. The sources in the country’s top…

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Farooq Abdullah ‘Congratulates’ NIA, asks it to probe if India also funded Hurriyat leaders

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While “congratulating” the National Investigation Agency (NIA) over its probe into the funding of Hurriyat leaders, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday asked the agency to investigate whether or not they received Indian funding as well. Farooq Abdullah told ANI: “I congratulate NIA for its probe on funding of Hurriyat leaders. From where the money has came and how it is been utilised we will get to know that soon. One fact should also be investigated if Indian Government funded Hurriyat or not.” Seven separatist leaders,…

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GST, Article 35A and Special status: A complex story unfolds in J&K

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When the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was extended to Jammu & Kashmir a week after it was implemented in the rest of the country, it was widely seen as marking the end of the state’s fiscal autonomy, and a step towards the abrogation of its special status. While the opposition National Conference (NC) described the extension of the law, through an executive Order by the President under Article 370, as an “impingement into J&K’s special status and violation of Article 370”, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is in…

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Home remedies for acne treatment

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There are several home remedies for acne treatments which are very effective with no side effect. However, Dermatologists may recommend topical ointment and/or oral medicine to treat acne. Usually, people tend to press these pimples to make them vanish, yet regularly this makes the condition exacerbate bringing about scarring. Before describing natural home remedies for acne we should know what acne is and why it comes. Acne is the most common problem in teenagers, but anybody can be a sufferer from acne, even babies too. It generally leaves after youth.…

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BJP Leader meets Modi, seeks peace initiative to end cross border shelling

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The Jammu and Kashmir BJP has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi start peace initiative to end Border shelling, : which has made life of border residents miserable”. A press release claimed that Eshfaq-ur-rehman Poswal, BJP Leader on Monday discussed prevailing Security Situation in J&K with Prime Minister in Parliament. Poswal also discussed escalation in cross border tension between the two countries with the Prime Minister. “The situation in J&K has improved but Pakistan backed Militants are making all attempts to disrupt peace and security in the region” he told PM.…

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