Month: November 2017

More than 3 lakh migratory birds arrive in Kashmir Valley

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With the onset of winter, over three lakh migratory birds from central Asia and southern Europe have arrived at more than 400 water bodies in the Kashmir Valley. Thousands of Mallards, Common Mergansers, Northern Pintails, Common Pochards, Red-crested Pochards, Ruddy Shelducks, Northern Shovelers, Common Teals, Eurasian Wigeons, Tufted Ducks, Gadwalls, Brahminy Ducks, Garganeys, and Greylag Geese have come to Kashmir in the first batch of migration this season. Wildlife warden of Jammu & Kashmir wildlife protection department, Abdul Rauf Zargar, told TOI that the birds mainly throng the wetlands of…

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North Korea fires ballistic missile near Japan’s economic zone, Trump says ‘will take care of it’

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the test an intolerable, “violent” act. North Korea test fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday, in a major challenge to US President Donald Trump after he slapped fresh sanctions on Pyongyang and declared it a state sponsor of terrorism. It was the nuclear-armed North’s first ballistic test in more than two months and an initial Pentagon assessment said the ICBM flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) before splashing down within Japan’s maritime Economic Exclusion Zone. At least one expert said its lofted trajectory…

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Farooq Abdullah hungry for publicity: Jammu West Assembly Movement

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Terming former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah as ‘TRP hungry’, the Jammu West Assembly Movement (JWAM) on Tuesday said the Abdullahs only wanted to remain inthe limelight. Addressing a press conference, Jammu West Assembly Movement president Sunil Dimple said the statements issued by Farooq Abdullah were irrelevant in the present situation and people across the state knew that National Conference leaders Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah were hungry for publicity. “J&K is an integral part of India and it will remain a part of this great country. Unfortunately, those who are…

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After Diana, Ivanka Trump first woman to get red carpet

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US President Donald Trump’s advisor and daughter Ivanka Trump has become the first foreign woman leader to get the unparalleled hype, publicity and security cover in Hyderabad. Ivanka landed in the city early on Tuesday morning and reached her hotel at Madhapur in a convoy of 34 vehicles. The police held up road traffic from the airport in Shamshabad to Madhapur to enable Ivanka’s convoy a free passage. The convoy included an ambulance, which normally accompanies the President, the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister. Ivanka was also provided with…

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Dineshwar Sharma reaches out to students, says violence never a solution

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The Central government’s special representative for Jammu and Kashmir, Dineshwar Sharma, today told students in south Kashmir’s Anantnag town that gun was never going to be a solution to anything. “Gun is never a solution to anything. It is my personal belief and I am telling you this because some among you sometimes think that it is a solution. It is not,” a student quoted Sharma as saying after meeting him. As per reports, locals, a majority of them students, met the interlocutor at Dak Bungalow in Anantnag today. This…

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‘Forced to drink urine, eat human waste’, Ordeal of Kashmiri prisoners

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The families of Kashmiri prisoners languishing in Delhi’s Tihar jail are worried over their safety as reports and pictures of thrashing of several inmates went viral on social media. Even as chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, spoke to Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and expressed concern over the “alleged harassment and manhandling of some Kashmiri inmates” in Tihar jail the families of these jail inmates are under “tremendous stress over their safety”. “We have also come across some of the photographs of several injured inmates circulated on social media. The post…

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JK integral part of India, challengers will have to take refuge in Pak: BJP

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The BJP in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday said the State is an integral part of India and those who do not accept it will have to take refuge in Pakistan. Party spokesperson Virender Gupta made the remarks after National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah yesterday dared GoI to hoist the tri-colour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar before unfurling it in Pakistan administered Kashmir. Gupta also asked Abdullah not to make “anti-national and unrealistic statements”. “Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and those who challenge it will have to…

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Heavy smoke hits visibility inside Chenani tunnel

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Heavy smoke inside South East Asia’s longest tunnel is posing a serious threat to people’s lives, besides slowing the traffic flow on a regular basis. Despite tall claims by the National Highways Authorities of India (NHAI) about ensuring a proper ventilation system in the 9.2-km-long Chenani-Nashri tunnel, commuters experience a “suffocated” drive through the tunnel. The engineering marvel, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 2, has bypassed 42 km of the hilly terrain on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in the mountainous range of lower Shivaliks and…

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Will hoist national flag in Lal Chowk: J&K unit of Shiv Sena

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Farooq Abdullah had said, “They (centre and BJP) are talking about raising the flag in PoK. I ask them first you go and raise the tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. They can’t even do that here and they are talking about PoK”. Jammu and Kashmir unit of Shiv Sena (Bala Sahib Thackeray) said on Tuesday that it would hoist the national flag in Lal Chowk, the nerve centre of summer capital Srinagar. The outfit was reacting to a controversial statement by National Conference president Farooq Abdullah who dared the…

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Mehbooba Mufti expresses concern over torture of Kashmiri inmates in Tihar Jail

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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday expressed serious concern over the alleged harassment and physical torture of Kashmiri prisoners at the Tihar Central Jail in New Delhi. Taking a serious view of these reports, the Chief Minister spoke to Union Home Secretary, Rajiv Gauba and asked him to intervene in the matter, said an official handout. The Union Home Secretary assured the Chief Minister of a thorough probe into the incident and punishing the culprits for having violated the jail manual. Violation of fundamental, human and legal…

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