Year: 2017

UP will celebrate another Diwali if BJP wins all municipal seats: CM Yogi Adityanath

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UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is sparing no efforts to target Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party before the upcoming state municipal elections. With the second phase of UP Municipal elections to be held soon, the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is sparing no efforts to target Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. Addressing an electoral meeting in Firozabad, Yogi Adityanath said that in the Samajwadi Party rule, the Municipal Corporations of UP had become bases of corruption. Now these industries of corruption, Gundaraj, anarchy and kidnappings won’t function. He…

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Majid and Mugees: A tale of two rebels

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Kashmir has more than a single reality and this was demonstrated by the examples set by two young men recently. Both of them made news but for different reasons. The charming footballer from South Kashmir, Majid Khan, decided to return home by cutting short his new-found love with AK-47. Young Mugees returned home dead. He was killed in a shootout in the outskirts of Srinagar. A little towards the side track, there is the account of another young man, a police sub-inspector from Udhampur, Imran Tak, who was also killed…

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Atleast 235 killed in mosque attack in Egypt’s Sinai, world leaders condemn the attack

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CAIRO: Attackers killed at least 235 worshippers Friday in a bomb and gun assault on a packed mosque in Egypt’s restive North Sinai province, in the country’s deadliest attack in recent memory. A bomb explosion ripped through the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, before gunmen opened fire on the Sufi worshippers gathered there for weekly Friday prayers, officials said. Witnesses said the assailants surrounded the mosque with all-terrain vehicles and then planted a bomb outside. The gunmen then mowed down…

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PHE Dept presses for more tube wells for water needs

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Rising pollution and decline in water discharge during dry months in the Tawi is forcing the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department to rely on costly tube wells to meet the supply of 15 lakh residents of the city. There are already 262 heavy tube wells operating in the temple city and over a dozen more are being planned in the coming months. Sources said with the fate of the Chenab water diversion project hanging in air and the Tawi being exploited to hilt, the PHE officials were seeking greater investment…

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Nirmala Sitharaman raises Kashmir Issue to attack Congress in Gujarat

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Nirmala Sitharaman said the Congress “talks in separatists’ voice and enthusiastically joins them. The Congress vice-president supports those misdirected youths of the JNU who talk about break-up of the country”. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman flagged off the last leg of the BJP’s mega campaign in Gujarat today, in which the party plans to carpet-bomb the state with 26 cabinet ministers, 6 Chief Ministers and a dozen parliamentarians. At a press conference in Ahmedabad, the Defence Minister, who never campaigned in Gujarat, took on the Congress, alleging that the party spoke…

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Talks and harassment can’t go together, Release political prisoners, revoke AFSPA: Mirwaiz to GoI

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Hurriyat (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Friday said the government’s move to provide amnesty to first-time stone- pelters is “a cosmetic effort”. Addressing a Friday congregation here at Jamia Masjid, Mirwaiz said if the present government was serious “ there was a change of heart then it should release all the political prisoners without any further delay.” Mirwaiz said revoking the FIRs against “so called first-time stone-pelters” is a “good looking good cosmetic effort”. “Peace would return to Kashmir the day government of India decides to address the Kashmir dispute…

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Winter sets in, city’s overnight temperature drops to -3.1°C

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The minimum temperature overnight in the city plunged to minus 3.1 degrees Celsius as residents face the early arrival of winter’s cold. The overnight minimum temperature in the city made it one of the coldest November nights of Srinagar in the last decade, officials of Meteorological Department said. It also marked an early arrival of winter’s cold in the region even as residents have a tough time putting up with frequent power outages. The night time temperature in the city has been falling below the freezing point for almost a…

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Srinagar, Jammu witness season’s coldest night

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Continuing its free fall on Thursday, the minimum temperature dropped to minus 2.3 degrees in Srinagar and 7.9 in Jammu, the lowest recorded at both places this season. While Leh was the coldest town in Jammu and Kashmir at minus 11.6, Kargil recorded minus 9 as the night’s lowest temperature, the Met department said. Night temperatures fell below the freezing point through the valley. Pahalgam recorded minus 5.7 while Gulmarg recorded minus 5.4 as the minimum temperature. Katra recorded 9.5, Batote 6.5, Bannihal 6 and Bhaderwah was at 2 degrees…

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Use of banned calcium carbide continues to ripen fruits

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Despite a ban by the state Horticulture Department, the use of harmful chemicals like calcium carbide by vendors to ripen fruits continues unabated. Whether it is the wholesale market at Narwal mandi or small vendors selling different fruits on roadsides, there has been no let up in the malpractices in ripening fruits. Pertinently, calcium carbide is a known carcinogen, a cancer-producing chemical which is known to have harmful effects on the liver and other parts of the body. It also contains traces of arsenic and phosphorus hydride which produce several…

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Process on to grant amnesty to first time stone pelters: Mehbooba Mufti

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has announced amnesty for the first-time stone-throwers of the Kashmir valley by initiating the process of withdrawal of FIRs against them. The PDP-BJP government’s announcement comes after recommendations of the Centre’s special representative on Jammu and Kashmir Dineshwar Sharma. Sharma is set to start his second visit to J&K from tomorrow (November 24). “It gives me immense satisfaction to restart the process of withdrawing FIRs against first-time offenders of stone-throwing. My government had initiated the process in May 2016, but it was unfortunately stalled due to…

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