Year: 2017

Bank details of Indians on sale online for Rs 500

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The debit and credit card details of Indians, including the particulars of the bank account a card is linked to, the CVV number, and phone numbers and email IDs, are up for sale on the dark web for just Rs 500, the Madhya Pradesh police cyber cell has said. Cops in Indore discovered the sale after busting an international gang, led by a Pakistan national and operated from Lahore, involved in it. A detective had posed as a customer and bought debit card details of an Indore-based woman in exchange…

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Clashes in Rambagh Srinagar after fresh braid chopping incident

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Clashes erupted in Rambagh area of Srinagar after a woman’s braid was chopped off by unknown persons on Tuesday. An eyewitness said that youth took to streets and blocked the road, hampering the movement of traffic. Police swung into action and lobbed several teargas shells to chase away the protesters, triggering clashes. Yesterday, massive clashes erupted in Maisuma area of the city after a woman’s braid was cut. There have been over 100 incidents of braid chopping in the Valley during last one month, but not a single culprit has…

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Valley’s tourism sector pins hope on winter

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Kashmir’s tourism industry, which faced a tepid response from holidaymakers during the summer, is now pinning hope on the winter for revival of the sector. The state government was working to make Gulmarg in north Kashmir act as the “main attraction” for tourists during the winter months, a senior official said. The events being planned at Gulmarg include ski and snowboarding championships, ice-staking camps and a snow festival, said Director, Tourism, Kashmir, Mahmood Ahmad Shah. “We are also focusing on autumn but we have no other option other than promoting…

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New deadline for Jehangir Chowk flyover is June ’18

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After missing several deadlines, the J&K Government has set a new deadline for the Rambagh-Jehangir Chowk flyover. The project, which has been hanging fire since 2013, would now be completed in June 2018. The statement to this effect was made by Advocate General before a division bench during the hearing of a public interest litigation dealing with streamlining transport in the summer capital. The work on the 2.4-km Rambagh-Jehangir Chowk flyover was started in 2013. It is expected that the journey on the Rambagh-Jehangir corridor, which serves as an important…

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Kashmiri Civil Society members meet Jammu counterparts to build consensus over defending JK’s Special Status

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A group of lawyers, civil society members and religious scholars from Kashmir are holding meetings with their counterparts in Jammu to persuade them to make efforts to safeguard the special status of the state. According to a statement issued here, a spokesman said that the members of Jammu and Kashmir Civil Society Coordination Committee (JKCSCC) from Kashmir including Adv GN Saheen, Muzaffar Shah, Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam, Adv Mir Javed, Jogmohan Singh Raina and Adv Yasmeen are on visit to Jammu and have met people including Gulchain Singh Charak, members of displaced…

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Festive mood missing across Jammu markets post Demonetization, GST

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With days left for Diwali celebration, markets in Jammu, which were always full with customers, are reeling under impact of GST and demonetization as customers stay away and traders rue the decisions taken in haste. “The main markets in Jammu are not as busy this year as previous years,” said Mohan Sharma, a resident of Gandhinagar. About sweets, which come under restaurant category of GST, the sellers or buyers are not happy with the slab rates, which are set at 5 per cent, 12 per cent, 18 per cent and…

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No let up in Braid Chopping, Resistance Camp concerned about increasing incidents

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Police rules out lie-detection test of victims Hurriyat (G) concerned over braid chopping incidents Clashes erupted across Kashmir as there was no let up in the braid chopping incidents in the wake of failure of police to make any breakthrough in nabbing the culprits. Clashes between youth and forces were witnessed in Srinagar while protests by lawyers, students and women continued in Baramulla and Sopore. In Maisuma area of Srinagar, clashes were witnessed between youth and forces after a braid chopper struck in the area and cut hair of a…

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Braid Chopping goes untraced, latest incident reported from Maisuma

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Massive clashes erupted in Maisuma area of Srinagar on Monday after a woman’s braid was allegedly chopped off by unknown persons. As the news of alleged hair-chopping spread, youth took to streets and enforced a shutdown in Maisuma and the adjacent Lal Chowk area. Forces deployed in the area lobbed teargas shells at the protesters who pelted them with stones. Traffic movement was severely affected on both the MA road and the Residency Road. Most of the motorists diverted towards Residency road due to clashes, triggering a traffic jam. Clashes…

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From Babri to Taj, Hindutva Fights History

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One of the many outlandish ideas that had apparently been doing the rounds in the run up to the Partition included the demand to move the iconic Taj Mahal to the promised land of Pakistan. Thankfully, no one took that fantastic wish list seriously, not even the leaders of the Pakistan movement, and the Taj has remained the most celebrated of India’s national monuments and the symbol of its composite culture. It is not just its ethereal beauty that makes this architectural marvel, cast in sheer white marble, one of…

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Braid Chopped victims recount tales of horror

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Thirty year old, Afroza Begum, was in the kitchen of her home at Gur Seer village–around five kilometers from Sopore town of Baramulla district—when some unknown person cut her hair. “I was in the kitchen when someone held my hair from behind and I lost consciousness. After gaining back consciousness, I found people surround me and my hair had been cut,” Begum said. She was shifted to sub-district hospital Sopore for treatment earlier on Tuesday, and doctors found no affliction of “psychological disturbance”. “A strand of Begum’s hair was found…

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