Year: 2017

PDP-BJP’s ‘Agenda of Alliance’ in limbo, Centre won’t return power projects to State

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Clearly contradicting the PDP-BJP government’s ‘agenda of alliance’, the government of India on Tuesday ruled out return of power projects to Jammu and Kashmir, saying such a move will trigger similar demands from other states. Talking to Kashmir Post on the sidelines of a meeting here, union power minister RK Singh said these projects don’t belong to anyone but the entire country. “In Uttar Pradesh, we have the projects run by the National Thermal Power Corporation. I can’t transfer these projects to Uttar Pradesh because they are not for one…

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Fresh braid-chopping incidents leave People, Police guessing

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Fresh braid-chopping incidents were reported in Srinagar, Ganderbal, Bandipora, Sopore and Budgam districts on Tuesday. A group of residents from Karfali Mohalla in Downtown Srinagar said that during the wee hours, a woman alleged that two unknown persons barged into her house and hit her head with a brick and later cut her braid. “The woman also alleged that the attackers snatched a gold chain and Rs 7,000 from her,” the residents said. The victim was taken to a hospital but discharged later. The incident triggered massive protests in the…

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Militants attack CRPF cavalcade near Sanat Nagar

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Militants attacked a cavalcade of paramilitary CRPF in Sanat Nagar in Srinagar area in outskirts of Srinagar on Tuesday. According to sources, two motorcycle-borne militants attacked CRPF convoy comprising two to three vehicles belonging to Charle/29 headquarters, Sanant Nagar at around 7 pm. “The convoy was coming back from secretariat duty to its Sanat Nagar camp when militants fired on the vehicles from automatic weapons,” they said. CRPF spokesperson in Srinagar, Rajesh Yadav told Kashmir Post that no CRPF man was injured in the militant attack. “The CRPF men returned…

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High Court seeks report on FIRs filed against rising Braid-chopping incidents

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Asks police to disclose within two days incidents reported Taking cognisance of a public interest litigation alleging harassment of women due to the mysterious braid-chopping incidents, the J&K High Court has sought a status report from the police, explaining the total number of FIRs registered into the braid-cutting incidents and also the number of such reports received across the state. These directions were issued today by a division bench of the High Court headed by Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmad in response to a PIL by lawyer Hilal Ahmad Lone,…

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Spy cams to tackle braid-chopping fears

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Due to the fear of braid-chopping incidents, Valley residents have started installing spy cameras around their homes. More than 50 braid-chopping cases have been reported so far with the latest incidents coming from Srinagar city. The police have failed to reach any conclusion about the incidents. If the government fails to take any action, these can create a large-scale fair psychosis in Kashmir. — Rifat Mohidin A paltry reward! The police recently announced Rs 6,00,000 reward for persons giving information/assistance in nabbing of suspects in braid-cutting incidents. The police also…

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Fix accountability for growth & accountability: BJP

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The BJP has asked for fixing accountability for development, saying that most of the projects that were visualised do not get started and those starting often do not meet their end. BJP state spokesperson Virender Gupta said the project to end the scarcity of drinking water in the city by bringing water from the Chenab was visualised somewhere in 1990, but it is resting in files while the project of providing sewerage facility to the city was visualised in 1992, planned in 2004, started in 2006, but still not completed.…

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Fresh incidents of braid chopping in Ganderbal, Budgam

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Two incidents of braid-chopping were reported from Ganderbal district on Sunday evening, triggering scare among the residents, especially women. Locals said that braids of two teenage girls were found chopped off at Rabitar and Naraian bagh villages on Sunday evening. A police official told Kashmir Post that a girl, aged 15, at Rabitar area alleged that some unknown persons chopped off her braid while she was in her room. The girl claimed that after chopping off her braid, the braid chopper jumped over the two-storied building of her house and…

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Clerics of Majlis-e-Shura issue fatwa banning women from travelling alone

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A day after the Darul Uloom Deoband in Uttar Pradesh issued a bizarre fatwa banning women from plucking, trimming and shaping their eyebrows and cutting hair, clerics of Majlis-e-Shura, a religious conglomerate in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, on Monday issued a diktat barring women from going out alone in public. According to Times Now, the religious conglomerate issued a list of diktats imposing restrictions on women in the state. According to the diktat, women can’t go to markets and public events alone, they must not interact with men on…

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Kashmir Shuts against increasing braid chopping incidents, Amid protests, kid hit by stone

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Clashes in Batamaloo Curbs cripple Downtown Minor injured in Pulwama Police file FIR against locals for thrashing 2 civilians at Nishat Kashmir observed a complete shutdown on Monday against the ‘ongoing’ braid-chopping incidents that have brought the government and the police under fire from people. The call for shutdown was given by the joint separatist leadership comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik. The government had imposed strict curbs in MaharajGunj, Safa Kadal, Rainawari and Nowhatta areas of Downtown to thwart protests, even as normal life…

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Demonetisation Drive: A colossal mismanagement

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The perennial question about demonetisation is whether it helped to solve the conundrum of black economy, ostensibly, the first goal-post of the unprecedented move proclaimed by the government. The rhetoric of the government boasted to break new frontiers in economic transformation but nevertheless economic indicators released recently starkly expose such extravagant demagogue. Recent slowdown in economy indicates the demonetisation policy was poorly planned and badly executed by the government. Anticipatively the government articulates that much of the censure is tendentious judgement made on the basis of selective and inaccurate reports.…

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