January 2018 | Page 18 of 21

‘Made in China’ globes do not include Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh as part of India

January 5, 2018 Editor

Over the last few days, Indians living in Canada have been tweeting out to External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, MEA, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the same concern – A wrong a globe. Twitter users have been bringing the attention of Indian authorities to a globe which depicts Kashmir as an independent authority and Arunachal Pradesh as part of China. Tweeting out these pictures, social media users have claimed that these globes have been made in China and are being sold at Costco stores in Canada. One user even claimed that…

On rehab package govt gets facts wrong

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018 Editor

Already facing the allegations of bulldozing the democratic institutions of the state, the PDP-BJP government today undermined the sanctity of the Legislative Assembly by giving wrong information in the House. In a written reply to the question of Ali Mohammad Sagar, National Conference member, the government informed the House that Rs 2,000 crore had been approved under the Prime Minister’s Development Package for one-time settlement of 36,384 displaced families from PoK and Chhamb. The government said not even a single penny had been sanctioned so far from the approved fund…

With two more deaths due to Swine Flu, toll rises to 25

January 5, 2018 Editor

Two more patients have died of H1N1 influenza at SKIMS, Soura in last past two days, taking the death toll by Swine Flu to 25 this season. Sources in SKIMS told Kashmir Post that a woman hailing from Srinagar died of H1N1 influenza in the hospital this morning. “She was a case of comorbidities and had tested positive for H1N1 influenza earlier this week,” they said. Another male patient hailing from south Kashmir died of influenza on Wednesday afternoon. “He was also suffering from malaria and had acute kidney injury,”…

Jammu records lowest temperature, Kargil freezes at -20

January 5, 2018 Editor

Jammu on Thursday recorded the coldest night of the season at 2.7 degrees Celsius as the cold wave intensified further in Jammu and Kashmir. Jammu on Thursday recorded the coldest night of the season at 2.7 degrees Celsius as the cold wave intensified further in Jammu and Kashmir. “There is no immediate relief in sight for at least another two to three days,” a Met official said. Foggy mornings have been adding to the chill in Jammu city over the last four days. Heavy fog led to poor visibility disrupting…

Bullets used by militants pierced bulletproof shields, reveals initial probe

January 5, 2018 Editor

The deadly attack carried out by three Jaish-e-Muhammad militants at Lethpora in Pulwama district on Sunday has left a “series of challenges” for security forces in Kashmir as preliminary investigations have suggested that the attackers used “steel-coated armour-piercing bullets to inflict maximum damage” to the central reserve police force personnel. This is for apparently for the first time that militants have been found using bullets that pierce bulletproof shields used by forces to protect themselves during gunfights, an officer told Kashmir Post. The CRPF officer said that one of the…

Ice-climbing event held at Pahalgam

January 4, 2018 Editor

The Department of Tourism, Kashmir, organised an ice-climbing event at Chandanwari in Pahalgam in an effort to promote adventure tourism in the Kashmir valley. A statement issued by the department today said trained mountaineers from the Jammu and Kashmir Mountaineering and Hiking Club and Glacier Trekking, Mountaineering and Hiking Club participated in the event with the collaboration of the Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports. Director, Tourism, Kashmir, Mahmood A Shah said the extreme adventure sports activity had an international appeal which could attract adventure lovers from across the…

BJP red-faced as MLA walks out over ‘Forcible’ land acquisition in Jammu

January 4, 2018 Editor

The ruling BJP faced embarrassment in the Legislative Assembly today when party lawmaker Sukhnandan Choudhary created a ruckus over ‘forcible’ acquisition of farmers’ land for the proposed Ring Road project in the Jammu region. Choudhary trooped into the well of the House before staging a walkout over, what he alleged, the government’s inhuman attitude by snatching the livelihood of over 1,500 farmers of the Jammu plains. As Choudhary, a former minister and two-time MLA from the Marh constituency, was raising slogans against the forcible acquisition of land, NC lawmaker Devendra…

‘Kashmir Daily’ First Kashmir-based film to be released across country

January 4, 2018 Editor

For the first time, a locally made two-and-a-half-hour film — ‘Kashmir Daily’ — will be released across the country this week. Even as only a handful of films have so far been produced in the Valley without cinema halls, the scheduled country-wide release of the film has brought cheer to its makers. ‘Kashmir Daily’ has well-known Bollywood actor of Kashmiri origin — Mir Sarwar — in the lead role, who has acted in acclaimed films Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Phantom, Dishoom and Jolly LLB-2. “This is for the first time that a…

No rules, no procedures for preventive detentions under J&K Public Safety Act, reveals RTI

January 4, 2018 Editor

An RTI application has found that even after four decades, there are no rules or standard operating procedures (SOPs) for ordering preventive detentions under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978. In a reply to an RTI application filed by members of the J&K RTI Movement, headed by Shaikh Ghulam Rasool, the Jammu & Kashmir Home Department has admitted that the state government has not made any rules or SOPs under the Act, 1978 during the four decades of its existence. It, however, said: “However, every case is examined…