Month: March 2018

Real reasons why Mehbooba Mufti dropped Haseeb Drabu

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For calling the Kashmir problem a ‘social issue’, the former banker’s political career looks over at least in his home state. Pampered for more than three years as the architect of the “Agenda of Alliance” between the PDP and the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, Haseeb Drabu has been shown the door unceremoniously. On March 12, J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti sacked her finance minister Drabu, a former banker, for his controversial remarks that the situation in the trouble-torn state was a “social, and not political issue.” “Jammu and Kashmir…

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Hilal Rasool appointed Jamshedpur FC head coach

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J&K Bank senior football team coach, Hilal Rasool Parray who is highly regarded in national football arena was on Sunday introduced as head coach by Tata Steel for its Jamshedpur FC Reserves Team that will be playing in Second Division I-League starting from March 14. Tata Steel on Sunday introduced the Jamshedpur FC Reserves Team which will be the bridge between the senior team and the TFA graduates. AIFF recently changed the format and number of teams for the second division I-League. 18 teams comprising of seven Indian Super League…

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Kashmiri Students booked in BGSBU for raising slogans against Eisa’s killing

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The police have booked unidentified students of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) for allegedly raising anti-India and pro-azadi slogans on the campus. The action came after Kashmiri students, especially from the College of Engineering and Technology, boycotted their classes reportedly for three days after the killing of former student-turned-militant Eisa Fazili of the BTech (sixth semester) along with two others by security forces on Monday. “Taking a serious note of the incident, the police have booked unidentified students of the BGSBU who were involved in the incident. The matter…

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No threat to coalition, Govt will run without Drabu: Avinash Rai

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Day after CM Mehbooba Mufti sacked finance minister Haseeb Drabu, Bharatiya Janta Party leadership has summoned its senior leaders from Jammu and Kashmir to New Delhi to discuss the possible repercussions on the alliance. “The leadership has been summoned by the party high command to New Delhi,” a senior BJP leader told Kashmir Post on the basis of anonymity. He said that Drabu’s removal has put a question mark on the future of interlocution between BJP and PDP. He said that coming years were crucial because of general elections in…

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Decision to drop me a surprise, manner it was conveyed shocking: Haseeb Drabu

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Former Jammu and Kashmir finance minister Haseeb Drabu on Tuesday broke silence on his unceremonious exit from the Mehbooba Mufti government saying the decision was a “surprise” and the manner in which it was conveyed “shocking”. The 57-year-old issued a three-page statement minutes after Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti gave additional charge of finance and labour to the state’s Education Minister Syed Mohammed Altaf Bukhari. In the 21-point statement, Drabu said the decision to “drop me did come as a surprise but what was shocking was the manner and method of…

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Journalists thrashed in Rohingya colony; 2 held

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A group of journalists covering the illegal settlement of Rohingyas and Bangladeshi migrants near the Sunjuwan military camp were today attacked by illegal settlers and some local residents in the outskirts of the city. An FIR in this regard has been registered at the Trikuta Nagar police station and two persons — Mohammad Ashraf and Sher Mohammad — have been arrested. Mediapersons belonging to two national channels and an RTI activist had gone to an illegal colony in the Narwal area for a story when they were thrashed. The camp…

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Ayesha Aziz, the youngest pilot from Kashmir

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Ayesha Aziz, a Kashmiri girl became the youngest pilot of India. At the age of 16, she graduated in Aviation from Bombay Flying Club and got pilot’s license in 2011. According to the report published in IB Times, currently, she is a member of Indian Women Pilots’ Association (IWPA). She also pilots Cessna 152 and Cessna 172 aircrafts. In January 2012, at Russia’s Sokul Airbase she flew MIG-29 fighter jet plane. She met former NASA astronaut John McBride during her Advanced Space Training Course. She also met Indian-American Astronaut Sunitha…

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Three militants killed in Anantnag, Protests erupt at several places scores hit by pellets

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 Slain identified as two ex-engg students Syed Owais of Kokernag and EisaFazili of Srinagar Although villagers recall hearing the sound of a few gun shots, the police said the three militants, one of whom might be a non-local, died in a shootout with the forces in the Hakoora village of Anantnag in the early hours of the morning. Out of the three slain militants, one of them, Syed OwaisShafi, belonged to the Vailoo area of Kokernag, Anantnag, who had known EisaFazili for many years since both were students at Ghulam Shah Badshah…

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Drabu should come clean on Kashmir remark: JKCC

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Even as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today sacked Haseeb Drabu as a Cabinet minister, the Jammu and Kashmir Coordination Committee (JKCC) said the PDP leader should still come clean on his remark that “Kashmir should not be seen as a political problem.” “Drabu should clarify his stand when he says that Kashmir should not be seen as a conflict zone…he looks to be eying for some higher position by behaving as a new ambassador of New Delhi. This appears to be a failed attempt to hoodwink the international community…

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Sanji Ram, alleged mastermind of rape and murder of Asifa evades arrest

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The alleged mastermind of the gruesome abduction, rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl, Asifa in Kathua district of Jammu, is still evading arrest, at least even for necessary questioning. According to the investigation conducted by Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Crime Branch (CB), the entire plan was initially conceived by Sanji Ram, a former revenue official of Rasana, Hiranagar. Ram was bent upon to extricate the Bakerwal community from Rasana village, witnesses have revealed to the investigators of the case. As per the CB investigation, the accused persons have…

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