Month: July 2018

Muzzaffar Baig may be given bigger role in party overhaul

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Peoples Democratic Party party’s founding member and Member of Parliament Muzzaffar Baig is likely to be given more responsibility as the party is all set for a major revamp after its foundation day on July 28. All six officer-bearers of the party had resigned on Monday to facilitate the reorganisation. Sources said that after the fall of the coalition government, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti during her interactions with lawmakers, MPs and district and zonal presidents had got a fair feedback on the brewing rebellion within the party and the need…

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Rebels strike in heart of Srinagar, killed one CRPF personnel injuring another

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Target security forces’ picket near high-security civil secretariat; Hizb claims responsibility Militants on Tuesday attacked Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel guarding the civil secretariat, killing a constable and wounding another in broad daylight. The attack occurred around 4.30 pm near the civil secretariat in the Batamaloo locality here. “The militants fired at our men who were deployed in the outer cordon of the civil secretariat from inside a building and ran away,” Inspector General of the CRPF (Srinagar sector) Ravi Deep Singh Sahi told Kashmir Post. “Two of our…

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Maratha bandh begins with protest marches, buses targeted in Thane, Navi Mumbai

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Stone-pelting and protests were reported from a few places in Mumbai on Wednesday as the state braced for a bandh called by the Maratha Kranti Morcha demanding reservation for the community in Maharashtra. The Morcha activists took out marches and held up traffic at several places as the shutdown began in Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, and several other areas of Maharashtra on Wednesday morning. The train services are running as usual and security has been beefed up at several stations. Nearly 40 Railway Protection Force and Government Railway Police personnel…

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Srinagar airport gets IAF approval night flights to start soon

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) has given the permission to start night-landing operations at the Srinagar airport while the installation of runway lights by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is in its advanced stage of completion. This information was given to Governor NN Vohra at a high-level meeting of the civil, police and security forces officers at the civil secretariat here on Tuesday. Advisers to Governor K Vijay Kumar and BB Vyas; Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam; administrative secretaries; Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir; Deputy Commissioner, Budgam; and other senior officers concerned…

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Five year long social boycott between Muslims and Buddhists ended in Zanskar

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A five year long social boycott between Muslims and Buddhists at Padum Zanskar ended after Buddhist spiritual leader Dali Lama visited the area. The social boycott between the two religious communities ended on Sunday when an important meeting was held under the chairmanship of Dalia Lama at Duzing photang Zanskar. The meeting was called for resolving the long pending issues between the two communities of Zanskar Valley i.e Buddhist and Muslim of Zanskar since past five years. During the meeting, the members decided to form a peace committee which will…

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Eight girls went missing in two months from across Kashmir Valley

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In a disturbing trend, at least eight girls have gone missing in Kashmir in past two months. On May 14, two girls went missing from two locations in Kashmir. They were identified by the police as 18 years old Reenaz Jan from Kheribal Mattan while the other was identified as Rubina Akhter (19), daughter of Chaand Bajad resident of Rajouri, who at present lives at Wangund Teilbal Srinagar. The police issued missing report of the duo to the media after their families recorded a statement with their respective police stations.…

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Another witness says couldn’t read sedative name in brutal Kathua Rape & Murder Case

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In a further setback to the prosecution in the brutal rape and murder case of the nomadic Kathua girl, one more witness has expressed his inability to recall the name of the sedative administered to the victim while she was being held captive at a temple. Naib-tehsildar Kamal Singh, a witness in the case, on Monday told the sessions court that “he couldn’t read the name of the medicine from the strip” recovered from Devsthan, sources told Kashmir Post. “I can’t say what kind of medicine it was,” Singh is…

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SHRC takes note of hunger strike by jail inmates, Panel to inspect conditions inside Central Jail Srinagar

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Taking note of the ongoing hunger strike by inmates of the Srinagar Central Jail, the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has called for an inspection of the jail premises on July 24 to know the facts behind the strike and to ascertain the condition of the prisoners lodged there. In its orders passed on Monday, the commission has deputed its member Abdul Hamid Wani along with the SSP, SHRC, to visit the jail on July 25 and submit an inspection report. The prisoners in the high-security Srinagar Central Jail are…

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Do away with complex forms for Pandit voters: BJP

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The state unit of the BJP is making renewed efforts to end the mandatory filing of M-forms by the displaced Kashmiri Pandit voters ahead of every Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in J&K. Senior party leaders are likely to approach the Election Commission of India (ECI) to do away with the filing of forms, which has deprived thousands of Pandits of their voting rights due to the cumbersome process. Sources said the BJP was aggressively pursuing the issue with an eye on expanding workers’ base in the Valley while focusing…

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A militant’s promise, a Pandit’s trust

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In Hall village of Pulwama, an aged Kashmiri Pandit tells how love of a newly purchased house made him resist migration years ago when members of his community fled and left him alone to witness an otherwise prosperous village disintegrating into mounds of rubble. In 1989, Omkar Nath Bhat had retired from the Horticulture department as field assistant and purchased a new house. He had put his life’s savings in buying it but before he could settle in the new house, Kashmir witnessed into a wave of militancy. The rumour…

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