Year: 2018

Avalanche alert in Bhaderwah belt of Doda, Schools closed

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Authorities ordered closure of all schools up to 8th standard and appealed to general public not to venture in slide prone areas and near streams. Authorities on Thursday ordered closure of all schools up to 8th standard and sounded a high alert in the entire Bhaderwah belt of Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir due to apprehension of avalanches after heavy rains since early morning, an official said. In the wake of inclement weather predictions by the meteorological department, additional deputy commissioner (ADC) Bhadarwah Imam Din Kitchlo ordered closure of…

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Setback to BJP as Andhra Pradesh’s Telugu Desam Party quits the NDA

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Andhra Pradesh’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) – which has 16 MPs – today quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre a week after two of its representatives left the Narendra Modi government and a day after the YSR Congress moved a no-trust motion against the Modi government. The N Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP and the YSR Congress are extremely unhappy that the Centre has not given special status to Andhra Pradesh. The TDP pulling out of the NDA coalition hasn’t come as a complete surprise, considering two TDP…

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Militants escape after exchanging fire with forces in Hajin, CASO launched

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Militants escaped after exchanging gun fire with government forces after the latter cordoned off Khos Mohalla of Hajin town in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district early Friday. A police official said that Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir Police, 45 BN Central Reserve Police Force and Army’s 13 RR unit cordoned off Khos Mohalla of Hajin town after “specific” inputs about the presence of 2-3 LeT militants in a residential house around 3am. However, the militants escaped after brief exchange of gunfire with the forces during the searches. As the…

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Media blamed for painting negative image of Kashmir

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“Media is largely responsible for painting a negative picture of Jammu and Kashmir by spreading wrong and incomplete information as it believes that only adverse news is news,” said Abha Khanna, director of the media department of J&K Study Centre, on Thursday. Participating in a discussion on ‘Jammu and Kashmir: Myth and reality’, organized by Nagpur Union of Working Journalists, Tilak Patrakar Bhavan, Tilak Patrakar Bhavan Trust, Press Club, and Jammu and Kashmir Study Centre, Khanna claimed, “Those responsible for giving news on Kashmir blindly believe in their correspondents and…

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J&K, Gilgit-Baltistan integral parts of India: Mohan Bhagwat

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Mohan Bhagwat, RSS chief, said today that Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan were an integral part of India. He stated this while inaugurating the Jammu Kashmir Ladakh Maha Utsav organised by Jammu Kashmir Study Centre (JKSC) in Nagpur. Nirbhay Sharma, Mizoram Governor, was the chief guest on the occasion. “Jammu and Kashmir is not a ‘problem’. The actual ‘problem’ lies within us because we have accepted the definitions given by outsiders who have worked on the agenda of weakening India by creating divisions and differences,” he said in his inaugural…

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Ahmad Banday a new batting mainstay from Kashmir

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While the likes of Parvez Rasool and Manzoor (Dar) Pandav are hogging the limelight, the 23-year old young talented cricketer from Srinagar, Ahmad Banday has silently climbed the ladder to become new batting mainstay of J&K cricket. Within a year after making his first class debut for J&K, Ahmad Banday has become new batting mainstay of J&K cricket team. Coming into limelight last year with a double ton of 214 runs for J&K in Under-23 CK Nayudu trophy, Banday was selected for the Ranji trophy team. Since then he has…

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Telangana to Kashmir; How Mohammad Taufeeq was drawn to militancy

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The Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, an outfit believed to an offshoot of the global terror group Islamic State, has said the 26-year-old Telangana militant killed in Kashmir was one among its first group of cadres. A 26-year-old Telangana militant killed in Kashmir this week was allegedly drawn to terrorism after a week-long trip to Srinagar five years ago and was subsequently indoctrinated by radical Islamists through social media and messaging services, police said on Thursday. Mohammad Taufeeq, a native of Bhadradri Kothagudem district in east Telangana, was killed by security forces…

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Pay & Accounts Office system rolled back to appease ‘Contractor Mafia’

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The government was forced to roll back the Pay and Accounts Office (PAO) system after a strong opposition of contractors and engineers. The PAO system was supposed to simplify the process of government payments. According to this new system, the operational staff of the Finance department would have streamlined the payment system and ensured payments in a specified period. The system was being integrated with Budget Estimation, Allocation and Monitoring System (BEAMS) for better check of budgetary allocation and authorized expenditure. However, after the removal of Haseeb Drabu as the…

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West Pakistan refugees invited to RSS conclave in Nagpur

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Although BJP leaders claimed that the ongoing four-day conclave at Nagpur was purely an apolitical event, victims of Article 35A have been specially invited to the conclave to highlight their plight. A two-member delegation of West Pakistan refugees headed by Labha Ram Gandhi participated in the inaugural session of the high-profile conclave inaugurated by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at Nagpur this morning. Organised by RSS-affiliated Jammu Kashmir Study Centre, the event has been named ‘Sapt-Sindhu Jammu Kashmir Ladakh Mahotsav’ to showcase the culture of the region and to highlight the…

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Two militants killed in overnight encounter post attack on BJP leader

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The encounter started on Thursday afternoon after militants fired at the security officer of BJP’s Anwar Khan in Khunmoh area and escaped. The officer, Bilal Ahmad, received a minor “(bullet) grazing injury on one leg”. Two suspected militants were killed in an overnight encounter on the outskirts of Srinagar which started after they fired on security officers of a BJP leader and tried to escape, officials said on Friday morning. “Two bodies of militants have been recovered so far, whose identities are being ascertained. Along (with) the bodies, incriminating materials which…

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