Year: 2018

BJP ministers reach out to Kathua villagers, slam govt

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Handover case to CBI or face extended strike: HEM Question ‘Jungle Raj’ by Crime Branch; to meet CM for CBI probe into rape case Differences emerged within the ruling PDP-BJP coalition over the alleged rape and murder case of a minor nomad girl in Kathua today when two senior BJP ministers came down heavily on their own government for “creating jungle raj” in the victim’s Rasana village and not going in for a CBI investigation into the case. The ministers also questioned the role of the state police as well…

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For harmony, two Lucknow clerics change Friday prayer timings on Holi

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The chief minister’s office has directed all the district magistrates to convene meetings of people of both the communities (Hindus and Muslims) to ensure peace and harmony on the festive occasion. Two prominent Muslim clerics have decided to change this Friday’s namaaz (prayer) timings as the occasion coincides with Holi on March 2. The step was taken to ensure communal harmony, said Islamic scholar and Imam-e-Eidgah Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali. “As the festive occasion of Holi is on Friday, I have decided to reschedule the Friday prayers at the…

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Will Neelum-Jhelum project get operational by March 23?

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In a major setback the much-touted Rs 500.343 billion Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project with capacity to generate 969MW may not be able to come on stream even in the third week of March as the retaining wall of its rock filled dam has got shifted from its original position. The faulty design has led to the shifting of the retaining wall of the dam, a top source told The News while referring to viewpoint of the contractor of the project about this ugly happening. Confirmed by three top officials of Wapda…

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Kashmiri Pandit’s ‘Kiss of Life’ saves a Muslim in Delhi

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A coincidence meeting and a timely ‘kiss of life’ by a Kashmiri Pandit saved an almost-dying Kashmiri Muslim on a Delhi metro Tuesday night. When Kuldeep Raina, a New Delhi-based computer professional, who Tuesday got stuck in office work till late night, boarded the Delhi metro, he found a commuter gasping for breath. “The person was accompanied by an elderly person and two children between the age groups of four to five who were struggling to help him,” Raina said talking to Kashmir Post over phone from New Delhi. The…

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Vested interests trying to communalize Kathua incident: Police

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The police today said that some vested interests “are trying to communalize the situation” to put pressure on the agency investigating the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Kathua. “And, unfortunately some media organizations have also started playing into the hands of such troublemaking elements,” it said. Reacting to a news report published in a Jammu-based daily today, a spokesman of the zonal police headquarters Jammu in a statement said that as has been “misleadingly reported by the said newspaper, no migration has occurred in Hiranagar area and…

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Mehbooba Mufti meets Narendra Modi, discusses security, development in J&K

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J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti and PM Modi on Wednesday discussed the security situation in the Valley as well as along the border with Pakistan. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. During the hour-long meeting, Mufti briefed the PM on the security situation in the Valley as well as along the border with Pakistan, which has been witnessing heavy cross-border firing and continuous attempts of infiltration by militants, an official said. The two leaders also discussed the ongoing peace initiatives undertaken by the…

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NHAI awards Rs 939 Cr contract to Ramky Infrastructure for ring road around Srinagar

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The National Highways Authority of India has awarded a Rs 939-crore project for the construction of the proposed Srinagar ring road to Ramky Infrastructure, the government said today. “The NHAI has issued the letter of award for construction of the proposed ring road/ bypass from Galander to Crossing of the Sumbel Road on the Jammu-Srinagar highway (NH-IA),” the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement. The 42.10-km project with a cost of Rs 939.41 crore has been awarded to Ramky Infrastructure and would be implemented on engineering,…

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Militant killed in encounter in Bandipora, combing operation underway

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A heavy gunbattle is still underway in Hajin area of Bandipora in J&K. A militant was gunned down in an encounter with security forces early on Thursday morning at Hajin in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, officials said. “One terrorist of LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) apparently FT (foreign terrorist) killed in an encounter in Hajin Bandipore today morning in a joint operation of J&K Police/Army/ CRPF,” director general of state police SP Vaid tweeted. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Shakurdin village in the morning after receiving information about presence…

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Understanding IS & Al-Qaeda in Kashmir: Tryst With ‘Branded Jihad’

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In November 2017, the Amaq News Agency, which is directly aligned with the so-called Islamic State’s (ISIS) operations, announced the first attack in Kashmir by the terror group in which a police officer was killed in Srinagar’s Gulabh Bagh area. Three months later, ISIS has claimed responsibility for a similar incident, this time in the city’s Soura area after constable Farooq Ahmed Yatoo was shot dead in front of separatist leader Fazal Haq Qureshi’s house, reportedly by ‘freelance’ militant Isha Fazli who also had connections with Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen.…

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BJP’s cyber pirates

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When India contested her first general election in 1952, the grand-old party – Congress – and its educated leader Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru won the election hands down. Since 1952, a lot has changed in India including her political spectrum with the advent of social media. No one in mainland India would have thought that social media would play a role in re-shaping the fortunes of a party and its leader. In this social media frenzied world, comes a book by one of India’s best known investigative and broadcast journalists Swati…

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