Year: 2018

Because of Modi’s mistakes Kashmir is on fire: Rahul Gandhi

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said Prime Minister NarendraModi had made “mistakes” on Jammu and Kashmir, as a result of which the state is “on fire”. Addressing a public meeting here, Gandhi also alleged that the ‘One-Rank, One-Pension’ scheme has not been implemented so far and the Prime Minister was speaking “lies” on the issue. He said a couple of days back, a delegation of ex- servicemen met him and said they had trusted Modi over OROP but were “disappointed” now. The Prime Minister “claims that OROP has been…

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1947: First Blood

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Within 24 hours after Kashmir acceded to India in 1947, the Srinagar airport was not only the epicentre of the first war that India and Pakistan fought over the Vale but a stage for Kashmir’s first cordon and a massacre. We traces the survivors of Kashmir first post-partition massacre to tell the story of dusky Gogo hamlet, that was obliterated from history He remembers everything as if that dark horror shook him only yesterday… Dusk had barely taken over when soldiers knocked at their doors, asking them to come out…

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Musharraf had asked separatists to seek concession from Delhi: JK Gov

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Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik has said that former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told Kashmiri separatist leaders to get concessions from New Delhi through a dialogue because India was a superpower and he would not be able to break it. “He [Musharraf] told them he would not be able to change the Line [of Control]. He had told them that neither India nor Pakistan can afford a war and that they should negotiate concessions for Kashmir,” Malik told HT in an interview. Asked if he was certain that…

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Minutes after take-off from Jakarta, Lion Air plane with 188 on board crashes into sea

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Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said on Monday a Lion Air passenger flight from Jakarta, the capital, to the city of Pangkal Pinang off the island of Sumatra, had crashed into the sea. The flight was carrying 188 people, including crew, an Indonesia transport ministry official said. The debris, including plane seats, have been found near the offshore facility of Indonesia energy firm Pertamina in Java sea, a company official said. The plane lost contact 13 minutes after takeoff, the official said, adding that a tug boat leaving the capital’s…

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PDP leaves panchayat poll participation to legislators

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MLAs, MLCs can take call on elections in their constituencies To keep its flock together, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership has authorised its legislators to decide on their own regarding the panchayat polls in their respective constituencies. The party was forced to adopt a flexible attitude on the elections as the boycott of civic bodies elections has not gone down well with its workers. Although no official announcement has been made in this regard, legislators were asked to take the decision on the panchayat elections on their own. Notably,…

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Sub-inspector, PDP worker shot dead in Pulwama

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Suspected militants Sunday shot dead a police officer at a village in southern Pulwama district while he was travelling in his car, the police said. A police officer said that militants waylaid the car of sub-inspector Imtiyaz Ahmad Mir in Wahibugh area at around 4.15 pm and took him to nearby Romshi Nallah and “fired upon him, resulting in his instant death.” The bullet-perforated body of the officer was lying in the area for quite some time before it was recovered by a police party, the official said. “When the…

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BJP- PDP manipulated list of J&K Bank to appoint favorites: Satya Pal Malik

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Governor Satya Pal Malik today exposed more scams in the State committed during previous PDP-BJP Government saying a complete selection list of 582 candidates in Jammu and Kashmir Bank was set aside to appoint political workers in their place and raised serious question mark on the working of Public Services Commission (PSC) saying a youth was selected for KAS even without appearing in the examinations. He said the Government had recruited such youths as teachers, who had been preaching fundamentalism while Government officials were pelting stones on way back from…

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Jammu celebrates Accession Day, Kashmir goes with Black Day

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Various functions were held across the Jammu region on Friday to celebrate the 72nd Accession Day. On October 26, 1947, last Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh had signed an Instrument of Accession and consequently the state of J&K had acceded to the Indian union. While the BJP organised a seminar at its party headquarters, the J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu, held another function. At the event organised by the People’s Opinion Forum on the banks of the Tawi, former minister and BJP MLA Choudhary Lal Singh was the chief…

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27th October is Black Day in History of Kashmir

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Kashmir is  a source of long standing dispute between Pakistan and India, which originated when the people of Jammu and Kashmir state were denied the right of self-determination in 1947. When India and Pakistan became independent on August 1947, it was generally assumed that Kashmir, as a contiguous state with a predominantly Muslim population, would accede to Pakistan. Its ruler, the Maharaja, however, on 27 October 1947 acceded to India through an improper and illegal Instrument of Accession although he has lost support of people who have established an independent…

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Durbar Move: Exchequer spends crores on Durbar shift exercise

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In the era of digitalisation and information technology, the cash-starved state spends a whopping Rs 100 crore on biannual Durbar move practice every year. A major chunk of the amount is utilised on “shifting” the official files, records and documents. The Durbar move is a ritual of shifting the civil secretariat every six months from one capital city to the other. According to the official order, this year the Durbar will close at Srinagar on October 26 and reopen in Jammu on November 5 for the winter session. “All departments…

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