Month: March 2019

Dal Lake’s floating produce market is a Lifeline amid the Unrest in Kashmir

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In pre-dawn darkness and near-freezing drizzle, the shikara — a graceful, gondola-like canopied boat — made its way through a series of waterways. It was taking me to the daily wholesale floating produce market that begins at daybreak on Dal Lake in Srinagar, the main city of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state. Kashmir, the region disputed between Pakistan and India and engulfed by unrest for decades, saw renewed fighting in recent weeks. But on this morning on Dal Lake, the only sounds were the steady dipping of my shikara wallah…

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PDP, BJP still in alliance in J&K: National Conference

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National Conference on Wednesday lashed out at Peoples Democratic Party saying that the party was still in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and hand-in-glove to influence the polls by “deceit and deception.”Senior National Conference (NC) leaders, in a joint statement, said: “We have credible information about PDP soliciting the advice and direction of the BJP for fielding candidates, convenient to it, for Jammu-Poonch and Kathua-Udhampur parliamentary constituencies to facilitate division of anti-BJP votes in order to ensuring the victory of BJP candidates.” The NC leaders said that the…

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J&K tourism may advertise in upcoming IPL

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In a move to attract visitors back to Kashmir, J&K tourism department is mulling to advertise state’s tourism destinations during the telecast of upcoming IPL 2019 from various sports channels. According to an official spokesperson, Advisor to Governor Khurshid Ahmed Ganai on Wednesday directed the tourism department to submit a proposal for showing small duration advertisements on the state tourism destinations and potentials on the sports channels during IPL 2019 matches. He was chairing a meeting of the department to review the functioning of tourism department and its preparedness for…

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Kashmir is rich in natural resources

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We know that politics is prevailing everywhere in Kashmir, whether it may be our homes or schools, religious places or local chowks, playground or public parks, business establishments or offices. We are considering ourselves as masters in discussing political scenario that too not only our Kashmir issue but also on the happenings around the world. Recently, I visited my uncle’s home and GST was on top of agenda among the presentees. I observed that everyone was diverting towards political scenario even having been an economical issue like GST. That is…

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Srinagar figures among dirtiest cities in India

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In a shocking revelation Srinagar city has been again listed among dirtiest cities across India, securing the 357th rank in Swachh Survekshan 2019 and has stepped down by 110 ranks than the previous year.The data which was revealed by Ministry of Housing and Union Affairs last week, Srinagar city has secured 357th rank with 1470.42 marks out of 4000. The survey was conducted in January 2019 and it has covered around 4,237 cities across India. According to the survey, Indore (Madhya Pradesh) has been adjudged India’s cleanest city for a…

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Down for hours, Facebook, Instagram suffer a major global outage

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Facebook and Instagram on Wednesday suffered a major global outage. Users were unable to access the two platforms on their smartphones as well as on desktop. Messenger is also down for several users. Some users complained that they could not log into their Facebook accounts. Instagram and Messenger users also faced similar problems. Some also complained that the News Feed was not refreshing at all. WhatsApp is also partially down for some users as they are unable to access some key features such as voice notes. Facebook said it was…

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In pre poll process more arrests on cards : J&K Police

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Police plan to arrest more people in the run up to the general elections. Sources in the police said their focus is to keep “trouble makers in check” so that there is no untoward incident and people come out to vote in a “fear-free environment”. “The process to arrest potential trouble makers is underway,” a senior superintendent of police told Kashmir Post. He said every arrest will be made after a thorough background check. “Some people have changed and now we do not want them in custody,” he said.Another senior…

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Today World Wide Web turns 30

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Today, the web completed 30 years on Earth. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) on March 12, 1989 at CERN, a research organization near Geneva. CERN is now giving users access to the first website created. The first website can be accessed through the URL “info.cern.ch” which also happens to be the original address. Titled “World Wide Web”, the website has hyperlinks to different documents related to the web. Here, users can find out what is hypertext, a summary of the project, software products and help with the…

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India’s election is among the world’s most expensive exercise

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The world’s biggest democracy will soon hold what’s likely to beone of the world’s costliest elections.India’s six-week-long vote will span the Himalayan range in the north, the Indian Ocean in the south, the Thar desert in the west and the mangroves of the Sundarbans in the east. This time the polling exercise, due to start on April 11 and be completed by May 19, will cost an unprecedented 500 billion rupees ($7 billion),accordingto the New Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies. About$6.5 billionwas spent during the US presidential and congressional races…

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Polling for Anantnag Lok Sabha seat will be held in three phases?

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On Sunday, when the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls, it left many in J&K bemused. The state has six parliamentary constituencies, but the body announced eight dates for conducting the electoral exercise. “Has there been a delimitation of Parliamentary constituencies through Presidential order?” asked former finance minister Haseeb Drabu, as he questioned Commission’s poll schedule for “eight” seats in J&K. “The last time I checked the J&K had only six (LS) seats,” he tweeted in total amusement. Even former chief minister Omar…

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