Month: April 2019

Alliance with BJP, Poor Infrastructure may cost PDP on home turf

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Of the six Assembly segments in Anantnag district going to polls in the first leg of the three-phased Lok Sabha elections on Tuesday, Bijbehara, the hometown of the Muftis, may not bring the desired results for them this time. The situation has arisen for the party for the first time when it completes two decades of its existence, thanks to the neglect in developing the area and its “unholy alliance” with the BJP. The parliamentary elections have pitted the PDP against its traditional friends and rivals, the Congress and National…

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Amid tight security, Polling begins for Anantnag LS seat

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Amid unprecedented security, polling started on Tuesday for the first phase of the three-phased Anantnag Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir, election officials said. Polling began at 7 a.m. and will end at 4 p.m. Heavy deployment of THE Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) and state police has been made to secure the polling stations and provide safety to the voters. Security forces are also deployed along roads and hillside areas overlooking the polling stations to prevent militants from disrupting the poll process. Mobile Internet facility and train services…

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Shutdown on Tuesday against ‘ill-treatment’ to Yasin Malik: Joint Resistance Leadership

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Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called a protest shutdown in Kashmir on Tuesday against “ill-treatment meted-out to the ailing and incarcerated JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik by NIA at Delhi”. In a statement, the JRL said the shutdown would also be observed against the “ongoing aggression of NIA and ED against Kashmiri resistance leaders, activists, senior businessmen, trade union leaders, kith and kin of resistance leaders and other people from different walks of like.” The JRL said that the “highhandedness” of the NIA has “forced” Malik to go on a…

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Scrap Article 370, introduce National Register for Citizens across the country: BJP president Amit Shah

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BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said his party will scrap Article 370 of the Constitution which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and introduce National Register for Citizens across the country after returning to power. Shah accused TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee of questioning the air strikes to “appease” her minority vote bank and wryly said she can do “Ilu Ilu” with Pakistan but if that country fire bullets on us we would respond with cannon balls. On the campaign trail in West Bengal’s Uluberia Lok Sabha seat in…

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I’m proud to accept I was involved in Babri Masjid’s demolition: Sadhvi Pragya

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Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Candidate, and 2008 Malegaon blast accused, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur on Sunday said she is “proud” to accept that she was involved in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. When she was asked by reporters about her involvement in the demolition of Babri Masjid and if she would play a major role in building a Ram temple in Ayodhya, Ms. Thakur said, “I will go to make the Ram Temple. I have said it yesterday and I am not denying it that I had…

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5 Indians among 290 killed in Sri Lanka Easter blasts, 24 suspects arrested

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The death toll from attacks on churches and luxury hotels across Sri Lanka rose significantly to 290, and about 500 people were also wounded, police said on Monday. Five Indians were among those killed in the bombings in Sri Lanka, confirmed EAM Sushma Swaraj on Monday. At least 290 people were killed, among them dozens of foreigners. Sri Lankan authorities have arrested 24 people from the minority Muslim community in connection with the multiple blasts that rocked the island nation on Sunday, reported news agency PTI. Eight apparently co-ordinated explosions targeted…

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Rijiju, Naqvi to mobilise Buddhists, Shias in Ladakh

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Even as the BJP leadership has assigned responsibility to two Union ministers – Kiran Rijiju and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi – to mobilise Buddhists and Shias of Leh and Kargil districts, respectively, the state unit has requested the high command to organise the Prime Minister’s rally in the first week in May in Leh to ensure the retention of the Ladakh Lok Sabha seat. Polling for the Ladakh seat will be held in the fifth phase of elections on May 6 and the BJP has fielded 31-year-old Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, who…

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Darbar Move: “Rescheduling Priorities Will Save Precious Lives”

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Traffic snarl becomes more common in Srinagar city especially after opening of Durbar offices particularly at entering points. At regular intervals we usually come across troubled and irksome situations that unfortunately sometimes become the primary cause for loss of a precious life. But exercising proper care, lives could be saved; if patients including pregnant women, accident victims etc. reach hospital well in time. Injured and women in labour should reach hospital immediately in order to get special treatment, but, in our prevailing system, what is in vogue, there are arrangements…

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Infiltration of third-party goods, Channelling funds for militancy, Clandestine trade of drugs, Supply of arms and fake currency notes, reasons for suspending LoC trade: MHA

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The Union Ministry of Home Affairs Friday listed alleged channeling of funds for militancy in Kashmir and supply of arms and fake currency notes to the Valley among five main reasons for suspending the cross-Line of Control trade with Pakistan via Salamabad and Chakan-da-Bagh in Jammu and Kashmir. The MHA Thursday ordered suspension of cross-Line of Control trade via Salamabad and Chakan-da-Bagh in Jammu and Kashmir, with effect from Friday, following reports of alleged misuse of the trade routes by Pakistan-based elements for illegal inflow of narcotics, weapons and currency,…

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To make electoral gains BJP using Kashmir as scapegoat: Mehbooba Mufti

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Hours after India suspended trade across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir saying the route was being misused by Pakistan-based elements to smuggle weapons, narcotics and fake currency, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday claimed that the BJP was using Kashmir as a scapegoat to make electoral gains. Taking to Twitter, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said, “Using Kashmir as a scapegoat to claw its way back to power won’t help BJP. It’s an excuse to worsen ties with Pak (Pakistan) despite…

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