Month: June 2020

Domicile is a reality now, LG inaugurates online services for issuance of Domicile Certificate

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Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today launched the e-Application-cum-issuance of Domicile Certificate, developed by Jammu and Kashmir e-Governance Agency (JaKeGA), here at the Raj Bhavan. With the launch of this service, the count of the Government to Citizen (G2C) online services reached 27. It is an addition to the UT Government’s e-governance initiatives to speed up a public delivery mechanism through minimal human intervention, besides ensuring efficiency, transparency, and reliability of such services. BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Bipul Pathak, Principal Secretary to Lieutenant Governor and Administrative Secretary of Information Technology…

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OIC to hold an emergency meeting on J&K

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Meeting to bring together foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Niger, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir will hold an emergency meeting via videoconference on Monday to discuss the latest situation in the disputed territory. The online meet will bring together the foreign ministers of the Jammu And Kashmir Contact Group member states: Azerbaijan, Niger, Pakistan Saudi Arabia and Turkey, the OIC said in a statement. “The meeting is part of a series of continuous Jammu And Kashmir Contact Group meetings…

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‘If no one entered Indian territory, then how did our 20 Soldiers died?’: Congress asks PM

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Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Sunday posed five questions for the Centre to answer on government’s position on the Indo-China border conflict over the past 6 weeks that peaked with a deadly clash in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley along the LAC on June 15, resulting in 20 casualties among Indian Army soldiers and an unverified number of deaths on the Chinese side . Among other questions, Sibal alleged that the government was in denial of Chinese “intrusions” as “confirmed” by army generals and satellite imagery and sought to know…

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Coronavirus: When to wear a mask and when you can skip it

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The studies on masks aren’t perfectly definitive, but that’s typical of many issues involving health risks — from mercury contamination to cancer screenings. It’s still better to make decisions based on an incomplete body of evidence than to ignore evidence altogether. Science has a lot to say about the effectiveness of wearing a mask to stop the spread of the coronavirus, but the communication of that science has been corrupted by a combination of partisan divides, sensationalist media stories, distrust, false dichotomies, and letting the perfect be the enemy of…

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Govt identifies 67 sites for opening liquor shops in Kashmir

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The J&K Government is going to open liquor sale points at different locations in the Kashmir valley, where since 1991 militant groups had declared a ban on its sale and consumption. The Excise Department has identified 183 new locations — 116 in Jammu and 67 in the Kashmir valley — for sale of liquor. According to an official document, the Excise Department has conducted a survey in exercise of the powers under rule 28 of the J&K Liquor and License Rules-1984 and Section 4 (B) of the Excise Act and…

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Bringing the Israeli model to Kashmir

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The gradual encroachment on Kashmiri’s rights and the growing prospect of colonisation could set the region on fire. By Anuradha Bhasin For more than 70 years, Kashmiris have lived with the dread of the Indian government changing the demography and special status of Indian-administered Kashmir, which was till recently Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state. Deemed preposterous and exaggerated at one time, these anxieties have now become completely justified and have even deepened. On August 5, 2019, Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which gave the state its special status and…

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J&K’s Special Status was taken away so the land could be gifted to China: Iltija Mufti

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Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter gives big statement over Section 370 removal Iltija Mufti, daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti, has once again taken up the case of Section 370 on the pretext of a clash with Chinese soldiers in the Galvan Valley of Ladakh. She has tweeted that whether the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was taken away so that the land here could be given as a gift to China. Iltija Mufti is currently handling the Twitter account of her mother Mehbooba Mufti and through that,…

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We butchered freedom to win slavery

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By – Hashim Qureshi A scuffle took place between Indian and Chinese border forces somewhere on the border of Eastern Ladakh. Many in Azad Kashmir and some on this side of the valley and also many in Pakistan began to celebrate the faceoff by beating drums and cracking crackers. Animosity has made all of them blind. Euphoric to see the enemy dragged to destruction and defeat we do not have even the little vision about what next and what gain is it going to bring to us? Let us go…

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Post deadly clash on LAC, India’s Prime Minister denies Chinese incursion

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Prime Minister’s remarks came after talks with party heads, with opposition leaders raising the issue of intelligence failures India’s prime minister has said the country is “hurt and angry” at the killing of 20 soldiers by Chinese forces in a disputed Himalayan border region but appeared to downplay the incident in a public address, denying there had been any incursion into Indian territory. “Nobody has intruded into our border, neither is anybody there now nor have our posts been captured,” Narendra Modi said in a televised speech on Friday after…

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Restore Pre-August 5 position of J&K: National Conference

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Statements to create an atmosphere of ‘peace, love and amity’ have no meaning unless the Centre respects the political aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, say 11 leaders of the party Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s all-party meeting over the Ladakh face-off with China and the death of 20 soldiers, the top leadership of the National Conference (NC) on Friday praised the BJP leadership’s reconciliatory tone and demanded the restoration of pre-August 5, 2019 constitutional position of Jammu and Kashmir and the unification of the Union Territories…

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