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Post India Pakistan cricket match, Kashmiri Students allegedly attacked at Punjab College

October 25, 2021 Editor

Punjab police officials arrived at the college campus soon after and said that situation at Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology was brought under control. Several Kashmiri students at an engineering college in Punjab’s Sangrur alleged that they were assaulted late last night moments after India lost its opening T20 World Cup match against Pakistan. Punjab police officials arrived at the college campus soon after and said that situation at Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology was brought under control. “We were watching the match here. UP waale…

Apple farms devastated as early snow destroyed fruits & cracked trees

October 25, 2021 Editor

Apple growers say the damages are more profound in the hilly Shopian district where snowfall has been liberal and damages extensive. Red, green, and yellow apples, some ripe and some unripe lay scattered over acres of land as Aamir Hussain paced towards his orchard on a snowy morning in south Kashmir. Minutes later as he stood there and looked around, he knelt down shaking his head in disbelief. It took him a while to process what heavy and unseasonal snow had done to trees and crops in his orchard. He…

Pretending all is Normal in J&K Like “Suicide”: Kashmiri Pandit’s Group

October 25, 2021 Editor

The undertaking says police will not be held responsible for the security of Pandits. J&K Police deny that people are under pressure to sign it. Kashmiri Pandits living in the Valley, already rattled by the spate of civilian killings over the past month, are now angry and upset over an “undertaking” sent by the Jammu and Kashmir Police. According to Sanjay Tickoo, who heads the Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti, the police initially asked the families to house security personnel guarding them in their homes, and when the families refused, sent…

Bipin Rawat – Chief of Defence Staff General warns of further curbs in Kashmir

October 25, 2021 Editor

Chief of Defence Staff points to rise in militant attacks, blames Pakistan The Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat has said restrictions imposed following the scrapping of Article 370 may return to the Kashmir Valley at the cost of freedom of movement because of terror strikes. He also accused Pakistan of carrying out a proxy war to “create fear-mongering” because “a semblance of peace and tranquillity was happening” in Jammu and Kashmir. “Whenever there is peace and tranquillity in Jammu and Kashmir, our western adversary creates a situation where…

Migrant workers who have become integral part of Kashmir’s economy

October 25, 2021 Editor

Over the past two decades, migrant labourers from India’s heartland have become an integral part of Kashmir’s economy. In the past two weeks, 11 civilians, including migrant labour and non-Muslim Kashmiris, have been killed. By Deeptiman Tiwary & Naveed Iqbal With a forlorn look on his face, Sajjad Wani is puffing cigarette after cigarette. The owner of a furniture-making unit in Pulwama’s Litter in South Kashmir has a series of orders pending with him, but no workers to complete them. With logs of raw wood lying beside a row of…

Cricket is never just a game between India and Pakistan

October 25, 2021 Editor

It’s one of the greatest rivalries in sports when war off the field allows it — a contest of national identities that will be renewed this Sunday in a World Cup match. By Mujib Mashal The event will be watched by hundreds of millions around the world, on televisions in remote villages, jumbo screens in crowded cities, phones in migrant labor tenements and flickering monitors in the living rooms of a diaspora spread across the world’s time zones. Face-offs on the cricket field between India and Pakistan, like the expected…

In wake of recent targeted killings, Bunkers and Boots back on Srinagar streets

October 23, 2021 Editor

In wake of targeted killings, Bunkers and Boots back on Srinagar streets

According to reports, this time new bunkers have come up at places where they did not exist even at the peak of militancy in the Valley in the 1990s. A spate of civilian killings by militants in Kashmir over the past few weeks has brought the return of security bunkers on Srinagar roads after nearly eight years, as well as an increased presence of paramilitary troops. Manned by the central armed paramilitary forces, the bunkers are being set up across Srinagar – highlighting the deteriorating security situation in the Valley.…

Story Behind: Amit Shah’s first visit to Kashmir since Article 370 abrogation

October 23, 2021 Editor

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be visiting Kashmir Valley for the first time since the abrogation of Article 370. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will spend three days in Jammu and Kashmir beginning Saturday. His Kashmir visit comes as part of the Narendra Modi government’s outreach program under which Union ministers are traveling to the region. This is Amit Shah’s first visit to the Kashmir Valley since August 2019 when he brought a resolution to cease operation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, and a reorganisation bill that…

National Highway shut for traffic due to landslides & shooting stones, Fresh snowfall in higher reaches and heavy rain lashes plains

October 23, 2021 Editor

The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed for traffic as landslides and shooting stones hit the highway in the Ramban area. Higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir received fresh snowfall on Saturday, while heavy rain lashed the plains in the union territory. A Met Department official said moderate to heavy rain continued in the plains while Sonamarg, Pahalgam, Gulmarg, and other places in the higher reaches received fresh snowfall. “Moderate to heavy rain lashed the plains. Same weather conditions are likely to continue during the next 24 hours”, the official added.…

Ahead of Amit Shah’s Kashmir visit eCommerce disrupted with crackdown on Two-Wheelers

October 23, 2021 Editor

The recent spate of civilian killings in the region has seen security step up in general. But now, the arbitrary seizures of two-wheelers in and around the city are crippling the e-commerce industry. Jehangir Ali Ahead of Union home minister Amit Shah’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir, security forces have launched a crackdown on motorbikes, disrupting e-commerce and local businesses that depend on two-wheelers to keep their services afloat. According to reports, the J&K Police started the crackdown last week, seizing several hundred two-wheelers across the capital, Srinagar, in a…