Day: March 17, 2022

The Kashmir Files ‘BJP Propaganda’, Congress should throw away the ‘Hijab’ of fake secularism: Saamana Editorial

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The Kashmir Files ‘BJP Propaganda’, Congress should throw away the ‘Hijab’ of fake secularism: Saamana Editorial

In the latest Saamana editorial, the Shiv Sena has asked its alliance partner Congress Party to throw away its pseudo-secularism as an ideology and create counter-narratives against the BJP instead. The party in its mouthpiece Saamana has lashed out at the Congress asking how much more it is going to lose. It has also alleged that the BJP is doing propaganda by fuelling issues over the hijab controversy and with movies like The Kashmir Files. After Congress’ brutal loss in the assembly elections, its Maha Vikas Aghadi ally in Maharashtra…

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Tulip Festival: Early flower bloom at Tulip Garden Srinagar

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Tulip Festival: Early flower bloom at Tulip Garden Srinagar

Kashmir is witnessing increasingly hot weather at this time of the spring season, bringing cheers to floriculturists who expect an early bloom at the Tulip Garden in Srinagar. The day temperatures in Kashmir are hovering around 25ºC, some 9-10 degrees above normal, for the past at least three days. The rise in temperature is considered good for the early blooming of flowers meant for ornamentation and tourism, but bad for horticulture as it impacts the quality of fruits owing to fluctuating temperatures, experts say. The heat factor, meanwhile, has prompted…

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PM and GoI must rise above ‘Petty politics and Propaganda films’: Asaduddin Owaisi

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PM and GoI must rise above 'Petty politics and Propaganda films': Asaduddin Owaisi

AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said PM Modi and the government must rise about their petty politics and propaganda films, criticising defence minister Rajnath Singh’s statement in the Rajya Sabha concerning the accidental missile-firing which landed in Pakistan. Citing the Bloomberg report that has claimed that India’s accidental missile-firing prompted Pakistan to prepare a retaliatory strike, Owaisi said the defense ministry’s statement told nothing. “Is its true that there were more missiles on the launcher which had to be stopped from taking off after the first one did? Do…

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Instead of healing old wounds and creating a conducive atmosphere between the two communities, the Centre is ‘Deliberately tearing them apart’: Mehbooba Mufti

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Instead of healing old wounds and creating a conducive atmosphere between the two communities, the Centre is 'Deliberately tearing them apart': Mehbooba Mufti

The aggressive manner in which the Centre is promoting “The Kashmir Files” film and “weaponising” the pain of Kashmiri Pandits makes its “ill intention” obvious, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on Wednesday. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief said instead of healing old wounds and creating a conducive atmosphere between the two communities, the Centre is “deliberately tearing them apart”. “The manner in which GOI (Government of India) is aggressively promoting Kashmir Files & is weaponising pain of Kashmiri Pandits makes their ill intention obvious,” Mehbooba Mufti wrote on Twitter.…

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