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Jawaharlal Nehru of internationalize the ‘Kashmir Issue’ by taking it to the United Nations: Nirmala Sitharaman

March 23, 2022 Editor

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday accused India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of internationalizing the Kashmir issue by taking it to the United Nations. Speaking in Rajya Sabha Sitharaman said the issue should not have gone to the global forum as it was an internal issue. Nehru had appealed to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) through a petition filed in January 1948 — after the outbreak of the first war between India and Pakistan. Based on his petition, the council had established the United Nations Commission for…

GoI made The Kashmir Files tax free to make people hate us to the extreme: Farooq Abdullah

March 23, 2022 Editor

Former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday, March 22, said that by making the Vivek Agnihotri directorial — ‘The Kashmir Files’ — tax-free, the BJP-led government wanted to push hatred into people’s hearts. “They want to further penetrate people’s hearts with hatred. They are saying that every policeman and soldier…everybody should see this movie so that they hate us to the extreme, as was in the Germany that Hitler and Goebles created. Six million Jews had to pay the price then. How many will have to…

Omar’s assertion of passing resolution in assembly on special status restoration a big lie: Sajad Lone

March 23, 2022 Editor

Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone on Tuesday said “assertions of Omar Abdulah and his party National Conference of passing a resolution on the revocation of Article-370 and 35 A in the assembly if voted to power was another gimmick and a big lie.” “It is Parliament which stripped J&K of its special status. We don’t agree with it and have taken the fight to court. However, the supremacy of the Parliament can’t be challenged by any assembly. Further J&K is now a Union Territory whose powers wrest with Lieutenant…

BJP dividing country on religious lines; Cong kept it safe: Mehbooba Mufti

March 23, 2022 Editor

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday alleged that BJP was devoid of any development agenda hence it was fanning communal passion to divide the people and the country on religious lines while Congress kept it safe all these years. She was addressing a workers’ convention in Vijaypur in the Samba district. PDP president alleged that the ruling dispensation led by BJP had failed to provide better road infrastructure, regular water and power supply besides addressing basic issues of people hence it was trying to distract them (people)…

Vikramaditya Singh quits Congress, offers his SWOT analysis

March 23, 2022 Editor

Vikramaditya Singh, 57, is the son of veteran Congress leader Karan Singh, and grandson of former Jammu & Kashmir ruler Maharaja Hari Singh. He joined Congress from the PDP in 2018. Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh on Tuesday resigned from the party “with immediate effect”, saying the Congress was unable to reflect the sentiments and aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Singh, who is the son of veteran Congress leader, Dr. Karan Singh, and grandson of former Jammu & Kashmir ruler Maharaja Hari Singh, has not spelt out his…

Farooq Khan LG’s adviser resigns, set to get key role in BJP

March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 Editor

Farooq Khan, the former adviser to Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha, said on Monday that he belonged to BJP since the very beginning and will share information at the “right time” if he contests the assembly elections. Khan, 67, a retired IPS officer who was instrumental in breaking the backbone of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s, submitted his resignation on Sunday evening to the ministry of home affairs and said he is hopeful that it will be accepted. He had earlier served as a…

Alert: In last 2 years Kashmir saw 340% rise in Intravenous Heroin abuse

March 22, 2022 Editor

Kashmir has been witnessing a sharp and shocking increase in Heroin abuse, the trends getting reflected in the records of the largest De-Addiction Center at SMHS Hospital: Between 2019 and the end of 2021, there was a 340 percent increase in the number of patients seeking treatment for Intravenous Heroin abuse. Psychiatrists working in SMHS Hospital said the fact that a large number, running into many thousands, is a monthly affair at the Hospital’s De-Addiction Center. Every day, distraught families accompanying their loved ones suffering substance abuse visit the hospital…

Civilian shot dead, another injured by unknown gunmen in separate incidents in Budgam and Pulwama

March 22, 2022 Editor

Militants on Monday shot dead a civilian and injured a non-local vendor in two separate incidents in Budgam and Pulwama districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. “Around 7:20 pm, terrorists fired at and injured a civilian, Tajamul Mohiuddin Rather, near his residence in Gothpora area of Budgam in central Kashmir,” a police official said. Rather was rushed to the hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries. In the second incident in Pulwama, a non-local vendor, Bisujeet Kumar from Bihar, was injured after militants fired at him at Circular Road,…

‘Kashmiris need to be Heard Helped and Healed’ : Shashi Tharoor

March 21, 2022 Editor

While ‘The Kashmir Files’ breaks all records at the box office, the debate over the issue still continues in the country as the Centre seems to support the film and the opposition claims that the film is not factually accurate. On Saturday, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tweeted a Facebook post on his Twitter account stating that even though he agrees with the point expressed in the post, it does not help the Pandits either. In his tweet, he wrote, “Hatred divides and kills. Kashmiris need justice. All need to be…

Grenade attacks in Tral, Shopian injuring one CRPF jawan, Non-local labourer shot by unknown gunmen in Pulwama

March 20, 2022 Editor

A Central Reserve Police Force ( CRPF) jawan was injured in a grenade attack in Shopian while another grenade missed its target in the Tral area of Pulwama district on Saturday. “Amit Kumar of 178 Battalion, who handles sniffer dogs of the unit, was injured after terrorists hurled a grenade at their camp in Zainapora area of Shopian,” police said, adding that his condition is stable. In another grenade attack, no one was injured as it missed the target. “ A grenade was tossed at CRPF camp. It missed the…