Amid a crisis over thousands of tonnes of apple rotting in stranded trucks along the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to allow held-up trucks to move towards Jammu tonight so that they can take the apples to mandis in different parts of country. A statement said 4,000 trucks will be cleared tonight. These trucks are stranded after the traffic police stopped them for over a week. Fruit-growers say more than 8,000 trucks carrying perishable fruit were stopped and left to rot along the highway. At…
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Due highway halts truckloads of apples start to rot before deliveries
Roadworks have halted thousands of trucks carrying millions of dollars worth of apples on Indian Kashmir’s main highway, a major union leader said on Monday, triggering protests by growers as their produce begins to rot. Highway repairs were causing massive delays along the highway that connects the disputed Kashmir valley to the rest of India, meaning huge expected losses. “We have 8,000 trucks carrying apples worth 100 crore rupees (one billion rupees, or about $12.25 million) stranded on the highway for the last two weeks,” Bashir Ahmad Basheer, the head…
Read MoreDemocratic Azad Party: Ghulam Nabi Azad announced the highly anticipated name where youth, seniors would co-exist
Veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday announced the name of his new party nearly a month after his exit from the Congress. The new party would be called the ‘Democratic Azad Party’, he said at an event, stressing that the party would have “no age bar”. “Youth and veterans would co-exist in the party,” he underlined. Azad had ended his decades long association with the Congress on August 26. “Around 1,500 names for my new party were sent to us, in Urdu, and Sanskrit. The mix of Hindi and…
Read MoreMuttahida Majlis-e-Ulema seeks ban on bhajans across schools in Kashmir
Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), a collective of around 30 Islamic religious and educational organisations in Kashmir, on Saturday urged the government and education department to stop practices like “singing of bhajans and Surya Namaskars” in schools as it was hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims. The MMU, headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chief cleric of Jamia Masjid and Hurriyat chairman, expressed resentment against imposing acts in the name of “yoga and morning prayers” in educational institutions and alleged that Muslim students are made to chant bhajans and at times asked to…
Read MoreTwo non-local labourers shot at, injured in Pulwama
In yet another attack on the non-local labourers, militants fired at and injured two non-local labourers in the Pulwama district. Police said the targeted attack took place in Ratnipora village on Saturday evening. “Terrorists fired upon & injured 02 outside labourers at Kharpora Ratnipora in #Pulwama. They have been shifted to hospital where their condition is stated to be stable. Identified as Shamshad S/O Islam Shiekh & Faizan Qasri S/O Fayaz Qadri, R/O Batya Zila Bihar,” tweeted J&K police spokesman soon after the attack. Police and Army cordoned off the…
Read MoreNon local labourer shot at, injured in Pulwama
A non-local labourer was shot at and injured in Ugergund Newa area of Pulwama district on Friday. Police in a tweet as per said that a non-Lcal was shot at and injured by militants in Ugergund area of south Kashmir’s . They said that labour identified as Muneeb ul islam son of Ab Kabir resident of West Bengal got injured and was shifted to district hospital Pulwama for treatment where his condition is said to be stable. He added that area has been cordoned off to nab the attackers. “Militants…
Read MoreRestoration of Article 370: Kashmiri activists begin hunger strike at Jantar Mantar
Kashmiri social and human rights activists on Thursday held a protest and began a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar demanding the revocation of 370, PSA and UAPA in Jammu and Kashmir. The protesting activists requested the Supreme Court of India to hear them and return back 5th August, 2019 status to the people of JK. “Release all political prisoners who are incarcerated under draconian laws like PSA and UAPA should be shifted to Kashmir time bound and fair trail should be given to the all prisoners of JK,” the activists…
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