Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led charity organisation, ‘Dar-ul-Khair’, has decided to felicitate “real heroes” and “groups”, which played key role in rescue and relief operations in the September floods last year. The awards would be given by Mirwaiz during a function being on September 6, the trust said in a statement.
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Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today took a dig at RSS over its coordination meeting with BJP and questioned how it could be called a ‘social organisation’. “So the RSS is doing a 3-day performance appraisal of the Modi government. Anyone else want to tell me that they are a ‘social organisation’?” Omar tweeted. His comment came as the top brass of the RSS and the BJP met in Delhi today for a three-day coordination meeting to take stock of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government’s one year…
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Like other parts of the country, the all-India general strike, called by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions , was also observed in the city today. The J&K joint platform of trade unions, comprising Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and insurance, banks, BSNL and Central government employees, protested against the alleged anti-people and anti-workers polices of the Union Government. The 24-hour strike badly affected the functioning of Central government offices and banking operations as there was a…
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Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah is in the midst of a controversy in the wake of his recent application for LPG subsidy, which was criticised by his rivals. Abdullah, the president of main opposition National Conference, has submitted a form for non-Aadhar based LPG subsidy transfer with Super Gas Sevice at Durga Nag, a distributor of HP Gas, on August 14 this year, an official of the gas agency said. During the Lok Sabha elections last year, he had declared an annual income of more than Rs…
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Stresses upon GI Registration, price tagging of genuine products Stressing better branding of Kashmir Handicrafts, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today called for a concerted effort to overcome challenges in better marketing of hand-made products in the burgeoning domestic and international markets. Describing today’s entrepreneur as a “technopreneur” who is ready to take on the world, Sayeed said the export-oriented handicraft products will sell like hot cakes, even in wake of fierce competition, if we stick to globally-recognised benchmarks in originality and pricing. Investors should take a cue from the…
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Police have claimed to have arrested six persons in connection with the uploading of photos and videos of Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Burhan Wani and others on social media sites. A police officer told GNS that six persons have been taken into custody from different parts of south Kashmir and they are being questioned in this regard. He said a case FIR number 5/2015 U/S17, 18, 18A unlawful activities act has been registered at Awantipora Police Station. The police officer said that the manhunt to nab the persons involved in uploading…
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One army jawan and a militant were killed on Wednesday in an encounter between militants and security forces in the Ladura area of Rafiabad in north Kashmir. While the jawan was killed in the morning when militants fired at security forces, the militant identified as Riyaz Ahmad of Brath Kalan in Sopore was killed when the army razed the residential house where the militants were holed up. According to officials, Ahmad was a local commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen. Earlier reports had suggested that two militants were holed up in…
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Radio Sada-e-Hurriyet-e Jammu Kashmir has launched its round-the-clock Internet transmission featuring current news after every hour, commentaries, reports, talk shows and revolutionary songs. The radio has been working for the last twenty-four years broadcasting programmes to strengthen the Kashmir liberation movement. It has been effectively projecting the human rights violations by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir. A link to the Internet radio of RSHK has been created at the website of Kashmir Media Service.
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Few days left for the anniversary of the last years flood, but nothing has been done to rehabilitate the flood victims in Jammu and Kashmir. Government have only paid lip service to flood-affected people and not released any rehabilitation package. The situation has not changed so far and around seventy percent of the damaged houses are still incomplete. The flood victims are still waiting for the relief, floods of 2014 left Kashmir reeling. Causing widespread devastation, the floods washed away houses and damaged orchids, agriculture land, which farmers used to earn…
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New Commissioner denies receiving any such reports It is 4 AM, Tanveer Ahmad (name changed), a government employee, is waiting in a long queue outside the main gate of one of the missionary schools in Srinagar. In order to enroll his daughter in Nursery class, Tanveer has to fulfill all the prerequisites including the stringent age criteria set by the school stating ‘Children born between Jan 2012 to Dec 2012 shall only be eligible’. Like Tanveer scores of other parents ensure they fulfill the criteria by any means even if…
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