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Javid Amin - IT Consultant, Freelance Writer, Travel Enthusiast, Entrepreneur Javid Amin is a dynamic professional with a diverse skill set and a passion for technology, travel, and entrepreneurship. With a background in IT engineering, he excels as an IT consultant and is equally enthusiastic about staying ahead in the ever-evolving tech world. Javid's creative flair shines through his work as a freelance writer, where he crafts engaging content across a wide spectrum of topics. As a travel enthusiast and consultant, he shares his love for exploration and his deep knowledge of Kashmir's hidden gems. Javid is also the visionary behind several successful digital ventures, each contributing to the promotion of Kashmir's beauty, culture, and craftsmanship. His career embodies versatility, creativity, and a deep connection to his roots. Printer, Publisher, Editor of "Weekly Shohrat - Kashmir" (Print Edition) as well owner of online news portals www.KashmirPost.org / www.KashmirInFocus.com.

Jammu City gets drenched in festive colours, Governor, First Lady celebrate Holi

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Holi — the festival of colours — was celebrated with fervour and gaiety across Jammu onThursday. Youth drenched in colours were seen celebrating the festival on streets and markets. Since morning, people were visiting their relatives and friends to extend the festival greetings and exchanging sweets. The city markets were abuzz as people were buying colour and sweets. Youths on motorcycles and in cars were seen singing ‘Holi ayi re’ and ‘Holi hai bhai Holi hai, bura na mano Holi hai’. The impact of the instructions of Inspector General of…

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Jaish-e-Mohammad gaining ground across Kashmir valley

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In both anti-insurgency operations last week at Hajin in Bandipora district of north Kashmir, militants managed to escape taking advantage of darkness. After a brief exchange of fire, youth clashed with security forces to disrupt the operations and helping nearly five militants involved in both operations escape the security net. One of the militants, a Pakistan national, who had fled in an injured condition, succumbed later. Earlier this month, a charged crowd of villagers had thrown stones during a cordon and search operation to help a militant escape in the…

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Jammu-Srinagar highway shut due to landslides in Ramban

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The 300-km-long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed due to landslide and falling of stones from hill tops in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police official said on Friday. “Traffic has been suspended on the highway due to falling of rocks and landslide triggered due to rains in Digdol belt in Ramsoo tehsil of the district today,” the police officer said. The men and machines of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has been pressed into service to clear the landslides.

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BJP takes on Mehbooba Mufti sides with Hindu Ekta Manch

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Don’t detain anyone, don’t interrogate anyone: BJP minister asks Police The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cabinet ministers Choudhary Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga took on Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti by addressing a rally at Kootah organised by Hindu Ekta Manch that is fighting for the release of the rape-and-murder accused of an eight-year-old Gujjar girl. “Let the CM return, I and Lal Singh will meet her and ensure that the investigation is handed over to CBI as people have lost faith in the Crime Branch probe,” Industries Minister,…

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Proposed flyovers for Srinagar ‘Dumped’

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A government proposal to construct four small flyovers (grade separators) along Bypass here has been reportedly put in a “cold storage,” an official told Kashmir Post on Friday. He said that Roads and Buildings department had submitted the proposal seeking funding for the construction of small flyovers along Bypass at four intersections— Sanat Nagar, Nowgam, Bemina and Shalteng to ease the traffic movement along the highway. The proposal, according to the official, was cleared by then Road and Buildings minister, Syed AltafBukhari, whose portfolio was later changed. “He (Altaf Bukhari)…

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BJP ministers reach out to Kathua villagers, slam govt

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Handover case to CBI or face extended strike: HEM Question ‘Jungle Raj’ by Crime Branch; to meet CM for CBI probe into rape case Differences emerged within the ruling PDP-BJP coalition over the alleged rape and murder case of a minor nomad girl in Kathua today when two senior BJP ministers came down heavily on their own government for “creating jungle raj” in the victim’s Rasana village and not going in for a CBI investigation into the case. The ministers also questioned the role of the state police as well…

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For harmony, two Lucknow clerics change Friday prayer timings on Holi

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The chief minister’s office has directed all the district magistrates to convene meetings of people of both the communities (Hindus and Muslims) to ensure peace and harmony on the festive occasion. Two prominent Muslim clerics have decided to change this Friday’s namaaz (prayer) timings as the occasion coincides with Holi on March 2. The step was taken to ensure communal harmony, said Islamic scholar and Imam-e-Eidgah Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali. “As the festive occasion of Holi is on Friday, I have decided to reschedule the Friday prayers at the…

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Will Neelum-Jhelum project get operational by March 23?

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In a major setback the much-touted Rs 500.343 billion Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project with capacity to generate 969MW may not be able to come on stream even in the third week of March as the retaining wall of its rock filled dam has got shifted from its original position. The faulty design has led to the shifting of the retaining wall of the dam, a top source told The News while referring to viewpoint of the contractor of the project about this ugly happening. Confirmed by three top officials of Wapda…

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Kashmiri Pandit’s ‘Kiss of Life’ saves a Muslim in Delhi

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A coincidence meeting and a timely ‘kiss of life’ by a Kashmiri Pandit saved an almost-dying Kashmiri Muslim on a Delhi metro Tuesday night. When Kuldeep Raina, a New Delhi-based computer professional, who Tuesday got stuck in office work till late night, boarded the Delhi metro, he found a commuter gasping for breath. “The person was accompanied by an elderly person and two children between the age groups of four to five who were struggling to help him,” Raina said talking to Kashmir Post over phone from New Delhi. The…

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Vested interests trying to communalize Kathua incident: Police

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The police today said that some vested interests “are trying to communalize the situation” to put pressure on the agency investigating the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Kathua. “And, unfortunately some media organizations have also started playing into the hands of such troublemaking elements,” it said. Reacting to a news report published in a Jammu-based daily today, a spokesman of the zonal police headquarters Jammu in a statement said that as has been “misleadingly reported by the said newspaper, no migration has occurred in Hiranagar area and…

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