Category: Community

Officer in Khaki manages to take over custodian land in Srinagar

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A senior police officer has managed to lay his hands on a huge plot of land belonging to the custodian department in the outskirts of the summer capital of the state. Despite the fact that the police officer holding the rank of Additional Director General (ADG) belongs to a well off family, the custodian department still chose him and showered ‘favour’ on him. The department has allotted around three kanals of custodian land to the police officer at Ishbar-Nishat. Reports said that men and machinery was pressed into service by…

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HC directs H&UDD to provide assistance to SMC in controlling stray dog menace

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The High Court on Monday directed Housing and Urban Development Department (H&UDD) to provide required finance assistance to Srinagar Municipal Corporation for controlling the menace of stray dogs in the summer capital. A division bench of Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmad and Justice Ali Muhammad Magrey issued the direction after it was informed that there was only one centre at Shuhama, for controlling the birth of the stray dogs at present. “In so far as birth control is concerned, at this centre, approximatelyb10 sterilization can be done per day. However,…

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A day after, anger sweeps Shopian

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An Army chopper came minutes past noon and circled over a gathering of several thousand men, women and children who were waiting for the body of a militant at Rakh Kapran village of Shopian. On an unusually tense day, the chopper was the only sign of government’s presence and its writ in the district, which is located on the southern edge of the Kashmir valley. As the chopper flew away after briefly circling in the air, the militant’s body arrived in a procession at a ground where mourners had gathered…

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Suhail Ajjaj, missing Kashmiri student kidnapped by Maoists, claims poster

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No substantial evidence: SSP Kupwara The disappearance of a Kashmiri medical student from here took a new turn after a handwritten poster was found claiming that he was kidnapped by Maoists. The Odisha Police, investigating the disappearance of AIIMS-Bhubaneswar student Suhail Ajjaj, today said they are verifying the authenticity of the poster. The poster, written on a plain paper, was found on the wall of the Baramunda overbridge here in the morning and local people informed the police. “We are examining the authenticity of the poster and have started investigation.…

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Kashmir’s Growing Crisis of Abandoned Babies

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This is just a tip of iceberg: Doctors Sending shock waves, the number of infants left abandoned along roadsides and hospital premises is rising sharply across Kashmir region here. Kashmir’s chief cleric and chairman Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq expressed shock over what he termed as “degrading values” of the society. Mirwaiz in a tweet said that he was unable to sleep whole night thinking about the recent degraded developments across Srinagar city. “Are we not going toward waywardness? How can Allah be so merciful towards us when we…

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BJP takes dig at PDP’s dynastic leadership

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BJP state general secretary (organisation) Ashok Kaul today took a jibe at the dynastic leadership of its coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “In our state, big parties are in the same state… They are dynastic parties. The party (PDP) with which we have a coalition has become more dynastic,” Kaul said while addressing a ‘Booth Workers’ Sammelan’ at Brakpora in Anantnag district. Stating that the BJP had “internal democracy,” Kaul said the party did not discriminate against people on the basis of religion or region. “The BJP treats all…

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Low Visibility, Smoke inside Chenani-Nashri tunnel pose risk to commuters

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Low visibility, dust and suffocation inside the 9.2-km Chenani-Nashri tunnel are posing a serious threat to people’s lives. Besides, a few accidents have also occurred in the past inside the tunnel. Commuters complain of dust and suffocation inside the South East Asia’s longest tunnel, as the tall claims by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on ensuring a proper ventilation system inside the tunnel have fallen apart. The engineering marvel, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 2 last year, has bypassed the 42-km of the…

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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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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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Youth forced into labour by army alleges Kulgam Village

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For the past several days army soldiers have been snatching I-cards of youths in Ashmuji village of Kulgam and then summoning them to their camp where they are beaten up and forced to do labour jobs, local residents allege. Army has termed residents’ statements as “baseless”. “My I card was snatched by army and later asked to report to their camp. As I went there next morning I was beaten up on the allegations that I am a stone pelter. I was then made to work as a bonded labourer.…

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