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Centre to offer better monetary incentives to surrendered militants

November 30, 2017 Editor

The Centre is planning to soften its surrender policy for terrorists at a time when footballer Majid Khan returned from the LeT after the security forces led a well-coordinated plan to get him back. The Centre is preparing a new surrender policy to bring terrorists back into the mainstream with the possibility of more attractive monetary and social security support. Apart from launching a multi-pronged crackdown on jihadis and their sympathisers in the Kashmir valley, the government is also trying to woo the local population with the promise of a…

Gaw Kadal Massacre of 1990 back to haunt Govt, Police accepts 22 persons died in forces firing

November 30, 2017 Editor

After 27 years, police in a reply to State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) have accepted that 22 persons were killed and 12 others were injured in a Gaw Kadal Massacre. Zonal Police Office East Zone Srinagar through District Police Headquarters Srinagar in a report submitted before SHRC have stated that “Report sought from Station House Officer (SHO) Police Station Kral Khud reveals that 22 persons died and 12 others were injured at Gaw Kadal on 21-01-1990.” SHRC Wednesday said that the Chief Prosecuting Officer of the commission has submitted the…

Focus on militancy left rising drug addiction unchecked; Political unrest and growing unemployment to blame

November 30, 2017 Editor

Drug addiction is a bigger challenge than militancy in Jammu and Kashmir today, the state’s director general of police, Shesh Paul Vaid, told a news agency on 16 November, 2017. Drug seizures have increased and the number of cases being registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, for peddling and smuggling of banned substances are rising, said Vaid. Drug seizures have increased and the number of cases being registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, for peddling and smuggling of banned substances are…

Over 3800 hit by pellets in Kashmir Valley last year: Govt to SHRC

November 30, 2017 Editor

The government has disclosed that at least 3896 people sustained pellet injuries in forces firing during over five month long unrest in Valley last year following killing of 21-year-old Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. In response to a notice by State Human Rights Commission (SHRC), the government submitted the reports about the pellet injuries compiled by deputy commissioners of eight out of 10 districts of the Valley and medical superintendents of eight hospitals to the commission. As per the reports of the deputy commissioners’ and hospitals, at least 3896 people…

More than 3 lakh migratory birds arrive in Kashmir Valley

November 29, 2017 Editor

With the onset of winter, over three lakh migratory birds from central Asia and southern Europe have arrived at more than 400 water bodies in the Kashmir Valley. Thousands of Mallards, Common Mergansers, Northern Pintails, Common Pochards, Red-crested Pochards, Ruddy Shelducks, Northern Shovelers, Common Teals, Eurasian Wigeons, Tufted Ducks, Gadwalls, Brahminy Ducks, Garganeys, and Greylag Geese have come to Kashmir in the first batch of migration this season. Wildlife warden of Jammu & Kashmir wildlife protection department, Abdul Rauf Zargar, told TOI that the birds mainly throng the wetlands of…

‘Forced to drink urine, eat human waste’, Ordeal of Kashmiri prisoners

November 29, 2017 Editor

The families of Kashmiri prisoners languishing in Delhi’s Tihar jail are worried over their safety as reports and pictures of thrashing of several inmates went viral on social media. Even as chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, spoke to Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and expressed concern over the “alleged harassment and manhandling of some Kashmiri inmates” in Tihar jail the families of these jail inmates are under “tremendous stress over their safety”. “We have also come across some of the photographs of several injured inmates circulated on social media. The post…

Heavy smoke hits visibility inside Chenani tunnel

November 29, 2017 Editor

Heavy smoke inside South East Asia’s longest tunnel is posing a serious threat to people’s lives, besides slowing the traffic flow on a regular basis. Despite tall claims by the National Highways Authorities of India (NHAI) about ensuring a proper ventilation system in the 9.2-km-long Chenani-Nashri tunnel, commuters experience a “suffocated” drive through the tunnel. The engineering marvel, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 2, has bypassed 42 km of the hilly terrain on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in the mountainous range of lower Shivaliks and…

Mehbooba Mufti expresses concern over torture of Kashmiri inmates in Tihar Jail

November 28, 2017 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday expressed serious concern over the alleged harassment and physical torture of Kashmiri prisoners at the Tihar Central Jail in New Delhi. Taking a serious view of these reports, the Chief Minister spoke to Union Home Secretary, Rajiv Gauba and asked him to intervene in the matter, said an official handout. The Union Home Secretary assured the Chief Minister of a thorough probe into the incident and punishing the culprits for having violated the jail manual. Violation of fundamental, human and legal…

‘One job, One family’, Non-migrant Pandits to get job package benefit

November 28, 2017 Editor

After facing neglect for 27 years, non-migrant Kashmiri Pandit youth living in the Valley will get jobs under the Prime Minister’s Employment Package. Following the Central government approval, the PDP-BJP government has constituted a committee headed by the Divisional Commissioner (Kashmir) to select candidates among Pandits who did not migrate in 1989-90 after the eruption of armed insurgency. The committee will hold its first meeting in the first week of December to do groundwork for the selection process. As per the government order issued on November 13, nearly 500 posts…

MS Dhoni welcomed in Kashmir with ‘Boom Boom Afridi’ slogans

November 28, 2017November 28, 2017 Editor

Dhoni was in Kashmir for attending the final of the Chinar Cricket Premier League, a local tournament on Sunday. India’s limited-overs’ wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni is said to be a calm person when it comes to handling things, both on and off the pitch. His calmness was once again evident when thousands of his fans welcomed him with slogans of ‘ Boom Boom Afridi’ in Kunzer during his visit to Jammu and Kashmir. Despite all the slogans and chants, Dhoni was in his usual self, by being calm. The 36-year-old Dhoni,…