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Power Crisis to worsen this winter as faulty transformers may not be repaired

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What could worsen power crisis across Kashmir this winter, the industrial units involved in repairing of damaged transformers have stopped taking fresh orders from the power department due to pending liabilities of around Rs 20 crore with the government. An official told Kashmir Post on Wednesday that since the winter has already set in, a deadlock between the small scale industrial units and the power department is worrying because the transformer damage rate in Kashmir goes up 50 to 60 percent due to overloading. There are around 24 small scale…

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India plans to fast-track Hydro Projects in Kashmir Region

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Deputy chief minister says hydro power could quintuple Pakistan has previously expressed concern on water shortages India plans to as much as quintuple development of hydroelectric power in Jammu and Kashmir, a northern state that has one of the world’s most militarized borders and faces water disputes. The local government is planning to add more than 5,000 megawatts of power using the flow of its rivers within the next five to six years, according to Nirmal Kumar Singh, the state’s deputy chief minister and minister for the power-development department. While…

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‘Khoje-e-Digar’, 400 year-old tradition at Khanqah-i-Naqshbandia today

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Thousands of people would assemble at the revered shrine of Hazrat Khawja Naqshband (RA) at Khawja Bazar in Downtown here on Wednesday afternoon to offer ‘Khawja Digar’, the centuries old practice of offering congregational Asr (post noon prayers) at the shrine on 3rd Rabi-ul-Awal. Soon after the prayers, the Imam would recite the Awraad-e-Asriya, (a booklet comprising verses of repentance and faith), the great sufi saint used to recite along with his hundreds’ of disciples 700 years ago at Bukhara in Uzbekistan. Hazrat Khawja Naqshband (RA) was born in 718…

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Shah-e-Hamdan’s son purchased Khanqah land revenue documents prove

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British-era painting shows no signs of Maha Kali temple at the site The revenue documents produced by Shah-i-Hamdan Mission Society (SHMS) prove that Mir Syed Ali Hamadani’s son purchased the land for the present day Khanqah-e-Mua’lla shrine while a British-era painting shows no signs of Maha Kali temple’s existence at the site. SHMS came up with original revenue agreement under which Shah-e-Hamdan son, Mir Muhammad Hamdani, purchased the land for the shrine from the then ruler, Sikander Shah Miri. The development comes following the blaze of Khanqah-e-Mua’lla dome with some…

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Egg on the boil! Prices shoot up 40%

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Hit by tight supply in the many states, egg prices in the country have increased by up to 40 per cent. Poultry Federation of India President Ramesh Katri on Monday said, “the prices have jumped by up to 40 per cent to Rs 7-7.50 per piece in retail markets in most parts of the country, hit by tight supply.” He added that the upward trend would continue in coming months as egg production is likely to be lower by 25-30 per cent this year. “Egg prices have increased significantly as…

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Pew survey says Indians favour ‘Aggressive Stance’ in Kashmir

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Indians want the government of India to adopt an “aggressive stance” in “disputed” Jammu and Kashmir, according to a survey by the American think tank, the Pew Research Center. The survey, available on the Center’s website and titled ‘Three Years In, Modi Remains Very Popular’, said that more than 60 percent of its respondents believe that the Government of India (GoI) should use more military force in Jammu and Kashmir. “When it comes to dealing with the disputed border regions of Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian public favors an aggressive…

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Transferred for not Serving Biryani? Sonali Kumar, First Lady IAS Officer In J&K, ‘Unmasks Kashmir’

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According to the publisher, the book is a fresh perspective on the vexed Kashmir problem from the eyes of a career bureaucrat, who spent more than 37 years in the J&K cadre of the IAS trying to understand its people. Former IAS officer Sonali Kumar, who has served in Jammu and Kashmir for more than three decades, has written a book in which she reveals how she was transferred for not serving biriyani to a visiting delegation. According to the publisher, Manhas Publications, the book —  Unmasking Kashmir: A Bureaucrat…

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Meeting Kashmiri Students top of Dineshwar Sharma’s agenda, unions wary

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Dineshwar Sharma, a former Intelligence Bureau chief, is likely to visit Jammu and Kashmir for the second time in the next couple of weeks since he was appointed the special representative to state. The government’s pointsmen in Kashmir, Dineshwar Sharma, is likely to meet the Valley’s students as part of his mission to start peace talks in the state ravaged by decades-long insurgency, a senior home ministry official told KP on Friday. Sharma, a former Intelligence Bureau chief, is likely to visit the state in the next couple of weeks…

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What made the David Beckham of Sadiquabad join the Lashkar-e-Taiba?

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The family of the 20-year-old footballer have taken to social media to plead for his return. Until a few weeks ago, the David Beckham of Sadiquabad was dribbling a football. But last Friday, a picture of him wielding a gun went viral on social media. Twenty-year-old Majid Khan went missing from his home in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on November 9 to join the Lashkar-e-Taiba. According to a picture doing the rounds on social media, he now has a new code name: Abu Ishmayel. With his Beckham hairstyle and his…

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Dilapidated Jammu-Srinagar National Highway irks commutators

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People of Nashri Peera Chanderkote Ramban Seri Digdool Magarkote have expressed concern over the deteriorating condition of old alignment of Jammu Srinagar National Highway passing through from various areas of this hilly district. The contractor companies engaged by National Highway Authority of India is responsible for up keeping of the highway had reportedly failed to take mandatory maintenance and repairing work of the highway passing through in this district. Ditches potholes and poor condition remains main problem for the commuters and the drivers who are used to visit and travel…

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