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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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PDP-BJP coalition coordination panel remains defunct, met only five times since inception

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As the coordination committee of the PDP-BJP coalition has virtually become defunct due to the casual approach of both the parties, the government has failed to take decisions on important policy matters. The last meeting of the panel, which was formed to set agenda for the coalition regime, was held over one and a half years ago. After that the leaders of both the parties have failed to make the committee vibrant and effective to evolve a consensus on contentious issues. It was announced that meeting of the coordination panel…

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Want to board hajj flight from Srinagar need to pay Rs 36k more

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The Haj Committee of India has increased the airfare for the intending Haj pilgrims from Kashmir. As per the latest airfare rates announced by the Haj committee, the intending Haj pilgrims, who choose Srinagar as the embarkation point for Haj 2018, will have to shell out Rs 35,995 more than those who embark in Delhi. The steep rise in the airfare for the Srinagar-Delhi leg of the journey has angered intending pilgrims in the Valley, who see the move as a ploy by the government to discourage people from choosing…

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Center allocates additional electricity to J&K for winter demand

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The Union power ministry Thursday said it has allocated additional power to Jammu and Kashmir to meet demand during the winter season. In view of increase in the power requirement in Jammu and Kashmir, that happens normally during winter, the Government of India (GoI) has allocated 74 per cent power i.e. 792 MW out of 1071 MW from the unallocated power pool of northern region, the ministry said in a statement. This will help the state in further meeting the additional requirement of power during the winter. The power requirement…

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James and Doug Dykes return to Kashmir, where their parents were shot in front of them

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Seventy years ago, a young British couple was shot dead at a mission hospital in Kashmir, making orphans of their three sons – one only two weeks old. To mark the anniversary two of those sons, now white-haired, made a personal pilgrimage to the spot. “I feel very emotional to be here,” says Doug Dykes, standing yards from the veranda where his mother and father suffered fatal bullet wounds when he was two years old. “I saw my parents being killed – that’s what I’ve been told. My father tried…

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2.2mm Rainfall temporary relief, not end of dry spell: Weatherman

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Kashmir Wednesday received light rainfall after sixty six days dry spell while upper reaches received snowfall. In Srinagar, rains along with gusty winds started around mid-night, bringing cheer on the faces of people. However, the rainfall was of short duration. Deputy director meteorological department Dr Mukhtar Ahmad told Kashmir Post that only 2.2 mm rainfall was recorded in Srinagar. “It is a temporally relief and not an end of the dry spell. There are no reports of water rise in water bodies. Except Kargil and Leh, rainfall occurred across the…

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