Category: Community

Most remained seated when national anthem was played on Independence Day function

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The main Independence Day function at the Bakshi stadium here saw most of the people in the general stands remain seated when the national anthem was played soon after Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti unfurled the Tricolour. However, people sitting in the VIP enclosure, including high court judges, MLAs, MLCs, bureaucrats and office-bearers of political parties, stood up to pay their respect to the national anthem. Mufti was then given a guard of honour. Around 3,000 people were present in the stadium, which has a capacity of over…

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Mehbooba Mufti hopes plea against Article 35A will be dismissed by Supreme Court

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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday expressed confidence in the Supreme Court, saying that a plea challenging Article 35A of the Constitution will be dismissed by the apex court. Addressing the people at Independence Day celebrations in Srinagar, Mehbooba Mufti said, “I have full confidence that our Supreme Court will again dismiss this plea challenging Article 35A of the Constitution in the same way as the apex court had done in these 70 years.” Mufti further hailed National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah for his advice on Artice…

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Forces intensify frisking ahead of Aug 15 across J&K

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Government forces have intensified ‘Frisking Operations’ across Kashmir including Srinagar-Jammu highway to thwart any possible militant attacks on August 15. A witness said police and CRPF men have erected makeshift naka points at various places in Srinagar and started intense frisking in run up to August 15. “I was travelling from Dalgate to Jehangir Chowk on my motorbike and was stopped first at Dalgate and then on Maulana Azad Road near Pratap Park,” said Aijaz Rasool, of Batamaloo, Srinagar. He said police checked his identity card and also papers of…

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Read the larger message behind saving Article 35A

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The debate over Article 35A, which bestows special privileges to permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir, is not over yet. And, it would not be over even after the Supreme Court delivers its judgment on the petition that has challenged its validity on the grounds that the Article proclaimed through Presidential Order of May 14, 1954, was issued without the mandatory approval of Parliament. Now the matter is with the court but no one is waiting for that. On the face of it, the Opposition’s defence of Article 35A has…

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Center drops special road package for J&K

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Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has dropped the special package for building road infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir. According to 252nd report of Rajya Sabha’s Department-related parliamentary standing committee on transport, tourism and culture which was tabled in the Parliament on Thursday, Chairman of the committee Mukul Roy during a meeting with the officials of Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways expressed serious concern over the ministry’s decision ‘to drop the special package for Jammu and Kashmir’. Roy was referring to the decision to scrap Prime Minister’s…

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Right-wing ‘Footprints’ behind the Article 35A petition

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The men behind the little-known non-governmental organisation ‘We the Citizens’ which has challenged Article 35-A in the Supreme Court are associated with right-wing groups and the person who filed it died in 2016. The petition, which has triggered a political storm in J&K, had been filed by the NGO through its president Sandeep Kulkarni in 2014. Kulkarni, who is no more, was associated with rightwing groups and had even served notice to Congress for maligning Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). “I know him (Kulkarni) since 2006. He was living in Hindu…

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Civil Society to send a memorandum to UN Chief, OIC

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Amid growing clamour against proposed abrogation of Article 35-A, Kashmir’s civil society members on Friday passed a resolution to oppose the move tooth and nail. They decided to send a memorandum to UN secretary-general, all permanent members of UNSC and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member countries. The civil society members have also decided to hold a silent sit-in protest at Lal Chowk in next few days. Addressing a roundtable conference on Article-35-A here, senior lawyer Zaffar Shah said the writ petition against Article 35-A filed by NGO “We the Citizens”…

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Kashmir needs peace process not unnecessary controversies: APSCC

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All Party Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) chairman Jagmohan Raina who met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh apprised him about the the volatile situation that has risen due to controversy of Article 35 A in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in Kashmir valley. In a press statement issued to Kashmir Post Raina said: “Home Minister should take political opinion from all the stakeholders of Kashmir before deciding anything.” He said Kashmir needs peace process not unnecessary controversies. #Article35A, #Shutdown, #Controversies

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Kishtwar to observe shutdown, Transporters, Fruit growers extend support to Aug 12 strike call

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Shutdown has been called in Kishtwar district tomorrow against attempts to abrogate Article 35-A which grants state’s legislature power to define the permanent residents. Imam Jamia Masjid Kishtwar Farooq Ahmed Kitchloo called for a complete shutdown on August 12 to protest against attempts to abrogate Article 35-A of the Constitution. “People of Kishtwar district are appealed to observe a shutdown on Saturday, August 12 against attempts to abrogate the state subject law (Article 35-A) which has been in vogue here for decades,” said Kitchloo. General Secretary Chenab Valley Traders Association…

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Mehbooba meets Rajnath amid row over JK’s Special Status

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Meeting seen as part of efforts to stall abrogation of Art 370 CM likely to meet PM, President today Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Thursday met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh amid reports that she had come to the national capital to drum up support for preventing attempts to remove special status to the state under the Constitution. The meeting lasted for nearly 45 minutes, officials said without elaborating about the topics that were discussed. The meeting comes in the backdrop of growing pressure on Mehbooba, who is caught in a…

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