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BSF Exam topper gets life threat from militants, seeks help

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According to ANI, Nabeel Ahmed Wahi has approached the Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi for protection. A Kashmiri youth who topped the recruitment exam for Border Security Force (BSF) has been receiving death threats from militants in the Valley, a media report said on Tuesday. According to ANI, Nabeel Ahmed Wahi has approached the Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi for protection. Nabeel reportedly claimed that both he and his sister have received death threat from the militants after he topped the recruitment exam. The news comes days after…

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Lt Fayaz fourth Kashmiri soldier to become victim of militancy

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Young Kashmiri Army officer Lt Ummer Fayaz, who was abducted from his home in south Kashmir last week and shot dead, became the fourth serving soldier from Kashmir and the first officer to have fallen victim to the militant violence in the strife-torn region. Lieutenant Fayaz was home on leave to attend the wedding of his cousin. In the early 1990s, when militancy was at its peak, few Kashmiri youth would join the Army. The trend, has, however, changed slowly after the Army started holding massive recruitment rallies across the…

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Chaos erupts in Mehbooba Mufti’s event at SKICC

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Chaos erupted on Tuesday in an event where Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was to address a gathering. Chaos erupted on Tuesday in an event where Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was to address a gathering. Mehbooba was to address an audience at Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) but the whole event got cancelled as panic was created in the premises. The reason of the chaos is unknown. “Women were present in large numbers and probably a lady fainted. Seeing that others panicked. Hope this programme…

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Kashmiri youth who escaped from custody joins militants, blames injustice

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Zubair Ahmad Turray, who escaped from Keegam police station on May 1, says he was in jail for the last 4 years and was charged under the Jammu Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 that allows the state to detain a person without trial for at least 6 months. A 23-year-old man from Shopian, who escaped from police custody earlier this month, has released a video saying he has joined the militant ranks and that “tyranny’ and “illegal detention” led him to become an insurgent. District police authorities confirmed Zubair Ahmad…

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Governor NN Vohra reviews Amarnath yatra arrangements

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Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra today reviewed the preparations, including those related to the security, of the 40-day-long annual yatra to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in Himalayas, starting next month. Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra today reviewed the preparations, including those related to the security, of the 40-day-long annual yatra to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in Himalayas, starting next month. Vohra, who is also chairman of the Sri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), directed all the agencies concerned to keep a close watch…

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Valley’s ‘Tulip man’ gets recognition at at int’l fora

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When the tulip growers of Turkey recently invited retired district floriculture officer Javed Ahmad Shah to their country, they were impressed with his knowledge of tulips. Shah was then tasked with preparing a report to suggest ways to boost commercial floriculture vis-à-vis tulips in Istanbul, Turkey. Earlier, he was engaged as an expert on an advisory panel in Darjeeling for the cultivation of tulips to boost tourism in the north-east region. Shah is now scheduled to travel to Canada as a part of the World Tulip Summit Society (WTSS) mission…

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Youth of Kashmir should question those who instigate them: Jitendra Singh

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Appealing to the youth of Kashmir to question those who instigate them to join the “so-called freedom struggle”, Union minister Jitendra Singh today hit out at the separatists, saying if stone-pelting is a “holy task” then they should make their own children pelt stones and risk their lives. Singh rejected separatists as being stakeholders in Kashmir and said that real stakeholders are the state’s youth below the age of 40 who constitute 65 per cent of its population. “I have made this appeal to youth of Kashmir that time has…

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It’s Uniform vs Uniform as schoolgirls fight military in Kashmir

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It’s now uniform versus uniform in Indian-administered Kashmir as students in school or college uniform fight pitched battles with soldiers in fatigues. The starkest manifestation of the downturn is Kashmiri girls in headscarves and uniforms pelting stones at security forces in Srinagar alongside rebellious male students for the first time in a region which former American President, Bill Clinton, famously called one of the most dangerous places in the whole world. School and college-going women have been photographed hurling rocks and bricks, shouting anti-India and pro-azadi (freedom) slogans and pounding…

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Soldiers told to ‘Inform Police, Army Units’ before heading home

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Day after a 22-year-old Army officer was abducted and later killed by suspected militants in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, the Army on Thursday directed its soldiers hailing from the Valley to strictly “adhere to set guidelines” and “inform concerned Army units before going to home on leave.” Lieutenant Umar Fayaz was found dead at Harmain village in Shopian district on Wednesday. He had visited his home on leave to attend the marriage ceremony of his cousin. The slain Army officer was posted in Akhnoor area of Jammu region. Police sources…

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‘Restore Srinagar as permanent capital of J&K’ Er. Rasheed

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Er Rasheed to Mehbooba: ‘Ban Indian channels whom you accuse of adding fuel to the fire’ Reacting to BJP’s demand to abandon the practice of bi-annual Durbar Move AIP Supremo and MLA Langate, Er. Rasheed has said that it would be in the interest of entire state for more than enough reasons, if Srinagar is restored as the permanent capital of the state. Interacting with the people in Srinagar, Er. Rasheed said “There is no reason to disagree to the fact that Durbar Move has yielded nothing except adding to…

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