Category: Community

Mehbooba Mufti prays for ‘Dignified’ return of Pandits at Tullamulla shrine

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‘Socio-cultural milieu of Valley incomplete without Kashmiri Pandits’ Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today visited Tullamulla in Ganderbal district to greet members of the Pandit community, who had come to attend the Kheer Bhawani Mela. Interacting with devotees, Mehbooba Mufti said people in Kashmir were eagerly awaiting the return of their Kashmiri brethren. She said the socio-cultural milieu of the Valley was incomplete without Kashmiri Pandits. “This day is very revered for our Kashmiri Pandit brethren and they have come here in thousands today. We pray to God for their dignified…

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I-T warns against cash dealings of Rs 2 lakh or more, seeks tip-off

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Income Tax department on Friday warned people against indulging in cash transaction of Rs 2 lakh or more saying that the receiver of the amount will have to cough up an equal amount as penalty. It also advised people having knowledge of such dealings to tip-off the tax department by sending an email to ‘blackmoneyinfo@incometax.gov.in’. The government has banned cash transactions of Rs 2 lakh or more from April 1, 2017, through the Finance Act 2017. The newly inserted section 269ST in the Income Tax Act bans such cash dealings…

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600 Kashmiri Pandits heading for Kheer Bhawani shrine amid high security

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Amid tight security, a group of around 600 Kashmiri Pandits, including women and children, today left for annual pilgrimage to the Mata Kheer bhawani shrine in Kashmir valley. Amid chants of ‘Mata Kheer Bhawani Ki Jai’, the Kashmiri Pandits boarded around 20 State Road Transport Corporation buses and left this morning to pay obeisance at the Mata Kheer Bhawani Temple in Tulmulla area of Ganderbal district. Divisional Commissioner, Jammu region, Mandeep Bhandari and head of the Mata Kheer Bhawani 2017 reception committee and former bureaucrat Kiran Watal, flagged off the…

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Pellet guns with deflectors safe for eyes, fault lies with protesters who bend like bowlers: CRPF

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Amid tall claims that deflector-fitted pellet guns won’t target eyes of protesters, paramilitary CRPF Wednesday asserted that they tested the new gadget on a static target and that the fault lies on protesters as they “bend like bowlers.” The CRPF also advocated lessons for the stone pelters to ensure they are not hit in eyes during protests. According to figures available with the SMHS hospital, since Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Bhat and his aide Faizan Muzaffar were killed in an encounter in Tral Saturday last, 34 youth with pellet injuries…

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Grenade attack in Sopore, four policemen injured

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Burglars steal ATM containing Rs21 lakh in Anantnag Four policemen were injured when militants carried out a grenade attack against a group of police personnel on Wednesday afternoon in north Kashmir’s Sopore town. A senior police official said the militants lobbed a grenade at a police party deployed near a bank in the main chowk at Sopore town around 4:10 pm. “Four personnel were injured in the explosion,” the official said. The injured policemen were immediately shifted to hospitals, where they were treated for wounds and are reported to be…

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Deft handling prevented unrest in Kashmir post Sabzar’s killing

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Unlike Burhan Wani’s killing, death of his close aide Sabzar Ahmad Bhat, also a resident of the volatile Tral area, did not plunge Kashmir into an unending unrest. The situation, which developed immediately after the killing of Burhan’s close aide, had all the elements that could have triggered unrest, but it was the deft handling this time that seems to have prevented the situation from going bad. As the news about the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar along with his accomplice spread on Saturday afternoon, shopkeepers downed their shutters,…

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Valley consumers pay more power tariff than Jammu

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The domestic and commercial consumers in Valley pay more tariff to Power Development Department (PDD) than the consumers of Jammu division. According to official documents, 708350 domestic consumers are registered with PDD in the valley. “The consumers in Valley pay Rs 297.31 crore revenue to the department as compared to Rs. 239 crore paid by 661798 domestic consumers of Jammu region,” it said. The data pertaining to financial year 2015-16 of PDD highlights disparity in the revenue paid by the non-domestic/commercial consumers of the two regions of the state. As…

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Not a single power project awarded for construction during 2 years of PDP-BJP rule

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During its more than two-year rule in J&K, the PDP-led coalition government hasn’t allocated a single power project for execution, even as state’s power demand during the period has grown by around 15 percent. “Not a single MW project has been allocated for construction by this government,” a senior official told Kashmir Post on Monday. When the PDP came to power in alliance with BJP in March 2015, one of its major poll planks was to get back power projects from the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation and focus on energy…

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Stone Pelters will be dealt with iron fist: Govt

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Parts of Kashmir Valley have seen turbulence after Wani’s encounter in July last year. Internet services have been hampered and curfew imposed to bring situation to normalcy The government remains firm on its Kashmir strategy, promising to deal with stone-pelters with an iron fist but keeping option for dialogue open if they shun violence. A reiteration of this came from top government sources, as Kashmir plunges into another round of clashes following death of eight terrorists, including Sabzar Ahmad Bhat, who had succeeded Hizbul Mujahideen’s Burhan Wani following his killing…

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Indian army chief showing ‘Criminal leadership’ backing Human shield: Human Rights Watch

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The Indian army chief has showcased “criminal leadership” by backing the use of Kashmiri civilian as a human shield, said Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. Gen Bipin Rawat, the Indian army chief, had on Sunday backed the use of Farooq Ahmad Dar as a human shield, by calling it “innovative”. In a tweet, quoting the news story published by The Indian Express, Kenneth Roth wrote: “Indian army chief shows criminal leadership, backing as “innovative” troops’ use of Kashmir man as a human shield.” Indian army chief shows…

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