Locals from Maisuma and its adjacent areas on Friday took to streets against Power Development Department (PDD) and locked-up its office at Basant Bagh here. Witnesses said a large number of people from Basant Bagh, Mandir Bagh, Nai Sarak and Maisuma assembled outside PDD office and locked it up to protest against the department’s “failure” to supply them electricity. The protesters said that they receive electricity for only three hours despite paying their fatty monthly bills. “PDD has failed to provide us adequate electricity from past more than four weeks.…
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Prolonged power cuts add to woes as Kashmir Valley freezes
Kashmir Valley is reeling under freezing temperatures and prolonged power cuts are only adding to the miseries of its over six million population. Srinagar, the summer capital of the State, recorded the minimum temperature of minus 6.5 degrees on Wednesday night, the lowest in the last six years. That incidentally on the night when ‘Chillai Kalan’, as the 40-day harshest part of winter is known in the Kashmiri folklore, started. Leh was freezing at 13.2 degrees Celsius. In order to beat the biting cold, the people need better power supply…
Read MoreWith key elections around corner, PDP and NC cash in on people’s emotions
While Kashmir is yet to come out of the trauma and despondency after months of violent protests, strict curfews and shutdowns that took an immense economic and human toll, the two major political parties from the Valley — the National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party — are back to what they know best: Playing politics. With the elections to the two key Lok Sabha seats of Srinagar and Anantnag set to be held early next year, the political leadership of the National Conference and PDP is leaving no stone unturned…
Read MoreAnger brewing in ‘Power-Less’ Kashmir
We’re supplied electricity just 3 to 4 hours a day, and are being sermonized by Govt to use it ‘judiciously’; Is this a joke? Ask consumers The arbitrary and prolonged power cuts continue to increase people’s woes in Kashmir amid chilly winter despite repeated assurances by the Government to ensure better supply of electricity. Amid the deteriorating situation, anger is brewing among people in different parts of Kashmir who have threatened to hit roads in case the Government failed to improve the supply. For the past few weeks the situation…
Read MoreWhen the longest-ever curfew in Kashmir caused breakups
Several love stories In Kashmir met with a “tragic end” during the unrest When Kashmir erupted in the wake of killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani on July 8, Sameer (name changed), a budding businessman, received a phone call from his girlfriend, who asked him to stay indoors as she was “very concerned” about him. Before the lovebirds finished talking, the mobile communication and internet services were suspended abruptly. Within hours, amid massive protests, curfew was clamped in the Valley. Besieged, with no means of communication with his beloved…
Read MoreFriday following Eid-E-Milad observed across Kashmir Valley
Thousands throng Hazratbal to have glimpse of holy relic Thousands of devotees from across Kashmir thronged the Hazratbal Shrine on Friday following Eid-Milad-un-Nabi (SAW) to have a glimpse of the holy relic. Thousands of devotees including men, women and children visited the Hazratbal shrine to offer prayers and have glimpse of the holy relic of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), which was displayed after every congregational prayer. More than 50000 people offer Friday prayers at the shrine to have glimpse of the holy relic. The religious congregations were held at different shrines…
Read MoreHow the Kashmir unrest unfolded: Flashback 2016
Details of how the Kashmir unrest unfolded in 2016 and different aspects associated with it. The Kashmir Valley, where the situation has been relatively normal since 2010, saw violent protests this year, following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani by the security forces in July . Such was the situation that valley remained under 53 days of consecutive curfew, with the government having to rush in additional forces to contain the agitation. The unrest, which went on for months, resulted in the deaths of more than 85 civilians and…
Read MoreBasit fourth engineering student to turn militant, killed in gunfight
Massive protests in South Kashmir against 21-yr-old militant’s death Basit Rasool Dar, Zakir Rashid, Masiullah Khan and Saifullah Ahangar had two common connections that define them: they were engineering students-turned-militants — one of them still is. It is these young men, and others like them, who are serving as the local face of Kashmir’s militancy that in recent years has gained several hundred recruits. On a foggy morning today, Dar became the latest name on the list of militants killed in gunfights with security forces. He was killed near Bijbehara…
Read More‘Best Film Award’ grabbed by Kashmiri Students
Two young Kashmiri students Purtaas and Zameen Jalal won the best Film Award in Category B for their filom Noori-the light. Thirteen-year-old Purtas and 10-year-old Zameen Jalal both studying in Linton Hall School Rajbagh respectively in 8th and 5th class directed and produced the award winning film on worlds’ first Pashmina Clone Goat. The award ceremony was held at National Physical Laboratory Auditorium. Another documentary film Saving the Saviour on Wular Lake Kashmir directed and produced by Jalal-ud-din Baba won Best Film Award at India International Science Film Festival 2016.…
Read MoreResistance working on transition from short-term agitation to long-term protest: Mirwaiz
Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that the united resistance leadership is working on a transition from short-term agitation to a long-term protest, a media report said today. In an interview with The Economic Times, the Mirwaiz has talked about the New Delhi’s Kashmir policy, ongoing protests and US President-elect Donald Trump. Asked to analyse five months of protests in Kashmir, Mirwaiz said that Kashmiris couldn’t always be in a sprint mode. “Every agitation or movement has a lifespan. Some people here are wrongly creating an impression that…
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