Tweet missiles from London get Kashmir IIT and IIM, MLA Langate, Er Rashid, said in reaction to former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s reaction to approval of IIM for Jammu on Thursday. Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) chief, Rashid asked Omar Abdullah to stop “wounding” Kashmiris. In a statement issued this afternoon, Rashid said, “Omar needs not to forget that dominance of Jammu region started from the day when his late grandfather converted Muslim Conference in to National Conference, just to please then Congress leadership and it was the start of an…
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Thousands of broken car windows, testimonies of last 3 months
Travelling from her house at Bagh-i-Mehtab to SKIMS Soura in the evening hours of October 2 proved to be an ordeal for Haleema and her husband. Writhing with a severe abdomen pain, the sense of panic increased when the car Haleema was travelling in was showered with a volley of stones at Chanapora. As Haleema’s husband tried to manoeuvre the car through narrow alleys, a huge rock hit the rare windowpane, resulting in its complete breakage. Haleema’s is not the only case of broken windowpanes. Cars with polythene working as…
Read MoreThree months, 1,000 eye injuries by Pellets
As many as 820 of those 1,000 have undergone treatment at the Ophthalmology unit of Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital. On October 9, three months after protests broke out in the Valley following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, 35-year-old Mohammed Ehsan became the 1,000th person to sustain pellet injuries to the eye. As many as 820 of those 1,000 have undergone treatment at the Ophthalmology unit of Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital. Ehsan was hit in the right eye during protests in Srinagar’s Soura…
Read MoreGovt under fire for planning exams in November
Teachers say it must concentrate on restoring peace first Amidst student protest against the J&K government’s controversial decision to hold Class 10th and Class 12th examinations in November, teachers in J&K have now come out to accuse the government of “employing pressure tactics” to hold the key examinations under the prevailing unfavorable circumstances. The teachers said despite the “failure” of the state government to make schools functional in the past three months of anti-India uprising across Kashmir, it was “thrusting exams on students without considering the ground situation.” “Given the…
Read MoreResistance Group seek inputs from stakeholders on adopting the future strategy
The unified separatist leadership has sought suggestions from the civil society activists, traders and other stake holders on adopting the future strategy. Syed Ali Geelani wrote to all the constituents of his organisations as the chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) and sought suggestions on the ways and means to be adopted by the unified separatist leadership. The unified separatist leadership also wrote to civil society activists including academicians, doctors, lawyers, journalists, businessmen and other stakeholders to provide inputs for the future course of action. The detailed letter has sought concrete…
Read MoreOver 2200 Cases registered to end current protests
Govt employees, separatists, youth booked for participating in anti-India protests, stone pelting After the outbreak of unrest in the Valley on July 8, police have registered over 2200 cases against people including separatist leaders, youth and government employees to end the protests and restore normalcy. Police have resorted to arrest spree in over three months of unrest in the Valley to prevent people, especially youth from participating and leading anti-India rallies and restore normalcy. According to a senior police official, a total of 2200 cases have been registered in different…
Read MorePellet Victims wear injuries as symbol of Sacrifice, Badge of Honour
Pellets have blinded, maimed and killed but they have failed to dampen the spirits of the victims. The youth with pellet-hit eyes are sad about losing vision but display the bandage on their eyes like souvenirs. Nineteen-year-old Adil from Kareemabad, Pulwama has become an overnight hero in his village since he lost his vision to pellets. “I am sad, no doubt, that I have to live with a compromised vision all my life, but more than being sad about the loss I am happy that I have sacrificed my eyes…
Read MoreCenter sanctions 20013 Solar Street lights for J&K
Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission scheme State to get 30000 solar home lights also Union Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has sanctioned 30000 LED Solar Home Lights and 20013 LED Solar Street Lights for J&K under JNNSM special package against the proposal of 129863 SHLs and 20013 SSLs submitted by the state’s Department of Science and Technology. It is worthwhile to mention here that Jammu and Kashmir has tremendous hydro, wind and solar energy potential and the Department of Science and Technology has the mandate for harnessing and…
Read MoreRITES to prepare report on metro projects
The Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) will conduct feasibility studies and prepare a detailed project report (DPR) for the metro projects in Jammu and Srinagar. “The state government has entrusted RITES with the job of preparation of the DPR and also to conduct the feasibility studies for the Mass Rapid Transport System in the capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar in J&K. RITES will initially be preparing a project report for a length of 45 km in Srinagar City and 30 km for the city of Jammu,” an…
Read MoreLadakh on high alert; Residents asked to vacate border villages
Amid escalating Indo-Pak tension after the Army’s surgical strikes on terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), Ladakh, which shares vast boundaries with China and Pakistan, has been put on a high alert, following apprehension of “possible aggression” from the other side of the border. While the administration has sounded the alert for all habitations along the Line of Control (LoC), it has kept the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), an unmarked boundary between China and India, on a “close watch.” The Ladakh region has 225-km LoC, 955-km…
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