Category: Community

Pellet Victims wear injuries as symbol of Sacrifice, Badge of Honour

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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…

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Center sanctions 20013 Solar Street lights for J&K

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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…

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RITES to prepare report on metro projects

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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…

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Ladakh on high alert; Residents asked to vacate border villages

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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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Tension mounts in Uri villages along LoC

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Residents feel unsafe as underground bunkers were destroyed in 2005 earthquake As tension mounts in the wake of surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC), residents of border areas in Kashmir, particularly Uri, are fearing worse times ahead. Panic has gripped villages along the LoC in Uri, scene of the deadly militant attack on an Army base on September 18 in which 18 soldiers were killed. A majority of underground bunkers in the Uri sector and other villages along the LoC in Kashmir had been destroyed during the devastating…

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Medical Voluntary organisations come to a halt, as police detains activists and seize ambulances

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Several ambulances run by Voluntary organizations have been detained by J&K Police on Thursday morning. Sources said that early this morning cops from Karan Nagar police station stopped several ambulances which catered to the rush of injured civilians in forces action since July 08, 2016. These ambulances were mostly stationed and would run from SMHS Hospital Srinagar. “Cops stopped our ambulances this morning when they were on way to SMHS Hospital,” said chief of a voluntary organization. “Not only ambulances but some volunteers too have been arrested,” he said. Quoting…

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Harvest set ablaze by forces in Budgam, Anantnag areas, say local residents

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The government forces have set ablaze rice crop and grass stacks on fire in four villages of Budgam district, the local villagers said. The villagers said the forces, whom they said were police, paramilitary troopers and soldiers, fired incendiary projectiles into the harvested rice crop that had been left to dry in sun in Budran, Aadina, Kanihama and Mazhama villages. “There was no clash or stone pelting. They burned the crop only to punish us,” said Bashir Ahmad, a victim. He said the forces have also damaged the standing paddy…

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Kashmiri youth vent their rage, usher in hope through art

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Canvas means of expression for the traumatised Caught in their homes for more than two months now, the youth in Kashmir are taking to art to express internal frustration, rage, anguish and trauma of living in a conflict. Maria Shahmiri, 23, who studies bachelors in applied arts course at the University of Kashmir, said while growing up in Kashmir, she always expected an uncertain breakout of conflict. “Current literature emerging on this issue underscores that Kashmir remains a battlefield between militants and security forces with its people experiencing traumatic violence.…

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Hitchhiking: The only way out for many in Valley

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Desperate people waiting for a lift or walking on foot has become a common sight in the trouble-torn Kashmir valley where public transport has remained suspended for almost 80 days. As one passes through the otherwise busy highways and main roads in south and north Kashmir, long queues of people can be seen along the roadside trying to reach their destination with the help of strangers passing through. “We have been waiting here for the past two hours to reach Bijbehara,” says Ghulam Nabi, who was standing with his wife…

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Gazetted Officers, Cops on admin list who where part of Pro-Freedom Protests

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7 Gazetted Officers, including assistant registrar of KU and govt college lecturers, among nearly 150 names; more to be identified as CM asks for a second list On the instructions of the chief minister, government officials have identified nearly 150 government employees, among them half-a-dozen policemen and seven gazetted officers, who have taken part in stone-fighting and pro-freedom protests. Senior officers in the government told Kashmir Post that the list was prepared upon instructions from Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. They said the names have been sent to concerned deputy commissioners, secretaries,…

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