Category: General News

General News

Fresh snowfall ends dry spell in Kashmir, Valley cut off from rest of the world

Editor

Highway closed, air traffic suspended Father, son killed by lightning in Reasi SASE issues high danger avalanche warning The plains and the upper reaches in Kashmir valley Monday received fresh snowfall, ending a dry spell of nearly two-month. The first snowfall of the season in Srinagar, the summer capital of the State, brought cheers to the people. Following Western Disturbances on Sunday, Metrological department Srinagar had predicted heavy rains and snowfall. A MeT official told Kashmir Post that moderate to heavy snowfall had been recorded in plains as well as…

Read More

War with Pakistan not an option, dialogue the only solution: Mehbooba Mufti

Editor

In the wake of repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistan and terror strikes in the state, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) chief minister Mehbooba Mufti advocated dialogue with the neighbouring country as the only way to resolve differences. “We fought and won all wars against Pakistan but even now there is no solution other than dialogue, till when will our jawans and civilians keep dying,” Mufti said in the J&K assembly on Monday. “Dialogue with Pakistan is necessary if we are to end bloodshed… We have to talk because war is not…

Read More

SC stays proceedings against Indian Army Major named in FIR over 3 civilian deaths

Editor

The father of army major Aditya Kumar moved the apex court last week, demanding that the FIR registered by the Jammu and Kashmir Police be quashed. The Supreme Court stayed criminal proceedings on Monday against an Indian Army officer named in an FIR over a recent firing incident in Shopian that killed three civilians. The father of army major Aditya Kumar moved the apex court last week, demanding that the FIR registered by the Jammu and Kashmir Police be quashed. The SC restrained the Jammu and Kashmir government from taking…

Read More

Army takes months, RSS can prepare a force within 3 days to fight on border: Mohan Bhagwat

Editor

RSS will prepare military personnel within three days which the Army would do in 6-7 months said Mohan Bhagwat Rahul Gandhi seeks apology from RSS for ‘insulting’ remarks on Indian Army Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said the organization has the ability to prepare an “army” to fight for the country within three days, if such a situation arises. The RSS chief said this while addressing the workers at Zila school ground on the last day of his six-day visit of Muzaffarpur. “Sangh will prepare military personnel…

Read More

What the record says about Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s views on Kashmir problem

Editor

How would Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel have handled the Kashmir problem if he, instead of Jawaharlal Nehru, had been India’s first Prime Minister? The picture of Patel’s thoughts that emerges from his letters and conversations are complex and multilayered. Last week, in the course of a strong attack on the Congress party and its leadership, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Lok Sabha: “Had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel been India’s first Prime Minister, a part of my Kashmir would not have been with Pakistan today.” Over the years, Modi and the BJP have…

Read More

NC MLA Akbar Lone raises ‘Pro-Pakistan’ slogan in J&K assembly

Editor

Jammu and Kashmir assembly today witnessed chaotic scenes after National Conference MLA from Sonawari, Akbar Lone, raised pro-Pakistan slogans in the house. Later, Lone said that he was “provoked” to raise the slogans after BJP MLAs started raising anti-Pakistan slogans in the assembly. “Yes, I said it. It is my personal view, I said it in the house and I don’t think anyone should have a problem with it,” Lone was quoted saying on ANI. BJP MLAs were raising slogans against Pakistan to protest the ongoing terrorist attack on the…

Read More

Review prison security, deploy CRPF in jails: Centre to J&K Govt

Editor

The Union Home Ministry also asked the state government to ensure that no such incident takes place in future and deploy CRPF in prison security. Taking serious note of the escape of a jailed Pakistani terrorist, the centre today asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to fully review security measures in place in jails and transportation of inmates. The Union Home Ministry also asked the state government to ensure that no such incident takes place in future and deploy CRPF in prison security. “The home ministry has taken serious note…

Read More

Opposition walkout over assaults on Kashmiri students in other states

Editor

Opposition members in both Lower and Upper Houses of the J&K Legislature today created an uproar and staged a walkout over the alleged attacks on Kashmiri students in Haryana. As the proceedings of the Assembly started this morning, National Conference member Ali Mohammad Sagar and CPM MLA MY Tarigami raised the issue and demanded a reply from the state government over the two incidents of alleged assault on Kashmiri students in Haryana in the past few days. Enraged members said assaults on Kashmiri students had become a routine affair, especially…

Read More

In a first, BJP opposes central law for J&K

Editor

Invoking the special status granted to J&K under Article 370 of the Constitution, forest minister Lal Singh says the central law is not in the interest of the state. It’s a role reversal of sorts for the partners of the ruling coalition in Jammu and Kashmir. For the first time the BJP, which has all along opposed special status to J&K, is opposing the implementation of a central law in the state. But the PDP is keen that the Forest Rights Act that was passed in parliament in 2006 be…

Read More

Mehbooba Mufti snubs BJP, vows to carry forward peace agenda

Editor

Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said today that the government would initiate dialogue with all stakeholders on the Kashmir issue. She out rightly rejected its coalition partner BJP’s stand that no talks should be initiated at this point of time. In a written reply to a question by Ali Mohammad Sagar, NC member, the CM, who is the in charge of the Home Department, said initiating dialogue with all stakeholders was clearly mentioned in the Agenda of Alliance of the coalition government. She said the Centrehad recently taken several steps to…

Read More