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Call records show State Minister, Ex-MP, MLAs, Police Officers in touch with Resistance Camp: NIA

March 28, 2018March 29, 2018 Editor

Social Welfare Minister Sajjad Gani Lone and other mainstream political leaders, including senior Congress leader and former MP Tariq Hameed Karra, were in touch with separatist leaders before they were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in July in the Kashmir terror funding probe. As per call detail records (CDRs) of the separatist leaders, businessman Zahoor Ahmad Watali, one of the prime accused, was in touch with some PDP leaders as well as MLA Langate Er Rashid. Besides Watali, others who are in judicial custody include Altaf Ahmed Shah,…

No proposal to scrap Article 370: Govt

March 27, 2018 Editor

There is currently no proposal to scrap Article 370 which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Ahir was replying to a written question by BJP MP Ashwini Kumar, who asked whether the government was committed to scrapping Article 370 of the Constitution. The MP from Karnal in Haryana also asked what was the present status and the procedure laid down for scrapping Article 370. “There is currently no such proposal under consideration of the…

Step up efforts to wean youth from militancy: Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba

March 27, 2018 Editor

Chairs high-level meeting on security situation in Kashmir valley Expressing concern over youth joining militancy in Kashmir, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Monday urged the “security agencies to make more efforts to bring them back from the fold of militancy”. The Home Secretary, who arrived on a two-day visit to the Valley on Monday, chaired a high-level security meeting in Srinagar to review the security situation in Kashmir. He is accompanied by top officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Gauba asked the security agencies to “deal sternly with…

Curb ISIS with iron hand in J&K; BJP -Those raising ISIS flags are helping New Delhi; Sehrai

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 Editor

Condemning the killing of 39 Indians by ISIS in Iraq, the Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP on Wednesday said the emergence of the terror group in Kashmir needs to be curbed with iron hand. Speaking with mediapersons, BJP’s state spokesperson Anil Gupta said the disclosure that a youth from Telangana who was recently killed in an encounter had come to Kashmir as an ISIS fighter should act as an eye-opener for those who refuse to acknowledge the presence of ISIS in Kashmir. “The emergence of ISIS in Kashmir…

Restore Autonomy, withdraw AFSPA: Sitaram Yechaury suggests to GoI

March 20, 2018 Editor

General secretary CPI (M) Sitaram Yechaury Monday said that treating Kashmir merely as a law and order problem was not a solution. Addressing a press conference here, he said that reports of five study groups and recommendations made by former interlocutors were lying with the government of India which must be implemented to initiate confidence building measures. Yechaury has been twice part of Parliamentary delegations to Kashmir. He said that since the Modi-led government assumed office in New Delhi, Kashmir was being tackled through military means only. Asked how he…

NDA messed up economy, mismanaged J&K: Manmohan Singh

March 19, 2018 Editor

Former PM Manmohan Singh launched a scathing attack on the NDA government, accusing it of having ‘messed up’ the economy and mismanaging the dispute in Jammu and Kashmir Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the NDA government, accusing it of having “messed up” the economy and mismanaging the dispute in Jammu and Kashmir. At the 84th plenary session of the Congress, Singh described the government’s demonetisation move as “ill-considered” and GST as “hastily implemented”. “The BJP-led government messed up the Indian economy. The ill-considered…

Five of family killed, 7 Including 5 Army men injured along LOC in Balakote Sector

March 19, 2018 Editor

Five members of a family were Sunday killed and two others injured in heavy shelling by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in Balakote sector of Poonch district, a senior police officer said. Five army men were also wounded in the firing in the frontier district. Army PRO Lt Col Devender Anand said the ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Bimber Gali started around 7:45 am. In the firing five army troopers were also wounded. “They were specifically targeting civilian areas,” he said. “ The Pakistan army initiated unprovoked…

Kashmir to Kerala, BJP allies Unhappy

March 17, 2018 Editor

TDP MP Shiv Prasad says “BJP is trying to destroy its own allies. It wants that only it should rule, and rest should be rendered powerless.” Moves by NDA allies suggest they are wary of this danger Back in 2014, the Chanakya of the BJP, Amit Shah would not have imagined that such a loud bugle of rebellion would be blown from Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, who was performing ‘yagya’ with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the new capital of Andhra, Amarawati, just a few years…

J&K, Gilgit-Baltistan integral parts of India: Mohan Bhagwat

March 16, 2018 Editor

Mohan Bhagwat, RSS chief, said today that Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan were an integral part of India. He stated this while inaugurating the Jammu Kashmir Ladakh Maha Utsav organised by Jammu Kashmir Study Centre (JKSC) in Nagpur. Nirbhay Sharma, Mizoram Governor, was the chief guest on the occasion. “Jammu and Kashmir is not a ‘problem’. The actual ‘problem’ lies within us because we have accepted the definitions given by outsiders who have worked on the agenda of weakening India by creating divisions and differences,” he said in his inaugural…

Telangana to Kashmir; How Mohammad Taufeeq was drawn to militancy

March 16, 2018 Editor

The Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, an outfit believed to an offshoot of the global terror group Islamic State, has said the 26-year-old Telangana militant killed in Kashmir was one among its first group of cadres. A 26-year-old Telangana militant killed in Kashmir this week was allegedly drawn to terrorism after a week-long trip to Srinagar five years ago and was subsequently indoctrinated by radical Islamists through social media and messaging services, police said on Thursday. Mohammad Taufeeq, a native of Bhadradri Kothagudem district in east Telangana, was killed by security forces…