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Foiling Anantnag rally admission of defeat by govt: Resistance Leadership

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The joint resistance leadership comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik on Friday strongly condemned the government for once again “resorting to use of unbridled force” to bar the leadership and people from marching to Anantnag where a peaceful rally was supposed to be held. According to a JRL statement, the rally supposed to be held at LalChowk, Anantnag was aimed to express solidarity with the people of southern areas of Kashmir. “While the entire Anantnag town was barricaded and turned into a military garrison and…

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As weather improves, highway opens to one-way traffic

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The weather in the Valley remained mostly dry and the Jammu-Srinagar national highway was opened to one-way traffic today after remaining closed for three days. On Wednesday, 24 flights were cancelled due to poor visibility and snowfall in the Kashmir region. Officials said with the improvement in weather, all flights from the Srinagar airport were on schedule today. The weather department has predicted mostly dry weather for the week with rain or snow in isolated places. Officials of the weather department said that during the next 24 hours, there can…

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Hundreds of vehicles stranded as highway remains closed

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Snow, rain trigger landslides; Banihal-Ramban stretch worst hit The 300-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the second consecutive day, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded on the road. Continuous rain and snow resulted in landslides at different points on the highway, leading to the stoppage of the vehicular traffic. Despite an alert having been sounded by the state administration, hundreds of vehicles, including 165 light motor vehicles (LMVs), are stuck on the national highway since Monday evening. The administration expects that the highway can reopen for the traffic on Wednesday…

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Chief Secretary dismayed over sluggish highway expansion

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Expressing his dismay over sluggish pace of work on upgradation of Banihal-Ramban stretch of the Srinagar-Jammu highway, J&K’s chief secretary B B Vyas on Monday asked the executing agency to immediately flag the issues hampering the work for their redressal at appropriate levels. “We can’t afford to drag on this key connectivity project endlessly. Enough time has been already lost and there has to be now tangible movement forward on providing all-weather connectivity to Kashmir with the rest of the country,” Vyas, according to an official spokesman, told the executing…

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Ghani Bhat led Muslim Conference splits post meet with Dineshwar Sharma

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Rival faction sacks Hurriyat leader; he hits back by expelling party’s Pak representative Barely two weeks after senior Hurriyat leader Abdul Ghani Bhat held a secret meeting with Jammu and Kashmir interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma, the Muslim Conference headed by him has split, with the rival faction even sacking him from the post of party president. In turn, Bhat today sacked the Pakistan representative of the Muslim Conference, Manzoor-ul-Haq Bhat, a former militant commander, who was appointed vice-president of the rival Muslim Conference faction, and Mohammad Sultan Magrey, a retired DSP…

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Heavy Snow, Rain predicted across Kashmir Valley next week

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Leh in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir was the coldest recorded place in the state as the night temperature there remained several degrees below the freezing point even as the Valley braced for possible heavy snow next week. The Meteorological Department has said a western disturbance would affect the state next week and warned of heavy rain and snow. The night temperatures across all stations in the Kashmir Valley, except at Gulmarg and Ladakh region decreased on Thursday night, an official of the MET department said here. He said…

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5.4 Magnitude earthquake jolts parts of J&K

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The epicentre of the earthquake was J-K-Xingjian border; no reports of casualty or damage so far. A moderate intensity earthquake occurred in Kashmir in the wee hours of Thursday. No report of casualty or damage has come from anywhere so far. “A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred at 4.59 am today (Thursday),” sources in the disaster management department said on Thursday. “The epicentre of the quake was near J&K-Xingjian border and its coordinates are latitude 35.5 degrees north and longitude 77.6 degrees east.” Geologically, the…

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Message on Babri anniversary from Al-Qaeda in Kashmir calls on Indians to join jihad

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The call was released on online jihadist feeds on Wednesday, by the new al-Qaeda affiliate formed earlier this year by breakaway cadre of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Ansar Ghazwa ’tul-Hind, the Kashmir-based affiliate of transnational terrorist group al-Qaeda, has called on Indian Muslims to “join the fields of the jihad”, claiming that “perfidious Hindus will keep changing their tactics until their mission is accomplished — and that mission is the elimination of every last Muslim, be they children or the elderly, men or women, or brothers or our sons”. The…

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Mehbooba Mufti pitches for release of political prisoners

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has urged the Centre to help her in the release of political prisoners whose health is deteriorating in prisons and also shift Kashmiri inmates from Tihar Jail to J&K prisons to help make the atmosphere tension-free in the state. Official sources said upset over the recent incident of thrashing of Kashmiri inmates, including Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin’s son Shahid Yousuf, in Tihar Jail by personnel of the Tamil Nadu Police, the Chief Minister had urged the Union Home Ministry to shift all inmates to Jammu…

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Dineshwar Sharma met Gani Bhat and another Hurriyat leader during his second visit

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New Delhi’s “special representative” for Kashmir talks Dineshwar Sharma has met senior Hurriyat leader Abdul Gani Bhat and one more separatist leader during his second leg of Kashmir visit last week, a media report said. According to a report in Economic Times, the former Intelligence Bureau head Sharma drove to the residence-cum-office of Abdul Gani Bhat in Wazir Bagh Srinagar on November 27 around 10:30 pm in Srinagar where another Hurriyat leader was present during the meeting, which went on for around an hour. The meeting assumes significance as the…

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