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Anti Terrorist Front India places Rs 21 lakh bounty on Farooq Abdullah’s tongue for remarks on PoK

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The Anti Terrorist Front India announced a bounty of Rs 21 lakh prize for cutting former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah’s tongue, saying he has “insulted” the country with his pro- Pakistan remarks and was speaking “against” the RSS. Front national president Viresh Shandilya also demanded immediate investigation and arrest of the Srinagar MP. “Farooq has been speaking against the RSS and supporting Pakistan and insulted India in his recent remarks,” he said in a statement. “Farooq is a big traitor in India and the central government should…

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Center’s 792 MWs allocation won’t end power crisis

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Have infrastructure for only 1300 MWs power: CE The Government of India’s (GoIs) decision to allocate 792 MWs of electricity can’t help overcome power crises as the existing infrastructure lacks capacity to transmit more than 1300 MWs electricity, officials said. The requirement of electricity was 1700 MWs. The power “curtailment schedule” will get worse, sources in Power Development Department (PDD) told Kashmir Post, and “additional allocation of power won’t benefit.’’ “It is like filling a five liter capacity bucket with 10 liters of water, “they said. Chief Engineer Systems and…

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ISIS first attack in India? Daesh claims responsibility for attack in Zakura

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Amaq News Agency of Islamic State has claimed that they carried the attack in Zakura area of Srinagar on November 17. A police sub-inspector was killed and an SPO was injured in the attack. In the retaliatory action, one militant Mugees Ahmad Mir was also killed and another captured by the security forces. Amaq News Agency is considered as the media arm of the Islamic State. SITE Intel Group, which claims to be the provider of Jihadist/Far Right & Far Left/Cyber Security News, tweeted that Islamic State claims the responsibility…

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Season’s coldest night in Gulmarg, Kargil; Leh records minus 6.5

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The famous ski-resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir along with Leh and Kargil towns in Ladakh region recorded the season’s coldest night owing to snow in several areas in the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir earlier this week. Gulmarg recorded a low of minus 5.6 degrees Celsius, a Meteorological Department official said here. The area experienced a drop of over five degrees in night temperature from the previous night’s zero degree Celsius, he said. Gulmarg was the coldest place in the Valley and the second coldest in Jammu and…

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Farooq Abdullah seeks autonomy for J&K, asks PM to engage with people

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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday again pitched for autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir and asked Modi government to rollback all central laws extended to the state after 1953. Addressing a public meeting in Uri, Farooq Abdullah said the restoration of autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir was non-negotiable and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to engage with people of the state to bring back normalcy. “The time has come to reverse the extension of all central laws extended to J&K post-1953 through pliant regimes that were installed in Jammu…

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What has changed in Kashmir after you came to power, Shiv Sena asks BJP?

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The Sena, which is a key constituent of the ruling NDA, questioned if the situation has changed in Jammu and Kashmir since the BJP came to power. Continuing with its criticism of the Narendra Modi government, the Shiv Sena on Thursday slammed the Centre for terrorist infiltration bids and ceasefire violations by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir. The Sena, which is a key constituent of the ruling NDA, questioned if the situation has changed in Jammu and Kashmir since the BJP came to power. In an editorial in the Sena…

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Centre for talks in J&K during winter calm

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With violence levels and mob protests in Kashmir likely to ebb in winter months, the Centre is keen to use a period of relative calm to focus on the dialogue process and work on framing an actionable agenda that will help win hearts and maintain peace. The government’s representative for the Jammu and Kashmir dialogue Dineshwar Sharma, who just wound up what officials here described as a “successful” maiden visit to the state, is likely to engage with more sections of the people by visiting the state at least once…

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Hurriyat Conference may hold talks with Dineshwar Sharma

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After a year-long crackdown on the militants and stone pelters, it was expected that the 26-party front would not want to show any alacrity in grabbing an offer of talks from New Delhi. After the initial outright rejection of talks, Kashmiri separatist umbrella organisation Hurriyat Conference may finally come to the table with New Delhi-nominated interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma. This is the initial assessment from within the establishment on Sharma’s return to Delhi from Srinagar earlier this week. Sharma was in Srinagar to hold the first round of talks with various…

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If you won’t give autonomy, everyone will seek azadi: Farooq Abdullah

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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah has said that the efforts of the government of India’s “special representative” for Kashmir can move forward only if his final report is tabled in the two Houses of the Parliament for discussion. He also stressed that New Delhi also needed to explain what it wished to achieve by appointing Dineshwar Sharma as its special representative for talks on Kashmir. Abdullah, the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, said that different voices emerging from the power corridors had reduced Sharma to a “zero even…

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Panchayat polls from Dec 1, Mehbooba Mufti tells Rajnath Singh

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has committed to the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh that her government would kick-start the process to hold the much-delayed panchayat elections from December 1. Mehbooba told the Home Minister that she would be undertaking the exercise of restoring the exercise in a quite earnest way and that there would be no further delay in holding of the panchayat elections. The Chief Minister made this commitment during her meeting with the Home Minister on October 26, when she was asked specifically as to when the panchayat…

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