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Temperature hovers below freezing point across Kashmir Valley

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Leh was recorded as the coldest place in Jammu and Kashmir as the mercury plummeted to the season’s lowest of minus 13.2 degrees Celsius there, while the night temperature across the Valley also remained several notches below the freezing point. The town in the Ladakh region was the coldest recorded place in the state while the nearby Kargil also shivered at a low of minus 9.4 degrees Celsius, which was the lowest night temperature the town has experienced so far this season, an official of the MET department said here.…

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Supreme Court issues notice to State, Centre on use of Pellet Guns

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Asks Modi govt to file expert panel report on the weapon; next hearing Jan 30 The Supreme Court today issued a notice to the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir Government on a plea for banning the use of pellet guns by the security forces to deal with violence in the state. A Bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur also asked the Centre to file the expert committee report on pellet guns. The Bench was hearing an appeal by the J&K High Court Bar Association, Srinagar, challenging the September…

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Excessive force used in past 5 months: Admits Mehbooba Mufti

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Asks police to change ‘line of action’ as situation is normalizing Admitting that government forces had to use excessive force in the past five months of uprising in Kashmir, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Wednesday urged the police to “change its line of action so that wounds inflicted on people are healed.” She also directed the police and other forces to differentiate between militants and their family members and not to see everybody as a suspect. Addressing the passing out-cum-attestation parade of a batch of 355 new police recruits at Commandos…

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World Bank pauses Indus Water Treaty Arbitration

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The World Bank (WB) has announced a pause in arbitration between Islamabad and New Delhi on the matter of the two dams being constructed by India, calling on both countries “to consider alternative ways to resolve their disagreements.” In the aftermath of rising cross-border tensions following the Uri army base attack and an Indian surgical strike, Prime Minister NarendraModi in November threatened to stop honouring the Indus Waters Treaty and block the flow of water into Pakistan. India is constructing two hydropower projects on the Chenab and Neelum Rivers in…

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‘If Yatra, RSS marches are facilitated, Why ban Islamic functions?’ Geelani

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Angry over government not allowing a religious conference at Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani’s residence here, pro-freedom leaders on Monday questioned the government that if Amarnath Yatra and RSS marches are facilitated, why an Islamic function is disallowed by using force. Tehreek-e-Hurriyat had organised a Seerat conference on Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi (SAW), the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), at Geelani’s Hyderpora residence where Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Miwaiz Umar Farooq and JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik were also invited to address besides various other religious clerics of Kashmir. Since…

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Situation in Valley still grim: Wajahat Habibullah

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Team unlikely to meet separatist leaders ‘Everybody wants peace to prevail; Delhi must understand situation in Kashmir’ The five-member delegation led by senior BJP leader and former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Monday said though situation has improved in many ways in Valley but it is still “very grim” and maintained that Kashmiris including Hurriyat leadership and civil society members want peace to prevail. The five-member delegation led by Sinha and including former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, former Air Vice-Marshal (Retd) Kapil Kak, Journalist Bharat Bhushan and Sushoba…

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Eid-i-Milad-un-Nabi (SAW) today

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Eid-i-Milad-un-Nabi (SAW) is being celebrated with full reverence, devotion and religious fervour in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. The day marks the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Religious processions, special prayer meetings, Seerat Conferences are being organized across the State to celebrate the day. Special functions would be held in the Kashmir at various shrines and Masjids. The biggest congregation will be held at Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar where devotees in large numbers would offer special prayers and have glimpses of the holy relic of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). In…

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Asia’s longest road tunnel Chenani – Nashri Tunnel waiting for NHAI nod for Opening

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Asia’s longest road tunnel— Chenani-Nashri tunnel, which would connect Udhampur district with Ramban district on Jammu-Srinagar Highway awaits nod from National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for its opening. Sources involved in construction of 9 kilometer long 2-lane tunnel, told Kashmir Post that the project is almost complete but the NHAI so far has not given its Commercial Operations Date (COD), mandatory for start testing and commissioning. “All civil works on the tunnel including extension of cemented roads on both North (Nashri) and South (Chenani) end have been completed,” sources…

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Mehbooba Mufti being cornered by BJP?

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There appears to be a bigger game plan at play in the verbal duel over the Kashmir Police Service cadre review between the two alliance partners — PDP and BJP — in a Cabinet meeting here on Friday that witnessed a rare walkout by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. A simplistic conclusion of the unseemly episode is that the BJP wanted Delhi to be consulted — meaning seeking its approval — before putting this review of the KPS cadre in the Cabinet meeting. The review, mooted by Mehbooba Mufti, as Home…

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Dense fog affects Rail, Air Services across J&K

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The rail services as well as the air services continue to affect in the state due to dense fog in north India for the last three days. All the trains to Jammu Tawi, Udhampur and Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, Katra, are reaching late by 5 to 14 hours leading to chaos among the passengers. However, the Railway authorities claim that all the trains were being sent on time from the Jammu Tawi railway station. The Jammu Tawi railway station has about 34 pairs of trains, which operate from here. All…

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