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Half-baked package for flood victims cruel joke: Congress

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“The coalition government led by the PDP has betrayed the people of Jammu and Kashmir for the sake of gaining power. Tall claims by (Chief Minister) Mufti Mohammad Sayeed about the rehabilitation of the flood-affected were a political gimmick to secure votes from people in the Valley” GA Mir, JKPCC president. The Congress today said the claims of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the Assembly elections were a “political gimmick” to secure votes and the ruling party had “betrayed” the people for coming to power. “The coalition government led by…

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Mehbooba as CM not acceptable: Hari Om

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Amid rumours of change of guard in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP leader Prof Hari Om has written a letter to national BJP president Amit Shah, cautioning him against accepting Mehbooba Mufti as Chief Minister. Prof Hari Om, former political adviser to the state BJP president, said Mehbooba was not acceptable to people of Jammu region at any cost. “Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has already caused irreparable damage to national interest in the state by advocating the Pakistani cause and alienated the patriotic and suffering people of Jammu province by…

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PM’s flood relief package for Kashmir: Know your compensation

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From the PM Modi’s 80, 000 crore package, Rs 2000 crores will be utilized for relief and rehabilitation of flood-affected people in Jammu and Kashmir. This includes Rs 1200 crores for reconstruction of damaged houses and Rs 800 for traders hit by the deluge. During a press conference in Jammu on Friday, the government announced break-up of the fresh relief for the flood-affected households out of Rs 80000 crore Prime Minister’s reconstruction plan announced recently. This will be in addition to the relief already paid to the flood-affected households and…

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Weather to improve in JK from Tomorrow

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The weather across Jammu and Kashmir is likely to improve from Saturday as the Meteorological Office said that the spell of rainfall in the state will end today. “Weather will start improving from tomorrow (Saturday) in Jammu and Kashmir. The moderate to heavy rainfall in the plains and snow in the higher reaches which had been forecast on Thursday would end on Friday evening,” an official of the Meteorological department told IANS in Srinagar today. The minimum temperature was 5.8 degrees Celsius in Srinagar today while it was 5.6 degrees…

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CM has become an ‘RSS Pracharak’: NC

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Mufti on ‘Sadhbavna Tour’ to Goa for Modi’s PR mission: Mattu  National Conference on Thursday ridiculed Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s desperation to travel to Goa to speak at a seminar organized by an RSS patronized, right-wing think tank to deliver a lecture aimed at eulogizing the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi viz-a-viz Kashmir. “CM Mufti has sadly taken to being an RSS Pracharak like a duck takes to water. At a time when both the Prime Minister and his party stand condemned throughout the country for the growth…

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‘JK govt must add mother tongue, third language column in admission forms’

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National Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Prof Akhtarul Wasey Thursday asked the state government to include information of child’s mother tongue as well as preferred third language for study in school admission forms in order to promote Urdu and regional languages. “All the affiliated schools of state board should include a column in the application forms for admission as per the recommendations of National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities (NCRLM) on compulsory registration of mother tongue,” Prof Wasey said while addressing a seminar at Central University of Kashmir, here. He…

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DAK welcomes decision to shift interview venue

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The Valley-based doctors today welcomed the government’s decision to conduct interview for recruitment of lecturers in the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS) in Srinagar. The government had earlier notified that the interviews would be conducted in Jammu. Welcoming the government decision, the Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) said the decision would give respite to hundreds of doctors for whom going to Jammu was impossible in view of tight duty schedule in hospitals. The authorities had earlier fixed interview for the post of lecturers in SKIMS, Bemina, in Jammu. The DAK…

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Killing of Burmese militant ups ante of Intelligence agencies

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Flag Ministry of Home Affairs on Rohingya refugees settling in Jammu The recent killing of a foreign militant has reignited the fears of security forces vis-à-vis the floating population of Rohingya refugees in J&K and their vulnerability to falling prey to the designs of terror outfits. Rohingyas have settled down in good numbers in Jammu city, which has always remained on the terror radar. One of the two foreign militants killed in an encounter in south Kashmir’s Tral town in October was identified as Chota Burmi, a native of Myanmar.…

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Coalition govt fails to fulfil major promises made in eight months

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In March this year, when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stitched up a coalition government with the BJP, they entered into an “agenda of alliance” to govern the state. Eight months later, we took a look at the major promises made by ministers in the coalition government and their delivery. Fast-track recruitment In July this year, Jammu and Kashmir implemented the new recruitment policy and announced to recruit 7,500 people under the new rules on a fast-track basis in four months. The announcement was made by Education Minister Naeem Akhter, who…

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Office of CM can’t be Kashmir’s sole preserve: Hari Om

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Expressing shock over the defeat of the BJP in the Bihar Assembly elections, Prof Hari Om, senior BJP leader and former Political Advisor to J&K BJP president, on Thursday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in J&K to help Jammu and save BJP. The intervention of the Prime Minister is a must in the troubled-state because the PDP has been meticulously muddying the Indian waters in the state by pursuing separatist and Pakistan-friendly policies, he said. At the same time, Prof Hari Om congratulated the Prime Minister who…

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