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Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called shutdown in Kashmir tomorrow against the custodial death of a school teacher. “JRL has strongly condemned the custodial killing of 28-year-old school teacher Rizwan Asad Pandith of Awantipora who was picked up by the SOG and NIA a few days ago,” said a statement today. JRL has expressed sympathy with his bereaved family, it added.
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A youth from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district died in a police custody in Srinagar on Tuesday. A senior Police officer confirmed the incident while talking to Kashmir Post. “An individual has died (in custody). He was held in a militacy-related case. We will share the details after sometime,” he said. According to reports the deceased youth has been identified as Rizwan Asad of Awantipora in Pulwama.The death took place during intervening night of 18 and 19 March, reports said.Quoting a Police officer, a local news agency GNS reported that Police…
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The BJP kick-started its Lok Sabha campaign in militancy-hit Valley with a meet at the Sher-e-Kashmir Park on Thursday.The ‘Shakti Kendra Sammelan’ was presided by party’s national vice-president Avinash Rai Khanna. The agenda of the meeting was to strengthen ground-level organisation by holding several such meetings in the state, which has six Lok Sabha seats.The party had last month launched a programme to meet workers in clusters of two or three constituencies across the country. In Jammu, BJP president Amit Shah addressed workers of two constituencies. Khanna said the party…
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Police plan to arrest more people in the run up to the general elections. Sources in the police said their focus is to keep “trouble makers in check” so that there is no untoward incident and people come out to vote in a “fear-free environment”. “The process to arrest potential trouble makers is underway,” a senior superintendent of police told Kashmir Post. He said every arrest will be made after a thorough background check. “Some people have changed and now we do not want them in custody,” he said.Another senior…
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Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called shutdown tomorrow in Kashmir against the arrest spree, ban on Jamat-e-Islami and slapping of Public Safety Act (PSA) on JKLF chief Yasin Malik. “Arbitrary arrest and detention of senior resistance leader and chairman JKLF Muhammad Yasin Malik and many others under draconian PSA and shifting of Yasin Sahib to Kot-balwal jail Jammu is most condemnable act,” said the JRL, in a statement. “This spree of arrests, ban on Jamat-I-Islami and attempts to tinker with hereditary state subject law under the pretext of 35 A…
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One person died and 29 others were injured in a grenade blast at Jammu bus stand on Thursday, hospital sources said.An official said that the blast took place at 11:45 am when a grenade was hurled at a stationary bus at the main terminus. Inspector General of Police, Jammu M K Sinha confirmed injuries to 18 people. “The injured were shifted to GMC&H Jammu for treatment,” said Sinha, adding that the condition of some injured was serious. “Whenever there is a heightened state of alert we step up checking. There…
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Trade bodies have called for Kashmir bandh tomorrow against the ban on Jama’at-e-Islami and the legal challenge to Article 35A.The call for the strike was issued by various trade bodies of the Valley on Monday. Trade bodies have called for Kashmir bandh tomorrow against the ban on Jama’at-e-Islami and the legal challenge to Article 35A.The call for the strike was issued by various trade bodies of the Valley.The government of India Thursday banned Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir for five years, alleging that it was “in close touch with militant outfits”…
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Six passengers including a woman died and 39 others were injured after a vehicle they were traveling in met with an accident in Udhampur district on Friday late night. Reports reaching a local news agency said that the bus ( JK02BR-5503) skidded off the road and fell down into a deep gorge near Chaner area of Majalta. The incident occurred last night when the Kashmiri bound passengers were traveling in the bus towards Srinagar from Jammu. Deputy Commissioner Udhampur Dr Piyush Singla while confirming the mishap and said that five…
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The National Conference and the PDP said Friday that they were mulling moving court against the Centre’s decision to extend the 77th and 103rd Amendments of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir in the absence of an elected government in the state. The reactions come after the Union government on Thursday gave its nod to the promulgation of an ordinance for giving reservation benefits to SCs and STs in Jammu and Kashmir by amending a clause of the contentious Article 370, which gives special status to the state. “It…
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Restrictions were imposed in Downtown Srinagar and parts of south Kashmir including Anantnag town while the mobile Internet speed was throttled across the valley on Friday.Reports said that the forces were deployed in strength in the Old City and Anantnag and Bijbehara towns in south Kashmir. Rolls of concertina wires were installed in Anantnag town to restrict the movement of the pedestrians and commuters. An official said that the step has been taken as a precautionary measure to maintain “law and order”, reported news agency GNS.Hurriyat (M) chairman and Kashmir’s…
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