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Happenings

BJP sounds poll bugle, kick-starts LS poll campaign across Valley

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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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In pre poll process more arrests on cards : J&K Police

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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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Shutdown tomorrow against arrest spree, slapping PSA on Yasin Malik: JRL

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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 dead, scores injured in Grenade explosion at Jammu bus stand

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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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Kashmir bandh tomorrow against assault on Article 35A, Jama’at ban: Trade bodies

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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 killed, 39 injured as bus falls into gorge in Udhampur

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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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Method adopted to extend constitutional amendments highly objectionable, NC, PDP mulling moving court

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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 in Kashmir parts, Mobile Internet speed throttled

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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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Pakistani jets violate Indian air space in Nowshera sector, Flight operations temporarily suspended at Srinagar airport

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Pakistani jets violated Indian air space in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nowshera area but were successfully confronted. An official said the jets were immediately pushed back by Indian jets on air patrol. The jets had entered into Indian air space this morning, the official said. More details are awaited. Meanwhile, Srinagar, Jammu and Leh airports were Wednesday closed for civilian air traffic shortly after an IAF jet crashed in Budgam district and amid escalation of cross-Line of Control shelling between armies of India and Pakistan.“The civilian air traffic has been suspended…

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Resistance leadership under NAI Raids

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The National Investogation Agency (NIA) Tuesday carried out searches on separatists in Kashmir valley, including Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, in a funding case, officials said. The NIA sleuths accompanied by local police and CRPF personnel carried out searches at nearly nine places across the valley, which included the house of Nayeem Geelani, son of Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, they said. Besides these, the houses of JKLF leader Yaseen Malik, Shabir Shah, Ashraf Sehrai and Zaffar Bhat were also raided. Shah, who is head of Jammu…

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