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Mehbooba holds first public interaction after Mufti’s death

January 23, 2016 Editor

Introduces brother Tassaduq to young entrepreneurs from Valley In her first public interaction since the death of her father, Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti today met young start-up entrepreneurs of Kashmir. While the PDP maintains that it was an apolitical meeting and was fulfilment of one of the last wishes of former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the meeting gains significance as it was held at a time when there is suspense over government formation in J&K and Mehbooba is keeping everyone, including its alliance partner BJP, guessing. During…

Beware of traffic violations, you are under surveillance

January 23, 2016 Editor

Traffic Police Srinagar installs cameras at vital points to nab violators The Traffic Police Srinagar has begun a process of installing cameras in various areas of the City at ‘vital locations to nab traffic violators. The Traffic officials told , that the purpose was to track all those drivers and riders who break traffic rules. The Driving Licenses of the people who get caught from now on will be suspended for 3 months. According to the officials, the cameras have been acquired from the Police Head Quarters. The authorities have…

Large crowds at Militant funerals a worry for security forces

January 22, 2016 Editor

Large crowds seen at the funerals of terrorists in recent months have emerged as a challenge for security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, officers say. On Wednesday, thousands attended the funeral of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Shakir Ahmad in Pulwama district, around 40 km from Srinagar. Clashes broke out and a man was killed and two injured allegedly in police firing. “Youth are now understanding the reality and history of Kashmir. Now they are more inclined towards it. The gun however is not the answer to this problem,” said Abdul Hamid,…

IS claims it will take over Kashmir from ‘cow-worshipping Hindus’

January 22, 2016 Editor

The terrorist organisation made the claim in 13th issue of its mouthpiece magazine ‘Dabiq’. In the 13th issue of its propaganda magazine, Dabiq, Islamic State has claimed that it won’t be long before Kashmir is run over by the organisation. The claims were made by the ‘emir of Khorasan’, Hafiz Saeed Khan in an interview to the magazine. Khan, also known as Mullah Saeed Orkazai, is an erstwhile commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and later defected to the Islamic State to become the group’s operative head in ‘Khorasan’, the region…

Mother kills children in Kashmir to ‘teach husband a lesson’

January 22, 2016 Editor

In a horrific act, a woman in Anantnag district of south Kashmir killed her two children before grievously injuring herself “to teach her husband a lesson”, police claimed on Thursday. According to a police statement, Ruqiya Begam took the extreme step on January 13 in Khatti Larnoo village of Kokernag. The two children – Imran Wagay, 4 and his sister Chandni, 2 – were killed and the mother was also found injured. “After killing her children, she attempted to commit suicide with the same weapon of offence,” the statement read.…

Srinagar shuts on 26th anniversary of Gaw Kadal massacre

January 22, 2016 Editor

Complete shutdown was observed in uptown Srinagar on Thursday to mark the 26th anniversary of Gaw Kadal massacre in which 52 civilians were killed by paramilitary forces. Shops, restaurants and others business establishments in Lal Chowk, Jehangir Chowk, Sarai Bala, Gonikhan, Maharaja Bazaar, Maisuma, Gaw Kadal, Basant Bagh, Mandir Bagh, Habba Kadal and adjoining areas remained closed in response to the strike called by separatists to pay tribute to 52 civilians, who were gunned down at Gaw Kadal on January 21, 1990. The traffic movement was also partially hit by…

Kashmir gets sunny days, freezing nights

January 22, 2016 Editor

The mercury in Kargil in Ladakh region plunged to the season’s lowest at minus 16.4 degrees Celsius as the cold wave continued in Jammu and Kashmir owing to dry weather, while the Valley witnessed unusual bright sunshine. Srinagar registered a low of minus 4.3 degrees Celsius as compared to the previous night’s minus 4.4 degrees Celsius, a spokesman of the Meteorological Department said here today. The maximum recorded here yesterday was 11.4 degrees Celsius, five degrees above normal. The city also witnessed unusual bright sunshine for the third consecutive day…

For police, the ‘special case’ is closed and ‘records lost in 2014 floods’

January 22, 2016 Editor

The Gawkadal Massacre of 1990 is etched in the collective memory of Kashmiris who remember its victims every year, but for the J&K Police the case stands closed and its record lost to the floods of 2014. The vital documents—which included the preliminary investigation report conducted by the police after the carnage took place—haven’t been preserved by the police department which claims to have lost these in the floods of 2014. The killing of about 51 protesters in indiscriminate firing by paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force personnel in Srinagar’s Gawkadal…

Two days after missing son’s ‘funeral’, Kashmir woman breathes her last

January 22, 2016 Editor

On Thursday, the family held her funeral at the same Rawalpora government school’s ground, with hundreds of locals attending it. It seemed Zeba Begum was waiting for a ‘closure’. Two days after her granddaughter held an in-absentia funeral of her son Manzoor Ahmad Dar, 14 years after he was allegedly picked up by the security forces and went missing from custody, the 82-year-old Zeba breathed her last. On Thursday, the family held her funeral at the same Rawalpora government school’s ground, with hundreds of locals attending it. Nearly a thousand…

Police crack down on rumour-mongers

January 21, 2016 Editor

In a latest action against rumour-mongers in Kashmir, the police today said they had registered a case against those who had updated a false report about the killing of a civilian in the Marhama area of Anantnag district. “No civilian has been killed or injured in Marhama, Anantnag, as some rumour-mongers updated on their Facebook pages,” the police said in a statement. They said an investigation had been initiated and a case registered against the persons who “are updating on their Facebook pages that a civilian was killed and many…