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Kashmir

Police crack down on rumour-mongers

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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…

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January 21, 1990: “52 innocent Kashmiri civilians killed over 250 injured”

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It was this day (January 21, 1990), twenty-six years ago, when at least 52 Kashmiri innocent civilians were butchered by India’s Central Reserve Police Force in the heart of the Srinagar city when thousands of people took out a massive anti-India procession. Number of people who witness the bloodshed told CNS that anti-India sentiments were running deep and the city was reverberating with pro-freedom slogans. “On January 21, 1990, the whole city was under siege, massive search and crackdown operations were carried out to trace down the militants. The news…

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Local sympathy for militants up in Valley

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Attempts of local residents, mostly youths, to storm encounter sites to divert the attention of security forces have been taking place with regularity in recent years. This has been going on for over five years now. It is a reversal of the earlier phase of insurgency when residents used to flee. The latest incident took place on Wednesday in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district where militants, initially believed to be two or three in number, were trapped by security forces in Naina village. As the encounter was under way amid intense…

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Geelani for shutdown in Gawkadal on Jan 21

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Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani has called for complete shutdown in Gowkadal area, Handwara town and Kupwara town on January 21, 25 and 27 respectively, appealing people of these areas to organize special prayers for the victims of the massacres that have taken place there.  “On the completion of 26 years of January 21, 1990 massacre of Gowkadal and January 25 of Handwara massacre and 22 years of January 27, 1994 massacre of Kupwara, Geelani appealed to the international human rights organizations to play their role in conducting…

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This is why Geelani stayed home this winter?

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Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani, according to his close aides, preferred to stay in Kashmir this winter to keep a close watch on the evolving political situation in view of the resumption of India-Pakistan dialogue and to complete third volume of his book “Iqbal Rooh-e- Deen Ka Shanasa”. The ailing separatist leader recently suffered asthma attack. He was administered oxygen by doctors on Sunday after suffering the asthma attack. The oxygen support was removed later after the infection subsided in the afternoon. He has been advised by the…

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Police crack murder case of Peerbagh youth, 4 persons held

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Police on Monday claimed to have solved murder case of a youth of Peerbagh area here with the arrest of four persons. Addressing a press conference here, Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Central Kashmir Ghulam Hassan Bhat said on January 12, Owais Bashir Malik son of Bashir Ahmad Malik of Peerbagh went missing. “A missing report to this effect was entered in police post Humhama on January 13. In the wee hours of January 14, the body of the missing youth was recovered near Railway Bridge Humhama. A case…

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Pandit couple returns to Muslim neighbourhood in Kashmir

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One reason I stayed in Muslim colony is relate with my youthful days, says Omkar Razdan. A Kashmiri Pandit couple is back in the Kashmir Valley. What makes the return of Omkar Razdan (70) and Vijay Bazaz Razdan (65) unique is they refused to take the Prime Minister’s package. Instead, they preferred to move to a Muslim neighbourhood. Omkar Razdan and Vijay Bazaz Razdan, son-in-law and daughter of the widely-read Kashmiri Pandit, Prem Nath Bazaz, have constructed a three-storey house in the Muslim-majority Humhama colony of Srinagar to dispel the…

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After 15-yr wait, chemist’s family holds funeral prayers

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Fifteen years after he disappeared, the family of a chemist from Rawalpora in Srinagar organised his funeral prayers today. The prayers were attended by hundreds of people, including separatist leaders. Manzoor Ahmad Dar of Rawalpora, on the outskirts of Srinagar, was arrested by the Army on January 19, 2002. His wife, Jana, who was also present today, has maintained in her testimonies before the courts that an Army contingent led by Kishore Malhotra, then a Major with 35 Rashtriya Rifles, had raided their house in the dead of the night.…

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Div Comm stresses need for effective parking system

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Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Asgar Hassan Samoon today stressed the need to adopt the concept of vertical parking and paid parking to decongest the city roads. Samoon also stressed the need to chalk out effective parking management mechanism. The Divisional Commissioner was chairing a meeting of officers from the State Development Authority, Srinagar Municipal Corporation, Roads and Buildings, Police, Government Press, Economic Reconstruction Agency and Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation. He said with limited free space available in Srinagar city, the stress should be laid on the construction of vertical…

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Valley remains in grip of cold, Leh coldest at minus 13.0 degrees Celsius

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Cold wave conditions remained unabated as the night temperature across Kashmir division of Jammu and Kashmir continued to stay below the freezing point with weatherman forecasting the dry spell to continue this week as well. Leh in frontier Ladakh region, 434 kms from here, continued to be the coldest recorded place in the state with minus 13.0 degrees Celsius – marking an improvement of over one degree compared to previous night’s minus 14.4, a spokesperson of MeT here said. Neighbouring Kargil town was the second coldest recorded place with a low of minus…

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