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Income tax sleuths in Kashmir give sleepless nights to Kashmir Inc.

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Raids called off after CM’s intervention? For past three days starting last Saturday the entire business community of Kashmir was on toes. This so happened after rumors started doing rounds that the Income Tax Department (IT) was planning massive tax raids across Kashmir Valley. As soon as this bit of information went out, businessmen and traders all across the Kashmir valley started working in reverse and tried to set their accounts in order while at the same trying to ascertain more about the impending raids. “ We were in complete…

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Wet weather imminent but snowfall less likely: MeT

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Amid apprehensions fuelled by a barrage of news reports that snowfall may occur on 9th of this month, officials said that a weak Western Disturbance was hovering above Kashmir valley likely to result in slight to moderate rainfall with low chances of snowfall. “We are likely to witness rainfall on 10th and 11th,” Director MeT, Sonam Lotus told. “I cannot say for certain that there would be no snowfall but if rainfall persists throughout the night, we might see one,” he said, adding that chances of snowfall were still least.…

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India, Pak get back to the dialogue table, but people of Kashmir have little hope

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India and Pakistan may have finally ended their diplomatic deadlock with the meeting of National Security Advisors in Bangkok, but the news has been met with little enthusiasm in the Kashmir Valley, where most people expressed pessimism about the future of the latest round of talks. On Monday morning in the heart of Lal Chowk, the commercial hub of Srinagar, vendors and shopkeepers were seen glued to local newspapers. Most papers gave a prominent mention to the NSA talks held between Ajit Doval and his Pakistani counterpart, Lt Gen NSA…

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SC rejects Gulzar’s plea for transfer of case outside JK

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Supreme Court of India has rejected the plea of fake faith healer Gulzar Ahmad Bhat (Peer) for transfer of his case from J&K high court to any other state. A division bench of Justice Ibrahim Kalifulla and Justice Amitabh Roy rejected the plea of the fake healer. However, the apex court asked the Chief Justice of J&K High Court to transfer the case to Jammu chapter of the court. Bhat, through his counsel, pleaded that there is threat to his lawyer in Kashmir and that lawyers in Kashmir refuse to…

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Revealing untold stories of Kashmir

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Kashmiri filmmaker Iffat Fatima’s ‘Khoon Diy Baarav’ was screened at Lamakaan recently. The movie documents personal narratives and reminiscences of the issue of enforced disappearances in the valley The Kashmiri film ‘Khoon Diy Baarav’ (Blood leaves its trails) made over a period of nine years by filmmaker Iffat Fatima enters the vexed political scenario in Kashmir through the lives of families of the victims of enforced disappearance. The movie explores memory as a mode of resistance, constantly confronting reality and morphing from the personal to the political, the individual to…

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Kashmir shuts against Tiwari’s anti-Islam remarks

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Many areas of Kashmir valley observed shutdown against the derogatory remarks of Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari pertaining to Islam and Muslims and people held protests at various places across Kashmir. Reports said that in Islamabad town, shops remained closed and traffic was off the roads. “Youth had erected barricades at many places in old town as well as Khanabal-Pahalgam (KP) road and the vehicles were not allowed to ply,” eyewitnesses said. The call for shutdown was given by South Kashmir cleric and head of a religious organization- Tehreek-i-Sawtul Awlia-…

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Urs Makhdoom Sahib observed with fervour

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A sea of devotees thronged the shrine of Sultan-ul-Arifeen Hazrat Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom Sahib as the annual Urs of the revered saint was observed with traditional fervour here today. Devotees paid obeisance throughout the day at the shrine of the revered Sufi saint located at Hari Parbat, also known as Koh-e-Maraan. Traditionally, hardcore devotees cutting across religious lines visited the shrine for 12 consecutive days prior to the main Urs day (today) as per past practice. A caretaker of the shrine said the devotees usually pay obeisance at the shrine…

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Stray dogs unleash terror around Kawdara, Nawakadal

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Residents of Kawdara and Grattabal on Sunday lashed out at Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) for its alleged failure to curb dog menace in old city. A delegation of residents while talking to us said the stray dogs are on prowl at Kawadara, Grattabal and Nawadadal areas. These dogs have created fear among the pedestrians, motorcyclists particularly children and old aged people in the area. “Stray dogs till date have attacked and injured several persons.  Recently a pack of stray dogs attacked a motorcyclist near CRPF camp he somehow managed to escape…

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Cops blame ‘non-cooperative’ Army for delay in completing probe

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Almost 13 months after the killing of two youths at Chattergam in Budgam, Army men will depose before the police for recording their statements for the first time. The police have been blaming the Army for the delay in filing a challan in the case in the competent court, alleging that the Army had not been cooperating with their investigation. Two youths — Faisal Yousuf (17) and Meraj-u-din Dar (21) — were killed and two others injured on November 3 when Army men of the 53 Rashtriya Rifles battalion, manning…

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‘Operation Sadbhavana helping Army cultivate informers’

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We also offer good incentives to them: GoC ‘Locals often help without taking money because of good relations yielded through Sadbhavana’ With its stated objective of ‘winning the hearts and minds’ of people, Operation Sadbhavana has also helped Army cultivate informers who help them in hunting down the militants. Talking to us, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lt Gen Satish Dua said the network of local informers is being strengthened through a number of ways and one of them is meeting people and developing amicable relations through…

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