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Wet weather, security checks cause inconvenience to people

November 6, 2015 Editor

As the summer capital is gearing up for the high profile visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the residents here today had to face a lot of inconvenience due to unusual security checks and cold weather conditions. After a week-long respite from rain, weather conditions deteriorated during the last couple of days as the upper reaches of the Valley received fresh snowfall. This has led to wet and cold weather conditions, prompting people to put on additional layer of woolens. What added to their inconvenience were surprise checks by the…

14 CRPF troopers injured in Srinagar grenade attack

November 6, 2015 Editor

At least 14 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured in the blast after separatist guerrillas hurled a grenade at them here on Thursday evening, police said. The attack came barely two days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to arrive here to address a rally. “Seven more injured CRPF troopers have been admitted to hospital with splinter injuries. Seven troopers were earlier admitted to hospital after militants lobed a grenade at a picket of the CRPF outside the Ikhwan Hotel in Khanyar area here,” a senior police…

Police crack down continued on separatists in Valley

November 6, 2015 Editor

Nearly 300 detained in five days, drive likely to intensify in the region Around 300 separatist leaders, activists and protesters have been detained as part of an ongoing crackdown ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state. The crackdown was launched last week, a day after separatists called for a march and shutdown against the Prime Minister’s visit on Saturday. The call for the “million march” on Saturday, when the Prime Minister would address a rally at Sher-e-Kashmir Stadium, was made by the hardline separatist faction of Syed…

Srinagar turned into a fortress ahead of PM Modi’s Kashmir visit

November 5, 2015 Editor

A security blanket has been thrown around summer capital Srinagar two days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state. Barricades have been erected at all the entry and exit points of the city with police and paramilitary personnel manning them, said a witness. Forces in riot gear have been deployed across the city to thwart any attempts by militants to disrupt the rally scheduled on November 7. Pedestrians and motorists are being frisked at multiple locations in the city to ensure that explosives or arms are not…

SMC officials draw flak for illegal constructions

November 5, 2015 Editor

Minister of State for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies Mohammad Ashraf Mir today reprimanded the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) officials over illegal constructions in the city. “The minister came down heavily on the officials concerned. He said strict vigil had to be maintained to check the growing illegal constructions,” said an SMC official, who was a part of the review meeting chaired by the minister. The minister also said an official who remains ignorant of illegal constructions should be placed under suspension, the official said. He said Mir also…

Class IX boy works on hydropower for village

November 5, 2015 Editor

Confident of harnessing water resources to give residents relief from power cuts Frequent power cuts have sparked the will in a school student to develop a small-scale power project. Zubair Ahmad Kumar, a resident of Drabgam village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, is a Class IX student of the Government Higher Secondary School in the village. He has been working for the past two years to develop the working model of a hydroelectric power project at his village so that he can generate electricity for his village. He is confident…

Modi’s visit last ray of hope for flood-hit

November 5, 2015 Editor

Just 800 metres away from the Sher-i-Kashmir Park, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to address Kashmir on November 7, Nayeema Akhter is watching her house, which was washed away by the floods in September last year, slowly coming into shape. Though the 57-year-old has no plans to attend PM’s rally, she is eager to hear about the rehabilitation of the flood-hit from Narendra Modi. “We have been waiting for the last one year for the complete rehabilitation. Our last hope rests with the PM. I hope he will…

‘You will dishonour Ghani Lone if you participate in Modi’s rally’ Er Rashid

November 4, 2015 Editor

MLA Langate and AIP President Er Rashid Wednesday appealed people of Kashmir to stage a protest on the arrival of Indian Prime Minister and to give a clear and loud message to world community that Kashmiris are not essential commodities who can be used by “fascist” leaders like Narender Modi to mislead the world community and destroy the facts. In a statement to CNS, Engineer Rashid while addressing a series of rallies in North Kashmir condemned “RSS controlled” state administration and asked it to stop terrorising people for making Modi’s…

Political activists, ex-militants arrested ahead of Modi’s Kashmir visit

November 4, 2015 Editor

Police in Jammu and Kashmir have detained at least 237 persons, including activists of separatist outfits and former militants in the run-up to PM Modi’s visit to the state on November 7. A top police official disclosed that 141 activists of separatist outfits and 96 former militants were detained during past week at various police stations across Kashmir valley to ensure “fool-proof” security to Modi during his November 7 visit to the state. “21 activists have been detained in Srinagar, followed by Baramulla, Budgam, Shopian, Anantnag, Awantipora, Sopore, Bandipora, Handwara,…