The Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) faction headed by Showkat Chowdhary has called for ‘Kashmir bandh’ tomorrow against Friday’s attack on a Valley-bound truck in Udhampur district of the Jammu region. In an KEA meeting held today, Chowdhary while calling for a shutdown, demanded security for the Kashmiri people travelling from Jammu to Srinagar, especially truck drivers and to their properties. He said such attacks “point to criminal conspiracy hatched by vested interested people and is aimed to destabilise the state”. “With such attacks, a fear has crept among the people…
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Business Shut in Lal Chowk, Journalist Injured in Nowhatta
Business Hub of Srinagar city, Lal Chowk, Friday witnessed spontaneous shutdown when two youth allegedly tried to unfurl right wing Hindu nationalist party BJPs flag on the clock tower (Ghanta Ghar). As the news broke, the shopkeepers, in a jiffy, downed their shutters and are observing a shutdown. The neighbouring Maisuma witnessed clashes between forced and youth post Friday congregational prayers. News coming from old city said that clashes broke out after Friday prayers in Nowhatta area. Youth and forces were engaged in ding dong battles. The protesters raised pro-Islam…
Read MoreTwo non-Kashmiri youth try to unfurl flag on clock tower
Witnesses said that two youths were surrounded by a crowd while they were trying to unfurl flag at the clock tower in Lal Chowk. The flags of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday appeared in Lal Chowk and adjacent Maisuma area on a day Yasin Malik-led JKLF is planning a sit-in protest in the area. Witnesses said that two youths were surrounded by a crowd while they were trying to unfurl flag at the clock tower in Lal Chowk. One of the youth, identified as Sachin, is a resident of RS…
Read MoreMan booked, JCB seized for digging newly macadamized road
In a quick action, the authorities last evening booked a JCB driver and seized the machine for digging the recently macadamized road at LD Colony Hyderpora here. Officials said the areas inhabitants informed the R&B Chief Engineer SK Razdan that the recently macadamized road was being torn apart by a JCB. “Instantly a team of R&B officials lead by Chief Engineer and police escort rushed to the spot,” the officials said. They said the JCB driver was detained by Police Station Budgam whereas the machine was seized. A spokesman of…
Read MoreThree stone throwers under detention
The government today said 56 persons had been detained under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978, and the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988, this year till September 28. This information was given by the Home Ministry in a written reply to a question submitted by Showkat Hussain Ganie during the question hour in the Council. It was stated in the reply that 29 persons were under detention, which included two militants and seven overground workers. It was stated that three stone…
Read MoreDog-bite cases down by 35% in Srinagar
The government today said dog bite cases reported at a anti-rabies clinic of the SMHS Hospital, Srinagar, had come down by 35 per cent last year even as the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has already claimed of decrease of stray dog population by 50 per cent. In a written reply presented during the question hour of the Legislative Council here today, the government said 5,704 dog bite cases had been recorded in 2013 whereas only 3,701 such cases were recorded in 2014. The reply to the question asked by Congress…
Read More4,000 Persons booked in domestic violence cases
As the cases of domestic violence are on the rise in Kashmir which has resulted in the death of two women in the past two days, the government said it had booked more than 4,000 people in last five years involved in crime against women. With people blaming the government for failing to curb the rising incidents of domestic violence in Kashmir which continue to take the lives of women, the government today said it had already enacted a law — Jammu and Kashmir Protection of Women from Domestic Violence…
Read MoreNo post created to teach Kashmiri in schools: Govt
The government has not created any posts for the teachers in Kashmiri language till date despite introducing the subject as compulsory up to class 9. This was revealed Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar in a written reply to a query by Aijaz Ahmad Mir. He informed the Assembly that no post of subject specific teacher has been created in the Jammu and Kashmir School Education (Subordinate) Service Recruitment Rule, 2008. “The teachers proficient in taking Kashmiri subject are made available as per need basis,” Akhtar said. Kashmiri language is being…
Read MoreKashmir legislator announces ‘beef party’ to gather support for his bill
An independent Kashmir legislator is organizing a ‘beef party’ at MLA hostel in Srinagar today evening, apparently to galvanise support for his anti-beef ban bill. The bill, which seeks revocation of sections of an archaic law banning sale and killing of bovines in the state, is expected to come up for discussion tomorrow on the fifth day of autumn session of Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly. MLA Langate Sheikh Abdur Rashid made the announcement after the fourth day of assembly session ended today.
Read MorePolice Officer gunned down in Bandipora
Suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants today gunned down Police Sub-Inspector Altaf Ahmed, who was considered a key operational man and credited with smashing of many militant hideouts and arrest and killing of terrorists on the basis of intelligence generated by him. Ahmed was shot at in Bandipora area, about 35 kms from here in Kashmir, this morning and he succumbed to his injuries later. Preliminary probe indicated that he became a victim of a trap laid by LeT. In the morning, Altaf, nicknamed as ’24-hour duty cop’, reached his office as…
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