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Emergency landing and runway strip coming up along the NH-44 in Anantnag

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Editor

As the standoff continues between the Indian and Chinese armies along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, the government is constructing an “emergency landing and runway strip” along the NH-44 in Anantnag district of south Kashmir. The 3.5-km-long airstrip on the Srinagar-Banihal highway is being constructed along the NH-44 from 246.2 km to 249.7 km. Currently, the earth filling work is being done on the stretch. The work is being executed by a lesser-known construction company — Fetch Constructions — based in the Mirbazar area of Anantnag district.…

“Kashmir in terrible lockdown within lockdown”: P Chidambaram

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 Editor

Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday questioned the role of the judiciary pointing to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and the politicians who are living in a locked down state for nearly 10 months and hoped that the country would “understand the enormity of injustice faced by those in detention”.“As we began Lockdown 4.0 yesterday, my thoughts were with the people of Kashmir who are in a terrible Lockdown within a Lockdown. The worst sufferers are Mehbooba Mufti and her senior colleagues who are still in detention in a…

Like 2002 Godhra riots, Pulwama terror attack too was BJP conspiracy: Shankersinh Vaghela

May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 Editor

Former Gujarat chief minister and NCP leader Shankersinh Vaghela Wednesday alleged that the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF jawans were killed was a BJP conspiracy like the Godhra riots in 2002. “The vehicle with RDX which was used in Pulwama attack was bearing the registration initial of Gujarat — GJ. Godhra was a conspiracy,” news agency ANI quoted Vaghela as saying. He further alleged that terrorism was being used by the BJP government to win elections. “No one was killed in Balakot air strike. Even none of the international agency was able to prove…

Policemen caught on camera vandalizing private property in Nasrullahpora Budgam

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 Editor

By Tahaa Yaseen Policemen in a village in Jammu and Kashmir were caught on camera damaging shops and houses after one of their senior colleagues was attacked when he tried to stop the Friday prayers last week. The J&K top cop has asked the Budgam Police to submit a report amid allegations of vandalism and harassment by the villagers. According to the Sarpanch of Nasrullahpora Panchayat- represented by the BJP – many, including those struggling for basics during the pandemic, have been targeted during the recent raids by the police.…

Kashmir continues to suffer as Mobile and Internet Services remained suspended

May 9, 2020May 9, 2020 Editor

Like the rest of the world, India is experiencing an especially difficult time in its national trajectory with the coronavirus pandemic taking a toll over the lives of people and the lockdown tossing the economy upside down. But imagine what it is like in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir where phone lines and internet connectivity has been taken away by the administration once again? Recently the security forces killed wanted Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo and ever since then, mobile internet connectivity has been snapped in the Valley. All prepaid mobile…

Amid Corona-virus lock-down killing of rebels continues across Kashmir

April 25, 2020April 25, 2020 Editor

Indian government forces have killed four rebels in a gun battle in Indian-administered Kashmir during a stringent lockdown to combat the coronavirus, the Indian army has said. The fighting broke out in a village in southern Shopian district as police and soldiers raided a house on a tip that rebels were hiding there late on Tuesday night, said army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia on Wednesday. During the gunfight, troops blew up the house with explosives, a common tactic by security forces, residents said. India has continued its counterinsurgency operations across Kashmir…

#COVID19: Surge in corona-virus cases across Kashmir Valley continues

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 Editor

With 27 new samples testing positive, Kashmir witnessed a spike of COVID19 cases today taking the total in J&K to 407 As many as 27 patients tested positive for coronavirus in Kashmir in a single day on Wednesday, bringing the total cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 407, officials said.Of the 489 samples tested at Viral Diagnostic and Research Lab (VDRL) of SKIMS, Srinagar, 25 samples tested positive. Medical Superintendent SKIMS, Dr Farooq Jan said 14 patients are from Shopian, six from Bandipora, four from Kupwara, and one from Wagub…

Gund Jahangir hamlet in Bandipora witnessing the first community transmission of the novel Coronavirus

April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing the first community transmission of the novel coronavirus at Gund Jahangir hamlet in Bandipora and in surrounding areas. Sixty-four positive cases have been reported in 10 days. The administration is grappling with poor medical staff and a slow rate of testing. It started with the sudden death of Ghulam Nabi Mir, 54, on April 7. With no travel history or contact with a positive case, Mir, a fruit dealer, died within a day of his admission to Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital in Srinagar. “Mir…

Panic buying across Kashmir, as valley heading towards another virtual shutdown

March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 Editor

A day after a woman tested positive for coronavirus, Kashmir valley was headed towards a virtual lockdown on Thursday as restrictions were imposed on the movement of people in several parts and all public transport banned in Srinagar city. The area within 300 metres radius of the house of the 67-year-old COVID-19 patient in Khanyar locality has been sealed off and officials of the Health Department are going house to house to check if any of her neighbours have symptoms of the disease, officials said. Security forces have been deployed…

Ready to resist any move to revoke Article 35A: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 Editor

Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday said that the situation developing on ground over the past week with deployment of thousands of additional forces and government orders circulating has alarmed people and they have become apprehensive of something happening. Addressing Friday congregation at historic Jama Masjid in Srinagar he said, “Speculations are rife including removal of Article 35A to change the demography of the state and its Muslim majority character. For the past three years there has been a great push towards it since when various PILs were…