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Govt faces GST test as opposition vows to protect Art 370

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The special session of the Jammu Kashmir legislature reconvened for implementing the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime would start Tuesday with the government bringing a resolution for giving consent to GST the implementation in the State. Finance Minister and senior leader of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haseeb Drabu would on Tuesday in the Legislative Assembly move a resolution, “The House resolves that the government gives consent to the adaptation of the GST regime by application of relevant amendments made to the constitution of India in a…

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Delaying GST implementation due to fragile situation in Valley: Haseeb Drabu

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Haseeb Drabu said the GST cannot be implemented directly in the state as it has its own constitution. “… the state’s own GST will be put before the Assembly and it will be passed. After that, the GST regime will become operational in Jammu and Kashmir.’’ Jammu and Kashmir Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu on Wednesday said the state government is taking its time over the GST implementation because of the “fragile situation” in the Valley. He added that they want to build a legislative consensus on the issue. “It is…

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Implement GST by July 1 or we’ll pull out: BJP threatens ally PDP

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said it won’t hesitate to pull out from the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir if the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is not rolled out in the state till July 1. “We (BJP) have already conveyed to our alliance partner PDP that if the GST is not rolled out in Jammu and Kashmir till July 1, we won’t hesitant to take an extreme step in the national interest,” said deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh, addressing a seminar ‘Jammu & Kashmir: present scenario…

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Pistol borne man lynched to death after he shot and injured three persons, later identified DSP Ayoub Pandit

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A man was lynched to death by an angry crowd after he shot and injured three persons outside the Jamia Masjid in downtown area of Srinagar – summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. PTI news agency reported that the man was lynched after he was caught clicking pictures of people while coming out of a mosque in downtown Srinagar. They became suspicious of this person and tried to ascertain his identity. “In the panic, he fired at them from his pistol resulting in injury to three civilians,” said the report.…

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UN Chief engages to resume India-Pakistan talks on Kashmir

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Guterres was asked about the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control and the ceasefire violations since he assumed office as the UN chief in January. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres suggested today that he is engaged in bringing about a dialogue between India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue through his meetings with the prime ministers of the two countries. “Why do you think I met three times the prime minister of Pakistan (Nawaz Sharif) and two times the prime minister of India (Narendra Modi).…

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PDP’s ally BJP wants GST law implemented in ‘Original Form’

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The controversy over the implementation of new Goods and Services Tax (GST) thickened further on Tuesday when the state BJP clearly said the law should be enforced in its pan-Indian form “without any delay.” “Our stand is clear on the issue. The BJP brought the law at the Centre and the party can’t have a different view as far as J&K is concerned,” said BJP state general secretary Ashok Koul. “The state should at the earliest pass the central GST law for its implementation in the same form,” Koul said.…

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All not well within coalition, BJP ministers skip ‘Iftar’ hosted by Mehbooba Mufti

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All does not seem well within the PDP-BJP coalition government as most of the BJP ministers and its state party president skipped the ‘iftar’ party hosted by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu on Sunday evening. Only Legislative Assembly Speaker Kavinder Gupta attended the party. It was unlike last year when an army of BJP leaders, including ministers and party functionaries, had attended the iftar party hosted by Mehbooba Mufti on the lawns of her residence here. This time, the BJP leaders gave the iftar a miss and all party…

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2 Protesters shot by security men at the encounter site in Arwini

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Top LeT commander, aide ‘killed’ in Kulgam encounter A top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander is among two militants believed to be killed in an ongoing encounter in the Arwini area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, 42 km south of Srinagar. Two civilians have also been shot dead, allegedly by security forces, during clashes that erupted around the site of the encounter. Though the firing has stopped at the encounter site, the bodies of militants are yet to be retrieved and the operation is still not over, officially. According to reports, security…

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Youth killed after security forces open fire on stone-pelting mob in Srinagar

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In yet another incident, which could flare protests in Jammu and Kashmir, a man was killed after security forces opened fire on a stone-pelting mob, in Srinagar’s Rangreth Thursday evening. The incident happened when a group of youth pelted the security forces’ vehicles with stones at Rangreth. The security personnel opened fire to chase away the protesters in which one person was injured. The deceased, Nazir Ahmad, was rushed to SKIMS (Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences) hospital at Soura in a critical condition where he succumbed on the intervening night…

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Over a dozen hurt in five terror attacks across South Kashmir

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Over a dozen security men were injured in five separate terror attacks across Kashmir Valley on Tuesday evening. The terrorists also snatched four service rifles from cops on guard at the ancestral house of a former high court judge in Anantnag in south Kashmir. At least nine CRPF men were injured when Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists hurled a grenade at their camp at Lariyar village of Tral in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, the police said. “They lobbed a grenade on 180 Battalion CRPF camp at Lariyar on Tuesday . Nine…

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