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Kashmir Valley witnesses fresh Snowfall, Jammu-Srinagar highway Shut, Schools closed

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The Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was closed on Thursday due to landslides and shooting stones as fresh snowfall was witnessed in Srinagar and across the Valley, prompting the authorities to close schools till Sunday. Residents of Srinagar woke up to rains and snowfall, which is rare in April. The MeT Department officials here said moderate to heavy snowfall was reported from higher reaches of Kashmir Valley. The snowfall and rains over the past three days have forced the state government to close schools in the Valley till Sunday. “The schools shall…

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President Donald Trump may get involved in India-Pak peace process

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Nikki shocks Delhi with Washington intervention ‘We should be proactive in the way that we are seeing tensions rise’ The United States Tuesday said that it would try and “find its place” in efforts to de-escalate Indo-Pak tensions and not wait till “something happens”, indicating that President Donald Trump could play a role in such endeavours. “It’s absolutely right that this administration is concerned about the relationship between India and Pakistan and very much wants to see how we de-escalate any sort of conflict going forward,” US Ambassador to the…

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Mehbooba Mufti reviews Rs 195cr flood protection works on Chenab

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Directs officials to take up plantation drive in critical zones Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday visited Akhnoor and Jorian and took a review of the pace of ongoing work on the flood protection works on the banks of the Chenab. She visited Sangrampora, Mairra and Gair villages to personally inspect the bundhs and other protection structures being raised on the banks of the Chenab. Mehbooba was informed that the flood protection works form a part of the Rs 195-crore comprehensive project covering 54 works on the river in the…

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‘Kashmir Independence movement’ can be suppressed but not quelled: Abdul Basit

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Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit on Thursday once again raked up Kashmir issue on the occasion of Pakistan Day. Abdul Basit said that Kashmir issue must be resolved as per the “aspirations of Kashmiris”. Basit went on to say that the aspirations of people and independence movement like in Jammu and Kashmir can be suppressed but not quelled (‘tarikh gawah hay ki azadi ki tehrik huyin hain unko waqti taur pe dabaya ja sakta lekin…Khatam nahin kiya ja sakta’). “As far as the Jammu and Kashmir issue is…

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Modi to inaugurate Chenani – Nashri tunnel on April 2

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Will reduce distance between Jammu and Srinagar by 31 km, travel time by 2 hours The wait is finally over for all-weather road connectivity to the Kashmir Valley as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the state on April 2 to inaugurate Southeast Asia’s longest road tunnel between Chenani and Nashri on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway. The 9.2-km tunnel, part of the ambitious 286-km-long four-laning project of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, will reduce the distance between the two capital cities — Jammu and Srinagar — by around 30 km and…

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Only Modi can heal Jammu & Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti

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‘He has the mandate to take state out of morass, hold talks with Pak’ Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi could take bold steps like resuming talks with Pakistan and was better for J&K than his predecessor Manmohan Singh who could not even visit his ancestral home there. “If there is any leader who can talk to Pakistan it is him (Modi). Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister for 10 years. He had a wish to visit the other side (Pakistan) as he was born there…

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Bypolls a fight against communalism: Farooq Abdullah

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Karra calls it ‘jihad against anti-Islam forces” Mir says time to ‘stop bigotry from entering Valley’ National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah on Monday asked his party-men and Congress to “stand united in true sense to defeat the enemy” in the upcoming by-polls to Srinagar-Budgam and Anantnag-Pulwama parliamentary seats. He also urged the people to vote for them and “defeat the communal forces.” “This election is going to be very tough and they will use all kinds of propaganda,” Abdullah told a joint rally of NC-Congress workers at Nawa-i-Subuh here…

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AFSPA not imposed out of Fun: Ram Madhav on Mehbooba Mufti’s demand

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Laws like AFSPA are “not imposed out of any fun” and states should create conditions where they are not needed, BJP leader Ram Madhav said today disagreeing with chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s pitch for the revocation of the Act from some areas of J&K. “It is not out of fun that such laws are in place in some states. They are there, because there is some necessity for such laws there”, Madhav retorted when asked about Mufti’s comments. Mufti, whose party the PDP is in alliance with the BJP in…

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Clashes in several areas over six year old kid’s death, Scores injured

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Protest demonstrations and clashes between the protesters and police took place in downtown Srinagar and elsewhere after Friday prayers against the killing of a girl during an encounter between militants and security forces in Kupwara on Wednesday. The protests, in response to the joint call of separatists, began soon after the congregational Friday prayers in downtown where the main mosque, Jamia Masjid, is located at Nowhatta. Masked youths displaying Pakistani and IS flags appeared on the roads and indulged in stone-throwing on police and CRPF personnel deployed in the area…

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6 Hydel Projects coming up on fast track over Chenab

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Undeterred by Pakistan warnings, India has expedited work on six major hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir to be constructed on the Chenab river flowing into the neighbouring country. The installed capacity of these six power projects will be around 6,000 MW and these schemes will enhance the hydropower generation of water-abundant J&K approximately by three times from the current level of 3,220.96-MW, including 2,009 MW under the Central sector. The six projects winning technical approvals in the past few months are 1,856-MW Sawalkote, 560-MW Kawar, 1,200-MW Bursar, 1,000-MW Pakal…

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