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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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National Highway re-opens partially after 7 days, but woes remained

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Continuous blockade of road causes shortage of essentials, vegetables in Valley Hundreds of oil tankers, trucks stranded on highway Stranded LMVs cleared; Officials say no fresh traffic today After remaining closed for a week, Srinagar-Jammu highway, the only road link connecting Valley with rest of the world, was partially opened for Light Motor Vehicles (LMVs) on Tuesday and authorities allowed Srinagar-bound traffic. SSP Traffic (Rural), Aijaz Ahmad Bhat told Kashmir Post that a portion of the road was cleared for traffic. “The light Motor vehicles were allowed to move towards…

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Fresh landslides triggered closure of Srinagar-Jammu National Highway for 6th consecutive day

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The nearly 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu National Highway (NH) was again closed on Monday with fresh landslides occurring at a few places along the road, a day after it was reopened to traffic. The only all-weather road connecting the Valley to the rest of India, the highway was opened on Sunday for one-way traffic after remaining closed for four days. “The National Highway was once again closed for traffic as fresh landslides occurred at a few places along the highway,” a Traffic Department official said here. A portion of the road in…

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16 PDP, BJP leaders appointed vice-chiefs of loss-making PSEs

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Despite financial crunch in state, each politician to get Rs1.5 lakh per month Contrary to its claims of taking austerity measures to reduce the burden on the state exchequer, the government today appointed 16 politicians of the PDP and the BJP as vice-chairpersons of the financially overburdened public sector enterprises (PSEs). These politicians are entitled to a monthly salary of Rs 80,000 per month, besides hefty perks and allowances to “serve” the PSEs which are already facing huge losses for the past many years. A senior officer in the General…

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