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Naseema Bano, Kashmiri Women who has been booked under UAPA for posing with her slain son holding an AK47

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By Quratulain Rehbar Jammu and Kashmir ― On 28 June, the Jammu and Kashmir Police announced the arrest of Naseema Bano under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act or UAPA, the first case in recent memory that invokes India’s anti-terror law against the mother of a slain militant. In its statement, the J&K Police said Naseema had been arrested under an FIR that was registered two years earlier in 2018. They accused her of “recruiting at least two youth into terrorist ranks, arranging arms and ammunition, communication and logistics for terrorists…

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Kashmir: The Lock-down Within the Lock-down

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Shahnaz Bashir The coronavirus left the world freaking out in quarantine – and left Kashmir laughing. It was a bitter laugh, half at itself and half at everyone else. In part schadenfreude towards nations long indifferent to besieged people, and in part, a genuine sympathy from the eternally locked-down. Partly in spite and partly in solidarity, a question rang through many young Kashmiris’ social media feeds: How is the lockdown, world? After a six-month-long lockdown from August 5, 2019, just as a desolate, war-worn Kashmir was limping back to life, it…

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Newly elected councilors press for the extension of 74th amendment to J&K

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As heads of all 79 urban local bodies have been appointed after the completion of the poll process, the elected representatives have stepped up efforts to extend the 74th Amendment of the Constitution to J&K to make these bodies functional in the ‘real sense’. “A meeting of the general house of the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) will be held on December 15 to intensify the campaign to give adequate powers to the urban local bodies to make them purposeful,” JMC Deputy Mayor Purnima Sharma told Kashmir Post. She said a…

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As BJP is losing political ground, the Battle for 2019 is becoming more interesting

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The assembly elections in five states have shown that the BJP can be shaken up, even defeated, by strong, strategic opposition alliances. After the victory of the Congress in all three Hindi heartland states in the tightly-fought assembly elections, some contours about the political scenario in the next few months are becoming sharper. With general elections barely six months away, both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition parties will have drawn lessons from the results and the voting patterns. The coming days will see the granular details being…

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Qazigund -Banihal tunnel to miss another deadline

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The construction of the new Banihal-Qazigund tunnel started in 2011 to avoid frequent closure of Jawahar tunnel is unlikely to be completed this year as major part of the project is yet to take off.Back in 2011, National Highways Authority India (NHAI) was commissioned to construct two tunnels on Srinagar- Jammu highway to reduce the travel and make the highway motorable for all seasons.One of the tunnels was to be constructed between Chenani and Nashri and another between Qazigund to Banihal.Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi threw open 10.8 km long Chenani-Nashri tunnel in April this…

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Kashmir Inc announce marathon protest, Tourism, Trade, Transport bodies to hold demonstrations between August 1-7

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Representatives of 27 Kashmir-based trade organisations on Tuesday announced a week-long protest programme beginning Wednesday to “protect” Article 35-A from any tinkering The business associations that recently came together under an umbrella body said the protests will be held by business, transport, horticulture, tourism and industry associations on different dates across Kashmir. Members of the two apex chambers, Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Federation Chambers Industries Kashmir along with Batamaloo traders will hold a peaceful sit-in on August 1. Fruit growers and transporters including auto and sumo drivers will…

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Govt cancels Wular dredging contract to Indo-Sino company

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Nearly a year after a ministerial panel cleared an Indo-Sino company to dredge the Wular Lake, the Governor’s administration has cancelled the contract that had run into controversy over some financial issues. A source said one of the reasons that led to cancellation of the contract to a joint venture between Kolkata-based Reach Dredging Limited and China-based Hubei Hongyan Engineering Company Limited was the lack of a clear source of funding to undertake the Rs 389-crore project This issue, according to the source, had become raised many an eyebrow after…

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Highlight Nehru, Abdullah’s role in keeping Kashmir with India: Manmohan Singh

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Former prime minister and Congress leader Manmohan Singh, who was present at the book launch, called the J&K issue a complex problem and said that “any lasting solution was not possible unless equitable sharing of power and development of all the regions of the state is attended to”. In the presence of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the launch of a biography of senior Congress leader Karan Singh turned into a debate on India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru’s policies on Jammu and Kashmir. The book ‘Karan Singh…

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Acute respiratory tract infection in Kashmir: Health Advisory issued by DHSK

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Directorate of Health services Kashmir (DHSK) on Tuesday issued an advisory for acute respiratory tract infection in Kashmir.The acute viral respiratory tract infection is a contagious illness that spreads every year from October through spring and is commonly caused by viral pathogens, such as rhinovirus, Parainfluenza, adenovirus, RSV, and influenza virus, said the DHSK. SYMPTOMS:The symptoms are cough, fever/ chills, sore throat, muscle aches, fatigue, headache or a runny or stuffy nose. HOW VIRUS SPREADS:From infected people to others through inhaled droplets from coughing/ sneezing.Droplets from hands / surfaces like…

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Where’s the justice for Kunan-Poshpora gangrapes in Kashmir?

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It has been 26 years; the case is pending in the Supreme Court Sabarish Suresh If the news of Mohammad Fazili, the man who was incarcerated for 12 years with regard to the 2005 Delhi blasts, haunted you for all the torture and atrocities committed by the police force, know that this is but a common affair for the citizens of Kashmir. Kashmir, the world’s largest militarised zone, holds the record for another dishearteningly prominent incident that occurred there 26 years ago, something which has always been a source of…

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