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    • Archive for May, 2012

    New Delhi to call all-party meet on Kashmir panel report

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    NEW DELHI, May 31: The government Thursday said it plans to call an all-party meet on the report of the Group of Interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir and urged the political parties to have an informed debate on the issue. "We plan to have an all-party meet after a few workshops across the country are conducted by the interlocutors... we want an informed debate on the report before the government takes a view," Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters here. The three interlocutors -- eminent journalist Dileep...

    Posted 352 days ago.

    Kashmir’s first skewed-bridge divides its public opinion

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    Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR, May 31: Kashmir’s first skewed bridge coming-up over river Jhelum and its banks – locally called The Bund used by British as leisure walkways before Independence – has triggered a debate in valley over its developmental benefits and environmental losses. While nature lovers feel that the concrete bridge will mar the beauty of the green landscape and heritage structures on the river banks, those supporting it believe that the construction will ease the alarming...

    Posted 352 days ago.

    Kashmir's Hurriyat issues notices to Bhat, Inqillabi and Khan

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    SRINAGAR, May 31: Kashmir's main separatist alliance, All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference, led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, decided to serve show cause notices to its former chairman Prof. Abdul Gani Butt and two second-rung leaders, Muhammad Azam Inquilabi and Naeem Ahmed Khan, who have been charged with showing indiscipline. The decision to issue show cause notices to Bhat, Nayeem Ahmad Khan and Mohammad Azam Inqillabi were issued following a meeting of the executive council of the Hurriyat, a statement of the...

    Posted 352 days ago.

    Bharat bandh evokes little response in Kashmir valley

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    SRINAGAR, May 31: The nationwide strike called by the BJP and the left parties over the recent petrol hike has evoked little response in Kashmir. Businesses functioned as usual and transport, both private and public, was plying normally Thursday in all parts. Only two protests, by members of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the CPI-M, took place. Senior CPI-M leader Mohammed Yusuf Tarigami led scores of people to Pratap Park area near the city centre Lalchowk. "We demand an immediate rollback in the petrol...

    Posted 352 days ago.

    Flower power: Tulip bulbs shine on Kashmiri farmers

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    Bismah Malik SRINAGAR, May 31: Buoyed by the high returns, tulip farming takes root in the Valley, which has the perfect weather conditions for it too. Muhammad Shaban, a floriculturist in Harwan on the outskirts of Srinagar, is ecstatic now that his farm business is gradually reviving after years of losses, during which he had often thought of giving up. The turnaround began after he replaced his traditional crop of blue poppies and Ranunculus with tulips. Though Shaban and several other...

    Posted 352 days ago.

    Kashmir's winter capital shuts down against fuel price hike

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    JAMMU, May 31:Traffic remained off the roads and shops and businesses were shut Thursday in Kashmir's summer winter capital as part of an all-India shutdown to protest the fuel price hike. Attendance in banks and offices was thin, official and other sources said. The worst hit by the protest were Vaishno Devi pilgrims and tourists who arrive here in thousands daily. "We had planned a trip to Vaishno Devi nearly a month ago. Now we are harassed with no commuter service available and all shops closed," lamented Subash...

    Posted 353 days ago.

    BSF says soldier wounded by Pakistani fire in Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR, May 31: A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was wounded overnight when Pakistani troops fired and targeted a border outpost in Samba sector,  a BSF officials said on Thursday. They said this was another violation of ceasefire along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistani troops. The border firing underlines the fragility of ties between the two South Asian rivals neighbours. The firing took place at the border outpost named Regaal between 7 and 8 pm. The injured constable was on patrol...

    Posted 353 days ago.

    Youths picked up in UP now in Kashmir police custody

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    Bashaarat Masood SRINAGAR, May 31: Last Thursday, two youths from Sopore were on their way home from Azamgarh, where they are studying, when they were picked up from the Kaifiyat Express while still in Uttar Pradesh. The Jammu and Kashmir police said they have taken the two into custody and are bringing them home. They will release one of the youths but may detain the other, his cousin, for questioning over possible militancy links. During the week in between, the J&K police cleared part of the...

    Posted 353 days ago.

    Rajendra appointed acting DG Police of Jammu and Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR, May 30: Senior IPS officer K Rajendra was today appointed as the acting Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police. Rajendra, a 1984 batch IPS officer, will take charge from Kuldeep Khoda who retires as DGP tomorrow. The appointment of Rajendra, at present Additional DGP, was cleared by a meeting of the state cabinet presided by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at Tangdhar near the Line of Control, 184km from here, today. "Upon the superannuation of Director General of Police (DGP) Kuldeep Khoda on May 31,...

    Posted 353 days ago.

    Yash Chopra to shoot Shahrukh, Katrina in Kashmir

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    MUMBAI, May 30: Yash Chopra’s romance for exotic locales has never ceased. His passion to shoot a few scenes and some songs in snow capped mountains with the hero wearing heavy garments to shield from cold while the heroine is serenading in just a georgette saree devoid of any warm gear. They say cinema has evolved from such fantasical depictions but not for Yash Chopra. Seven years after he held the mantle of a director, Chopra is all set to shoot a few scenes with Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma in...

    Posted 353 days ago.