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    • Archive for May, 2012

    Kashmir holds cabinet meeting near Pakistan border

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    TANGDAR, May 30: For the first time in at least two decades, the government in Kashmir Wednesday held its cabinet meeting in Tangdhar, a remote area close to the Line of Control (Loc) that divides the state between India and Pakistan. "Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, under the innovative initiative to take the government to the door steps of the people and to address their difficulties, chaired the State Cabinet meeting at Tangdar," an official spokesman said. This is perhaps for the first time that the government has...

    Posted 353 days ago.

    Shutdown in Kashmir marks Shopian anniversary

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    SRINAGAR, May 30: Shops and business remained closed and people stayed indoors in most of the Kashmir valley on Wednesday to mark the third death anniversary of two women who were allegedly raped and murdered in south Kashmir's Shopian District in 2009, witnesses said. They said hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel patrolled deserted streets in the valley to prevent protests on the anniversary. Traffic was thin on roads in the city and schools across the city also remained shut and the commercial nerve centre...

    Posted 353 days ago.

    Compensation only if a half of crops damaged: Minister to Kashmir farmers

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    SRINAGAR, May 30 : Government in Kashmir has compensate farmers for losing their crops due to natural causes, but only if the damage was more than 50 per cent. Severe cold due to snowfall in the upper reaches, heavy rainfall coupled with hailstorm severely affected the apple, vegetable and other crops, which were in blooming stage in Kashmir. "Under the policy, no compensation will be paid to less than 50 per cent damage to crops from the Natural Calamity Fund (NCF)," Agriculture minister Ghulam Hassan Mir...

    Posted 354 days ago.

    Six children among 13 killed in Kashmir road accident

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    SRINAGAR, May 30:At least 13 people, including six children, were killed when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, police said. The Tata Sumo carrying 13 passengers rolled into a 300 metre deep gorge at Digdol, about 165 km north of Jammu city, an official said. All the passengers died instantly. "A passenger taxi which was on way from Jammu to Srinagar, rolled down into 1,000-feet deep gorge during wee hours near Digdol in Banihal area of Ramban," Anil...

    Posted 354 days ago.

    CRPF attacked in Kashmir, 7 injured

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    SRINAGAR, May 30: Militants Wednesday attacked a vehicle of the Central reserve Police Force (CRPF) in capital Srinagar injuring seven paramiltary personnel, one of them seriously. "Militants on a bike fired indiscriminately at our patrol party at Rainwari in downtown Srinagar," CRPF spokesperson Sudhir Kumar told FPK. Police and paramilitary have launched a  manhunt for the attackers who were not identified. However, a local daily Greater Kashmir reported that a caller, who identified himself as  the...

    Posted 354 days ago.

    Kashmir "peace" hides grim realities

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    Naseer Ganai The situation in Kashmir is peaceful these days. Flowers are in full bloom. The Dal Lake too looks beautiful. Gulmarg is full of tourists, so is Pahalgam. Employees are protesting, seeking an enhancement in the retirement age. The Hurriyat's moderate faction has been holding seminars and conferences. The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, says central funds will not help unless the political issue is addressed while People's Democratic Party founder Mufti Muhammad Sayeed accuses...

    Posted 354 days ago.

    Kashmir Interlocutors Report: Importance is in What it Does Not Say

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    Seema Mustafa The interlocutors report “A New Compact with the People of Jammu and Kashmir” would have been laughable had it not been so tragic. A voluminous effort it is addressed to the audience in Delhi, and not at all an honest reflection of the ground situation in Jammu and Kashmir. In fact it is indicative of the prejudice with which Delhi regards Jammu and Kashmir, using terms and reaching conclusion’s (it is all about language stupid!) that have always inspired anger and...

    Posted 354 days ago.

    Kashmir's Mufti Sayeed supports Anna Hazare

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    JAMMU, May 29: Just when Anna Hazare  would have thought all the politicians were against him, Kashmir's senior politician and Patron of the main opposition People's Democratic Party Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has come to his support. "I believe Anna Hazare and other groups, who have run a campaign against corruption, should continue it. Corruption has destroyed our country, what can we do?" Sayeed told people at conference on the role of Non-Governmental Organisations in eradicating corruption. The PDP leader was also...

    Posted 354 days ago.

    Kashmir's move towards solar power

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    SRINAGAR, May 29: An 18-kilowatt solar power plant at a sub-district hospital in Kashmir was inaugurated today. A high level meeting also took place to iron out energy issues in the state. Kashmir's Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Minister for New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) Farooq Abdullah inaugurated the installation today. This is the second of such events being graced by the ministers in the last two days. Yesterday, a plant at the Old Assembly Complex in Srinagar was inaugurated. At a high level meeting...

    Posted 354 days ago.

    High court dismisses petition against Kashmir police chief

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    SRINAGAR, May 29: The Jammu and Kashmir high court today dismissed a writ petition against DGP Kuldeep Khoda seeking registration of a case against the senior police official for his alleged role in a triple murder case in Bhaderwah. Justice Virender Singh announced the order dismissing the petition filed by two widows -- Nazira Begum and Shaheena Begum, wives of victims Fazal Hussain Dar and Mohammad Hussain -- at the Jammu wing of the high court, advocate general Ishaq Qadri said. Qadri had closed the arguments on...

    Posted 355 days ago.