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    • Archive for June, 2012

    Separatist supporter’s house sealed in Kashmir, family driven out

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    SRINAGAR, July 1: Doing a first, police have sealed a house belonging to a separatist sympathiser, Ghulam Mohammad Khan alias Sopori, 65, for allegedly using militants’ money to raise property in Srinagar. The authorities allege that Khan had earned huge amounts by acting as a conduit to the banned Harkat-e-Jihadi-Islami (militant outfit) and had acquired a house at Natipora area in Srinagar. On Saturday, Khan, along with his wife and four children, including a daughter, were evacuated from their house by the police...

    Posted 354 days ago.

    For 'welfare of dogs', Maneka Gandhi to visit Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR, July 1: Prominent animal rights activist and Member Parliament, Maneka Gandhi will be coming to Kashmir to review “dog welfare” measures taken up by the government. Gandhi is scheduled to review on Sunday the measures undertaken by the ruling National Conference for “welfare of stray dogs”, a local newspaper quoted sources. The animal rights activist will enquore about the steps being taken by the state government for Animal Birth Control (ABC) program, under which the dogs are being sterilized at...

    Posted 354 days ago.

    Kashmiri students roughed up in Haryana

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    SRINAGAR, July 1: In a fresh incident of Kashmiris being harassed in other states of the country, a group of students have alleged that they were subjected to a severe beating at their college in Haryana state. Engineering students of the Swami Devi Dayal College of Engineering and Technology at Golpura Barwalla said they were roughed up by a group of the local youth and hooligans without any provocation on Friday. “Last night at around 10:30 pm, we were studying in two hostel rooms and suddenly the hooligans bolted...

    Posted 354 days ago.

    Mughal Road car rally kicks off in Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR, June 30: The third Mughal Road Car Rally began in Srinagar with 93 teams including Kashmir's first motorsport team - Baba Reshi Lions - part of the competition. To traverse a length of over 600 kilometres, the car rally passes through the historic Mughal road that was once traversed by the caravans of Mughal emperors to reach Kashmir. The three-day mega event, organised by Shimla-based Himalayan Motor Sport Association in coordination with State Tourism Department, was flagged off by Minister of State for...

    Posted 355 days ago.

    Fourteen pilgrims die enroute to Kashmir's Amarnath in 5 days

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    SRINAGAR, June 30: Fourteen pilgrims on their way to Amarnath, a cave shrine deep in Himalayas, died in south Kashmir as the number of devotees paying obeisance at the temple crossed the one lakh mark, police said. Every year, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims trek through treacherous mountains in Kashmir, along icy streams, glacier-fed lakes and frozen passes to reach the Amarnath cave located at an altitude of 3,800 metres (12,700 feet). Forty-year-old Rekha, a resident of Gujarat, died of cardiac arrest at the...

    Posted 355 days ago.

    Life resumes in Kashmir, Omar 'not sorry' for curfew

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    SRINAGAR, June 30: Life has returned to normal in Kashmir, five days after the massive fire which gutted the centuries-old heritage shrine of a prominent saint Sheikh Abdul Qadir Geelani or Dastgeer Sahab - as the saint is locally called. What followed the incident on Monday were clashes between protesters and police and subsequently the authorities imposing an undeclared curfew in almost the entire downtown Srinagar. While most of the valley was shut for four days over calls from separatists and religious...

    Posted 355 days ago.

    Fire breaks out near Amarnath cave shrine in Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR, June 30: A fire broke out in a private tent outside the holy cave shrine of Amarnath, 3800-metres uo in south Kashmir Himalayas, police said on Saturday. However, no injuries were reported. The blaze occurred due to leakage of gas in the tent outside the 3880-metre high cave shrine in Anantnag district on Friday night, they said. The fire was doused within minutes the tent suffered only minor damages. The Amarnath yatra began on June 25 and will conclude on August 2 coinciding with Hindu festival...

    Posted 355 days ago.

    Kashmir's Sufi shrine fire; What is the truth?

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    Yusuf Jameel The fire incident that devastated Srinagar’s nearly 250-year-old Sufi shrine on Monday, initially perceived to be result of electric short circuit, is fast turning into an intriguing mystery which police is trying to uncover. The local police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) is probing the incident that has been widely mourned across Jammu and Kashmir and beyond and, in fact, triggered violent protests in capital Srinagar, major parts of which remained under nonstop curfew...

    Posted 355 days ago.

    Kashmir sees 'design' in attacks on religious symbols

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    Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR, June 30: People in Kashmir are worried amid apprehensions that some ‘elements’ are trying to stoke communal tensions in the valley after a string of attacks on the religious symbols of various Muslim sects and other religions in the past two months. Protests erupted in North Kashmir on Friday after news of an alleged attempt of blaze and desecration of a holy book and a relic near a local Imam Bargah in Mirgund area on the boundary of Srinagar and Baramulla...

    Posted 355 days ago.

    Militant killed in north Kashmir gunbattle

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    SRINAGAR, June 30: One militant has been killed in a fierce gunbattle between security forces and militants which broke out on Saturday morning in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said. However, the identity of the slain militant is yet to be ascertained. "On specific information, troops of 21 counter insurgency Rashtriya Rifles and state police surrounded the Bawan forest in Zachaldara (Handwara) area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district," a police spokesperson said. "As the surrounding troops tightened the...

    Posted 355 days ago.