JAMMU:Jammu and Kashmir will host an International Rafting Championship in Doda district from Februay 24 with participation from across the world.
"The Tourism department is going to organise international Rafting Championship at Pul Doda from Feb 24 with participation from across the world," Minister for Tourism Gulam Ahmed Mir said while addressing the valedictory function of Winter Carnival, organised by the State Tourism Department in collaboration with Patnitop Development Authority (PDA), at Patnitop, 108 kms from...
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SRINAGAR:The 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country, was closed this morning due to fresh snowfall.
A traffic police spokesman said here that the highway has been closed due to fresh snowfall at Patnitop, Jawahar tunnel, Banihal and Qazigund since early this morning. There was about one feet of snowfall at Jawhar tunnel, he said, adding that heavy rains triggered landslides in Ramban sector at six places on the highway.
The Border Roads...
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SRINAGAR: Curfew like restrictions have been enforced in parts of Srinagar and other major towns of Kashmir valley to prevent violent protests after Friday prayers.
Police and paramilitaries in riot gear have been deployed in strength and rolls of concertina wire block entry to main roads and streets.
The hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference and the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front have asked people to observe a shutdown and stage protests against the hanging and of Afzal Guru.
Authorities have imposed...
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SRINAGAR: Restrictions will be enforced strictly on Friday morning in central Kashmir's Budgam district besides parts of summer capital Srinagar to prevent violent protests, authorities say.
Fridays are significant in the Muslim-majority valley as worshippers offer their afternoon prayers in large congregations.
Senior separatist leaders have called for a shutdown to protest the hanging of Afzal Guru and also to demand the return of his body for burial here in the valley.
Authorities have many a time in the past...
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Today is Feb 21, International Mother Language Day - an observance held annually worldwide since 2000 to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
The date represents the day in 1952 when students demonstrating for recognition of their language, Bangla, as one of the two national languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in Dhaka, the...
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SRINAGAR:A fresh Western Disturbance (WD) is approaching the region which could cause snowfall or rain in the Jammu and Kashmir in the next 24 hours.
Kargil, a border town in Ladakh region on the national highway closed since December last year, was coldest with minus 13 degree minimum temperature in the region followed by Leh minus 9.3 degree while Gulmarg with minus 6.5 degree remained coldest in the Kashmir valley.
After witnessing above normal minimum temperature, people woke up to a cloudy morning accompanied by...
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SRINAGAR: Life remains disrupted in Kashmir for the second day today due to a shutdown called by separatists to support the demand for handing over the body of Mohammad Afzal Guru, who was hanged and buried at Delhi's Tihar Jail.
Shops and business establishments in Srinagar have been closed since yesterday while attendance in government offices is thin, the Press Trust of India reports.
Traffic has been little affected in uptown Srinagar, but public transport remained off the roads in other major towns of the...
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NEW DELHI: With an eye on defusing the tense political situation in the state and building a local icon, the Indian government is understood to be pushing for talented Jammu & Kashmir cricketer Parvez Rasool to be fast-tracked to the national side.
Such a move would be exceedingly popular in the Kashmir Valley, where cricket has a huge resonance. The central government’s stock is currently low among many there following the execution of Mohammad Afzal Guru earlier this month for his role in the 2001 attack on...
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JAMMU: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Pravin Togadia was Thursday barred from entering Jammu, with a police official saying his presence could lead "law and order" problems.
Togadia was sent back after his flight from Delhi landed. He was to attend several programmes in the Jammu region during a two-day visit.
"Law and order reasons necessitated the action," a police official said. He said Togadia was told that his presence could lead to tensions.
VHP supporters then raised anti-government slogans outside the...
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SRINAGAR: Divisions within Kashmir’s separatist camp have erupted over how to react in the wake of Afzal Guru’s hanging.
The moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference has expressed its “implicit” resentment over the protest calendar issued by their hardline counterparts and warned of “fatal” consequences for the separatist struggle.
Without naming anyone, the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat Conference has said it...
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