Friday, 24 May 2013
SRINAGAR: After remaining on strike for 44 days, revenue officials (Patwaris) in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday called off their strike after the government accepted their demands including removal of pay anamolies. “All the patwaris would resume their work from Wednesday,” a delegation of Patwar Association headed by its President told a local news agency KNS. The Association said that the revenue officials would work in double shift to clear the back log. The Cabinet today approved unification in the pay scale of...
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SRINAGAR: At least one youth has been critically wounded after police and paramilitaries fired their pellet guns at stone throwing protesters in Kashmir, sources say. Sohail Majeed Khan, 19, has received pellets all over the body. He is battling for life at the Medical Institute in Srinagar. Khan was wounded at Bohri Kadal area of old Srinagar city where angry youth threw stones at police and paramilitaries who in turn used force to disperse them. Similar clashes were are also reported from nearby Rajouri Kadal...
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SRINAGAR: After the success of Kai Po Che! director Abhishek Kapoor is all set to adapt another book for his next film and this time it is the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations. According to reports, Ekta Kapoor will produce Abhishek Kapoor's next film which will be widely shot in Kashmir. "The film is set in Kashmir and Delhi. So, naturally the script lends itself to be shot in the Valley," Kapoor was quoted by IANS as saying. The said film is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel "Great...
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Mujtaba Wani SRINAGAR: A general shutdown is being observed in Kashmir valley to commemorate the assassination of two senior separatist leaders. Shops and educational institutions are closed while traffic is off the roads. Government offices and banks, however, are functioning normally. Separatist leader and chief cleric of the valley, Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his Nigeen residence on this day in 1990. During a rally to mark his 12th death...
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SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to approach Centre for grant of a special package of Rs 607.77 crore for rehabilitation of earthquake victims in Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban district. An official spokesman said here this afternoon that state cabinet under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today accorded sanction to the submission of memorandum for grant of special package involving an amount of Rs 607.77 crore to Centre for the rehabilitation of the affected people and for restoration...
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JAMMU: Extreme heat wave conditions gripped Jammu as it recorded seasons's hottest day today with maximum temperature shooting up at least 6 notches above average to 44.5 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature in the city shot at least six degrees above average to 44.5 degrees Celsius today, making it the season's hottest day so far, Met officials said. The minimum temperature in Jammu was recorded at 28.5 degrees Celsius. Weatherman predicts there would be no rains till May 24 but further increase in the...
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Against expectations, the trade has come down from 21 items in the export list to mere three. JAMMU: Despite the visit of Union Home Secretary RK Singh in May last year followed by the visit of Union Home Minister Home Sushilkumar Shinde in October , the “biggest” confidence-building measure (CBM) between India and Pakistan-intra-Kashmir trade via the LoC has failed to pick up. Against expectations, the trade has come down from 21 items in the export list to mere...
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SRINAGAR: A Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) trooper shot dead two fellow soldiers and injured two others at a security camp in Jammu and Kashmir after an argument, police said on Tuesday. The shooting, the latest in a string of such incidents in the strife-torn region, took place on Monday night in Kishtwar town, south of Srinagar. "An SSB soldier, identified as Vijay Kumar, opened fire from his service rifle on his colleagues sleeping in a camp in Kishtwar. Two soldiers have died while two others have been injured in the...
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SRINAGAR: A traffic constable of Jammu and Kashmir Police was crushed to death by a speedy truck in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir. The traffic cop identified as Vinod Kumar, resident of Miran Sahib was crushed to death near Hanuman Temple in Vijaypur area late last evening by a truck, which was on its way to Jammu, police sources here today said. The passersby shifted him to the nearby hospital but he died. The cop had died of excessive bleeding, police said. Police, arrested the driver identified as Bodh...
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JAMMU: One hundred and fifty new mobile phone towers would soon be set up in Jammu and Kashmir to strengthen the state's communication network, a Central minister said today. "As many as 150 mobile towers would be installed to strengthen (J-K's) mobile network," Union Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology, Kruparani Killi told reporters here. She was responding to a demand raised by a Congress MP at the inauguration of the office of the chief postmaster general (CPMG) at Railhead complex...
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