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Ishfaq Tantry SRINAGAR: All hotels at famous ski resort Gulmarg are functioning without any sewage treatment plant (STP) to manage the toilet waste. In addition, the tonnes of solid waste and garbage generated at the resort goes untreated as at present there is no mechanism or facility in place to manage the waste at Gulmarg, not even an incinerator. Though the only five star hotel at Gulmarg has installed an STP, it has not been made functional yet despite the hotel being fully...
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NEW DELHI: China’s newly-installed premier landed in Delhi last night for summit meetings between two countries enriched by mutual trade, conditioned against mutual trust but over-shadowed by a recent border stand-off. The trip by Li Keqiang begins in the shadow of a border incident that subsided just days ago but briefly put Indian and Chinese troops just 300 metres from one another in the mountains of eastern Kashmir. Chinese troops pitched a handful of tents 19kms inside the de-facto border, generating a standoff...
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SRINAGAR: The Central University Kashmir (CUK), functioning from rented buildings for the past few years, will have its own campus as government has allotted 4,000 kanals of land in central Kashmir, where foundation stone for the main building will be laid on May 28. "We have been functioning from different buildings located in various areas of the summer capital, Srinagar, for the past few years, first Vice Chancellor of the CUK Prof Abdul Wahid said. He said "the university could not get any big building from where...
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SRINAGAR: In Chenab valley in Jammu and Kashmir, people are scared to enter their houses due to frequent earthquakes. Since the May 1 earthquake that measured 5.9 on the richer scale, 30 aftershocks have hit this hilly region. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought 450 crore for relief. "There are cracks in our house. TV fell down. Our house was shaking. Everything shakes, mama keeps on shouting, runs away from the house holding me. The television fell.I am not allowed to...
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Ishfaq Tantry SRINAGAR: The ongoing probe into the spurious drugs scam has revealed that the drugs had also entered the open market. The officials of the Drug and Food Control Organisation (DFCO) in Srinagar and Sopore seized the drug in question, Maximizin-625, from many private chemist shops and distributors. Documents submitted by the DFCO in the court reveal that the spurious antibiotic drug, Maximizin-625 was tracked and seized by its field staff from 37 places across the state. These...
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RAJOURI: Despite mounting pressure on Health Minister Shabir Ahmed Khan to save the skin of his real brother, Dr Bashir Khan, the minister has assured strict action against him. He said the doctor’s negligence led to the death of 18-year-old Shariq Shahdab, nephew of Dadral MLA Choudhary Zulfiqar in District Hospital, Rajouri, during an operation on May 1. The Magisterial Inquiry Committee that conducted a probe into the death of Shariq has clearly indicted Dr Bashir Khan, real brother of the Health Minister, and Dr...
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NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and requested a special package for earthquake-hit districts of Doda and Kishtawar in Jammu region. During the meeting, the Chief Minister apprised the Prime Minister about the matters pertaining to peace and development in the state, according to a statement issued by the state government. "The focus of the discussion was recent earthquake which hit various parts of districts of Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban," it said,...
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Sheikh Qayoom SRINAGAR: Are Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti hunting for "safe" seats for the 2014 assembly elections? The question is particularly poignant in Abdullah's case as it would mean his moving away from a constituency that his grandfather and father have nursed since 1975 and which has gone out of the family's grasp only once. Political circles here are agog with rumours that Abdullah would not contest...
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SRINAGAR: At least one JCO (junior commissioned officer) of the army has been killed in a firefight with militants who were trying to infiltrate into this side of Kashmir from across the Line of Control with Pakistan. Police say the infiltration bid was foiled by the 56 Rashtriya Rifles of the Army. The encounter took place in Machil Sector of North Kashmir's Kupwara and started at around 2: 30 pm. The militants had reportedly infiltrated...
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JAMMU: Victims of the May 1 earthquake in the mountainous Doda and Kishtwar regions of Jammu and Kashmir allege the government is adopting an "unfair and partisan approach" in disbursing relief to them. "Even after 18-days of quake hitting the area no relief has reached and the government is adopting partisan approach in giving tents and ration to the affected people," one of the victims said. But the administration countered by saying: "It is difficult and mountainous terrain and it takes time to reach the...
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