Category: STATES

SRINAGAR: Kashmir valley’s political class is already infamous for its gigantic hypocrisy, shameless elitism and double standards, unmatched in entire South Asia and nothing exemplified it best than Mr. Omar Abdullah’s recent twitter outbursts on draconian administrative order of “two days a week highway ban” on civilian traffic movement on Srinagar-Jammu national highway. The controversial administrative order, which has been widely criticized by the civil society of Kashmir valley for its arbitrariness and infringement of fundamental constitutional rights has unfortunately been reduced as a “political tool” in the hands of…

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SRINAGAR: Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency is among the most prestigious parliamentary constituencies of J&K and home to the summer capital city of Srinagar. The constituency, which unlike the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency does not witness heavy voter participation is predicted by most political analysts to once again go to Farooq Abdullah, who has been representing the constituency since his controversial “victory” in 2017 by polls, wherein only less than 7% of the voter population of Srinagar constituency actually participated. The question that arises under these circumstances is that – Will…

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SRINAGAR: As voting begins for the first phase of Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency that covers South Kashmir, there has been almost next to no focus, both in journalistic circles and at political, social and academic level, on the scale of devastation caused in South Kashmir in last few years. The devastation in South Kashmir is not merely restricted to an absolute collapse in the security situation in Kulgam, Shopian and Pulwama but a complete change in the way the world and even the people of Kashmir have started looking at…

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SRINAGAR: Even as polling date for Baramulla (North Kashmir) Lok Sabha parliamentary seat draws close, focus has once again shifted to North Kashmir, which is right now politically, the most active sub-region of Kashmir valley, where candidates from not only the National Conference (NC) and PDP, two major political parties of Kashmir valley, but other smaller political parties like Sajad Lone’s People’s Conference (PC) and Engineer Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party are also in the fray. Unlike Srinagar (Central Kashmir) and Anantnag (South Kashmir) Lok Sabha seats, where polling is expected…

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By: Akhilesh Dhar Sometime you need confrontation in order to come up with a solution, “Donald Trump once quipped”. Similarly, India should come up with abiding formula to end the harsh illegal meretricious settlement of Rohingya community. Basically Rohingya’s are the ancestral group of Bengali origin and enunciate a Chittagong dialect. Most of them were vigorously settled in Burma by British management in an attempt to grapple the hegemony of ‘Arakan’ today known as the ‘Rakhine’ state in Myanmar. Myanmar has a long history of communal mistrust between the Buddhist…

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By: Sajid Yousuf Shah, Sr. Reporter, ICN J&K BANDIPORA: A girl from Challiwan Gojarpati Aragam Bandipora committed suicide after being allegedly raped by her father.Initial reports said that the girl was being allegedly raped by her father and unable to bear the “mental agony” she consumed some poisonous substance.She, according to the police, was referred to hospital and died there.The accused father has been arrested and police has taken the body into their custody for performing medico-legal formalities.A police officer said a case (FIR No. 4/2019 has been registered in…

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SRINAGAR: The security forces on Saturday killed two terrorists in an encounter which broke out in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian in the morning.The security forces then cordoned off the entire area and a massive search operation was launched.A large cache of arms and the ammunition was also recovered from them.Police have registered a case and the investigation is going on, told IGP Kashmir SP Pani.The terrorists have been identified as Abid Wagay, a resident of Rawalpora Shopian, and Shahjahan Mir, hailing of Amshepora Shopian, a police spokesman said.Police said that…

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By: Mudasir Maqbool, Chief Reporter, ICN PULWAMA: Wahibugh village, which is situated on banks of Romeshi rivulet in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, is setting a impeccable example of communal harmony. In this village, which is 5 kms from district headquarters, ailing Paray Lal Pandita, who is head of one among 7 Kashmiri Hindu families locally known as Pandits, believes that the whole village is his family. This belief was tested and reaffirmed after Paray Lal got bedridden. “I was detected as a patient of diabetes 10 years ago and 3 years…

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By: Minya Tufail, Asstt. Bureau Chief, ICN J&K SRINAGAR:With the blow of poll bugle by Election Commission of India, Jammu and Kashmir mainstream parties have started their election campaigning throughout the State. Amid turbulence in South Kashmir, valley is witnessing huge rush in election rallies this time. In the ongoing process, politicians don’t talk about development of three regions of the State instead sentimental issues are being evoked throughout the valley. In a recent public gathering at Baramulla constituency, National Conference (NC) Parliamentary candidate Mohammad Akbar Lone shouted slogans in…

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