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Month: January 2019

Jan222019 by News DeskNo Comments

NHM employees stage protest, Member of Parliament Nazir Ahmad Laway Demands regularization

REGIONAL
January 22 Rayees Shah Employees of National Health Mission (NHM) on Monday staged a protest  in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district demanding regularisation of their services. The employees while holding placards raised slogans against the government for “failing” to fulfill their demands. According to the protesting employees, the government had promised them social security benefits but till date, there were no initiatives taken by the government in this regard. “We have been demanding regularization of services and immediate fulfillment of commitment by the then health minister in January 2018.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/amoxil.html We have no job security even as we work day and night in different hospitals and health centres across the state,” The protest...
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Jan222019 by News DeskNo Comments

Two Militants Reportedly Killed in Shopian Encounter- Firing Stops

REGIONAL
January 22 Two Militants have been killed in the encounter that started in the apple orchards of Shermal area in South Kashmir's Shopian District. The Government Forces including 44 RR Of Indian Army, Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF had launched a CASO in Shermal orchards suspecting Militant movement in the area. A group of Militant present in the orchards opened fire on the forces, but managed to escape from the spot initially. A Police official had said that after initial contact, the militants escaped from the spot, and no fresh contact has been established. However massive search operations were started in the orchards as three to five militants are believed to be holed up in the area. As the latest reports, massive exchange of gunfire that restarted between Militants a...
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Jan222019 by News DeskNo Comments

After Brief Lull, Fresh Firing Resumes in Shopian Orchards

SHOPIAN
January 22 After a lull and search operation of more than one and a half hour, guns have again started blazing in the apple orchards of Shermal area in South Kashmir's Shopian District. The Government Forces including 44 RR Of Indian Army, Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF had launched a CASO in Shermal orchards suspecting Militant movement in the area. A group of Militant present in the orchards opened fire on the forces, but managed to escape from the spot initially. A Police official had said that after initial contact, the militants escaped from the spot, and no fresh contact has been established. However massive search operations were started in the orchards as three to five militants are believed to be holed up in the area. As the latest reports, massive exchange of gun...
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Jan222019 by News DeskNo Comments

Shopian- Intense Clashes Erupt as Forces Continue Search Operation

SHOPIAN
January 22 Intense Clashes have erupted between protesters and government forces erupted in Heff area of Zainapora in South Kashmir’s Shopian district where a brief exchange of gunfire took place between militants and forces. A Local told The Kashmiriyat that on Tuesday morning hundreds of protesters including women assembled and pelted stones on forces who responded to intense tear smoke shelling. ALSO READ: Brief Exchange of Gunfire in Shopian Area People in large numbers from adjacent areas including Chillipora, Sugan, Dragad shouting pro independence and pro Militancy slogans are trying marching towards Shermal. The forces fired tear smoke shells to disperse the protesters. The Government Forces including 44 RR Of Indian Army, Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF had launche...
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Jan222019 by News DeskNo Comments

Brief Exchange of Gunfire in Shopian Area

REGIONAL
January 22 An exchange of gunfire took place between Militants and Government Forces in the Shermal area of South Kashmir’s Shopian District early morning on  Tuesday. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that 44 RR of Indian Army, SOG of Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF launched a Cordon and Search Operation in the area upon receiving a specific input about the presence of Militants in the orchards of the area. As the troopers were conducting the search operations, the Militants opened fire upon forces, After initial contact, however, no fresh contact has been established yet. Sources said that no firing has been heard for the past one hour. "Militants have likely escaped from the spot," Sources told The Kashmiriyat. However massive search operations are still being conducted in the a...
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Jan212019 by News DeskNo Comments

Chrar e Shareef Encounter Ends- Three Militants Killed

REGIONAL
January 21 Three Militants have been killed in the encounter that started between militants and Government forces at Hapatnad area of Chrar e Sharif in Central Kashmir’s Budgam District on Monday. Officials told The Kashmiriyat the Government Forces including Indian army’s 53 RR, SOG and CRPF launched a cordon-and-search operation following credible input about the presence of two to three militants hiding in the hideout. The the search operation was going on, a group of holed up Militants opened fire upon Forces conducting search operation in the area, he said. In the ensuing gunfight, three Militants were killed. An official said that the government forces have been able to bust a hideout of the militants in the mountainous area in Hapatnad area of Charar e Sharif.” Mea...
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Jan212019 by News DeskNo Comments

‘You smell foul, You Gujjar’: Woman from Gujjar Bakerwal community thrown out of a hospital in Srinagar

WRITE-UPS
Rasheed has been a daily guest at home for more than twenty years. Hailing from Marwah valley in Kishtawar, Rasheed had been here in the Islamabad township for more than twenty years now, earning his livelihood. He recently shared a story with me about his visit to an emergency hospital a few years ago. He had a painful medical condition. The emergency room staff not only did not treat her pain, but he recalled, “They treated me like I was just trying to get pain meds out of them. They didn’t try to make any diagnosis or help me at all, they called me a 'Gujjar' and said I smelled bad.” Rasheed's story is not a solitary case, however, thousands of such stories illustrate the negative assumptions and associations we can label as racism, but “most physicians are not explicitly racist a...
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Jan212019 by News DeskNo Comments

Vijay Dhar Plans to Open Cinema Hall in Kashmir this year- First in 30 Years

UPDATES
January 21 Prominent Businessman,Vijay Dhar, who runs Delhi Public School in Srinagar is planning to open a cinema this year. Post a gap of nearly 30 years, Cinema Theatres are set to return to the conflict torn Himalayan region of Kashmir Valley as the region will have first cinema theatre soon. The Governor of Jammu Kashmir, Satya Pal Malik had in November given a green signal for the proposal The cinemas in Kashmir valley were closed down here after the eruption of militancy in late 1988. The cinema owners in Kashmir attempted to reopen theatres in 1999 when the then government offered them interest-free loans. There were three cinema halls which accepted the offer and attempted to re-open the halls. They later had to close down their businesses once again after the militant...
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Taliban Attack Afghan Military Base, Kill 12 Soldiers

INTERNATIONAL
January 21 A coordinated Taliban assault on a military base and police training center in eastern Afghanistan on Monday morning killed at least 12 and wounded over 30 people, provincial officials said. Salem Asgherkhail, head of the area’s public health department, said that most of those killed in the attack in Maidan Wardak province were military personnel. Some of the wounded were taken to provincial hospitals for treatment while the more serious cases were sent to the capital, Kabul. Nasrat Rahimi, deputy spokesman for the interior minister, said a suicide car bomber struck the base first, followed by insurgents who opened fire at the Afghan forces. At least two Taliban fighters were killed by Afghan troops, he added. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, claimed respo...
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