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Month: September 2020

Donald Trump Nominated for Noble Peace Prize

INTERNATIONAL
A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated the president of United States of America for the 2021 award for helping to broker the Israel-UAE peace deal, this not the first time Trump has been nominated for the prize. The nomination was submitted by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament saying that Donald trump helped broker a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in August. "For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees," Tybring-Gjedde, a four-term member of parliament who also serves as chairman of the Norwegian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, told Fox News. Tybring-Gjedde also submitted a nomination for Trump in 2018, following the US president's summit with No...

Media Obsession with Actor’s Suicide and 84,000 Farmer Suicides in 2 years

WRITE-UPS
Snobar Khan The front pages’ stories of daily Hindi newspapers focusing on news evidence every day, in connection of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh’s death by suicide, without even any factual proof but their focusing on farmers, farmers’ suicide and agrarian crises is zero since 2014. In the last five years, more than 60,000 farmers have committed suicide. According to government data, in the year 2019 around 10,281 farmers committed suicide, whereas in 2018, 10,349 farmers committed suicide. In year 2019, around 32,559 labourers committed suicide whereas in year 2018, the numbers of labours who committed suicide were 30132. But On 14 Jun, Indian news media got a single breaking news story and the most important issue of the nation – the death of a Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Ra...

“We Will not Allow Militant Recruitment to Gain Ground,” Says DIG South Kashmir

REGIONAL
Jammu Kashmir’s Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) for South Kashmir range, Atul Goel on Wednesday said, that apart from the US-M-4 Carbine and AK-47, six Chinese pistols recovered from a truck at Jawhar Tunnel on Srinagar-Jammu highway at Kulgam district, were meant to recruit new people into militancy. He had also said, ‘After rise earlier, we have been able to contain local militant to a large extent’. “Joint teams of security forces along with police stopped a truck and recovered huge quantity of arms and ammunition including US-made M-4 carbine and AK-47, besides six Chinese pistols. The pistols were seemingly meant for recruiting new people into militancy,” the DIG Goel said addressing press conference at Amno, SoG camp at Kulgam district of South Kashmir. The police have...

Tral Youth Dies After Falling Down From a Walnut Tree

PULWAMA
Mohd Mufeez A young boy fell down from a walnut tree in Amirabad area of Tral in South Kashmir's Pulwama district resulting into injuries on the head. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that a youth identified as Irfan Ahmad Trag, son of Mohammad Ayoub Trag on Wednesday afternoon was grievously injured when he fell down from a walnut tree. He was shifted to the nearby hospital, from where he has been shifted to a Srinagar hospital for advanced treatment.buy augmentin online https://www.facebeautyscience.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwentyone/inc/new/augmentin.html no prescription He, however, succumbed to his injuries on the way to the Srinagar hospital, which is nearly 50 Kilometres away from the Tral township.

Fresh Chinese Build Up Spotted Near Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh

INDIA
IANS As India dominates south of Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh, China has started fresh build-up at Finger area north of the Lake, sources said on Wednesday. It started soon after the skirmish on the southern bank took place on September 7 where warning shots were fired by both sides. The deployment of People’s Liberation Army troops has increased since Tuesday evening. They are also bringing in more materials and logistics items. The troops from both sides are at a short-range from each other. “They are within clear visible range and Indian troops are keeping a close watch on the activities,” said a government source. The Chinese continue to sit atop Finger 4 ridgeline. The north bank of the lake is divided into 8 fingers that are contested by both sides. India claims t...

China Transgressed To India At Several Places Other Than Ladakh: Report

INDIA
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has violated the Line of Actual Control several times in the past two months at several places across the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Uttarakhand, according to intelligence reports. Quoting an unnamed official, the Hindustan Times reported that, the Chinese transgression is not limited to Eastern Ladakh alone. "In one case, the PLA transgressing up to 40km inside Indian territory before withdrawing," the report read. India and China have been involved in a standoff since April in which both sides have suffered casualties. At least 20 Indian Army soldiers, including a commanding officer, were killed, and 80 injured, in Galwan in a faceoff at Eastern Ladakh on June 15. Hindustan Times in its report quoted an unnamed official sa...

Sopore Elderly Woman Wanders on Streets After Being ‘Dragged’ Out from Home by Husband and Sons

REGIONAL
Mir Junaid An elderly woman from Sopore area in North kashmir's Baramulla district claimed that her sons and husband threw her out of the house, sought the help of the Government. Bakhti Begum aged 65 on Wednesday appeared in Press Enclave of Srinagar and said, "My husband Muhammad Sultan Ganie has forcibly dragged her out from her house in Sopore township of North Kashmir." She said that she had been rendered homeless and is wandering on the streets as her sons are not allowing her to re-enter the house alleging that she approached the authroities including the police to help her, but nobody has helped her as of yet. Appealing the authorities for their timely intervention, she said, “I want authorities to help me and initiate action against my husband and sons for fragging me ...

Flash Point at Daksum Tourist Destination Non-Functional, Officials Ensure Redressal

ISLAMABAD
Sheikh Nadeem The Flash point at famous tourist destination Daksum in South Kashmir's Islamabad (Anantnag) is not working from last months which makes tourists especially women suffer a lot. Daksum is famous tourist destination in South Kashmir's district Anantnag district where hundreds of tourists make visit on daily basis. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat the Locals said that the  Flash point is having issues like water supply, damaged water tanks while as some pipes are also damaged. Tourists and locals appealed the Tourism Department to look into this matter as soon as possible and make the flash point at the tourist destination functional. Meanwhile, officials of Tourism Department upon being contacted by The Kashmiriyat said due to the global Pandemic they are unable to lo...

BJP and RSS Playing Communal Politics, Says Farooq Abdullah

REGIONAL
The National Conference (JKNC) leader, Farooq Abdullah has accused the Bhartiya Janta Party of playing communal politics, after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s national general secretary, Ram Madhav, accused Farooq Abdullah and Jammu and Kashmir’s other regional mainstream leaders of “trying to inject a dangerous Islamist discourse into the state politics." We never did it and they are playing it and this will drown them, Farooq Abdullah said while speaking to reporters in Srinagar after offering Fateh Khwani at the grave of his father and Kashmiri leader Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah commemorating his 38th death anniversary. “NC never played politics over religion. That is our history. What was the motto of Sher-e-Kashmir (Sheikh Abdullah)? It was ‘Sher-e-Kashmir ka kya irshad; Hindu,...

Two Youth from Pulwama including BSC Student Go Missing

PULWAMA
A Few days after a BUMS student from Chursoo of Awantipora in Pulwama district went missing, who later joined militant ranks, a BSC student from the same village went missing while as another youth also disappeared from the Pampore town of the district. Mohsin Amin Bhat son of Mohammed Amin Bhat, a resident of Chursoo, Awantipora in South Kashmir’s Pulwama is missing from last few days and now family is appealing him to return back. Muhammad Amin Bhat, his father said that Mohsin went missing on 29 August and since then there are no whereabouts of him. He said after failing to find Mohsin for three days, they lodged a missing report on September 1 at concerned police station but there is no luck so far. Last year, Bhat said that his son passed class 12 examination and was prese...