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Days after Restoration of 4G Internet, India Plans another Trip of Foreign Envoys to Jammu Kashmir

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Days after 4G mobile internet services were restored in Jammu Kashmir, the government is preparing to take a group of diplomats to visit the Union Territory. According to a report by the Hindu, in an effort to showcase the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre is planning to take a group of foreign envoys for a two-day visit. The visit, which is being planned in the next few weeks, will include about 20 envoys and diplomats from different countries, including the European Union. During the visit, the group of foreign envoys are expected to meet government officials, newly-elected local District Development Council (DDC) representatives, business chambers and members of civil society. This will be third such visit of foreign envoys to the Union Territory in the last one year. ...

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All Kashmiri Pandits will be resettled by 2022 : Amit Shah

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India has set a deadline of year 2022 for the Kashmir Pandits to return to the Valley, the country’s home minister Amit Shah told the lower house of the parliament on Saturday. Shah said that the Narendra Modi's government has decided to resettle all displaced Kashmiri Pandits in the valley by 2022 along with creating 25,000 jobs for the people and train connectivity to the region. India provides Rs. 13,000 per month to the families of 44,000 Kashmiri Pandits who have relief cards. “The government also provides free ration,” he said, while replying to the discussion on the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Bill of 2021. The bill which has now been passed by both house of the parliament will allow civil servants of the Jammu Kashmir cadre to merge with other union territ...

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‘We get locked up in our homes with no explanation’ – Omar Abdullah tweeted after House Arrest

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The National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Sunday claimed he and his family, including his father and Member of Parliament Farooq Abdullah, have been put under house arrest by authorities. “This is the “naya/new JK” after Aug 2019. We get locked up in our homes with no explanation. It's bad enough they've locked my father (a sitting MP) & me in our home, they've locked my sister & her kids in their home as well,” Omar wrote on Twitter. The former Jammu Kashmir chief minister also posted photographs showing police vehicles outside the gates of his residence in the Gupkar area of the city. Omar also alleged that his house staff was not being let inside. “Chalo, your new model of democracy means that we are kept in our homes without explanation but on top of t...

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Unscheduled Power Cuts in Shopian become Troublesome for Locals

SHOPIAN

Unscheduled power cuts in different areas of South Kashmir's Shopian district is irking them and is giving tough time to them in this bone chilling cold. Locals have expressed strong resentment against the PDD department for failing to restore to the scheduled power supply in dozens villages of the district. Residents from several areas of the district while speaking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), alleged that the step motherly behavior of Power Development Department (PDD) has left them in complete darkness since November last year. Residents of Chotigam,Kumdallan, Nadigam, Kutpora, Lonepora, Narsoo, Tachloo, Manzimpora, Check Sidiq Khan, Tuldhan, Kharwara, Nildor, Abalwan, Nagishern, Kachdoora, Hermain, Mantribugh, Hajipora, Gahind, Chakoora, DK pora, Alamganj, Kani...

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Police not Allowing me to Visit the Pulwama Family of Youth Killed in Alleged Fake Encounter, Says Mehbooba Mufti

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PDP president and former Jammu Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday claimed that she was placed under house arrest ahead of her visit to the family of Athar Mushtaq, one of the three alleged militants killed in an encounter in Parimpora locality here in December last year. "Placed under house arrest as usual for trying to visit the family of Athar Mushtaq killed allegedly in a fake encounter. His father was booked under UAPA for demanding his dead body. This the normalcy GOI wants to showcase to the EU delegation visiting Kashmir (sic)," Mehbooba said on Twitter. She also uploaded a video of her interaction with her security staff at her ''Fairview'' residence in the Gupkar area here. "This reign of suppression & terror in Kashmir is the unvarnished & unpalata...

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Kashmir based ‘Glacier Times’ Organizes Awareness camp on Drug Addiction in Ganderbal

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Rayees shah Srinagar based newspaper- Glacier Times on Saturday organised an awareness programme on Drug De-Addiction at Boys Higher Secondary School Gund in Ganderbal district. The awareness programme was organised in collaboration with Human Rights and Anti Corruption Forum and Kashmir News Trust. District Development Commissioner Ganderbal, Shafqat Iqbal was the chief guest on the occasion while The programme was attended by SDPO KANGAN Syed Yasir Qadri SDM Kangan Hakeem Tanveer, SHO Gund Lateef Ali, SHO Kangan Aftab Ahmad Naib Tehsildar Gund, Mohammed Maqbool, DIO Ganderbal Riyaz Fazili Principal BHSS Gund Minhaaj DDC and BDC chairpersons Dr Imroz Dr Mohd Rafiq Bahar team members of Human Rights and Anti Corruption Forum and a large number of senior citizens and students while Imra...

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Kashmir Youth Holding Bats in their Hands instead of Guns, Factories all Set to Come up in Jammu Kashmir: Amit Shah

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the biggest achievement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in J&K was that today’s youth of the UT holds bat instead of guns in their hands while as development is touching new heights in a place that was ignored for 70-years. “I was forced to give a detailed reply as some members alleged that no development was taking place in J&K after Article 370 revocation,” Shah told Parliament while replying to the discussion on the J&K Re-organisation Bill-2020, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). He said the biggest achievement of the PM Modi led government in J&K was that today’s youth in J&K are holding bats in their hands instead of guns. “This is what we have done in J&K in just 17 months (...

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FIR Registered Against Teacher for Attempting to Throw Acid on Female Colleague in Jammu Kashmir

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Mubashir Naik The Jammu Kashmir Police on Friday lodged an FIR against a teacher for his attempt to throw acid on her female colleague in the Mendhar area of Poonch district. Station House Officer, Mendhar Manzoor Kohli said a case FIR No. 43/2021 under Sections 326-B (Voluntarily throwing or attempting to throw acid), 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 382 (theft on property) following a complaint by the woman teacher (name withheld) against her school teacher. Zaffar Iqbal Khan, resident of Balakote in Tehsil Mendhar, allegedly made an attempt to throw the acid at the lady teacher near Gohlad village of Mendhar of Poonch yesterday, the police said. The teacher who also allegedly snatched a gold chain from the woman is absconding, p...

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Dissent Comes with Certain Duties, Cannot be Held anytime, Anywhere; Supreme Court

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Reviewing the petition on the anti-citizenship law protests held in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh in 2019 the Supreme Court of India said "The right to protest and express dissent comes with certain duties and cannot be held “anytime and everywhere." While Article 19(1) of the Indian Constitution says " (1) All citizens shall have the right (a) to freedom of speech and expression; (b) to assemble peaceably and without arms; (c) to form associations or unions; (d) to move freely throughout the territory of India; (e) to reside and settle in any part of the territory of India; and (f) omitted (g) to practice any profession, or to carry on any occupation, trade, or business. A review petition was filed by some Activists on the last year’s ruling of the Supreme Court terming the anti-citi...

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Hidayatullah Maik had Conducted a Recce Video of Ajit Doval’s Office, Report

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The Kashmiri Militant Hidayatullah Malik, who was recently arrested from Jammu, as per news reports had conducted a recce video at the office of NSA, Ajit Doval. Malik has revealed this during an interrogation after which the security cover of National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval has been beefed up. An affiliate of Jaish-e-Mohammed, Malik who is a resident of Shopian, was arrested on 6 February in Jammu. Media reports quoting sources related to the matter said that Hidayatullah Malik told during interrogation that he had conducted a recce at Doval’s office and some other important buildings at the behest of his Pakistani handlers. Malik has also revealed that he traveled to Delhi in an Air Indigo plane on 24 May. Malik, as per reports is also said to have made a video ...