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April 04 Skinder Gull Abid Rashid owns a tea stall near Sangam on the strategic 300 Kilometer highway connecting Jammu with Srinagar, the highway also connects some major towns of the Kashmir valley, including Islamabad (anantnag), Pampore, Awantipora, Sangam with Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu Kashmir. Abid looks as vehicles of Indian Army do rounds of the national highway everyday awaiting customers, hoping for them to arrive from somewhere, but they rarely do. "Since 2016, business has seen a sharp decline in Kashmir as Military activity around the Highway has increased manifolds, people prefer not to stop their vehicles, at the fear of being beaten up by forces always patrolling this Highway," Abid says. ALSO READ: "Glaring admission of failure to manage the internal...

April 04 Four Border Security Force (BSF) jawans lost their lives on Thursday in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district. Two security personnel also sustained injuries in the exchange of fire between the jawans and the Naxals. The skirmish took place in a dense forest near Mahla village in Kanker district when a team of BSF’s 114th battalion was out on a search operation, police said. “Four BSF troopers were killed and two injured in the incident,” Deputy Inspector General (anti-Naxal operations) Sundarraj P told PTI. Reinforcement was rushed to the spot, he added. Earlier on Monday, two Naxals, carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh and Rs 1 lakh respectively on their heads, were arrested in Chhattisgarh. Explosives, a firearm and banners and posters calli...

April 04 The State Government of Jammu Kashmir issued an order that no civilian traffic movement will be allowed on the 300-km long National Highway on Sunday and Wednesday from 4 am to 5 pm every week till May 31, 2019. This ban has evoked sharp criticism from all quarters of the society in Kashmir, In a series of tweets former chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir, Omar Abdullah attacked the Modi Government for having failed to maintain the internal security of Jammu Kashmir. "Another 1st for the Modi government after the 1st ever delayed assembly election now this shocker - never before in 30 years has the national highway ever been closed for civilian traffic like this. It’s a glaring admission of failure to manage the internal security of J&K," Omar Abdullah Tweeted condemning the...

April 03 Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir, Omar Abdullah attacked former cricketer Gautam Gambhir in a war of words over twitter by saying that the former cricketer is ignorant about Jammu Kashmir. Gautam Gambhir in a tweet had attacked Omar Abdullah for his statement in which in the former chief minister said that the party would bring back the prime minister and Sadr e Riyasat for Jammu Kashmir. "OmarAbdullah wants a separate PM for J&K & I want to walk on oceans! OmarAbdullah wants a separate PM for J&K & I want pigs to fly! More than a separate PM OmarAbdullah needs some sleep followed by a strong coffee! If he still doesn’t understand then a green Pakistani passport" Gautam Gambhir had tweeted. Omar Abdullah Responded, "Gautam,I never played much cricket...

April 02 Sajad Hameed Despite facing criticism from the Indian Prime Minister and the top brass of India's Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Omar Abdullah on Tuesday while addressing a rally in Pattan area of North Kashmir said that he stands by his statement. On Monday, Omar Abdullah, the former chief Minister and the Vice president of National Conference stoked a controversy when he said that his party would bring back the demand of “separate Prime Minister and President of Kashmir.buy albuterol generic buyinfoblo.com/albuterol.html over the counter " The statement was slammed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley among other BJP leaders, who questioned the NC-ally Congress to “come clean on its stand” on the issue, many in the congress questioned the BJPs alliance with...

April 02 Pakistan’s military on Monday said Delhi cannot deny that the PAF warplanes shot down two IAF aircraft in the February 27 air battle over Kashmir. It also denounced India’s claims of shooting down a Pakistani F-16. “The event of February 27 is part of history now. No Pakistani F-16 was hit by the Indian Air Force (IAF),” Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement referencing the Indian claims, Dawn reported. “As regard PAF action for strikes across the LoC [Line of Control], it was done by JF-17 from within Pakistan airspace. Later when two Indian jets crossed the LoC, they were shot down by PAF.” The military’s media wing added that whether F-16 or JF-17, the kind of aircraft the PAF used to shoot down two Indian jets is ‘immaterial’. “Even if F-16 ...

April 02 Three Pakistan army troopers and one civilian and five other civilians injured have been killed in alleged ceasefire violation by Indian troops along the Line of Control in Rakhchakri and Rawalakot Sectors, Pakistan said on Tuesday Pakistan foreign Office Spokesperson tweeted that “Indian troops resorted to unprovoked fire in Rakhchakri, Rawalakot Sector along Line of Control (LOC).” He said that three army personnel were killed. “Subedar Muhammad Riyaz, Lance Havaldar Aziz Ullah and Sepoy Shahid Mansib embraced Shahadat, while one soldier got injured.” He said that the Pakistan army responded effectively.

April 01 An international kidney racket was busted with the arrest of three people who allegedly lured a 33-year-old man from Hyderabad and got his kidney removed in Turkey after promising to pay Rs 20 lakh, police said Monday. Amrish Prathap, kingpin of the crime, and his two accomplices, Sandeep Kumar alias Rohan Malik and a 37-year-old woman, were arrested from Delhi and produced before a court there and brought to Hyderabad on a transit remand, Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh M Bhagwat told reporters here. To identify the donors, the accused engaged agents and brokers and used social media to lure them with big money and simultaneously searched for rich patients who could spend around Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1 crore for kidney transplantation, the Commissioner said. Investig...