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After BJP ruled several states declared filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri's ‘The Kashmir Files’ tax-free, former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha sarcastically asked BJP government that it should pass a law in the Parliament making the movie’s viewing mandatory as declaring it only tax-free is not enough. BJP ruled states including Gujarat, Goa, Uttarakhand, UP, Bihar, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Haryana have already made the movie tax free. The film, which is based on the alleged exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in the 1990s, hit the theatres on March 11 and has received adulation and criticism in equal measure. Yashwant Sinha took to social media and tweeted: “It is not enough to make the film The Kashmir Files tax-free all over India. Parliament should pass a law makin...

Former Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said the government's move to "aggressively promote" The Kashmir Files and "weaponising the pain of Kashmiri Pandits" makes its "ill intentions obvious". "The manner in which GOI is aggressively promoting Kashmir Files and is weaponising pain of Kashmiri Pandits makes their ill intention obvious," PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said in a tweet on Wednesday. Mehbooba Mufti also accused the government of "creating a conducive atmosphere between the two communities". "Instead of healing old wounds and creating a conducive atmosphere between the two communities, they are deliberately tearing them apart," Mehbooba Mufti said. The movie has received a massive push from the Centre and states and also got Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nod w...

A hangul (Kashmir stag) has been killed by a leopard in Tral forests during the intervening night of Tuesday-Wednesday, officials said. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the corpse of a female hangul was found on Wednesday morning in Shikargah area of Tral. They said that the corpse of hangul is in their custody now and further decisions will be taken accordingly by the higher ups. He added that the killing of hangul has made it clear that there is presence of endangered Kashmir Stag in Shikargah forests. Pertinently, Hangul is a subspecies of Central Asian red deer endemic to Kashmir. It is found in dense riverine forests in the high valleys and mountains of the Kashmir Valley and northern Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh. In Kashmir, it i...

Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) Jammu Kashmir, headed by incarcerated Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has deeply regretted the decision of Karnataka High Court to uphold band on hijab in educational institutions. MMU in a statement, issued to Kashmir News Service (KNS) said that this is an interference in religious matters of Muslims and the Muslim personal law. It said that this one-sided decision of the court adversely affects the right to education of Muslim women who want to continue their studies while wearing the hijab or veil. “In this way so many of our daughters will be deprived of the fundamental right to education. The wearing of veil by these girls in no way undermines the rights of other students or causes them or the institution any inconvenience, so the issue in itself is a non ...

Stating that the north Kashmir’s Kupwara district has borne the brunt of violence over the past many decades, General officer Commanding (GoC) of Srinagar-based 15 Corps Lieutenant General D P Pandey Monday said that as of now and especially for the past few years, the district is militancy free and most peaceful area of the Valley. “Kupwara was the worst hit by militancy and violence. But today, and for the past few years, the district is peaceful and people are living in a peaceful atmosphere as they have rejected the violence. This area was once a hotbed of militancy but of late, people of this place are enjoying the peace,” Pandey told reporters during his visit to Kunan, Trehgam area of northern district of Kupwara after inaugurating a Computer Centre  and Nursing Home. He also int...

Night temperature dropped slightly at few places but settled above freezing point across Kashmir Valley on Sunday. A meteorological department told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, recorded a low of 5.0°C against last night’s 5.1°C. Qazigund, the gateway town of Kashmir, recorded a low of 3.7°C against 4.3°C on the previous night, he said. Kokernag, also in south Kashmir, had a low of 4.8°C against 4.9°C on the previous night, the official said. Pahalgam, the famous resort in south Kashmir, recorded a low of 02°C against minus 0.4°C last night, he said. Gulmarg recorded a low of 1.4°C against 1.0°C on the previous night, he said. The temperature was 4.7°C above normal for this time of the year in the famous resort, he said. Kupwara town in north Kashmi...

Jash-e-Mohammad Commander was among two militants killed in a gunfight in Chewaklan Pulwama where a one person also sustained injuries in right leg, officials said on Saturday. In all four militants were killed in overnight gunfights and two of them from Lashkere-Toiba were killed in Ganderbal and Kupwara districts, police said.buy paxil online buy paxil no prescription Also one militant has been arrested alive, Inspector General of Police Kashmir Vijay Kumar told GNS. “Pakistani (militant) killed in Pulwama encounter has been identified as JeM commander Kamaal Bhai alias Jatt,” the IGP said. Jatt was active since 2018 in Pulwama-Shopian area and was involved in several cases, the IGP said. Sources said that one person Zahoor Ahamd Shergojri of Chewakalan Pulwama received bullet inj...

A Kashmiri woman has gone missing in New Delhi causing huge concern among her family members. Her daughter Nusrat Razaq took to Twitter on Thursday saying that her mother went missing from the Jamia Millia Islamia Metro station in New Delhi on Wednesday evening. https://twitter.com/NusratRazaq/status/1501767553210748928 "A patient of Alzheimer's, my mother had come for treatment to New Delhi from Kashmir," she wrote. The family has also filed a missing report at Zakir Nagar Police station in Delhi. "If anyone has any information on the missing woman, they can contact me on the phone number 7006701933," Nusrat said.

Says women coming to forefront again; they will prevent young boys from treading wrong path; situation peaceful on LoC, schooling, farming activities going on smoothly General officer Commanding (GoC) of Srinagar based army's 15 corps lieutenant general D P Pandey Tuesday said that young men are being propagated to lob grenades at the busy places as militants have failed to carry out big strikes on security  forces. He also said that women of Kashmir have started coming on the forefront who otherwise were pushed to wall in the past and this development will help prevent boys from treading wrong path. Talking to reporters on the side-lines of a function organised  on the eve of world women's day here, GoC Pandey said that since militants are not able to carry out big strikes on sec...

As many as 12 Jaish-e-Mohammed militants have managed to infiltrate into Kashmir, according to the intelligence alert. A report by India Today quoting an official input said, Twelve foreign origins (FT) Jaish e Muhammad men have managed to enter the Kashmir valley on February 13-14 in two different batches via the jungles of Jumagund (Keran sector) in Kupwara. These militants who have possibly taken shelter in the Sopore and Bandipora areas of North Kashmir have satellite phones (Thuraya phones) as well as hand grenades with them. The intelligence agency, as per the report, has revealed that both Kaiser Ahmad Dar, a resident of Pulwama, and foreign Militant Abu Saad - who were based in Pulwama - reached the Sopore area on February 21.