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AILING TOURIST INDUSTRY

AILING TOURIST INDUSTRY

There has been virtually no tourism in Jammu and Kashmir in the past ten months and the industry is at the brink of closure with growing financial problems of the stakeholders. Government has not been able to intervene to save thousands of families connected with this trade. Even for the coronavirus lockdown period these families […]

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FRESH LINK

FRESH LINK

There were lots of media reports earlier along with articles written by security experts that China was not happy about the abrogation of article 370, in Jammu and Kashmir especially making Ladakh a Union Territory without a legislature to be directly controlled by New Delhi. Most of such reports were not taken seriously even in […]

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LONG WAIT

LONG WAIT

People of Jammu and Kashmir have been waiting from the past ten months for the lifting of restrictions on the high speed internet as the government first banned even the telephones including landlines in Kashmir valley and finally restored phones and internet after more than six months but with curbs on high speed internet. After […]

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DAK DEFENDS

DAK DEFENDS

Doctors association of Kashmir after the recent controversy of faulty tests has come to the defense of the testing labs, in Kashmir. In a statement they have said that there is always for space for errors and mistakes do happen. In this connection DAK in a statement said that best efforts, no test can be […]

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TRANSPORT INDUSTRY

TRANSPORT INDUSTRY

Transport industry in Jammu and Kashmir has been under great stress since the clampdown imposed by the central government in Union Territory of JK after the abrogation of article 370, August 5 last year. Now the Covid-19 lockdown has proved the last nail virtually in the coffin of the transport industry especially in Kashmir valley. […]

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HAILSTORM

HAILSTORM

In the past weeks, hailstorms have hit orchardists across Kashmir and there are media reports that heavy losses have been incurred by the farmers and without any compensation by the government they cannot come out of the debt trap. In this direction many political parties of Kashmir have appealed to the UT administration to fix […]

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RESTRICTIONS RE-IMPOSED

RESTRICTIONS RE-IMPOSED

Srinagar has seen a steep rise of COVID positive cases and all the plans of the government to unlock the severe lockdown imposed here could not be initiated. Government was thinking of starting life slowly in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir but the figures of COVID positive cases has frightened even the common people. […]

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STANDOFF

STANDOFF

  Indian and Chinese armies are locked in a standoff which will take more time according to security experts to ease. Many of them have doubts about the intentions of Chinese army as they have expressed such doubts in series of television programmes aired from New Delhi. These security experts have said that, China will […]

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LADAKH, KARGIL TENSE

LADAKH, KARGIL TENSE

The standoff of between the armies of India and China Ladakh region has triggered fresh wave of tension among the residents while as Covid-19 cases are also piling up forcing the authorities to take more precautions in this hilly region.  Recent reports from Kargil and Ladakh said that in the past one week lot of […]

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New media policy

New media policy

UT administration has given a nod to the new media policy which has many new clauses and has tried to accommodate media platforms in this new policy. In this direction official spokesman recently said that government has given its nod to this new media policy while giving a broader outlook about it. UT administration approved […]