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3 CITY 5 LET THIS SPRING HELP YOU REFLECT, 7 STATE BE CURIOUS, AND FIND PURPOSE KTA CALLS ‘RE-REGISTRATION OF In my private practice and with family and RESIDENT MORTGAGES VEHICLES’ ORDER ARBITRARY friends, recent conversations have been VILLAGERS’ LAND TO AVAIL RS 86L LOAN fo- cused on loss, change, and renewal. This

The Trade Alliance members on Wednesday held THINK has been a long year, filled with sadness, In a major fraud, a resident of South Kashmir’s Pulwama a strong protest at Press Enclave in against the fear, anxiety, uncertainty, and for many, district availed a loan of rupees 86 lakhs from a local recent order issued by the Regional Transport Officer... loss. Many have lost family and friends... branch of J&K Bank, 17 years ago, by mortgaging land...

Widom US Pulls Up GOI Over HR ‘Abuses’ BACK TO BUSINESS Tell the truth, or someone 50 Students Of ‘Govt Continuing Steps will tell it for you To Restore Normalcy In Pakistan To Import —Stephnie Klein Kashmir: State Dept Report Sugar, Cotton From Two Schools Test Press Trust Of India WASHINGTON: India has sev- eral significant human rights issues, including unlawful 2 OGWs Arrested In and arbitrary killings, restric- Covid Positive tions on freedom of expres- : Police sion and the press, corruption SRINAGAR: Police on Wednesday Six Schools and tolerance of violations of claimed to have arrested two Ordered Shut religious freedom, a US report Lashker-e-Taiba militant associ- said on Tuesday. ates in central Kashmir’s Budgam Agencies In its 2020 Country district. Aquib Ahmad Wani of Reports on Human Rights Laloo Sheshgari Hyderpora and uthorities on Wednesday Practices' to the US Congress, Aadil Manzoor of Nadirgund ordered closure of six the Department of State Humhama were arrested by a Aschools in central, south noted the improvement in Press Trust Of India (ECC) on Wednesday allowed joint team of police, army’s 53 RR and north Kashmir after detec- the human rights situation in the private sector to import and 43 Bn CRPF  More On P2 tion of Covid-19 positive cases and Kashmir. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will five lakh tonnes of white from these institutions, officials "The government contin- import sugar and cotton from sugar from India, Azhar said. BRO Worker Killed said. An official said that that ued taking steps to restore India, newly appointed Finance "In India, the price of sug- In Zojila Avalanche Noorani Public More On P2 normalcy in Jammu and Minister Hammad Azhar an- ar is quite cheap," he said. SRINAGAR: A Border Roads Or- Kashmir by gradually lifting nounced on Wednesday, "Hence, we have decided some security and commu- lifting a nearly two-year old to resume sugar trade with ganisation (BRO) worker died on Photo: Abid Bhat KO J&K Logs 373 New Wednesday after getting trapped nications restrictions," said ban on their import from the India," he was quoted as under an avalanche near Zojila Press Trust Of India authorities to close the institu- Cases, 4 More Deaths the State Department in its neighbouring country. saying by Geo TV. pass on the Srinagar- Ladakh tions for a week, officials said. India section of the report. The Economic He also said that Pakistan ammu and Kashmir on  More On P2 highway. Ghulam Rasool Bhat, a SRINAGAR: At least 50 stu- Thirty-six students of The government released Coordination Committee will import Wednesday recorded 373 resident of Gagangeer in central dents of two schools in Noorani Public School in Khull most political activists from fresh COVID-19 cases, Kashmir’s district was and dis- area of Damhal Hanjipora in J detention, it added. including 70 travellers, raising buried alive under the snow ava- tricts of Jammu and South Kashmir's Kulgam In January, the govern- the tally to 1,30,960, while four lanche that hit a beacon vehicle Kashmir tested posi- district tested ment partially restored in- tive for COVID-19 positive during a more people succumbed to the ternet access; however, high- near Zojila pass  More On P2 ATTACK FALLOUT on Wednesday, random sampling infection, bringing the death toll speed 4G mobile internet forcing the drive, More On P2 to 1,994,  More On P2 remained  More On P2 Minor Boy Goes Guards Of VIPs Asked To Missing In SRINAGAR: A minor boy has gone ‘DURBAR MOVE’ PLEA ON Remain ‘Extra Alert’ missing in Chowgam area of Qazi- HC Grants GOI, J&K 3 Weeks gund in south Kashmir’s Kulgam Offices To Open In ISLAMIC Observer News Service district triggering fears that he Srinagar On May 10 BANKING More For Filing Response may have been taken away by a SRINAGAR: Close on the heels wild animal. Four-year-old Naza- Press Trust Of India of a deadly militant attack in kat Hussain Khan went missing on Agencies in Jammu and Kashmir. Sopore town on Monday, the Tuesday night around 09:00 pm JAMMU: The Jammu and A division bench of Chief Chhibber Gets 6 More police in this capital city on from his home in Chowgam village Kashmir government is SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Justice Pankaj Mithal and Wednesday asked security shifting base to summer Kashmir High Court has Justice Sindhu Sharma Months Extension guards of protected persons of the south Kashmir district, an Jammu & Kashmir Bank on official said.  More On P2 capital Srinagar as part of granted three more granted the time on the to stick to the standing opera- the biannual 'durbar move', weeks to the Union request by the counsel Wednesday said the RBI has tion procedures (SOPs) and Man Nabbed With and the civil secretariat, Finance Ministry appearing for the par- extended the term of RK remain in a state of alertness. Explosives In Doda: Army other move offices and the as well as Reserve ties. The J&K bank has Chhibber as the Chairman The Senior Superintendent Raj Bhavan will start func- Bank of India besides already informed the and Managing Director for a of Police (SSP) Srinagar, spokesperson said. He said JAMMU: The army on Wednesday tioning there from May 10, Jammu and Kashmir court it has unneces- period of six months. “Pursu- Sandeep Chaudhary on that the guards deployed for said that it arrested a man and officials said on Wednesday. government to re- sarily been made a party ant to Regulation 30 of the Wednesday reviewed security the security of protected per- recovered explosives from his The practice of 'durbar spond to a Public Interest as it doesn’t see a role for SEBI (Listing Obligations and setup established in hotels sons accommodated in the possession in of move' -- under which the Litigation (PIL) seeking the in- itself in Islamic banking. Disclosure  More On P2 across Srinagar city, a police hotels were  More On P2 Jammu province. In a statement administration  More On P2 troduction of Islamic Banking Jammu and  More On P2 issued to media, army said that explosive material was recovered on Tuesday during an operation conducted on the basis of specific Army Chopper Pak Militant Given intelligence at area of Passport Denial J&K Deporting 150 Doda district. It said that the Makes Emergency 10-Years Jail Term recovery includes  More On P2 Upsets Mehbooba Landing In Ramban Detained Rohingyas Press Trust Of India “Where Does One Go When Judiciary 'Wash Press Trust Of India Burglary Sparks Press Trust Of India to them, the spokesman said. NEW DELHI: A special NIA court Protest In Hands Off' Matters Involving Fundamental Rights?” : An Army chopper He said Divisional here has sentenced a Pakistani SRINAGAR: The shopkeepers in with eight people on board JAMMU: The process of de- Commissioner, Jammu, Raghav Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant to north Kashmir’s Press Trust Of India time & again. Only option & made an emergency landing porting over 150 Rohingya Langer on Wednesday visited the 10 years’ imprisonment for con- on Wednesday staged a protest recourse left is the judiciary. on Wednesday in Ramban dis- Muslims detained here in a centre at and expressed spiring to carry out militant at- after unknown burglars looted at SRINAGAR: PDP presi- Once they too decide to wash trict of Jammu and Kashmir special drive against illegal im- satisfaction over the facilities be- tacks at different places in India, least eight shops during the in- dent Mehbooba Mufti on their hands off matters which after developing some techni- migrants early this month has ing provided to the inmates. including Delhi, after crossing tervening night. The shops, as per Wednesday asked where does involve our fundamental cal snag, a police officer said. been initiated in Jammu and On March 6, about 168 over to Jammu and Kashmir, an an aggrieved shopkeeper, among a person go when the judi- rights where does one go?" Senior Superintendent of Kashmir, an official spokesman Rohingyas were shifted to the official said on Wednesday. others include two of footwear ciary, the only recourse left, Mehbooba wrote on Twitter. Police, Ramban, P D Nitya said said on Wednesday. holding centre after they were Bahadur Ali, the Pakistani besides one each of textile, fast- "wash their hands off" matters The PDP chief's remarks all the passengers are safe and These people are presently found living illegally in Jammu Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, was food outlet, vegetable, stationary involving fundamental rights came after the Jammu and the chopper later left for its lodged at a 'holding centre' in city during a verification drive. convicted by the special judge and hardware, belonging to Aftab "Under BJP's rule, Indian con- Kashmir High Court on destination after the fault was district, where all neces- The Rohingyas are a Bengali- for NIA cases in Patiala House Ahmad,  More On P2 stitution is being undermined Monday  More On P2 rectified.  More On P2 sary facilities are being provided dialect  More On P2 Court on Friday  More On P2

Anguish, Anger In Kashmir Over ‘Mass Detention’ Of Non-JK Number Vehicles Auqib Javeed against them,” the order reads, a March 30 that few vehicles copy of which lies with Kashmir seized recently were used by mong 500 vehicles, report- Observer. militants to carry out attacks edly seized within last five Almost implemented on a on security forces, including the Adays across Kashmir, is war-footing, many in Kashmir one used for Lawaypora attack. a car of a Kashmiri trader on a believe that there was a clear se- “That’s why RTO has issued an home visit. curity directive behind the move. order making it mandatory for He frothed from his mouth A top official in the RTO of- vehicles with outside registra- as he turned up along with fice confirmed that the circular tion to register the same within distressed dozens in Regional cropped up due to security issues. 15 days,” IGP Kumar said. Transport Officer (RTO). “The order came from the Once the circular came, South “This is a sheer discrimina- Chief Secretary’s office and it Kashmir’s be- tion against us Kashmiris,” said asked police and our RTO de- came one of the first districts to Showkat Ahmad, a Kashmiri partment to do the needful,” the implement it. handicraft trader in Delhi. “They official said. “Four days ago, on my way to of- just need a pretext to do these But RTO Kashmir, Ikramullah fice, I was stopped at a checkpoint, inhuman experiments on us Tak, the talk of the town at the and my Scorpio vehicle bearing every now and then. This mass moment, denied any security New Delhi registration number detention of cars is yet another restive queue to re-register their after a circular came from its top new registration. vehicle to the transport office angle behind the order. was seized,” said Hilal Bhat, a resi- move to cripple Kashmir.” seized vehicles. executive recently —directing “The owners of such vehicles within a period of 15 days of Inspector General of Police dent of Anantnag’s Mattan area. Ire stemmed from the surging The residential-style RTO of- all vehicle owners with outside have been asked to submit the the circular failing which ac- (IGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar, “The RC (Registration vehicle owners—standing in the fice became a packed house registration mark to apply for a relevant documents of their tion warranted shall be initiated however, told reporters on Certificate) was  More On P2