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Sep 26, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
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Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have decided to truck nomadic families with their livestock returning to Jammu from the highland pastures of Kashmir to ensure "hassle-free vehicular traffic" on the strategic 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway (NH44). 50 trucks have been made available, as per a government communique, to transport the tribal families. Meanwhile, several hundred trucks are already stranded on the highway, steering resentment among fruit growers and traders in Kashmir. In protest, fruit mandis in
Sep 24, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
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In another shocking incident, a father has been arrested after two minor girls registered a police complaint accusing him of raping them in the Pulwama district of south Kashmir. A few kilometers away in the same district police arrested a private school principal for raping his students - two minor sisters. The top police officer in the district told me that investigation has been set into motion and all the angles are being investigated thoroughly. Both the accused are behind