Industry experts said as the meat consumption gets reduced by around 50 per cent during the portable garden gazebos festival, it will "soften the blow" of the shortage.Garish Oberoi, Vice-President of Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India, said chicken and mutton supply to hotel industry has not been affected significantly. We are currently depending on supplies from Punjab and Rajasthan," said Mohammad Atiq, a wholesaler of goat meat. He, however, said buffalo meat supply has been hit hard. "Usually, the demand of goat meat is down around two-three days before the start of Navratra," he said.Possibly the most important lesson that may be derived from the security forces’ action in the Chadoora area of central Kashmir, not far from Srinagar, on Tuesday in which three stone-pelters were killed, is that politics is still not in the forefront from the side of the state while it trumps all else from the side of the state’s opponents — the extremist/terrorist outfits and their patrons within the Kashmir Valley and across the Line of Control.
Drama of this nature gives mobs a chance to gather, raising the probability of civilian deaths, which gives a further momentum to the spiral of protests and security action. She has been pushed into the corner to such a degree that she now appears amenable to do every bidding of the PDP’s coalition partner, the BJP, to last out the remainder of her six-year term.The next in importance to this primary consideration is that the security grid — comprising the Army, paramilitary forces and the police — might do well to revise its anti-insurgency strategy. It’s time the government moves to a new politics and an innovative counter-insurgency doctrine. That is the best-case scenario of course.Both priorities must go hand in hand.
It’s high time Ms Mufti began to speak up for the Valley’s needs, political and not just so-called development-oriented, to restore her own credibility even if this means leaving the government. There is no other way forward. That’s the road to perdition. But the tactic of surrounding and challenging even a single militant who seeks to hide in a building — a home, a mosque, or inside an institutional structure — in front of television cameras just makes no sense. "Investors in our industry need to understand that driving indiscriminate growth at any cost doesnt create long-term value," Bahl wrote in the letter.It has so far come back empty handed.Snapdeal clocked up losses of 29.