Day: November 3, 2020

Dr MS Khuroo & Dr Parvaiz A Koul, Kashmiri medical researchers made to the prestigious list of World’s top scientists

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Two Kashmiri medical researchers have made it to the prestigious list of World’s top scientists across disciplines, a compilation of University of Stanford, USA. Veteran gastroenterologist and ex-director SKIMS, Dr MS Khuroo, and the current head of Internal and Pulmonary Medicine SKIMS, Dr Parvaiz A Koul, have figured in the “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”. It lists the top 2 percent scientists from all over the world from a list of over 1,59,000. The database, a work of John Ioannidis, Kevin Boyack and Jeroene Bass from the…

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90% of land can’t be sold to outsiders: J&K Govt

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The government has repealed 11 land laws that existed in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir replacing the old, regressive, intrinsically contradictory and outdated laws with a set of modern, progressive and people-friendly provisions. The new land laws will not only afford protection to over 90 per cent of the land in J&K from being alienated to outsiders but also help revamp the agriculture sector foster, rapid industrialisation, aid economic growth and create jobs in J&K. This was stated by the Principal Secretary, Information, and government spokesman, Rohit Kansal,…

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Shiv Sena takes on BJP over introducing new land laws in J&K

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Shiv Sena on Monday took on the BJP over the recent decision of permitting people across the Country to buy land in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and said blaming former Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru or Congress for complicating the Kashmir issue was “propaganda” to some extent. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS) monitoring, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in his column written in party’s mouthpiece Saamna, while referring to the Union Government’s decision of permitting to buy land in J&K, said that five days ago,…

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