Month: August 2015

No room for a Kashmiri

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I finished my medical studies from the alluring port city Chittagong, Bangladesh in the year 2012. It was honestly the encyclopedic studies, very comprehensive and detailed. But more importantly it was my parents’ dream to be a doctor, so I choose this profession in a more honoured way. I hail from Kashmir, called the heaven on earth but only the inhabitants of this place have felt the hell part of it. Be it in inside the Valley or the other side of famous Jawahar Tunnel, almost two and a half…

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After PG degrees, fake PhDs concern academicians

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As the furor over proposed screening test for Rehbar-e-Taleem teachers is far from over, education and other department are gripped with a more severe crisis in the form of PhD degrees obtained through illegal means. “There are hundreds of PhD degree holders who have completed their doctorate degree from outside state under suspicious circumstances and many have even purchased the same. Now these so called scholars, many of whom are working in the higher education department, are applying for higher posts and if everything goes as planned, they will be…

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Police puts more check-posts on Kashmir highways

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In the wake of a militant attack in Udhampur area of Jammu yesterday, security agencies have stepped up surveillance on two key highways in Kashmir, official sources said Thursday. Following the attack yesterday in which two constables and a militant were killed, the police top brass has passed directions to its lower-rung officials that they must step up vigil on highways to prevent “occurrence of such attacks.” More check points are now being established on highways to ensure safety and security of commuters, a police official said. Inspector General of…

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Kashmir to become hotspot of Global Warming

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• Gulmarg, Pahalgam could show a rise of 4-7 degrees Celsius by century’s end: Study • ‘Climate change may lead to sweeping vegetation changes in Valley’ Kashmir valley is heading towards a widespread transformation in its flora population due to global warming which could jeopardise water resources and species unique to the Himalayan region, a study has warned. Researchers from University of Kashmir, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Bangalore estimated the maximum and minimum temperatures in two stations they studied, Gulmarg and Pahalgam, could show…

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Biscoe School, Delhi in final of Children’s Hockey Championship

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Technical Director J&K National Sports Club, Mr. Mohammad Rafeeq Baba has informed that the 1st Children’s Hockey Championship – 2015 under the auspices of Hockey J&K and Hockey India is being organized successfully. The first semi final of the championship was held between teams of Tyndale Biscoe School and J&K National Sports Club at Amar Singh College Ground, which was won by Tyndale Biscoe School with 1-0 goal margin. The Principal, Amar Singh College was the chief guest on the occasion. The second semi final of the championship was played between the…

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Govt to go ahead with the screening test: ‘Protests and sloganeering not going to scare me’ ‘I am the guardian of 16 lakh students: Akhtar

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Amid raging controversy over the screening test of Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers, Minister for Education Nayeem Akhtar Thursday said that it is a wrong notion that Government wants to disgrace the teaching community. He said that his ultimate aim is to bring the education track on the right track and throw the deadwood out that have crept into the system. “The protesting teachers can’t scare me by raising slogans against me. Whole society is involved in it and the matter is directly related with the society. If society supports me, I…

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Mufti stripped of all powers: Omar

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The National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah on Thursday said PDP stood formally and publicly exposed as an opportunistic subsidiary of the BJP in J&K and it was now impossible for the party to cover its tracks. The NC Working President, while addressing party workers at the launch of NC Membership Drive 2015 in Pulwama and Budgam districts today, said those in the Valley who had never participated in the electoral process came out to vote in 2014 to keep BJP out of power in the State. “Sadly they were…

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Panic in Qazigund over reports of presence of runaway terrorists

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A day after the Udhampur attack, panic gripped Qazigund area in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district when a truck driver informed the police about presence of two men, one of them armed, in the vicinity. The duo was said to have boarded a truck from Verinag to Lower Munda on the National Highway, the arterial road linking the Valley with rest of India. The truck driver informed a police post near Qazigund this afternoon that the two got dropped in a forested area near lower Munda, a place close to Jawahar tunnel…

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Omar dismisses Nirmal’s allegation over ISIS flags

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Says issue being raked up to hide failures, incompetence Dismissing the allegations of Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh that the National Conference (NC) activists were hoisting ISIS flags in Srinagar, NC working President and former Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah said the coalition government was raking useless issue to hide their failure and incompetence. “They (BJP) have government at Centre and the state. If they arrest any flag hoisting youth and prove that he belongs to NC, they are free to take him to court of law. When have I…

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Chief Minister Orders Assessment of Damages in Leh during recent floods

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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today issued directions to the Ladakh Affairs Department as well as district administration Leh to immediately carry out assessment of damages caused due to flash floods. Mr Sayeed issued the directions for immediate assessment of damages due to flash floods so that a comprehensive proposal is forwarded to the Central Government for seeking financial assistance for providing relief and succor to the affected families, an official spokesman said. The Chief Minister also directed the concerned authorities to take all necessary restoration and…

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