Month: April 2016

Axe Srinagar NIT Management, demands Dinanath Batra

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Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas (SSUN), an RSS outfit run by Dinanath Batra, has written to Prime Minister, home minister and HRD minister demanding a high-level inquiry into the events at NIT, Srinagar, immediate sacking of director and registrar, and also action against students who raised anti-India slogans and raised Pakistani flags. “If immediate action is not taken, anti-national forces will get a fillip and nationalistic forces will be discouraged,” it said. SSUN also said that anti-national forces appear to have got encouragement after the JNU incident . It has also…

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Non-issue being highlighted as communal incident: Mehbooba

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday dismissed the trouble between local and outside students in NIT Srinagar as a “non-issue”, being highlighted by certain people as a “communal incident”. In an interview with ETV News Network here, Mehbooba, who heads the PDP-BJP ruling combine, said she had expressed the same view to central Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani after violent protests erupted at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar following India’s loss to the West Indies in a T20 cricket match last week. Non-local students in…

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60 C-BYTE-trained youths clear physical, medical tests of Army recruitment

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The Centres for Border Youth Training and Empowerment (C-BYTE), being run under the skill development component of the Border Area Development Programme (BADP) scheme in Jammu, have brought a new ray of hope for border youth for better future. Nearly 60 boys of border areas, who underwent training at C-BYTE since the inception of the centres on January 1 this year, have cleared physical and medical phases of the Army recruitment being held at Samba since April 2. Nearly six centres are being run at Arnia, Suchetgarh, Mandal, Marh, Pargwal…

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BJP team to submit report on NIT row to party brass

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The BJP ministers in the coalition government have maintained a guarded silence over the alleged police brutality on non-Kashmiri students of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar, but the party leadership is annoyed over the mishandling of the situation by the local administration in the Kashmir province. The BJP leadership has conveyed its reservations to the party’s representatives in the government over the “oppressive” measures being adopted by the administration, especially the police, to stifle the voice of non-Kashmir students for unfurling the national flag on the NIT campus. “The…

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Dy CM’s silence on Kashmiri students beating baffling: KCCI

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‘High level team be deputed to different institutions’ Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Friday questioned the government’s silence over the harassment of Kashmiri students in Jammu engineering colleges. In a statement KCCI KCCI president Mushtaq Ahmad Wani said, “The keen interest taken by Dr. Nirmal Singh, the Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir in regard to sorting out the problem of NIT Srinagar and at the same time adopting a quiet attitude vis-a-vis harassment caused to Kashmiri students at Jammu professional institutes is baffling and if the…

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Non-local students safe in NIT, ask them to concentrate on their studies now – Hurriyat (M)

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Chairman of moderate Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said the outstation students at NIT here are safe and asked them to concentrate on their studies rather than playing into the hands of “opportunists” and “divisive forces”. “Whatever is happening in the NIT for the past few days is unfortunate. Some political parties and majority of Indian electronic media are exaggerating the situation and trying to portray it as an issue between Hindu and Muslims and state versus non-state subjects with an objective to seek shifting of the institute,”…

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NIT Row : 150 students from Delhi set for Srinagar along with Indian Flag

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A contingent of over 150 students and activists led by BJP national secretary R P Singh is starting Chalo NIT march from Delhi to show solidarity with the non local students of National Institute of Technology Srinagar. Reports said that Singh has arranged some buses and is pushing the students towards Srinagar to show solidarity with NIT students who have been agitating in Srinagar for last few days. They are carrying a tricolor to assert that “no one can deny students to hoist it in Kashmir”. Though Singh maintained that…

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Navratra festivities begin at City of Temples

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On the first day of Navratras today, thousands of devotees paid obeisance at the historic Bahu Fort temple, also called Bawe Wali Mata. From early morning people visited the shrine and offered prayers. Apart from the Bawe Wali Mata shrine, special prayers were held in the temples dedicated to Goddess Durga across the region with number of social and religious organisations putting up various food stalls. The festival is also known for fasting and irrespective of age, devotees survive on fruits, curd, milk and dishes made of water chestnut flour…

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Post-Khyber conviction, 30 samples of other milk brands lifted for testing

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With a court convicting the Khyber Agro Farms Private Limited for selling misbranded, sub-standard and unsafe milk products in Kashmir, the authorities concerned have lifted over 30 samples of packaged dairy products of six different brands from across the region for testing. The samples were collected by the officials of the Drugs and Food Control Organisation from different markets during last two days and sent to local government lab for analysis, said a senior Drugs and Food Control Organisation official. Sources said the officials also lifted three samples of Khyber’s…

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Kashmiri students beaten in Jodhpur

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DGP takes up issue with Rajasthan Police Jammu and Kashmir police chief has taken up the issue of beating up of Kashmiri students at Vyas College of Engineering and Technology, Jodhpur by local students with the Rajasthan police. Talking to us, DGP K Rajendra said the matter was taken up with the Rajasthan police. “I enquired about the condition of the students with the concerned Superintendent of Police in Jodhpur in whose jurisdiction the college falls,” he said. Dozens of Kashmiri students studying in Vyas College of Engineering and Technology,…

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