Month: April 2016

Local students accuse media of ‘inciting’ violence in NIT Row

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A group of local students from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar Friday alleged that some reporters from India based news channels have been ‘inciting’ non-local students for violence. They appealed authorities to force media channels to vacate from the main gate of the Institute. “Some Delhi and Mumbai based reporters call non-local students from their cell phones and ask them to march towards main gate. They do it to show that non-local students continue to protest against local police. Even some non-local students are not happy with the present…

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NIT students insist on CBI inquiry

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Call state-level magisterial probe an eyewash, boycott classes for eighth day Rejecting the state government’s decision to hold a magisterial probe into the NIT-Srinagar controversy, non-Kashmiri students at the institute today demanded a CBI probe into the issue. Describing the magisterial probe as an “eyewash” and an attempt to “cover up the brutalities” of the state police, the non-Kashmiri students today appealed to the HRD and Home Ministries to intervene and order a CBI probe into the matter. Nearly 1,500 Non-Kashmir students continued to boycott their classes for the eighth…

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Parachute Journalists covering NIT ROW for New Delhi

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Police in J&K believe that media coverage to NIT events is key factor for the campus to remain boiling. A section of the media has been covering the campus with a twist, a police report sent to state government has reportedly suggested. Interestingly, a number of Delhi based news channels have flown journalists specially to cover the happenings. “I’m sitting idle at home as our channel has flown reporters from New Delhi to cover NIT issue,” a reputed correspondent, who wished to remain anonymous, told. J&K police report to state…

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Kashmiri students attacked in Jammu after refusing to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’

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Several Kashmiri students were allegedly thrashed after refusing to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ at a college in Jammu on Thursday. A group of Kashmiri students at Government Engineering and Technology College Jammu told over phone that their valuables, books and other goods were also thrown out by ‘goons’ and local students who barged into their rooms and thrashed them. “We were in our hostels. Everything was peaceful. Suddenly we saw a large number of students along with locals shouting anti-Pakistan slogans,” they said. They said these protestors straightaway barged…

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J&K’s Energy Sector: A Vital source of Future Economic Growth

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J&K can become a major energy producer provided there’s proper management of our hydropower resources The Jammu & Kashmir State is blessed with sizeable resources which, if suitably harnessed on priority, could transform its economy and bring socio- economic development not only in the state but in the whole region. Among the major natural resources, water as a resource forms the base for its hydroelectric power and has strong potential to generate as a critical input not only for its economic activities but also as a large source of state…

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Jahangir-chowk, Rambagh road to be closed for traffic

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SSP Traffic Issues Diversion Plan Urges civil society, media to aware people about traffic rules Following the collapse of Kolkatta flyover recently in which 24 people lost their lives. Senior Superintendent of Police, Traffic, Srinagar, Thursday said that Jehangir-Chowk, Rambagh road would be closed for vehicular moment. The SSP during a press conference here issued Traffic Diversion Plan and asked for the closure of the Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover. The decision was taken keeping in view the dangers posed by overhead laying of deck slab on the Flyover and to reduce…

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India’s most militarized campus: One soldier for every two students at NIT Srinagar

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Five companies of central paramilitary forces numbering 600 soldiers guarding about 1,500 students. That’s almost one soldier for every two students. Welcome to Srinagar’s National Institute of Technology (NIT), which has become perhaps the country’s most militarised campus following clashes among students. The local police, accused of thrashing outstation students, is virtually invisible. Two companies of CRPF had been deployed earlier and three companies of Sashastra Seema Bal joined them after campus violence in the last few days, which began after a group of students celebrated West Indies’ win over…

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Politicising NIT affair

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Mohsin Manzoor Janwari The writing on the NIT Srinagar institute wall is quite clear. Even a T-20-cricket match between other than India and Pakistan can also become a political statement and a mode of rebellion against India. It is believed that most of Kashmiri “sentiment” is engrained deeply with the Pakistani cricket team after partition; but local Kashmiri students support for team playing against India in recent T20 series sounded “enemies-enemy is-a-friend” to non-local NIT students. This triggered their clashes with local students followed by furling of Indian and Pakistani…

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As PDP lies low, BJP gets flak for Srinagar NIT row

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The PDP is lying low over the NIT controversy even as its partner in J&K, the BJP, receives flak in Jammu for police lathicharge on non-local students – many of whom are from Jammu region – and the authorities refusal to allow students to leave the campus. A PDP leader said the Centre can neither shift NIT from Srinagar nor allow non-local students to go home till tempers cool down because this may result in backlash in the form of attacks on Kashmiri students studying in other parts of country.…

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BJP warns of reaction against J&K students elsewhere

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BJP on Thursday cautioned that the way outstation students are being dealt with at NIT Srinagar could have an impact on students from Jammu and Kashmir studying elsewhere in the country. “The elements involved in the misaction are anti-national and anti-people who want to destroy the peaceful atmosphere in the state by indulging in such type of violence which tantamount to instigating similar reactions against students from the state studying outside the state and putting to risk and jeopardy their lives,” said Sunil Sethi, chief spokesperson of BJP’s state unit.…

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