Year: 2016

‘Biased journalism biggest impediment to its freedom’

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Women College observe ‘World Press Freedom Day’ A day-long seminar to observe ‘World Press Freedom Day’ was held at Government College for Women, M.A Road, Srinagar on Wednesday. The seminar was organized by the department of Mass Communication and Multimedia Production (MCMP) and was attended by prominent journalists and academics of the valley. Special Correspondent with The Week, Tariq Bhat, talked in detail about various issues of press freedom in Kashmir. He said that pressures from different quarters curtail the freedom of press. “More than the pressures by the outside…

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Mehbooba open to advice, but cannot be dictated

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It was the beginning of hard times for Mehbooba Mufti since April 4 when she took over as the first woman Chief Minister of the Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir. She completed first month in office on Wednesday and is now seen as a “tougher administrator” than her father and as a “good listener to sound advice”, feel the men and women around her. Everyone around her — ministers, bureaucrats and political leaders — have recognised her “command as a leader” and not to commit mistake of “underestimating her” or as…

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Odd-evil of traffic management takes Srinagar hostage

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Majid Hyderi It cannot be more ridiculous than this. Having miserably failed to manage traffic in the summer capital in the wake of closure of the arterial Jahangir Chowk-Ram Bagh(JCRB) road, the government is resorting to hit-and-trial of everything, including the upcoming plan to make schoolchildren sleepless in the name of traffic management. School kids are not any soldiers and Srinagar is no battlefield. But if the proposal to open schools at 7:00 AM gets the nod, the children will need to be ready before sunrise, much like it happens…

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Today Mehbooba to flag-off two new trains in Kashmir

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Kashmir Valley is all set to get two more passenger trains from Northern Railways, which will have limited stops between Baramulla and Banihal. With the addition of two more trains, the Northern railways train services will now reach to 26 in a day. The new trains will be flagged off by the chief minister Mehbooba Mufti in Anantnag Railway station today. Chief public relation officer (CPRO), Northern Railways, Neeraj Sharma told KNS that the two passenger trains will be flagged off by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in southern Anantnag district…

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PDP fails to fulfil promise of revoking AFSPA from Kashmir

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While pro-India Peoples Democratic Party has failed to fulfil its promise of repealing draconian law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), from Kashmir, Indian government has made it clear to the PDP that there is no proposal under its consideration to withdraw the Act. The Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs, Haribhai Parathbhai Choudary, in a written reply to the Lok Sabha (the lower house of Indian Parliament) said that there was no proposal under consideration of the Government of India to withdraw the AFSPA from Kashmir and other…

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Hospitals litter deadly waste in the open

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50% hospitals fail to comply with Bio-Medical Waste Management & Handling rules State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has exposed the grave negligence of health department while dealing with the bio-medical waste in hospitals. According to an official report untreated and neglected medical waste is posing a serious threat to people of contracting deadly diseases in the absence of proper management. However, health authorities plead helplessness, saying shortage of funds hampered cleaning of the bio-medical waste. Health institutions are littered with used syringes, needles, plastic items, surgical bandages, unused medicine and…

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‘Antibiotics make you prone to infection’

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Though antibiotics are essential for fighting bacterial infection, they also make the body more prone to infection and diarrhoea, a new study has warned. Exactly how the resident “good” microbes in the gut protect against pathogens, such as Salmonella, and how antibiotic treatments foster growth of disease-causing microbes have been poorly understood, scientists said. Now, researchers from the University of California studied a mouse model and identified the chain of events that occur within the gut lumen after antibiotic treatment that allow “bad” bugs to flourish. The finding has profound…

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CM committed to make JK an island of peace: PDP

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PDP today said there has been a pragmatic improvement in the governance of Jammu and Kashmir and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is committed to make the state an island of peace. “With a pragmatic improvement in governance in Jammu and Kashmir state, the expectations of the people have increased and they have now started appreciating PDP-BJP alliance headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who is committed to make the state an island of peace,” PDP Vice President Rangil Singh told reporters here. He said the late PDP stalwart Mufti Mohd…

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World’s smallest engine developed

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Scientists have developed the world’s tiniest engine – just a few billionths of a metre in size – which is powered by light and may help develop nano-machines that can navigate in water, sense the environment around them, or even enter living cells to fight disease. The prototype device is made of tiny charged particles of gold, bound together with temperature-responsive polymers in the form of a gel. When the ‘nano-engine’ is heated to a certain temperature with a laser, it stores large amounts of elastic energy in a fraction…

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Male passengers in Ladies Special Bus!

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Many male passengers were spotted travelling in Ladies Special Bus on Tuesday here, raising questions about monitoring of the exclusive facility for the females. “I was shocked to see only men on board a Ladies bus bearing registration no JK01Y-0631 bound from Haztrabal to Lal Chowk via Rainawari. I followed the bus and intercepted it near Nowhatta,” said Faiz Wangnoo, a youth from Nigeen locality. Following the complaints, police offloaded the male passengers from the bus. SP north city Sajjad Khaliq Bhat said “I directed cops to take up the…

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