Year: 2022

Despite MoE guidelines no end to burden of heavy bags for J&K school children

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Despite MoE guidelines no end to burden of heavy bags for J&K school children

There seems to be no respite for the school-going children in J&K from carrying a heavy burden on their tender shoulders despite the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Education(MoE) GoI for reducing the burden of school bags. The school children continue to carry a “heavy burden” on their tender shoulders as the government has failed to implement the guidelines to the schools for reducing weight in school bags. Last time the directions for regulating the weight of school bags were issued by the J&K School Education Department (SED) was…

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No direction to hotels not to host people from Kashmir: Delhi Police

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No direction to hotels not to host people from Kashmir: Delhi Police

Delhi Police said they have not given any direction to any hotel against hosting people from J&K. Attempts to discredit the image of Delhi Police can attract penal action, Delhi Police said. Reacting to a video going viral on social media, the Delhi Police on Wednesday issued a clarification that they have not given any director to any Delhi hotel to not give reservations to people from Jammu and Kashmir. “Some netizens are trying to discredit the image of Delhi Police through willful misrepresentation of the video in circulation which…

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Grenade attack leaves police constable injured in Rainawari area of Srinagar

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Grenade attack leaves police constable injured in Rainawari area of Srinagar

A policeman was injured in a grenade attack by militants in the Rainawari area of Srinagar – the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir – on Wednesday. Militants hurled the grenade towards the security personnel near Zind Shah mosque this evening, an official said. Police constable Mohammad Amin received minor splinter injuries in the explosion, he said. Srinagar police busted a grenade-throwing module and have arrested four Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, and seized four hand grenades from them on Wednesday. The Srinagar police in an official statement said, “During a naka…

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Jawaharlal Nehru of internationalize the ‘Kashmir Issue’ by taking it to the United Nations: Nirmala Sitharaman

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Jawaharlal Nehru of internationalize the Kashmir Issue by taking it to the United Nations: Nirmala Sitharaman

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday accused India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of internationalizing the Kashmir issue by taking it to the United Nations. Speaking in Rajya Sabha Sitharaman said the issue should not have gone to the global forum as it was an internal issue. Nehru had appealed to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) through a petition filed in January 1948 — after the outbreak of the first war between India and Pakistan. Based on his petition, the council had established the United Nations Commission for…

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GoI made The Kashmir Files tax free to make people hate us to the extreme: Farooq Abdullah

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GoI made The Kashmir Files tax free to make people hate us to the extreme: Farooq Abdullah

Former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday, March 22, said that by making the Vivek Agnihotri directorial — ‘The Kashmir Files’ — tax-free, the BJP-led government wanted to push hatred into people’s hearts. “They want to further penetrate people’s hearts with hatred. They are saying that every policeman and soldier…everybody should see this movie so that they hate us to the extreme, as was in the Germany that Hitler and Goebles created. Six million Jews had to pay the price then. How many will have to…

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Omar’s assertion of passing resolution in assembly on special status restoration a big lie: Sajad Lone

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Omar’s assertion of passing resolution in assembly on special status restoration a big lie: Sajad Lone

Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone on Tuesday said “assertions of Omar Abdulah and his party National Conference of passing a resolution on the revocation of Article-370 and 35 A in the assembly if voted to power was another gimmick and a big lie.” “It is Parliament which stripped J&K of its special status. We don’t agree with it and have taken the fight to court. However, the supremacy of the Parliament can’t be challenged by any assembly. Further J&K is now a Union Territory whose powers wrest with Lieutenant…

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BJP dividing country on religious lines; Cong kept it safe: Mehbooba Mufti

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BJP dividing country on religious lines; Cong kept it safe: Mehbooba Mufti

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday alleged that BJP was devoid of any development agenda hence it was fanning communal passion to divide the people and the country on religious lines while Congress kept it safe all these years. She was addressing a workers’ convention in Vijaypur in the Samba district. PDP president alleged that the ruling dispensation led by BJP had failed to provide better road infrastructure, regular water and power supply besides addressing basic issues of people hence it was trying to distract them (people)…

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Vikramaditya Singh quits Congress, offers his SWOT analysis

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Vikramaditya Singh quits Congress, offers his SWOT analysis

Vikramaditya Singh, 57, is the son of veteran Congress leader Karan Singh, and grandson of former Jammu & Kashmir ruler Maharaja Hari Singh. He joined Congress from the PDP in 2018. Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh on Tuesday resigned from the party “with immediate effect”, saying the Congress was unable to reflect the sentiments and aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Singh, who is the son of veteran Congress leader, Dr. Karan Singh, and grandson of former Jammu & Kashmir ruler Maharaja Hari Singh, has not spelt out his…

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Farooq Khan LG’s adviser resigns, set to get key role in BJP

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Farooq Khan LG’s adviser resigns, set to get key role in BJP

Farooq Khan, the former adviser to Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha, said on Monday that he belonged to BJP since the very beginning and will share information at the “right time” if he contests the assembly elections. Khan, 67, a retired IPS officer who was instrumental in breaking the backbone of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s, submitted his resignation on Sunday evening to the ministry of home affairs and said he is hopeful that it will be accepted. He had earlier served as a…

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Alert: In last 2 years Kashmir saw 340% rise in Intravenous Heroin abuse

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Alert: In last 2 years Kashmir saw 340% rise in Intravenous Heroin abuse

Kashmir has been witnessing a sharp and shocking increase in Heroin abuse, the trends getting reflected in the records of the largest De-Addiction Center at SMHS Hospital: Between 2019 and the end of 2021, there was a 340 percent increase in the number of patients seeking treatment for Intravenous Heroin abuse. Psychiatrists working in SMHS Hospital said the fact that a large number, running into many thousands, is a monthly affair at the Hospital’s De-Addiction Center. Every day, distraught families accompanying their loved ones suffering substance abuse visit the hospital…

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