Category: Community

SKIMS appoint ‘Blue eyed’ as asst professors, allege Post-Doctoral Fellows

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A group of Post-Doctoral Fellows (PDF) Monday accused SKIMS, Soura of resorting to favoritism, malpractices and preferring distance mode candidates for the posts of assistant professors in violation of norms. Aspirants told Kashmir Post that SKIMS, Soura advertised a number of assistant professor posts in 2014 against different vacancies and the process of which has begun from the past three weeks. “The Institute wants to appoint blue eyed candidates who have pursued their degrees via distance mode. The process of the selection is under way for the past three weeks,”…

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Now, pay mobile bills at BSNL counters only: GST Impact

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No payments to be made at area shops; customers suffer The bill counters of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) are witnessing huge rush these days as all the recharge and bill payment SIM cards of the mobile shop owners have been blocked after the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) in Jammu and Kashmir. For the last one decade, people avoid standing in queues to pay their mobile bills because the payment could be made at any mobile shop of any locality. However, from this month onwards, the…

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Geelani, his family has no illegal assets: Hurriyat (G)

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Hurriyat Conference (G) Sunday said the amalgam has decided to take legal action against the NIA and Indian media on the “character assassination of its leaders and their family members.” According to a statement issued here, the spokesman of Hurriyat (G) said they have started consultations with the legal experts regarding the issue. Denying any unauthorized, illegal or disproportionate property belonging to Syed Ali Geelani, the spokesman said Geelani’s daughters are married while his two sons including Nayeem and Naseem have no illegal assets. “Indian authorities under well thought out…

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‘Deceitful ploy to erode State’s Special Status’: Statistical Bill Row

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Calling the extension of Collection of Statistics Amendment Bill-2017 to Jammu and Kashmir as a “deceitful ploy to erode state’s autonomy”, Kashmir’s civil society and business community on Thursday said the PDP-BJP government is “not leaving any stone unturned to fulfill RSS agenda.” A day after the Bill that will empower the government of India to directly collect data from J&K was passed by Rajya Sabha “without taking state legislature into confidence”, the civil society members and business community unanimously called the move as “another nail in the coffin of…

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Loophole in Aadhar card processing poses security threat

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A technical lacuna in making Aadhaar cards is posing a security threat to the sensitive state. This has happened as the Information Technology Department, now tasked with making the cards, has issued instructions to the Aadhaar centres to make cards on the basis of two government-issued identity proofs. However, with the centres unable to check the genuineness of the proofs, this loophole can be misused. Earlier the Aadhaar cards were being made on the basis of Temporary Identification Number (TIN), which was circulated to each person, who was counted during…

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RSS tries back-channel diplomacy in Kashmir

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After the much-publicised Akhil Bharatiya Prant Parcharak (ABPP) conclave in Jammu, a top leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has conducted a four-day tour of the Kashmir valley as part of the back-channel diplomacy efforts. RSS bigwig Indresh Kumar met representatives of different political and social groups to explore possibilities of convincing some leaders having clout among the masses to publicly denounce violence and terrorism to isolate supporters of separatism and violence. When contacted, Indresh Kumar, one of the members of the RSS core group and convener of the…

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Joint Resistance Leadership calls Friday protests against military court’s ruling, arrest of separatists

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The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yaseen Malik Wednesday asked people to stage peaceful protests against suspension of death sentence to army men involved in Machil fake encounter and persecution and arrest of separatist leaders. In a joint statement, the separatist leaders said BJP-led government in New Delhi was working on pushing from all ends to crush the people’s movement in Kashmir. “Crackdown has been launched against separatist leadership. Besides, there was a propaganda blitzkrieg to target the leadership and their activists…

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Historic Khanqah Naqshbandia craves for attention: Neglected Heritage

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The historic sixth century mosque in heart of the city is craving for attention as insects from dead pigeons and the excreta of birds drop down upon the devotees from the roof top of once majestic centre of Islamic learning which housed the holy relic of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) before being shifted to Dargah Hazratbal. Ritually on July 13 every year the who’s who of the government throngs Hazrat Khawaja Naqshband Sahab (RA) shrine to pay tributes to 1931 Martyrs who are buried here but within a short distance lies…

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Military court suspends life terms, grants bail to 5 accused army men

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Three Kashmiri youth were dubbed as Pakistani militants in the 2010 fake encounter case A military court has suspended the life sentences of five army men accused of killing three unemployed Kashmiri youth and then trying to pass them off as Pakistani militants in a fake encounter in Machil sector along the Line of Control in April 2010, a media report said. According to Mail Today, the armed forces tribunal also granted them bail in the case related to the death of three civilians in Kashmir Valley in 2010 where…

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NIA being used as war weapon against leadership: Hurriyat (G)

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Hurriyat Conference (G) Tuesday said NIA is being used as a war weapon against leadership and “local henchmen” are facilitating these arbitrary measures against leadership. Reacting sharply over arrests conducted by NIA and producing them in Delhi court, Hurriyat (G) said: “Indian government is frustrated to the extent that they frame and raid residences of Hurriyat leaders and activists on the pre-planned psychological crackdown, so that they surrender and stop voicing the sentiments of their nation, thereby covering and shielding their atrocities and barbarism against common and unarmed people.” Hurriyat…

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