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Education

With NEET order due, JK Students stare at uncertainty

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At a medical college in Srinagar, students anxiously wait for the outcome of the Jammu and Kashmir government’s plea in the Supreme Court in which the state has challenged the top court’s order on the National Eligibility Entrance Tests or NEET. The case will come up for hearing today. The most worried are female doctors and aspiring medical students because Jammu and Kashmir is only state which reserved 50 per cent seats only for women in medical colleges – a quota that NEET doesn’t provide. “Why have women who have…

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Ex-AGI, Ex-ASGI to lead JK’s defence : NEET Row

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NC says Govt’s response too late, YNC to stage protests The former Attorney General of India (AGI) and the former Additional Solicitor General of India (ASGI) are among the team of lawyers hired by the State government who would challenge the Supreme Court’s verdict allowing conduct of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) in Jammu Kashmir on Thursday. The State has hired the services of the former Attorney General of India, Gopal Subramanium and the former Additional Solicitor General of India, K V Vishwanathan to plead the case in the Apex court…

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Edu Minister defends teacher’s transfer against norms

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‘He called on me and given his academic background I decided to post him at HSS Nadihal as there was pressing need for Math teacher’ Responding to a news report published in this newspaper regarding the transfer of a teacher in his home district Bandipora against the norms, Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar Monday defended his decision. “It is very true that the said teacher, who is a resident of my ancestral village Garoora in district Bandipora called on me some days back and given his academic background, I decided…

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Invoking Art 370, state moves SC over NEET

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‘J&K enjoys exclusive powers in matters of education’ The state today moved an application before the Supreme Court seeking exemption from the applicability of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) in the state. While seeking a “clarification/modification” of the Supreme Court order on NEET dated April 28, J&K has invoked its special status, saying that the state has “exclusive powers” in matters of education, including the “right to conduct” examinations for admission to undergraduate medical courses. The apex court will hear J&K’s application along with a batch of applications seeking that…

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Students return, NIT back to normal

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After relenting, express hope that their demands will be met Things have started returning to normal at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) with more than 90 per cent of the agitating outstation students back to their classrooms. NIT officials said 1,394 students had returned to the campus so far and were attending classes. “Everything is normal on the campus. We are ensuring improvement in facilities. Students are attending classes and the situation is calm and peaceful. The students have grievances, but we are trying to make improvements every day,”…

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Candidates who applied for NEET-I ineligible for NEET-II

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Medical education aspirants in Jammu and Kashmir—who had applied or appeared for an all-India level examination held on May 1—are virtually in a state of shock as they have been declared ineligible for the proposed second phase of the examination to be held in July this year. A fresh communication from All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) has declared students ineligible for National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET)–II—the medical entrance examination that has replaced Common Entrance Test (CET) for entry to medical colleges in India, including those in Jammu and Kashmir. A…

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50 Outstation students identified for indulging in NIT Vandalism

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Ensuring discipline in campus will remain our priority: Director The NIT administration and police have identified 50 non local students, who indulged in vandalism in the campus and damaged the furniture of the institute and vehicles after the March 31 protests following India’s loss to West Indies in WorldT20 semi final match. The students will face arrests and the NIT is also mulling to rusticate them. Officials said even as NIT had deployed its private security in the campus to contain the protests. “However, the non-local students had resorted to…

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Classes resume at NIT, most outstation students stay away

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A police vehicle, marked ‘riot control’, remains stationed outside the main gate of Srinagar campus of National Institute of Technology (NIT) and a group of policemen stand at a nearby parking shed as the premier engineering university resumed class work after a 10-day break following protests triggered by India’s defeat in the T-20 Cricket World Cup semi-final. The gate is manned by the campus security and all entrants are carefully monitored and their entry and exit recorded on a register. The security guards on the campus remain on edge and…

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PIL in JK HC seeks shifting of NIT out of Kashmir

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A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in Jammu and Kashmir High Court here seeking shifting of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) out of Srinagar. “Post what happened at the NIT in Srinagar, we moved a PIL in the High Court which was heard by the Division Bench of the court headed by Chief Justice today,” said the petitioner Hari Om, a former BJP leader. He said that in the PIL he has sought the direction of the court to shift the NIT out of Kashmir. “Court after…

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Fearing backlash, Kashmiris ‘leave’ Jammu college

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“Nearly 20 students from Government Engineering and Technology College at Chak Bhalwal near here have left for home since Thursday,” a student from the Valley told. Kashmiri students in Jammu have reportedly started returning to the Valley following a charged-up atmosphere over the NIT-Srinagar incident. “Nearly 20 students from Government Engineering and Technology College at Chak Bhalwal near here have left for home since Thursday,” a student from the Valley told on Friday in the presence of the teaching and administrative staff. He was among students who had assembled in the…

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