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Education

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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DPS hikes tuition, other fees by 20% in 2 sessions, says official report

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Srinagar, Apr 8: An inquiry into the ‘arbitrary’ fee hike by Delhi Public School (DPS) Athwajan here has revealed that the school administration—in blatant violation of the High Court orders—has hiked the fee for the academic year 2015-16 by over 20 percent. And according to inquiry report submitted to J&K’s School Fee Fixation Committee by Chief Education Officer Srinagar, the school also intends to enhance school fee for academic year 2016-17 with effect from April 2016. In his report, CEO Srinagar has stated that the school (DPS Athwajan) has enhanced…

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Dy CM’s silence on Kashmiri students beating baffling: KCCI

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‘High level team be deputed to different institutions’ Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Friday questioned the government’s silence over the harassment of Kashmiri students in Jammu engineering colleges. In a statement KCCI KCCI president Mushtaq Ahmad Wani said, “The keen interest taken by Dr. Nirmal Singh, the Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir in regard to sorting out the problem of NIT Srinagar and at the same time adopting a quiet attitude vis-a-vis harassment caused to Kashmiri students at Jammu professional institutes is baffling and if the…

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Kashmiri students beaten in Jodhpur

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DGP takes up issue with Rajasthan Police Jammu and Kashmir police chief has taken up the issue of beating up of Kashmiri students at Vyas College of Engineering and Technology, Jodhpur by local students with the Rajasthan police. Talking to us, DGP K Rajendra said the matter was taken up with the Rajasthan police. “I enquired about the condition of the students with the concerned Superintendent of Police in Jodhpur in whose jurisdiction the college falls,” he said. Dozens of Kashmiri students studying in Vyas College of Engineering and Technology,…

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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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Nine students belonging to JK arrested, suspended by Rajasthan university

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Nine students and a hostel warden from Jammu and Kashmir were arrested following a clash in the hostel mess of a private university in Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh district over Indian cricket team’s loss against West Indies in the T20 World Cup last week. The Mewar University today said it has suspended these nine students, who were released on bail on Monday, along with seven others for creating nuisance on the varsity premises on March 31. “16 students have been suspended till April 25. The accused students created ruckus in the hostel…

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‘We crossed limits’, say non-local students

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Six days after non-Kashmiri students resorted to violent protests against Kashmiri students celebrating India’s defeat against West Indies in the T20 world cup semifinal, a group of non-Kashmiri National Institute of Technology (NIT) students accepted that ‘they resorted to things which were beyond limits (sic).’ Non-Kashmiri students had protested and chanted ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ slogans on Friday, a day after Kashmiri students celebrated India’s defeat in the campus. But on Friday afternoon, last week, the non-Kashmiri group resorted to violence, vandalised NIT property and allegedly attacked Kashmiri students, a…

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Conversion of REC into NIT ‘a big loss for Kashmiris’

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The conversion of Regional Engineering College Srinagar into National Institute of Technology has least benefitted Kashmiri students. According to educationists Kashmiris lost the engineering college and its assets worth hundreds of crores to Government of India way back in 2003 when it was converted into NIT from REC. An NIT professor told on the condition of anonymity that the most unfortunate part is that only 15% Kashmiri students get admitted in the college for engineering courses. “Though there is 50:50 ratio for admission for J&K state and outside state students,…

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