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Education

Distributing ‘anti-army’ pamphlets land 6 students in trouble

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Six students from Jammu and Kashmir, enrolled in a skill development programme at a private institute in Mohali under the Centre’s Udaan initiative, were expelled for distributing pamphlets against the army. The students were subsequently taken back after they submitted a written apology. A group of 10 students, mostly from Kashmir, are receiving IT training under the Udaan initiative at a private institute in nearby Mohali in Punjab. Udaan, the Special Industry Initiative for J-K, is funded by the Centre and being implemented by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). The…

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Delhi Guv appoints special nodal officer for Kashmiri students

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Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung today appointed a special nodal officer for addressing issues of Kashmiri students studying in the national capital. The move comes in the wake of the questioning of several Kashmiri students by Delhi Police after a row over an event in JNU campus against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. The Lt Governor has appointed Delhi Police’s Special Commissioner (Crime) Taj Hasan as the Special Nodal Officer for addressing Kashmiri students’ issues. “Lt. Governor’s office has been approached by some people that students from Kashmir…

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KU scholars start signature campaign for JNU stir

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Research scholars of the Kashmir University (KU) today started a signature campaign to extend support to the students and faculty of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Scholars assembled near Alama Iqbal Library of the KU with banners in support of JNU students. “We have organised this peaceful and non-violent signature campaign in solidarity with the JNU students who are being targeted by RSS-backed agencies. We stand for strengthening the voice of dissent in universities with due recognition to freedom of speech and expression,” Ashfaq Ali, the coordinator of the…

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Kashmiri students ‘silent’ sufferers in Afzal Guru row at JNU

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Students from Kashmir, whose numbers have been increasing at Jawaharlal Nehru University, are a scared lot today after the row over an event on its campus against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru as police have been quietly approaching them in their rented accommodations and subjecting them to questioning. After the February 9 incident where some anti-India slogans were allegedly raised, police is believed to have collected the names of Kashmiri students which sound similar to the names of the organisers of the Guru event. “I woke up…

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Hounding of Kashmiri students in JNU unacceptable: Omar

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Former Chief Minister and National Conference working president Omar Abdullah Wednesday termed as “unacceptable” the “hounding” of Kashmiri students in Delhi and making them “convenient scapegoats” on the name of crackdown on anti-national activities in JNU. “If the Delhi Police and the Home Ministry want to unleash a dictatorial and tyrannical crackdown on dissenting voices and students in Delhi, they should not make Kashmiri students convenient scapegoats, stigmatize them and ruin their careers. This is unacceptable,” Omar said. The National Conference (NC) working president said there have been numerous instances…

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Kashmiri students on radar for anti-india event at JNU

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Intelligence agencies are probing the role of Kashmiri students enrolled at various universities and educational institutions who could have been instrumental in garnering support for commemorating the hanging of Afzal Guru at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The JNU is in the news for an event organised by the students union where slogans were allegedly raised against hanging of convicted terrorist Afzal Guru. Earlier, similar protests were allegedly reported from university campus in Hyderabad. “There is a pattern in the events in support of a convicted terrorist. International NGOs will…

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BOSE to keep board exam papers at police stations to check leak

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After being criticised for alleged incidents of question paper leak at various examination centres across the Jammu division during annual board exams of the summer zone for the past few years, the J&K Board of School Education (JKBOSE) has decided to keep the question papers at police stations concerned. The practice will commence in the upcoming exams of Class X and XII wherein the superintendents of examination centres will have to collect the papers from the police station hours before the commencement of the exam. Sources said in the previously…

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Why top private schools shy away from responsibilities?

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HC to hear PIL on schools not providing 25% reservation to under-privileged students  High Court has accepted to hear a petition seeking directions to valleys top private institutes to have 25 per cent reservation for students of underprivileged class of society. The petition filed by chairman International Forum for Human Rights Justice Ahsan Untoo said the government has leased out land to these private schools at meager price and in return these schools are bound to serve the poorest of the poor and reserve 25 percent of its seats for…

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Screen teachers with ‘tuck shop’ degrees: HC to govt

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The High Court today directed the government to identify and conduct screening test of only those Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers who had obtained degrees through distance mode from institutions termed as “tuck shops” by the court. The teachers having obtained their degrees through distance mode from the regularised and reputed institution have been exempt from the screening test by the court. The state Education Department had earlier asked all the Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers to go through a screening test. The directions were passed by a single bench of Justice Muzaffar Hussain…

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Kashmiri student wins Digital India online quiz

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Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad gave away an award to a student of Kendriya Vidyalaya No.2, Srinagar, for winning ‘Digital India Week’s Online Quiz Competition on Cyber Safety and Cyber Awareness’ in New Delhi on Thursday. Danish Shakeel was among the three students from the state who received the award from the Union Minister. An official of the school said Shakeel, a class X student, won the online quiz competition conducted by National e-Governance of Division (NeGD). Amit Walter, Principal, Kendriya Vidyalaya No.2, Srinagar, and the entire faculty has…

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