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Axe Srinagar NIT Management, demands Dinanath Batra

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Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas (SSUN), an RSS outfit run by Dinanath Batra, has written to Prime Minister, home minister and HRD minister demanding a high-level inquiry into the events at NIT, Srinagar, immediate sacking of director and registrar, and also action against students who raised anti-India slogans and raised Pakistani flags. “If immediate action is not taken, anti-national forces will get a fillip and nationalistic forces will be discouraged,” it said. SSUN also said that anti-national forces appear to have got encouragement after the JNU incident . It has also…

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Non-issue being highlighted as communal incident: Mehbooba

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday dismissed the trouble between local and outside students in NIT Srinagar as a “non-issue”, being highlighted by certain people as a “communal incident”. In an interview with ETV News Network here, Mehbooba, who heads the PDP-BJP ruling combine, said she had expressed the same view to central Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani after violent protests erupted at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar following India’s loss to the West Indies in a T20 cricket match last week. Non-local students in…

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NIT Row : 150 students from Delhi set for Srinagar along with Indian Flag

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A contingent of over 150 students and activists led by BJP national secretary R P Singh is starting Chalo NIT march from Delhi to show solidarity with the non local students of National Institute of Technology Srinagar. Reports said that Singh has arranged some buses and is pushing the students towards Srinagar to show solidarity with NIT students who have been agitating in Srinagar for last few days. They are carrying a tricolor to assert that “no one can deny students to hoist it in Kashmir”. Though Singh maintained that…

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NIT students insist on CBI inquiry

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Call state-level magisterial probe an eyewash, boycott classes for eighth day Rejecting the state government’s decision to hold a magisterial probe into the NIT-Srinagar controversy, non-Kashmiri students at the institute today demanded a CBI probe into the issue. Describing the magisterial probe as an “eyewash” and an attempt to “cover up the brutalities” of the state police, the non-Kashmiri students today appealed to the HRD and Home Ministries to intervene and order a CBI probe into the matter. Nearly 1,500 Non-Kashmir students continued to boycott their classes for the eighth…

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As PDP lies low, BJP gets flak for Srinagar NIT row

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The PDP is lying low over the NIT controversy even as its partner in J&K, the BJP, receives flak in Jammu for police lathicharge on non-local students – many of whom are from Jammu region – and the authorities refusal to allow students to leave the campus. A PDP leader said the Centre can neither shift NIT from Srinagar nor allow non-local students to go home till tempers cool down because this may result in backlash in the form of attacks on Kashmiri students studying in other parts of country.…

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BJP warns of reaction against J&K students elsewhere

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BJP on Thursday cautioned that the way outstation students are being dealt with at NIT Srinagar could have an impact on students from Jammu and Kashmir studying elsewhere in the country. “The elements involved in the misaction are anti-national and anti-people who want to destroy the peaceful atmosphere in the state by indulging in such type of violence which tantamount to instigating similar reactions against students from the state studying outside the state and putting to risk and jeopardy their lives,” said Sunil Sethi, chief spokesperson of BJP’s state unit.…

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Youth congress demands ban on sale of liquor in JK

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J&K Pradesh Youth Congress State General Secretary and Executive Member J&K Pradesh Congress committee Sheikh Aamir Rasool today demanded blanket ban on consumption and sale of liquor in J&K State. “Six states including Kerala, Bihar, Nagaland, Manipur, Gujarat and Mizoram have already banned the liquor. The J&K State government should also consider banning it in the state,” said Aamir Rasool in a statement today . Liquor is root cause of dwindling household economy and domestic and social violence across the state he said. Aamir Rasool further said that total prohibition…

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Geelani vouches for safety of non-local students

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Lashes out at GoI over harassment of Kashmiri students outside JK Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani on his return to Valley on Wednesday vouched for safety of non-local students in NIT campus and criticized Government of India (GoI) on harassment of Kashmiri students studying outside the State. “Our religion teaches us not to have any hatred with people on the basis of religion, race or nationality,” Geelani told reporters, here. He arrived here this afternoon after spending two months in New Delhi, where he underwent treatment. He was…

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Will Centre intervene when Kashmiri students are harassed elsewhere? Omar on NIT Row

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Former chief minister Omar Abdullah says wrong precedent set by making these happenings at NIT a massive story, and having central forces and special teams from HRD ministry brought in. Former chief minister Omar Abdullah says wrong precedent set by making these happenings at NIT a massive story, and having central forces and special teams from HRD ministry brought in. How do you look at the situation at NIT in Srinagar? Is it a small campus skirmish or something bigger? We tend to take these things out of proportions. Campus…

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Decisive measures needed to end despair in JK : Mehbooba

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Mehbooba Mufti is the first ever woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. A day after taking over, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said “decisive measures” would be required to end the scenario of “despair and trust-deficit” in the state and informed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had committed full support from the Centre. “The Prime Minister called me this morning, immediately on his return from Saudi Arabia, reassuring me of full support from the Government of India in mitigating the sufferings of the people of…

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