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Screening of film on Kashmir triggers row in IIT-Delhi

February 11, 2016 Editor

For the last six months, research scholars associated with the Centre of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D), watched films, a routine event on weekends at 5 p.m., which was followed inevitably by discussions, sometimes in the presence of the director. A process, the faculty and students looked forward to. On January 29, when the Film Society, brainchild of the centre, screened Iffat Fatima’s KhoonDiyBaarav (On a Trail of Vanished Blood), a film on Kashmir, not only were the proceedings disrupted, the viewers were…

BJP moves to finish uncertainty over Government in J&K

February 11, 2016 Editor

BJP Leader Amit Shah wishes the doubt over government development in Jammu to finish quickly. He’s debuted the BJP this past year in a coalition and also party secretary Ram Madhav, who performed a vital part in combining the Folks’s Democratic Party, to travel to Srinagar and keep talks and solve the disaster. Mr. Madhav may fulfill PDP leaders along with Ms. Mufti in a few days. Leading PDP resources, nevertheless, told NDTV, “(We’ve) no thought if anybody in the BJP is arriving for discussions.” The very first government went…

JNU students clash over event against Afzal Guru hanging

February 11, 2016 Editor

The university turned into a battleground on Tuesday as the Right and the Left clashed when a group of Left-oriented students called a meet to commemorate the “judicial killing” of the duo. Afzal Guru, who was hanged on February 9, 2013 for his role in the 2001 attack on Parliament, and the lesser-known co-founder of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Maqbool Bhat, who was hanged in 1984, are “martyrs” in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The university turned into a battleground on Tuesday as the Right and the Left clashed…

Now, Aadhaar-based biometric attendance must to draw salary

February 11, 2016 Editor

The authorities today announced that the government officers and officials would be paid salary from March onwards only if they have enrolled themselves for the Aadhaar-based biometric system. The order followed the February 7 decision of the State Administrative Council that all government offices in Jammu and Kashmir would have Aadhaar-based biometric attendance system in position by March 31 this year. The council was constituted by Governor NN Vohra on February 4. The authorities, while issuing the detailed guidelines, said it was being done “to ensure punctuality in the government…

National Child Labour Project fails to takeoff in JK

February 10, 2016 Editor

The National Child Labour Project (NCLP), an anti-child labour flagship programme of the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment, has failed to take off in Jammu and Kashmir. NCLP was implemented in Srinagar and Udhampur in 1996 but due to resource crunch the project could not be implemented in rest of the state. Ghulam Rasool Kumar, Deputy Labour Commissioner (Kashmir) while talking to us said, “Labour Department is facing hurdles in terms of conducting a pre-implementation survey due to lack of manpower. The Labour Department does not have adequate staff to…

Fate of PDP-BJP alliance rests on Budget doles

February 10, 2016 Editor

Mehbooba Mufti pushes for more financial assistance to the state The Sangh Parivar has decided to give more time to the Peoples Democratic Party to take a decision on restitching the alliance with the BJP as their backchannel meetings are yielding encouraging results. Although it was earlier decided that the final decision on forming the government with the PDP would be taken at a meeting on February 10 in Delhi, the outcome of the recent informal meetings has renewed chances of breaking the impasse. Sources said that at the backchannel…

Mehbooba Mufti can’t keep JK guessing, says Omar

February 9, 2016 Editor

National Conference leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, on February 7, made it clear that his party is not ready to support BJP in case the PDP-BJP alliance snaps in the state. Abdullah also said that PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti must break her silence as she cannot keep the entire state guessing on government formation. “Mehbooba Mufti has been quiet for long and she can no longer remain silent. She must clarify her stand on two-three issues and clear the air as to what are those…

Muslim scholars must dispel wrong perceptions created about Islam: Azad

February 9, 2016 Editor

The biggest challenge before Muslim scholars and Ulema in contemporary times is to “refute the malicious propaganda being churned out by international conspiratorial forces to malign Islam by projecting it as a violent and regressive faith”, former J&K Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Monday. He was addressing a three-day International Conference on ‘Modern Technology and Muslims’ at Silchar in Barak Valley of Assam. The Conference was organized jointly by NadwatutTameer, Jamiat-ul-Ullema-e-Hind, Assam &Ahle-Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat. Azad, who was the Chief Guest at the concluding ceremony, said…

MeT predicts ending of dry spell Feb10 onwards

February 9, 2016 Editor

The prolonged dry spell in Jammu and Kashmir is expected to end on February 10 when scattered rainfall is expected, the MeT department said. On February 11, there will be widespread rainfall in most of the places across the state, Director J&K MeT department, Sonam Lotus said. “This widespread rainfall would be followed by fairly widespread rainfall at many places and then on February 13 there will be scattered rainfall at a few places,” he said. No weather warning has been issued for the next five days as the rainfall…

Centre finalizes site for AIIMS in Jammu, forgets Kashmir

February 9, 2016 Editor

A central team which was scheduled to inspect the proposed site for construction of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Kashmir in December last year hasn’t finalized its date of visit yet, hitting the project take-off. Incidentally, the fate of two new medical colleges announced for Kashmir two years before is hanging in balance. In December last year, top officials from the Union Health Ministry inspected two sites proposed for construction of AIIMS in Jammu region, but are yet to carry out the site inspections in Kashmir Valley.…