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Schools to Reopen for Classes 9 to 12 From September 21, Government Issues SOPs

EDUCATION

The government on Tuesday announced SOPs for partial reopening of schools for students of classes 9-12 from September 21. In Unlock 4 guidelines, MHA said class 9-12 students can visit schools from September 21 for taking teachers’ guidance with parents’ consent. TheUnion Health and Family Welfare Ministry issued standard operating procedures (SOPs) for partial resumption of teaching activities in schools for students of Classes 9 to 12, on a voluntary basis, from September 21. Government of India is following a phase-wise unlocking of activities. In days to come, this would also involve partial resumption of activities in schools for students of Classes 9th to 12th on a voluntary basis, for taking guidance from their teachers, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said. This would be all...

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Uncertainty Bothers People in Ladakh a Year After the Abrogation of Article 370

REGIONAL, THE KASHMIRIYAT

The people living in Ladakh are highly concerned about their land and jobs and demanding 'constitutional safeguard' fearing that the region may loose its identity and environment to the outsiders post Abrogation of Article 370. Many opposing parties, including the ruling BJP, have also raised concerns about the constitutional safeguard Ladakh and have expressed resentment and raised questions about the possible identity loss and growing hopelessness among the residing population - jobs, land and other things would not be exclusively available for them and the region will lose its scenic and rich identity it holds for long now. The Political groups said that Ladakh will suffer immensely in future, in times to come if the constitutional safeguard is not granted the worries fo...

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Two injured in Ganderbal road Mishap

OTHERS, REGIONAL

Shah Basit/ Rayees Shah Two persons were injured in a road accident in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Tuesday. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that a scooty bearing the registration no JK01R 2782 collided with a Santro bearing the registration no.JK01R 7329 resulting in injuries to two persons. The incident has occurred near the petrol pump in Kangan area.buy Flomax generic buy Flomax generic The injured have been identified as Ajaz Ahmad Khan Son of Shabir Ahmad and one girl namely Khalida W/o Muzafar Ahmad Khan R/o Waliwar Lar, Ganderbal. The injured were rushed to the nearest hospital, for treatment. Meanwhile, police have taken cognizance of the incident and started an investigation.

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Tehsildar issues 251 Domicile certificates offline in Anantnag

ISLAMABAD

Salman Shah The Tehsildar of Anantnag in South Kashmir, Abdul Wasi Rouf Deva on Tuesday, issued 251 offline Domiciles at K.G Raina (Nayabat) to the desired applicants on the spot. To continue the drive another camp will be held tomorrow at sub-office Dialgam (Nayabat) in Anantnag. Earlier on Monday, the Tehsildar had issued 360 Online Domicile Certificates to Desired Applicants. The office, as per the official, has drafted a schedule/roster to facilitate the issuance of the Domicile Certificates to the desired applicants on a Fastrack basis." We urge more people to come forward and take benefit of the drive," the Tehsildar said while speaking to The Kashmiriyat.

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3 OGWs of Lashkar e Taiba arrested for Hoisting Pakistan Flags, Says Police

REGIONAL

Bandipora police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested over three ground workers of banned Lashkar-e-Toiba militant outfit and recovered incriminating material from their possession in Hajin area of north Kashmir's Bandipora district.buy zenegra online https://www.ecladent.co.uk/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/inc/new/zenegra.html no prescription A senior police officer told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the police station Hajin received information from reliable sources that some miscreants at the behest of local active militants of LeT have hoisted Pakistani flags in main market Hajin. “They wanted to create fear psychosis and incite anti-national feelings among the locals of Hajin town.” An FIR no 35/2020 under relevant sections of law was registered and inves...

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School Education sector Anantnag seeks permission for starting class work in open-fields

EDUCATION

The School Education sector of Anantnag district Tuesday said it has sought permission from the administration of the region to start classwork in open fields. It also promised to follow the prescribed Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s). Chief Education Officer (CEO) Anantnag, Abdul Rub Shad told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer, “We have asked the district administration that if any school administration wants to conduct classwork, they have to hold it in the open fields followed by the prescribed SOP’s,” Shad said. He said that as of now only community classes were going on in upper belts of Anantnag district. “The far-flung areas of the district wherein internet facility is unavailable or the areas wherein the students sans smartphones, the local teachers are holding co...

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Private Practice of Doctors cannot Be Permitted, HC

REGIONAL

The Jammu Kashmir High Court (Srinagar Wing) on Tuesday stressed that the Government Doctors cannot be permitted to "use their employment for private practice and commercial exploitation". A Division Bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Puneet Gupta further asked the Chief Secretary of Jammu Kashmir to examine this issue. This observation by the High Court came while hearing a plea, where the applicant had submitted before the Court that several doctors and practitioners working in Government Hospitals have taken undue advantage of the restrictions imposed by the Government as 9/8/2020 [Private Practice By Govt Doctors] Usage Of Public Facilities For Commercial Exploitation Can't Be Permitted.

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Muslim Driver Lynched In Uttar Pradesh For Not Chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ Slogan

INDIA

45-year cab driver, Aftab Alam, a resident of Trilokpuri, Noida, who had gone to drop one of his old clients at Bulandshahr, was brutally killed on Sunday midnight for not chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. According to Aftab Alam’s 20-year-old son, Mohammad Sabir, he received an unusual call from his father, who didn’t utter a word after he picked up the phone. Sabir felt that something was wrong and he began to record the call. On the other end of the phone, he heard the attackers asked his name. They also repeatedly asked his father to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. And they all seemed to be drunk, also they asked if he would like to drink and in reply, Alam said ‘no’, Sabir heard. In the audio file of the call available at 8:39 minutes, one of the men can be heard saying “Jai Shri Ram bol, bol J...

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Pakistan Lawmaker Warns of ‘Nuclear War’ Over Kashmir

INTERNATIONAL

A Pakistani lawmaker urged the international community, including the UN, to swiftly act to stop the atrocities of Kashmiris by Indian Government forces. Addressing a seminar in the capital Islamabad, Shehryar Khan Afridi, chairman of parliament’s Kashmir committee, claimed New Delhi was using backdoor channels to resume talks to Pakistan, however Pakistan would not talk to India unless Kashmir issue was on the agenda, he said. Kashmir became a key issue in the global digital space and that Pakistan would not allow India to mislead the world on the ongoing “genocide” in Kashmir. “We are reaching out to all the global platforms to raise Kashmir issue. Sardar Masood Khan, president of Pakistani-administered Kashmir charged that extrajudicial killings have become a norm in Jammu K...

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Brazil Court Ruling Ignites Fears About Indigenous Land Rights

INTERNATIONAL

A Brazilian Supreme Court ruling could permit the municipality that oversees the reservation to legalize the residence of farmers already infiltrating on the indigenous land. Parakana people, who have for over three decades been fighting to protect their land in the Apyterewa reservation, in the northern state of Pará, fear there will be more deforestations, environmental degradation and injustice, as well as a loss of their culture, livelihood, and rights over their land due to the court ruling. The Parakana people have been protesting and fighting legally to protect their land from illegal miners, loggers, and farmers who clear large swathes of trees. Land rights activists state the court ruling which would make indigenous protected territories accessible for development, is 'uncon...