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This South Kashmir Youth Generates Electricity from Traditional Kangri

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Skinder Gull A 20-year-old youth from Awantipora in South Kashmir's Pulwama district has managed to generate electricity from a traditional Kashmiri firepot- ‘Kangri’ and charge the mobile phones from shoes. Suhail Ahmad Parray (20), a resident of Chersoo area in Awantipora, his brother Abrar Ahmad Parry (16), & cousin Mazim Ashraf (15), have come up with the invention a few days back, where the bulb lights up after getting heated up from the Kangri. Similarly, mobile phones and batteries could also be seen getting charged from the shoes, which left many in surprise. Suhail Ahmad Parry speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that it took him around twenty days to stabilize the temperature necessary to produce the electricity from the Kangri. "I used basic types of equipments in t...

Administration Now Distributes Assets Between Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh

REGIONAL

Jammu Kashmir's Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has divided the assets and liabilities of the former Jammu Kashmir State between the two union territories Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh under the Reorganization Act. A notification in this regard has also been issued. Sections 84 and 85 of the Jammu Kashmir Reorganization order that the assets and liabilities of the former Jammu Kashmir State be shared between Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh. An advisory committee was formed to distribute these assets, liabilities and rights. The report was submitted to the Union Home Ministry by the Advisory Committee headed by retired IAS officer Sanjay Mitra. The adminsitrations of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh sought the recommendations of the advisory committee. The Union Home Ministry consulted with the two a...

Roshni Act Declared ‘Null and Void’- Land to Be Retrieved by Admin Within Six Months

REGIONAL

A few days after the Goverment of India passed the controversial land Law, the J&K administration has declared the Roshni Act as null and void and said that it would retrieve entire land in six months. Earlier the CBI had ordered a probe into the alleged scam, in which around 20.55 lakh kanals of land (1,2,50 hectares) to occupants of which 15.85 percent of the land was approved for vesting of ownership rights. The scheme was finally repealed by Satya Pal Malik, the former governor of the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir, on November 28, 2018. Earlier on 09 October, a division bench of Chief Justice of High Court, Gita Mittal and Justice Rajesh Bindal ordered the CBI probe into irregularities in the scheme and directed the CBI to file a status report every eight weeks. "Th...