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Five Members of a Family Found Unconcious after Consuming Wild Berries in Kupwara

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In Mayal Kralpora area of Kupwara district, in North Kashmir, five members of a family fainted after consumption of poisonous wild berries. The neighbors rushed everyone to the sub-district hospital in Kralpora without delay. On examination they were further referred to District Hospital in Handwara. The Kashmiriyat spoke to the attending doctor and he said that it seems that the fruits they consumed were poisonous in nature. All family members, including two children, are being treated. The members have been identified as Abdul Ghaffar Khan (50), Javed Ahmed Khan (36), Masood Begum (35), Basit Majeed (12) and 10-year-old Hamid Majeed. Meanwhile, a police officer said that they are investigating the case.

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Taking Offence Becomes an Indoor Sport while Comedians Struggle : Kunal Kamra Replies to SC

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Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra on Friday, defended his alleged scandalous tweets against the judiciary in the Supreme Court, saying that if the court believes he has crossed the line and wants to shut down his internet indefinitely, then he too “will write Happy Independence Day post cards every 15th August, just like my Kashmiri friends.” According to Kamra, “irreverence and hyperbole” are essential tools for the comedic enterprise and a comic raises questions on issues of public interest in his own unique way. He said, "We would be reduced to a country of incarcerated artists and flourishing lapdogs” if powerful people and institutions continue to show an inability to tolerate rebuke or criticism. Kamra had filed his reply affidavit in a plea seeking contempt action against him f...

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‘Government Trying to Delegitimize our Movement’- Stone Pelting on Farmers at Singhu Border of Delhi

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Amid the Police disallowing anybody including the water tankers to reach the protesting farmers on the Singhu border, a small group of around 200 People claiming to be locals entered the Singhu border and threw stones on the Protesting farmers. The Delhi Police used tear smoke shells after the protesters vandalized the tents of the farmers who have been on a sit-in protest for the past 62 days on the Singhu border. Holding Indian Flags and shouting slogans, the protesters vandalized property of Farmers and as per the protesting Farmers were given a "free-hand" by the Delhi Police to vandalize the tents of the Farmers. Meanwhile the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) leader Satnam Singh Pannu has claimed that the central government is sending Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)...

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Delimitation Commission Constituted by the Government of India is yet to Unveil its Drafted Proposal

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Draft proposal for the delimitation of assembly segments of Jammu Kashmir by the delimitation commission constituted by the Government of India is yet to unveil even as its head will complete her term in the first week of March. The panel is headed by former Supreme Court judge, Justice (retd.) Ranjana Prakash Desai, on March 06, 2019 to draw boundaries of 90 Assembly segments and five parliamentary seats of Jammu Kashmir. According to the notification issued by Union Ministry of Law and Justice for setting up the panel, its head will complete her one-year term on March 5, 2020. Going by the law governing delimitation, the panel has to come up with the draft proposal to seek suggestions and objections from the public before finalizing the process. Till date, the panel has also not he...

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Newly Launched SEHAT Scheme Reels in over 22 Lakh People : Atal Dulloo

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On Thursday, Financial Commissioner Health & Medical Education, Atal Dulloo, said that over 22 lakh people have so far applied for the golden card under newly launched Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojana(AB PMJAY) SEHAT scheme in various districts across Jammu Kashmir. While talking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Atal Dulloo said that before the launching of Sehat scheme, only people in the deprived category under the socio-economic census could have availed the facility, however, under Sehat scheme every JK resident is being covered under Rs. 5 lakh health insurance. There are around 5.57 lakh households who were in 'deprived category' and among them, around 1.7 lakh households which counts for around 65 per cent of total households have already rece...

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Military Confrontation Between India, Pakistan would be Disaster: UN chief

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it is absolutely essential for India and Pakistan to be able to come together and seriously discuss their problems, cautioning that any military confrontation would be a disaster of unmitigated proportions for both countries and the whole world. Well, what I said in the statement…is, unfortunately, the same that I can say today. I mean, I do believe that it is absolutely essential to have a de-escalation of the situation, namely in the Line of [Control],” the UN chief said. Guterres was responding to a question by a Pakistani journalist on tensions between India and Pakistan over the situation in Kashmir. The question also referred to the statement Guterres had issued in August 2019 on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir where he had appe...

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School Building Gutted in Shopian District

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At Amarbugh village of Shopian district, a government funded Primary school building was gutted in fire. No reports of casualties or injured have flared. Ishfaq Ahmad (a local) told The Kashmiriyat that a massive fire broke out this evening at Government Primary School Amarbugh Imamsahib. While speaking to The Kashmiriyat, Ishaq Ahmad added that the school building was damaged. He also added that the fire is not controlled yet. The rooftop and the second floor of the building were damaged in the fire, whereas the fire has not been controlled at the moment. The cause of the fire is being ascertained, he said.

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‘Two in the Grave, One Behind Bars’; The Wailing Wombs of Kashmir

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Qazi Shibli/ Meer Irfan In the Winter of 2018, as Kashmir was going through an endless cycle of violence, the phone of one Ghulam Nabi Khan rang in the Handoora area of Tral in Kashmir almost 60 Kilometers away from Srinagar, It was a call from the police asking him to take the body of his militant son back home for his last rites. Khan though, upon reaching the police station, was devastated to see the corpse that was 'charred beyond recognition.' The sight haunts Khan every day even after two years have passed. “I was asked to identify my son from the pieces of charred bodies lying on the floor of the police station,” Khan said. In a span of Six Months in 2018, Khan lost two sons to an unending cycle of violence in the Kashmir valley. In April 2018, Ishfaq Ahmad K...

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Jammu Kashmir Civil Services Cadre Merges with AGMUT

INDIA, REGIONAL

In the first week of January, the Government of India merged Jammu Kashmir civil services cadre which includes Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service and Indian Forest Service with AGMUT ( Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories). A notification signed by President Ram Nath Kovind and issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice, the members of IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service for the existing cadre of Jammu and Kashmir will now become part AGMUT cadre according to a report by Muslim Mirror. Through Jammu Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021, the changes have been made to Sections 13 and 88 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019. As AGMUT works under central Government, all the civil services officers of J&K will have to work...

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Classes in Degree Colleges to Resume from February

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The winter vacation for colleges in summer zones of Jammu will end on the 31st of January while the winter vacation for degree colleges in Kashmir and winter zones of Jammu on the 14th of February. The classes will be held while adhering to all COVID-19 SOP already issued by the government. The Higher Education Department will ensure sanitization of college premises and other precautionary measures. The colleges will open for the first time for normal classes after almost a year.buy amitriptyline online https://gilbertroaddental.com/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/inc/new/amitriptyline.html no prescription Earlier, the lockdown from abrogation also caused huge gap for students who had passed out or were in the middle of their semesters for a year and more.