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3 Arrested for Allegedly Raping Non-Local Labour in Budgam

REGIONAL

Police have registered a case against Brick Kiln employees after non-local labour accused them of raping a woman and illegally confining them in a room for the whole night. The alleged incident has occurred in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Police sources said that a family from Uttar Pradesh had received advance payment from the brick kiln (709) owner for the work they were supposed to do at the brick kiln, however, after receiving the money, the family fled away and started working at another brick kiln in Awantipora area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. They said that the family from Moulana District Muzaffarnagar UP was working in a Brick kiln at Sholipora Budgam to one Ashiq Hussain. The brick kiln owners had already paid an advance payment to the said labourer family...

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Protests Now Spread to Jammu Parts Against Opening of Liquor Shops

REGIONAL

The Jammu Kashmir administration’s move to issue 'The Draft Excise Policy Year 2021-2022', which proposes an e-auction process for the approval of liquor shops Tuesday evoked sharp criticism and triggered protests in parts of Jammu region. Eye-witnesses said that people from different areas of Jammu district were up in arms against the authorities for giving permission to open liquor shops near educational institutions and religious places. Locals in Shakti Nagar, Trikuta Nagar Jammu and Gujjar Nagar area staged protests against the proposal of opening new wine shops. The protestors were raising slogans like "Stop drinking, close liquor shops" and demanded cancellation of liquor licenses which are being opened near the residential areas, educational institutions and religious places ...

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IUML Moves to Supreme Court Against MHA Order of Granting Citizenship Act to Non-Muslims

INDIA

The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the May 28 order of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) which empowered certain districts to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The application filed by IUML said, during the pendency Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) the MHA has gone ahead and issued an order dated May 28, whereby the Centre, relying on Section 16 of the Citizenship Act 1955 (henceforth referred to as the Act), the power to grant citizenship under Sections 5 (citizenship by registration) and 6 (citizenship by naturalization) have been delegated to collectors of certain districts to grant citizenship to persons. The plea claimed the Centre has illegally permitted the collectors of the ch...

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DAK Meets LG Manoj Sinha, Stresses for Redressal of Long Pending Demands

REGIONAL

The Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) led by its president Dr. Md Yousuf Tak met Hon'ble LG of the union territory of JK, Shri Manoj Sinha at his residence today and stressed upon the address of the long pending genuine issues and demands of the doctor fraternity of the UT. The other executive members who participated in the meeting were Dr. Owais Dar, General Secretary DAK, Dr. Mir Mohd Ashraf, senior Vice president DAK, Dr. Arshid Trag, vice president DAK and spokesperson Dr. Imtiyaz Maqbool Banday. The Hon'ble LG gave a patient and tolerant hearing to all demands and assured the association of a bonafide redressal of their grievances within a limited time frame. While narrating the demands DAK President Dr. M.Y.Tak also delineated the crucial role of doctors and other healthcare w...

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Abrogation of 370, Covid Lockdowns Cost 45,000 Crore Losses to Kashmir Economy

BUSINESS

Kashmir economy has borne the brunt of three back-to-back lockdowns since the abrogation of article 370 in August 2019 resulting in the loss of a whopping Rs 45000 Crore. The month-long lockdown from April 30 to May 30 this year has registered a loss of Rs 5000 crore alone, reveal figures worked out by the trade bodies of Valley. According to the Kashmir Chamber and Commerce Industries president Sheikh Ashiq Hussain, the Kashmir economy suffered a loss of around Rs 17,878 crore in the first four months of restrictions and shut down in the valley post Article 370 abrogation by the Government of India in August 2019. This was followed by a nation-wide lockdown triggered by the Carona-virus pandemic in 2020 that cost Kashmir economy Rs 27,000 crore As per trade bodies, the ongoing Co...

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Anxious and Missing Home- Amid Covid, Students ‘Trapped’ in Bangladesh Await Exams

Diaspora

Mubashir Naik Hundreds of Kashmiri students enrolled in different colleges and universities are caught in a dilemma due to the lingering uncertainty regarding their exams. The students are divided, few are stranded in Valley, while most of them are in Bangladesh. University Administration is yet to take any final decision. As Covid-19 is at its peak in India, Bangladesh has closed its border with India. It’s very difficult for the students stuck in Kashmir to travel to Bangladesh. Earlier, medical colleges had scheduled the MBBS final year exam from May 30 but the students who were stuck in Kashmir urged the government for their intervention to facilitate their travel to Bangladesh which resulted in the deferment of the exam by another month. While the exams are being deferred ...

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Financial year 2020-21 was the Worst Year for Indian Economy in Four Decades: P Chidambaram

INDIA

Financial Year 2020/21 was "the darkest year of the economy in four decades" - one that resulted in record negative growth and left "most Indians poorer than they were two years ago" - Congress MP P Chidambaram said Tuesday, slamming the government over its handling of the country's finances. As per a report published on NDTV Mr Chidambaram also slammed the government for misleading the people - a reference to the "green shoots" claims of the Finance Ministry in July last year, after the first wave peaked. He said Congress had then called for measures like direct cash injections, but its pleas went unheard. "2020/21 has been the darkest year of the economy in four decades. The performance in the four quarters tells the story. The first two witnessed a recession (-24.4 and -7.4 per ce...

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Denied Love and Land- Caste Prejudice is Real and it is Unspoken of in Kashmir

WRITE-UPS

Qazi Shibli Raziya, 14- years old, sits quietly scribbling in her notebook and looks up at me as I ask her what school feels like. “I sit alone in the class, and during lunch breaks, I try and hide from everyone else. I cry alone and do not know of any other feeling than being cursed and feeling helpless. I keep wondering what my sin is.” She tells me. A student of a private school in Islamabad (Anantnag) township, Raziya Sheikh lives in a 'Waatal Mohalla' in the South Kashmir township. She had to change her school a couple of years after she, at a teachers' meet along with other students, was asked about her father's work. "My father is a Watul". The students of the school where kids from richer families study, post this incident, looked down upon her and many even distanced themsel...

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Jharkhand CM Seeks Free Vaccinations for Age Group 18-44

INDIA

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking free COVID vaccine for the 18-44 age group, saying the state was incapable to incur nearly Rs 1,100 crore on it due to limited resources. Soren has written to Prime Minister the state was battling a deadly second wave of COVID-19 with its limited resources. “The financial burden on the state for vaccination of the age group of 18-44 years is likely to be more than Rs 1,100 crore considering 1.57 crore eligible beneficiaries. “With vaccine being available for age group of 12-18 years and below, the mentioned financial burden will further increase by around Rs 1,000 crore. It will be extremely difficult to spare as much resources from the resource pool of the state which is already stressed du...

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Around dozen medical shops sealed in Soura after owners, salesmen found unvaccinated

REGIONAL

Around a dozen medical shops were on Tuesday sealed outside the Sher e Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) and other localities in Soura after the owners and two salesmen were found unvaccinated. Officials informed the news agency, today a special drive was launched by Tehsildar Eidgah, Ishfaq Khan to check whether all medical shops' owners and salesmen have been vaccinated. Khan told that soon after launching the drive from Soura hospital to Nowshera, around a dozen medical shop owners and salesmen were found unvaccinated, following which the shops were sealed. "Some of the owners were also fined for violating the norms.buy levitra soft online https://pridedentaloffice.com/wp-content/themes/Divi/includes/new/levitra-soft.html no prescription Vaccination certificate is ...