January 2022 - Page 6 of 68

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Massive CASO launched in Kulgam area

KULGAM

Joint Forces launched a massive cordon and search operation (CASO) in Odura Nillow area of Kulgam district in south Kashmir. An official said that the operation was launched jointly by forces including RR of Indian Army, Jammu Kashmir Police, and CRPF Battalion following inputs about the movement of militants in the area. More details awaited

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DC orders deducting day’s salary of 32 employees found absent during surprise inspection in Anantnag

REGIONAL

Deputy Commissioner Anantnag Dr. Piyush Singla (IAS) ordered a deduction of one-day salary of 32 employees found absent in the south Kashmir district on Saturday. The order followed surprise inspection by the deputy commissioner, accompanied by ADC Anantnag Ghulam Hassan Sheikh, to various offices to check the attendance of the employees. Besides deducting one-day salary of 32 employees, the Deputy Commissioner Dr. Piyush Singla confirmed to GNS that disciplinary action has been initiated against the ‘absentees.’ (GNS)

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Soz writes to Amit Shah: Seeks release of 3 Kashmiri students languishing in Agra Jail

REGIONAL

Congress leader Prof. Saifuddin Soz Saturday pleaded for the release of 3 Kashmiri students who have on languishing in Agra Jail of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly celebrating the Indian Cricket team’s defeat against Pakistan in October last year. Soz has written a letter to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah seeking the release of Arshad Yousuf, Inayat Altaf Sheikh, and Showkat Ahmad Ganai, arrested and lodged in Agra jail in October last year. Soz said that in his letter to Home Minister Amit Shah he strongly pleaded for the release of three Kashmiri students. “It was alleged that they had cheered for the Pakistan cricket team, who had won the cricket match against India.” “I invited the attention of the Home Minister to the fact that till now, the police had not been able to prove t...

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Islamia College of Science and Commerce: Inquiry Officer to probe ‘embezzlement’ allegations

EDUCATION

Higher Education Department has constituted an Inquiry Officer to conduct a time-bound probe into the allegations leveled against Islamia College of Science and Commerce that it has embezzled UGC grant. Sources said that University Grants Commission had provided a financial grant, earmarked for various developmental works for Islamia College of Science and Commerce Srinagar. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that some members from the College informed Higher Education Department that the UGC grant for the college has been misappropriated. Taking cognizance of the allegations, Principal Secretary to the Government Higher Education Department, Rohit Kansal has appointed Director Planning Higher Education Department Mr. Ghulam Muhammad Ganie as Inquiry Officer to look into ...

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Thieves rob gold saved by father for Daughter’s Wedding; Angry residents stage protest in Redwani, Kulgam

REGIONAL

Danishwar Hameed/ Murad Bichoo The residents of the Redwani area in Kulgam are suffering for the last year due to unending incidents of robbery. "From the last one year, there have been several robberies in our neighborhood, which we had taken for granted. Now for the last one week (4-5 days probably), Another robbery took place in our neighborhood, in which gold and cash worth lakhs were stolen from the house of Manzoor Ahmad Bhat Son of Haji Ghulam Hassan Bhat, a local resident," a village elder told The Kashmiriyat. He said that Manzoor is a poor factory worker and the gold belonged to his daughter. "He had saved the gold for the wedding of his daughter," the local said. The same incident took place in the house of Mohd. Ashraf Bhat, where Gold and Cash worth 4-5 Lakhs were ...

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Muslim man assaulted in MP for urinating ‘in front of cow’

INDIA

An elderly man was assaulted in the Ratlam area of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly urinating in the same street as the cow on Friday. In a video that has gone viral over social media, a group of men can be seen rounding up the Muslim man and beating him for allegedly peeing in front of a cow. The attackers forcibly took off his skull cap and threw it on it the ground. The attackers later asked the Muslim man identified as Saifuddin asked him to trample his feet over the skull cap. "How dare you urine in front of Mother cow? How would you feel if someone urinated in front of the Quran,?" the attackers kept asking him constantly The helpless Muslim man can be seen asking for forgiveness constantly, however, the attackers did not let him go. Meanwhile, the attackers also asked ano...

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‘No Market, Milk coming from outside Kashmir’- Left with no customers, Dairy farmers in Ganderbal empty milk cans

REGIONAL

Basit Shah/ Shabir Ali Throwing away their milk in drains, various milk producers from Central Kashmir's Ganderbal district expressed strong resentment over the outside milk tankers being supplied in different parts of Kashmir valley. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, scores of local milk producers from Ganderbal's Lar said that this unchecked supply of milk from outside Kashmir has left hundreds of them workless, since the last month. Staging a protest, they alleged that the dealers are not buying milk from them, as huge containers of milk are coming to the valley every day which has occupied the markets fully. “The local consumers/ buyers we had over the years have stopped the consumption of original milk, they prefer packeted milk,” a protester said. One of the protesters said th...

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Masked men loot gold, cash from house in Chichlora Baramulla

REGIONAL

Unknown masked men barged into a house in Chichlora area of Baramulla last night and according to the residents they took away gold and cash. Official sources told GNS that four masked men entered inside the house of Bilal Ahmad Kutoo and Faizal Ahmad Mir son-in-law of Mohammad Ramzan Gojri at Chichlora. The family is learnt to have informed the police that masked men were carrying three pistols and took their phones before collecting 2 gold rings and two kada tops besides Rs 52000 cash from the family members. They kept the phones near the house before running away. A police officer told GNS that a case (FIR No. 11/2022) under section 7/25 IA Act and 382 IPC (committing of theft with an intension to hurt in case of resistance) has been registered in Police Station Kunzer. He s...

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KU to hold all pending and recently postponed exams in offline mode

EDUCATION

Kashmir University has announced that it will hold all the pending and recently postponed examinations through offline mode. The announcement comes days after students of KU affiliated Nursing College students were demanding their examination be conducted through online mode in view of the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in Jammu Kashmir. In a notification, the Controller Examination KU, Prof Irshad Nawchoo said all the pending or recently postponed examinations will be held in offline mode. “No examination shall be held in online mode. The University is already in the process of redrafting date sheets for various pending examinations, which will commence soon after the pandemic situation eases,” the notification read.

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Headmistress suspended in Karnataka for letting students perform Namaz in school

INDIA

The Education Department in Karnataka has suspended a teacher on charges of letting students perform namaz inside the school premises in Kolar district, sources said on Friday. S.M. Umadevi, in-charge head mistress of the Balechengappa Kannada Model Higher Primary School in Someshwarapalya, has been suspended by the Department of Public Instruction. “It is the duty of the teachers of government schools to inculcate a sense of national integration. Religious tolerance, practices and traditions must be there. However, by allowing students to perform namaz in one of the classrooms instils a divisive mindset,” the suspension order stated. The order added that the act of the teacher highlights dereliction of duty, and negligence on her part. This would have a negative impact on lear...