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Female employee alleges Sexual harassment by Principal GDC Gurez

REGIONAL

Taking cognizance of a complaint from a female employee about sexual harassment, police have registered a case against a Principal of a Degree College in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. The Principal in question is from Degree College Gurez / Tulail. The female complainant has claimed that she earlier had approached the ‘Committee for Sexual Harassment at Work Place’ that failed to take any action against the Principal. Police after receiving the complaint have registered a case vide FIR number 13/2022 under section 354-A, 506 IPC in this regard. The complainant has in her written complaint alleged that she was repeatedly being harassed by the College Principal, sometimes touching her inappropriately, and passing off lewd remarks. Police after filing the case have starte...

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Girl allegedly raped on marriage pretext in Jammu

REGIONAL

A girl was raped by a person on a marriage pretext in a hotel in Jewel Jammu district on Wednesday. Reliable sources told Kashmir News Apex-(KNA) that a girl lodged a complaint with Police Station Nowabad stating that a person identified as Raman, a resident of Tehsil Bishnah made physical relations with her in a hotel in Jewel on the pretext of marriage but later refused. Acting over the complaint, a case under section 376 IPC has been registered at Police Station and investigation started. (KNA)

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SC issues notice to Assam against conversion of Madrasas into Government schools

INDIA

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice on an appeal challenging a Gauhati High Court verdict, which upheld the validity of Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialization) Act, 1995 (repealed by the Act of 2020) and all consequential government orders, including the notification dated February 12, 2021. A bench comprising Justices Ajay Rastogi and C.T. Ravikumar sought a response from the Assam government and others. The plea, filed through advocate Adeel Ahmed, contended that high court has erroneously observed that the petitioner madrassas being government schools, and wholly maintained by the state through provincialization are hit by Article 28(1) of the Constitution of India and as such, cannot be permitted to impart religious instruction. The appeal challenges the decision that ha...

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Students drop out of govt schools in Gurez in the face of shortage of staff

EDUCATION

The school education department has been unable to fill posts of five principals, six headmasters and 30 lecturers in Gurez, hitting the smooth functioning of several schools. Official data gathered by the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) revealed that six high schools of the region are without headmasters while similarly five posts of school principals are vacant for years now. The data also suggested that of 82 lectures, 52 are working in the valley while 30 are vacant for the last several years. "The headless schools include Chrowan, Achoora, Kanzalwan, Journal, Bulingder and Malingam area of the Gurez valley," it said. According to local residents, absence of staff at schools is forcing a number of students from economically weaker sections of society to either drop out...

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Alert in Saudi after U.S. shares report on likely Iran attack

INTERNATIONAL

Alert has been sounded across Saudi Arabia as the US have shared information indicating Iran may attack the kingdom or other nations in the region sometime soon, Bloomberg reported. The two countries as well as regional allies have raised their military alert level. Tensions remain high, with Iran arrayed against Saudi Arabia and other nations in the region after a series of attacks in recent years that included Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps firing more than 70 missiles in September into Iraq’s Kurdish region, where the US still has troops stationed. In addition, a United Nations-brokered truce between Yemen’s government backed by the Saudis and the Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebel militia has expired. The intelligence-sharing over a potential Iranian attack was reported...

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‘Do not charge annual fees from students’, JK admin tells private schools

EDUCATION

The Government Fee Fixation Committee (GFFC) Wednesday restrained private schools of Jammu Kashmir from collecting the annual fee from the students. Besides restraining the private school management from charging the fee, the Committee for Fixation and Regulation of fees of private schools said that any deviation in this regard will lead to action. All the school management of private schools are restrained from charging and collecting annual fees for the period Nov 2022 to March 2023, they said. Any breach of this order will result in initiating action according to law, they added. (KNA)

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Mumbai Police register FIR against 4 Muslims including Kashmiri cleric for ‘supporting Pakistani cleric’

INDIA

The Mumbai Police have registered an FIR against four Muslim clerics for allegedly hurting the sentiments of the Shia community, an official said on Wednesday. Based on a complaint by a Mumbai-based man, the J J Marg police on Tuesday registered the case against the four accused hailing from Lucknow, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kashmir, he said. “We have registered the FIR after receiving multiple applications. We have asked the complainant to submit the audio/video evidence. No arrest has been made so far. We are conducting a probe into the case,” the official from the J J Marg police station said. The complainant claimed that one of the accused had in September supported a Pakistan-based cleric as well as hurt the Shia community sentiments, the official said. The complainant also ...

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2 injured as fire breaks out in residential house Sumbal

REGIONAL

Two persons were injured after fire broke out in a residential house in Chewa area of Sumbal in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that fire broke out in a residential house in Chewa village today. He said that in the incident two persons were injured, while fire tenders reached to the spot to douse of the flames. He added that the injured were shifted to CHC Sumbal for treatment—(KNO)

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Loosely hanging wires irk Kulgam residents, appeal DC Kulgam for intervention

REGIONAL

Danishwar Hameed The Residents of Baswatoo area in Kulgam district's Damhal Hanjipora expressed anguish over the loosely hanging electric wires in the area stating that it posed a great threat to the local residents. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat the locals said that despite several appeals the Power Development Department (PDD) has failed to address the issue for a long time. "The electric transformer is at the ground level and the wires are loosely hanging against the trees instead of electric poles, which poses a great threat to the locals of the area," a local resident said. He said that they have appealed to the concerned department for relocation of the transformer and erection of electric poles in the area. Meanwhile, the residents appealed Deputy Commissioner Kulgam to...

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Conductor dead, driver among 2 injured after JCB skids off road in Ganderbal

REGIONAL

A conductor of JCB died while driver and another person were injured after it skidded off the road at Kokran Bridge on ZojiLa in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Wednesday. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a JCB skidded off the road when it was coming from Kargil toward Sonamarg today afternoon. He said that in the incident driver identified as Arun singh of Punjab and its the conductor identified as Muneer Ahmad of Baramulla and the other person identified as Sajid Ahmad of Baramulla. He said that all there were shifted to PHC Sonamarg, where conductor was declared dead on arrival—(KNO)