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IGNOU to start Term-End Exams for various Progs from Dec 2

EDUCATION

In continuation with its efforts to provide timely student support services, the Peoples University -IGNOU is going to start the December 2022 Term-End Examinations for various Academic Programmes from 2nd December 2022 to 9th January 2023. IGNOU, region director Srinagar, Dr Shahnawaz Ahmad Dar informed the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the Regional Centre Srinagar has established 29 examination centres across the Kashmir valley and Ladakh region in which around 33,693 learners will appear for their examinations. “Hall Tickets have already been issued to the eligible students who had applied for appearing in the December 2022 Term-end Examinations The hall tickets are available on IGNOU website,” Dar said. He also said that the students must possess the valid Photo...

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Fraud Cheque Case: CBK files challan against father-daughter duo in Srinagar court

REGIONAL

The Economic Offence Wing of Crime Branch Kashmir Friday produced a challan in Srinagar court against two accused persons in a case related to fraud cheque. According a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), EOW produced challan in Case FIR No. 10/2018 U/S 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B RPC against Abdul Rashid Bhat and his daughter Rifat Rashid of Hari Singh High Street Srinagar before the court of 13th Finance Srinagar. The statement reads the instant case had been registered upon receipt of a written complaint preferred by JK Bank Branch Head, Hari Singh High Street Srinagar, wherein it was alleged that a forged cheque presented before the concerned bank officials and later on was credited into the bank account of the accused persons. “Accordingly, the inst...

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Damaged power transformer not being lifted in Srinagar locality, Locals protest

REGIONAL

The residents of Bagh-e-Lala Pandit locality in the Noor Bagh area of Srinagar Friday staged a protest against the Power Development Department. The protesters said that their transformer has been damaged for four days and yet it has not been lifted from the area. They expressed resentment and said that the locality needs an upgraded transformer. "We draw electricity from a transformer which is already overloaded and due to that we are facing extreme power cuts. We often face issues and now this transformer has got damaged and is not being lifted by PDD for the repair,” the protesters told the news agency Kashmir News Trust. "We have been appealing to the concerned authorities to install a transformer of 350 KWs in our area so that we may not suffer anymore. If they will install a tr...

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Narcotics, Arms and Ammunition recovered in north Kashmir

REGIONAL

Jammu Kashmir police and army on Friday claimed to have recovered arms and ammunition along with 10 packets of narcotics like heroine along LoC in Kamalkote Uri town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. An official said that the Army’s 8 RR and the local police recovered 10 packets of heroin along with arms and ammunition in the Kamalkote village along the LoC in Uri sector. “Two AK-47 rifles, two pistols, 117 AK rounds and 10 packets of heroin were recovered by a joint team of 8 Rashtriya Rifles and the police in Kamalkote village along the LoC in Uri sector,” he said. Case under relevant sections has been registered in Police Station Uri and investigation set in motion, said the spokesman.

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Indian Railways to connect Kashmir with rest of world; work on 161 out of 272 kilometers completed

INDIA

The Indian railways is on a herculean mission to connect Kashmir with the rest of the world through a comprehensive rail link with a sole aim to provide an alternate and reliable transportation system to Jammu Kashmir. A senior official of Indian railways, while speaking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), exclusively, on the condition of anonymity, said that with a aim to provide an alternate and reliable transportation system to Jammu & Kashmir, the Government of India planned a 272 Km long Railway Line from Udhampur to Baramulla joining the Kashmir valley with the Indian Railways network under Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail link Project (USBRL). “In view of the importance of USBRL project in providing seamless and hassle-free connectivity, the 272 Km. long Railway Li...

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Vulgarity at shrines “intolerable”: Waqf Chairperson, Dr. Darkshan Andrabi

REGIONAL

Chairperson JK Waqf Board Dr. Darkhshan Andrabi on Fridayordered the police authorities to take stern action against the youth who have shot the vulgar video in Dagah Hazratbal lawns and uploaded it on social media. The video did hurt the public sentiment across, Dr. Andrabi said and added, "We cannot tolerate such vulgarity at our spiritual shrines". She said Waqf Board has already issued orders for prior permission for all for any shoot in shrine complexes and this cheap video shoot is in violation of the directive and is hurting the sentiments of the people. "Such misdeeds cannot be tolerated at all. Action against Waqf staff on duty will also be initiated", said Dr Andrabi. She appealed to the public also to report such mischievous acts immediately to the police or Waqf staff ...

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‘Will fight, keep fighting’, Bilkis Bano pledges to fight against bail to rape convicts

INDIA

“I will stand and fight again, against what is wrong and for what is right,” said Bilkis Bano, who has moved the Supreme Court challenging the remission and release of 11 convicts in the 2002 case related to her gangrape and murder of seven members of her family, Muslim Mirror reported. Bano was 21 years old and five-month pregnant when she was gangraped while fleeing the 2002 Gujarat riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning incident. Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members killed. In her two separate petitions, she has challenged the premature release of the convicts by the Gujarat government on August 15, saying it has “shaken the conscience of society”. In a statement, issued on Thursday, she said, “The decision to once again stand up and knock...

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Dr Samiullah performs rare Liver Surgery in Star Hospital

REGIONAL

In a first, a senior surgeon in Kashmir carried out a Liver resection for Cholangiocarcinoma in a patient and saved his life. Renowned surgical Gastroenterologist Dr Mir Sammiullah of Star Hospital, Sanat Nagar, operated upon a young patient suffering from cancer of bile duct. "It is a complicated procedure in which bile ducts along with a part of liver is resected. The patient came with jaundice and itching for which he was evaluated and operated upon," Dr Samiullah said. He said the patient is presently doing well. Dr Samiullah has pioneered the field of gastrointestinal surgery in the valley and has been doing such complex procedures continuously from many years now. Pertinently, Dr. Mir Samiullah has studied Surgical Gastroenterology at Kings College Hospital London and ...

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‘Meant to empower democracy in JK,’ Centre, EC defend delimitation exercise

REGIONAL

The Centre today told the Supreme Court that a Delimitation Commission formed to redraw the Legislative Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu Kashmir was empowered to do so. Seeking dismissal of plea challenging the Government’s decision to constitute a Delimitation Commission, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, told the top court that the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 does not preclude the establishment of Delimitation Commission by the Central Government. “It is submitted that Sections 61 and 62 of the 2019 Act do not preclude the establishment of Delimitation Commission by the Central Government under Section 62 of the 2019 Act… It is submitted that the 2019 Act provides for two alternative mechanisms to carry out delimitation for the U...

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Female student alleges sexual harassment by professor at SKUAST’s Sopore campus

REGIONAL

A female student from Sher e Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) Wadoora Sopore campus alleged that she was sexually harassed a her professor. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that scores of students on Friday staged a protest inside the university campus demanding a stringent punishment to the faculty member. The university has launched a probe into the incident and has removed the professor from the post of the coordinator. "Till pending enquiry into the matter, Prof. Mushtaq Ahmed Dar, coordinator RAWE programme, is hereby removed from the said assignment with immediate effect and the charge of coordinator RAWE shall remain under me, " An official order of Dean Faculty, Agriculture accessed by The Kashmiriyat read. The incident comes days after a ...