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Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery (BUMS) students of Kashmir Tibbia College Hospital and Research Centre Wednesday staged a protest against College Administration for demanding a hefty fee for last year internship course. Students emerged at Press Enclave Srinagar and alleged that they are being forced to Pay Rs 1.10 lakh as a fee for last year’s internship course. “It is a 5 and a half year course. The first 4 and a half year course is academic in nature while last year is for internship. During the last year of internship, the government offers a stipend to students, but here the case is different. Instead of offering a stipend to the students, the College has been demanding fees from us, that too when people are suffering heavily in wake of the Covid-10 situation,” the protes...

The administration on Tuesday modified the deployment rules for teaching staff in Education Department for essential duties. An order issued by Principal Secretary to Government BK Singh says that it has been observed that the teaching staff of the School Education Department has been deployed for essential duties including containment and management of Covid- 19 outbreak, election-related work. It has been ordered that the attachments of the teaching staff of the School Education Department who have been deployed or attached for administrative works in different departments are canceled. The order as per Kashmir News Trust further says that the Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction vide Government Order No.91 – JK (DMRRR) of 2021 dated 28.12...

Amid a massive spike in Covid cases in the valley, Kashmir University has deferred all the exams scheduled from January 18. Several students had demanded the postponing of exams amid the resurge in Covid 19 cases in Kashmir. As per a notice from the office of the controller of examinations, KU, all the exams ongoing and scheduled exams of the university w.e.f 18 January have been postponed. "The revised dates for the deferred examinations shall be notified separately in due course of time," the notice read.

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Students, who are scheduled to take their examination at designated examinations centres next week, on Friday urged cluster university authorities here to review decision regarding offline mode of examination. The government has already barred “in-person” teaching in colleges, schools, polytechnics, ITIs, Coaching Centres for Civil Services, Engineering or NEET etc. “While teaching cannot happen, how on earth examinations are conducted when there is alarming surge in Covid-19 cases and spread of its highly infectious Omicron variant,” said a student who is scheduled to appear in 5th semester examinations beginning January 18. On Sunday last, the State Executive Committee headed by Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta asked all educational instructions to adopt online medium of teachi...

Students of the second and third year of Sher e Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology called the decision of the university to conduct their exams "ahead of the scheduled time" as discriminatory. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, a group of students said that the university plans to conduct their examination much ahead of the scheduled time as per the annual calendar year 2022. "They are taking the exams only to reduce the burden off their shoulders without looking into the interests of the students. The university authorities are completely ignoring the fact of increasing Covid cases in the valley," the students said. Another student said that several students in the university are non-residents. The non-resident students have to come from outside Kashmir and ther...

Irshad Hussain Scores of applicants from Karnah and Machil sector didn't appear for the JKSSB exam scheduled for today at Rangreth, Srinagar as roads remain completely closed due to snow. Students from the Karnah sector told The Kashmiriyat that since the last three days, the molds of snow have not yet been cleared from the main roads and as a result, they missed their examination scheduled to be held today in Srinagar. They said that they had worked hard for this examination, but their dreams were now shattered due to the administration's failure in clearing the accumulated snow on roads. An aspirant, Javeed Khan, said he had applied for the post of Assistant Clerk but he was unable to reach the examination center in Srinagar's Rangreth area. Javeed told The Kashmiriyat tha...