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Students on Wednesday urged Kashmir University and other varsities in Jammu Kashmir to defer their examination scheduled on January 16 in view of the examination by the railway recruitment board “Railway recruitment board is conducting the exam on January 16 and one of our papers for UG course is also scheduled on the same date and hence there is a clash,” a group of students told GNS. “There is a clash in the date and as such we request the authorities of Kashmir University and other varsities in Jammu and Kashmir to defer the examination scheduled on January 16,” they said. “Railway recruitment board is conducting the exam on January 16 and one of our papers for UG course is also scheduled on the same date and hence there is a clash,” a group of students said. “There is a cla...

Irshad Hussain Scores of the students of Kashmir University who applied for M Phil in the clinical psychology entrance examination were canceled without the issuance of notification on Thursday. Speaking to The Kashmriyat the students alleged that their papers were taken back in examination halls without not issuing any official notification before the exam. They said that they received the papers with OMR sheets and they wrote their roll numbers. "Just some minutes after they gave us the papers, our papers were taken back by the responsible authority inside the examination halls". A student Adil nazir, who applied for M Phil in clinical psychology exam in the university told The Kashmiriyat that the examination was arranged in two halls viz A and B. " As we the received questi...

Government Unani Medical College of Kashmir has got permission to start the admission process for the first batch of Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery (BUMS) course in the year 2020-21. There will be 60 seats in this course. An official spokesman gave this information, NDTV Reported. The spokesman said that the Union Ministry of AYUSH has issued a "permission letter" to start the course. Earlier, following the recommendations of the Central Medicine Council of India (CCIM), a letter of intent was issued to open a new Unani Medical College in the name of Government Unani Medical College and Hospital with 60 seats in Kashmir. According to that the CCIM inspected the institute on December 1 and sent its recommendations and report to the ministry. CCIM observed that the colleg...

Sheikh Nadeem A young talented youth who hails from the Vessu area of south Kashmir's Anantnag district has topped the Panchayat Accounts Assistant Examination by scoring 107.25 points out of 120. Abdul Shakoor Itoo, who lost his father when he was 11 Years old was among that one lac and 64 thousand aspirants from Jammu Kashmir who appeared in the examinations for the Panchayat Accounts Assistant. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat Shakoor who belongs to poor family background said that he worked very hard but was not expecting to top the exams, "The results are overwhelming for me, I am joyous," he said. He said the youth of Kashmir should focus on technical education and self study rather than solely banking upon colleges and universities. "We can do innovative work, if we develop o...

Mir Musavir The hostellers of Kashmir university have demanded a refund of the hostel fee as the university has been shut for more than a year and the students have not used the hostel. A group of Students told The Kashmiriyat that scores of students from various parts of the Kashmir valley who live in the hostels of the university have not been using the University service since August 05 as the university has been shut since. "Each student has to pay an annual hostel fees of 40,000 INR and since we have not been using the hostels, we demand that our hostel fees for 2019-20 be refunded," a student Mohammed Waseem from Pulwama told The Kashmiriyat.buy zocor generic mexicanpharmacyonlinerx.net/zocor.html over the counter "A few students did stay in the hostel for barely a week or ...

Mohsina Malik Days after the announcement of holding the odd-semester examination in the online proctored mode, Jamia Millia Islamia on Thursday released guidelines for the examinations which stated that students need to arrange computers or laptops, good high-speed internet connectivity, uninterrupted power supply during the examination. The students came to know about the notification through a newspaper article, not from the university itself. The notification has stressed students and the students who said, “the proctored mode of conducting examination” would be “unjust” to underprivileged students of the University. The students from different parts of India belonging to remote areas and politically disturbed areas having limited digital access and non-availability of facilit...

The School Education Department on Monday said that it has registered at least 40,000 fresh admissions for the academic year 2020-21 in government schools of Kashmir. Director of the department from Kashmir region, Mohammad Younis Malik said, “in order to review the ongoing educational survey cum enrolment drive, a series of meetings and interaction sessions with Zonal Education Officers (ZEO’s) and Heads of Schools (HOS’s) of Kashmir division were held.” DSEK has said that an increase of more than 40,000 students in government schools during a short period of two weeks is a big achievement but it needs to be taken to a logical conclusion so that fruitful results are achieved out of the campaign. Malik expressed satisfaction over the increasing number of children being enrolled in...

The Jammu Kashmir administration has issued some new guidelines related to the epidemic. As per the guidelines, all educational institutions will remain closed till 31 December. With this, no new permission or pass will be required for those activities which were already allowed in the region. An order issued by BVR Subrahmanyam, chief secretary and chairman of the state executive committee, said, "All schools, colleges, higher educational institutions (including Anganwadi), except the training institutes run by the central and state government, will remain closed till December 31." The order was issued after reviewing the coronavirus situation in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. The order further states that according to the SOP issued by the Union Ministry of Education, coaching center...

The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) on Thursday announced date sheet for annual regular examination for class 11th. As per the date sheet, the JKBOSE has scheduled the exam from December-12. “The exams will commence from December-12 and will culminate on January-06 2021,” the notification reads. Earlier the students had been demanding a mass promotion, however the JKBOSE had clearly said they will conduct examinations.