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September 06 Four suspected drug peddlers were arrested in Kathua and Rajouri districts of Jammu Kashmir on Thursday, police said. Acting on a tip-off, three persons were intercepted in Raj Bagh area of Kathua district and 14 grams of heroin was recovered, a Police official said. Another man, Dushyant Singh, was arrested at Tarpai bridge on the Rajouri-Thanamandi road after 15 grams of heroin was allegedly recovered from him during a search, they said. Cases have been registered in both the incidents.

September 05 Hundreds of Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers protested Wednesday to press for various demands, including implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission, inviting water canon and baton charge by police, who also took 30 of them into preventive custody. The teachers had assembled at the Sher-e-Kashmir park here to observe "black day" on the occasion of Teachers' Day. As soon as the teachers stepped out of the park and started marching towards the SKICC, where a function marking Teachers' Day was in progress, police stopped the protesters and asked them to disperse, an official said. As the teachers refused, police used water canons and batons to break the march, he said. The official said at least 30 protesters were taken into preventive custody to restore order in th...

September 05 After five days sit-in protest by Jammu Kashmir Rehbar e Taleem Teachers Forum (JKRETTF) and the indefinite hunger strike by the Teachers Joint Action Committee, teachers community celebrates Teachers Day as Black Day to protest against callous attitude of the Government towards their genuine demands of implementation of 7th Pay Commission and delinking of SSA/RMSA teachers. Dressed in black clad, thousands of teachers under the banner of Rehbar-e-Taleem Teachers Forum   stage sit in protest at Sher-e-Kashmir Park demanding justice and hunger strike at Pratap Park continues by Teachers Joint Action Committee to press the demands. “While teachers across country celebrate Teachers Day, in Jammu and Kashmir teachers are forced to come on roads sit on dust for their legitimate ...

August 31 Invoking history, Riyaz Naikoo says that 6 Lakh Kashmiris have sacrificed their life for the freedom of Kashmir adding that people should fight for the blood of these men. "We want to tell these people that India is not our friend and we should take lessons from Sheikh Abdullah," he is heard saying in this new audio. He is also heard saying that India is trying to divide Kashmiris and the local Police has become a victim of this Policy of divide. "Our war is not against Jammu Kashmir Police, but they are being unfortunately being used against their people," he is heard saying. He claims that Militants have been lenient towards Jammu Kashmir Policemen, but they are forcing us to act against them. 'We do not want to harm you, but we just wanted you to feel the pain of i...

August 29 151 illegal and un-authorized clinics across the Kashmir valley have been locked down On the directions of Divisional Commissioner and Directorate of Health Services Kashmir. Reports reveal that 66 illegal clinics were sealed In Baramulla district, 37 in Budgam, Shopian 09, Kupwara 03, Islamabad (Anantnag) 09, Kulgam 13, Pulwama 05, Srinagar 03 and in Ganderbal district 06 illegal and un-authorized clinics were completely sealed. This was revealed in a meeting to review the progress of the sealing drive, which was chaired by Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan. He directed the employees to take necessary action against such establishments which were operating in violation of rules, norms, laws and without licences or were run by persons not competent to ...

August 29 The University of Kashmir has postponed all the entrance exams scheduled to be held on the 30 and 31 of August in view of the strike call in defense of Article 35a. The University has notified all the candidates that Kashmir University PG Entrance Test in Islamic Studies, Biochemistry, Commerce and Chemistry has been rescheduled and will be held on 5 th of September, 2018 and in Library & Information Sciences and Mathematics will be held on 6 th of September, 2018. The time and venue for all the subjects will remain same, the notification read. Besides, the candidates who are going to appear in the Entrance Test for M.P.Ed. Scheduled to be held on 02-09-2018 at 03:00 PM are hereby directed to download their Admit Cards afresh.

August 28 Iram Habib (30), a resident of Srinagar's downtown area has become the first and youngest woman from Srinagar to fly an aircraft. Iram pursued her bachelors in forestry from Dehradun and post-graduation in forestry from the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir. Though she studied forestry, she did not let her dream die. While Iram’s family wanted her to pursue PhD in forestry and get a government job, she kept looking for options to train as a pilot. Iram completed her training from Miami in the US in 2016 and returned to India to get a commercial pilot licence. The 30-year-old has two job offers in India at the moment.

August 14 The Jammu Kashmir Government today constituted a high-level committee to examine the issues in the School Education Department. A high-level committee has been Constituted to examine the issues in the School Education Department, particularly for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan teachers who have been not given wages for months together. The Committee will be headed by Administrative Secretary Finance Department. The members of the committee include Administrative Secretary Planning, Development & Monitoring Department; Administrative Secretary, Higher Education Department; Administrative Secretary GAD and Administrative Secretary School Education Department.