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DAK urges JK administration to start heating system in hospitals

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Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Thursday urged Jammu and Kashmir (JK) administration to start heating systems in Kashmir hospitals as the patients are suffering due to the chill. With temperatures dipping, DAK President Dr. Nisar ul Hassan said patients are shivering with cold as heating system of hospitals have not been started yet.buy filitra online https://www.mydentalplace.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwenty/inc/new/filitra.html no prescription “The bone-chilling cold in hospitals is making life difficult for ailing patients,” he said. The DAK President said tertiary care and peripheral hospitals are without heating putting lives of patients at risk. “Cardiac and Stroke patients in hospitals are at increased risk of death as cold thickens blood and constricts the arter...

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Srinagar Residents Protest Against Establishment of CRPF Camp in Marriage Hall

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The Locals from Srinagar city on Thursday staged a protest against the location of CRPF camp in the Shutrashahi area of Srinagar city. The CRPF have been stationed at Marriage Hall. ALSO READ: 'Everyone Lives in Fear'- Army Presence Heightens in South Kashmir Appealing the LG led administration to relocate the camp, the locals said that a couple of marriage functions had to be cancelled as the CRPF has been stationed in the Marriage Hall, which served several localities of the busy and congested Srinagar locality. Shabir Ahmed, a local resident said that the CRPF camp would create problems for the local residents as the camp has been established inside a residential area. “The locality is already surrounded by camps of Government forces. The Marriage Hall was been built by the gove...

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Reserved 134 hectares for relocation of evicted families if citizenship proved: Assam govt. to HC

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The Assam government said it has earmarked about 134 hectare for relocating the evicted families of Gorukhuti in Darrang district provided they are valid citizens besides a set of other requirements. The evicted families of Dhalpur villages in Gorukuti will not, however, be paid any compensation as they are "encroachers", the government said in an affidavit to Gauhati High Court in response to a PIL filed by the Leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia. "An area of about 1,000 bighas (about 134 hectares) of land in the southern part of No 1 & No 3 Dhalpur village has been earmarked for relocating the evicted persons subject to verification of the status of erosion affected and landless status in their respective original places and districts, citizenship and existing rehabilitatio...

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Indo-Pak Armies Exchange Sweets in Teetwal, Uri Sectors on Diwali

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Indian and Pakistani armies Thursday held customary exchange of sweets in Teetwal and Uri sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) on the eve of Diwali. An army official told GNS that the two armies exchanged sweets at Kaman Aman Setu, Uri in Baramulla and Teetwal Crossing on Kishanganga River in Tangdhar in Kupwara. He said that all the necessary Covid-19 protocols were followed during the exchange of sweets by the two sides. “It was done as a gesture for promoting peace, harmony and compassion in the true spirit of the festival,” the official added. (GNS)

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Fact Finding Team on Tripura Violence Booked under Anti-Terror Law

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On Wednesday, the Tripura Police registered a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against the members of a fact-finding team after the rights groups visited the sites of anti-Muslim violence in the state and released a report on the “targeted attacks on Muslims in Tripura”, Maktoob Media reported. The team consisted of Supreme Court lawyer Ehtesham Hashmi, Advocate Amit Srivastav from Lawyers for Democracy, Advocate Ansar Indori of the National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (NCHRO), and Advocate Mukesh, on behalf of the Civil Rights Organization People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). A notice sent by the West Agartala police station, under Section 41 of the CrPC, informed Ansar Indori of the NCHRO of the case registered against him under the draconia...

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Poonch militants believed to have trekked down to Shopian: Report

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The Poonch gunfight between the militants and the security forces that began on October 11 and spanned for more than 20 days in the dense forests of Poonch, Jammu division, seems to have ceased. Although to the local sources it appears that 10 or more militants involved in the Poonch encounter have trekked down to villages in south Kashmir's Shopian district, Times of India reported. The report also claims that their sources have said some militants who escaped during the Poonch gunbattle have taken refuge in various villages in the Shopian district.buy azithromycin online blackmenheal.org/wp-content/languages/new/us/azithromycin.html no prescription The report adds, top Army officers said they were confident about tackling the Poonch militants using a new method. According to local...

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Mughal Road Through After 5 Hours; Advisory Issued

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Authorities have restored Mughal road – connecting Poonch and Shopian districts – after halting the vehicular traffic movement along the thoroughfare on Thursday morning following snowfall on intervening Wednesday and Thursday night in the region. DTI Mughal road told GNS that the snowfall caused slippery conditions, which forced them to close the road for vehicular traffic. Men and machinery were in the meantime pressed into service and the road made through after five hours, the official said. Meanwhile, the official citing rough weather conditions over the terrain has issued an advisory, asking anyone intending to take journey on the thoroughfare, to cross the Mansar Morh (Peer Ki Gali) along the thoroughfare between 10 a.m - 4 p.m unless otherwise revised. (GNS)

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Truck crushes scooty rider to death in Kulgam

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A 17-year-old scooty rider was killed after he was hit by a truck at Kousarbal area of Damhal Hanjipora in South Kashmir's Kulgam on Thursday afternoon, an official said. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a truck (JK05E- 5457) driven by one Yaseen Hakeem, son of Ghulam Ahmad of Zoonimar Srinagar hit a Scooty (JK18C-3955) driven by one Burhan Rashid (17), son of Abdul Rashid Thokar of D H Pora, Kulgam. "The scooty rider sustained critical wounds," an official said, adding that was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. "A case under relevant sections of law has been registered and further investigations initiated," official added—(KNO)

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Delhi Court Reserves Order on Sharjeel Imam’s Bail Order

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A Delhi court on Tuesday reserved its order on the bail application of JNU scholar and activist Sharjeel Imam, in connection with a 2019 case related to his alleged inflammatory speeches during the protests against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat reserved the order after hearing both sides in the case. The court is likely to pronounce the order on the bail plea on November 15. His counsel Tanveer Ahmed Mir argued that being critical of the government cannot be the cause of sedition. While opposing Mir, Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad argued that the fundamental right to protest cannot go beyond an extent that causes problems to the public at large. As per the case, Sharjeel made the a...

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MBBS Student from Srinagar Dies in Jammu; Cause of Death Being Ascertained, says Police

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A20-year-old MBBS student from Srinagar has died of ‘unascertained’ cause in Jammu, officials on Thursday morning said. They said that one Yameen, 20, pursuing his MBBS degree from ASCOMS Batra, putting up at Asarabad Flat Sidhra was brought to GMC in unconscious condition on Wednesday evening. However the boy was declared dead on arrival by the doctors there, they told GNS adding the cause of death was however not immediately ascertained. The deceased is said to be a resident of Peer Bagh Srinagar. Confirming the death of the student, Police Post Incharge Sidhra Jammu Shakil Ahmad told GNS that an Inquiry Officer has been deputed for verification into the incident. “Investigations are on to ascertain the cause of death of the student”, the official said. (GNS)