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Oct242021 by News DeskNo Comments

Delimitation To Be Followed By Elections, Statehood Restoration In JK: Amit Shah

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said delimitation in Jammu Kashmir will be followed by elections and restoration of statehood. In his first visit to the Valley since Article 370 was revoked two years ago, the Home Minister also held a security review at a high level meeting besides visited the family of a police officer killed by militants earlier this year. “Why should we stop delimitation? Nothing is going to stop. After delimitation, there will be elections and then restoration of statehood,” Amit Shah said in an address to members of youth clubs in Srinagar here. He also said the revocation of Article 370 is “irreversible” and sought to defend imposing of curfew and communication blockade following the August 5, 2019 by saying it was done to save lives. “There was...

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Poonch Encounter: Three Government Force Personnel, Foreign Militant injured: Police

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Jammu Kashmir police on Sunday said that two policemen and a solider were injured and a Pakistani militant who was taken to the encounter site also sustained injuries and he couldn't be retrieved back at Bhata-Dhurian encounter site in Poonch. A police said that Zia Mustafa, a Pakistani LeT militant was taken to Bhata Durian for identification of a hideout during the ongoing operation in which three army jawans and a JCO were killed. "During the search when team approached hideout, militants again opened fire on joint team of police and army personnel in which two policemen and an army jawan sustained injuries. Mustafa also sustained injuries &he could not be extracted from the site due to heavy fire," the police said—(KNO)

Oct232021 by News DeskNo Comments

DSEK over rules HC directions, Govt teachers allowed to teach in Pvt coaching centres: Associations

EDUCATION

The Directorate of School Education Kashmir has yet again ignored the High Court directions by restricting the coaching centres from recruiting government teachers for tuitions, teachers associations said on Saturday. The fresh order issued by the Director School Education had asked the private coaching centres to ensure that no government employee is imparting teaching in their coaching centres and warned the owners of strict action if they failed to follow the dictate. The order, according to teachers, is the clear violation of the high court orders that has already allowed the government teachers to undertake tuitions with the rider that they shall not undertake the tuitions two hours before the opening of the schools and two hours after the closure of the schools. The order wa...

Oct232021 by News DeskNo Comments

U.P. Govt. To Rename Faizabad Railway Station As Ayodhya Cantt

INDIA

On Saturday, a tweet by the office of the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath said that their government has decided to rename the Faizabad railway station. The tweet said that chief minister Yogi took the decision that the railway station will be called the Ayodhya Cantt railway station. It is pertinent to mention that earlier in 2018, the Yogi Adityanath government had renamed Faizabad as Ayodhya. The Yogi-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh had also changed the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj and Mughalsarai railway junction as Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay junction.buy zovirax online https://www.conci.com/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/inc/new/zovirax.html no prescription

Oct232021 by News DeskNo Comments

Man slips to death into an under construction drain in Srinagar outskirts

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A man died after slipping into an under-construction drain in the Harnambal area of Natipora Srinagar outskirts. Local sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that an elderly man was on his way to visit the house of his daughter at Natipora where she has been married. While on way, he slipped into an under-construction drain. The man was retrieved dead by locals and the police from the drain. A police official while confirming the death of man identified him as Pirzada Mustafa of the Awanitpora area. He said that an ambulance was arranged by a local social group ‘Athwas Group of Humanity’ and the dead body was ferried in that ambulance to his native village.

Oct232021 by News DeskNo Comments

LeT militant associate held in Baramulla, arms and ammunition recovered: Police

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Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a militant associate of the Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. In a statement to GNS, the police said that joint Parties of Baramulla Police headed by SHO Police Sheeri, Army 161 TA, and 53 Bn CRPF arrested an OGW of TRF/ LET outfit along with one hand grenade, two Pistol magazines & 16 live rounds at Kitchama. They identified the arrested OGW as Farooq Ahmad Malik son of Gh Mohd Malik resident of Kitchama. It is pertinent, to mention here that the said individual is OGW of active militant namely Hilal Ahmad Sheikh resident of Shrakwara Kreeri. A case under sections of Indian Arms Act and UA (P) Act Stands Registered against them in Police Station Sheeri and investigation set in motion, reads the statement....

Oct232021 by News DeskNo Comments

‘Nobody Can Stop The Change In Jammu Kashmir’- Amit Shah Holds Security Review Meeting In Srinagar

INDIA, REGIONAL

The union Home Minister Amit Shah reached Srinagar on his three-day visit to Jammu Kashmir as a part of BJP Government’s programme of public outreach. In his address at the Youth Club of Jammu Kashmir, he said that no one can stop the change in Kashmir. Amit Shah met the families of martyr Inspector Parvez Ahmed, after this, Amit Shah held a review meeting of the security situation and participated in the Unified Command Meet. Chiefs of CRPF, BSF, IB and CISF and DGP of Jammu Kashmir also participated in this. At the same time, Amit Shah will also inaugurate the direct flight from Srinagar to Sharjah today. Tight security arrangements have been made in the Kashmir Valley in view of the visit of the Union Home Minister. He said that Kashmir gets a lot of help from the Government...

Oct232021 by News DeskNo Comments

Snowfall: 12 Persons Rescued From Mughal Road

OTHERS

Authorities here on Saturday afternoon rescued 12 persons, who were stuck near Pir Ki Gali on Mughal road which has been closed by the authorities in wake of the snowfall. Those who were rescued include shopkeepers and workers of a shrine, located at Pir Ki Gali, officials told the news agency-Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Officials said that Mughal Road has been closed in the intervening night of Friday- Saturday and 12 persons were stuck near Pir Ki Gali after which rescue operation was launched by police, Army, traffic police and Mughal road authority. They said that the people who rescued from the spot have been shifted to a nearby Army camp and are being sent to their homes-(KNO)

Oct232021 by News DeskNo Comments

JVC’s Ground Floor Inundated, Lift System Also Goes Out of Gear; Patients, Attendants Suffer

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Amid incessant rains, the ground floor of JVC Hospital in Bemina has got water-logged even as several low lying areas in outskirts of summer-capital Srinagar are witnessing inundation. GNS received several calls from attendants at JVC Hospital who unequivocally maintained that ground floor of the hospital has got inundated even as more water was seeping into the compound area. They said that presence of water inside the hospital building and its premises have made it highly difficult for them to move around. “We are unable to procure the required medicines”, an attendant said. Another attendant said that the lift system at the hospital has also gone defunct. “The lift system isn’t working at the hospital, making it even more difficult to move”, he said. When contacted, Medical ...

Oct232021 by News DeskNo Comments

‘Kashmir Fight’ Blog Shutdown by WordPress on Govt’s Request

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The WordPress has taken down the ‘kashmirfight.wordpress.com’ blog, which is known for publishing controversial material against prominent Kashmiri figures, reported Srinagar based news agency KDC. An official said the campaign to get the blog stopped has been ongoing since 2018, and the Jammu and Kashmir Police had submitted many letters to WordPress requesting that it be removed. It also supplied evidence indicating it was being used to target people in the Kashmir. The CID wing, of the Jammu and Kashmir Police played a vital role in gathering the information which established the connection between the blog and killings of prominent Kashmiris. (KDC)