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J&K adopts Kalij Pheasant as UT bird; No change in State animal

REGIONAL

The administration of Jammu and Kashmir has adopted Kalij Pheasant as UT bird. Talking to news agency-Kashmir News Observer (KNO), commissioner secretary, Forests, Environment and Ecology, Sanjeev Verma confirmed that Kalij Pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos) has been adopted as UT bird. “J&K had to adopt new bird as UT bird because black-necked cranes are only found in Ladakh," he said. Erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state had the black-necked crane and Kashmir stag (Hangul) as its state bird and animal respectively. After reorganization of J&K, Ladakh adopted black-necked crane as its UT bird. Verma said Hangul would continue to remain as UT animal of Jammu & Kashmir-(KNO)

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‘Nobody Forced us to Leave’- Amid Chaos, Non-Locals Narrate Stories of Love they Received from Kashmiris

WRITE-UPS

Meer Irfan/ Mohammed Waseem It is morning time on a normal autumn day in Kashmir. Leaves are falling from the trees to cover the roads. As the fall grips Kashmir valley, people take to hot food. Many Kashmiris are rushing to the shop of Mohammed Shahzad in the main town of Shopian. Shahzad, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, who migrated to Kashmir nearly two decades ago is making samosas. As the Samosas are ready, the locals rush to the shop to have a bite. "This is like home to me. I have been here, a part and parcel of the market. People know me and I know them. They love my samosas. They love me," said Shahzad, who has chosen to stay in Kashmir amid the chaos at railway and bus stations as a result of hundreds of non-local labourers rushing out of Kashmir. The month of October, 2021...

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Registration of Pvt Coaching centres have expired; don’t enroll children: SED to Parents

EDUCATION

The School Education Department on Wednesday said the registration of private coaching centers of Kashmir division has already expired and have suggested the parents not to enroll their wards in such institutions. In this regard, the communiqué was issued by the Director of School Education Kashmir (DSEK), a copy of which lies with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). “The validity in registration of private coaching and tuition centres has already expired, DSEK has issued an advisory for information of the general public in November 2017 followed by a series of advisories to the general public not to enroll their wards in un-registered coaching or tuition centres,” it reads. DSEK said that in order to follow up the registration process of private coaching and tuition cent...

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Upgraded in 2019, principal among 11 lecturer posts still lying vacant at Hr Sec School Kilshay

EDUCATION, REGIONAL

Even after the period of more than two years since the government higher secondary school Kilshay in Gurez was upgraded, the government has so far failed to fulfill the principal among 11 lecturer vacant posts thereby taking a heavy toll on the official work of the institutions. An official document accessed by the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), revealed that the government higher secondary school Kilshay was upgraded in 2019, while around principal among 11 lecturer posts are still lying vacant in the institution. Locals said that the institution was already headless for the past several years which speaks volumes about the functioning of government educational institutions in the remote area. They said that the vacant post in the government-run school has adversely aff...

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Specially abled people hold protest, demand revocation of SSRB order

REGIONAL

Specially abled persons on Wednesday held a protest at press enclave Srinagar, demanding revocation of SSRB order in which 12 disabilities have been excluded out of 21 categories. Talking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) state president of Jammu and Kashmir handicapped association Abdul Rashid Bhat said that despite the protest for excluding 12 disabled categories in the new list, SSRB went ahead without considering their request. “We demand to bring all categories in the new list and revoke this order which is sheer injustice with us,” he said—(KNO)

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Searches Carried At 11 Locations In 4 Kashmir Districts, 4 OGWs Arrested: NIA

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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday said that it carried searches at eleven locations in four districts of Kashmir Valley and arrested four alleged OGWs in militant “conspiracy case." In a statement issued here, the NIA said that searches were carried in Srinagar, Pulwama, Kulgam, and Baramulla districts. “Four more accused persons namely i) Suhail Ahmad Thokar r/o Kulgam, ii) Kamran Ashraf Reshi r/o Hazratbal, Srinagar; iii) Rayid Bashir r/o Srinagar and iv) Hanan Gulzar Dar r/o Srinagar were arrested,” it said. The case, it said, relates to “conspiracy “ for undertaking violent militate acts in J&K and other major cities, by cadres of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al Badr, and similar other outfits and their affiliates incl...

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LeT District Commander and Another Militant Killed in Kulgam Encounter: IGP

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On Wednesday, 2 militants were killed during a gunfight between the militants and the security forces at Sopat Devsar, Kulgam. The IGP Kashmir announced from the official Twitter handle of Kashmir police that the "Police and Army neutralized LeT district commander (Gulzar Ahmad Reshi) of Kulgam" and another unidentified militant. The IGP claimed that both were involved in "killings of two poor labourers from Bihar" on October 17 at Wanpoh. A brief encounter had broken out between the militants and the security forces.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/zoloft.html It is pertinent to mention that this was the second encounter of the day. Earlier, during the day, police had said that two militants were killed in the gunfight that had erupted in Cheerbagh Dragad area o...

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Encounter Breaks Out at Sopat Devsar, Kulgam

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An encounter has broken out between the security forces and the militants on Wednesday at Sopat Dessar area of South Kashmir's district Kulgam. The District Police Kulgam tweeted from its official handle and informed that the encounter has started and that the police and the security forces were on task to nab the militants.

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50 Fall ill After Consuming ‘Wazwan’ in Bandipora Village

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Atleast 50 people have fallen ill after consuming Wazwan at a marriage party in Lawaypora village of north Kashmir's Bandipora district on Wednesday, officials said here. Officials told News agency-Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that the around 50 wedding guests complained of vomiting and loose-motion after they consumed the feast at the marriage party at Lawaypora. "Hearing this incident, the district Heath authorities took immediate action and dispatched the medical teams to the area for verifying the matter," they said. "However, around 40 people who have complained of vomiting, diarrhea, and dysentery were admitted so far at District Hospital Bandipora, "the officials added. They further said that so far, the information we are receiving seems to be due to food poisoning-(KNO...

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Poonch Encounter: Exchange of Fire Continues at Bhata Dhurian Encounter Site for Day 7

REGIONAL

For the seventh consecutive day on Wednesday, the exchange of fire continued at Bhata Dhurian encounter site in Poonch district, officials said. Encounter had started in the area on last Thursday after an army patrol during a Cordon and Search Operation came under fire in which two army personnel got killed while two others went missing whose bodies were recovered after two days. Meanwhile, the encounter is still going on in dense forests of Nar in Bhata Dhurian where gunfire started in early morning hours and was going on intermittently when last reports were received. Officials told news agency-Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that there was no information about militant casualties so far-(KNO)