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All Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee – Kashmir Meets Amit Shah After Alleging Abduction and Forceful Conversion of Two Sikh Girls into Islam

All Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee – Kashmir Meets Amit Shah After Alleging Abduction and Forceful Conversion of Two Sikh Girls into Islam

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Days after the reports of alleged Sikh girls being abducted and forcefully converted to Islam, a delegation of All Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee, Kashmir met Union Home Minister Amit Shah  on Sunday. Taking to twitter, Shah said, “Met a delegation from All Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee- Kashmir”. Though, the details of the meeting was not shared with media, it is understood that the Sikh body representatives have demanded an anti-conversion law for Jammu Kashmir like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, to prevent forceful conversion in the Union Territory of Jammu Kashmir.buy viagra pack online https://www.facebeautyscience.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwentyone/inc/new/viagra-pack.html no prescription Recently, the Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee protested against a...
Three Narcotic drug peddlers arrested, Contraband recovred in Kulgam

Three Narcotic drug peddlers arrested, Contraband recovred in Kulgam

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Sahil Gulzar Three drug peddlers were arrested, and a huge quantity of contraband substance and other equipments used in this illegal work was recovered from them, in the Balsoo area of South Kashmir's Kulgam district, on Sunday. An official told The Kashmiriyat that the Police party of Police Station Kulgam, led by SHO Kulgam Inspector Jazib Mohammad, along with PSI Abdul Lateef under the supervision of I/C DySP HQR Kulgam Sheikh Tahir Amin-JKPS, established a Naka near Balsoo crossing. During checking, one Vehicle (Load carrier) bearing registration number JK18A-1048 was stopped, and while the checking was underway, officers present were able to recover 130 Kg of Poppy Straw-like substance, Two Grinding machines, One Digital weighing machine from the possession of three persons....
Manipuri Journalist-Acticist Duo in Jail for More than 45 Days After FB Posts Criticising Use of Cow Dung and Urine as Covid-19 Cure

Manipuri Journalist-Acticist Duo in Jail for More than 45 Days After FB Posts Criticising Use of Cow Dung and Urine as Covid-19 Cure

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A Manipuri duo - a Journalist and an activist have been in jail for more than 45 days now, for criticizing politicians who recommended Cow Dung and Urine as cures for Covid-19. Journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhem and activist Erendro Leichombam were arrested under the National Security Act (NSA) after they had been granted bail for an earlier arrest for their social media posts where they pay their condolences while also writing that cow dung or cow urine was no cure for COVID-19, in two separate posts. The two were picked up from their respective homes after BJP's state vice-president Usham Deban Singh and general secretary, P Premananda Metei filed a complaint against Wangkhem and Leichombam. As per the latest report by VICE World News, Leichombam's brother Sikendro was extremely ...
Justice Magrey Lays Foundation Stone For Additional Special Mobile Magistrate Court Pahalgam

Justice Magrey Lays Foundation Stone For Additional Special Mobile Magistrate Court Pahalgam

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Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey, Judge High Court Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh, who is also Chairman Infrastructure Committee in Subordinate Courts of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh yesterday laid the foundation stone for Additional Special Mobile Magistrate Court at Pahalgam here. Principal District and Sessions Judge Anantnag, Naseer Ahmad Dar and other senior Judicial Officers also graced the foundation laying ceremony. Speaking on the occasion, Justice Magrey said that better infrastructure with requisite facilities is essential for proper justice delivery system. He reiterated that the courts will be equipped with optimum facilities in due course of time which will improve the quality and pace of adjudication process. Justice Magrey also directed the executing agency to complete the projec...
IIT Madras Professor Resigns After Facing Caste Discrimination in the Institute

IIT Madras Professor Resigns After Facing Caste Discrimination in the Institute

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A qualified faculty member of the Indian Institute of Technology- Madras has resigned, alleging caste discrimination. Vipin Pudiyath Veetil, an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, sent out the mail, alleging that he had been discriminated because of his caste ever since he joined the institute in 2019. His mail to other faculty members was widely circulated on social media, on Thursday. "The discrimination came from individuals in positions of power irrespective of their claimed political affiliations and gender," he wrote. He said, he was leaving the IIT for another institution, and that because of this he would “pursue appropriate actions to address the matter”. In his mail, he suggested that the institute constitute a committee to stud...
Mother of Two Commits Suicide by Shooting Herself: Leaves a Note Addressed to PM Modi

Mother of Two Commits Suicide by Shooting Herself: Leaves a Note Addressed to PM Modi

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On Friday morning, a woman named Mona Dwivedi (30) shot herself with a gun at her home in Vidyapuram Colony in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. The deceased, a mother of two, also left behind a 3-page note addressed to the PM Modi, in which she urges him to "ensure the safety of women in their houses." The reports claim that at around 10 a.m., Mona locked herself in her room and shot herself in the chest with the country made weapon. As per a report by The Times of India, on hearing the gunfire, all the female members of the family rushed to her room and found her lying in the pool of blood. She was immediately taken to a hospital, where she was declared 'brought dead.' Mona had sent the 3-paged note to her family members on their cellphones. The note has been doing rounds on social med...
Fifth Militant Killed in Pulwama Encounter Identified

Fifth Militant Killed in Pulwama Encounter Identified

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The Jammu Kashmir Police identified the fifth Miltant who was killed during an encounter in the Hanjan area of Pulwama district in  South Kashmir on Friday afternoon. The Police said that in its press release, during the intervening night of Thursday or Friday, acting on a specific input regarding the presence of Militants in the Hanjan Rajpora area of Pulwama, a joint cordon and search operation was launched by Police, 44RR and 182/183 BN CRPF in the said area. During the search operation, the civilians were evacuated to safer places & as the presence of Militants got ascertained they were given an opportunity to surrender, however they fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party, which was retaliated leading to an encounter. Due to darkness, the operation was suspende...
Man Beaten to Death on Suspicion of Eating Non-Veg in Ghaziabad

Man Beaten to Death on Suspicion of Eating Non-Veg in Ghaziabad

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On Saturday, a man was allegedly beaten to death in Ghaziabad after three people suspected that he was eating non-vegetarian food. The Ghaziabad Police has arrested three persons in regard to the matter. As per a report by the Indian Express, the victim, Praveen Saini along with two other friends, Davendra and Vinod were having food at the Gangnahar Ghat when the three confronted them. The argument took a violent turn, later. The Police has confirmed although, that the victim was eating Soya Chaap. The victim, Praveen (22), hailed from Meerut and worked in the temple as well as the nearby shops as cleaner. The police says that the three, when approached by the accused, also showed them the packets of food and said that they were consuming vegetarian food. Kamlesh Narain Pandey, Ci...
Paddy Fields in Pulwama Dry Up as Pump Station Gets Eroded

Paddy Fields in Pulwama Dry Up as Pump Station Gets Eroded

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Amid high temperature, the paddy sapling sown on hundreds of Kanals of land are drying up in Pulwama district as the pump station through which the land was getting water has got eroded. Locals from Hakripora, Hassanwani, Tulsibagh and Kowsibagh said that the paddy sapling that was sown last month have started to dry up as there are no facilities available for irrigating the land under paddy cultivation. They said that before one week, the pump station at Hassanwani got out of order due to soil erosion and in absence of irrigation water, paddy fields have started drying up. "We don't have any source of income and we are entirely dependent on our agricultural land.buy Sildenafil generic buy Sildenafil generic If our fields dry up completely, we will die of starvation," locals said...
What You Need to Know about the Discoveries of Unmarked Graves of Indigenous Peoples at Former Residential Schools in Canada

What You Need to Know about the Discoveries of Unmarked Graves of Indigenous Peoples at Former Residential Schools in Canada

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Insha Mushtaq Earlier this week, on July 14, 160 new undocumented graves were discovered in Canada's British Columbia province. The Penelakut Tribe announced that it discovered more than 160 "undocumented and unmarked' graves in the province's Southern Gulf Islands, which was once home to the Kuper Island Residential School. "It is impossible to get over acts of genocide and human rights violations. Healing is an ongoing process, and sometimes it goes well, and sometimes we lose more people because the burden is too great. We are at another point in time where we must face the trauma because of these acts of genocide. Each time we do, it is possible to heal a little more," the Penelakut Tribe said in a statement. On Wednesday, June 30, a day before Canada Day, for the third time i...