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Kashmiri Girl Joins PVBLIC Foundation as Global Program Director

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Lubna Sayed Qadri has joined PVBLIC Foundation as Global Program Director. She will report to PVBLIC President Stephen Keppel and provide general management support to PVBLIC’s Senior Team. Lubna is a passionate and dynamic leader who has worked with diverse multi-stakeholders to strengthen networks and individuals through campaigning, advocacy, networking, partnership, capacity-building and alliances at sub-national, national, regional and international levels. She comes to PVBLIC with high-level experience working on campaigns focused on the environment and the sustainable development agenda. She has engaged in building partnerships with donors, high-level contacts, and UN-system to meet the global goals. Lubna was previously National Campaign Coordinator of Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, o...

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‘Without Any Fraud or Force, I Embrace Islam’- If Manmeet’s Marriage was Forceful Abduction, Is Zoya’s Marriage Acceptable?

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Kounsar Bashir On June 28, a massive controversy erupted in Kashmir where some members of the local Sikh community waged a Morcha against 'Love Jihad'. The Morcha was led by Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Leader of Akali Dal and President of Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Community alleging a forced Nikah, abduction, and conversion of Sikh girls forced into marrying old Muslim men. The controversy put decades-long relations into a pause and several people from both the communities were at loggerheads, trying to overpower the narratives of each other. Statistically, Sikhs, who are a micro-minority community in Kashmir comprising nearly 0.88 percent population of Kashmir. Inarguably, both the communities have lived the decades of conflict in solidarity, love and harmony. According to...

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Teenage Girl Commits Suicide In Habba Kadal

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A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself to death in Srinagar on Saturday afternoon. Official sources told that a 20-year-old girl allegedly ended her life by hanging herself at her residence in Karfali Mohalla area of Habba Kadal in Srinagar. They said that she was shifted to SMHS hospital where doctors declared her brought dead. Meanwhile, local police have taken cognizance of the incident and started investigation into the matter—(KNO)

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Body Of Infant Found in Nallah in Anantnag’s Achabal

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Waris Shah In a shocking incident, an infant was found dead in a water body in Achabal area of South Kashmir's Anantnag district on Saturday, causing outrage among the residents. An official told The Kashmiriyat that the undraped baby was found in Nallah Arpath near playground today evening. He said, concerned police station has been informed about the body and a team of police has rushed to the spot. Meanwhile, a video of the abandoned baby lying in the Nallah has gone viral on social media, causing outrage among the netizens.

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Fire in the Gulf of Mexico: Massive Fire Erupts on the Surface of the Ocean After Gas Leak From Underwater Pipeline

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A fire erupted in the Ocean of the Gulf of Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula) after a gas leak from an underwater pipeline sparked a blaze, according to Mexico’s state-owned Pemex petrol company. In a video footage of the fire that went viral on 2 July, bright orange flames can be seen appearing to boil the ocean’s surface before the fire was extinguished roughly 150 yards from a drilling platform in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, the company reported. Pemex reported a leak at 5:15 a.m. on Friday, in the submarine pipeline near its Ku-Maloob-Zaap’s Ku-C satellite platform in the Campeche Sound. The state oil company then began to “close the interconnection valves in the pipeline, extinguishing the fire and the gas emanation” to control the leak by 10:45 a.m., more than five hours later. ...

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Seven Cattle Stolen By Thieves in Shopian

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Meer Irfan Seven cattle have been stolen during two separate incidents in South Kashmir's Shopian district during the intervening nights of Friday and Saturday. An official told The Kashmiriyat that thieves stormed into the cowsheds in New colony Meloora of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. He said that a total of seven cattle were stolen from the cow-sheds of Mohammad Yousuf Sheikh and Mohammed Ayoub from the New Colony area of Maldera area of Shopian. A case has been registered in this regard at the concerned police station they said.

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Harassment To Parents: JKBOSE Suspends Its Facilities To Seven Schools

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Jammu Kashmir Board of School Education on Saturday suspended all the Board related facilities for academic session 2020-2021 of seven schools over non-implementation of government, fee fixation committee orders and “harassment” to parents. As per the order by Joint Secretary JKBOSE, the facilities suspended include Registration Returns (PR), Permission-cum-Admission (PCA) forms of SSE (Class 10th), HSE-I (Class 11th) and HSE-II (Class 12th) in respect of these seven schools. The action against the private schools follows orders of Director School Education Kashmir, citing non-implementation of government/fee fixation committee orders and “harassment of parents”. The facilities shall remain suspended till these schools furnish NOC(s) from the office of the Director School Education K...

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Difficulty for Modi, Macron as French Judge Opens Criminal Investigation into Rafale Deal with India

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In an instigation that will reignite requests in India for a free test into the disputed Rafale deal, a French Judge has been selected to lead a legal examination concerning asserted debasement and partiality in the 7.8 Billion Euro deal to India of 36 contender airplanes, the French site Mediapart said in a report on Friday night. The scrutiny has emerged in the wake of a progression of analytical reports distributed by Mediapart in April 2021 about the arrangement, including the part of a middleman between whose exposures India's Enforcement Directorate is supposedly mindful of, yet has not tried to research up until this point. Following the report, the French Anti-Corruption NGO Sherpa reported a grievance with the court of Paris, referring to "corruption", "influence peddling", "mo...

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Poonch: Body of Drowned Minor Girl Retrieved After 4 Days

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Body of a nine-year-old girl, who had drowned in a river in Bedar Mandi area in Poonch on Wednesday last, has been retrieved this afternoon. As reported, the minor girl Aasiya Bano daughter of Mohammad Shareef was part of a group taking bath inside a river at her native village, when the incident occurred. A joint rescue operation was subsequently launched by SDRF, police assisted by locals soon after the incident and on sustained efforts for four consecutive days, the body was found and retrieved from the water body near Jalian this afternoon. SHO Mandi Bashir Ahmad Kohli confirming the retrieval of body told GNS that the body has been handed over to the family for last rites on conduct of necessary medico-legal formalities. (GNS)

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NC councillor Masrat Kar elected as new chairperson MC Sopore

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Masarat Kar, a National Conference councillor was elected as chairperson of the Municipal Council Sopore on Saturday by a margin of 06 votes against her nearest rival of the People’s Democratic Party councillor. According to details available with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) NC councillor, Masarat kar defeated her opponent of PDP, Irfan Ali by a margin of 06 votes. As per the details out of total 18 councillors, 12 voted in favour of Masarat while her opponent polled only 06 votes. On the occasion, Masarat while thanking the councillors for electing her, said that she will try to work for the development an betterment of Sopore town. Notably, the post of chairperson MC council Sopore fell vacant after majority of the councillors moved a no-confidence motion agai...