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Jammu Kashmir Admin to identify 160 Kanals of Land for ‘Key Location Point’ to BSF

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The administration of Jammu Kashmir has turned down the Border Security Force’s proposal for allotment of 515 Kanals of land to the force for setting up the paramilitary force’s key location point (KLF) in Samba district of Jammu province and instead asked the district administration to identify 160 Kanals of state land for the purpose. The Financial Commissioner Revenue rejected the land acquisition case of BSF on the ground that huge chunk of land cannot be given to the force and asked BSF and DC Samba to identify suitable state Land measuring 160 Kanals. “……FCR has rejected the case file on the ground that huge chunk of land measuring 515 KI 18 MI cannot be given to BSF and asked BSF and DC Samba to identify suitable state land measuring 20 acres (160 Kanals),” reads the documents...

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Covid 19- In Anantnag, 15 Employees Tested Positive in 2 Branches of Jammu Kashmir Bank

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Suhail Dar Fifteen employees from merely two branches of Jammu Kashmir Bank in Anantnag have tested positive for Covid 19 on Saturday. An official confirming this to The Kashmiriyat said that on Saturday seven employees of Cheeni Chowk branch and eight employees of Lal Chowk Branh tested positive for the covid. The screening of other employees will also be conducted and their contact history will also be traced, the official added.buy vardenafil generic vardenafil generic

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COVID-19 resurgence: Occupancy of High Flow oxygen Beds increases in North Kashmir

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Amid the surge in COVID-19 infection cases across Jammu and Kashmir, the occupancy of high flow oxygen beds is increasing subsequently in north Kashmir districts. North Kashmir comprising three border districts including Bandipora, Baramulla, and Kupwara in recent days have witnessed a huge leap in COVID-19 positive cases. The nodal officers appointed to handle the COVID-19 situation in respective districts said that the figure of occupancy of high flow oxygen supported beds is increasing with the surge in cases while Baramulla has 5 percent of its total positive patients requiring high flow oxygen support at hospitals. Naveed Altaf, Nodal officer for COVID-19 in Baramulla said that the entire district has 50 percent of the total active positive cases requiring high flow oxygen. ...

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Supreme Court Orders ‘Decongestion of Jails’

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Taking note of an "unprecedented surge" in COVID-19 cases in the country, the Supreme Court on Saturday passed directions for decongestion of prisons and ordered forthwith release of all those prisoners who were granted bail or parole last year in view of the pandemic. A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices L Nageswara Rao and Surya Kant said that all those prisoners who were allowed to go out on bail in March last year by the high-powered committees of states and Union Territories (UTs), set up following the apex court''s order, be granted the same relief without reconsideration by HPCs to avoid delay. "Further we direct that, those inmates who were granted parole, pursuant to our earlier orders, should be again granted parole for a period of 90 days in order to ti...

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Teenage Girl Dies of cardiac Arrest in Pulwama

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A 16-year-old girl died after she suffered a massive cardiac arrest in Koil village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday. An official told, that the girl complained of chest pain at her home and was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital by her family. He said, the girl identified as Misbah Maqbool was declared dead on arrival at the hospital. However, she had secured 496 marks out of 500 in recent 10th exam. KNO

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India Likely to Witness the Peak of Covid in Coming Days: Report

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As India continues to witness a abrupt rise in COVID cases and oxygen shortage, mostly in New Delhi, a mathematical model prepared by advisers to Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi suggests coronavirus outbreak in India could peak in the coming days. The team’s most recent prediction puts them more in line with at least some other scientists, who have suggested a mid-May peak for India. India reported over four lakh COVID cases in the last 24 hours, with experts saying that the reported figures likely underplay the real toll because the country’s crematoriums and hospitals have been overwhelmed. That makes the assessment of any peak particularly complicated. Reports suggest that estimates may become crucial because Modi has been avoiding a national lockdown, instead choose all...

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As Covid Deaths Rise, Dozens of Dead Bodies Seen Floating on Yamuna River in UP

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Amidst the growing casses of Covid 19, dead bodies were seen floating near the Yamuna river bridge in Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh. A video of the incident that has gone viral shows dozens of dead bodies floating in the river Yamuna River in Hamirpur district. Though the Police have started blaming the public already, and said the villagers are shedding these bodies in the river, however conflicting reports suggest that the crematoriums are running short of space and many others are denying space to the dead. The Yogi Government has been accused of undercounting its dead in Uttar Pradesh. On Friday, the police of Hamirpur police station reached the spot in Hamirpur and was found that a large number of people are dying in rural areas of Kanpur and Hamirpur districts. https://edpillgrece.gr

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Goons Barge Inside Masjid in UP, Chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ Slogans, Damage Loudspeakers

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Goons barged inside a mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district on Monday and chanted “Jai Shri Ram” slogans before they damaged some loudspeakers of the mosque. A video has also gone viral on social media following the incident. According to a report published on The Times of India Mohammad Riyaz, mosque’s imam present at the time of the incident, had said the youths told him that they had come to remove the loudspeakers from the mosque. Quoting Riyaz, police said the youths allegedly threatened him before going upstairs for removing the wires of the loudspeakers. They also damaged some of the equipment. The youths were part of the same group that had allegedly recited the “Hanuman Chalisa” in Govardhan’s Eidgah in November last year, police said. An FIR had been registered a...

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‘Father Shot Holding Hands of his 2-Year-old Son’- 30 Years After Khanyar Massacre

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Syed Goussia Tabassum Time flies away, but the agony of any gruesome episode leaves eternal imprints in the hearts of people. The dents which can never be compensated, the wounds that never stop aching, the pain remains youthful and the cries of despair keep roaring. In this long driven bloody conflict, the valley confronts a number of incidents and among all these incidents the Khanyar massacre that took place on 8th May 1991 will be remembered in the bloody history of Kashmir as a dark day alongside many blood-soaked chapters of history. The episode is so old that after some time it will be obsolete and demanding justice for the same will be futile. ALSO READ: People Expectant of Gallantry Awards For Forces, As Kashmir Witnesses Another Massacre But the thing which needs to a...

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Siddique Kappan Moved Back to Mathura Jail from AIIMS Delhi

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Siddique Kappan, the Kerala-based journalist lodged in Mathura jail over alleged sedition charges, has been moved back to the Mathura Jail from AIIMS, Delhi, covertly and without letting them meet Kappan, alleged his family. After Kappan had tested positive for Covid-19 on April 21, his wife wrote a letter to the Cheif Justice of India, that Kappan was tortured in the jail instead of given proper medical treatment, and on further insistence by Kerala's MPs and the CM himself, the Supreme Court had directed the UP government to move him to Delhi for treatment. Kappan's wife, Raihanath, as per a report by The Hindu, told that on Thursday, it was through some acquaintance instead of the officials, that the family got to know that Kappan had been moved to Mathura jail. She said that she...