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2.2 Percent of Detainees Under ‘Anti-Terror Law’ Convicted, says Home Ministry

INDIA

The Government of Friday said that out of 5,922 people arrested under the UAPA law from 2016 to 2019, only 132 were found guilty putting the conviction rate at 2.2 percent. Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy shared the information in Rajya Sabha in response to a question. He informed the Upper House that as per the 2019 Crime in India Report compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the total number of persons arrested under the Act in 2019 is 1,948. In another reply, he said that 96 people were arrested on charges of treason (sedition in the legal language) under Section 194A IPC in 2019 but only two were convicted and 29 persons were acquitted. Of the 93 sedition cases, a charge-sheet was filed in 40 cases in the same year. Karnataka leads the list of s...

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Dead Body of Missing Kashmiri Engineer After Uttarakhand Glacier Burst Found

REGIONAL

Six days after he went missing, the dead body of a Kashmiri engineer, who went missing during a glacier burst in Uttarakhand was found on Friday. A resident of the Soura area in Srinagar, Basharat Ahmad Zargar was working as an engineer on Rishi Ganga power project (130 Mw) in the Uttarakhand state. According to news a report by Kashmir observe, Shabir Ahmad, his brother broke the sad news of his brother’s death Friday afternoon. “My brother’s body was found by NDRF near the power project at 2.30 PM Friday, he said. Pertinently the body of Basharat was found on the sixth day of rescue operations after flash floods in Uttarakhand. At least 204 people are missing, The death toll has increased to 37 people, out of which 24 are yet to be identified.

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Covid 19 Vaccination Drive Begins at DPL Awantipora

PULWAMA

COVID-19 vaccination drive began at the Police District Lines Awantipora for Police officers and Jawans as front line workers fighting the covid-19 outbreak. SSP Awantipora Shri Tahir Saleem Khan-JKPS, SDPO Tral,SDPO Awantipora,DySP Awantipora and other officers got themselves vaccinated along with their respective teams. SSP Awantipora said that the second phase of vaccination is for all the frontline worriers of J & K Police and it is essential that everyone gets himself vaccinated to fight Covid-19.

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Hotel Owners In Sonamarg Appeal District Administration Ganderbal To Reopen Sonamarg Road For Tourists

REGIONAL

Rayees Shah/ Shah Basit Hotel owners in Sonamarg have appealed to District Development Commissioner Ganderbal to Open the Sonamarg Road for tourists. A Hotel Owners Sajjad Rasool told The Kashmiriyat that they have been sitting idle for the last twenty months and the tourism sector are at peak these days and they are only visiting Gulmarg, Pahalgam, and Srinagar's Dal Lake, but due to the closure of Sonamarg Road hotel owners Who are immersed in bank loans suffering a lot of problems. Sajjad Rasool said that after August 5 2019 Situation Than the global epidemic spread Rapidly hundreds of employees working in different Hotels have lost their daily Jobs.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/cipro.html "Every year Sonamarg has only four months of Tourist Season and hotel owner...

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CRPF Man Sustains Bullet Injury Inside Camp in Budgam

REGIONAL

A CRPF officer was wounded after the service rifle he was fiddling with went off inside the camp in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. The incident took place at Nagam Chadura Camp belonging to C-Company 117 Battalion CRPF during the intervening night of February 11 and 12. Official sources said that the rifle of Assistant Sub Inspector Rajesh Kumar went off and the bullet hit his leg. They said Kumar was shifted to Badami Bagh based Army hospital for treatment. KNT

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Indian Army Conducts Medical and Physical Tests for Upcoming Recruitment in Anantnag

ISLAMABAD

Army's 19 Rashtriya Rifles boost capabilities of youths for upcoming recruitment rallies & motivating them to join Indian Armed Forces, Larikpura Camp conducted pre-recruitment medical and physical tests for the youth of their AOR. Very good response was received for the same as more than 100 boys of age group between 16-20 years including three NDA aspirants attended the same and benefitted from it. In a press release, the Indian Army said, Lt Col Manpreet Singh, 2IC briefed them about the event and the necessity of conducting these events for youths of the valley. Then documentation checking was conducted and all were briefed about the documents required for recruitment. Thereafter, a pre-recruitment rally was conducted for them which include 1.6 Km run, Chin Ups, Zig Zag balancin...

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In Prayers- MAQBOOL- Ward Number 18, Tihar Jail

WRITE-UPS

Meher Qadri When eight-year-old Maqbool laid down in front of the jagirdar’s motorcar with hundreds of children of the Trehgam village in 1946 to convince the feudal lord for the tax concessions the villagers owed him, little did the villagers know that this boy would live up to his name. This act of innocent resilience would form the foundation of a man who would not only be Maqbool by name but also be remembered as a pioneer of Kashmir’s Fight for ‘Freedom’ decades after his death. Maqbool Bhat, the little boy would grow up to give the ultimate sacrifice of his life for Kashmir. Maqbool would become synonymous with Resistance. Born to Ghulam Qadar Bhat of Trehgam, district Kupwara on 18th February 1938, Maqbool Bhat completed his secondary education from a local government schoo...

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YouTube Blocks Music Video about Farmer’s Protest by a Famous Punjabi Singer

INDIA

On Tuesday, YouTube blocked a music video by famous Punjabi singer Kanwar Grewal titled ‘Ailaan’ (that means - proclaimed) was related to the farmer protests. YouTube has placed a notification on the original video, saying “This content is not available on this country domain due to a legal complaint from the government”. A YouTube spokesperson said in a statement: “We comply with valid legal requests from authorities wherever possible, consistent with our longstanding policy and act quickly to remove identified content”. However, the fans of the singer posted the same music video on various other channels on YouTube which can still be accessed. Another video by artist Himmat Sandhu titled ‘Asi vaddange’ has also been blocked on the platform. Several Punjabi celebrities and si...

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‘Stop Labelling Muslims as “others” in this Country’ – Former VP, Hamid Ansari

INDIA

On Wednesday, Former Vice President Hamid Ansari lamented that there is a concerted effort by some in the country to regard Muslims as “others” and stressed that India’s plural society has been the reality for centuries. Participating in a discussion on his book “By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life”, he said his Muslim-ness did not matter and his professional competence did. Am I a citizen or not? If I am a citizen, I have the right to be a beneficiary of all things that flow out of citizenship,” he said. “A plural society was an existential reality in India for centuries,” he noted. Former Union minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, who was also part of the discussion, said he and Ansari are both pained as the developments of the last several years are “th...

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Incomplete Mini Secretariat Complex in Limbo because of Inadequate Funds

REGIONAL

The work on Mini Secretariat complex undertaken by Public Works Department (PWD) in 2011 in Mendhar here is far from complete. The work on Rs. 14 crore -project is in limbo as officials cite lack of funds to complete it. The locals urged the government to expedite the work on the Mini Secretariat, keeping in view the problems faced by them. “One can see that whatever construction was done is now crumbling,” the locals said, adding, “Mendhar has been ignored on developmental front by the successive governments and is witnessing step-motherly treatment by the government.” As per officials, over Rs. 7 crore were spent on the construction work of the project before work came to standstill. The residents appealed the authorities to get the work on the complex completed as early as p...