Future docs caught copying in GMC

Cellphones used for unfair means

Moazum Muhammad

Srinagar, Aug 5: Final year MBBS students in Government Medical College Srinagar have been caught red-handed by Kashmir University authorities copying from cellphone and paper material. The incident occurred on August 1 when the future doctors were appearing in Surgery Paper-I. Sources said More

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Guv discusses functioning of Sheikh-ul-Aalam Chair

Srinagar, Aug 5:  Professor Basher Bashir, Chairman of the Sheikh-ul-Aalam Chair, University of Kashmir, called on Governor N N Vohra at Raj Bhavan here on Friday and briefed him about the various activities being carried out under the aegis of the Sheikh-ul-Aalam Chair, an official spokesman said More

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Panthers Party, Salvation Movement condemn Sopore killing

Srinagar, Aug 5: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party has described the killing of Sopore youth Nazim Rashid in police custody as a “barbaric and most inhuman act.” A party statement issued here said the Provincial President of the JKNPP Farooq Ahmad Dar described as hoax the state and More

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Identify wastelands for development activities: CS

Srinagar: Chief Secretary Madhav Lal Friday asked the Revenue Department to liaise with the Department of Environment and Remote Sensing for identification of wastelands where new colonies, industrial estates and other developmental activities could be undertaken. Chairing a meeting on identification More

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In Ramadhan, Kashmir’s fasting teachers go unnoticed

CONTRACTUAL LECTURERS’ STRIKE ENTERS 7TH DAY, GOVT UNMOVED

Srinagar, Aug 5: For the past week, dozens of contractual college teachers in Kashmir Valley have been on an indefinite fast in Srinagar demanding a wage hike. But theirs could be a lost cause at a time when most locals are busy fasting for entirely different reasons. The teachers’ agitation More

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Peerzada orders release of salary to migrant teachers

Srinagar: Education Minister Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed Friday directed all Chief Education Officers of Kashmir to immediately release salaries of migrant teachers appointed under the Prime Minister’s package.  He asked them to expedite verification and other formalities required for obtaining More

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1 dies, 21 injured in road mishaps

Srinagar, Aug 5: A woman died and 21 others were inured in different road accidents across the Kashmir Valley. A load carrier auto (JK01/0799) hit Rafeeqa Begum, 48, wife of Bashir Ahmad Shah of Shudani Newa at Gadoora, Pulwama, causing her spot death, police said. It said an unidentified More

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JKLF( R) pays tributes to Shaheed Ashfaq Majeed

Srinagar, Aug 5: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (R ) chairman Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bita Karatey  and senior vice-chairman Javid Ahmad Mir have paid glowing tributes to the memory of Shaheed-i-Kashmir Ashfaq Majid Wani on his martyrdom anniversary on 3rd of Ramadhan.  Addressing a party More

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Akhoon reviews stock position of food grains

Calls for intensifying market checking

Srinagar, Aug 5: Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CA&PD) and Transport Qamar Ali Akhoon Thursday said the state government has released 56440 metric tones of food grains for BPL families of the state. This allocation, he said, will be provided to the deserving families More

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Chib inaugurates additional block at Dental College

Srinagar, Aug 5: Minister for Medical Education R S Chib Friday inaugurated Hospital Block-V and Cafeteria-cum- Recreation centre at Government Dental College and Hospital (DC&H) Srinagar. The 3- storey hospital block and double storey Cafeteria-cum- Recreation centre was constructed by More

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Drinking water crisis in Pattan areas

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Aug 5: In Ramadan, the residents of Andergam, Chanderhama, Goshbugh and Wussan areas of Pattan in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district are facing huge inconvenience due to scarcity of tap water. The residents accused the Public Health Engineering Department of failing to address More

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VO produces challan against PHE officials

Srinagar, Aug 5: State Vigilance Organization Thursday produced challan in a case (FIR No. 22/006-P/S VOK) against Manzoor Ahmad Hajam son of Abdus Sattar of Bumhama Kupwara, a storekeeper PHE Division Handwara, Muhammad Maqbool Wani son of Assadullah Wani of Braripora Handwara, Store Assistant at PHE More

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HC reserves judgment in Aasiya’s PSA detention case

Deduct Rs 50 lakh from DM’s salary as damages: Counsel

D A RASHID

Srinagar, Aug 5: The High Court on Friday reserved the judgment in case of Dukhtaran-e-Milat Chief Asiya Andrabi who is in detention under the Public Safety Act. Court of Justice Hasnain Masoodi after hearing the arguments of counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the state reserved the More

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Asiya shifted to Central Jail

Srinagar, Aug 5: Authorities on Friday shifted the incarcerated chairperson  of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Asiya Andrabi, to Central Jail Srinagar  from SKIMS, Soura, where she was undergoing treatment.     In a statement the DeM acting chairperson Rifa’at Fatima expressed More

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Gastroenteritis breaks out in Manasbal

SHEIKH NAZIR

Ganderbal, Aug 5: At least 30 persons putting up in Manasbal and other adjoining areas were hospitalized on Friday following the outbreak of gastroenteritis.  According to locals over three dozen people were admitted at Primary Health Centre Safapora. “People here are forced to drink the More

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Leh residents come to term as they rebuild shattered houses

A YEAR AFTER CLOUDBURST

GK NEWS NETWORK

Leh, Aug 5: A year after natural calamity struck this town in Ladakh region claiming 257 persons and injuring hundreds, residents are steadily rebuilding their shattered houses and coming to terms with Centre and state government intervening by providing relief under various schemes. According More

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Darakhshan says unemployment taking toll on JK youth

Srinagar, Aug 5: President of Socialistic Democratic Party Dr Darakhshan Andrabi on Friday said that unemployment problem is taking toll on the youth of Jammu and Kashmir and urged the world community to help them out to get special placement quota in the business and industrial sector of their respective More

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