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A residential house of Block Development Council Chairperson, Singhpora Pattan in North Kashmir’s Baramulla was attacked by a mob on Thursday evening.
Muhammad Hussain, who is son of incumbent BDC Singhpora Hajira Begum while speaking to News Agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) said that on Thursday evening a group of atleast 20 vehicle bound people attacked their house.
He said “In the incident, all our glasses, window panes of the house were vandalised”.
He said after the villagers came to their rescue only then the attackers fled leaving behind a vehicle which was later on seized by police party from Police Post Nowgam.
“This is not the first attack we were earlier attacked twice by the miscreants whom we have identified and the police is also well aware about it”, he added.
Meanwhile, efforts to contact Division Officer Nowgam didn’t materialise.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Thursday said that the issue related to the wrong depiction of the map of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been raised strongly at the highest level.
Minister of State for External Affairs Vellamvelly Muraleedharan in response to questions raised including whether a map of India on the website of World Health Organization (WHO) is depicting the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh in a totally different colour; if so, the details thereof; whether Government of India has lodged any protest with WHO in this regard; and if so, the steps taken by Government to ensure that such incidents may not recur in future?
In a written reply filed by the MoS, External Affairs, Muraleedharan, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that the issue of the wrong depiction of the map of India on the World Health Organization (WHO) website has been raised strongly with WHO including at the highest level.
The minister informed that in response, the WHO has informed the Permanent Mission of India in Geneva that they have put a disclaimer on the portal.
The response, Minister said that “The designations employed and the presentation of these materials do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of WHO concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.”
“Dotted and dashed lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement”, the minister said in a written reply.
The MoS External Affairs said that “Nevertheless, Government of India’s position on the right depiction of its boundaries has been unambiguously reiterated.”
It may be recalled that earlier in a color-coded map of countries, based on the latest pandemic numbers, the World Health Organisation had depicted Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as separate from the India—(KNO)
The recent data leak of at least 26 lakh Airtel users from Jammu and Kashmir was the handiwork of Pakistan-based hackers, who created new accounts to put data in the public forum and sell them for $3500 in Bitcoin, a security expert said on Thursday.
The hackers, who go by the name of ‘TeamLeets’ and are possibly operating from Pakistan, initially dumped the data on a link and even threatened to leak more Airtel data via a new Twitter handle that goes by the name of ‘Red Rabbit Teams’.
The new Twitter account, however, has been restricted by the microblogging site for “unusual activity”.
TeamLeets then created another Twitter handle that goes by the name of ‘PANAMA-iii (Scandal and Mega Database)’, which tweeted fresh links to another subset of data from the original sample of 26 lakh J&K users, which may belong to the people from the Indian Army. This particular account was also deleted later.
“TeamLeets, which is a Pakistan-based hacking group, is behind the Airtel data leak,” independent cyber security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia told IANS when contacted.
“They first dumped the data on a domain in December last year, which was removed. TeamLeets then created a couple of Twitter accounts to further push its agenda. It is possible that Red Rabbit Teams and TeamLeets are two sides of the same coin or are working together,” Rajaharia added.
The Pakistan-based hackers had access to the data and wanted to sell them but could not succeed. Hence, they dumped the data on the internet.
The hackers had dumped the data on the public forum, and not on the Dark Web.
In an earlier statement, Airtel had said that in this specific case, “we confirm that there is no data breach at our end”.
“In fact, the claims made by this group reveal glaring inaccuracies and a large proportion of the data records do not even belong to Airtel. We have already apprised the relevant authorities about the matter,” Airtel had said. (IANS)
Today (04.02.2021), NIA conducted searches in Amritsar District and Gurdaspur District of Punjab at the premises of suspect Manpreet Singh, S/o Satnam Singh, r/o Kala Afghana, Teja Khurd, Batala, District-Amritsar, a close associate of charge-sheeted accused Ranjit Singh @ Cheetah and Iqbal Singh @ Shera in connection with investigation of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) Narco Terror Case.
The case relates to arrest of Hilal Ahmad Shergojri, an Over Ground Worker of HM and a close associate of Riyaz Ahmed Naikoo, the then commander of HM who had come to Amritsar to collect the funds to further the terrorist activities in J&K. Rs. 29 lakhs along with a Tata truck was seized from the accused on 25.04.2020 by Punjab Police. This case was originally registered as case FIR no. 135/20 dated 25.04.2020 at Police Station Sadar, Amritsar City, Punjab, under sections 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20 & 21 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 in connection with seizure of Rs. 29 lakhs which were drug proceeds. Subsequently sections 21, 29, 29A & 32 of NDPS Act were added during investigation. The case was re-registered by NIA as RC-23/2020/NIA/DLI dated 08.05.2020 and taken up for investigation. NIA has filed chargesheets against 11 accused persons in Spl. NIA Court, Mohali in the case.
During investigation, it was revealed that Manpreet Singh a hawala operator, had collected heroin, drug proceeds and weapons and transported them in his i20 and Verna car as per directions of accused Ranjit Singh @ Cheetah and Iqbal Singh @ Shera. Further, Manpreet Singh delivered the drugs proceeds to the tune of Rs. 35 lacs and weapons to the charge-sheeted accused Bikram Singh @ Vicky, relative of Ranjeet Singh@ Cheeta during the month of March, 2020.
During searches conducted today, Rs. 20 lacs ( drug proceeds) 130 live rounds of 9 mm, mobile phones, pen drive, one bunch of polythene bags used for packing heroin, one Hyundai Verna car, a two wheeler, documents related to properties, and other incriminating documents have been seized from the house of the suspect.
BARAMULLA, FEBRUARY 4 : Srinagar Court on Thursday forwarded the copy of a complainant to Cyber Police Station Srinagar for necessary action under law.
The Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar forwarded the copy to Cyber police station after the petitioner ARTO Baramulla Mubashir Jan filed a petition through his Counsel Advocate Salim Yousuf seeking registration of an FIR and blockage of social media accounts of one Sirajuddin Salam alias Najar of Kanispora Baramulla who according to petitioner has uploaded videos on Social Media against him to malign his image.
Sources told Kashmir News Trust that Mubashir Jan, Assistant Regional Transport officer Baramulla in his petition has claimed that Sirajuddin Salam is a habitual offender who uses social media networking sites including facebook with malafide intentions to black mail government officials.
The petitioner through his Counsel informed the Court that the accused has uploaded ‘false and baseless’ videos on social media and has played with his reputation and dignity. “The accused also leveled false allegations against him before media at press Enclave Srinagar,” the petitioner stated.
Counsel for the complainant Advocate Saleem Yousuf while arguing the matter said that the accused has no authority under law to upload any defamatory material against any individual
Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar after perusing the record and hearing the Counsel for complainant forwarded the copy of complainant to Station House officer Cyber Police Station Kashmir for necessary action as warranted under law.(KNT)
The Legal Metrology Department (LMD) today issued renewed rate of refill LPG cylinders (Domestic type 14.2Kg) with effect from 4th February, 2021 for all the districts of the Kashmir division.
As per the official handout, the rate of refill LPG cylinders (Domestic type 14.2Kg) at district Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama, Anantnag, Kulgam, Bandipora, Ganderbal has been fixed at Rs 835/- by Oil Marketing Companies (OMC). For places Baramulla, Pahalgam, Dooru the refill rate of cooking gas is Rs 843.50 and for district Kupwara, it is Rs 852/-
The consumers have been advised to ask the delivery-boy of cooking gas to conduct weight-check and leak-check before delivering the refill cylinder. Moreover, consumers should ask for the cash-memo carrying price of the refill gas. In case of any complaint, the department may be reached on toll-free number 1800-180-7114 during office hours.
Meanwhile, the LMD has booked 03 LPG distributors during the month of January for overcharging on refill cylinders. Besides it has also conducted 1312 market inspections in which 161 erring traders were booked for which a penal sum of Rs 6.00 lacs was collected.
Jammu and Kashmir High Court has stayed a government circular issued by the Inspector General of Registration, J&K regarding stamp duty on 30 December last year.
The Circular requires all Registrars and Sub-Registrars to charge stamp duty as per new rates with effect from 1 January 2021 irrespective of the date of uploading of documents onto the National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS), date of filing of the documents with the Registrars/Sub-Registrars.
“In the meantime, the impugned circular issued by the Inspector General of Registration, J&K, Jammu is stayed,” said a bench of Justice Sanjay Dhar passed the orders after hearing a petition filed by one Shabnam Nazir who contended through her lawyer that date of the execution of a document determines the rate at which stamp duty has to be affixed on a document and not the date on which, the document is actually registered by the Sub-Registrar.
To support the contention, her counsel referred to Section 47 of Registration Act, according to which, a document, irrespective of date of its registration, takes effect from the date of its execution.
The counsel further argued that the Inspector General of Registration has no jurisdiction to issue a circular in respect of charging of stamp duties.
Observing that the petition raises an important questions of law, the court admitted it to hearing and issued notice to the government returnable by April 12 .
The court also directed concerned Sub Registrar to consider the document in question presented by the woman for Registration.I”n case the same fulfills all other requirements of law and rules, the document be admitted to Registration without insisting in payment of stamp duty on revised rates, subject to filing of an undertaking by the petitioner (Shabnam) that in case she fails in this petition, she shall make good the deficiency of stamp duty.”(GNS)
Rates all-time high at Rs 90 petrol litre, Diesel reaches Rs 80 per litre
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Srinagar, Feb 04: The fuel prices on Thursday hit a new record in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir as the rates cross the mark of Rs 90 for the first time while the prices of Diesel also soared to Rs 80 per litre.
According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), petrol prices as per notification from oil marketing companies were hiked by 11 paise per litre on Thursday and diesel by 13 paise per litre.
This took the petrol price in Srinagar to Rs 90.02 per litre while Diesel rate climbed to Rs 80.37 a litre, the data revealed.
The rates have been increased after a gap of more than one week.
Fuel prices, which vary from State to State depending on local sales tax or VAT, are now at a record high in the country, prompting cries for a cut in excise duty to ease the burden on consumers.
25-yr-old Ayesha becomes youngest female pilot of India
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Srinagar, Feb 04 : Kashmiri youth have made their name in every field whether it is sports, education or anything else. A 25-year-old Ayesha Aziz, with a Kashmir lineage, has become India’s youngest pilot, making her parents proud.
Ayesha’s father resides in Mumbai while her mother belongs to Kashmir. The country’s youngest pilot grew up in Mumbai only where she completed her studies and achieved her goal of life.
Ayesha said she has been aspiring to become a pilot since her childhood. “Becoming youngest pilot was not important for me, but what exactly is joyous is that I have achieved my dream and goal of my life,” she said.
“I did my studies and grew up in Mumbai. As my mother belongs to Kashmir, we were putting up in the Valley for a long time after my schooling. After completing Class 12th, we stayed in Kashmir for nearly four years. I have been flying in and out of Kashmir for my training and for other purposes after my High Schooling,” she said.
She said as a kid of the mother who belongs to Kashmir, she was often flying there and that’s how she developed interest in flying. “I knew that I wanted to be a pilot when I was in my middle school as I love to travel; I love the entire concept of flying. It fascinated me. Traveling, learning different languages, tasting the world and all these things made me sure that this is what I wanted to become in my life,” she said.
“What is more dynamic than being the one who is piloting an aircraft that’s weighing 70 ton machine and you have the power to pilot it and you are working against gravity. So these things really fascinated me and that’s why I wanted to become the one. I never thought about working from 09-05 jobs. I always wanted to do something adventurous, which is dynamic. There are changes in this field and that’s why I preferred this only,” she said.
Ayesha got her first license to fly an aircraft when she was 16-years-old. “Soon after getting my first license, I got a commercial license after that very shortly,” she said.
Asked about becoming the youngest Indian female pilot, Ayesha stated that she is glad that she has achieved her dream. “I feel it is controversial that I have become the youngest or something else. What is more soothing to hear that I have achieved what I always dreamt of,” she said.
Appealing the Kashmiri children to focus on their target and don’t bother to think about the society, Ayesha Aziz said, “There would be people who will speak against you. But, one must remain more focused towards his/her goal so that it is achieved.”
While appealing parents to support their children in their desires and aspirations, Ayesha said, “The children can’t go ahead until and unless they have the support of their parents. The children are the responsibility of their parents. Parents play a pivotal role in fulfilling their dreams. They should give freedom to their children and let them pursue their goals.”
Talking about the love for Kashmir, Ayesha said she heaved a sigh of relief whenever she visits Valley. “I heave a sigh of relief in Kashmir. I hold a very strong identity of myself from the place where my mother belongs to. Even when I am in Mumbai, I only sip Nun Chai. I always prefer Kashmiri food. Despite spending most of the time outside Kashmir, I know my language (Kashmiri) very well and often speak in this language,” she said.
Besides achieving her goal by becoming a pilot, Ayesha further stated that she desires and loves to do humanitarian service in her life. “I want to help the poor and needy in my life. I am looking forward to collaborating with UNICEF soon to do humanitarian work. Even during lockdown, I was associated with many NGOs in Kashmir and we did some great work. I will love to do humanitarian works again in the future,” 25-year-old Pilot said.
_Directions issued to explore feasibility of a Dedicated Receiving Station for Medical college_
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BARAMULLA, FEBRUARY 04:
Deputy Commissioner Baramulla Mohammad Aijaz today directed the authorities of Government Medical College Baramulla to provide qualitative and efficient patient care services to the people adding that public convenience should be the top most priority viz-a-viz discharging public duties.
The Deputy Commissioner made these remarks during his maiden visit to GMC Baramulla where he took stock of health and medicare facilities being provided to the patients.
On the occasion, DC was appraised by Medical Superintendent Dr Syed Masood about various health and medicare facilities besides giving a brief account of other facilities available in the hospital.
After taking a thorough review of various necessities, DC directed the concerned authorities not to left any stone unturned for ensuring public convenience. He directed for establishing special counters for senior citizens and specially abled persons and said that any kind of laxity won’t be tolerated. He also directed to explore modalities for establishing lift system in the hospital.
The DC also interacted with the patients and attendants and enquired about various facilities being provided to them during which they demanded that all the requisite facilities should be provided in a hassle free manner.
With regard to providing the Reliable power supply to Distt Hospital/GMC,DC directed the concerned authorities to conduct a joint survey for the 33/11KV Rec station or 33kv/ 440V substation which ever is feasible as per the requirement in the institution.
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