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A massive fire broke out today in the forest area along the Line of Control (LoC) at Mendhar in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, but there were no casualties.
Official sources said that smoke filled the air after forest area caught fire. They said that it seems fire erupted on the side of Pakistan and later spread to the Indian part.
Sources added that there were no reports of any casualties. They said due to massive snow accumulation it is very difficult to reach the terrain.
“Mine blasts may occur if fire continues to spread in the areas called mine fields,” they said. (KNT)
Private school managements that left no stone unturned in exacting school fee from hapless parents for the lockdown period have now started terminating school teachers en-masse to save, whatever meager salaries they were offering to them.
This came to light when teachers from a private school namely ‘Muslim Educational Institute’ (MEI) assembled here in Press Enclave Srinagar stating that the school management has so for terminated 16 teachers who were demanding salaries.
The school in question is located in saffron town Pampore of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
The protesting teachers said they didn’t get any salary from the school during lock down period but offered their services regularly.
“We were conducting online classes, checking assignments of students and offering other services. When parents deposited the fee, we demanded our salaries that have been withheld from past 7 months. But, instead of paying fee, the school management started sending termination orders by post. So for 16 teachers have received the termination orders while 8 teachers are still waiting for these orders,” the protesting teachers who were carrying placards told news agency Kashmir News Trust.
“School management is behaving inhumanly with us. Many of us are getting calls from school, threatening us of consequences if we highlight the matter. The behavior of the Principal is totally inhuman,” they said.
“We have been working in this private school for the past 20 years. Still the management has the audacity to humiliate us. Salary is our right. We have offered our services while the school has already exacted fee from the students. In order to save money, the management is now trying to terminate us,” they said.
Authorities have already issued directions to schools not to terminate the services of teachers. “This is gross violation of government directives; they said and sought intervention of District Development Commissioner and Chief Education Officer Pulwama. (KNT)
Pakistani women married to former Kashmiri militants, who had arrived in Valley under government’s rehabilitation policy in 2010, Monday once again staged protest in Kashmir capital Srinagar.
Holding placards, and raising slogans these women asked Government of India either provide them citizenship rights or deport them back to Pakistan.
The protesting women along with their kids assembled here at Press Enclave and appealed both India and Pakistan to think about them and do justice to them on humanitarian grounds.
They said when they are not entitled to citizenship how come a Pakistani woman was allowed to contest DDC polls.
“We are suffering badly. Please send us back or give us citizenship rights. We appeal both India and Pakistan to think about us. We want to visit our home,” the protesting Pakistani women told news agency KNT.
“Our appeal to the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan is to address our issues sensibly. We are living a miserable life here, and our future seems bleak. Please help us and deport us,” they said.
They said scores of Pakistani women who had arrived in Kashmir along with their former militant husbands through India-Nepal border under the government’s rehabilitation policy in 2010 are treated as “second-class citizens”.
“We are also human beings and want to be treated justly. What is our fault? We were promised something but got another thing. Now our husbands are living peacefully, but we are suffering. We are out of touch with our families and on humanitarian grounds, we should be allowed to go back to Pakistan or be given citizenship rights,” they said. (KNT)
Chief Education Officer Baramulla has placed under suspension a teacher allegedly involved in teaching in a private coaching institute.
According to an order issued here, the teacher Farooq Ahmad Khan, RRT PS New Colony Bangdara Zone Wagoora presently deployed at HSS Sheikh Pora, has been also attached to HSS Fathegari till further orders.
“On the instruction of the Director school Education Kashmir to verify the complaint against the RRT who is allegedly involved in teaching in a private coaching institute under the name and style of path finder Baramulla situated at Ahmed Complex opposite Masjid Al-Rashaad Baramulla, an inspection team visited the spot on 30-01-2021 and reported that complaint was found on facts” reads the order, a copy of which lies with GNS.
“During the course of inspection, the teacher concerned was asked to clarify under what orders he has engaged himself as teaching faculty member in the private coaching center despite of the fact that there is clear cut ban for govt teachers,” the order reads, adding, “ Instead of providing any convincing justification, the team reported that the teacher concerned reacted violently and used filthy and foul language to disgrace the visiting team” Also the teacher behaved extra ordinarily and threatened the visiting team that dire consequences will arise if any, disciplinary action is got initiated against him by the department, the order said.
“In the light of standing government orders the teacher concerned has not only acted in gross violation of the instructions but has also exhibited his highheadness and absolute arrogance to disregard and disrespect the visiting team during the course of their inspection to the said institution.” (GNS)
The Army on Monday said it was investigating the circumstances in which a soldier died at a forward post along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
An Army official said it was clarified that the incident in which the soldier died was “non-operational in nature”.
“Circumstances under which Sepoy Nikhil Dayma was found dead on 29 January 2021 at around 1330 hrs while on sentry duty at a forward post along the LoC in Kashmir are being investigated,” he said.
Earlier, it was reported that Dayma died in an encounter with militants in the Uri sector along the LoC.
Dayma, a resident of Alwar in Rajasthan, had reportedly returned to duty on January 13 after availing leave.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and BJP MP from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur Sukhbir Jaunapuria had paid tributes to Dayma, claiming that he was killed at Uri in an encounter with terrorists.
“Salute the martyrdom of Alwar, #Rajasthan’s braveheart Sh. Nikhil Dayma who made the supreme sacrifice in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir. My heartfelt condolences to his family members & prayers that they find strength. We stand with them in this difficult time,” Gehlot tweeted on Saturday.
On Sunday, Jaunapuria visited the slain soldier’s bereaved family as well.(PTI)
Three of a family including 2 children were wounded after India and Pakistan treaded fire in Mankote Sector of Poonch district and resorted to massive shelling on Monday evening.
Defense sources told KNT that at about 17:45 hours Pakistan initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small Arms and shelling with mortars along LoC in Mankote sector of J&K’s Poonch district.
He said District Indian Army retaliated befittingly.
Local sources said that a shell landed in the premises of a local injuring 3 of a family. The injured included an elderly man and 2 children who have been evacuated to hospital for treatment.
The intermittent exchange of shelling was going on till the filing of this report. (KNT)
A British foreign National and a skii enthusiast, Lachlan Stewart, who was on a Ski trip to Gulmarg, lost his track while skiing at Afarwat/Gondola Phase 2 on 31 Jan 21.
A statement issued by Army stated that after struggling for two hours in heavy snow, he reached the other side of Afarwat towards dense jungle at around 5 pm. Having landed up in a ‘no telephone signal’ zone, the individual was unable to contact his hotel staff or anyone else.
He was spotted by an Army Patrol party of Gulmarg Battalion and was rescued to their nearest Company Operating Base. It was a great relief for the individual as he was drenching wet after negotiating Nalas and snow in wilderness. The individual was treated with great hospitality as per the ethos of the Army, and was given new pair of shoes, shocks and warm refreshments.
Later in the evening, Mr Lachlan Stewart was dropped by Army to his hotel in Gulmarg. Mr Lachlan thanked the Army for this life saving effort. (KNT)
Uri Police on Monday busted a gang of family members that used to extract money from people by threatening to implicate them in false sexual harrasment/rape cases.
Police official told KNS that the accused person along with his wife were arrested. “Both are hailing from Uri”, he said.
A case FIR No 09 dated 30/01/2021 has been lodged under sections 420, 506 and 120-B of the IPC, while the accused have been remanded in police custody, an official said.
According to police, few mobile phones and signed bank cheques were siezed from the accused persons. “The accused women used to get contact numbers of men from public places like banks, shops etc who was calling them later on to lure/honeytrap them, record their conversations and later threaten them with implication in false sexual harassment/rape case etc to extract money from them through her husband”, official said.
“One such case came to light on January 29, when a shop keeper/ blacksmith of Lagama village approached police that he was trapped by the said woman and later threatened him to pay Rs 40 thousand, failing which he would be framed in a false sexual harassment case. The gang has duped many men in the area, but they failed to report out of shame or threat”, he said. (KNS)
In the wake of bird flu threat looming large in some areas of J&K, several crows were found dead under mysterious circumstances in Sub Divisin Uri.
Crows were found dead in villages Bilal Abad Garkote, Nambla and Madya Kamalkote , triggering panic among locals.
The inhabitants of these villages have requested to DC Baramulla and SDM Uri to instruc the concerned department to send the teams to the villages to ascertain the cause of deaths crows.
Dr Tahir Gani Banday Animal Husbandry department Uri told we have send teams to the area and collect the dead crows.
He appealed people to bury the dead crows properly if any one found in the areas.
Bhopial based, ‘The National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD)’ have dispatched a report in which samples of some dead crows from Srinagar have been tested positive for Avian Influenza-H5N8 strain.
Srinagar Administration shortly after receiving the report has sounded an alert in the areas where from the samples of these dead crows were lifted and subsequently had been sent to ICAR-NISHAD Bhopal.
“Samples from dead crows lifted near the Delhi Public School at Athwajan and the Flood Spill Channel at Peerbagh have tested positive for avian influenza – H5N8 strain- as per a report received from the ICAR-NISHAD Bhopal,” Srinagar Administration revealed.
The Srinagar Administration as per News Agency KNTsaid that in accordance with the stipulated guidelines a 10-kilometer radius area around each of the said locations has been declared as alert zone – where among other measures surveillance and sampling will be conducted to ascertain and prevent the spread.
H5N8 is a subtype of the Influenza A virus and is sometimes called bird flu virus. Although H5N8 is considered one of the less pathogenic subtypes for humans, it is beginning to become more pathogenic. H5N8 has previously been used in place of the highly pathogenic H1N1 in studies. (KNT)
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