New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to give an urgent hearing to a mention by two Muslim girl students in connection with the hijab row in Karnataka and said the apex court will interfere only at an appropriate time.

Appearing for the girl students, senior advocate Devadatt Kamat said the Karnataka High Court has asked all students not to display their religious identity through dresses till further orders and this violated the rights of the girls.

While refusing to give an urgent hearing, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana observed: “Don’t spread these things to a national level. We will interfere only at an appropriate time.”

The CJI told Kamat: “You are talking about constitutional rights of a section of the society. We are for the protection of constitutional rights of every individual, every community.” Kamat requested that the petition be heard on Monday. The Chief Justice said: “Wait. We will list at an appropriate time.”

He added: “We know what is happening in the state and are aware of the hearings before the High Court. Is it proper to bring the issue to the national level at this stage? We will interfere, if need be, at an appropriate stage.”

The Supreme Court said constitutional rights were available to each community and it will protect them. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for Karnataka, said there should be no attempt to politicize the issue. (UNI)

Srinagar: The video of relief being provided to the fire victims of Koreg Ganderbal shared by a news channel has been provided by the district administration Ganderbal from Red Cross.

Tehsildar Tulmulla in a statement said that he along with his field staff visited the fire victims and found the house of Zahoor Ahmad son of Abdul Ahad Wani having been destroyed in the fire incident. All the house hold items were also found burnt in the blaze.

The tehsil administration on spot distributed the relief from Red Cross among the victim family in the form of tent, five blankets and two food kits.

Tehsildar also requested the R and B division Ganderbal to take assessment of the damage so that the case is forwarded for Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal for relief to the victims under SDRF.

The administration also has requested assistant director FCS and CAD has also been requested to provide free ration to the fire victim.

By: Nadeem Nadu

Srinagar: Daily Covid cases in Jammu and Kashmir fell to 34-day low, with 540 infections reported in the last 24 hours even as two persons succumbed to the virus during the time, officials said on Friday.

They said 312 of the fresh cases were reported from Jammu Division and 228 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall infection tally to 449873. On January 7, 542 persons had tested positive for the pathogen in J&K.

Regarding the fatalities, the officials said that both of them were reported from Kashmir Valley. So far 4741 persons have succumbed to the virus—2320 in Jammu and 2421 in Kashmir.

Giving district-wise details of the cases, they said, Srinagar reported 89, Baramulla 29, Budgam 32, Pulwama 12, Kupwara 26, Anantnag 7, Bandipora 15, Ganderbal 15, Kulgam 6, Shopian 6, Jammu 131, Udhampur 22, Rajouri 9, Doda 61, Kathua 27, Samba 7, Kishtwar 1, Poonch 6, Ramban 36 and Reasi 12.

A number of these cases were confirmed at GMC Srinagar and Anantnag’s diagnostic labouratory.

The GMC Srinagar cases include female (30) from Pattan, male (57) from Indranagar Srinagar, male (35) from Magarmalbagh, male (62) from Rangpora, male (40) from Habbak, male (29) from Habbak,male (10) from Naseembagh, female (30) from Malbagh, male (65) from Naseembagh, female (34) from Naseembagh, female (49) from Malbagh, female (31) from Harwan, male (24) from Shalimar, female (29) from Parimpora, female (21) from HMT, female (31) from Ganderbal, male (14) (NA) from Gulshanabad Pulwama, male (14) (NA) from Avengund Ulwama, male (15) (NA) from Rajpora Pulwama, male(15) (NA) from Drabgam Pulwama, female (11) (NA) from Rajpora, female (13) (NA) from Rajpora, female (8) (NA) from Batmaran Wanpora, male(7) (NA) from Rajpora Pulwama, male (13) (NA) from Doompora, male (14) (NA) from Rajpora, male (14) (NA) from Bertipora Shopain, male (13) (NA) Hanjan Payeen, female (10) (NA) from Hanjan Pulwama, male (40) (NA) from Tujan , male (23) (NA) from Abhama Pulwama, male (60) from Sumberbagh Srinagar, female (14) from Ladhoo Pampore, female (30) Main Pampore, male (50) from Pampore, female (25) from Kandizal Pampore, male (75) from Bagender, female (31) from Drangbal Pampore, female (30) from Nagbal, female (60) from Tral, male (58) from Machama, female (55) from Neighbok, female (12) from Bangdaar, female (12) from Nargistaan, male (12) from Nargistsan, female (25) from Satoora, female (30) from Khangund, male (40) from Panjran Pulwama, male (14) from Gundachan Pulwama, male (15) from Palpora Pulwama, female (48) from Zakoora, female (41) from Nigeen, male (45) from Natipora, male (32) from Dooru, female (25) from Chanpora, male (65) from Kralpora Kupwara, male (56) from Chanpora Srinagar, female (43) from Chanpora Srinagar, female (54) from Batmaloo, female (40) (NA) from Sanatnagar, male (84) (NA) from Rawalpora, male (54) (NA) from Sanatnagar, male (24) from Batmaloo, female (66) (NA) from Bemina, male (45) (NA) from Zoonimar, femae (45) from Nowshera, female (50) (NA) from Hawal and female (34) (NA) from Kupwara

The GMC Anantnag cases include include male (65) from Kamad Ang, male (70) from Rampora Ang, male (20) from Munnad Kulgam, female (30) from B B Nowgam, male (38) from Sagam Kokernag, male (50) from Goihard Kokernag, female (60) from Nambal Ang, female (60) from Nowgam Shangus, male (35) from Chittergull Shangus, female (30) from Sirhama Bij, two females (45, 30) from Hallan Lammer, female (65) from Mehmood Abad, female (20) from Wanpora, male (60) from C Pajan, female (50) from Yarhole Babapora, female (38) from Banihal, female (30) from Babapora, male (45) from Wanpora Kulgam and male (32) from Frisal Kulgam.

Besides, they said, 1628 Covid-19 patients recovered during the time— 682 from Jammu Division and 944 from Kashmir. So far 437708 people have recovered, leaving the active case tally at 7424—2918 in Jammu and 4506 in Kashmir.

They said there was no new confirmed case of mucormycosis (black fungus) reported today. So far 51 black fungus cases have been confirmed in J&K, the officials said. They also informed that 52605 doses of covid-19 vaccine were administered during the time in J&K. (GNS)

By: Jahangeer Ganaie

Srinagar: The active cases continue to decrease besides that recovery rate continues to increase in Jammu and Kashmir since last two weeks in Jammu and Kashmir.

As per the data, during third wave of Covid-19 in J&K were on 26 January when total number of active cases were 47,969.

However, since 26 January the number of recovery cases were more than the number of positive cases every day and number of active cases have reduced to 7,424.

In other words, since 26 January, 40,545 persons suffering from Covid-19 virus have recovered while in the same period 35,101 cases have been reported.

Active cases have decreased from 34,400 to 4,506 in Kashmir while active cases have decreased from 13,569 to 2,918 in Jammu division in same period.

Moreover, since 26 January the recovery rate has increased from 87.32 percent to 97.30 percent in J&K.

Furthermore, the death toll in J&K has increased from 4,635 to 4,741 that means since 26 January 106 Covid related deaths have been reported in J&K.

As per the data 106 deaths reported since 26 January include 56 from Jammu division and 50 from Kashmir division. (KNO)

By: Bhat Imran

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (BOSE) is likely to announce annual regular results of 10th standard on Monday.

Officials at BOSE said, “The results would be declared mostly likely on Monday and if any case the results are delayed, it would be declared on Tuesday,”

The official informed that the deadline for declaring the results was February-15.

JKBOSE on November-20 conducted the first paper of annual regular exams of 10th standard in which around 74,385 students were enrolled to appear in the examination of English papers in the Kashmir region in more than 384 designated examination centers.

Pertinently, the government had reduced the syllabi of secondary and higher secondary classes of Jammu and Kashmir by thirty percent following the closure of schools in view of COVID-19 pandemic.

Earlier, the Board of School Education (BOSE) on Tuesday declared annual regular results of 12th standard of Kashmir division with an overall pass percentage of 75 percent. (KNO)