Srinagar, Nov 8: National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said that Congress is with Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) and will be part of the group in the upcoming District Development council (DDC) polls.
“Congress President Ghulam Ahmad Mir came to meet me today. He told me that they are with Gupkar declaration and will fight elections unitedly,” Dr Farooq told KNO over phone.
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Moscow, Nov 8: The coronavirus vaccine race will be at its peak in January next year, Professor at the Skoltech Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Dmitry Kulish said at a Harvard Club of Russia online discussion.
“If we talk about the race [on creating an effective vaccine], the peak of the race will occur at the start of January 2021, when everyone will be comparing serious side effects,” Kulish said at the online discussion, the main topic of which was the creation of vaccines amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the professor, most reports on third phase clinical trials of different coronavirus vaccines, including Russia’s Sputnik V, are expected to come out in January, as well as reports on any serious side effects.
Kulish said that mass vaccination could start as early as the beginning of next year, after reports on side effects are analyzed.
In August, Russia became the first country in the world to register a vaccine against the coronavirus, dubbed Sputnik V, and developed by the Gamaleya research institute. The vaccine is now nearing the end of phase 3 clinical trials.
Earlier this week, Rinat Maksyutov, the head of the Russian State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vector, announced that mass vaccination against COVID-19 with Russia’s second coronavirus vaccine, EpiVacCorona, would start in 2021.
Hungary’s foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said a Hungarian company may be able to switch from flu shot production to production of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V in December for final testing and licensing.
Argentina has struck a deal with drug maker AstraZeneca Plc to receive around 22 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine being developed in collaboration with the University of Oxford, with the aim to start deliveries in the first half of next year. Argentina, which is starting to see new cases slow, is hoping to receive some 10 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and a smaller number of doses of Pfizer Inc’s vaccine between December-January. (Additional inputs from Agencies)
New Delhi, Nov 8: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said abrogation of Article 370 provisions and changes in land laws allowing people from across India to purchase property in Jammu and Kashmir do not take away from the people of the Union Territory their right to decide whether or not to sell their property.
He claimed that the Kashmir-centric “so-called mainstream leaders” were feeling rattled because they would not be able to purchase properties in Jammu region so easily at low prices.
The people of Jammu will now have the advantage of choosing their buyers from a larger pan-India pool and also seek higher price, the minister said.
The newly enacted land laws nowhere allow forcible occupation or taking over of anybody’s property or even purchasing property without the owner’s consent, said Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel.
“If that was so, the Gupkar bungalows would have been the first to be taken over,” he told reporters here.
Former J&K chief minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah lives in a bungalow on Gupkar Road, Srinagar.
“It is a matter of common sense that abrogation of Article-370 grants people across India the right to purchase property in Jammu and Kashmir, but it does not take away from the people their right to decide whether to sell the property or not and whom to sell,” Singh said.
He said Gupkar Road is the most preferred site, and, therefore, before warning the people of Jammu to protect their land from being taken away by outsiders, the “so-called mainstream Kashmir-centric leaders” should guard their own bunglows.
“The so-called mainstream Kashmir-centric leaders should first make sure to guard their own palatial bungalows constructed at one of India’s most picturesque locations by the side of Dal Lake on such a majestic scale that they could give a complex to the royal palaces of erstwhile princess,” the minister added.
In a gazette notification, the Centre has omitted the phrase “permanent resident of the state” from Section 17 of the Jammu and Kashmir Development Act that deals with disposal of the land in the union territory, paving the way for people from outside Jammu and Kashmir to buy land in JK and Ladakh, over a year after the nullification of provisions under Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution.
Before the repeal of Article 370 and Article 35-A in August last year, non-residents could not buy any immovable property in Jammu and Kashmir. However, the fresh changes have paved the way for non-residents to buy land in the union territory.
Jammu, Nov 8: Authorities in Bhaderwah area of Doda district have ordered a probe after medicines from hospital supply, worth lakhs of rupees, were found abandoned at several places along Neeru River, officials said on Sunday.
The medicines, reportedly meant for the distribution among the Corona patients, were noticed by people after hundreds of fish died under mysterious circumstances and were found floating in the river near Gupta Ganga temple, Parnala and Atal-garh area, the officials said.
We have taken serious note of it and a fact finding team has been constituted to probe the incident and those found guilty will be dealt with iron hands, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Bhaderwah, Rakesh Kumar said.
Kumar, who is himself heading the fact finding team, said the hospital authorities have maintained that even the expired medicines are not thrown anywhere but properly disposed every month in presence of senior officers.
Neeru River is considered the lifeline of additional district Bhadarwah because it is the main source of potable water and provides water supply to dozens of trout fish farms besides being the source of income to local fishermen.
“We found hundreds of strips of different medicines floating at several places and raised an alarm as hundreds of fish had died mysteriously in the recent past, Neeraj Singh Manhas, a resident of Atalgarh, said.
He said the medicines include hydroxy chloroquine, azithromycin, betamethazone, paractemol, zinc tablets having expiry of 2022.
It clearly indicates that the medicines were meant for Corona patients and have been dumped in water body for unknown reasons May be the delivery man did not want to visit the Corona patient,” Manhas said.
Demanding stern action against those involved, the locals said the responsibility should be immediately fixed and those who have committed the crime should be put behind the bars.
Block Medical Officer, Bhadarwah, Hamid Zargar said the hospital authorities are not responsible for this as the medicines were meant for covid positive patients and were given to the staff to deliver to the patients at their doorsteps.
“This is very unfortunate incident and we are trying to trace the batch number of the medicines recovered from the river and we will also initiate a departmental inquiry on Monday,” he said.
Mumbai, Nov 8: The Bombay High Court will on Monday pronounce its order on the interim bail application filed by Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and two others in connection with the 2018 abetment of suicide case of an interior designer.
On Saturday, a division bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik after a day-long hearing in the pleas reserved its order without granting any immediate relief.
Goswami and the other accused – Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda – had challenged their “illegal arrest” and sought to be released on interim bail.
A notice issued late Saturday night on the high court’s website said the bench would assemble at 3 pm on November 9 for pronouncement of the order.
The bench on Saturday said pendency of the matter before it does not preclude the petitioners from seeking regular bail from the sessions court concerned.
The court said if such bail pleas are filed, then the sessions court shall hear and decide the same in four days from filing of the plea.
Goswami and the two others were arrested by Alibaug police in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on November 4 in connection with the suicide of architect-interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother in 2018 over alleged non-payment of dues by companies of the accused.
After his arrest from his Lower Parel residence in Mumbai, Goswami was taken to Alibaug, where the Chief Judicial Magistrate remanded him and the two others in judicial custody till November 18.
Goswami is currently kept at a local school which has been designated as a COVID-19 centre for the Alibaug prison.
Srinagar, Nov 8: The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has filed a charge-sheet in a local court here against an official o National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for demanding and accepting bribe in February, 2019 case.
A spokesman of the ACB said on Sunday that charge-sheet was procuded against Mohammad Irfan Bhat, the then Office Assistant (OA), NHAI who was caught red handed demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 10000.
Giving details he said charge sheet was filed in the Anti-Corruption Court, Srinagar in Case FIR 05/2019 U/S 5(1) (d) r/w 5(2)J&K Prevention of Corruption Act Svt-2006, Section 4-A Prevention of corruption (Amendment) Act, 2014 Bhat.
He said the case was registered in Police Station ACB Kashmir, on the basis of a written complaint in which the complainant (contractor) stated that an employee Bhat working for NHAI is demanding bribe of Rs 10000 for release of his Bank guarantee document
After registration of Case FIR FIR No. 05/2019 P/S ACB a trap was laid on 18.02.2019 and the accused Bhat was arrested red handed while demanding and accepting an amount of Rs10000 from the complainant.
The Investigation of the case was concluded as proved against the aforementioned accused public servant for launching prosecution and chargesheet of the case was produced.
He said the next date of hearing has been fixed on December 10,2020.
Jammu, Nov 8: Police has slapped Public Safety Act against a panchayat member after he was arrested in land grabbing in Gharota area here on city outskirts.
A police spokesman said in ongoing drive against land encroachment and illegal mining in Akhnoor Police Sub Division, a team from Gharota Police Station led by Station House Officer, Inspector Mahesh Sharma arrested a notorious land grabber under PSA, pursuant to a detention order issued by the District Magistrate Jammu.
The arrested person has been identified as Prabhaker Singh alias Showki (Sarpanch) of Kot, Tehsil Bhalwal District Jammu.
He was a habitual offender with several criminal cases registered against him. He was also involved in land grabbing and several cases registered against him.
The police teams from Jammu Rural arrested the accused under PSA and detained him in Kot Bhalwal Jail.
Police have warned that stern action will be taken against those resorting to illegal mining, encroachments and other unlawful activities.
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Srinagar, Nov 8: Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Justice Gita Mittal last month end visited District Courts of Kupwara and Bandipora and Munsif Courts Gurez and Sogam and reviewed their functioning and facilities available for Judicial fraternity, including lawyers, Judicial Staff and the litigants.
The tour to the districts of Kupwara and Bandipora was conducted by the Chief Justice on October 30 and October 31, respectively during which she also visited far flung areas of Sogam and Gurez to review the working of Munsif Courts there.
During the back to back tour, the Chief Justice was accompanied by the Registrar General of the High Court Jawad Ahmed. Senior officers of civil and police administration of the districts were also present on the occasion.
During her visit to these districts, the Chief Justice interacted with the Judicial Officers and inquired from them about the process of the dispensation of justice, infrastructure and availability of the facilities.
Reviewing the infrastructural requirements in the Courts, the Chief Justice passed several directions to the civil administration for filling the gap for facilitating effective functioning of the judicial system.
The Chief Justice stressed upon the Judicial Officers to work hard and in tandem with the civil and police administration to make the functioning of judicial institutions more vibrant for dispensing prompt justice to the common people.
The Chief Justice also visited the Munsiff Court Sogam and Gurez and took stock of the available infrastructure in the Court Complex.
The lawyer community and the common people hailed the visit of the Chief Justice to the remote Districts .
The Chief Justice had yesterday visited District Court Complex Rajouri.
She reviewed the functioning of the District and Subordinate Courts and took stock of the infrastructural requirements of the Courts in the district. The District Principal and Sessions Judge, Rajouri apprised the Chief Justice about the functioning of the Courts and issues faced by the Lawyers, Litigants and the facilities available in the Court Complex Rajouri.
She also interacted with the Judicial officers and discussed issues faced by them in the smooth dispensation of the justice.
The Chief Justice also inspected the Court Rooms, E-Court Room, Judicial Staff Rooms, facilities available for Litigants, Lawyers and overall infrastructure of the Court Complex at Rajouri for the smooth functioning of the Courts.
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Srinagar, Nov 8: A day after Panthers Party said that they have ousted their Patron Professor Bhim Singh from the party for meeting People’s Alliance for Gupkar Decleration ( PAGD), he said no one can remove him.
“I am founder of the party. No one has right or system to ouster me. To remove a chaprasi a notice is given. There is a procedure. A person is suspended and a committee is formed to decide his fate,” Bhim Singh said.
On being asked about his removal from the party by Harsh Dev Singh, ” Agency gives money to all of the them. They do what agencies want. Agencies and RSS gives them money. They have destroyed the party.”
He said elections have not been conducted. “No one is happy here about land laws. I have petitioned Supreme Court. They cannot do this. They cannot change decisions of constitution assembly on their own.”
On being asked whether he had sought permission from the party for meeting PAGD, he said, “When someone invites me for a tea, shall I ask for permission from the party.”(KNS)
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Kulgam, Nov 8: Police in Kulgam recovered a kidnapped girl and arrested the person involved in the crime.
“On 04-11-2020, Police Station Kulgam received a complaint stating that a girl has been kidnapped by one individual identified as Aejaz Ahmad Rather resident of Gundbal Mohammadpora,” a police spokesman said.
He said accordingly, a case FIR No. 197/2020 under relevant sections of law was registered in Police Station Kulgam and investigation was initiated.
During the course of investigation a special team was constituted.
“The special team headed by DySP HQRS Kulgam along with SHO PS Kulgam while acting on specific leads were able to recover the kidnapped girl and arrested the kidnapper. He has been shifted to PS Kulgam where he remains in custody,” the spokesman said.
He said after fulfilling all medico-legal formalities, the girl has been handed over to her legal heirs. Investigation into the matter is in progress.
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