Srinagar, Sep 28: Two brothers were among four persons who died due to asphyxiation while cleaning a trench at Tulkhan Bijbhera in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
Official said that two person are from Luktipora and as many others from Tulkhun.
They have been identified as Nazir Ahmad Dar (45) his brother Abdul Rashid Dar (40) sons of Ghulam Hassan Dar of Tulkhan and Asrheed Ahmad Wani (45) son of Abdul Rashid and Sajad Ahmad Wani (30) son of Luktipora.
SDM Bijbhera Jahangir confirmed that four persons died while cleaning the trench.

Kupwara, Sep 26: From past over 8 months, a customer is wandering from pillar to post to get his hard earned money back from the bank.
A Jammu Kashmir Bank customer from North Kashmir’s Kupwara district went to SBI ATM in Kralpora Kupwara on 7 January 2020 to make a transaction of Rs 3,000 but the machine didn’t dispense the cash and yet the amount was debited from his bank account.
“I don’t know whether it happened due to machine malfunction or was it an ATM fraud. What I know is that I filed a complaint on 9 January at JK Bank Kralpora Branch, where the concerned official said that it will be sent to State Bank of India and the amount will get credited in my account. Over 8 months have expired, neither JK Bank cares nor SBI gives a damn to my grievance,” said JK Bank customer Ajaz Ahmed Khan from Kralpora told KNT.
“Who will refund my debited money,” he questioned. “After completing all formalities, JK Bank told me that SBI will refund my money to my account within 7 working days. JK Bank tells me they have sent my complaint to SBI while SBI claims they didn’t receive any such complaint from JK Bank. I fail to understand who is lying and who is telling the truth,” Khan said.
SBI Head for Baramulla Muhammad Umar told Kashmir News Trust that they haven’t received any such complaint from JK Bank. He said the affected customer deserves compensation under RBI rules for the alleged negligence committed by JK Bank as the account holder is their customer.
Branch Manager JK Bank Kralpora expressed surprise over the issue and requested to forward the cell number of the victim customer, which was done. (KNT)

New Delhi, Sep 28: The government of Jammu and Kashmir has agreed in principle to amend rules for ease in issue of domicile certificate, Union Northeast Development Minister Jitendra Singh said on Sunday after a discussion with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam.
“After discussion with Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and CS Subrahmanyam, the UT Govt has agreed in principle to amend/modify rules for ease in issue of domicile certificate. Formal orders being issued soon,” Singh tweeted.
He added, “This will particularly facilitate issuing Domicile Certificate to children producing PRC (permanent resident certificate) of any of the parents and women from outside married to PRC holder men.”

Decision to do away with the Entrance Exam is not final: VC IUST
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Pulwama, Sept 27: The students aspiring to get admission in Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) Awantipora have complained of unfairness as the varsity is going to skip the annual entrance exam, at least according to the official Admission Notification No. 1 of 2020.
According to the official notification, B.Tech Engineering, MBA/MBA-IB, M.Tech Food Technology and MBA (5-Year Integrated) admissions will be done as per performance in JEE Main, CMAT, GATE and test conducted by a National Level Testing Agency, respectively. However, for all other programs including M.A and M.Sc, the admissions will be “based on the percentage of marks in aggregate obtained by a candidate in the qualifying examination.”
Some agitated aspirants, while expressing their fears over phone said various Universities across the State have invited fresh admissions for current academic session 2020-21 and are selecting the candidates by conducting Entrance Examination but the IUST Awantipora seems to do otherwise.
“Recently, Kashmir University successfully conducted its entrance examination for various Post Graduate and Undergraduate programs and is going to conduct other tests for Admissions, under proper SOPs in place. Even, the national level examinations for Medical and Engineering studies like NEET & JEE Mains were conducted across the country in which lakhs of students appeared. But I fail to understand the helplessness of IUST authorities,” Adnan Mushtaq, a student said.
Saima Gulzar, another student, said, “IUST Awantipora has decided to select candidates for admission to various PG & UG programs as per the percentage in their qualifying exam, which is Graduation for PG Programs, and Diploma for B-Tech Lateral Entry. This is very brazen.”
The candidates are aghast against the University authorities for not conducting the usual entrance examination for new admissions for current academic session.
“The Entrance Exam issue impacts fever programs offered by the University, which are mainly M.A and M.Sc. Also, the decision to do away with the Entrance Exam is not final, given that the application process ends on October 03 (Saturday) and a meeting will be conducted on Monday (October 05) to take a final call,” Professor Mushtaq Siddiqi, the varsity’s Vice-Chancellor said.
The VC, however, said that one of the key factors which will impact the decision will be the number of applicants for the entrance exam. “We are facing a stiff resistance from on-roll students to conduct their exams online and we now decided to blend the process with both online and offline, (after accessing the number of examinees),” the VC said. (KNT)

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Srinagar, Sept 28: Scores of wives of former Kashmiri militants who married across LoC and returned along with wives and children to this side of Kashmir under rehabilitation policy announced in 2010, Monday took out a march to Rajbhawan, but were detained.
Reports said a group of around eleven women, comprising ex Kashmiri militant’s spouses were detained by the police on way to Rajbhawan here and lodged them at Rammunshi Bagh police station.
Dozens of women who married Kashmiri youth who instead of picking arms across LoC started routine work there, returned to Kashmir through Nepal border in the year 2010 under the government’s rehabilitation policy for former militants who had crossed over to the other side of Line of Control (LoC) for arms training in 1990 and wanted to return to their homes to live a normal life again.
Protesting women who lived in different parts of Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PAK) since their arrival in this part of Kashmir, nine years ago have been hitting streets to press for their demands including citizenship rights and issuance of travel documents.
Witnesses said that these ill-fated women had earlier sought an appointment with Lieutenant Governor at Rajbhawan to apprise him about the problems they face in Kashmir and were asked to visit after a week or two. They were however detained by the police on way to Rajbhawan near Gupkar Road here this afternoon and later lodged at police station Rammunshi Bagh.
“Our future seems bleak in Kashmir as we are treated as foreigners and not Kashmiri’s. Our children are denied admission in schools. We cannot move back to Pakistan nor can we meet our parents,” said one of the protesting woman, after her release.
She appealed the Lieutenant Governor to help them getting travel documents and Indian citizenship rights or else deport us back to Pakistan as we cannot live a nomadic life anymore,” she added—(KNO)