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2 IPS officers of J&K cadre to hold ADG level positions at Centre

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29/04/2020

2 IPS officers of J&K cadre to hold ADG level positions at Centre

Nasir Azam

Srinagar, Apr 29: The Government of India has empanelled two IPS officers of Jammu & Kashmir cadre to hold additional director general or its equivalent posts at the Centre.

The Appointments Committee of Cabinet(ACC) has cleared a proposal for empanelment of IPS officer of 1991 batch for holding ADG/ADG equivalent positions.

Two IPS officers of J&K –R.R. Swain and Arun Kumar- figure in the list of 17 officers cleared by the powerful panel headed by Prime Minister. While Swain is on deputation with Ministry of External Affairs from 2016, Choudhary is posted as ADGP Armed Police.

Empanelment is the process of drawing up a list of officers from the All-India Services for possible selection to positions at Centre. It relates strictly to suitability for holding posts under the Central Government.

It is worthwhile to mention here that two J&K cadre IAS officers were recently posted as secretaries in central government departments.

According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Trainings, Pradip Kumar Tripathi, special secretary and establishment officer, department of Personnel and Trainings has been posted as secretary Ministry of Steel upon superannuation of present incumbent Binoy Kumar on 31-05-2020.

Sudhanshu Panday, Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industries was posted as secretary Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs , Food and Public Distribution—(KNO)

132 families hit by landslide to get land on lease: Administrative Council

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132 families hit by landslide to get land on lease: Administrative Council

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Jammu, Apr 29: To provide relief to the landslide victims of village Saddal in District Udhampur, the Administrative Council, which met under the chairmanship of Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, G C Murmu on Wednesday accorded sanction to the grant of 5 marla land on lease basis each to the 132 families affected due to the natural calamity in 2014.

As per the decision, 71 families shall be provided land in village Mansar and 61 affected families shall be given land in village Debriah in District Udhampur, for their rehabilitation.

The Administrative Council also accorded sanction to the transfer of Shamilat (Kahcharai) land measuring 60 kanals situated in village Chandhara in District Pulwama to the School Education Department for establishing Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pulwama.

Union MoS in PMO Dr Jitendra Singh, who is also sitting Member Parliament from Kathua-Udhampur-Doda Parliamentary Constituency soon after the natural calamity took place, also donated Rs 70 lakhs from personal resources for raising hutments with all basic facilities like solar lights, water supply and essential commodities.

He had been time to time taking up the concern with the respective administrations.

Pertinent to mention here that the team of Archeological Survey of India had also visited to the spot and conducted survey before the construction work set into motion.

UGC releases exam dates, academic calendar

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UGC releases exam dates, academic calendar

New Delhi, Apr 29: The University Grants Commission or UGC, the higher education regulator, has released exam details and academic calendar today. The commission said the intermediate semester students will be graded based on internal assessment of the present and previous semester while the exams for the terminal semester students will be held in the month of July.

For intermediate semester students in the states where the COVID-19 situation has normalized, there will be exams in the month of July.

Regarding the pending examinations, the Commission said the universities may adopt alternative and simplified modes and methods of examinations to complete the process in shorter period of time.

In view of Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, the UGC constituted an expert committee to deliberate and make recommendations on the issues related to the examinations and the academic calendar to avoid academic loss and take appropriate measures for the future of students.

The expert committee was headed by Prof. R. C. Kuhad, Former Member, UGC and Vice Chancellor, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana along with other members.

The Commission at its meeting held on April 27, 2020 accepted the Report of the Committee and approved the guidelines on examinations and academic calendar.

These UGC guidelines on examinations and academic calendar for the universities in view of COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown were issued in presence of Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ in New Delhi today. Secretary, Higher Education, MHRD Amit Khare and senior officials of the Ministry and UGC were present on the occasion.

MEA appoints new envoys for UN, Slovenia, Austria, Qatar, Bahrain

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New Delhi, Apr 29: The government on Wednesday appointed senior diplomat T S Tirumurti as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Currently, he is serving as Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

A 1985-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, Mr Tirumurti will succeed Syed Akbaruddin, a prominent face in Indian diplomacy. Mr Akbaruddin is due to retire next month.

‘Mr Tirumurti has been appointed as the next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations at New York,’ the MEA said.

The government has also appointed senior diplomat Namrata S Kumar as India’s next ambassador to Slovenia, while Jaideep Mazumdar goes to Austria as the country’s next envoy.

Joint Secretary in the ministry Deepak Mittal was appointed as the Ambassador of India to Qatar. Another senior diplomat, Piyush Srivastava, has been appointed as the next Ambassador to Bahrain.

Tablighi Jamaat silences hate mongers

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29/04/2020

Members of Tablighi Jamaat, who had tested positive for COVID-19 after attending religious congregation at Nizamuddin in New Delhi last month, have come forward in large numbers to donate plasma to save the lives of infected patients. Their gesture is befitting to reply to a section of media which launched a vicious propaganda against them.
Soon after the outbreak of COVID-19 in March this year a section of media left no stone unturned to demonize the Tablighi Jamaat members and projected them as main culprits for spreading COVID-19 in the country.
No stone was left unturned to project them as undisciplined lot, who didn’t pay any heed towards the warnings issued by the administration. The Nizamuddin Markaz where the religious congregation was held issued repeated statements to clarify that it had sought prior permission from the government and no rules were violated. But no one was ready to listen to them as section of the media didn’t allow them to present their version.
The Tablighis who were projected as undisciplined and unruly after recovering from the COVID-19 infection were the first ones to respond to the appeal of Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, who claimed that plasma theory is giving positive results. The members of Tablighi Jamaat made a beeline outside the hospitals to donate their plasma with a hope that their plasma will save the lives of critical patients.
Although Centre on Wednesday said that plasma theory is not that safe and cannot be considered as a complete treatment for the COVID-19 but a few experts are of the opinion that it can work and in some patients it has already worked.
Members of Tablighi Jamaat by their one gesture have given a befitting reply to hate mongers, who vitiated and polarized the environment in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak, just for the sake of TRPs and running their media houses. One can only feel pity for such people with a sick mind, who leave no opportunity to even encash a catastrophe.

Mehul Choksi Tops RBI List Of Defaulters Who Owe Nearly Rs 70,000 Crore

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29/04/2020

New Delhi : Business tycoons Mehul Choksi, the Jhunjhunwala brothers, and Vijay Mallya are among the prominent individuals linked to companies named by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a list of the top 50 wilful defaulters accused of scamming the country’s banks.

In a Right to Information or RTI response to activist Saket Gokhale released on Tuesday, the RBI said that outstanding loans amounting to Rs 68,607 crore taken out by the 50 firms have been written off till September 30, 2019.

A “write-off” is an accounting term used to denote assets whose value becomes zero. Written-off loans refer to debt that has been factored as a loss even though the lender may continue attempts to recover it.

Fugitive diamantine Mehul Choksi’s company Gitanjali Gems tops the list of these defaulters with Rs 5,492 crore. Choksi’s other firms Gili India and Nakshatra Brands also have loans of Rs 1,447 and Rs 1,109 crore respectively written off.

He is followed by REI Agro with Rs 4,314 crore and Winsome Diamonds with Rs 4,076 crore.

Rotomac Global Private Limited owes Rs 2,850 crore which have been written off followed by Kudos Chemie Ltd with Rs 2,326 crore, Ruchi Soya Industries Limited, now owned by Yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali, with Rs 2,212 crore and Zoom Developers Pvt Ltd with Rs 2,012 crore.

Hundreds Of Migrant Workers Vandalise Property In Gujarat’s Surat: Police

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29/04/2020

Surat : Hundreds of migrant workers came out on roads and vandalised the office of an under-construction building and some vehicles in Gujarat’s Surat district today while demanding that they be sent back to their native places, the police said.The workers were earlier hired by contractors engaged in the construction of the Diamond Bourse Complex in Khajod area of Surat, they said.It all started when the workers learnt that their contractors have brought in more labourers from other parts of Gujarat to speed up the construction work after getting approval of the district collector, Deputy Commissioner of Police (zone-3) Vidhi Chaudhari said.“They got angry after seeing labourers from outside at the site. They claimed that these outsiders may be carrying coronavirus. These workers then started demanding that if permission can be granted to bring outsiders here, then why can’t they travel to their native places.

Coronavirus – Delhi Asks Centre To Pass Class 10, 12 Students Based On Internal Exams

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29/04/2020

New Delhi : With the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) not able to conduct nationwide exams amid the coronavirus crisis, the Delhi government on Tuesday urged the central government to promote Class 10 and 12 students based on internal exams.

Delhi has also requested for an at least 30 per cent reduction in course material for all classes and also reduced syllabus in JEE, NEET and other higher education examinations, Education Minister Manish Sisodia tweeted.

“I joined a discussion today with the Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank ji and other education ministers of the country and made the following suggestions,” Mr Sisodia tweeted in Hindi.

“It will not be possible to conduct the remaining exams of CBSE 10th and 12th exams so children should be passed on the basis of internal exams as children of 9th and 11th have been passed,” he said.

“For the next year, the entire syllabus should be reduced by at least 30 per cent and the entrance examinations of JEE, NEET and other higher education institutions should also be taken on the basis of reduced syllabus,” he wrote.

Door-to-door health survey: DC Srinagar visits various areas to inspect conduct

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29/04/2020

Over 50 thousand citizens covered under the survey in two days; over 700 equipped teams going door-to-door collecting relevant information

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SRINAGAR, APRIL 28: The door-to-door health survey which started here Monday is in full swing across Srinagar district with tens of thousands of citizens covered so far. The survey is being held to determine the exact spread of COVID-19 in the district.
Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary Tuesday visited various areas in different parts of the district to inspect conduct of this survey which is being held across Srinagar district.
He visited various households on the occasion and interacted with the people emphasising the importance of this survey and participation therein.
Scores of residents appreciated the proactive role of the district administration in general and the DC in particular in their efforts to contain spread of the COVID-19 disease and putting in place a mechanism for availability of essential services in the district.Over 10 thousand households and a pollution of over 50 thousand citizens were covered under the health survey in just two days in the district.It is notable that some 700 teams comprising officials from Health, ICDS and Election departments have been pressed into service for holding this important survey which is aimed at determining the spread of the COVID-19 disease in the district and the course of the action that should be taken to deal with it.
The data generated as part of this survey is being collected using the Swasthya Nidhi mobile application which was recently launched by the government. The survey is targeted for completion within two weeks.
On the occasion the DC also visited several banks operating in these areas to inspect adherence to social distancing norms. He interacted with the staff at each bank and stressed strict adherence to all norms and guidelines as laid down. It is notable that the district administration has provided thousands of chairs to banks to enable their customers to comply with social distancing norms.Earlier Dr Shahid visited several areas notified as COVID-19 red zones in the district to take stock of the ongoing health survey and the availability of essential services and supplies therein.In each of these areas he sought detailed status of provision of relevant facilities to residents from concerned nodal officers and zonal committees constituted for ensuring availability of essential supplies and carrying out the mandatory surveillance and survey activities.He also interacted with local representatives of these areas to take feedback from them about availability of facilities and essential supplies in their respective areas.Dr Shahid assured them that the administration has drawn up a comprehensive plan covering all aspects and that restrictions on public movement and activities in their respective areas is a part of this elaborate plan aimed at containing spread of the COVID-19 disease. He assured that all arrangements are in place for guaranteed provision of essential services and supplies to all households in all red zone areas.

LAWDA demolishes 7 illegal constructions

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SRINGAR, APRIL 28: A massive demolition drive was carried out by the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority under the supervision of Enforcement Officer in the area of Wangund Teilbal, Chandpora, Harwan, Nishat Syed Colony, Lashkari, Mohalla and Laam Braine. As many as 07 illegal constructions/structures were demolished including 04 double storey houses, one single storey, one concrete block and one shop.
During the demolition there was huge resistance at Wangund Teilbal by the locals, gathered on spot and pelted stones, resulting in law and order problem. In the process some of the police personnel, a constable and officials of the LWDA including Incharge Supervisor, Mehraj-Ud-d-Din Pandit got injured.raze
Pertinent to mention that the unscrupulous elements are taking undue advantage of Covid-19 lockdown by indulging in illegal constructions, but they will not be allowed to violate the laws and every violation will warrant stringent action.
The people residing within the LDA jurisdiction have once again warned not to go for any sort of illegal constructions /encroachments, as the Enforcement wing will continue with demolition of illegal constructions.
Moreover the Tripper/Load carrier owners are directed not to carry any kindof illegal construction material in the prohibited area of Dal/ Nigeen Lake without proper permission from the concerned agencies.

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