Srinagar, Feb 13 : Urging the Governor to address demands of NHM employees, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Spokesperson Rafi Ahmad Mir said that more than 8000 employees have been rendering selfless services, government must address their demands.
Rafi Ahmad Mir said that earlier the issue of NHM employees was addressed on assurance of the PDP led government, however with fall of Government Issue stands pending.
Mir said that NHM employees even during strike days have rendered exemplary services in far flung areas like Gurez, to serve public, government cannot brush them aside.
“They are respectable citizens who are working day and night to serve public, how can government turn deaf ear to their genuine demands of financial and social security”, Mir said. He said that PDP stands in solidarity with the NHM employees and we urge the Governor to address their issues without delaying the matter.
Address demands of NHM employees: PDP urges Governor
BDO Kalakote Dies Of Cardiac Arrest
MS Nazki
Rajouri, Feb 13 : A Block Development Officer (BDO) died due to cardiac arrest in Manjakote area of Poonch district on Wednesday morning.
Reports said that the BDO Al-Haj Abdul Haq who was posted at Kalakote suffered cardiac arrest at home at Katarmal Manjakote.
He was immediately shifted to a hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival. (GNS)
Article 35A: Strike affects normal life, JRL withdraws call for tomorrow
Article 35A: Strike affects normal life, JRL withdraws call for tomorrow
Rehan Shokat
Srinagar, Feb 13 : Normal life was completed affected on Wednesday in wake of the shutdown called by Joint Resistance Leadership in support of Article 35A and Article 370 of Indian constitution.
Shops and other business establishments remained closed while public transport was mainly off the roads reports said.
In Srinagar city and other district towns in the Valley, reports and residents said, there was the deployment of government forces at several places to prevent protests.
The state government has already filed an application before the Supreme Court, seeking the adjournment of the hearing till an elected government is established in the state.
As many as five petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court against Article 35A, with the lead case filed in 2014 by a little known Delhi-based NGO, ‘We The Citizens’.
Meanwhile, Joint Resistance Leadership withdrew strike call against hearing of 35A case in Supreme Court of India on Thursday after the lawyers conveyed to the leadership that in the cause list issued by the top court at 7 pm today the cases are not listed for hearing tomorrow.
The Kashmir Bar Association led by senior lawyers Mian Qayoom, Zafar Shah, Zaffar Qureshi, Mohd Ashraf and others are in New Delhi defending the case at the Supreme Court on behalf of the people of J&K. “They are in touch with the leadership,” they said.
The JRL said the senior lawyers will be present at the Supreme Court for the whole day tomorrow as well and will closely monitor the case and update the leadership about it. The Leadership reiterated that people of Jammu and Kashmir will forcefully resist every challenge by New Delhi to change the demography of the State and warned the authorities that if anything adverse to the interests of the people of J&K and its disputed status is announced through the courts a mass people’s agitation will be started instantly across the state and the responsibility of the consequences of that will be entirely on “those forcing us to react.” (GNS)
Police arrest ‘wanted’ Hurriyat (G) activist in North Kashmir
Suhail Khan
Srinagar, Feb 13: Police arrested a “wanted” Hurriyat Conference (G) activist in a raid late last night at Kralgund area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
Reports reaching news agency said that a police team on late Tuesday night arrested the Hurriyat (G) activist Mohammad Akram Nagar son of Abdul Gaffar during a raid at Kralgund.
A police officer said that Akram is an activist of Hurriyat (G) and was evading arrest since 2015. “He is involved in many violence-related incidents,” he said.
Many FIRs including 30/2015, 68/ 2016 and 69/2016 under sections 148, 149, 336, 307 and 427 RPC stand registered in police station Kralgund against Akram, the officer said. (GNS)
Tral man shot at by unknown gunmen
Skinder Gulzar
Tral,Feb 13 : A civilian was injured after he was shot at by unknown gunman at Nowpora Tral area of South Kashmir’s on Wednesday evening.
Official sources said that Lateef Ahmad Ganie (35) son of Mohd Jabar Ganie resident of Nowpora Tral has been fired upon by unknown gunmen outside his home.
However, he has been referred to nearby hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile whole area has been cordoned off to nab the attackers.
More details are awaited.
JRL withdraws 14th Feb Shutdown Call
Srinagar, Feb 13: Joint Resistance Leadership said that the protest strike call against hearing of 35 A case in Supreme Court of India on 14th February , has been withdrawn after the lawyers conveyed to the leadership that in the cause list issued by the Supreme Court at 7 pm today,it is not listed for hearing tomorrow . The Kashmir bar association led by senior lawyers Mian Qayoom, Zafar Shah, Zaffar Qureshi, Mohd Ashraf and others are in New Delhi defending the case at the Supreme Court on behalf of the people of disputed J&K. They are in touch with the leadership.
JRL said the senior lawyers of Bar will be present at the Supreme Court for the whole day tomorrow as well and will closely monitor the case and update the leadership about it. Leadership reiterated that people of Jammu and Kashmir will forcefully resist every challenge by New Delhi to change the demography of the State and warned the authorities that if anything adverse to the interests of the people of J&K and its disputed status is announced through the courts a mass people’s agitation will be started instantly across the state and the responsibility of the consequences of that will be entirely on those forcing us to react.
Three girls from Kashmir design Smart Electric Metering System’ project
Srinagar, Feb 13, CNS: Three girls from Kashmir capital Srinagar have conceived an idea of developing ‘Smart Electric Metering System’ to overcome power crisis in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sameena from Kathidarwaza, Shaista Hasan Mir from Bemina and Sehreen Ashraf from Habakadal who are the students of SSM College of Engineering and Technology
Department of Computer Engineering are sure that their innovative idea will help Power Development Department to overcome the power crisis in Kashmir Valley.
“Project was undertaken considering the growing situation of the power crisis in the Valley with the mishandling at the ground level as the major cause. This has led to the replacement of electric meters every now and then to meet the demand of the customers and service providers. Moreover, growing use of smart phones will make the working of the smart metering easy and affordable. The introduction of the smart meters will eliminate the role of middle man thus reducing the human interference to negligibly low levels,” Sameena, Shaista and Sehreen told news agency CNS.
They said their idea about the Smart Electric Metering System’ project received great appreciation from Power Development Department (PDD). “We shared the details of the project with the Chief Engineer PDD Hashmat Qazi and he truly liked it and appreciated us for our job.”
Office of the Electric Maintenance and R.E Wing Kashmir while reviewing the project of these 3 budding Engineers stated that: “this project has introduced a number of new features to already existing Smart Meters like IOT/cloud based data analysis, tariff based monitoring, meter theft and relay based control. The production cost is lower and the system can be designed from the already available analog meters. This system is more general in terms of GSM based communication between user and meter.”
The features of the proposed Smart Energy meter are tariff based metering, accurate interface of already existing analog meters using LDR sensors, interrupt enabled meter theft control, IOT based data collection of meter data, monthly bill and tariff range messaging using GSM, power cut-off for LOW balance, prepaid based metering, Wi-Fi integration to Smart home and application and website-based data visualization on cloud Project Management.
While divulging information about the project, Sameena, Shaista and Sehreen said that Arduino and GSM based smart pre-paid energy meter for advanced metering and billing system was designed and its prototype was built to check its applicability.
“The main objective of our proposed system is to implement and develop very low-cost Wi-Fi-based single phase digital energy meter with IoTs concepts. The system provides data communication between digital energy meters and web server gateway, so that it can monitor the energy management system.”
“The meter is able to read and send data via wireless protocol using GSM technology through GSM modem managing both the meter as well as the line connection. For GSM module the network coverage of the SIM is used. The Energy Meter can use SMS or/and Wi-Fi to send the power/unit data to cloud, so that user can access the data including the recharge done and the units consumed through Apps and websites.”
“By using this system, the billing of the power users can be based on actual consumption rather than estimate based from the previous consumption.”
“Our proposed system uses energy meter with microcontroller system to monitor energy usage using a meter. The meter is used to monitor units consumed and transmit the units as well as cost charged over the internet using Net connection. This allows user to easily check the energy usage along with the cost charged online using a simple cloud-based webpage. Thus, the energy meter monitoring system allows user to effectively monitor electricity meter readings and check the billing online with ease. The meter is enabled with anti-theft mechanism. Any theft in the power consumption would to monitored through the App or website. The system sends warning on the low balance to the customers and then automatically cuts the power supply off. As there is no human involvement in the entire process, there is no chance of manual errors. These put more control into the hands of customers by giving them more detailed information about power consumption.”
“The proposed Smart energy meter is an advanced version of the currently available Smart meters. They fit well in the concept of smart homes with the addition of IOT and several other features.”
According to trio, the project was done under the guidance of the Mrs Yaseem (Project guide) and was co-ordinated by Mr Khalid Makhdoomi (Project co-ordinator).
Three months old baby died in Bandipora hospital, family alleges medical negligence
Nasir Khuehami
Bandipora, Feb 13 : A three months old baby died at Bandipora hospital here on today after she was allegedly administrated a vaccine in absence of doctors, family members to accuse para medical staff of negligence.
Family members alleged that Umaiya Muzaffar, daughter of Muzaffar Ahmad resident of Gundpora Rampora, three months old died, after she was allegedly administered a vaccine in absence of doctors.
The family members of the victim Umaiya said that she was taken to Bandipora hospital to get routine vaccination done for their child. They said that, she was administered vaccine in the absence of doctors by some nurse. My daughter was given poison in place of vaccine,” he said. He said that only few nurses were present there, there was no doctor present in the hospital.
Family members claimed she died because she was given poison. Had she been attended by doctors instead of nurses, she would have survived, added that he died because doctors didn’t attend patient. They said that, it is clear that the death of the patient was caused due to the pure medical negligence.
Soon after the death, a chaos broke out in Bandipora hospital, Family members and relatives ransacked Bandipora hospital and broke the window glasses of District Hospital and beat staff members of hospital. The victim’s family members demanded stern action against the responsible. The family members also demanded that Probe should be ordered into the matter, so that culprits will be punished.
When contacted DC Bandipora said that, I cannot say anything unless an enquiry was got conducted. We will look into the matter and take necessary action, if any lapse is found” he said. He added that, a team has constituted to inquiry in this regard. Meanwhile Bandipora police register case Fir No 13 of 2019 u/s 304A RPC and start investigation. Meanwhile, the alleged negligence at the Bandipora hospital has led to a public outcry with many taking to social media to express their anger. (KNS)
Unconcern of authorities’ sole reason for unabated bloodshed: Geelani
Srinagar, February 13 : Paying tribute to slain militants Hilal Ahmad Wani and Suhaib Mohammad Lone who were killed in Wathoora Chadoora gunfight, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani on Wednesday blamed authorities and said that “their insensitivity and unconcern is the sole reason for this unabated bloodshed.”
“These youths spilled their hot blood for the great and sacred cause of Kashmir and the entire nation of Kashmir is indebted to these martyrs for their ultimate sacrifice.
It is the collective responsibility of the people of Kashmir and the leadership to take the ongoing movement to its ultimate realization,” Geelani said in a statement.
He said that instead of taking measures to resolve long pending issue in its historical perspective, they want to thrust their choice through barrel of gun. “We have been deprived of freedom right and added that our youth lay their lives to end the age-old slavery of their nation, putting huge responsibility on our shoulders to honour these sacrifices and take mission to its logical end,” he added.
Geelani said that prevailing ‘uncertainty in state and unrealistic approach of authorities is the basic cause of human tragedy and it is the reason that youth are losing their precious lives’. “Authorities are responsible for this horrendous situation, said he and added that occupant authorities are adamant to carry forward this situation and prolong this unauthorized occupation,” he added.
Geelani said that “we are duty bound to carry their mission to its logical end. Our nation strived for right to self-determination for forty years following peaceful means, however Indian authorities responded beastly and ruthlessly, silencing our legitimate voice through coercive measures.”
He said that “this arrogance, haughtiness and persistent denial can’t hold water for long and India has to come to terms with the writing on wall, lest this unresolved and unaddressed can erupt and burst anytime, engulfing millions of people in this region.”
Meanwhile, Geelani expressed his serious concern and anguish over the killing of 15-year-old boy Suhail Ahmad Wani in Drugmullah Kupwara and 28 students, who were wounded at a school in Kakapora Pulwama in mysterious blasts.
Raising the question mark over the back to back mysterious blasts, Geelani said that “it is well thought conspiracy and bloody plan by oppressor to subjugate and deviate the attention of the people from the atrocities committed by the occupational forces against them.”
“We are shocked over the death of a budding kid,” he said and prayed for grieved family to bear this irreparable loss and also prayed for the injured persons for their speedy recovery.
Altaf Bukhari condemns explosion that injured 28 children
SRINAGAR, Feb 13: Former finance minister Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Wednesday expressed deep pain and grief over the mysterious explosion in a Pulwama school that caused severe injuries to 28 children.
In a statement issued here, Bukhari said that such reprehensible incidents are condemnable and must be probed thoroughly so that the culprits are exposed and booked under law.
“I express my heartfelt sympathy and solidarity with the parents whose children have sustained grievous injuries in the incident,” Bukhari said, while urging the Governor to order a time bound probe into the incident.
The former finance minister observed that such incidents add to the already prevailing insecure atmosphere for the citizens especially the elderly persons, women and children who fear to tread outside their homes.
“I condemn Wednesday’s blast in the strongest terms,” Bukhari said, adding that attacks that affect schools are unacceptable. “All schools are, and must remain, zones of peace,” he added further.
“Sustaining fatal injuries by the children who were studying for a better future is appalling,” Bukhari said. “Such incidents that affect Kashmiri children’s life and education show disregard for fundamental principles of humanity. No cause can justify these incidents,” he remarked.
The former minister wished a healthy recovery to all children injured in the explosion and called on the governor led administration to take the necessary measures to ensure that education is provided in safe and secure environments to all children across Kashmir.