Sexual harassment complaints: Govt forms panel to enquire cases of female officers
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday set up an internal complaint committee to enquire and dispose of sexual harassment complaints against female officers of JKAS, J&K Secretariat Service-I and Service-II. According to an order the committee comprises of five members. “In terms of Section 4(1) of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace […]
NEP 2020: UGC notifies curriculum, credit framework for UG courses
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission Monday notified the curriculum and credit framework for undergraduate programmes which will provide students with multiple options for entry and exit, a choice between single major and double major and interdisciplinary choices of subjects. The framework has been developed by revising the existing Choice Based Credit System. According to […]
Terror groups in neighbourhood take advantage of carve-outs: India at UN
Abstains on UNSC resolution exempting aid from sanctions
United Nations: India has abstained in the UN Security Council on a resolution establishing humanitarian exemption across all United Nations sanctions regimes, asserting that blacklisted terror groups, including in its neighbourhood, have taken full advantage of such carve-outs and have been able to raise funds and recruit fighters. The 15-nation Council, currently being presided over […]
13.92 lakh cancer cases in India in 2020: Union Minister
Says cases projected to increase by 12.8 per cent
New Delhi: The estimated number of cancer cases in the country in 2020 was 13,92,179 and it is projected to increase by 12.8 per cent, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed Lok Sabha on Friday citing National Cancer Registry Programme data. Responding to a question, Mandaviya said patients with cancer are getting treatment at various […]
Two lakh Indian Hajj devotees to perform annual pilgrimage in 2023
Srinagar: Two lakh Hajj pilgrims will be allowed to perform the sacred pilgrimage from India with special focus on women in 2023. With the increase in Hajj quota, the number of pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir will also be more compared to previous years. “This is for the first time that two lakh Indian Muslims […]
Man-Animal Conflict: 241 people die, around 3000 injured since 2006 in Valley
Srinagar: Kashmir’s human-wildlife conflict has become extremely ghastly and gruesome with Himalayan black bears and leopards increasingly preying on young children and elderly especially in Northern districts. The man-animal conflict has seen a steep rise with more cases being reported from across the valley with each passing day and several persons, mainly children have lost […]
Hybrid immunity behind difference in Covid numbers of India and China: Experts
New Delhi: While hybrid immunity is behind India’s low COVID-19 numbers, a large section of China’s population may not have this protection provided by a combination of vaccination and prior infection, leading to spurt in cases there, experts say. The experts also questioned the efficacy of the vaccines available to the people in China. India […]
Covid variants still transmissible between species: Study
Washington: The SARS-CoV-2 virus is still highly transmissible between mammals, according to a study based on computer simulations. Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), US, found that coronaviruses use their spike proteins — which help them to infect cells — to attach themselves to the host cells in both bats and humans in much […]
India needs to be more open-minded about open jails: Researcher
Kolkata: No high walls, barbed wire fences or armed guards to keep them in check, and yet convicts in open jails don’t flee if provided with humane conditions as “minimum restraint often promotes discipline and gives them a sense of self-worth”, said researcher Smita Chakraburtty, who had been working to transform prison culture in India […]
Depression and anxiety on rise among youth, children: Experts
Srinagar: Majority of the patients visiting psychiatric hospitals in Srinagar are youngsters including children and women, Head of the Department (HOD), Psychiatry, Government Medical College Srinagar, Dr Muhammad Maqbool Dar said on Friday. The prominent psychiatrist, said that the psychiatric problems increase with the development, unemployment, educational pressure, nuclear families and others. “At a time […]
