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  • Govt orders comprehensive audit of MGNREGA works after preliminary inquiry alleges misappropriation of Rs 8 crore

    Govt orders comprehensive audit of MGNREGA works after preliminary inquiry alleges misappropriation of Rs 8 crore

    Srinagar, Jan 16: Days after a preliminary inquiry conducted by the Rural Development Department found that funds worth Rs eight crore have been misappropriated in works executed under the MGNREGA scheme in Jammu, the J&K government has ordered a comprehensive audit of all the identified works in the report.

    According to an order, a copy of which is in possession of the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the Rural Development Department has directed Director,Social Audit, MGNREGA to depute a team of two district resource persons (DRPs) along with some experienced village resource persons (VRPs) to undertake a comprehensive audit of all the works identified in the report by Assistant Commissioner Development, Jammu and submit a detailed report to the commissioner secretary, RDD within 10 days.The Director, Social Audit has also been asked to fix the responsibility of the concerned officers.The Block Development Officer Mathwar/Balwal has been directed to provide all relevant record(s) of the case to the committee, failing which immediate disciplinary action shall be taken against him by ACD Jammu.The move comes after a preliminary inquiry by ACD Jammu reported alleged misappropriation of funds amounting to Rs 8,62,40,000 in MGNREGA works executed in blocks Bhalwal/ Mathwar in Jammu district—(KNO)

  • Shooting stones halt traffic movement on Srinagar-Jammu highway

    Srinagar, Jan 16: The vehicular traffic on Srinagar-Jammu National highway on Monday came to a sudden halt due to shooting stones at Panthial in Ramsu area.

    An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KMO) an open steel cover bridge on the highway at Panthial has been damaged due to shooting stones.He said following the shooting stones and damage to the bridge traffic movement has been halted on the highway.“The bridge will be repaired once shooting stones stop and thereafter traffic would be resumed,” he said—(KNO)

  • Male Cricketer Identifies as woman to get sold in Women IPL Auction

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    A BCCI-organised T20 tournament for women, similar to that of the IPL, which is likely to be called as the Women’s T20 league (scheduled for 3rd – 26th March, 2023) has announced its player’s registration schedule. BCCI has invited some unnamed reputed entities to bid for the women’s IPL teams.

     

    However, amidst the auction process, a male cricketer has put BCCI in a conundrum as the male cricketer registered himself for women IPL as a women player after identifying himself/herself as a woman.

     

    Reportedly, the male cricketer has updated all his social media accounts with pronouns She/Her. BCCI has not revealed the name of the male cricketer but has hinted that the players has remain unsold in last two IPLs and hence has decided to get sold in women’s IPL.

     

    While BCCI is in dilemma, cricket fans are appreciating the male cricketer for his/her decision saying that the person really loves cricket and can go to any extent to play cricket.

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  • 3 cops suspended after man dies in Rajouri village

    3 cops suspended after man dies in Rajouri village

    Three cops have been suspended in Rajouri district after mysterious death of a man in Dagal village of the district on Saturday evening even as locals alleged the man died due to carelessness of the cops.

    Senior superintendent of police Rajouri, Mohammad Aslam told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that three police personnel deployed at police Naka Bakhar have been suspended for carelessness and not taking the man to hospital.He said they have started investigation into the matter and inquest proceedings under CrPC 174 have been initiated.

    On Saturday evening, villagers of Dagal and nearby areas of Rajouri district held a protest demonstration the death of the man identified as Sher Singh (23) son of Chatar Singh.They said the deceased used to work in Sunderbani as a labourer and was returning for home to take part in Lohri festival but he went missing on the way.“On Friday we came to know that he was lying in inebriated condition at Siot after which team of police from Bakhar police post took him along but he died later,” they alleged.The protestors alleged that the man has died due to the carelessness of the cops and blocked the road, demanding a proper investigation into the matter.Later, additional deputy commissioner Kalakote, Krishan Lal and SDPO Nowshera Tusif Ahmed reached to the spot and assured protestors that the matter will be probed—(KNO)

  • LG inaugurated X-Band Doppler

    LG inaugurated X-Band Doppler

    Jointly inaugurated X-Band Doppler Weather Radar at Banihal Top with Hon’ble Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh Ji. Congratulations to IMD for the project, which will help in detection of severe weather events & safe conduct of various pilgrimages especially Shri Amarnathji Yatra.

  • Sachin Tendulkar likely to make a comeback in ODIs after Virat Kohli nears his most ODI Century record

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    On Sunday, the ‘run machine’  Virat Kohli smashed another century against Sri Lanka, registering his 46th ODI hundred in the third match of the series. In the process, Kohli went on to break two of Sachin Tendulkar’s ‘all-time records’. Kohli now sits ahead of Tendulkar in the list of most ODI centuries at home, and also holds the record of scoring the highest number of tons against a single team in the 50-over format of international cricket. However, Kohli is still short of 3 ODI centuries to match Sachin’s record of 49 ODI centuries.

     

    Reportedly, Sachin is likely to cancel his retirement and make a comeback in ODIs to ensure his record is intact. After tweeting “Stop the Count”, when a fan asked Sachin if his record of most ODIs will be broken, Sachin replied “Definitely Not”.

     

    Social media users and cricket experts are speculating that Sachin will make a comeback in ODIs to make the record of most ODIs tougher to break.

     

    Sachins fans, also wrote to Virat Kohli requesting him not to score more ODIs centuries as a mark of respect to the cricketing God Sachin Tendulkar. Details awaited.

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  • Teacher in Shopian dies of Cardaic arrest – TheNewsCaravan

    Teacher in Shopian dies of Cardaic arrest – TheNewsCaravan

    Shopian 15 Jan

    Shopian Jan 15: A government school teacher died of a massive cardiac arrest at his native village in Durpora area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday.

    An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that Fayaz Ahmad Sofi, son of Mohammad Shaban Sofi, a resident of Durpora Zainapora, posted at Primary School Mujmarg, suffered a massive cardiac arrest at his home.

    He said Sofi was immediately taken to Sub-District Hospital (SDH) Zainapora where doctors declared him dead on arrival. He has three daughters.

  • India’s low cost coders on bench behind AI Bot generated Codes

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    ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that can write code in a fraction of a minute is once again in news. Reportedly, an anonymous person claiming to be co-founder of ChatGPT has claimed that, it’s not AI but India’s cheap labour that is generating code and doing other tasks.

     

    “Coders get notification on their phone and various coders compete against themselves to accept the code proposal and write the coded in fastest possible way” the anonymous person added

    The person also revealed that the ChatGPT has hired many academicians who write essays on random topics being given by ChatGPT users. “AI here’s not Artificial Intelligence but Average Indian” says the person.

    Indian Government is likely to count these coders and academicians under the jobs provided in its tenure.

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  • Pakistanis smile while fighting for flour to keep up the happiness index ranking

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    The acute shortage of wheat has been a cause of the recent crisis in Pakistan. India’s neighbour has been facing one of its worst-ever flour crises amid shortage of wheat. The high demand for wheat flour in the country has also been causing clashes and chaos. Stampedes were reported from several areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan provinces due to the crisis.

     

    However, despite all this crisis and hunger Pakistan has been ranked above India and many other countries in global Happiness Index and hunger index.

     

    In such tiring times when people are fighting for flour in Pakistan, many Pakistanis were seen smiling and even laughing. Upon asking why are they not pained with the ongoing economic crisis, they said that they are pained and distressed but want to keep up the global happiness ranking of Pakistan.

     

    Many Pakistanis have put covid mask to hide their pain. Sources suggest that many countries are now praying for economic crisis to improve their happiness index. Many Indians have written letter to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to take bad economic policy decisions to improve India’s happiness and hunger index ranking.

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  • Airlines to make pant zip locked and tagged mandatory before boarding flights

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    A few days after Air India pee gate where the accused Shankar Mishra allegedly urinated on a woman co-passenger on a New York-Mumbai flight, One Jauhar Ali Khan, scheduled to depart from Delhi on a flight to Dammam was urinating publically in front of departure gate 6 at IGI Airport T3 on Jan 8. Khan, who seemed to be inebriated, also abused passengers.

    After several cases of peeing inside planes, airlines have requested Aviation Ministry to make men’s pant zip locked and tagged mandatory before boarding the flight.

    Air India Chief operation officer said the boarding pass will have now pant locked and tagged option where the flight attendant will have to tick before allowing passengers to board the flight.

    To ensure no inconvenience to the innocent passengers, aviation ministry is likely to make urinating before boarding flight mandatory and the passengers will have to submit their urine collection. Details on this is awaited.

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