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5 Army Soldiers Killed After Vehicle Catches Fire In Poonch, Reasons Not Revealed

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Poonch, April 20: Five army soldiers were killed after a vehicle they were travelling in caught fire in Poonch district on Thursday.
Official sources told GNS that the incident took places in Bhatadhurian area of Mendhar Sub Division in Poonch this afternoon.
“Today, at about 1500 hours, one vehicle of Indian Army, while moving from Bhimber Gali to Sangiot in District Poonch (J&K), caught fire. In this tragic incident five soldiers of Indian Army have lost their life,” defence ministry spokesperson based in Jammu said. “Further details are being ascertained.”
While army statement was silent about reasons, sources said that investigations are underway if the incident happened due to grenade or thundering as it was heavily raining in the area. (GNS)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

April 20, 2023
Sweden shuts down embassy in Pakistan for security reasons

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Islamabad: Sweden has announced closing its embassy in Pakistan “indefinitely” due to the prevailing “security situation” in the crisis-hit country’s capital.
The embassy did not elaborate on the nature of the threat, but Pakistan’s political situation is getting worse amid growing tension between the government and the Supreme Court.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court was hearing a petition to annul a bill aiming at curbing the powers of the chief justice to form panels of his choice for different cases.

“Due to the current security situation in Islamabad, the Embassy of Sweden is closed for visitors. The Migration Section is not, at the moment, able to handle requests of any kind,” a notice on the embassy’s website reads.
“Also, we cannot send any documents to our consulates, Gerry s, or to your home address. We understand that this will cause inconvenience. However, the safety of our applicants and staff members is of the highest priority,” it said.
The notice also stated that any questions regarding the reopening of the mission cannot be answered at the moment.
Many believe the decision was linked to the recent incident of the burning of the Quran in Sweden.
A Danish-Swedish far-right extremist burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm on January 21 under the protection of Swedish police, drawing condemnation from Muslims worldwide.

The political leaders of Pakistan, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and ousted premier Imran Khan, had condemned the incident.
“No words are enough to adequately condemn the abhorrable act of desecration of the Holy Quran by a right-wing extremist in Sweden. The garb of the freedom of expression cannot be used to hurt the religious emotions of 1.5 billion Muslims across the world. This is unacceptable,” Sharif had tweeted.
China temporarily closed down the consular section of its embassy in Pakistan in February due to “technical issues”, days after advising Chinese citizens in this country to be cautious due to the deteriorating security situation.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 13, 2023
Delhi HC upholds ban on gutka, pan masala for public health reasons

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has upheld a ban on the manufacture, storage, and sale of gutka, pan masala, flavoured tobacco, and similar products in the city, citing their direct and harmful impact on public health.
The ban was initially imposed by the food safety commissioner, but was later quashed by the high court in September 2022.
The Centre and Delhi governments appealed against the decision and a bench headed by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma has now set aside the earlier decision and upheld the ban.

The court rejected objections raised by entities in the tobacco business against the ban, stating that there was no justification for the quashing of the notifications.
The court has declared that there was no justification for the previous decision to quash the notifications, and has rejected objections from tobacco business entities against the ban that was in place from 2015 until 2021.
“We find ourselves unable to sustain the impugned judgment rendered by the learned Judge. These appeals shall consequently stand allowed. We find no merit in the challenge raised (against the ban). It shall, in consequence, stand dismissed,” said the bench, also comprising Justice Yashwant Varma.
“It becomes necessary to observe that the writ petitioners (manufacturers of tobacco related products, etc) did not dispute that both cigarettes as well as smokeless tobacco have a direct and pernicious impact on public health. Once it was found and conceded that both categories of tobacco constituted substances which had a direct impact on public health, the impugned notifications clearly did not warrant being quashed,” observed the court.
In its 176-page judgment, the court noted that the Supreme Court has already urged governments to ban the manufacture and sale of gutka and pan masala, and the previous single judge’s decision could not have deemed this not applicable in the current case.

Regarding the objection raised by tobacco businesses that the ban was discriminatory because it only applied to smokeless tobacco and not cigarettes, the court rejected this and stated that the ban was implemented because of the “larger number of users of smokeless tobacco” and that food safety authorities were authorised to impose such prohibitions.
The court also mentioned that Article 14 could not be used to argue that since a specific type of tobacco had not been banned, there should be no prohibition on other similarly harmful products. It noted that there were 163.7 million smokeless tobacco users in the country compared to 68.9 million smokers.
The court also mentioned that products such as pan masala, chewing tobacco, and gutka were not exempted from the definition of “food” under Section 3(1)(j) of the FSSA.
The court noted that the petitioners had operated under the mistaken belief that the notifications aimed to ban or prohibit tobacco, when in reality, they sought to prohibit the addition of tobacco or tobacco products to food products.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 11, 2023
HC questions Centre for not giving any reasons over blocking Twitter accounts

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Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Monday asked the central government why it had not given any reasons for blocking some accounts on Twitter in light of the takedown orders issued last year.
The bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit, which is hearing a petition by Twitter challenging the various takedown orders of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY), asked the government counsel, “Why you did not supply the reasons to them (Twitter). What is that you wish to withhold? Court wants to know what is so much an important thing which prevented the government from disclosing the reasons when the section (69A) uses the word ‘reasons to be recorded’.”
When asked by the HC bench if the response would be provided to the court, counsel Kumar M N replied that “whatever decision is made can be supplied to the court.”

The court also observed that the world was moving towards transparency and Section 69A of the Information Technology Act requires recording of reasons for takedowns.
“The whole world is moving towards transparency. If it would have been regarding sovereignty etc., we would have understood. You called them for the meeting and you did not agree with the reasons given by them and passed the impugned order. Is it not necessary for him to know why you do not agree with his reasons?” the court said.
Twitter approached the HC in June 2022 against the orders issued by the ministry.
The Centre had argued that Twitter being a foreign entity cannot claim enforcement of fundamental rights. Objecting to this, Twitter informed the court that it was invoking the writ jurisdiction for violation of protocols prescribed under Section 69A of the IT Act. It also claimed in a rejoinder to the court that rights under Article 14 were available to foreign entities also.
The court then asked both Twitter and the Union government to clarify the issue of how Indian entities would be treated in the United States and foreign jurisdictions on such issues.

“In other jurisdictions whether disclosure of reason is treated as a matter of force or whether the government can withhold reasons? Whether any element of state sovereignty is involved in this? How would the USA have treated an Indian entity before it? That also needs to be addressed,” the court asked, adjourning the hearing to April 12.
Twitter has claimed that the government was required to issue notice to the owners of the Twitter handles against whom blocking orders are issued. Twitter had said that it was barred from informing the account holders about the takedown orders of the government.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 10, 2023
Pak finance minister says technical reasons behind delay in deal

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Islamabad: Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Monday that certain technical reasons were behind the delay in an agreement with the IMF as he clarified that his recent remarks about the country’s nuclear and missile programme were being used out of context.
His clarification hours after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) rubbished claims that it has attached nuclear-programme-related strings for the revival of Pakistan’s much-anticipated bailout programme that has been stalled for months.
Dar last week said in the Senate that there would be no compromise on the country’s nuclear and missile programme. He made the comment in response to Senator Raza Rabbani’s questions about the delay in signing the agreement with the IMF.
In a press statement, Dar said that his comments with regards to Pakistan’s nuclear programme were in response to a colleague Senator’s specific question, wherein, “I emphasised that Pakistan has the sovereign right to develop its nuclear programme, as it best suits our national interests. Without any external dictation, which, by no means should in any way whatsoever be linked with the ongoing negotiations with the IMF.”
“It is clarified that neither the IMF nor any country has attached any conditionality or made any demand from Pakistan with regard to our nuclear capability and the delay in IMF staff-level agreement is purely due to technical reasons, for which we are continuously engaged with the IMF in order to conclude it at the earliest,” he said.
Cash-strapped Pakistan is awaiting a much-needed USD 1.1 billion tranche of funding from the Washington-based global money lender, which was originally due to be disbursed in November last year.
The funds are part of a USD 6.5 billion bailout package the IMF approved in 2019, which analysts say is critical if Pakistan is to avoid defaulting on external debt obligations.
Pakistan, currently in the throes of a major economic crisis, is grappling with high external debt, a weak local currency and dwindling foreign exchange reserves enough to shore up for barely one month’s imports.

Esther Perez Ruiz, IMF’s resident representative in Islamabad, has denied attaching any strings to the External Fund Facility (EFF), according to Geo TV.
“Regarding recent speculation that programme discussions with the authorities for the ninth review under the IMF-supported programme may have covered Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, I want to be categorical that there is absolutely no truth to this or any insinuated link between the past or current IMF supported programme and decision by any Pakistani government over its nuclear programme,” the report said, quoting the official.
The IMF chief said discussions have exclusively focused on economic policies to solve Pakistan’s economy and balance of payments problems, in line with the Fund’s mandate for promoting macroeconomic and financial stability.
Apart from the IMF, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party’s Shah Mahmood Qureshi assailed Dar and demanded that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif issue a policy statement on remarks of Dar.
“No one has the right to tell us what kind of nuclear programme we should have and missiles of which range we should have. We have our atomic arsenal South Asia-specific and to ensure our defence,” he said.
The controversy erupted after Dar assured Parliament that the federal government would not make any compromise on the country’s nuclear and missile programme despite tough economic conditions and hurdles to secure a loan from the IMF.
“Let me assure you that nobody is going to compromise anything on the nuclear or the missile programme of Pakistan no way,” Dar told Parliament last week.
Dar also indirectly held Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party and its chief Imran Khan responsible for the delay in the IMF funding as he blamed the then government of Imran Khan for agreeing on tough conditions to get the funding.
Separately, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that Pakistan’s nuclear programme was being “jealously guarded by the state”.
Pakistan has been hosting the IMF mission since early February to negotiate the terms of the deal, including the adoption of policy measures to manage its fiscal deficit ahead of the annual budget due around June.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 20, 2023
‘1,171 flights cancelled in 2022 due to technical reasons’

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New Delhi: A total of 1,171 flights were cancelled during the year 2022 due to technical reasons, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on Monday.
The number of flights cancelled in 2021 and 2020 was 931 and 1,481, respectively.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on Monday said the DGCA issues Air Operator Permit to the airlines in compliance with laid down Civil Aviation Requirements which require the airline to have their own maintenance approved organisation or have arrangement with an approved maintenance organisation for maintaining their aircraft in a continuous state of airworthiness.
The responsibility for maintaining the aircraft lies with the airline who is required to ensure that aircraft is maintained as per the maintenance programme approved by the DGCA.
Airlines /Operators are also responsible for ensuring that the required qualified and experienced manpower, equipment and spares including maintenance data is available for maintaining the aircraft, added the reply.
As per the reply, DGCA ensures that the airline and the maintenance organisations continue to comply with the regulatory requirements against which they have been initially approved through a system of surveillance, audits, spot checks, night surveillance, etc.
In case of non-compliance, DGCA ensures that rectification steps are taken by the airlines/ maintenance organisation.
The DGCA initiates enforcement actions against organisation/ personnel in case violations are found which may include warning, suspension, and cancellation, including the imposition of financial penalties.

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March 14, 2023
Aptech Trending For Wrong Reasons In JK

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SRINAGAR: Aptech is trending for all wrong reasons on social media, with various sections of society criticizing LG- Led administrations move of selecting the blacklisted Aptech for conducting Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) exams.
Many political parties expressed their displeasure over the selection of Aptech company for conducting JKSSB exams.
The selected APTECH company is blacklisted by many states including Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan and has also been penalized by the Supreme Court as the said company has failed to uphold integrity of the process of exam conduction.
Taking to micro blogging site Twitter, Azad Democratic Progressive Party (DPAP) Chief Spokesman, Salman Nizami, criticized the move, saying that APTECH has failed to ensure transparency and accountability in conducting such exercises in the past, which is why many states have banned it.
“Awarding a contract to blacklisted Aptech by JKSSB seems a deep rooted conspiracy to spoil the future of J&K’s youth. The contract should be withdrawn immediately & in future never to engage with such companies,” Nizami said.
Lending his support to the JKSSB aspirants on Twitter , Co- founder Study IQ, one of India’s leading Ed-tech startup, Dr Gaurav Garg said, “Why is a blacklisted company like Aptech given the mandate in the first place? Why is the administration playing with the future of the youth of Jammu and Kashmir? Everyone must support the JKSSB aspirants.”
He added, “There are many companies like TCS which have done a great job in organising exams in India of the scale of IBPS. Why such companies are ignored by JKSSB and a criminal and corrupt blacklisted company like Aptech is given the mandate.”
After the KVS TGT scam was unearthed in Leh, PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti wrote on her twitter that there has been no end to scams since 2019.

“Despite court directions, blacklisted companies continue conducting these shambolic recruitment exams. Its the students who are paying a huge price while the culprits are given a free run. This has been happening since 2019 & there seems to be no end to it,” she noted.
State Spokesperson of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Imran Nabi Dar tweeted “JKSSB is the enfant terrible of the incumbent JK administration. The board inspite of addressing the genuine concerns and fear of the educated, skilled local youth seems hell bent to destroy their future by continuously persisting with a block listed company like APTECH.”
Cautioning JKSSB over the murky past of JKSSB , Peoples Confrence President,Sajad Lone said, “ I have received a lot of emails and messages about APTECH which has been blacklisted in other states Given the shoddy track record of past, SSRB better tread with caution. Students need to be heard. You can’t thrust a black listed company on our future.”
Meanwhile, various JKSSB aspirants have expressed their anguish over the move and have appealed to LG administration to look into the matter and remove “tainted” APTECH and hire a more credible organistion to conduct exams smoothly.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

March 6, 2023
Furnish reasons for vacancies in SC, ST commission: Telangana HC to state

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Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court issued notices to the state government asking it to file its response while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on the vacancies in the state SC and ST commission.
The bench led by chief justice Ujjal Bhuyan and justice N Tukaramji issued notices to the chief secretary and the principal secretary, the Scheduled Castes development department, and the Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The bench asked them to furnish the reasons in this regard.
The appointment of chairperson and members to the Telangana Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission has been pending and the commission has been defunct since February 2021.
S Ganesh Rao and J Shankar of Secunderabad filed the PIL on the non-appointment of officials to Telangana State SC and ST commission.
The PIL highlighted that many issues were pending before the commission and without personnel, the grievances of the people cannot be heard.
The hearing has been adjourned to April 13.
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March 1, 2023
Juan Rivera GIVES UP to ‘The House of Famous 3’ and explains his reasons

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Mexico.- The singer Juan Rivera suddenly leaves the reality show ‘House of Famous 3’, due to reasons external to the game, it is announced this afternoon on various news portals.
Juan Rivera, brother of the deceased singer Jenni Rivera, thus becomes the third participant of ‘La casa de los famosos 3’ to resign from the competition.
Without giving many details of his decision, Juan explained that his wife Brenda Rivera was facing some health complications and he needed it more than ever, this coupled with the fact that he has also felt a bad ear and has even lost his hearing.
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“The end has come. I thank each one of you for letting me live this experience, and God for bringing me here. These have been very difficult moments in which you have lifted me up. I came for people to meet Juan Rivera,” Juan said in his farewell message.
Juan’s classmates in ‘La casa de los famosos 3’ listened carefully to Juan’s words and at the end some of them couldn’t help but cry.
Before Juan, a few days ago Monique Sánchez also left the Telemundo reality show, who did it for mental health reasons, she said, followed by Aristeo Cázares, who left to solve problems with his old television company.
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February 28, 2023
Court Shifts Congress Minister’s Molestation Case Trail to Jammu, Citing Security Reasons

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SRINAGAR: Agreeing to the plea that a fair trial in Kashmir is challenging for him, the High Court has transferred the trial of erstwhile health minister Shabir Khan to Jammu. He has been accused of molesting a lady doctor, who happens to be the wife of a separatist politician.
“It is not in dispute that respondent No 2, (complainant) who happens to be wife of a separatist leader, wields some influence amongst certain sections of people living in the valley who subscribe to his ideology,” the transfer order issued on February 22, 2023, by the court of Mr Justice Sanjay Dhar reads. “It is a fact of common knowledge that incidents of attacks on mainstream politicians and the people who do not subscribe to the separatist’s ideology are still taking place in Kashmir Valley. Therefore, it cannot be stated that apprehension expressed by the petitioner to his life at Srinagar while facing trial before the court is unfounded.”
In his plea, Shabir Ahmad Khan, the Congress party’s minister of state for health in Jammu and Kashmir has said that his defence lawyer, Mohammad Abdullah Pandit, refused to represent him in the court after he received a threat to his life. Later, Khan stated that he approached two more lawyers – Maroof Kha and Showkat, but they refused to plead his case.
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“It is further submitted that the atmosphere surrounding the court premises is highly surcharged and hostile and whenever, he appears before the court, slogans are being raised against him inside and outside the court premises,” the order details Khan’s plea. “It is averred that at the time when the case is being taken up for hearing, the court remains jam-packed and the petitioner apprehends grave and serious bodily attack from the crowd which gathers over there, upon the instigation of the separatists.”
The court found merit in the plea and transferred the case to a Jammu court. The transfer was directed on basis of the status of the petitioner and background of the complainant as the court observed that “it appears that fair and impartial trial of the case that has been filed against the petitioner on the basis of the complaint lodged by respondent No 2, may not be possible at Srinagar”.
The case is an older one. On basis of the complaint filed by the lady doctor, the Jammu and Kashmir Police registered a case against Khan on February 6, 2014, at Shaheed Gunj police station for offences punishable under section 354 (outraging modesty of woman) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC). Khan resigned from the ministry within days.
This also led to his resignation as health minister in Omar Abdullah government on February 7, 2014. His party had advised him to put in his papers till an inquiry will find out the details about the allegations levelled against him. Khan, then represented Rajouri in the erstwhile state assembly.
In her complaint, the lady doctor had alleged that she was repeatedly summoned by Khan’s staff to meet the minister about some announcements made by the health minister in Delhi. The complainant claimed that even though she insisted the minister must get details from senior officials, still, she was compelled to report at the minister’s office on January 28.

The woman alleged that when she reached Khan’s office at the Secretariat, he acted like a “sexual predator” and made provocative advances – both verbal and physical. Besides, the minister offered her many favours despite her resentment. Later the police registered a case on basis of the complaint.
Police investigated the case and submitted the charge sheet. Now, Khan moved the High Court and sought the case transfer to Jammu. His petition claims that he is a politician was “falsely implicated” “due to political rivalry”, in order “to tarnish his image”.
The case is listed for trial on April 12, 2023, in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Jammu
The transfer of the case, interestingly, has off-court implications as well. “The ruling came at a time the Centre has been hard-selling an all-is-well line on Kashmir,” Kolkata-based newspaper Telegraph reported.

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February 26, 2023