We are not passing any order. You instruct them orally to not demolish any houses. But we will not grant a general stay at all so that others do not get benefit,” said Justice Shah.
Srinagar, Jan 20: Hearing an urgent application seeking a stay on a circular issued by the Jammu and Kashmir government that directed removal of all encroachments on land owned by UT, including Roshni land and Kachharie land, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass any order.
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As per Bar and Bench, Justice Shah said they are not passing any order as it could benefit land grabbers also. “We are not passing any order. You instruct them orally to not demolish any houses. But we will not grant a general stay at all so that others do not get benefit,” said Justice Shah.
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A son of a late tea seller from Udipora village of Handwara in north Kashmir has qualified for the prestigious JKAS exam with a 180 rank in his second attempt.
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Speaking to Rising Kashmir, Aabid Hussian Lone said his father wanted to see him as an administrator, and he kept chasing his father’s dream of becoming an administrator. He said my father was selling tea near the district hospital in Handwara and was running our house. He went on to say that he died two years ago, and my mother took on all the responsibilities, so I never felt I had no father.
Hussain said that despite poverty, he didn’t let his dreams go, and with the help of his sisters and relatives, he qualified for the examination. Poverty can never be an obstacle; if one has dreams to chase, he just needs to work hard and keep faith in almighty Allah. Hussain added.
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The Leopard 2 is a German-manufactured main battle tank with a range of about 500km (311 miles). It first came into service in 1979 and has a top speed of 68km/h (42mph). Equipped with a 120mm smooth bore gun as its main armament, it is also armed with two coaxial light machine guns.
As well as being used by the German military, Leopard 2 has been in wide service in Europe, with more than a dozen countries using the tank, as well as a number of other countries including Canada. The tanks have been deployed in Kosovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Syria (by Turkey) where several were lost to anti-tank missiles.
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Why does Ukraine want them?
Ukraine has said it has an urgent need for heavier armour in its war against Russia’s invasion. Kyiv has limited availability of tanks, most of them from the Soviet or post-Soviet era.
As well as emphasising its belief that Moscow intends to launch a significant new offensive in the coming months, Kyiv and many of its allies believe that the war will end more quickly if Russia is defeated on the battlefield in Ukraine’s own counter-offensives to take back Russian occupied territory.
While Ukraine has won significant victories – in the battle for Kyiv at the beginning of the war as well as in Kharkiv oblast and around Kherson in the south – it is hampered by a shortage of tanks to support its operations and faced by Russian forces increasingly fielding more modern and capable T-90s.
The widespread availability of Leopards – including in neighbouring Poland, which wants to supply them to Ukraine – makes them a good fit for Kyiv.
Ukraine has suggested it needs 300 tanks, while western analysts have suggested that 100 could probably shift the balance of the war.
So what is the problem?
Because the tanks were supplied to countries under export licenses, Germany can veto re-export, although Poland suggested on Thursday it could simply ignore Germany and export its Leopards regardless.
Germany’s own position has been conflicted. It prefers a multilateral approach on arms supply to Ukraine rather than being seen to be moving unilaterally.
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Although Germany has supplied a large amount of equipment to Ukraine, including armoured cars, it has also been wrestling with its post-second world war tradition of anti-militarism. The supply of main battle tanks had been seen as problematic because of their much more obviously offensive capabilities.
Germany had tried to tie the supply of Leopards to a wider coalition that would supply other tanks, including US Abrams – a tank viewed by experts as being less suitable for the war in Ukraine because of its heavy consumption of fuel.
What is the argument against supplying the tanks?
Opponents believe that the supply of tanks would be an escalation of the involvement of Nato countries in the war, heightening the risk of the war spreading. Ukraine has said it would only use the tanks within its internationally recognised borders, while supporters say that it is Moscow that has continued to escalate the conflict, mobilising ever more troops, targeting civilian infrastructure and making veiled threats of nuclear strikes.
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SRINAGAR: In the JKAS results declared by Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission, Kashmir has poorly performed. Though the administrative service has historically not attracted Kashmir youth, it is said to be one of the lowest performances of the Kashmir division in recent years.
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The results select 187 positions that the GAD had referred to Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC). As many as 648 candidates appeared in the interviews after qualifying Mains exams.
Of the 187 candidates, 90 candidates were selected in Open Merit. The rest of the successful candidates – making more than half of the total, fall under different reserved categories. Some candidates from reserved categories have secured their selection in open merit as well.
The reserved category is a major basket of the list. Of them, 22 candidates belong to Scheduled Caste (SC) – six of them have secured their seats in Open Merit as well – 19 candidates belong to Scheduled Tribe (ST), 26 candidates belong to Residents of Backward Area (RBA) – eight of them also fall in Open Merit, 18 candidates belonged to Economically Weaker Section (EWS), three candidates belong to Physically Handicapped Category (PHC), nine candidates belong to Pahari Speaking People (PSP) – two of them secured their seats among Open Merit also, eleven candidates belong to Actual Line of Control/ International Border (ALC/IB) and four of them secured their seat among Open Merit, eight candidates belong to Social Caste (SLC) and one of them secured the seat among Open Merit.
The list shows that as many as 31 candidates, who had appeared from Srinagar Centre, made it to the finals. Insiders said there could be a few more from Kashmir, who, for logistical reasons, could have written their examinations from the Jammu centre.
The JKAS comprises three allied services – junior scale JKAS, JKPS and Accounts service. Of the 187 candidates 56 will be absorbed into junior scale JKAS, 71 into Jammu and Kashmir Police Service and 60 will go to the Jammu and Kashmir Accounts Service.
The preliminary examinations for the JKAS were conducted on October 24, 2021, in which 20790 candidates appeared. Of them, 4462 candidates qualified for mains, conducted between April 8, 2022, and April 18, 2022. Only 3916 candidates appeared in all the papers. Finally, 648 candidates qualified for the Personality Test (Interview). The interviews were conducted between December 5, 2022, and January 19, 2023, and the final was out within twelve hours of the culmination of the interview process.
This selection was one of the few lists for coveted positions that JKPSC did in record time in comparison to earlier lists.
SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir Disaster Management Authority has issued an avalanche warning for at least ten districts for next 24 hours.
According to news agency GNS the JKDMA has cautioned that avalanche with ‘Low’ Danger Level is likely to occur above 2500 metres over Bandipora, Baramulla, Ganderbal and Kupwara district and areas above 2000 metres in Kulgam and Anantnag districts.
Similarly, the Disaster Manager Authority has expressed its apprehension of ‘Medium’ Danger Level above 2500 metres over Doda, Kishtwar, Poonch and Ramban districts.
People living in the notified areas have been advised to take precautions and avoid venturing in the avalanche prone areas.
More than three years after malign fun-fur mascot Boris Johnson first gibbered out the catchphrase, we finally have incontrovertible evidence of what “levelling up” actually is. For its duration, Johnson’s government had a flagship policy that it couldn’t have defined even if it hadn’t been drunk on the contents of a wheelie suitcase. Levelling up now turns out to be a sort of inter-constituency Squid Game, in which MPs who voted for various stripes of self-harm are now forced into trial-by-combat against each other in the hope of appealing to the caprices of shadowy gamesmaster Michael Gove. Arguably there’s an ironic wit to the format – a sort of handout for the anti-handout party, designed solely to inadequately mitigate the effects of cuts made largely by that same party. The players seem quite upset about it now, but are of course free to terminate the game if the majority votes to do so.
Or as one Conservative MP who missed out fumed yesterday: “I’ve got shops without roofs and whole streets of boarded-up houses and some people are getting cash for adventure golf.” Which is, by coincidence, exactly the picture in the political glossary next to the phrase “sunlit uplands”. Another Tory MP described the policy delivery as “a fuck-up of epic proportions”, casting it as the Stalingrad of not securing a planetarium for your northern marginal.
Having attempted to sell this policy round the country during a somewhat excruciating day yesterday, luxury menswear influencer Rishi Sunak faced a law enforcement probe for removing his seatbelt to film a video for his Insta, as part of the police’s ruthless commitment to rooting out trivial wrongdoing so that people mind less when another one of them is revealed to be a rapist. I haven’t got a huge amount to add to that sentence as an indicator of where we are on various fronts. Still, now that Sunak has picked up his second penalty notice inside a year, the suggestion must be that he is on a pathway of reoffending and should submit to personal rehabilitation lessons with justice secretary Dominic Raab, who is himself facing an investigation on eight formal complaints of bullying. Again, we are where we are.
You have to wonder if Sunak makes the most credible salesman for the specific allocation of cash in this second round of disbursement, given that he took the sensationally odd decision to be filmed during the leadership campaign in July last year telling Tory members in Tunbridge Wells: “I managed to start changing the funding formulas to make sure areas like this are getting the funding they deserved. We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone. I started the work of undoing that.”
Yesterday found Sunak in only marginally less politically imbecilic mode. I can’t personally get over-exercised about senior politicians making travel time-savings that the rest of us should obviously avoid. But Sunak’s private jet usage has got plenty of backs up, and on a political level feeds unfortunately into the impression that he is what he is: a man who can use private jets. Labour accused the prime minister of behaving “like an A-list celeb” for flying to Blackpool – something A-list celebs are forever doing, of course. I believe Sunak’s RAF flight was kept in a holding pattern while The Rock was given runway priority to hasten his latest trip to play the coin pushers on the Central Pier.
“I travel around so I can do lots of things in one day,” Sunak shot back when pushed on his arrangements. “I’m not travelling around just for my own enjoyment, although this is very enjoyable, of course.” Mm. Spoken like a man whose high-end Santa Monica residence is located in a complex that includes a pet spa. (I haven’t fully checked the levelling-up fund payouts for pet spas, but assume Guildford was successful in its bid for one.)
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In general, though, do you care for Sunak’s tone? He seems to have just the two speeds: dewy-eyed prefect delivering a supposedly inspirational speech to much, much younger children; and high-financier unable to fully hide his impatience that he should be required to answer questions from lesser mortals. Neither seems immediately obviously likely to endear him to the British public. Perhaps he’s slightly helped by being up against Keir Starmer, who delivers every statement like his next one is going to be “And had you thought of a preferred wood for the casket?”
Any more pratfalls left in the tank on the PM’s day out and about? At least one, with the PM explaining he wanted to cut taxes but couldn’t, as his audience knew. “You’re not idiots,” he breezed. “You know what’s happened.” “Besides,” he went on, “when I was chancellor I also really preferred it when the prime minister didn’t comment on tax policy.”
Unfortunately for the “idiots”, the chancellor isn’t talking about tax cuts either. Instead, Jeremy Hunt could be found this week leaning fully into the latte-sipping insult his side have long weaponised, by making his own painful social media video in which he explained inflation to the masses via the medium of him ordering a flat white. Is this necessary? I know Jeremy likes to think of himself as one of Britain’s most advanced entrepreneurial brains – he ran a course-listing directory in civilian life – but we must at least consider the possibility that British people currently get a hard lesson in inflation every time they do a shop.
Anyway: on to the idiots. Only in this climate of palpable executive inadequacy could we be reading seemingly bi-weekly stories that comebacks are being planned not just by Boris Johnson, but also Liz Truss – or at least by what we’ll kindly call Liz Truss’s “ideas”, with a parliamentary group established this week with the express aim of the advancement thereof. Truss herself and her former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng have both set up firms to manage their next steps, while Jacob Rees-Mogg is said to be joining GB News to host his own show. Johnson is being Johnson, and seems well on the way to persuading far too many MPs to give their abusive relationship with him another chance.
Behold, the architects of some of the most short-termist and self-harming policies of recent times (tough field), somehow sailing on regardless to further enrichment while everyone else lives in their mess. As for their various supporters, you have to marvel mirthlessly at the capacity for some serially imploding factions of the Conservative party to believe that their destructive ideas have simply not been done properly yet. The Tory tankies are on the march; do batten your hatches accordingly.
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I can’t say these are the greatest short films of all time: there are thousands and thousands of short films and you’d have to watch all of them. Most of them I saw when I was making short films, going to film festivals and watching a lot of them. These are the films that have stayed with me. They are films that I thought I’d like to share with the world, that more people should see them. In no particular order, here they are.
The Cat With Hands (2001)
Grimm-style fairytale from director Rob Morgan about a gruesome mutant cat-human hybrid being.
This feels like a story that has existed for hundreds of years and yet the director was actually inspired by a dream that his sister had. I just love the fact that it’s a recently invented fairytale. It’s three and a half minutes long and is so perfectly told: that’s something you are always striving for in short films, to find a complete story, and so many shorts don’t manage that. It’s such an incredibly nightmarish film; weird and riveting in its fusion of animation and live action to craft a strange fairytale world – and the buildup and mad editing of the finale is superb. It’s more than 20 years old now, but the production value is incredible, it feels like you are stepping into a huge-budget fantasy film.
She Wanted to Be Burnt (2007)
A Banquet director Ruth Paxton’s first short film, about a woman undergoing a mental health crisis whose origin is not clear.
This is a tumbling ride through a young woman’s shame. I remember feeling Ruth Paxton had captured a horrible feeling and put it up on screen and I was so impressed by that. I love it when I see a film-maker who isn’t censoring themselves or overthinking things. It’s not a straight narrative, there’s an experimental aspect to it; it’s implied, so you can bring your own baggage to the film. It’s not clear exactly what the root of this young woman’s shame is, but she appears to be trying to get away from herself, to rid herself of something. I found it really powerful.
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Surreal fable by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, about a young woman haunted by a mysterious mirror-faced figure.
Cinema is the art form that most closely resembles our dreams, or nightmares, and I think Meshes of the Afternoon sits closest to this. The fact that it is silent makes it particularly dreamlike. Our minds attempt to create meaning and story from the somewhat dislocated events happening on screen – I find that fascinating from the perspective of how our brains seek out narrative. Ultimately it’s the repetition, those loops of images, that really stayed with me: we see a woman chasing a cloaked figure up a hill, and the edit makes it feel as though she is going back to the beginning over and over again. I’m unsure if I’ve created that idea in my head, or if that’s actually what happens – it feels like a dream we are trying to piece together. I very much respond to surrealism, and this is a film I return to time and time again to tap into that style of cinema and technique.
Camrex (2015)
Documentary by director Mark Chapman about Camrex House, a since-closed hostel for homeless men in Sunderland.
The hybrid nature of this film meant that when I first watched it, I wasn’t entirely sure if I was watching a documentary or a fiction. The shooting style resembles fiction; scenes setup with these men in different scenarios, doing press ups, throwing furniture out of windows. But it’s clear that these are not actors – they’re real people on screen. I find that technique so fascinating; this blurred line between reality and fiction. And it’s done here in such a cinematic way. It’s also not a world we often get to see on screen: we all know there are people living in homeless hostels like this but I don’t think I’ve ever seen into one of them. As a study of masculinity I also found it really fascinating and actually quite heartbreaking.
Manoman (2015)
Animation by Simon Cartwright about a man in primal scream therapy who releases his inner id.
It’s quite mad, this one. Like Camrex, this is a film about masculinity, which I must clearly be intrigued by! This is a disturbing, very strange look at the pressures, expectations and neuroses of being a man – all expressed in a hilarious and quite bonkers way. It’s one of those films that you love to show to people just to see how they react, particularly to the wonderfully insane climax. It’s definitely in the same space as She Wanted to Be Burnt: in that it’s a film-maker being creative and unbridled in their expression. I really respect that and think that’s one of the advantages of short films – you don’t have the same pressures as a feature. I just love seeing film-makers explode imaginatively on to the screen like this.
Dead. Tissue. Love (2017)
Documentary by Natasha Austin-Green interviewing a woman about her interest in necrophilia.
I first saw this one on The Final Girls’ We Are the Weirdos short film tour, and I found it so fascinating and atmospheric. Necrophilia feels like it doesn’t really exist in the real world – it’s more something you read about or watch in horror films – but this is a meditation on necrophilia delivered in a non-judgmental way, which becomes an opportunity to understand something beyond our comfort zone. We are pulled into it slowly: the woman’s voiceover (by an actor) explains her own discomfort with these strange desires – it all just fascinated me, to be honest. We never see the person speaking – the voiceover is accompanied by very visceral imagery making it feel like we are digging under and into flesh. I guess some people might find it a bit gross. But film has the power to allow us to see from other people’s perspectives; most of us would be horrified by the idea of necrophilia – disgusted, really – but this film seeks to humanise it and does so very successfully. It’s testament to the way cinema allows us to empathise.
Hes the Best (2015)
Short drama from director Tamyka Smith about a woman getting ready to go out on a date.
I saw this years ago at a film festival and I’ve never forgotten it. There’s no dialogue. We gather certain information via text messages as we watch a woman prepare for a date. We never fully see her face: in extreme close up, she puts on makeup, scrubs every millimetre of her body, removes hairs, perfects herself. Then she arrives at a house, where this guy in jogging bottoms, who’s clearly made no effort whatsoever, opens the door. It then cuts to her leaving the next morning – we don’t know what happened in there but we do know that the effort she went to, the expectations she had for this date, have clearly not been met. She seems so used. It’s a short film that takes a very small, seemingly simple idea and expresses it so clearly; the extremes and efforts that women go to to present themselves, and then this disappointment, shame, perhaps even embarrassment, feeling used, not being respected back – it encapsulates that really powerfully.
Ekki Múkk (2012)
Directed by Nick Abrahams as part of a series to accompany music by Sigur Rós, featuring Aidan Gillen and a snail.
I remember feeling so moved when I first saw this. The Sigur Rós music is very emotive. I had tears streaming down my face by the end – I don’t think many short films can tap into that level of emotion in just 10 minutes. There’s something so simple, surreal and fantastical about the story itself: a man lost in the forest and a snail helps him find his way – or not – out of the darkness. I am a sucker for anything with animals; the idea of empathy between humans and animals. It’s perhaps quite different from the other films here, more sentimental – but it sits in a fantastical space that really appeals to me. I can see I have a fascination with the darker aspects of life, death and decay, and this film has an incredible time-lapse sequence of a fox’s body decomposing, which makes you think about what we are, what nature is and how we all belong to the same thing.
Solitudo (2014)
Short film from Prevenge director Alice Lowe, about an isolated nun haunted by nameless fears.
This is a film with no dialogue, with Alice Lowe playing a nun in the middle ages, living on her own in the middle of nowhere. It has an incredibly strange atmosphere: you see her exploring the idea of isolation, living on her own in a ruin and trying to transcode messages from nature. For instance, she finds a dead bird and seems to interpret this as having a deeper meaning. Lowe captures a real sense of isolation and lack of rules about what’s going on in the world, leaving her character unanchored, desperately searching for meaning in a world that may have none.
Unravel (2012)
Documentary about women working in a recycling factory in India, which turns clothes from the west into yarn for blankets.
I have to confess, I worked on this film as an editor but I absolutely love it and believe in its sentiment, and the director Meghna Gupta is amazing. We might expect a film set in clothing factories to be depressing, but the natural warmth and personalities of the people interviewed brings a refreshing lightness. While the film is shot in the east, in many ways it is a reflection of our waste in the west, the capitalist clothing market that keeps us buying more and more stuff that we just end up throwing away. But what I really love about it is the central character Reshma: she doesn’t have much but she has a lot of joy. The clothes that she handles travel thousands of miles around the world to this one little sleepy place, Panipat, all while Reshma herself dreams of travelling but has never left the town – the contrast is poignant. She’s one of those characters that you could spend hours with.
Spider (2007)
Black-comic thriller directed by Nash Edgerton about a man whose prank on his girlfriend goes painfully and horribly wrong.
Like The Cat With Hands, this is a very complete story that works perfectly for the short film form. It’s also one I show people a lot – with a trigger warning – without giving away the ending, which is just so brilliant and shocking. The main character is idiotic and yet well-meaning; you kind of like him but from the start you are sitting there just dreading what is about to happen. The fact that the director has a stunt background makes total sense: it is such a well set-up joke … I don’t want to call it a joke, but it is. We don’t get that many shorts that hit that narrative perfection, but this one does. It’s not something to meditate on or make you a better person, it’s just pure entertainment.
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SRINAGAR: On Friday, the Supreme Court of India refused to stay a circular issued by Jammu & Kashmir government directing deputy commissioners to remove encroachments on State Land including Roshni Land and Kachharie land by January 31, 2023, reported LiveLaw.in.
A bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar, though expressed its disclination in not passing an order today, it orally asked the Union Territory to not demolish any houses.
“We are not passing any order today. You instruct them orally not to demolish any houses. But we will not grant a general stay…. others should not get benefit,” the bench orally told the counsel of J&K, according to report published in Livelaw.in.
During the hearing, the advocate for the petitioner argued that many tribals are residing on the land and took the Court through the reliefs prayed for.
“If stay is granted then it will benefit land grabbers also?”, Justice Shah asked.
The counsel appearing for the Union Territory clarified that the circular is mainly focused on the Roshni land. He also questioned the locus of the applicants.
“The Application was served on me yesterday. It does not even mention that the applicants live there”, he pointed out while adding that the said land only had shops and such establishments.
The Court then adjourned the matter. The matter was mentioned before the Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, earlier this week.
The Jammu and Kashmir government, on January 9, directed the removal of all encroachments on State Land, including Roshni Land and Kachharie land, by January 31, 2023. The order was passed while several review petitions challenging Roshni Act Judgment remain pending before the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
In 2020, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court held that the Jammu and Kashmir State Land (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act 2001, [popularly known as Roshni Act] is completely unconstitutional.
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The following officers shall be the ‘Observers’, for the conduct of Written Test for the post of Assistant Legal Remembrancer/District Litigation Officer in the Department of Law, Justice & Parliamentary Affairs, being conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission, on 22.01.2023 (Sunday) at the designated centres:
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