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Govt asks departments not to refer posts unfilled for more than 2 years

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Srinagar, Mar 7 (GNS): The government has asked all administrative departments not to refer the posts under direct recruitment quota, which have remained unfilled for more than two years, to the recruiting agencies.
“The Departments shall obtain the prior concurrence of the Finance Department for revival of such posts before referring them for recruitment, in unavoidable cases,” reads a circular by Finance department, a copy of which lies with GNS.
The Finance department recalled that on 15 July 2021 circular instructions were issued regarding creation, deemed abolition, revival and continuation of posts was issued.
These instructions, among others, provide as under that all posts, except newly created posts kept in abeyance or remaining vacant for a period of more than two years in any Department, Attached Office, Subordinate office, Statutory body, would be considered as ‘deemed abolished’ unless an exemption has been given at the time of sanctioning the post.
A post falling into the category of ‘deemed abolished’, cannot be filled up prior to obtaining its revival, from Finance Department.
Revival of posts would be considered in rare and unavoidable circumstances only, the 2021 circular had said.
Proposals for revival of posts were to be referred to Finance Department on file along with the prescribed checklist issued by the Department.
Separate checklist was to be prepared for each post. “Proposals received without proper checklist would not be considered.” (GNS)

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March 7, 2023
1200 Kashmiris Triumph Over Tobacco In Last Four Years

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SRINAGAR: About 1200 persons quit smoking in Kashmir in the last four years, official data said. As per the data accessed by the news agency KNO, 147 persons quit smoking in 2022-23 in Kashmir, 642 in 2021-22, 212 in 2020-21, and 194 in 2019-20.
The Data said that around 6624 persons received counseling but no pharmacotherapy in 2022-23, 7815 in 2021-22, 5348 in 2020-21, and 791 in 2019-20.
It also said 2109 persons received counseling and pharmacotherapy in 2022-23, 5412 in 2021-22, 4231 in 2020-21, and 2267 in 2019-20.
Officials claim that a slew of measures have been taken to decrease the percentage of tobacco consumption in the UT even as they claim that the percentage has started going down due to the efforts of the National Tobacco Control Programme launched by the Government.
Notably as per GATS 2 Data 35.2% of Men & 5.1% of women & 20.8% of all Adults currently smoke Tobacco in J&K
6.8% of Men & 1.5% of women and 4.3% of all adults currently use smokeless Tobacco, 39.7% of Men & 6.2 % of women & 23.7% of all adults either smoke tobacco or use smokeless Tobacco.
The National Health and Family Survey-5 (NHFS-5) data reveals nearly one-third (32%) of men, but only 1 percent of women, aged 15-49 use some form of tobacco.
“Tobacco products mostly used by men are cigarettes (27%), bidis (4%), hookah, and cigars or pipe (2% each). Among women and men, the use of any form of tobacco is slightly higher in rural areas (1.4% for women and 35% for men) than in urban areas (0.7% for women and 24% for men),” the data adds—(KNO)

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March 6, 2023
Saudi non-oil private sector record highest level in 8 years

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Riyadh: The activity of the non-oil private sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) accelerated during February to the highest level in 8 years, in light of increased demand associated with the improvement of economic conditions, the Anadolu Agency reported.
Data from Standard & Poor’s Global showed that the purchasing managers’ index reading in Saudi Arabia which monitors the performance of non-oil private sector – rose to 59.8 points in February from 58.2 points in January.
The survey showed that the new orders sub-index rose to 68.7 last month, the highest reading in more than eight years from 65.3 in January, continuing a recent upward trend based on strong demand momentum.
Reuters attributed the significant rise in new orders to the improvement in economic conditions for companies, as the production sub-index recorded a strong increase, reaching 65.6 in February, from 63.6 in January, which led to further expansion in employment and purchasing.
The survey indicated that the improvement in economic conditions leads to confidence in future business activity over the next 12 months.
Saudi Arabia plans to focus on initiatives to develop the non-oil economy in 2023 but it will not enhance financial spending, according to what the Minister of Economy and Planning, Faisal Al-Ibrahim said in previous statements, adding the government intends to use its unexpected oil revenues for this year to accelerate the diversification of its economy away from fuel.
Purchasing Managers’ Index is based on five main pillars, which are new orders, inventory and production levels, suppliers’ delivery volume, and the employment and work environment.

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March 6, 2023
Kerala Muslim couple to re-marry after 29 years so their girls can inherit

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Thiruvananthapuram: On International Women’s Day on March 8, a unique “marriage” will be seen in Kerala’s Kasargod district where a couple married for nearly 29 years will solemnise their union again – for sake of their three daughters.
Present at the marriage at the Hosdurg sub-registrar office will be their three girls besides their family members and friends.
C. Shukkur, an eminent lawyer from Kasargod, married Dr Sheena in October 1994 and their wedding was conducted by Indian Union Muslim League’s supreme leader Panakkad Syed Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal.
However, the marriage was under the Sharia law and according to Muslim Personal Law, daughters get only two-thirds of the share of their father’s property, with the rest going to his brothers.
The couple, in order to ensure that their hard-earned property should go to their children only, will marry again under the Special Marriage Act which states that the succession to the property of any person solemnised under it will be governed by the Indian Succession Act.
Sheena is a former Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Kottayam-headquartered Mahatma Gandhi University.
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March 6, 2023
No farmer became helpless or committed suicide in past 6 years: CM Yogi

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday flagged off 77 tractors for farm machinery banks set up in cooperative sugarcane and sugar mill societies.
“Today is going to be a historic day for the sugarcane farmers when on the eve of Holi, Rs 2 lakh crores will be sent directly to the farmers’ bank accounts through DBT,” CM Yogi said.
Prior to 2017, the state’s sugarcane farmers were compelled to burn their crops because of a lack of water for irrigation, electricity, and timely payment of their dues.
In the previous six years, no farmer in Uttar Pradesh became helpless and attempted suicide, said CM Yogi.
The Chief Minister added, “We have freed the sugarcane farmers from the brokers’ clutches, and today the farmers do not have to wander around in search of the slip because their slip arrives on their smartphone.”
He said that the state’s 77 sugarcane committees are receiving tractors and other equipment today. The happiness of sugarcane farmers will be doubled by receiving such a gift on the eve of Holi.
“We all know what the condition of sugarcane farmers was earlier. Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office, the farmer has for the first time been included in any government’s agenda and has begun to benefit from the government’s programs. Every farmer who was previously dependent on moneylenders is now able to benefit from the Soil Health Card, Kisan Bima Yojana, Agricultural Irrigation Scheme, and Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi”, CM Yogi said.
Mentioning that now 2.60 crore farmers in the state are taking advantage of the facility of the Prime Minister’s Kisan Samman Nidhi, he said, “Within the last three and a half years, we have done the work of transferring an amount of Rs 51,000 crores to their accounts.”

Asserting that a farmer is just a farmer and has no caste, creed, or religion, Yogi said, “We all know what was the situation in the state before 2017. There was no electricity and no water for irrigation. We have now provided irrigation facilities to 22 lakh hectares of land. Previously, farming was considered a loss-making venture due to a lack of water, fertilizers, and a fair market price for the product.”
“Today, UP was going to create a new record in the country, adding that sugarcane payments totalling more than Rs 2 lakh crores are now reaching farmers’ bank accounts for the first time. Many states in the country do not even have an annual budget of two lakh crores, he pointed out,” he added.
The CM went on to say that it is due to the efforts of sugarcane farmers that they are producing additional 10 tonnes of sugarcane per hectare. Apart from this, the area of sugarcane production has increased to 8 lakh hectares of additional land in the state today.
“In contrast to the previous governments, where sugar mills were closed or sold at throwaway prices, we did not shut down any sugar mill, and instead re-started the closed sugar mills. Munderwa and Pipraich sugar mills were made functional again. When the world’s sugar mills were shut down, Uttar Pradesh still had 119 sugar mills operating,” said Yogi.
He emphasized that during the Covid-19 period, when sanitisers were in short supply across the country, the government made sanitisers available at no cost to all municipal corporations in Uttar Pradesh via these sugar mills. Along with this, sanitisers were made available in 27 states across the country.
The Chief Minister stated that his government paid the sugarcane price on time and procured wheat and paddy at the higher minimum support price. “For this more and more purchase centres were established.
The instructions were clear: as long as the farmers had crops, the government would purchase them. No farmer will have to wander around. We have issued 284 licenses for the Khadsari units, which has resulted in job creation.”
The Chief Minister said that maximum green ethanol is being produced in the country through sugarcane farmers.
“Previously, our own money was spent in the form of terrorism against us under the name of the Petro Dollar. But now ethanol is being produced in farmers’ fields in the form of sugarcane and soon it will be seen being used in the form of diesel and petrol”, he remarked.
The CM stated that Uttar Pradesh currently is the largest producer of ethanol in the country. “Today, our farmers are progressing by using mechanized farming. Apart from this, co-farming is being practised through FPO, enhancing the fertility of the land as well as profits of farmers,” CM Yogi remarked.
The Chief Minister cited the example of a progressive Bijnor farmer who, instead of selling his sugarcane to sugar mills, makes vinegar and markets it abroad.
He said that due to mechanized farming, today the stubble is mixed with the soil instead of being set on fire, contributing significantly to the farm’s fertility. Farming is being advanced through mechanization.
CM Yogi stated that 105 of the state’s 119 mills pay the sugarcane price within 10 days.
“We’ve also put pressure on the remaining 14-15. Where previously brokers were involved, the slip now arrives on the farmer’s smartphone. Those who used to exploit farmers have had their businesses shut down,” he added.
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March 6, 2023
Karnataka beats Meghalaya to win Santosh Trophy after 54 years in Riyadh

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Riyadh: Karnataka ended a 54-year-old title drought in the 76th National Football Championships for the Santosh Trophy when they defeated first-timers Meghalaya 3-2 in a well-fought final at the King Fahd International Stadium, here on Saturday.
The young Karnataka team comprising reserve players from Bengaluru FC and some talented players from clubs from the Bengaluru District Football Association’s Super Division League made history when it won the first Santosh Trophy final to be played on foreign soil.
Karnataka had last won their fourth title as Mysore way back in 1968-69 at Banglore and had since then reached the final only in 1974-75. They have finished runners-up on five occasions.
However, the team coached by Ravi Babu Raju exceeded all expectations and quelled a strong challenge by Meghalaya to claim a memorable victory and a historic title.
M Sunil Kumar (2nd min), Bekey Oram (19th min) and Robin Yadav (44th min) scored the goals for Karnataka while Brolington Warlarpih (7th min) and Sheen Stevenson (60th min) scored for Meghalaya in the game of two halves.
Karnataka played a tactically superior game and caught Meghalaya on the wrong foot off counterattacks. They dominated the midfield and though Meghalaya fought back well in the second half, their forwards missed some crucial chances as they fell short.
Karnataka took the lead in the second minute of a frantic first half when Sunil M’s shot went in off defender Bankhemi Mawlong’s leg after defender Robin Yadav set him up with a superb long throw.
But Meghalaya came back within a few minutes when they were awarded a penalty when forward Sheen Stevenson was brought down by defender Nikhil G with a body block as the Meghalaya star made a fine run into the box from the left side. Defender Brolington Warlarpih converted from the spot comfortably to make it 1-1.

Karnataka took control of the midfield and made some superb attacks as they took a 3-1 lead just before the breather.
Forward Jacob John Kaitooaren floated a ball into the far corner to M Sunil Kumar, who centred it and Bekey Oram tapped the high ball into the net past the goalkeeper to make it 2-1 for Karnataka in the 19th minute.
Karnataka had a couple of more chances to add to their tally but their forwards either shot wide or were thwarted by the defenders. Meghalaya had one chance to reduce the margin but Donlad Diengdoh’s shot off a superb attack was deflected out by a defender.
Karnataka made it 3-1 when Robin Yadav planted a superb free-kick into the top left corner for his sixth goal (four freekicks, one penalty, one field goal) of the tournament. Robin, who is part of the Bengaluru FC reserves, thus became the third-highest scorer in the tournament behind joint leaders Naro Hari Shrestha of West Bengal and Nijo Gilbert of Kerala, who have nine goals each.
Just when it looked like Karnataka were cruising towards victory, Meghalaya reduced the margin when Sheen Stevenson struck in the 60th minute after Donlad Diengdoh played a dummy off a pass by Banskheml Mawlong to distract the defenders.
Meghalaya created a lot of pressure in the last half hour of the match in search of the equaliser but the Karnataka defense stood strong and thwarted them. They were also denied in second-half added time when an attempt by Ronaldkydo Lyngdoh went off the top of the crosspiece.
Rajat Paul Lyngdoh (Meghalaya) with 6 clean sheets in 12 matches was adjudged as the Best Goalkeeper of the Championship while Robin Yadav (Karnataka), who scored six goals in the tournament including one in the final, got the Player of the Championship award.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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March 5, 2023
She witnessed Bloody Sunday in person. 58 years later, she’ll go back again.

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Her parents struggled to explain why they had to use a different bathroom, or why the entrances to stores and restaurants were different for people who looked like them. Webb-Christburg peppered her parents with questions, but she always listened and was well behaved.
That would change on Jan. 2, 1965.
Webb-Christburg and her best friend, Rachel West, were playing in front of Brown Chapel AME Church. There were more cars than usual — fancier cars than she was used to seeing in her neighborhood. She and Rachel walked closer and saw a man “dressed in a nice white starched shirt, black tie, black slacks.”
A crowd gathered around the stranger, and another man walked up to the two girls, asking them if they knew who this was. They did not.
It was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
He saw the two girls and walked over to them. He asked where they lived (they pointed to the projects nearby), how old they were and where they went to school. One of the men in the crowd told them to run along — grown folks were about to meet.
King disagreed. “Let them come in,” he said, taking them by the hand and leading them into the church. He sat them down in the back.
“He said, ‘What do you little girls want?’” Webb-Christburg recalled. “We looked at each other. He said, ‘Now, children, when I ask you little girls what you want, I want you to say, freedom.’ And then he said, ‘Now, when do you little girls want it?’ We looked at each other again, not knowing how to answer that question. He said, ‘When I ask you, When do you want it? I want you to say, now.’”

It was a moment that changed her life. She ran to tell her parents. But they weren’t receptive.

Spending time with Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists awakened something in Webb-Christburg. “I gained some courage because I was around courageous people,” she said.
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“My daddy told me, ‘You just better stay from around that mess,’” she remembered. They were worried about her safety — and theirs — and about losing their jobs.
She did the exact opposite: sneaking out, skipping school, spending hours at the church for mass meetings.
“In my mind as a child, I was fighting for them,” she said, smiling.
Spending time with King, Williams, Lewis and other activists — Jonathan Daniels, Viola Liuzzo and James Reeb — awakened something in her. “I was already inquisitive. But I gained some courage because I was around courageous people,” she said.
When March 7 came, her parents begged her not to march. And even when she gathered at Brown Chapel AME Church, which served as a meeting place and offices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that helped plan the march, adults discouraged her from going. She cried and they relented.
The march had been planned by Lewis and Williams in response to the killing of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson by an Alabama state trooper. The group planned to march from Selma to the state capital, Montgomery, 54 miles in all.
As they walked the 15-minute route to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, she began to see dozens of white people and a wall of law enforcement.
“Some of them start just yelling the n-word out, trying to distract the marchers. Some would even come up and spit on some of the marchers,” she said. “I could see the policemen with the billy clubs, tear gas masks. You see the horses, the dogs — my heart started beating very fast, and I just knew something was going to happen.”
What came next shocked the country and forced action in Washington, D.C., leading to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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March 4, 2023
Frank Animal Puzzles for Kids – in The Jungle – Set of 4 Jigsaw Puzzles for Kids for Age 4 Years Old and Above – Educational and Fun Kids Puzzle

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In this collection of animal puzzles, young learners will be amazed to discover the different kinds of animals that exist in the Jungle. While assisting in assembling the pieces, grown-ups can discuss with the children the facts regarding the animals to make it more interactive with your child on the basis of the information given about each animal. This masterpiece of dimension 17.5 x 17.5 cm designed creatively with good quality cardboard and an excellent print with bright colors will not just amaze your child but will last in the long run. This set of puzzles includes one animal on each puzzle – a zebra (6 pieces), a giraffe (8 pieces), a tiger (10 pieces), and an elephant (12 pieces). Meant for children of the age 4 years and above, this power-packed jigsaw puzzle will keep your child engaged while improving his / her hand-eye coordination, concentration power and level of patience. Improve your child’s visual skills and memory as he/she is enthralled by this set of 4 in 1 jigsaw puzzle while also improve your child’s problem-solving abilities.
Assembling the puzzle will improve the child’s fine motor skills, concentration, visual skills, hand-eye coordination, and logical thinking.
The trial and error involved will teach the children to be patient and develop problem-solving skills.
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March 4, 2023
TVARA LCD Writing Tablet, 8.5″ Inch Colorful Toddler Doodle Board Drawing Tablet, Erasable Reusable Electronic Drawing Pads, Educational and Learning Tool for 3-6 Years Old Boy and Girls Mix Colors

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Environmental & economical: The built-in battery of the writing and drawing tablet has 6 months battery life, can be replaced for cycle use, without charging or plugging in power. The writing pad can provide about 100,000 writings, avoid waste of paper and pencils, reduce expense and no more mess at home, as great educational girls boys. The stylus can be hung on the doodle board through the lanyard avoid missing.
Easy to Use: The writing tablet creates colorful lines of different thickness, based on how hard you push with stylus, nails, or any hard thing, just like writing and drawing on paper. It is recommended to use our product under light, the line will be brighter.Press erase button, emptying the screen content takes only one second, which is convenient and time-saving. Click lock key to save the content, you can still erase the pattern after unlocking.
Portable and Durable: The case of drawing board for kids is made of durable plastic, add round corner design which has good shock resistance and drops resistance. The colorful writing tablet weights only 150 grams and has only 1/ 3 inches thickness, easy to place in school bags, handbags, travel bags. Easy to carry, suitable for multiple occasions: airplane, car, restaurant, sofa, etc.
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March 3, 2023
40 years after murder, SC acquits West Bengal man of killing wife

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday acquitted a West Bengal resident of the charge of killing his wife 40 years ago, ruling his conviction on the basis of extra-judicial confessions cannot be sustained as it is weak piece of evidence.
The top court said where an extra-judicial confession is surrounded by suspicious circumstances, its credibility becomes doubtful and it loses its importance.
The murder was alleged to have taken place on March 11, 1983 in Burdwan district of West Bengal. The trial court decided the case on March 31, 1987, acquitting Nikhil Chandra Mondal, who was booked for allegedly killing his wife.
The state government’s appeal against the verdict remained pending in Calcutta High Court till December 15, 2008 on which date he was convicted and awarded life sentence.
Mondal preferred an appeal before the top court in 2010 against his conviction and sentence, which was decided on Friday.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sanjay Karol said, “The impugned judgment and order dated December 15, 2008 passed by the High Court at Calcutta in Government Appeal convicting the appellant for the offence punishable under Section 302 of the IPC is quashed and set aside.”
The top court, referring to a 1984 verdict, said it can be seen that this Court has held that the circumstances from which the conclusion of guilt is to be drawn should be fully established.
“It has been held that the circumstances concerned “must or should” and not “may be” established. It has been held that there is not only a grammatical but a legal distinction between “may be proved” and “must be or should be proved”. It has been held that the facts so established should be consistent only with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused, that is to say, they should not be explainable on any other hypothesis except that the accused is guilty,” the bench said.

The top court said it has been held that the circumstances should be of a conclusive nature and tendency and they should exclude every possible hypothesis except the one sought to be proved, and that there must be a chain of evidence so complete so as not to leave any reasonable ground for the conclusion consistent with the innocence of the accused and must show that in all human probability the act must have been done by the accused.
“It is a settled principle of law that however strong a suspicion may be, it cannot take place of a proof beyond reasonable doubt,” the bench said, and noted the prosecution case rests basically on the extrajudicial confession alleged to have been made by Mondal before three of his fellow villagers, who have been made prosecution witnesses by the police.
It said the trial court observed that where the prosecution case is entirely based on extra-judicial confession and the prosecution seeks conviction of the accused on that extra-judicial confession, the evidence of the witnesses before whom the alleged confessional statement was made, requires a greater scrutiny to pass the test of credibility.
The bench noted the trial court found the testimonies of prosecution witnesses were contradictory and not trustworthy.
“It is a settled principle of law that extra-judicial confession is a weak piece of evidence. It has been held that where an extra-judicial confession is surrounded by suspicious circumstances, its credibility becomes doubtful and it loses its importance.
“It has further been held that it is well-settled that it is a rule of caution where the court would generally look for an independent reliable corroboration before placing any reliance upon such extra-judicial confession. It has been held that there is no doubt that conviction can be based on extra-judicial confession, but in the very nature of things, it is a weak piece of evidence,” the bench said.
It said unless the finding of the trial court was found to be perverse, an interference would not be warranted and noted that the trial court found the testimonies of prosecution witnesses not reliable so as to base the conviction solely on such testimonies.
“We find that the approach adopted by the trial court was in accordance with law. However, this circumstance which, in our view, could not have been used has been employed by the High Court to seek corroboration to the extra-judicial confession,” the bench said, adding the scope of interference in an appeal against acquittal is very well crystalised that unless such a finding is found to be perverse or illegal/impossible, it is not permissible for the appellate Court to interfere with the same.
The top court directed Mondal to be set at liberty forthwith unless required in any other case and upheld the trial court verdict dated March 31, 1987 acquitting him of murder charges.
On March 11, 1983, a case was registered at Ketugram police station of Burdwan district that the body of an unknown married woman aged 25 years was lying in a field on the side of the railway track at Ambalgisan railway station.
Police found that the woman, identified as Mondal’s wife, was killed with a sharp edged weapon. During investigation, it was found that Mondal had accompanied his wife and son to a nearby village fair and she was missing ever since.
Police claimed Mondal had confessed before three fellow villagers Manick Pal, Pravat Kumar Misra and Kanai Saha that he had killed his wife with a bhojali (a type of knife) at the very spot where her body was found.
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March 3, 2023