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EDUCATION

SP College launches signature campaign against drug trafficking & drug abuse

SRINAGAR, MAY 10: The NSS Units of Sri Pratap College today launched a signature campaign against drug trafficking and drug abuse as part of the institution’s constant efforts to create awareness regarding drug abuse.
The campaign was launched by the Director Colleges Higher Education Department, Prof (Dr) Yasmeen Ashai and the Principal of the College, Prof. (Dr) Gh Jeelani Qurashi.
Director Planning HED, Ashu Gupta, Principals of Degree Colleges, police personnel also marked their signature in support of the campaign.
Prof Yasmeen Ashai urged the students to take the campaign seriously so that the awareness regarding drug abuse reaches every section of the community.
Speaking on the occasion, the Principal of the College directed the NSS volunteers to take the campaign beyond the boundaries of the college and involve people from other institutions to strengthen the campaign.
NSS programme officers Dr. Nadia Shah and Dr. Syeed Rashid Maqsood coordinated the campaign and directed the NSS volunteers in groups to different sections of the society to reach the target of 1K signatures.

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SPORTS

Sports has power to bind all: Secretary Sports Council

SRINAGAR, MAY 18: The sports fields in J&K remained abuzz with activities both organized by J&K Sports Council and local clubs with a greater number of players adding to the aggregate of participants.
The number of activities held under My Youth My Pride module at Polo Ground Srinagar, today. The activities included Pencak Silat, Judo, Taekwondo, Kabaddi, and Rugby. The Sports Officer of Kashmir, Nuzhat Farooq presided over the function as the chief guest.
The event kicked off with a nail-biting Kabaddi match between J&K Police and ACME Sports Academy which the former won by a score of 23:19. In the Handball match played between J&K Police and Al-Murad Baramulla, J&K Police triumphed with the scoreboard reading 31:25 in their favour. Khelo India Girls Team and got better of Hoopstar Club by a narrow margin of 15:13 points in the Basketball clash. In another encounter in the same discipline which went down to the wire, the Khelo India Center Boys emerged as the winner over their opponents MET Warriors by a score of 53-:8.
Even as My Youth My Pride activities continue to attract huge crowd, the players equally receive due praise and support for their respective performances. Pertinently this module of activities is organized to promote sports in J&K and encourage youth to take part in sports activities.
Meanwhile, District Anantnag Rugby Championship-2023 was held at Delhi Public School, Anantnag in which more than 200 participants of different age groups from different areas of district Anantnag participated.
Apart from the regular coaching and training classes, various sports activities are taking place under floodlights to further the scope of sports in J&K. The events held during the night especially see a huge participation from the athletes. The activities of Football, Handball, Basketball and Lawn Tennis are adding vibrancy to the ambience and making venues the happening places.
Speaking on the sidelines of the events, Secretary Sports Council, Nuzhat Gull said that sports is emerging as the prime choice for the recreation of youth. The visuals from district Shopian in South Kashmir the other day where participants swelled in large numbers in the district stadium under Nasha Mukt Bharat campaign makes one realize the power of sports which binds all, she added.
The Volleyball Association of J&K during a Volleyball event in M.A Stadium Jammu today organized volleyball-exhibition matches for boys and girls. During the concluding ceremony Sports officer Jammu, Ashok Singh presided over the function and distributed prizes among the participating clubs. While speaking on the occasion he stressed upon the need to get involved in the sports activities for fitness and wellbeing.
Meanwhile, early in the morning a meeting convened by Ashok Singh Sports Officer pertaining to smooth functioning of Khelo India State Centre of Excellence in Fencing was held in the meeting hall of MA Stadium Jammu. The selected athletes along with their parents, and KISCE staff was part of the meeting during which performance of each player was analyzed besides providing a weekly training schedule and stressing upon the punctuality for higher performance.
The participants were apprised about the guidelines of the programme besides discussion on hostel facilities and school admissions.
Pertinently the KISCE is an inhouse training facility where all the expenses of boarding and lodging of selected candidates including education is borne by the government.

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CRIME

Police solves burglary case in Shopian, 05 arrested; Stolen property worth lacs recovered

Shopian, May 18: Police in Shopian have solved a burglary case by arresting 05 person involved in the commission of crime. Stolen property worth lacs have also been recovered from their possession.
On 03/05/2023, Police Station Shopian received a written compliant to the effect that during the intervening night of 15-16/04/2023, some unknown burglars have stolen 11 sheep (hybrid type).
Accordingly, a case vide FIR No.68/2023 under relevant sections of law was registered in Police Station Shopian and investigation was initiated.
During the course of investigation, investigating team developed human/technical inputs and accordingly several suspects were detained for questioning. During questioning, officers learnt the involvement of five suspects in the commission of crime. They have been identified as Nisar Ahmad Malla son of Ghulam Rasool Malla, Gulzar Ahmad Mir son of Abdul Qadoos Mir, both residents of Check Sangdan Imamsahib Shopian, Sheeraz Ahmad Hajam son of Mohammad Abdullah Hajam resident of Watoo Kulgam, Sajid Gulzar Ganie son of Gulzar Ahmad Ganie resident of Akalmir Khanyar Srinagar and Irshad Ahmad Ganie son of Mohammad Shafi Ganie resident of Rozbal Khanyar Srinagar.
During further questioning, officers also learnt of their involvement in several other burglary incidents at different locations of Anantnag, Awantipora, Kulgam and Pulwama areas.
On their disclosure, stolen property worth lacs including vehicle Tata Mobile bearing registration number JK18-0124, vehicle Taveera bearing registration number JK03C-1249 and 03 sheep were recovered.
Further investigation of the case is going on.

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EDUCATION

Professor (Dr) Syed Wilayat Rizvi assumes charge as Registrar Cluster University Srinagar

NASIR YOUSUFI

Srinagar, May 18: Professor (Dr) Syed Wilayat Rizvi assumes charge as Registrar Cluster University Srinagar today on 18th of May 2023. Born and brought up in Zadibal area of Shaher-e-Khaas Srinagar, Prof. Rizvi received his early education from Government Boys High School Zadibal (from 1974 to 1984) and S.P. Higher Secondary School (1985 & 86). He completed graduation as a medical student from S.P. College (1987) and Islamia College Srinagar (1988-1990) and then joined Department of Botany University of Kashmir in 1991. After completing M.Sc. Botany in 1994, he joined CORD (Centre of Research for Development) University of Kashmir for MPhil and PhD in Plant Tissue Culture. Prof. Rizvi has published 8 books and many research papers. He is the recipient of Innovative Science Teacher Award, Best Teacher Award and Best Oral Presentation Award.

Professor (Dr) Syed Wilayat Rizvi assumes charge as Registrar Cluster University Srinagar

Prof. Wilayat Rizvi started his service in Higher Education Department J&K Government on 12.10.1994 and has served as Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and as Principal for about 28 years. He has served in Government Women’s college M.A. Road Srinagar (from October 1994-June 1997), GDC Boys Anantnag (from September 2000 to June 2003), Amar Singh College Srinagar (June 2003-July 2017), SP College Srinagar (from July 2017 to August 2022) and HKM GDC Bandipora (from 27th August 2022 to 17th April 2023).

During his service in different colleges, Prof. Rizvi has taught to UG and PG students and shouldered many administrative responsibilities like Coordinator, IQAC, UGC affairs, Website Monitoring Committee, Discipline Committee, College Development Committee, Advisory Committee, Career Counselling and Placement Cell. He has also remained Dean Academic Affairs, and Coordinator Edu-Sat and E-content management. He has coordinated e-content generation and has delivered more than 150 lectures as a resource person in different National and International seminars and contributed in NAAC accreditation. Before assuming charge as Registrar Cluster University Srinagar, he was posted as Principal, Degree College Bandipora.

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SPORTS

Night sports activities return in Kashmir as Sports Council organises multiple events

SRINAGAR, MAY 17: The sports activities under different verticals were held in various playfields and indoor sports complexes in J&K.

A Badminton event was held in Sheri Kashmir Indoor Sports Complex, Srinagar under My Youth My Pride in which more than 40 players including both boys and girls participated. The girls single’s title was bagged by Sadia Khaki while Faiza ended up as the runner up and in boys category Shahnawaz won the title while Hadi settled for runner up title.

Meanwhile, Night Football activities resumed in Bakshi Stadium. The special activities in this segment are aimed at providing extend time to the players to hone their skills, said Dr Zaffar Iqbal CAO Sorts Council. Adding that Sports Council under the special activities segments besides mass awareness about the ill effects of drugs is also acquainting the public with the G-20 summit being hosted in J&K.

Late in the evening today, various sports activities and competitions were underway in Gindun Sports Complex in the disciplines of Basket Ball in which Khelo India Girls and Boys team was pitted against Hoopstar Girls Club and Warriors Boys Club respectively while in Kabaddi Academy was playing against Police Kabbadi Teams. In other events of Football and Handball.

Syed Tajdeen was playing against J&K Bank and Al-Murad Handball club was competing with J&K Police hand ball teams. All the matches were in progress under flood lights when the report was being filed.

An athletic and cycling event for school kids under fourteen years of age was also held in Bakshi Stadium today in which more that hundred school kids participated. The kids were thrilled to be part of the event.

In her message to youth, Secretary Sports Council Nuzhat Gull rheteriorated that she along with her team is always there to support players who are aspiring to make it big in the sports. She said that our sports academies in both the divisions are doing a commendable job when it comes to training the young turks tricks of their respective sports and that all the programmes including feedback mechanisms shall be made online soon.

Nuzhat Gull said that automation of Sports Council is under process and all the information relating to games, scrutiny of certificates etc shall be made online for the ease of players and public.

Referring to the Sports Club, she appealed youth to avail the facility which houses Billiards, Chess Carrom, Table Tennis besides a Library with functional canteen which offers food on subsidised rates.

Meanwhile Sports Officer Kashmir Nuzhat Farooq refuted the claims made in a video after the conclusion of a cricket match in Bakshi Stadium. She said that the video has been edited to suit the claims of vested interests and is far from the truth.

The Sports Officer Kashmir requested the general public to report any incident that falls within her domain and assured of a timely redressal.

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SPORTS

Two Matches played under Inter-College Cricket Tournament at SP College Ground

SRINAGAR, MAY 17: Two matches were played today in connection with the ongoing inter college cricket tournament organised by the Department of Physical Education at S.P college main ground.

The first match was played between the Department of Zoology and Chemistry and was comprehensively won by Zoology Department by 7 wickets.

The second match of the tournament was played between the Department of Botany and Evs and was won by Botany Department by 4 wickets.

Two Matches played under Inter-College Cricket Tournament at SP College Ground

Principal, S.P college, Prof (Dr ) Gh Jeelani Qurashi, along with sports board members Dr. Khurshid Ahmad Parray, Dr Showkat Ahmad Wani, Dr Javid Ahmad, Dr Syed Rashid, Owais Wani, Arshad Salam, Mohammad Hafiz Khan, Arshid Iqbal and Imran Hamdani interacted with all the teams and assured them the best possible infrastructure with a view to organise high end competition in the college.

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EDUCATION

2-day workshop on Disaster preparedness in Jammu and Kashmir culminates at CoE, Srinagar

SRINAGAR, MAY 17 (2023): The day 2 of the workshop started with Technical Session III in which Bilquess Dar, Consultant DMRRR deliberated upon Emergency Response Support System, India Disaster Resource Network, Decision Support System, Common Alerting Protocol and State Emergency Operation Centre.

The Consultant DMRRR highlighted implementation of various disaster management initiatives in the UT of J&K in which she thoroughly discussed about Emergency Operation Centers. She made audience aware about One India One Emergency Number-112. She impressed upon the volunteers to download Mobile Application namely SACHET https://sachet.ndma.gov.in wherein each individual can get early warnings, alerts and do’s & don’ts of disaster.

She highlighted IDRN (Indian Disaster Resource Network) which is a web based platform for managing inventory of equipment’s, skilled human resources and critical supplies for emergency response.

The Technical Session IV was conducted in the College lawn wherein the SDRF Battalion 1st Kashmir Division provided handholding to the participants regarding different disasters like building collapse, firefighting etc. The volunteers were keenly observing the demonstrations by the team and many volunteers also participated in the same.

The Technical Session V was conducted by the SDRF Battalion 1st Kashmir Division in the auditorium where they gave practical demonstration to the volunteers regarding search and rescue.

The technical session was followed by a question answer session and many queries regarding the disasters and its associated themes were answered by the consultants from DMRRR.

At the end, some of the NSS Officers, NSS volunteers from both colleges and schools shared their views regarding the Two Day Workshop and impressed upon DMRRR and Higher Education Department to conduct such programmes in future also as these programme will give firsthand information to the people regarding disaster preparedness.

The workshop concluded with a valedictory function in which Prof. (Dr) Seema Naz, Principal College of Education Srinagar distributed certificates among the NSS Officers and volunteers from different colleges and schools.

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EDUCATION

Principal Secretary Education chairs 2 day workshop on “Disaster Preparedness of Jammu and Kashmir”

SRINAGAR, MAY 16: Government College of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction, organized a two day workshop on “Disaster Preparedness of Jammu and Kashmir” under India’s Presidency G-20.

Principal Secretary Education, Alok Kumar, was the chief guest on the occasion.

The workshop was attended by NSS volunteers of Colleges, Higher Secondary Schools and NSS Nodal Officers working in different colleges of Srinagar district.

The inaugural session saw a galaxy of experts and consultants from the Department of DMRRR, trainers from SDRF 1st Battalion, Principals of Degree Colleges of Srinagar district and Head of Institutions of Higher Secondary Schools.

Principal Secretary, in his presidential address, spoke about sensitive geographical locations of Jammu and Kashmir. He highlighted that we need to learn lessons from the destruction caused by Kashmir Flood of September 2014 and should take effective preparedness measures in advance.

He concluded his address by mentioning Benjamin Franklin quote “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail”.

Secretary, Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction, Nazim Zai Khan, while speaking on the occasion, said that the department with the help of its SRDF Battalion 1st and 2nd is striving hard to mitigate the impact of disasters on people of Jammu and Kashmir. He also emphasized the need to integrate Disaster Management in school curriculum.

Senior Consultant, DMRRR, Waseem Shafi Dar, presented the structure of Disaster Management in J&K.

Director Colleges, Higher Education Department, Professor Yasmeen Ashai, spoke on disaster vulnerability of J&K, sustainable development and climate change impact on disaster scenario of the UT. She emphasized that such workshops will provide a common platform for all stakeholders to raise their concern regarding the theme.

Later, Principal Secretary released college publications including annual newsletters CASCADE and BAHAR besides Lesson Plan booklet by Interns of GMS Chattabal.

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SPORTS

Principal S.P College inaugurates Intra College T20 Men’s Cricket Tournament at College main ground

SRINAGAR, MAY 16: Principal S.P. College, Prof. (Dr) Ghulam Jeelani Qurashi today inaugurated Intra College T20 Men’s Cricket tournament at S.P College main ground, here.

The tournament is being organised by the Department of Physical Education. The first match of the tournament was played between Students of Physics Department and Students of Information Technology

The Principal, who was also Chief Guest at the inaugural function, said that this will provide an opportunity for the sportspersons from all the Departments of the college to showcase their talent and compete with the best of the lot.

He said that it is high time that we garner the talent of our youth and build sportsmanship characters in them.

Speaking on the occasion Secretary, Sports, Cluster University Srinagar Dr. Khursheed Parray, who was also Guest of the Honour for the event said that the college is committed to providing National level sports infrastructure with a view to organise high end competition in the college to harness the potential of budding sportspersons.

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EDUCATION

Workshop on Innovation & Success Talks programme held at GDC Ganderbal

GANDERBAL, MAY 16: A day-long workshop on Innovation and Success Talks programme was held today at Government Degree College, Ganderbal.

The programme was conducted by the District Skill Committee, Ganderbal and was part of the Entrepreneurship Festival week that commenced from 15th of May.

The weeklong festival is committed to ensure quality, consistency and convergence in the skill ecosystem of the district, besides generating awareness of various initiatives launched by the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship.

The aim of today’s event was to reach out to the youth to encourage them to take entrepreneurship as a career option.

Prominent speakers like Shabir Handoo (Chairman Kashmir Angel Network), Abdul Hamid Bhat (Owner of Rahim Greens) and other speakers deliberated on the said topic.

Additional Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal, Mehraj-ud-Din Shah also encouraged the youth to take entrepreneurship as a career and assured every possible help from the District Administration.

Principal GDC, Ganderbal thanked the District Administration for organising such events in the college and expressed that such events to be conducted on routine basis, so that the youth can be prevented from drugs and other social threats.

The programme ended with felicitation of mementos to the speakers and special vote of thanks to Deputy Commissioner, Ganderbal for working tirelessly to organize events like this.

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