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Class 12 exams begin; Testing times for students

94% opt for November exams; Candidates rue security fears, absence of transport

‘It was as if entering prison’EJAZ-UL-HAQ BHAT

Bandipora, Nov 14: For Adil Rashid, a commerce student of class 12 from North Kashmir’s Ban-dipora district, “it was more like being in prison than in examination centre” as students had to go through frisking and prove their identity at the gate of examination centre before sitting in the exam hall. Like every other district of the valley, heightened security arrangements were made to

7 Pakistan soldiers killed at LoCSharif warns against 'Indian aggression'

Girls take exam ‘to move on’‘Difficult decision, had not studied even 20 percent’

ZEHRU NISSA

Srinagar, Nov 14: Despite misgivings and fears of appearing unprepared for class 12 exams, girls across Kashmir appeared for the first paper amidst heightened security measures and low-ered guard by examiners. Thousands of girls

No transport, no heating arrangement: Students

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Nov 14: Amid tight security measures, around 94 percent students appeared in class 12th examination across Baramulla district on Monday.

However, most of the students complained of hardships. "There was no heating arrangement in exam halls in this biting cold. There was also no

Exams smooth in Anantnag; stone pelting in Pulwama, Shopian

‘Indeed India is Hindu Rashtra’Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik react to RSS Chief’s remark

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 14: Com-menting on RSS chief Mohan Bagwat’s statement that India is a Hindu Rash-tra (Hindu Country), joint resistance leadership com-prising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik today said that this is not only the words but all their deeds and actions testify this statement.

Militant killed in RajouriJammu, Nov 14: One militants was killed while attempt-ing infiltration amid Pakistan Army's shelling and firing on Monday at one of three Indian positions on the Line of Control in Rajouri and Jammu districts, a senior defence officer said. "The Pakistan Army used 82mm mortars and automatic fire to target Indian positions in Naushera and Sunderbani sectors on the LoC in Rajouri district around 2.40 p.m. today," defence spokesman Lieutenant Colonel

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Nov 14: Seven Pakistan army personnel were killed in “continuous unpro-voked” Indian shelling from across the Line of Control (LoC) late on Sunday, officials said on Monday.

The killings took place in the southern-most Bhimber district of Pakistan administered

Kashmir (PaK) "in cease-fire violation by Indian troops late Sunday night," said Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), army’s media affairs wing, in a statement.

"Pakistani troops while responding to the unprovoked Indian firing targeted Indian posts effectively," it added.

Four of the deceased soldiers belonged to PaK

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SYED RIZWAN GEELANI

Srinagar, Nov 14: Over 94 percent students of class 12th appeared in their examinations which were held amid tight secu-rity arrangements on Monday in Kashmir. As per the official fig-ures, 30213 students out of 31964 appeared in the exams while 1749 remained absent.

The figures reveal that south Kashmir’s Anantnag (Islamabad) district witnessed highest percentage of students who appeared in exams. As per the figures, 4740 out of 4926 stu-dents appeared in their exams in the district. The percentage Armymen at an exam centre in Tahab, Pulwama. (R) Anxious parents wait for their wards outside girls school Kothibagh, Srinagar.

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Sales Tax amnesty to benefit chosen few: Rana

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Nov 14: Provin-cial President National Conference, Devender Singh Rana, Monday ques-tioned the rationale behind General Sales Tax amnesty in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the decision seems to benefit a chosen few under the guise of GST reconciliation thereby causing a loss of nearly Rs 1,000 crore to the state exchequer.

Provided foolproof security for exams: Spl DG Vaid

Concession, is that education? Ask parents

Will achieve our status under democratic system: Mehbooba

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Nov 14: Amid the ongoing unrest in Kash-mir, chief minister Mehboo-ba Mufti on Monday under-scored the need for working under a democratic system to achieve “our status” and asserted that the agenda of alliance between the ruling coalition - Peoples Demo-cratic Party and BJP - was a formula to fulfill both eco-nomical and political aspira-tions of J&K.

“We live in a democrat-ic country and we have to strive for achieving our status under a democratic system. And we are commit-ted to achieve that through our agenda of alliance,” said Mehbooba, addressing a gathering at SKICC here

at the launching ceremony of the 250 million US dollars World Bank funded Jhelum-Tawi flood recovery project.

Referring to the ongoing unrest, Mehbooba said the guns and stones wouldn’t give the state anything. “We offer prayers five times a day…but what do we do after coming out of mosques and what do those people standing outside the mosques, waiting for prayers to end, do. We seek peace in every prayer but what do we do then.”

“The stones and guns won’t take us anywhere. If we want state to progress then we will have to come together. I am not asking you (people) to help me but help yourself and this state,” she said.

KHALID GUL

Anantnag, Nov 14: Class 12 examinations conducted by Board of School Education which began today went on smoothly in South Kashmir barring a few incidents of stone pelting on examina-tion centers.

The authorities had imposed section-144 in and around examination cen-ters. Police and paramili-tary forces were seen guard-ing all the centers.

Reports said that in the afternoon some youth pelted stones on an examination centre in Government Higher Secondary School in Tahab.

“Police and paramilitary forces, however, chased the stone-pelting youth,” reports said.

They said soon addi-tional deployment of police and CRPF was put in place. “Even army was called in,” reports added.

Minor stone pelting inci-dents on examination cen-ters were also reported in Shopian district.

“Some youth pelted stones on examination cen-ters set up in Government High School in Bartipora-Kellar and Government High School Pahnoo,” reports said. They said that the forces however chased

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Nov 14: Amid ongoing uprising, class 12 exams were held across Kashmir on Monday amid multi-layer security cover while all the exam centres were under the radar of spe-cial magistrates appointed by the government to ensure incident free exams.

Majority of examination centres were declared as hyper-sensitive. The exam material including question and answer

papers were ferried to respective exam cen-tres under full pro-tection of police while as sensitive and hyper sensitive examina-tion centres were provided with additional deployment.

The government man-aged to conduct exams despite the fact that at least

SYED RIZWAN GEELANI

Srinagar, Nov 14: As stu-dents on Monday appeared in higher secondary exams with 50 percent relaxation in syllabus, parents lambasted government for ‘marring the future of students in the name of concession.’

“Is this education where

students are made to appear in exams on concession?” asked a parent from Srinagar whose daughter had come to appear in exam at Women’s Degree College MA Road.

Parents castigated the government for keeping two options for exams which according to them frustrated

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