LG lauds team behind anti-drug awareness film
Jammu, Nov 05: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday appreciated the initiative of the team behind Ek Galat Kadam, an awareness short film highlighting the dangers of drug abuse, and extended his best wishes to its members. The film's team called on the Lieutenant Governor at Raj Bhavan and invited him to attend the premiere of the short film. The film features Mahira Tandon, Youth Ambassador of the Nasha Mukt J&K Abhiyaan. Its writer and director Divya Tandon and producer Sumit Tandon were also present during the meeting.
A BDOs initiative in Budgam gives students a space to read and grow
Budgam, Nov 05: In a significant initiative aimed at strengthening the educational environment and fostering a culture of reading among students, the Block Development Office (BDO) SK Pora has established the first dedicated library for students of government schools across the block. The initiative, spearheaded by BDO SK Pora Syed Jaasirah Syedain, seeks to bridge the long-standing gap in access to library facilities for government school students, providing them with an opportunity to explore books, enhance their knowledge and develop reading habits beyond the classroom. The library has been established at Government Middle School (GMS) Chairhara, Razwan, under the Aspirational Panchayat Development Programme (APDP). While the government provided the necessary infrastructure for the facility, Syed Jaasirah took the initiative to mobilise resources for books, furniture and other essential amenities to make it fully functional and accessible to students. Speaking to Rising Kashmir,Syed Jaasirah said that when she assumed charge as BDO SK Pora, she found that none of the government schools in the block had a dedicated library facility or even adequate space where students could sit, read and explore books. After identifying this gap, we took an initiative under the Aspirational Panchayat Development Programme for the construction of a library at Government Middle School Chairhara, Razwan, she said adding The construction was completed in 2025, and the facility was formally handed over to us in 2026. However, after the government created the infrastructure, there was a need for furniture, books and other essential facilities to make the library functional, she said. Determined to turn the facility into a meaningful learning space, Jaasirah reached out to her parents, friends, relatives, teachers, mentors and local residents, seeking voluntary contributions for the library. Her efforts received an encouraging response from different sections of society. Her parents contributed books, while the Chief Planning Officer (CPO), Budgam, provided wardrobes for the facility. Her teachers and mentors also extended support by donating books and connecting her with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that subsequently contributed additional reading material. Teachers from the concerned school also came forward to contribute towards purchasing furniture, while local residents extended support by providing a water purifier and sponsoring paintings to make the library more attractive and welcoming for children. My parents, teachers, mentors, friends and relatives responded positively to my appeal. Some contributed books, others supported the purchase of furniture, while local residents also came forward with different contributions. Their collective support has helped us transform this facility into an attractive and useful learning space for students, Syed Jaasirah said. She added that her cousins and friends also contributed different categories of books after learning about the initiative, further enriching the library's collection and making it suitable for students belonging to different age groups. To ensure maximum participation, the BDO has also written to all government schools and the concerned Zonal Education Officer, requesting them to facilitate visits by students so that children from across the block can access the library and benefit from its resources. This library is not meant for students of a single school. Children studying in all government schools across the SK Pora block can visit, read books and spend quality time gaining knowledge. We want every student to benefit from this facility, she said. Apart from providing access to books, Jaasirah said that we are also planning to organise storytelling sessions to develop children's interest in reading and make learning more engaging. We are going to start storytelling sessions for students so that they develop an attraction towards books and reading. My main objective is to ensure that children take full advantage of this initiative and gain knowledge about the world around them. I hope that a day will come when students will independently develop the habit of reading and inspire their fellow students to do the same, she added. In another initiative aimed at promoting a reading culture beyond educational institutions, she said that her office is also planning to establish a community book-sharing facility at the Block Development Office. Under the proposed arrangement, people will be able to borrow books from the block office without any fixed deadline for returning them. However, readers will be required to contribute another book in return, ensuring that the collection continues to grow and remains beneficial for others. Emphasising that education and the welfare of students remain among her foremost priorities, Syed Jaasirah said the library initiative is a long-term social project intended to create lasting educational benefits for the younger generation. She expressed hope that the facility would eventually develop into a vibrant reading space where students not only read books but also exchange ideas, discuss what they have learned and motivate others to develop similar habits. The establishment of the library has been welcomed as a positive step towards improving learning opportunities for government school students in the SK Pora block. The initiative also highlights how public infrastructure, combined with community participation and individual commitment, can help address gaps in educational facilities and create meaningful opportunities for children.
Schools must produce good people, not just achievers: CM Omar
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Cabinet reshuffle: NC leadership steps in to defuse MLA
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Nadda directs early operationalisation of AIIMS Awantipora
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AIIMS Awantipora set to start with 100 MBBS seats: Sakina Itoo
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Security forces prepared for all contingencies amid terror threats: IGP Kmr
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Srinagar, Nov 05: Higher reaches of the Valley received fresh rain and snowfall on Wednesday late evening as weather conditions turned cloudy across parts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Snowfall was recorded at Razdan Pass and several other higher-altitude areas of the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday evening. The Meteorological Centre Srinagar has forecast generally []
Rs 209 crore cyber fraud racket: poor families lured with monthly commissions for bank accounts
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Accepts Ruhullah Mehdi
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Scrap worth Rs 1 Cr goes missing from GMC-Jammu
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Major Crackdown on Drug Trafficking
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Local terrorist behind Kulgam-Anantnag attacks
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Jammu Tawi, Nov 05: The Election Commission of India on Thursday said the Special Summary Revision (SSR) of electoral rolls in Jammu & Kashmir will be announced in due course of time. The Commission said the schedule for roll revision in J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh will be announced later, keeping in view their weather [] The post Spl Summary Revision in J&K in due course : ECI appeared first on Northlines .
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Harmeet Dhillon resigns as DOJ's civil rights chief after turbulent 18 months
Washington Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, resigned on Thursday, Attorney General Todd Blanche said. Today, I accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Civil Rights Division with conviction the past 18 months, Blanche wrote in a post on X . She has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor. The Department is grateful for her dedicated public service, and we wish her every success in her future endeavors. Dhillon oversaw a mass exodus from the Civil Rights Division last year, with more than 75% of its staff departing. She upended many of the division's traditional priorities that focused on combating discrimination against some of the nation's most vulnerable and historically marginalized groups. Since taking over the division, often lauded as being the crown jewel of the DOJ, she has reoriented it to focus instead on other priorities that have included protecting gun owners' rights, curbing the use of equity, diversity and inclusion policies at universities, and adopting legal positions that oppose civil rights protections for transgender people. During her tenure, the Justice Department closed many of its cases involving discrimination targeting Black Americans and announced it had dismissed more than 50 decades-old consent decrees with public schools, many in the Deep South, that were in place to protect Black students from unlawful discrimination. Dhillon nixed two pending consent decrees last year with the Minneapolis and Louisville Police Departments over systemic abuses that were investigated in the wake of the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and rescinded the investigative findings of misconduct into six other police departments. Earlier this year, after immigration agents shot and killed American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis as they were protesting the administration's immigration crackdown, the Civil Rights Division did not move to open any criminal civil rights investigations, in violation of longstanding practice for such high-profile officer-involved shootings. The division ultimately got involved in the Pretti case after the Justice Department faced staunch criticism and questions about why Homeland Security Investigations and not the FBI was leading the probe into its own agency. To date, no charges have been filed in the Pretti case, which is also separately under investigation by state officials. Stacey Young, a former Civil Rights Division attorney who founded the nonprofit advocacy group Justice Connection, called Dhillon the most destructive, lawless, and hateful head of the Civil Rights Division in DOJ history in a statement on Thursday. Americans' civil rights don't enforce themselves. For almost 70 years, the Civil Rights Division brought to fruition the civil rights laws that Americans demanded. Dhillon decimated it. Dhillon, a staunch ally of President Trump who for years ran her own law firm in San Francisco, is a frequent guest on conservative podcasts and a very active poster on social media. Unlike her predecessors, she frequently took to X to post her own videos about the work that her division was undertaking. She acknowledged in media interviews that she often generated ideas for civil rights investigations based on various posts she encountered on social media. She has sometimes announced the opening of civil rights investigations online, a stark departure from historical practice. She also handed out challenge coins to fellow DOJ attorneys with the term FAFO (f***around and find out) printed on it. One of the areas where she has been the most vocal has been voting rights. Under her leadership, the Civil Rights Division filed 31 lawsuits against primarily blue states and the District of Columbia in an effort to gain access to unredacted voter rolls. Lawyers from the division repeatedly argued that they needed the information to ensure states were complying with two federal voting laws that require them to maintain clean voter lists. However, they later admitted in court that the Justice Department intended to share the information with the Department of Homeland Security so they could use it for criminal and immigration enforcement purposes. So far, the Justice Department has lost 27 of those cases. During the midterm elections on Tuesday, the Civil Rights Division sent out more than 1,000 monitors to polling sites across the country, a record number that required the Justice Department to solicit volunteers from unusual parts of the DOJ, including the Bureau of Prisons and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. This article originally appeared on CBS News at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harmeet-dhillon-resigns-doj-civil-rights-division/
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Amit Shah challenges Rahul Gandhi to debate SIR in special Parliament session, says BJP ready
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Punjab farm fires surge with 440 fresh cases, 647 FIRs filed
