A SOFT HEART IS A STRONG HEART, AND A HARD HEART IS A WEAK HEART.

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A SOFT HEART IS A STRONG HEART, AND A HARD HEART IS A WEAK HEART.
Suhaib Ashraf Bhat
Soft-hearted people are not fools, they know what people did to them but they forgive again and again because they have beautiful hearts.We live in a time when qualities like humility, sincerity and compassion are being  considered as weak and useless. They say the nice people finish last and that soft-hearted people are the ones who get knocked down and are often mistreated in the society. What will save us on the Day of Judgement? Are we favoured based on our race or colour? No. Then what is it? It is the place in our body which Allah swt made the location of the most valuable possession of a human being: (faith). It is your heart. What favours you in the sight of Allah swt is the state of your heart. What will save you on the Day of Judgement is a sound heart. 
When you say the word ‘Think!”, most of us point to our heads, right? How many of us point to our hearts when we say “Think?” The Messenger of Allah swt Muhammmad (Peace and blessings of Allah swt be upon him) said, “Taqwa is here,” and he pointed to his chest. [Muslim, at-Tirmidhi, Ahmad]
Subhan Allah, one of the functions of the heart is understanding. Allah swt gave us a heart to comprehend, to reflect, and to reason. That brings us back to the central ayah: and have hearts by which to reason.
Ibn Taymiyyah (Rahimullah) said that many doctors and philosophers have said that the mind is in the brain, so we think and understand with our brains and not with our hearts. He then said that the centre is actually the heart. Ibn Katheer said: The arrogant philosophers say that the mind is in the brain. [Tafsir ibn Kathir vol 4 p.508] To believe, to disbelieve, to understand, to comprehend, to have tranquillity, to feel confusion, to have tawakkul and to have khushoo’ are all functions of your heart.

The state of your heart will decide what you do with your knowledge. Will you benefit from it by practicing it or not?  For example, if you hear an ayah of the Quran or a hadith, does it make you feel you want to practice it straight away or does it not have much impact on you? Whatever the answer is, it will tell you about the state of your heart. Sins have an effect on your heart; they can cause your heart to be sealed so that the light of knowledge doesn’t reach it anymore and the ayaat of Allah swt don’t affect you anymore. May Allah swt protect us from this. There are many diseases we find in our hearts, like jealousy, envy, greed, lust, and showing off. Our aim should be to strive to purify our hearts and turn back to Allah swt with a sound heart. 
Ibn al-Qayyim, (may Allah swt have mercy on him), said, “In the heart are disorders that cannot be remedied except by responding to Allah swt. In it is a desolate feeling that cannot be removed except by intimacy with Him solitude. In it is sadness which will not leave except by happiness with knowing Him and truthfulness in his dealings. In it is anxiety that is not made tranquil except by gathering for His sake and fleeing to Him from His punishment. In it is a fire of regret which cannot be extinguished except by satisfaction with His commands, prohibitions, and decrees, and embracing patience with that until the time he meets Him. In it is a strong desire that will not cease until He is the only one who is sought. In it is a void that cannot be filled except by His love, turning to Him, always remembering Him, and being sincere to Him. Were a person to be given the entire world and everything in it, that would never fill the void.” Madārij al-Sālikīn 3/156

How beautiful are those hearts which are enlightened and are very soft:Pain and agony is what we see everywhere, on different media. And it can be exhausting. We start to wish that it wasn’t there. But instead of only wishing for better time, you can find a soft-hearted person trying to make your world seemingly distant from the pain. Their positive spirit overshadows the despair and offers light, belief and hope. With so many selfish people in the world, the soft-hearted ones are the ones still willing to offer support. Although some may run to a soft-hearted person not only for support but to take advantage of them, the soft-hearted person still offers a shield to anyone who needs assistance. When you run for support to a person with a soft heart, you will never be rejected. People who are still willing to help others are who hold this world together. It may seem weighty and appear to make them weary, but soft-hearted people are not overwhelmed by the task of carrying lots of responsibility. They appreciate the burden and the treasure that was given to them to carry. No matter how the world sees it, they find this task easier than everyone will think. Philanthropy is never a burden to them.
Conclusion: It would be better if soft-hearted people were in abundance. To have only a few soft-hearted people seems to be a problem on the surface. But on the other hand this offers every soft-hearted person out there an opportunity to showcase their wonderful gifts of love, compassion and kindness. The writer can be reached at  suhaibbhatt85@gmail.com

Education in the time of Covid-19

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Education in the time of Covid-19
Dar Showkat

Education establishments (schools, universities, and colleges) in India are as of now dependent on conventional strategies for realizing, that is, they follow the customary set up of eye to eye addresses in a study hall. Albeit numerous scholastic units have additionally begun mixed learning, still a great deal of them are left with old methods. The unexpected flare-up of a dangerous illness called Covid-19 brought about by a Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2) shook the whole world. Around 32 crore students halted to move schools/universities and all instructive exercises ended in India. The flare-up of COVID-19 has instructed us that change is inescapable. It has filled in as an impetus for the instructive foundations to develop and choose stages with advancements, which have not been utilized before the World Health Organization pronounced it as a pandemic. The present circumstance tested the instruction framework across the world and constrained instructors to move to an online method of educating for the time being. Numerous scholarly establishments that were prior hesitant to change their conventional academic methodology had no choice except for to move totally to web based educating learning. The article incorporates the significance of internet learning and Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Challenges (SWOC) examination of e-learning modes in the hour of emergency. This article or module additionally put some light on the development of EdTech Start-ups during the hour of pandemic and cataclysmic events and incorporates ideas for scholastic organizations of how to manage difficulties related with internet learning. This article  will endeavor an investigation of Origin of Covid 19, its effect on education and More critically this article will through a shift of light to the significant situations of Covid 19. Covid that started in china, spread at a disturbing rate all through the world, took lives in thousands and put its unfavorable consequences for millions. Each high level nation has bowed before it bewilderingly. The undertakings of each created country as far as wellbeing framework have brought about disappointment. The world is in confusion, neglecting to get its fix .BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, one of the principal architects of United States of America has admirably dissected that an interest in instruction pays the wellbeing. This investigation of Franklin about venture ought to be a stunner for strategy producers or rulers. As schooling a fundamental right of an individual is in pitiable structure in our country India particularly in its association domain ‘Kashmir’. The new passage of Covid-19 has changed the situation by and by .The world is confronting the Grasim gibbets of Corona infection. It has become so scary that individuals dread it more than the tutelary god of death .Lockdown is significant and compelling advance taken by the rulers. And yet around in excess of 2 hundred nations on the planet, lion’s share of them are putting colossal measures of cash in schooling area to inspire their nations by boosting persistent ones who long to demonstrate their courage in any field .In our country sadly this area is controlled by officials chose by administering parties who have no insight .The more we bureaucratize the instruction framework the more it will tumble down. The injury can be settled simply by building up current frameworks furnished with logical advancements and conscientious instructors. This will yield vital mountains and help in hardening of instruction framework. Without contributing there will be no change and whenever done it ought to be used in a legitimate appropriate way.Some ardent instructors began to educate on Google homeroom , Tube however it too needs quick web speed , on internet speed  it squeezes and makes dissatisfaction . Also not every person in the valley can manage cell phones to go to u Tube addresses, so a demonstration of isolation is made. We accept training is significant for bringing forth social orders which are unprejudiced and are liberated from regionalism, doctrines and parochial thoughts about others. We accept the world has begun moving like panthers speed from separating to unity .The more many-sided or intense the world turns into the more creative we should be to meet its troubles. Without a doubt the importance of life has changed in the current century. However, our nation is yet to change its thought processes and destinations to address the issues of force and impending age’s .Allah Almighty says in the event that I envelop any country by any infection a similar sickness is related with its cure .But that cure must be found by individuals who have such information and offices. Our nation need to acquire improvement instruction area by contributing gigantic sum in order to delete every one of the hindrances. There is a Chinese adage which says that assuming you need to live for over hundred years, you have just a single choice to instruct individuals. I trust viable and urgent advances will be taken to beat the high eased up issues which have not been taken at this point.

Positive impact of COVID-19 on instruction: 
In spite of the fact that the episode of COVID-19 contrarily affects instruction, instructive organizations of India have acknowledged the demands and making an honest effort to offer consistent help administrations to the understudies during the pandemic. Indian training framework got the chance for change from conventional framework to another period. The accompanying focuses might be considered as the positive effects. 
• Move towards Blended Learning: COVID-19 has sped up selection of advanced innovations to convey instruction. Instructive organizations moved towards mixed method of learning. It supported all instructors and understudies to turn out to be more innovation keen. Better approaches for conveyance and evaluations of learning opened gigantic freedoms for a significant change in the space of educational program advancement and teaching method. It likewise offers admittance to huge pools of students all at once. 
• Rise being used of Learning Management Systems: Use of learning the executives frameworks by instructive organizations turned into an incredible interest. It opened an incredible open door for the organizations those have been creating and reinforcing learning the board frameworks for utilize instructive foundations (Misra, 2020). 
• Enhance the utilization of delicate duplicate of learning material: In lockdown circumstance understudies couldn’t gather the printed versions of study materials and subsequently a large portion of the understudies utilized of delicate duplicates materials for reference. 
• Improvement in cooperative work-There is another chance where collective instructing and learning can take on new structures. Coordinated efforts can likewise occur among workforce/instructors across the world to profit with one another (Misra, 2020). 
• Rise in online gatherings The pandemic has made a huge ascent in video chatting, virtual gatherings, online courses and e-conferencing openings 
• Enhanced Digital Literacy: The pandemic circumstance actuated individuals to learn and utilize computerized innovation and brought about expanding the advanced proficiency. 
• Improved the utilization of electronic media for sharing data: Learning materials are divided between the understudies effectively and the connected inquiries are settled through email, SMS, calls and utilizing diverse social Medias like WhatsApp or Facebook. 
• World wide openness: Educators and students are getting freedoms to communicate with peers from around the world. Students adjusted to a global local area. 
• Better using time effectively: Students can deal with their time all the more proficiently in online training during pandemics. 
• Demand for Open and Distance Learning (ODL): During the pandemic circumstance a large portion of the understudies favored ODL mode as it energizes self-taking in giving freedoms to gain from different assets and altered learning according to their necessities.

Adverse consequence of COVID-19 on education : 
Education area has endured a ton because of the episode of COVID-19. It contrarily affects schooling and some of them are as pointed beneath: 
• Educational movement hampered: Classes have been suspended and tests at various levels deferred. Various sheets have effectively delayed the yearly assessments and passageway tests. Confirmation measure got deferred. Because of coherence in lockdown, understudy endured a deficiency of almost 3 months of the full scholastic year of 2020-21 which will additionally weaken the circumstance of progression in instruction and the as understudies would confront a lot of trouble in continuing tutoring again after an enormous hole. 
• Impact on work: Most of the enlistment got deferred because of COVID-19 Placements for understudies may likewise be influenced with organizations postponing the on board of understudies. Joblessness rate is relied upon to be expanded because of this pandemic. In India, there is no enlistment in Govt. area and new alumni dread withdrawal of their work offers from private areas due to the current circumstance. The Center for Monitoring Indian Economy’s appraisals on joblessness shot up from 8.4% in mid-March to 23% toward the beginning of April and the metropolitan joblessness rate to 30.9% (Educationasia.in). At the point when the joblessness builds then the instruction steadily diminishes as individuals battle for food as opposed to schooling. 
• Unprepared instructors/understudies for online schooling Not all educators/understudies are acceptable at it or possibly not every one of them were prepared for this abrupt progress from one face to another figuring out how to web based learning. The majority of the educators are simply leading talks on video stages, for example, Zoom, Google meet and so forth which may not be genuine internet learning with no devoted web based learning stage. 
• Reduced worldwide work opportunity-Some may lose their positions from different nations and the pass out understudies may not land their position outside India because of limitations brought about by COVID-19. Numerous Indians may have gotten back in the wake of losing their positions abroad because of COVID-19. Thus, the new understudies who are probably going to enter the work market instantly may confront trouble in getting appropriate business. Numerous understudies who have effectively landed positions through grounds meetings will be unable to join their positions because of lockdown. The Indians who have been tackling their responsibilities abroad may lose their positions. Ongoing alumni in India are of additionally dreading for 
withdrawal of bids for employment from corporate areas on account of development limitation in the current pandemic circumstance 
• Increased duty of guardians to instruct their wards: Some informed guardians can control however some might not have the satisfactory degree of schooling expected to show kids in the house. 
• Loss of sustenance because of school conclusion: Mid day dinners is a school feast program of the Government of India which is intended to give better the nourishing food to young kids cross country. The conclusion of schools has genuine ramifications on the day by day sustenance of understudies as the late morning dinner plans have briefly been closed. Different examinations have brought up that early afternoon dinners are additionally a significant contributing component for expanded enrolment in the schools 
• Access to computerized world: As numerous understudies have restricted or no web access and numerous understudies will most likely be unable to bear the cost of PC, PC or supporting cell phones in their homes, internet instructing learning may make an advanced split between understudies. The lockdown has hit the helpless understudies hard in India as the majority of them can’t investigate internet picking up as per different reports. Consequently the web based instructing learning technique during pandemic COVID-19 may improve the hole between rich/poor and metropolitan/provincial. 
• Access to worldwide instruction: The pandemic has fundamentally disturbed the advanced education area. Countless Indian understudies who are selected numerous Universities abroad, particularly in most exceedingly awful influenced nations are currently leaving those nations and if the circumstance perseveres, over the long haul, a there will be a huge decrease in the interest for global advanced education. 
• Payment of Schools, Colleges charge got postponed: During this lockdown the majority of the guardians will confront the joblessness circumstance so they will most likely be unable to pay the expense for that specific time-frames which may influence the private establishments. 
coordinated with a present-day standard advanced education framework. 
• Govt and instructive establishments should plan to proceed with the instructive exercises keeping up friendly removing. 30-40% understudies and instructors may go to schools/universities in two movements each day to carry on instructive exercises by submitting to rules for COVID-19. 
• At current occasions, admittance to innovation and web is an earnest prerequisite. Along these lines, the advanced abilities and the necessary framework should reach to the remotest and most unfortunate networks to work with the understudies to proceed with their schooling during the pandemics. There is a need to send public assets to fix the web hole and guarantee that understudies keep on adapting carefully. The state governments/private associations should concoct thoughts to resolve this issue of computerized training. 
• Some huge issues related with distance learning techniques like the accessibility and admittance to computerized gadgets with web network, the requirement for safe learning spaces, making capacities for instructors, families and understudies to work and explore advanced gadgets, and drawing in exercise plans for impaired understudies and other minimized gatherings ought to be tended to by Govt. what’s more, the partners.The writer is a research scholar from Handwara. 

We have a dedicated team of health professionals : Dr Tariq Jan MS Gousia

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We have a dedicated team of health professionals : Dr Tariq Jan MS Gousia
Gousia Hospital Khanyar is an emerging public healthcare hospital in the historic city of Srinagar and has over the years excelled greatly. In an exclusive interview with the News Kashmir, Dr.Tariq Medical Superintendent Gousia Hospital talks to Rameez Makhdoomi and Farzana Mumtaz.

What is the average daily flow of patients in the Gousia Hospital Khanyar?

We see around 1000 patients in our OPD on daily basis. Including Surgery, Medicine,  Gynaecology, Opthalmology, Orthopedic, Dermatology, Dentistry, ENT, Physiotherapy, Lab investigations, Routine immunization, USG, X ray.Besides this, we are also looking for Zone Khanyar that has a population of about 1,60,000. We have PHC  at Braine, Rainwari, Miskeen bagh, Nehru Park and Gagribal. We also have 9 sub-centers at different places in this zone that is providing basis health facilities to the local people in the community. What about the Covid efforts of Gousia Hospital Khanyar?Yes we have been working on this front too.In all these centres including Gousia Hospital we are providing Covid related facilities like covid Sampling, contact tracing and covid vaccination to all people. We are also providing covid kits free of cost to all positive people at door steps. Besides monitoring of covid patients is done round the clock. For reluctant patients we provide online consultation by our expert team of specialists. 
What about the vaccination process at Gousia Hospital Khanyar?We have been quite active on the vaccination front .We have given around 30,000 doses of covid vaccines till date. 
How about catering the demand of lift system ?
We are in need of lift system in our hospital and with the help and support of higher authorities and administration will  make it possible .Has routine healthcare facilities returned after recent Covid wave ?
As per recent order of Director Health services Kashmir we have started all routine surgeries from this week. During covid we were doing emergency surgeries and LSCS. We are doing surgeries like Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Lap appendectomy, all hernias inguinal and ventral. Also Fistulas,  hemorrhoids, pilonidal sinuses and varicose veins surgeries. Gousia Hospital Khanyar also did unique surgery recently a bit about that ,and other treatments offered ?
Recently we did a unique dual sac hernia.Besides special surgeries like Laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy, breast cancers, colon cancers, colostomy closures, Laparoscopic splenic cystectomy. Also gynaecological procedures like tubal ligation and diagnostic Laparoscopic procedures are done. Also Opthalmological, Orthopedic and Dermatological procedures are also performed. Right now we have a dedicated team of health professionals that are working round the clock to the best of spirits and abilities.
What are burning requirements of Gousia Hospital Khanyar?
 We need more space so that we can meet increasing demand of people coming on daily basis.

Kashmiris Scaling Mount Everest

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Mount Everest is the world’s highest peak and is located in country of Nepal, scaling it is no mean feat . It is among toughest things to achieve . As the negativity of global Pandemic of Coronavirus has hit world and Kashmir ,a very  optimistic Development has come to fore .Twenty six-year-old youth  Mahfooz Ilahi Hajam, a resident of the South Kashmir’s  Kulgam district in Jammu and Kashmir, has successfully scaled Mount Everest.
Mahfooz, a civilian instructor at the Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports (JIM&WS) in Aru (Pahalgam), scaled the world’s highest peak.
“At 6.20 am on June 1, I scaled Mount Everest [8,849 metres], the highest peak in the world,” Mahfooz said.It is worth mentioning here that in the year 2019 Nahida Manzoor, 23, on Wednesday became the first Kashmiri woman to scale the world’s highest peak Mount Everest.
“The Fourth summit of the day is Ms Nahida Manzoor along with her Sherpa Guide Mr Nima Kancha. Nahida hails from the state of Jammu & Kashmir. The lady has been passionate about the snow peaks and took to the mountains at a very young age,” Transcend Adventures, which planned her adventure trip, wrote on social networking site Facebook.Since past few years many Kashmiris have been scaling Mount Everest successfully.
Earlier in the year 2015, The 33-year-old Rafiq Malik has achieved the feat of being becoming first Kashmiri to reach the summit of World’s highest peak Mount Everest.Climbing with the first ever National Cadet Corps Expedition (NCC) team led by Col. Satish Sharma, Rafiq reached the top along with his team members Raghu, Rajat, Karma and Sandeep on May 20.Rafiq’s first ascent comes in the wake of the diamond jubilee celebrations on Everest, 60 years after Sir Edmund Percival Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the top of the highest mountain in the world.One hopes this positivity continues and Kashmir youth continues to shine on world of mountaineering.

Act now! End child Labour

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Act now! End child labour 
Dar Showkat

This day is dispatched by the International Labor Organization (ILO) to focus  in consideration on the overall annihilation of kid work, endeavours and the activity needed to dispense with it. In 2015, world pioneers received the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) wherein they have incorporated a provision to end child  labour . The current year’s World Day Against Child Labor centers around activity taken for the 2021 International Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. It is the principal World Day since the all inclusive endorsement of the ILO’s Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, and happens at time when the COVID-19 emergency takes steps to invert long periods of progress in handling the issue.

In June for the World Day, the ILO and UNICEF will deliver new worldwide gauges and patterns on child work (2016-2020), under the aegis of Alliance 8.7. The report will incorporate an evaluation of how the speed of progress towards finishing kid work is probably going to be influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncommon financial emergency that has went with it. During the current year’s World Day, we will advance “Seven days of Action” around 12 June, beginning with the dispatch of the new worldwide appraisals on child labour . The occasions and exercises did during this week will be a chance for accomplices to exhibit progress in doing their “2021 Action Pledges.” All vows made by provincial, public and authoritative partners and people will be included on the site for the 2021 International Year in April. In 2021, the worldwide local area remains at a halfway point – four years on from the keep going Global Conference on Child Labor in Argentina, and four years to go to accomplish the SDG target 8.7 set to end kid work by 2025. The current year’s World Day, and the activity taken consistently, will add to the following achievement, the Global Conference on Child Labor in 2022, facilitated by the Government of South Africa.

Its Rightly said that Life of little ones are Destroyed when Child work is Employed .The World Day Against Child Labor will be seen on 12 June) to bring issues to light about the situation of kid workers around the world. Many youngsters exit school each year to help their folks acquire an occupation. The more awful ones are constrained into  youngster work by coordinated wrongdoing rackets, while numerous others never will see a school due to outrageous poverty.Let have a Quick look on India’s youngster work scanerio.The 2011  public statistics of India tracked down the complete number of youngster  workers, matured 5–14, to be at 10.1 million.  Youth is viewed as the brilliant time of ones life  however, this doesn’t remain constant for certain youngsters who battle to  make their the two closures meet during their youth years. At the young age, which should be a time of playing and going to class. They are constrained to work in plants,  Industries,offices or as homegrown makes a difference. Kid work implies  work of kids in any sort of work that hampers their physical and mental turn of events, denies them of there  essential instructive and sporting requirements.its a blotch on  our general public and talks volumes about the failure of our  society to give a suitable climate to the development and advancement of the youngsters. Industrialization and urbanization have in a manner empowered  youngster work. Youngsters are utilized in dangerous work, for example,  bidi moving, saltine industry, pencil, matchbox and bangle making industry. This kind of work regularly presents danger to the lives of the children due to their immediate openness to the explosive material. Infact children’s are endured by cellular breakdown in the lungs  and so forth 
Families have a conviction that each kid is a worker in this way,  guardians illiteracy is additionally one of the supporters of this issue.  Education  will in general take a back seat in the existences of these  children.infact Bonded kid work is one of the most exceedingly terrible type of kid work. In this, Children are made to work to pay  off a credit or obligation of the family. It very well may be considered as most exceedingly awful  type of subjugation where the kids help their folks as  acquire the obligation from them. Above more than that neediness is  one of the fundamental justification the reason for kid work in india.  To prohibit the kid work in india Noble prize champ Kailash  satyarti showed a drive. He is the originator of Bachpan Bachaw Andolan an organisation devoted towards the  destruction of kid work in india. Taught residents can contribute fundamentally in doing so away kid work. Wealthy  also, big league salary bunch families can pool in assets to help  the schooling of helpless youngsters. Infact the universities and universities,schools can concoct free educating  programs for the helpless kids. The head of Each one Train one can be fallowed. 
The indian Govt has disintegrated numerous laws to ensure youngster rights  specifically kid and Adolescent work act 1986, the production lines act  1948,the mines act 1952, the fortified work annulment act  2000.Most of these demonstrations focused on prohibit the work of youngsters underneath the age 14 yrs in production lines, dangerous occupation  or in bondage.But Alas after the execution of these demonstrations Still our point of universilization of rudimentary is  not accomplished as expected. India saw universes biggest reasonable and  straightforward laws however where they fizzles is just the area of  execution. Article 39,23,45 arrangements for the insurance of youngster violation. Be that as it may  there ought to be a complete prohibition on the work of little  children’s in any movement other than going to class and getting  taught. The govt needs to guarantee that it has foolproof laws  also, they are appropriately executed just as implemented.Strict  measures should be taken against the individuals who empower youngster  work in any structure.  Children’s are the eventual fate of the country and its the youth  which significantly affects the eventual fate of a youngster. In this way, it turns into the aggregate responsibility of the residents society  what’s more, the public authority to give them a climate which  helps them to draw out the best of their capacities, and  participate  in the country building measure.  A country brimming with destitution ridden illiterate kids can’t make  progress. The need of great importance is to grow the machinery for  implementing the different laws on kid labour.Success can be  achieved just through friendly engineering on a significant scale joined with wide based monetary development. 
In any case, the truth is that youngster work has its  roots  somewhere down in the social customs of our country and for neediness stricken families, that additional pay is the lone thing  among life and passing. Along these lines, it is significant that we raise mindfulness about this issue and endeavour to make India a spot where kid work is rarely an important wickedness. Finally yet not least Child is intended to learn, not to acquire and  their is no explanation and there is no reason youngster work is kid  misuse…
The writer is a research scholar from Handwara .

Life will test you , Poem 14 June, 2021 Edition

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Life will test you

Sufaya yusuf

Life will test you for everything you knowPeople will play with you and you won’t know

Don’t do things just for sakeFollow your calling and awake
Thorns and roses bothWill be on the ways
Fire and water will beThere by nights and days.
Keep going, even they teaseKeep going even in the winters freeze.
Your feet let not haltPeople might tell you have fault.
Do things which make you wakeThrough the disloyal people don’t make
Break the chains of brain

And fly your plane.

BIT MORE DETERMINATION TO OVERTAKE THE SITUATION

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BIT MORE DETERMINATION TO OVERTAKE THE SITUATION!
Faheem Ul Islam


Covid 19 has enveloped every sphere of life and still this disastrous virus is surrounding us with uncertainty.From last two years we have been facing the terrible consequences of deadly virus.This may be very minor thing for some but for majority index it has been unimagined terrible time.Every corner is witnessing retardation of progress whether it is societal or any political inclination. And in the mean time India witnesses the worst hit of covid 19 other than rest of regions of the world. The terrible and heart-melting visual situations created such a chaos and confusion which led the mental disturbance all over the community.But hopefully Kashmir remains on the border of covid 19 on getting such a slap as compared to the rest of indian states.But it will be quite idiotic to be in the dilemma of being forgotten by virus. Even UT jammu and kashmir is under basic developmental stages but despite of all it remains as an marginalised section .    We all remained in doors as self qurantined during the first phase of lockdown which lasts through  winter and we showed such a tremendous resistance to meaningless activities and other things to be negative by test and positive by mental health .We were loaded with heavy kangri and blanket substances to pass by the winter as well as lockdown. We gave preference to the both motivational orientation and value orientation to prevent this Pendamic for more hits and remaining qurantined is indespensible.   Now as we are being surrounded by the second wave of covid 19 and spring blooms are there to attract our emotions but rather being emotionally weak we have to be evaluative in such time, we have to show  tiny more determination to overcome the situation. We all have to be open minded and let our minds be flexible to accept the situation without being the critiques of government and other platforms in the mean time. We should not even stuck with our traditional beliefs of ignorance but rather than that have to be surrounded with enlightenment of science. It is very difficult to stand shoulder to shoulder in this pace of development and changing minds of generation.We have to be the examples of educated section rather than being street vendors to be the carriers of deadly virus for innocent people.      Now as we all know we are resistant as per the past history we can tackle with this situation. It will be good in the religious perspective as well as of societal norms to stay indoors and be cooperative with governmental protocols to let the situation get down and progress to overtake the situation for the betterment and well being of future generation. ________________________________About writer 
Faheem ul islam  hails from Achan Pulwama pursuing bachelor’s honours in political science at Aligarh Muslim University. He is also Author of the book THE MIDNIGHT SILENCE and co-author of more than 20 books.National and international writer and Award holder at RASHTRA PRERNA AWARD 2020 and INDIAN BOOK OF RECORDS 2020 .

Man Vs Wild, Cover 14 June, ,2021

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Man Vs Wild 

News Kashmir Exclusive
Due to rapid loss of habitats owing to cruel phenomenon of rampant Deforestation in Kashmir the human beings and wildlife conflict in Kashmir is on rise .
Human–wildlife conflict (HWC) refers to the negative interactions between human and wild animals, with undesirable consequences for both people and their resources and wildlife and their habitats (IUCN 2020). HWC, caused by competition for shared natural resources between human and wildlife, influences human food security and the well-being of both human and animals. In many regions these conflicts have intensified over recent decades as a result of human population growth and the transformation of land use.In a heart rending incident recently , A four-year-old girl was mauled to death by a leopard in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Adha Shakil went missing from the lawn of her house in Ompora Housing Colony on during evening time and remains of her body were found in a nearby forest area during a search operation on in morning.
Deputy Commissioner Shahbaz Mirza called a meeting with senior police officers and officials of the forest and wildlife departments to decide on a slew of measures to prevent such incidents in the future.We need to remember that in recent times several animals have also lost their precious lives in these human animal conflicts and also number of them have been caught .
After it , A leopard was also  captured alive by officials of the Wildlife Department in Humpora Loolipora area of Chadoora in central Kashmir’s Budgam district.
 Wildlife official reported that the leopard was spotted in the area by locals and was captured alive by Wildlife department officials this evening who were informed about it.
The official said that the department has asked its men to remain alert at every hotspot to trap other leopards roaming in the district.The Jammu and Kashmir wildlife department on late Tuesday evening  captured another  leopard from Pampore area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
Official said that It was the second leopard caught by the wildlife department Range Office Khrew on two consecutive days.On the other hand, Several villages of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district feel threatened by wild animals, which have taken shelter in a dense nursery of the area, said locals.
The locals of the villages — Dangerpora, Laridora, Reshmuqam, Taripora, Wathuran, Nowgam and others, said that there are apprehensions of attacks to happen in the future because of the roaming of a bear and other animals in the area.One hopes that corrective measures are taken both by the masses and the Government so that Man Vs Wild conflict comes to an end in Kashmir.

Ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty but it’s the silence of those people who could have done something.

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Ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty but it’s the silence of those people who could have done something.
Suhaib Ashraf Bhat

When any innocent person is murdered it is a tragedy, no matter where, no matter when, especially if the victim is a child. The world not acting to end children’s cries is the most shameful act that I know of. The criminal regime committing crimes is understandable to me, since they are racist and fascist beyond imagination, but the poor conviction and low amount of action from “good” people around the world is not understandable, unless they don’t want to be called “good”. Killing of innocent people in communal and sectarian violence is nothing new in any country. A majority of the perpetrators of these horrific crimes enjoyed political patronage and were aided by an indifferent law enforcement agency. The criminals escaped prosecution and punishment.

Crimes against humanity are criminal acts that are directed at an identifiable group of people. Genocide is an example of a crime against humanity. Crimes against humanity are criminal acts that target a group of people based on their religion, ethnicity, or some other trait, which is not a direct result of something that group has done. One of the most common crimes against humanity is genocide, which is the murder of a large portion of the population. Genocide is often either condoned, or carried out by the government. While history looks back to Nazi Germany for its example of crimes against humanity, the truth is, many modern conflicts see some combination of displacement, torture, sexual violence, and death against civilians. In fact, the number of civilian deaths in modern conflicts far exceeds that of armed combatants.
Are you suffering from Islam phobia?
Islam which is based on humanity, The Islamic view of humanity is filled with mercy and compassion, and it cannot be otherwise, because the Islamic religion is the last of the religions that were prescribed by Allah swt, may He be exalted, and He commanded all of mankind to enter this religion. He revealed this religion and sent it down to the most compassionate of mankind, Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah swt be upon him). This is confirmed in the Book of Allah swt, where He says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And We have sent you (O Muhammad) not but as a mercy for the ‘Alameen (mankind, jinns and all that exists)”[al-Anbiya’ 21:107]. 
Islam advises us to treat neighbours kindly, even if they are not Muslim.
Al-Qurtubi (may Allah swt have mercy on him) said:
I say: based on that, kind treatment of neighbours is enjoined and is recommended, whether they are Muslim or not. And this is the right thing to do. Kind treatment may be in the sense of helping or it may be in the sense of being kind, refraining from annoyance and standing by them. Al-Bukhaari narrated from ‘Aa’ishah that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah swt be upon him) said: “Jibreel kept urging me to treat neighbours kindly until I thought that he would make them heirs.” And it was narrated from Abu Shurayh that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah swt be upon him) said: “By Allah swt, he does not believe; by Allah swt, he does not believe; by Allah swt, he does not believe.” It was said: O Messenger of Allah swt, who is that? He said: “The one whose neighbour is not safe from his annoyance.” This is general in meaning and applies to all neighbours, and the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah swt be upon him) affirmed that the neighbour should not be annoyed by swearing three times and stating that the one who annoys his neighbour is not a believer in the complete sense. Concerning that Allah swt, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Allah swt does not forbid you to deal justly and kindly with those who fought not against you on account of religion and did not drive you out of your homes. Verily,  Allah swt loves those who deal with equity” [al-Mumtahanah 60:8].
It is not part of Islam to force the non-Muslim to enter this religion, because sincerity is one of the conditions of accepting Islam. And Allah swt, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“There is no compulsion in religion” [al-Baqarah 2:256].

Just a small question for this educated world
Malala got shot & the world went crazy.  Several kids across the world are being murdered & western leader’s thumbs up & let them carry on massacring more children.Does these innocent kids look like a terrorist to you?I am living in a world whose concepts are no longer clear to me. A world where the criminal walks free and the victim is called a terrorist. A world where killing a one year old kid is permissible. A world that has left me baffled about what is right and what is wrong
The same can be said about the torture and violence these blooming kids face in their own country, if these kids were Jewish or American special breed it would be headline news throughout the world.
Are Jewish or American special breed children smarter, prettier and whiter? Are they deserving of sympathy and solidarity, denied to other children or is that kids of Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yeman, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir, are the kids who are very dangerous, threatening, guilty, even dark and ugly, a situation that can only lead to Islamic phobia?

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Preparing e- content for specially abled children

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Preparing e- content for specially abled  children 
It is a welcome Development that education needs of the specially abled children of the country during the havoc of pandemic Coronavirus is taken into consideration. Recently, the Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ approved the release of the guidelines for the Development of e-Content for Children with Disabilities, the Ministry of Education said.
A statement issued by the Education Ministry said that a comprehensive initiative, PM e-VIDYA was launched on 17th May 2020, with an aim to unify all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education.
The programme interalia envisages development of special e-content for the Divyang (Children with Disabilities-CwDs).  In pursuance of this vision, the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education had constituted a Committee of experts, for recommending guidelines for developing e-content for these children.
For the first time, an attempt was made to prepare guidelines for CwD also referred to as Children with Special Needs (CWSN) children so that the goal of inclusive education is fulfilled. The Committee submitted a report titled “Guidelines for the Development of e-Content for Children with Disabilities” comprising eleven Sections and two Appendices.The report was shared, presented, discussed and accepted by the MoE.
Moreover, the salient highlights of the e- content guidelines in the report were stated as e-Content for CwDs should be developed based on the four principles namely: perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.
e-Content including text, tables, diagrams, visuals, audios, videos etc. should comply with accessibility standards: national standards (GIGW 2.0) and international standards (WCAG 2.1, E-Pub, DAISY  etc).
Distribution platforms on which content is uploaded (e.g. DIKSHA) and Reading platforms/devices on which content is accessed and interacted (e.g. e-pathshala) must comply with technical standards.
One hopes we continue achieve right strides in the country for academic needs of the specially abled children of the country .