About 30-35 children and youth from 12 districts of J&K UT participated in the national championship, “ National Performing Arts Championship Maharashtra 2022, held on 8,9 October 2022, at the premises of Smt. K. C. English School auditorium, Kalyan, Maharashtra , organized by “ Performing Arts Association of India “, and brought laurels for J&K UT by winning Gold, Silver medals in Dance/Singing/Acting events in different age categories and dance forms. These children and youth from J&K UT were selected by J&K Performing Arts unit, run by “ Harman Cultural And Educational Society, Jammu”, on the basis of their performance in the selection trials held in various districts of J&K UT. In the competition, children and youth from Harman Dance Institute, upper gadi garh, Jammu Gurukul Dance academy, Udhampur,Mind and Rhythm dance institute, Udhampur, Magic Stars dance fitness studio, Kathua, Talent world dance academy, Samba ,and The Dancing Footsteps, Sunderbani run by Aniket, participated. The best performers in the championship were honoured by selecting them for international level dance competition which will be held in Nepal on 30th November and 1st December 2022. The participants were accompanied by Tajinder Singh, president, Harman Cultural And Educational Society, Jammu alongwith Gurvinder Kour, General Secretary, HCES and State Secretary, J&K Performing Arts Unit and Vishal Mehra, Kamal Asla, Armaan Farooq from Bhaderwah, Chandan Mandal, Vaniket Kumar, district incharges of J&K performing arts unit. Harman Cultural And Educational SOCIETY, Jammu management congratulates the medal winners in the event and wishes them good luck for upcoming international competition in Nepal.

New Delhi, Oct 11: India logged 1,957 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,46,16,394, while the active cases dipped to 27,374, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.
The death toll climbed to 5,28,822 with eight fatalities which includes three deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.06 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate increased to 98.75 per cent, the ministry said.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year. It crossed the four-crore mark on January 25 this year. (Agencies)

NEW DELHI, Oct 11: The Central Government on Tuesday notified the elevation of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey as Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court.
The Supreme Court collegium had recommended his elevation in a meeting of the Collegium headed by Justice of India UU Lalit on September 28.
The decision was taken in the wake of transfer current Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal to the Rajasthan High Court.
Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey was born on December 8, 1960.
He enrolled as an advocate in the year 1984 and started practicing law in the district courts, including revenue courts/ tribunals and also in the High Court.
He was appointed a judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in March 2013.

NEW DELHI, Oct 11: Kashmiri separatist leader Altaf Ahmad Shah, the son-in-law of the late Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, died of cancer at the AIIMS here early Tuesday, days after he was taken to the hospital from the Tihar Jail on the orders of Delhi High Court. He was 66.
“We were informed about Abu’s passing away late last night,” his daughter Ruwa Shah told PTI. In a tweet, she said Shah breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. “As a prisoner.”
Shah, a resident of Soura locality of Srinagar, was arrested on July 25, 2017 with six others, facing trial in an alleged terror funding case probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
On October 5, the Delhi High court has ordered his shifting to the AIIMS Delhi for appropriate treatment after he was stated to have been diagnosed with cancer. Shah told the court he was receiving treatment for certain serious ailments at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML) but it was recently revealed he was suffering from the last stage renal cancer.
While claiming the RML does not have the adequate facility to treat renal cancer, he prayed he be allowed to be shifted to the AIIMS or Apollo Hospital for urgent treatment. Shah is survived by wife, son and two daughters. (Agencies)

Kyiv, Oct 10: Multiple explosions rocked Kyiv early on October 10, 2022 following months of relative calm in the Ukrainian capital.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported explosions in the city’s Shevchenko district, a large area in the center of Kyiv that includes the historic old town as well as several government offices.
Lesia Vasylenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, posted a photo on Twitter showing that at least one explosion occurred near the main building of the Kyiv National University in central Kyiv.
The spokesperson for Emergency Service in Kyiv told the AP that there are killed and wounded people. Rescuers are now working in different locations, said Svitlana Vodolaga.
The number of casualties is not yet known.
The explosions were heard by AP journalists and appeared to be the result of missile strikes.
The last previous attack on Kyiv was in June. One of the missiles struck an apartment building, killing one and wounding six. But unlike previous attacks that mostly hit Kyiv’s outskirts, Monday’s strike targeted several locations in the very center of the city.

Also on Monday morning, Associated Press journalists reported hearing explosions in the center of Dnipro city. Associated Press journalists on the scene saw the bodies of multiple people killed at an industrial site on the city’s outskirts. Windows in the area had been blown out and glass littered the street.
Ukrainian media reported explosions in a number of other locations, including the western city of Lviv that has been a refuge for many people fleeing the fighting in the east, as well as Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr and Kropyvnytskyi.
Recent fighting has focused on the regions just north of Crimea, including Zaporizhzhia, where six missiles were launched overnight Saturday from Russian-occupied areas of the Zaporizhzhia region.
The strikes on Kyiv and other cities came a few hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to hold a meeting with his security council, a day after he called the attack on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea a terrorist act carried out by Ukrainian special services. In a meeting Sunday with the chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Putin said “there’s no doubt it was a terrorist act directed at the destruction of critically important civilian infrastructure.” (Agencies)

NEW DELHI, Oct 10: The Supreme Court on Monday junked a plea seeking a direction to the Election Commission to ensure that all political parties publish details regarding criminal cases of candidates along with the reason for their selection on the home page of their official websites.
A Bench of Justices S.K. Kaul and Abhay S. Oka asked the petitioner to approach the Election Commission with his plea.
“This is not a walk-in place. We feel that this petition is misconceived. What is being sought is implementation of the previous judgement of this court. It is for the petitioner to approach the Election Commission. Plea is dismissed,” the Bench said.
Besides the website, the petition filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay also sought a direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure that every politician publishes the details in electronic, print, and social media, and to file a contempt case against the president of the party which violates such directions.
The plea claimed that the petition was filed after Samajwadi Party, which is a registered and recognised political party, fielded alleged gangster Nahid Hasan from Kairana Assembly in Uttar Pradesh but neither published his criminal records in electronic, print, or social media nor the reason for his selection.
The petitioner also seeks direction to the Election Commission of India to de-register the political party, which violates the directions of the Supreme Court, the petition, filed through advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey, said. (AGENCIES)