Excelsior Sports Correspondent SRINAGAR, Oct 21: The final matches of three separate inter-college tournaments concluded at the University of Kashmir with prize distribution among the winning teams and players today. The inter-college Cricket, volleyball and football tournaments were organised by the varsity’s Directorate of Physical Education and Sports (DPES). The final of the Cricket tournament was played between Islamia College Srinagar and GDC Baramulla, which was won by Islamia College, while in the final match of the Volleyball tournament (women) […]
Srinagar: Academics and legal experts have called for raising levels of public awareness to ensure that human rights of marginalised sections of society are protected with greater seriousness amid new challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
They were addressing a webinar, organised by Kashmir University’s National Service Scheme (NSS), to mark the Human Rights Day, observed every year on December 10.
In his keynote address, Prof M Afzal Wani, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi, asserted that respect for human rights is imperative to lay foundations of a peaceful society.
He suggested that district judges should be given the powers to entertain petitions under the Constitution’s Article-32, which gives the right to individuals to move the Supreme Court if they feel their right to justice has been “unduly deprived”.