Bemina is a region in
Srinagar, the capital city of Jammu and Kashmir. It is situated in the heart of the Capital just
about 4 km from Lal Chowk. It is news ! A Govt woollen mill by name Bemina Woolen
mills conceived in 1965 is here. Over
the years, it reportedly is not doing well and the Govt has formulated Rs 50
crore revival plan for modernisation of
silk factory and the woolen mill.
Away, there
are animals and there are dogs – there are stray dogs and there are pet dogs – given
great care and spent so much – for some a dog is closer to a member of the
family – sometime back I had posted on the peculiar incident reported of a dog about to become a member of jury.
Going by the US media reports,
New Jersey resident IV Griner probably would not have been too thrilled to
receive a jury duty letter – if she were to be human. IV (pronounced Ivy) is a
five-year-old German shepherd brought up by the family of Barrett Griner IV and
his wife in Bridgetown. Mr Griner named his black and tan pup the name IV
Griner as a play on his own name, Barrett Griner the fourth, which he writes
using Roman numerals. He is quoted as
saying ‘She’s a female, so I named her “IV” without the “Y” as sort of a play
on words.
When the owners opened the mail box, they were
too surprised to find a letter from the Cumberland County Clerk of Courts
apparently addressed to the dog Griner
summoning to report for jury duty. The dog’s name on her vet record appears the
same as it does on the summons. Later it was revealed to be a Computer glitch
that was to blame in calling the German Shepherd to report for jury duty by the
Cumberland County Judiciary. It was
revealed that the Court never actually
requested a dog serve on a jury, but
computer probably misread Griner's numerical suffix IV as his first name.
In a similar
news from Jammu & Kashmir, a cow has been allotted a seat at the Government
Degree College Bemina for writing the examination scheduled to be held on May
10. Newspaper reports suggest that in a
strange turn of events, a cow was issued an admit card by authorities to write
a professional entrance examination next week here.
The admit card for the
entrance examination for Diploma in Polytechnic was issued by Board of
Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE) in the name of Kachir Gaaw (Brown
Cow) who is supposedly daughter of Gura Dand (Red Bull). The incident came to
light after opposition National Conference spokesman Junaid Azim Mattu uploaded
a copy of the admit card on social networking site Twitter.cc"I have both
the Provisional Confirmation Page for applicant Ms ‘Kachir Gaw’ as well as
details of payment she made to BOPEE,” Mattu wrote on his account.
Mattu claimed that the
records about the admit card had been taken off the BOPEE site at the behest of
the State government. “However, after an informal heads-up was sent to the
government, BOPEE was asked to take the record down from their website this
morning. “(Education Minister) Mr. Naeem Akhtar @jkpdp has some explaining to
do. New benchmark of progress in Education Sector under him — COWS getting roll
no slips?” Matuu added.
Former Chief Minister and
National Conference working president Omar Abdullah also commented on Mattu’s
post saying, “Brilliant. I wish Kachir Gaaw had turned up for the examination.”
Controller Examinations of BOPEE Farooq Ahmad Mir said there was not much the
authorities could do to prevent people from playing such pranks. “All the
applications are now made online. There is an image recognition software which
does not differentiate between a human face and an animal picture. Someone has
played a prank,” Mir said.
Asked about
his signature on the admit card issued to the cow, Mir said, “I do not sign the
admit cards in person. This is a system generated signature and comes by
default,” he said. Mir, however, said BOPEE will file a complaint against the
prankster. “We will track down the IP address of the person who has played this
prank,” he added.
Interesting – such
Computer errors do throw-up once a while !
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
4th May 2015.
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