Jai Mata Di
TUESDAY
12 May
2015
Jammu-India
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The best way to find yourself is
to lose yourself in the service of
others.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Pakistani
Intel officer
shared Osama’s hideout
info with
US: Report
Assange loses
appeal against
arrest warrant
London: Sweden’s Supreme
Court has rejected an appeal by
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
against his arrest warrant for alleged
rape and sexual assault. Sweden
issued the arrest warrant in 2010 following allegations from two Swedish
women, one who claimed rape and
another who alleged sexual assault.
The Australian has been ensconced
in Ecuador’s embassy in London since
2012 to avoid extradition to the Scandinavian country. Assange has always
vehemently denied the allegations
and insists the sexual encounters
were consensual. He fears that if he
goes to Sweden he will be extradited
to the US where he is wanted in connection to WikiLeaks’ publication of
a trove of US secret communications
including footage from the Iraq War.
Nepal govt, donors
spar over relief
Kathmandu: In the aftermath
of the April 25 earthquake in Nepal,
a new debate has been triggered
between the Nepal government and
donor agencies over relief distribution
and the reconstruction mechanism
as some donors want to fund projects
and programmes in their own way.
Several international non-governmental organisations and donor
agencies have not routed their funds,
both cash and kind, through the
government channel irking the Nepali
authorities. Similarly, donor agencies
and friendly nations, apart from India
and China and some Asian nations,
are not much interested in putting
money in the national basket or the
Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund.
Delhi Police arrests
key LeT operative
New Delhi: In a prized catch,
a key LeT operative who worked for
banned Indian Mujahideen and was
wanted for his alleged involvement in
several cases of blasts after demolition of Babri Masjid was arrested by
the Special Cell of Delhi Police from
Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh.
Police said 49-year-old Irfan Ahmad
alias Pappu, on the run for past 15
years, was also tasked with recruiting
Indian youths and sending them to
Pakistan for training in handling of
arms and ammunition as well as
fabrication of IEDs. The terrorist was
arrested from Bahraich near IndoNepal border on May 7.
Jawan found
hanging in barrack
Jammu: An Army jawan allegedly
committed suicide by hanging himself
in his barracks at the Army camp near
Digiana here, police said. The deceased jawan has been identified as
Vale Murgan of Tamil Nadu. According
to an Army officer, the jawan of Sappers (Engineering Unit) was found
hanging last night inside his barracks
by his fellow jawans. They rushed him
to the Military Hospital here, where
Murgan was declared brought dead,
he said. Post mortem is being held,
he said adding that police have registered a case and investigation was on.
The jawan had got married on January
26 this year and was on leave during
January to March period, he said.
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KASHMIR
Volume: 2 Issue: 243 
STATE
P-5
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SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY
P-3
Mufti
undertakes
Srinagar tour
to review
developmental projects
Jayalalithaa
acquittal is
a setback to
anti-corruption
movement,
netizens feel
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P-11 SPORTS
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NASA’s
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Rajendra
chairs high
level meeting,
reviews yatra
preparedness
Jayalalithaa acquitted
24 killed, 49 injured as bus in DA case, set to return
falls into gorge in Udhampur as Tamil Nadu CM
President, Prime Minister and others express grief
GLEANINGS
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EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, May 11|15: Twenty
four people died and 49 others
were injured, five of them critically, when an overcrowded bus
rolled down into a 300 feet deep
gorge in Udhampur district on
Monday. The passenger bus,
which was on its way to Udhampur from Dudu-Latti belt, skidded off the road and rolled down
into the gorge in Maroti belt in
the district, officials said.
As many as 24 people have died
and 49 others are injured, 5 of
them critically, in the mishap,
Deputy Commissioner, Udhampur, Yasha Mudgal informed.
Six persons were airlifted to
Government Medical College
(GMC) hospital in Jammu for
specialised treatment while
three critically injured were
admitted to Command hospital
here. Others have been admitted
Militants kill 2 CRPF men,
flee with their weapons
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Srinagar, May 11|15: Terrorists today targeted a CRPF
party in South Kashmir killing
two personnel in Anantnag district on the Jammu-Srinagar
National Highway and fled with
their weapons. The attack in
Sangam came just two days after a grenade blast rocked Shopian in which 15 civilians were
injured.
The incident took place at Hatmulla in Sangam area, around
40 km from Srinagar, this afternoon, when a road opening party of CRPF was on routine duty.
The motorcycle-borne terrorists
fired at the party killing Sub-Inspector Omkar Singh and Con-
stable Tilak Raj on the spot, police said. The terrorists escaped
with their arms and ammunition which included an AK-47 ri-
fle and an INSAS rifle. However,
the INSAS rifle was thrown near
Sangam bridge while
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to Sub-district and other hospitals in Udhampur district.
Those killed in the mishap include 10 men, 12 women besides
2 children, the police officer
said, adding, driver of the bus
identified as Sham Lal (55) was
also killed. The bus was overloaded with passengers as over
70 people were on board at the
time of the mishap. The accident
took place due to mechanical
failure of the vehicle, Mudgal
said.
The deceased have been identified as Beig Raj (24) S/o Shiv
Dass r/o Pundal, Latti, Udhampur, Babli Devi (23)
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Dawood not in
Pak: Abdul Basit
AGENCIES, MAY 11|15
Lucknow: India’s most wanted
terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is
not in Pakistan, Pakistani High
Commissioner Abdul Basit said
on Monday, rubbishing Union
Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s
statement in the Lok Sabha.
The only thing I have to say
about that gentleman is that he
is not in Pakistan,” Basit said.
He was responding to a question
at a “Meet the Press” event organised by UP Press Club here.
Basit was asked to comment on
Singh’s statement in Lok Sabha
earlier in the day that the 1993
Mumbai blast mastermind was
in Pakistan and the government
will do everything to bring him
to justice.
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Centre offers sops for
cross-LoC travelers
DB issues notice
to Farooq Abdullah
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, May 11|15: In order to facilitate travel of Jammu
and Kashmir residents across
the LoC, the Centre is working on getting an on spot travel
clearance for any child below
five years without processing
the papers separately.
The proposal under consideration of the MHA suggests that
travel document of the adult
accompanying children from
zero to five years would be considered valid for travel. The
government is also considering
increasing the cash carried by
passengers from across the LoC
from Rs 15,000 to 50,000. Both
the proposals are being considered by the Centre to facilitate
travel across the LoC which was
part of the alliance agenda of the
BJP-PDP government.
Over 27,000 people have travelled between two parts of Kashmir in cross-LoC bus Carvane
Aman since 2005. The passengers cross the LoC on Monday
every fortnight, while trade between the two divided parts of
Kashmir is carried on for four
days each week. While 9,621 residents from Jammu and Kashmir have travelled to the Pakistan occupied area since start
of cross-LoC bus service-17,820
residents from PoK have travelled to the state. According to
officials, the move first came up
in the meeting between
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MulƟ-Crore JKCA Scam
Srinagar, May 11|15: A High Court Division
Bench Monday issued notice to National Conference patron and president Jammu and Kashmir
Cricket Association
(JKCA), Farooq Abdullah, in the multicrore cricket scam
case. The notice was
served to Farooq Abdullah after the Division Bench heard the
Public Interest Litigation, seeking investigation by a high
level team of reputed
police officers into the alleged misappropriation
of crores of rupees in the Jammu and Kashmir
Cricket Association (JKCA). While issuing the
notice, the court asked Abdullah to respond
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AGENCIES, MAY 11|15
New Delhi: The Karnataka
high court on Monday cleared
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) chief
J. Jayalalithaa of corruption
charges, a step that clears the
way for her return as the chief
minister of Tamil Nadu. Jayalalithaa, called Amma by her
supporters, was forced to quit
as chief minister after a special
court in Bengaluru convicted
her and three others on 27 September in the disproportionate
assets (DA) case.
The acquittal gave her “immense
satisfaction,”
Jayalalithaa said, adding it confirmed she had done no wrong
and that it was a case foisted
by political enemies. Jubilant
supporters cheered, handed out
sweets and set off fire crackers outside the court, where
security had been strengthened
ahead of the decision. Hundreds
of supporters held up photos
of Jayalalithaa and danced in
the streets chanting “Amma
Amma” outside her house in
Chennai.
Jayalalithaa, Sasikala, V.N.
Sudhakaran and Ilavarasi were
convicted by the special court
for amassing wealth disproportionate to their incomes during
the AIADMK leader’s tenure as
chief minister during 1991-96.
Her return to chief ministership is seen as a mere formality
as she continued to control her
party while on bail awaiting
the outcome of the appeal. Jayalalithaa had approached the
Karnataka high court after she
was convicted and sentenced to
four years in prison with a fine
of Rs.100 crore. Others were
asked to pay Rs.10 crore each.
The high court had refused to
grant her bail, after which she
moved the Supreme Court. In
October last year, the Supreme
Court granted bail to Jayalalithaa. In December, asking
the Karnataka high court to constitute a special bench, the apex
court said that the appeal had to
be heard expeditiously within
three months.
High court judge C.R. Kumaraswamy declared her “appeal
upheld” at a hearing which lasted only seconds. “We don’t think
there is any ground for appeal.
As far as we are concerned, the
case is closed,” public prosecutor B.V. Acharya told reporters
outside the court. The 67-yearold enjoys huge popularity in
Tamil Nadu where fans know
her simply as “Amma” and
ministers have been known to
prostrate themselves before her.
“This was a false case. It was a
political vendetta by the opposition to discredit Jayalalithaa
but we have got justice from the
law,” a leader of her AIADMK
party, William Rabi Bernard
said.
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Home Deptt, PHQ delaying process
50 KPS officers await
induction into IPS
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, May 11|15: Nearly 50 KPS
officers are waiting for induction into IPS
as the Home Department and the PHQ
have not settled their seniority issue.
Their seniority is stuck because of a dispute between sub-inspectors of 1982 batch
and DSPs of 1999 batch, informed sources
said. “Our seniority issue is not being
settled because it helps the IPS officers to
get the best of the postings,” a senior KPS
officer said. “Some of us are waiting for
almost five years for induction but the department is not filling the positions for a
long time.” Another officer said that their
induction will eventually take place with
the retrospective effect but at a time when
it would help us in getting better perks
but not “proper utilization” in service.
“Delay is detrimental to us because we
are not getting proper postings,” one officer said. “Instead, fresh IPS recruits are
getting the positions which usually we
should have manned.” Right now there
are 70 IPS officers but almost 50 of them
are manning top positions leaving 20 junior IPS officers of whom 13 are heading
districts across J&K. In comparison, a
same number of KPS officers are heading
districts but they have cadre strength of
200. “This is a gross mismatch,” one officer said. “We feel there is nobody who is
interested in listening to our problems.”
Earlier, the posting situation was balanced between the two cadres serving the
state. However, during governor’s rule,
the union cadre officers managed improving their positions, sources said.
In J&K people continue to die but who cares?
but that remains confined to
the press notes only and nothing on ground is visible since
Shivang Satya Gupta ages.
Editor-in-Chief It was recently that even
the Hon’ble Governor had expressed serious concern over
the rapid road accidents on
oad accidents are
Doda Kishtwar roads in which
a common thing
numerous lives were lost
in Jammu and
but it seems even his orders
Kashmir and when
were not carried forward as
it comes to Jammu-Srinagar
the road accidents due to bad
or Jammu-Doda highway, the
roads, negligent driving and
situation is worst and most of
more importantly over loadthe people have lost their lives
ing continue to snatch lives on
on these roads only but then
more rapid scale.
in J&K who cares?
The enormity of the situaPowers that be have been
tion can be gauged by the fact
expressing shocks, are grieved that in 2013 in a written reply
and offer condolences and
to a question by CPI (M) memsometimes ‘pull the traffic
ber M Y Tarigami the then
police and traffic department’
chief Minister Omar Abdullah
R
had said that over 4,000 people
lost their lives in as many
as 25,495 road accidents in
different parts of Jammu and
Kashmir from 2009 to 2013.
He added that the maximum
numbers of 2401 mishaps were
reported from erstwhile Doda
district in which 823 persons
lost their lives.
More recently in a written
reply to a question by member
Yasir Reshi in Legislative
Council, the current Chief
Minister Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed said that 892 people
have died and 8,733 were
injured in 6,067 road accidents
in Kashmir Valley alone
during the last three years
adding 326 people were killed
and 3,330 were injured in
2,185 accidents in 12 districts
of Kashmir valley in 2012,
followed by 309 people killed
and 2,843 injured in 2,088 road
accidents in 2013.
Similarly, 257 people were
killed and 2,560 injured in
1,794 mishaps in 2014, he said.
These kinds of questions
were asked by the legislators
as a universal concern was
expressed by the society over
unabated killings on the roads
due to road accidents which
are attributed to bad road
conditions, outdated vehicles,
unlicensed drivers and over
loading of the vehicles.
In May 2014 atleast 17 people
were killed when a bus fell
into a deep gorge near Digdole
on Jammu-Srinagar highway
with politicians of all hues
expressing grief and blaming
the poor administration and
traffic management while
as the government as usual
promised strict action.
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