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Bhawan goes
Centre for separate settlement Raj
by Centre, Governor
for KPs, Mufti says otherwise nominates 8 MLCs
Agencies
New Delhi | Apr | 9:
Differences between Jammu
and Kashmir ruling alliance
partners -- PDP and BJP -- came
to the fore with Union Home
Minister Rajnath Singh earlier
in the day making it clear that
the Centre was going ahead
with its plans for composite
townships for KPs and there
was no going back on the plas
for separate settlement of
displaced community in the
Valley.
"I don't want to go into
details. Whatever decision was
taken by the central government
for the rehabilitation of
Kashmiri Pandits...the decision
remains the same. We had a
good talk with the Chief
Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
(on this issue)," he told
reporters here.
His remarks came in the
wake of assertions by Jammu
V K Singh should
apologise to
media: Shukla
Kanpur: Criticising Union
MoS for External Affairs V
K Singh over his remarks
dubbing newsmen as
"presstitutes", Cong MP
Rajeev Shukla said he
should "better apologise to
the media".
and Kashmir Chief Minister
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in the
Assembly earlier in the day that
there were no plans for a
separate cluster for Kashmiri
Pandits.
On Tuesday at a meeting in
New Delhi, Singh had asked
Sayeed to provide land in the
state for composite townships
for Kashmiri Pandits. The Chief
Minister assured the Home
Minister that the state
government will acquire and
provide land at the earliest for
composite townships in the
Valley.
Clarifying his government's
stand in the Assembly, Sayeed
said, "I have told the Union
Home Minister that they (KPs)
cannot live separately (in
Kashmir Valley) and they will
have to live together."
"I want to tell the House...
There is no plan (for a separate
township for KPs in Kashmir).
A hue and cry erupted that a
separate Homeland is being
made for them. I said that is not
possible. Those who are living
there have to spend their lives
together. We will try our best,"
he said.
Describing as misconstrued
the impression being created by
certain quarters regarding
establishment of exclusive
habitations, Mufti Sayeed stated
that the Government has not
acquired any land for setting up
any exclusive enclaves.
He further said the
Government does not favour
any clusterization for return of
Kashmiri Pandits but their
complete reintegration as part of
the Kashmiri society. "Some
Pandit organizations have also
stated that a majority of the
migrated community will feel
vulnerable if they return to the
Valley and live in exclusive
zones," he added.
Major Opposition parties and
separatists groups in Jammu and
Reconciliation must for peace,
development: Mufti Sayeed
NL Correspondent
Jammu Tawi | Apr | 9 :
Assuring the people of laying a
strong edifice for building
institutions
of
good
governance, Chief Minister
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
today said his Government will
take forward the ongoing
Chandigarh: Senior IAS
officer Ashok Khemka, who process of reconciliation to
firmly embed peace and
had last week met the
Haryana Guv here days after prosperity in the State.
Mufti Sayeed was speaking
his transfer, today met state
during the concluding day of
CM Manohar Lal Khattar.
the Budget Session in the
Legislative Assembly.
Describing the formation of
the Coalition Government as a
historic occasion that respected
New Delhi: Coming out in the mandate of the people of all
the three regions, the Chief
support of DU Vice
Minister said the BJP-PDP
Chancellor Dinesh Singh
and the now-revoked FYUP, alliance has the political
legitimacy to govern the State
a number of academics,
as it represents the aspirations
including former DU VC
of all the regions.
Deepak Pental, today
He further said a congenial
warned of the "inherent"
atmosphere in the State is a
danger and "long-term
prerequisite to reap the benefits
fallout" if the university
system is discouraged from
introducing new ideas.
Khemka meets
CM Khattar
Academics, ex-DU
VC rally behind
Dinesh Singh
AAP govt makes
plan to remove
diesel vehicles
New Delhi: Delhi
government today said it
was working on a detailed
plan of action to remove
around 1.53 lakh diesel
vehicles older than 10 years
from the city roads in
compliance with an order by
the NGT.
Undertrial
prisoner killed in
Tihar turf war
New Delhi: A turf war
between two groups of
criminals over superiority in
Delhi''s ''high-security'' Tihar
jail claimed the life of a 29year-old undertrial prisoner
after he was stabbed to
death by at least six
attackers of the rival camp.
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Kashmir had slammed the
move, saying it will divide the
people and pose security risks.
Singh had written a letter to
the previous Omar Abdullah
government which was
followed
by
another
communication to state
Governor N N Vohra asking for
identification of land for such
migrants.
At present, there are about
62,000 registered Kashmiri
migrant families in the country,
who have moved from the
Valley to Jammu, Delhi and
other parts of the country after
the state was rocked by
militancy in 1989.
The BJP-PDP alliance in the
state
had
mentioned
rehabilitation of Kashmiri
Pandits in their common
minimum programme. During
the Budget for 2015-16, Rs 580
crore has been earmarked by the
Centre for rehabilitation of
migrants.
of a healthy democracy. "The
people have suffered much due
to turmoil that hit the State over
two decades ago and to realize
our goals in realizing J&K's full
potential, peace has to be given
a chance," he stated.
Favouring reconciliation
with all the neighbours to bring
in lasting peace in the region,
Mufti Sayeed said his earlier
Government in 2005 took some
historic steps that included
opening of traditional routes
like Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and
Poonch-Rawlakote roads. ‘
He said the bonhomie
between India and Pakistan was
JK tops in terror
financing cases
Agencies
New Delhi | Apr | 9:
The highest number of 80 cases
relating to alleged terror financing have been registered in
Jammu and Kashmir involving
190 accused and seizure of Rs
2.93 crore was effected by
security agencies in the last nine
years. Besides it, a total of 41
such cases were registered in
north eastern states of Manipur
(26), Meghalaya (nine), Assam
(five) and Tripura (one),
Giving precedent to the
gubernatorial conventions over
the provisions under section 50
(6) of the constitution of Jammu
and Kashmir, the Governor, NN
Vohra today nominated eight
political activists as Members
Legislative Council.
As per the notification issued
by Department of Law, Justice
and Parliamentary Affairs, the
Governor, in exercise of the
powers vested in him under
Sub-section (6) of Section 50 of
the constitution of Jammu and
Kashmir, has nominated Zaffar
Iqbal Manhas, Ashok Khajuria,
Vikramditya Singh, Romesh
Arora, Saifu-Din Bhat,
Ajatshatru Singh, Mohammad
Khurshid Alam and Surinder
Mohan Ambardar as new
members to the Upper House of
Jammu
and
Kashmir's
bicameral legislature.
According to reliable
sources, the initial indications
emanating from Raj Bhawan
at Jammu a day before
revealed that it would strictly
go by the spirit of the
constitution which was even
confirmed by one of the now
again evident recently during nominated member and this
the rescue of fellow was reported by this
countrymen trapped in Yemen.
Referring to the devastation
caused by the September 2014
floods, the Chief Minister said
the people who lost everything
shall
be
adequately
compensated. He said the
small-time traders and
destitute, who lacked insurance
cover, shall be provided
financial assistance from April
15, enabling them to restart
their lives afresh.
Thanking all the members of
the Legislative Assembly,
especially youngsters and firsttimers, for raising important
discussions during the
proceedings of the House, the
Chief Minister assured them of
all financial support in
effectively taking care of the
developmental needs of their
respective constituencies. He
said he has flagged the
priorities of all the members
which would be sorted out
shortly.
NL Correspondent
Jammu Tawi | Apr | 9 :
In a significant decision,
Divisional Level Single
Window Clearance Committee
of the Department of Industries
and Commerce today cancelled
103.5 Kanals of land allotted to
34 provisionally registered units
at Kathua and Bari Brahmana in
Jammu region.
The
cancellation has been ordered as
they failed to establish their
units.
The decision to this effect
was taken at a meeting of the
Committee held under the
Chairmanship of Director
Industries and Commerce,
Jammu, Dr Abdul Rashid.
The Committee took serious
note of the allotted land having
left unused and idle by the
allottee entrepreneurs.
After detailed discussions, a
decision was taken to cancel the
allotments on 101 Kanals of
land at Kathua and 2.5 Kanal
land at Bari Brahmana in the
Jammu division. The land,
which had been unnecessarily
here that the Chief Minister,
Mufti Mohammad Syeed while
in Delhi a day before, for
discussing various important
issues with the Prime Minister,
Narender Modi and Home
Minister Raj Nath Singh, had
also taken both the leaders on
board over the issue of
nominations to Upper House in
the state.
Section 50 (6) of the
Constitution of Jammu and
Kashmir that provided for
filling of eight nominated
vacancies in upper house, in
simple English language reads
as: "Eight members shall be
nominated by the Governor,
not more that three of whom
shall be persons belonging to
any of the socially or
economically
backward
classes in the State, and the
others shall be persons having
special knowledge or practical
NL Correspondent
Jammu Tawi | Apr | 9 :
Ten days after Chief
Minister
accusing
previous government of
eroding state's economy by
shifting over-draft facility
from the J&K Bank to Reserve
Bank of India (RBI), the finance
department today has instructed
the officers and officials
particularly the drawing and
disbursing officers (DDOs) of
the
State
Government,
Corporations, Public Sector
Undertakings and other
development authorities to open
their official accounts with the
J&K Bank only.
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In a circular, the Finance April 2015.
Department has asked all the Chief Minister Mufti
Drawing
and Mohammed Sayeed on March
Disbursing Officers 30 accused previous National
Conference-led
government of eroding
the state's autonomy by
shifting
overdraft
of the
facility from Jammu
S t a t e
and Kashmir Bank to the
Government, Corporations, Reserve Bank of India.
Public Sector Undertakings and The National Conference,
other development authorities, had however, said that every
who have bank accounts in bank in the country has to
other banks, to close these function under RBI and the
accounts immediately and issue had nothing to do with the
transfer the balances along with institution of autonomy.
accrued interest to the bank During a discussion on
account to be opened by them in demand of grants in the state
J&K Bank by or before 30th
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FIR against J&K cops
The Supreme Court has set
aside the order of Jammu and
Kashmir High Court directing
the police to lodge an FIR
against the cops over the death
of a school boy alleged to have
been hit by a teargas shell
during their operation to quell a
stone-pelting mob in 2010.
Wamiq Farooq, a class VII
student, was reportedly hit by a
teargas shell when protestors
locked and blocked, will be
allotted to genuine prospective
entrepreneurs in the next
meeting of the Committee.
The Committed also cleared
the cases of 15 entrepreneurs
and allotted 40.12 Kanals of
land to them for establishing
their units.
These units are likely to
generate employment for 226
persons and will result in
investment to plant and
machinery to the tune of about
Rs 7.32 crores.
Those present in the meeting
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
for the first time admitted that
there are problems in the
Peoples Democratic Party(PDP)
-Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)
alliance government in Jammu
and Kashmir.
In an interview to Hindustan
Times Modi said, "These are
teething troubles. We need to
have patience. I myself and my
party have made our stand very
clear that any lenience towards
anti-national elements and
terrorists will not be acceptable.
However, we should not forget
the larger picture. The alliance
in Jammu and Kashmir has the
potential to resolve one of our
most difficult national problems
through people's participation
and good governance."
The PDP faced flak from the
opposition parties over the
release Kashmir separatist
leader Masarat Alam on March
Bank only with JK Bank:
Govt directs departments
Investigation Team (SIT), set up
by a Srinagar sessions court,
which "found the police
personnel innocent" and that the
boy's death could have been due
to a fall from the stadium wall
or a teargas shell.
The Jammu and Kashmir
Government had challenged this
order of the High Court and
were pelting stones on the directed the police to lodge a
police near the Gani Memorial second FIR on the incident,
particularly keeping in view the
Stadium in old Srinagar.
The apex court relied on the death of the boy. The Supreme
report of a four-member Special
Allotment of 103.5 kanals of land
for industrial use cancelled
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newspaper. Sources said a
word apparently has passed
from New Delhi to Raj
Bhawan yesterday to avoid
any controversy in the matter.
A senior PDP leader pleading
not to be named said that the
decision was an afterthought
and on the behest of central
Agencies
intervention.
It is pertinent to mention New Delhi | Apr | 9:
SC sets aside order on lodging
according to Home Ministry Agencies
data. About Rs 3.33 crore New Delhi | Apr | 9:
allegedly meant for terror
financing were seized in these
cases registered between 2006
and 2015, it said.
National
Investigating
Agency (NIA) seized Rs 3.66
crore proceeds meant for terror
financing while probing 11 cases
involving 101 accuseed during
the period, the data said.
A total of 213 cases of alleged
terror financing were registered
NL Correspondent
Jammu Tawi | Apr | 9 :
Modi admits to problems
in PDP-BJP govt
included,
Mr
Showkat
Chowdhary Regional Director,
J&K State Pollution Control,
Mr R.L.Tikoo Managing Director, Jammu & Kashmir, SICOP,
Mr Sanjeev Rathore Superintending Engineer, M&RE
Circle-Kathua, Mr Ramesh
Chander Menia Superintending
Engineer, M&RE Circle Batote,
Ms Rifat Kohli Joint Director
(M&P), Industries & Commerce, Mr A.K.Chibber Executive
Engineer,(ED-II),PDD Jammu
and Mr Vikram Gupta General
Manager, J&K, SIDCO.
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Governor's
Secretariat to
close on Apr 24
NL Correspondent
Jammu Tawi | Apr | 9 :
The offices of Governor's
Secretariat at Jammu will
close on 24th of April 2015
and reopen at Srinagar on
Monday May 5, 2015 at 9.30
a.m. Raj Bhavan spokesperson has said that all
communications meant for
Governor and his staff which
cannot reach Raj Bhavan,
Jammu before 24th of March,
2015 shall be addressed to
Raj Bhavan Srinagar.
7 from jail despite protests by
its ally BJP, which also issued
an ultimatum to Chief Minister
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's
party to mend its ways. The
Prime Minister revealed that the
Centre was kept in the dark over
the decision. He said Alam was
released without informing or
consulting the Centre.
Narendra Modi admits to
problems
in
PDP-BJP
government in Jammu and
Kashmir
The Prime Minister also
broke his silence on
controversial statements made
by several Union Ministers and
BJP leaders.
He also spoke about the BJP's
loss in the Delhi Assembly
elections 2015 and on how the
'Modi wave' is abating. "We
respect the verdict of the people
of Delhi. I find it amusing to
hear that those who did not talk
about a 'Modi wave' in the
context of the outcome of the
2014 general elections are now
engaged in intense discussion
regarding the 'Modi wave'. I can
say with confidence that we
fully enjoy the love and trust of
the people of the country," he
said. BJP was steamrolled by
the two-year-old Aam Aadmi
Party(AAP) in the Delhi
Assembly elections. In a
historic verdict, AAP swept the
Delhi polls by 67 out of the 70
Contd... on P2....
Gurezi elected
Dy Speaker
NL Correspondent
Jammu Tawi | Apr | 9 :
Nazir Ahmed Gurezi, a 3time National Conference
Member of Legislative
Assembly (MLA) from
Gurez, was today
unanimously elected as
Deputy Speaker of Jammu
& Kashmir Legislative
Assembly.
The Motion for the
election of Deputy Speaker
was moved by Minister for
Law, Justice &
Parliamentary Affairs, Syed
Basharat Bukhari and
seconded by Minister for
Social Welfare & Forests,
Bali Bhagat in the House,
which unanimously adopted
it.
Nasim Zaidi appointed Chief
Election Commissioner
Agencies
New Delhi | Apr | 9 :
Election Commissioner Nasim
Zaidi was on Thursday appointed
as the next Chief Election
Commissioner.
President Pranab Mukherjee
has cleared his appointment, a
Law Ministry statement said.
He will assume charge with
effect from April 19, after the
incumbent Hari Shankar Brahma
demits office on April 18 upon
his retirement.
Zaidi will have a tenure up to
July, 2017 when he attains the
age of 65.
In appointing Zaidi as the
CEC, the government has carried
on with the convention of
elevating the senior-most EC.
Incidentally, he will be the
only one left in the three-member
constitutional body as the others
have retired.
The government will also
soon set in motion the process of
appointing two Election
Commissioners to fill up the
vacancies in the three-member
poll body.
V S Sampath had retired as
CEC in January and Brahma was
elevated in his place.
An EC or a CEC has a tenure
of six years in office or 65 years
of age, whichever is earlier.
A 1976 batch IAS officer,
Zaidi has worked in the Civil
Aviation Ministry for a long
time.
Union Home Secy calls on CM
NL Correspondent
Jammu Tawi | Apr | 9 :
Sayeed, here this afternoon.
During the meeting, matters
Union Home Secretary, L. C. relating to the security and lawGoyal, called on the Chief and-order scenario in the State
Minister, Mufti Mohammad were discussed.
Assembly adjourned sine-die
Jammu Tawi | Apr | 9 :
Speaker, Jammu and Kashmir
Legislative Assembly, Kavinder
Gupta in exercise of powers
conferred upon him under Rule
16 of Procedure and Conduct of
Business in the Jammu and
Kashmir Legislative Assembly,
today adjourned the House sinedie.
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Pradesh Congress chief assigns
responsibilities among party cadre
Jammu, April 9
The new office bearers of PCC
have
been
assigned
responsibilities of different
districts to look after the
organizational activities by the
President JKPCC Mr. Ghulam
Ahmed Mir.
Chief Spokesman of PCC
Ravinder Sharma has said that
the allocations have been made to
the team of PCC functionaries for
zones comprising different
districts mentioned therein.
Meanwhile, in view of the
constitution of the PCC teams
and
allocations
of
works/assignments, it has been
decided that the membership
drive shall be looked after by the
organizational set up at all levels
from PCC to the block levels and
separate membership committees
constituted for the purpose shall
stand disbanded.
The respective units have been
asked to take up the membership
work as per party norms, at the
earliest.
As per allocation of work,
Sham Lal Sharma Senior Vice
President will look after the
overall organizational activities
besides administration and
responsibilities of the party in
Jammu Province.
Raman Bhalla (former
Minister) Vice President PCC
along with General Secretaries
PCC Manjit Singh, Manmohan
Singh, Vikram Malhotra,
Mohammad
Shahnawaz
Choudhary and Namrata Sharma
will look after Jammu Urban,
Rural and Samba districts. They
will be assisted by Secretaries
PCC Rajni Bala, Thomas
Khokhar, Shashi Sharma, Sobha
Singh, Shamsher Singh, Pawan
Raina and Dr Sat Pal and
Organising Secretaries Ashok
Sharma, Neeraj Gupta, Sanjeev
Sharma, Ashwani Puri & Ashok
Dubey.
Mula Ram (former Minister)
Vice President PCC alongwith
General Secretaries PCC, Shabir
Ahmed Khan and Shah
Mohammad Choudhary will look
after Poonch & Rajouri Districts.
They will be assisted by
Secretaries & Organizing
Secretaries PCC Gurmeet Singh,
Parveen Akhtar and Lovely
Gupta.
Shri Sham Lal Sharma-Sr.
Vice President PCC & Smt.
Kanta Bhan-Vice President PCC
alongwith General Secretaries
Thakur Balwan Singh, Dr.
Manohar Lal & Faqir Nath will
look after Kathua, Udahmpur &
Reasi districts. They will be
assisted by Secretaries &
Organising Secretaries Anuradha
Andotra, Pankaj Dogra, Narinder
Sharma, Pawan Raina, Nirdosh
Sharma, Kulbir Singh Pathania,
Manjit Singh Jatt, & Vijay
Manhas.
G. M. Saroori-(MLA) Vice
President PCC alongwith
General Secretaries PCC Abdul
Majid Wani, Yogesh Sawhney
look after Doda & Kishtwar
districts. They will be assisted by
Secretaries and Organising
Secretaries Ashok Dogra,
Imtiyaz Ahmed Khandey &
Pawan Singh.
Sham Lal Sharma-Sr. Vice
President will look after Ramban
district alongwith General
Secretaries PCC Abdul Majid
Wani, Yogesh Sawhney and
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Secretary Ashok Dogra (ExMLA).
Shri Ghulam Nabi Monga(MLC) Vice President & Amreen
Bader-Vice President alongwith
General Secretaries PCC Nazir
Ahmed Khan, Shameem Iqbal
will look after Srinagar, Budgam
& Ganderbal districts. They will
be assisted by Secretaries &
Organising Secretaries Abid
Kashmiri, Irfan Naqeeb, Amit
Amla, Ch. Kadfeen, Imtiyaz
Khan, Sahil Farooq, Jawahira
Bano G. A. Gulzar & Nisar
Ahmed Khan.
Mohammad Anwar Bhat-Vice
President PCC alongwith
General Secretaries PCC Sdr.
Surinder Singh Channi, Hilal
Ahmed Shah will look after the
Anantnag, Kulgam, Shopian &
Pulwama districts. They will be
assisted by Secretaries &
Organising Secretaries PCC
Shaheena Nadaf, Farooq Ahmed
Malpuri, Abdul Rashid lone &
Mohammad Ayub Ganie.
Haji Abdul Rashid Dar(MLA) Vice President PCC
alongwith General Secretaries
PCC Usman Majid-(MLA) &
Shoiab Nabi Lone will look after
Baramulla, Kupwara &
Bandipora districts. They will be
assisted by Secretaries and
Organising Secretaries PCC
Jasbeer Kour, Reyaz Ahmed
Khan, Raja Bano, Abdul Hamid
Wani & Hamidullah Mir.
Shri Narbu Gialson-Vice
President PCC alongwith
General Secretaries PCC Ghulam
Raza will look after Leh & Kargil
districts. They will be assisted by
Organising Secretaries PCC
Mohd. Yasin Drass, Sonam
Namgiyal & Zakir Hussian.
University's construction
halted by protestors
Kathua, April 9:
The landowners brought a halt to ongoing construction work
of South Campus University today saying that they would not
allow the work to perform until and unless they get justice.
Leading the protesters Balwant Singh said that 25-families of
Janglote gave their lands for the construction of South Campus
University. The land was fertile and some people had raised
orchards on their lands. Keeping in view the facility of
University these families decided to provide their lands against
land at other place. He added that, at that time ADC Charanjeet
Singh assured them of providing land and finally assigned land
near Rajiv Gandhi College of Education.
"Since three years, they are trying to cover their land but
whenever they go their district administration reaches there
with heavy police force and compel them to run away from
there", he miffed.
Later, Tehsildar Vinay Khosla reached the spot and asked the
protesters to let the work start giving them assurance of
resolving the issue. However, the protesters said that they are
getting these kinds of assurances since three years. Now, they
would not trust on assurance and would not allow the work to
perform unless they get their lands.
Dev Raj, Janak Singh, Daleep Singh, Gaffur, Uttam Chand
and many others were among the protesters.
Supports pay tribute to Lt. Lal Chand
Kathua, April 9:
On the completion of one month of demise of Ex-MLA Master
Lal Chand, the supporters organised a meeting under the
leadership of Advocate Rakesh Thakur, here at Bani on
Thursday.The supporters offering floral tributes to the portrait of
Lal Chand observed two-minute silence.While paying tribute
Advocate Rakesh Thakur said, "The demise of senior leader Lal
Chand is a great loss for their supporters and to his Bani
constituency in particular". Rakesh Thakur termed him as political
stalwart who came from a humble background and strived hard as
a political leader.
Recalling him leader for the betterment of people of the state
especially people of Bani area, Rakesh Thakur said that Lal
Chand was a man of masses and his contribution for the
betterment and welfare of the down trodden people especially of
Bani people will be remembered for ever.
He expressed sympathies with the bereaved family and prayed
for eternal peace to the departed soul.
Retired Master Milkhi Ram, Sarpanch Sushil Kumar, Sarpanch
Brij Mohan, Sarpanch Krishan Chand Sarpanch Ajeet Sharma,
Subash Chander and many others attended the condolence.
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Gupta demands compensation
for damaged crops
Kathua, April 9:
Recalling the state as well
central government a total
failure, District Congress
Committee President Former
MLC Subash Chander Gupta
said that neither the state nor
the central government is
giving heed to the hardships of
the farmer community.
Subash Gupta said these
words after taking the loss
position of damaged crops of
the different areas of Kathua
district. Alleging state as well
central
government
agricultural
policies
responsible for the hardships
of farmers, Subash Gupta said
that farmer community, which
fills the stomach of others is
bound to starve himself.
The governments despite
helping the poor farmers', is
busy in boosting their
hardships and as a result, the
farmers are committing
suicides. He said that recent
unseasonal heavy rains and
infrastructure for CUK: Priya
Jammu, Apr 9, CNS:
Congress slams govt on unutilised flood fund Health Department to fast-track
Jammu Apr 10: Accusing the
BJP-PDP govt of playing politics
over providing relief to flood
victims of J&K, the congress
today said both the parties
promised the sky but did not
follow it up with action.
Congress Organising and media
secretary Salman Nizami today
while seeking an explanation of
sorts on unutilised funds for
flood relief, has asked the Chief
Minister to explain why he and
his Finance Minister rushed to
Delhi with a begging bowl to
seek a grant of more funds from
the Centre when out of Rs 570
crore, Rs 440 crore has remained
unutilised.
He has told PDP and BJP
leadership that since their
government has failed to provide
timely relief to thousands of
flood-affected families, the
Congress would like to know
why the govt delayed to identify
and distribute the funds among
recruitment process: Ch Zulfkar
Ishfaq Jabbar, the Minister said
that the University had awarded
some works to the CPWD
which, however, the University
has not accepted citing certain
deficiencies in the works
especially related to Soil
Investigation and Contour
Mapping.
The Minister said due to poor
performance of the CPWD in
executing the projects assigned
to it, the University initiated the
process of engaging an
alternative Project Management
Consultant (PMC) by floating
Expression of Interest (EoI) at
National Level, which was
open to all public sector units
involved with execution of
construction works.
The Minister said after
following a transparent and
competitive process, the
University has selected M/s
NBCC limited as its PMC for
the execution of all other
construction projects.
The University selected an
architect through Architectural
Design Competition and the
selected architect is working on
the drawings, plans, BOQs of
the buildings to be constructed
in the Phase-I of the campus
development. (CNS)
commissioned by National Skill
Development
Corporation
(NSDC) and authored by a
leading international consulting
firm KPMG.
The objective of these skill
gap reports was to understand
the sectorial and geographical
spread of skill requirements that
exist. The figures have been
estimated on the basis of
extensive
stakeholder
engagement including small,
medium and large enterprises in
every sector as well asSector
Skill Councils (SSCs), training
providers in the skills space and
academia. The skill gap studies
provide a granular data on the
skill gaps for two time periods2013-17 and 2017-22.
Commenting on the studies,
Dilip Chenoy, Managing
Director and CEO, National
Skill Development Corporation
(NSDC) said "These studies are
an attempt to remove the
information asymmetry that
exists in the skills landscape in
the country. The studies have
been conducted through
extensive primary interaction
with key stakeholders including
industry, training providers,
trainees, sector skill councils
and government. More than
1000 industry experts, 19 Sector
skill councils, 110 training
institutions and 1500+ trainees
have been engaged for the
studies. The findings will help
draw key insights for skill
development plans for both
government and corporates."
Industry will require close to 109 million
skilled workforce over next decade
No seepage in PHE Pipeline along Rajbagh Bund: Zulfkar
FROM PAGE 1...
Bank only with ....
During a discussion on demand of grants in the state legislative assembly, the Chief
Minister had said, "The biggest setback to the autonomy was when the previous government
shifted the ways and means (concerning overdrafts) from Jammu and Kashmir Bank to the
Reserve Bank of India."
He said that earlier the state government used to withdraw overdraft from the Jammu and
Kashmir Bank to meet its financial needs and used to pay interest to the bank, which used
to again reach the people of the state.
"We used to draw overdraft of Rs 2000 to 2500 crore from the Jammu and Kashmir Bank.
It was like taking money from our own house. When the money used to come (from centre),
we paid the interest and it again was given back to our own people," he said and added that
handing over the "ways and means" of the bank to RBI by the previous government was a
major setback to the institution of autonomy of the state.
Modi admits to problems ....
seats and the BJP managing just 3 seats.
The Prime Minister also broke his silence on controversial statements made by several
Union Ministers and BJP leaders. He indicated his disapproval of these comments.
However, he also added that he could not be expected to publicly clarify or make statements
every time something like that happened.
BJP faced criticism over several controversial remarks by its leaders. Lok Sabha MP
Giriraj Singh recently had said that if late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had married a
Nigerian women, she would not have become the Congress president because she would not
have been white-skinned like Sonia Gandhi.
Even BJP ally Upendra Kushwaha, President of Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP),
criticised Giriraj's remarks on Sonia Gandhi. Even after expressing regret over his comment,
Singh received a lot of criticism from various sections of the society.
Talking about the bottlenecks in the Rajya Sabha where the BJP-led NDA is in minority,
Modi said, "We believe in dialogue with both allies and opposition parties. I have myself
appealed in Parliament that we are ready to discuss and accommodate any issues where
political parties have a different view. I do hope that most of the parties would cooperate on
issues of urgent national importance and adopt a bipartisan stance."
Raj
Bhawan goes by Centre....
l experience in respect of matters such as literature, science, art, co-operative
movement and social service."
swallowed hundreds' of acre
land of the poor farmers of
Mahi Chak, Airwan, Pandori,
Nangal, Jarmal, Ghati ,
Kotpunnu, chabay chak,
Tengdevpura, Rattnu Chak
Ballian, Mathra chak, Muthi
Charu, Sapalwan, Kunthal and
other adjoining areas. Last
year during the monsoon
season, also the river carried
away fertile land with him.
However, neither the
administration nor the flood
department tried to give a
hearing. As a result, during the
recent rains the flood washed
away hundreds of acre land of
Mahi Chak, Airwan, Pandori,
Nangal, Jarmal, Ghati ,
Kotpunnu, chabay chak,
Tengdevpura, Rattnu Chak
Ballian, Mathra chak, Muthi
Charu, Sapalwan, Kunthal and
other
adjoining
villages.Subash
Gupta
demanded the administration
to take precautionary measures
and construct protection dams
where so ever needed.
Process underway to raise
Minister of State for
Information, Education and
Culture, Ms. Priya Sethi
informed the House that the
land measuring 3321 kanals-02
Marlas has been acquired for
establishment of the Central
University of Kashmir at
Ganderbal and an amount of
Rs. 20.61 Crore stands released
on account of compensation of
the land acquired for
of
the
Jammu, Apr 9, CNS: Minister for CA&PD, Ch. Zulfkar Ali establishment
University.
informed the House that as many as 226 posts of consultants and
Replying to a Calling
post of Non-Gazetted Cadre have been referred to the Attention
those families, whose houses had submitted a comprehensive various
Notice by Sheikh
recruiting
agency
for
filling
up
vacant
posts
in
Hospitals.
were partially, severely or fully package of Rs 44,000 crore but
The Minister while replying to a Calling Attention Notice by
damaged in September 2014 the centre has only provided Rs Legislator,
Ahmed Wani said that as soon as the selection
floods. He said there is an urgent 570 and out of which Rs 440 is process is Altaf
completed,
the vacant posts in District Hospital
need to explain the issue still untilized. Further demanding Anantnag, Sub-District Hospital
Seer Hamdan and PHC Sallar
threadbare to plug leaks in the a white paper from the will be filled up accordingly.
administrative setup.
government on the present status
He said in addition to these referred posts, the process of
Nizami said the UPA govt of the fund, Nizami has forwarding the posts of more than 300 Medical Officers
Jammu, April 9
went all out to provide succor to demanded to know about all (Allopathic) and about 90 posts of Medical Officers (ISM) is under
the victims of the 2005 earth funds that have been made consideration in the department.
Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy,
quake that affected vast areas available to district adminisThe Minister added that Health Department is making every
along LOC. "What has happened trations, irrigation department effort to post doctors in peripheral institutions and the Department Minister of State (I/C) for Skill
and
now when there is a BJP and and what the government is is in the process of shifting all those doctors to the field who have Development
PDP govt in Centre and State. doing for the rehabilitation of been sitting in cities since long and who have completed E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p t o d a y
launched the Human Resource
The previous state government affected families.
Registrarship/Demonstratorship.
and Skill Requirement reports
across 24 sectors in India which
will serve as the baseline for all
skill development initiatives
Jammu, Apr 9, CNS: Minister for rectified immediately. Replying to Calling recent floods of September 2014, which being planned across the
CA&PD, Ch. Zulfkar Ali informed the Attention Notice by Ms. Anjum Fazli, the was restored and replaced by laying new country.
According to the findings of
House that there is no seepage in the Minister informed that PHE pipeline laid pipes across the breached spots. He said
the
research reports, the
pipeline along the Kursoo Rajbagh Bund, along the Kursoo Rajbagh bund has been leakages at joints can take place if there is
human resource
however, due to settlement of soil and running since long to cater to water supply settlement in recently reconstructed bund, incremental
across these 24
movement of vehicular traffic on the bund needs of the people living in the adjoining however, this is being monitored closely on requirement
is
nearly
road, there was some displacement of one areas.
day to day basis and attended on top sectors
109.73[1]million whereby the
of the joints of the pipe line, which has been He said the pipeline got damaged during priority. (CNS)
top 10 sectors account for about
80% of requirements.
The
reports
were
Why Mufti rushed to Delhi with begging
bowl despite funds on disposal? :Nizami
hailstorm has immensely
damaged the standing crops,
hundred percent throughout
the district. "The Crop
Insurance Scheme of the
government is still an illusion
for the farmers", he rued.
Demanding an adequate
insurance policy for the crops
he said that the government
should
announce
compensation for damage
according to the neighboring
state Punjab. Everyone knows
that it is due to the anti-farmers
policies the farmers of Punjab,
Haryana, Rajasthan, Andhra
Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh and other
states are committing suicides.
However, in J&K until now
none had committed suicide. If
the government fails to meet
the hardships of the farmers of
the state sooner the process of
committing suicide would
start", he miffed. Subash Gupta
taking note of land erosion said
that until now, the Ujh,Tarnah
and Beian River had
Senior Congress leader Karan Singh's two sons are among the eight new members
nominated today to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council.
Ajatshatru Singh and Vikramadatya Singh have joined ruling coalition partners, BJP and
PDP in the State.
Ashok Khajuria, who has been a two-time MLA, was denied ticket by the BJP to contest
election in 2014 Assembly polls and Arora, a senior BJP leader apart from Ambardar, is a
staunch RSS activist.
With the nomination of the eight more members, the strength of the Legislative Council
has gone up to 34.The total strength of the Council is 36. However, two vacancies falling
under the category of Urban Local bodies, election for which could not be held for last ten
years.
In the 34-member house, 11 members belong to PDP, 8 to BJP and NC each and 7 to the
Congress.
SC sets aside order ...
Court said there was already an FIR concerning similar allegations on a private
complaint and the trial in sessions court was in progress.
While passing the order on April 7, the apex court noted its order of October 28 last year
when it had directed the state government to place the outcome of the deliberations of the
SIT on this case.
"A perusal of the conclusions recorded by the four-member SIT reveals that the police
has been found to be innocent, with reference to the death of the boy named, Wamiq
Farooq," a bench of Justices J S Khehar and S A Bobde said.
"In the above view of the matter, the need to record a second First Information Report,
by the impugned order passed by the High Court on August 9, 2011 (affirming the
determination rendered by the Principal Sessions Judge, Srinagar vide his May 2, 2011
order) stands frustrated.
"Accordingly, the direction issued by the Sessions Judge, Srinagar, which came to be
affirmed by the High Court, to register a fresh FIR in connection with death of the
aforementioned boy named Wamiq Farooq, deserves to be set aside. The same is
accordingly set aside," the bench said.
JK tops in terror ....
by NIA and 15 other state police forces involving 873 accused. About Rs 14.85 crore have
been seized in these cases, it said.
21 cases of alleged terror financing were registered in the national capital, 16 in Punjab, 14
in Karnataka, 11 in Odisha and nine in Maharashtra. About Rs 3.19 crore was seized from
these states, the data said.
Three each such cases were reported in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, two in Tamil Nadu
and one each in Bihar and Kerala. About Rs 1.71 crore was seized from these states, it said.
Of the total of 213 cases, 101 are under trial and 81 of them are under the investigation.
Trial has been completed in 31 cases, the data said.
90% People Trust Homeopathy
Dr Batra's has emerged as a
trusted, reputed brand
Jammu, April 09
"We are proud that Dr
Batra's has emerged as a trust
A study conducted by
worthy and reputed brand
IMRB International across
through this independent
Mumbai, Bangalore,
survey by IMRB," added Dr
Hyderabad, New Delhi and Batra.
Kolkata, shows 90 per cent
According to
of people perceive
ASSOCHAM, the
homeopathy as a trusted form homeopathy market in India
of treatment and its usage is is worth Rs.2758 crore and is
higher than any other form of growing annually at 30% and
treatment.
As per the survey
conducted amongst the
general public it was found
that 100% of people are
universally aware about
homeopathy and 92%
perceive it as 'reputed' form
of treatment. People use
homeopathy mainly for
backaches, gastro, skin and
hair ailments. Among
homeopathy users, 91% are
satisfied with the treatment
and 93% are willing to
recommend homeopathy to
others due to higher
satisfaction levels with their
treatment.
as per observers it is
expected to grow to Rs. 5873
crore by 2017. Homeopathy
users will increase to 160
million (16 crore) in the next
3 years from its current 100
million (10 crore) users.
There are 185 homeopathic
colleges and 20,000 new
homeopaths are added every
year.
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Jammu
City
Vohra releases book on
German, Indian laws
JAMMU, APRIL 9
Governor, N.N. Vohra today
released Harpreet Sandhu’s
book “German-Indian Laws-A
Comparative Study” at a
function held at the Raj Bhavan
today.
The author, who is a
practicing lawyer and former
Additional Advocate General,
Punjab, has written this volume
based on his studies and
experience gained during his
visits to various German courts.
This book includes a
comprehensive coverage of the
German legal system and
chapters on German Criminal
Procedure, The German Civil
Code, and Laws relating to
Indo- German Business.
The Governor complimented
the author for undertaking a
comparative study of the legal
system in the two countries and
hoped that the book would
benefit all those who are
interested in this area of legal
knowledge. He wished Sandhu
continuing success.
Present on the occasion were
D.C. Raina, Senior Advocate
and former Advocate General;
Reyaz Ahmad Jan, Advocate
General, J&K; Mohammed
Ashraf
Mir,
Secretary,
Department of Law, Justice and
Parliamentary Affairs; Randeep
Partap Singh, Advocate Punjab
High Court and A.K. Sharma,
IRS officer.
resentment against the Govt. to
resolve their issues including
release of 5-10 months pending
SSA salary due to which RET
Teachers are on the verge of
starvation.
He said that though they have
projected this issue with the
Govt. and the department many
times but still the problem is
unresolved.
He further said that arrears
of Education Volunteers are
pending for one year,
regularization of KGBV
Teachers is pending and the
Govt. is issuing controversial
order of exempting RET
Teachers from Exam Duties
which will not be tolerated at
any case and the Govt. is
forcing them to come on
road.
Provincial President Rajesh
Singh appealed all the RET
Teachers of the State to
participate in the said protest on
April 13, 2015 at Press Club
Jammu to make it a historic one.
Others who also spoke were
Sham Sharma, Sukhdev Singh,
Sukesh Khajuria, Subash
Chander, Joginder Kumar, Raj
Mohan, Ashok Kumar, Manzoor
Malik, Farooq Ahmed, Mohd.
Majeed and others.
prime offenders of the crimes
done against this miniscule
community.
“Fate of every Kashmiri
Pandit has always remained in
vortex since 1990, due to the
eruption of political turmoil in
the valley. It is really hard to
understand why this miniscule
community have been put on
the receiving end by every
fraction of the Kashmiri Society
as well as the by the successive
governments at state and
Centre.”
The statement added, “The
very same militant commanders
who ordered kill and rapes of
the minorities in Kashmir
Valley are using their current
political platforms for inviting
Kashmiri Pandits to return that
too on the conditions laid by
them only.
Technically they are forcing
their so called sacred
commandments on the
minorities so that the minorities
of their own resist to return back
to their homeland and they can
prove that minorities are not
willing to return.”
KPSS said they feel that the
situation is being deliberately
compromised in such a way that
the policies which are safe
guarding
the
religious
minorities in Kashmir Valley
including the return and
rehabilitation could be put on
hold to eat dust lying on the
government shelves.
hold such a meeting for the
past over three years.
This was in clear violation of
the government norms, they
asserted. They alleged that
while
the
Jammu
newspapers were totally
ignored in the past three
years, six newspapers of
Kashmir were empanelled
during the same time.
“This is totally unjust and
intolerable and shows that
how much biased the
department is towards the
newspapers of Jammu,”
they said.
"We have approached the
Chief Minister, brought the
matter to the notice of
Information Minister and
also had repeated parleys
with the Information
Director but when they did
not redress our grievance,
we were forced to hold
protest," they said.
They warned to intensify their
struggle if the government
did not direct the
Information Director to hold
a meeting for the
empanelment of newspapers
within one week.
The future course of action
would be decided in next
meeting of the association,
they said.
They also expressed their
astonishment over the
manner in which the
department had been issuing
government advertisement
to local newspapers.
“Only seven newspapers had
been getting their due share
of advertisement while the
others were being ignored, it
was part of the conspiracy
of top officiate of
Information Department
against
the
small
newspapers,” they alleged.
ReT teachers to hold state
level protest on April 13
Jammu April 9
All J&K ReT Teachers
Forum has decided to hold a
day-long protest demonstration
outside press club Jammu on
April 13 in support of their
demands including release of
several months SSA salary.
This was announced in an
apex body meeting of RET
Forum held at Exhibition
Ground Jammu under the
chairman ship of State president
Vinod Sharma and vice
president Younis Rahi.
While speaking on the
occasion Sharma showed
‘Separatists have no right to
object to KPs rehab policy’
Jammu April 9
Kasmiri
Pandits’
organisation, KPSS has opposed
the stand taken by the
separatists for announcing
protest and shutdown on Friday
and
Saturday
against
government’s return policy for
rehabilitation of Kashmiri
Pandits in the Valley.
A press statement issued by
the organisation, said here today
that the separatists platform in a
single breath opposed the return
of Kashmiri Pandits in the
Valley but they have no say in
return policy of the Kashmiri
Pandits, as on the moral grounds
they are not in a position to
intervene in this issue being the
Editors' association seeks empanelling
of upcoming newspapers
JAMMU, Apr 9
J&K Editors' Association
today came down heavily on
the Information Department
for its alleged indifferent
attitude towards the
upcoming local newspapers
and conspiring against
them.
In a protest held outside the
Information Department
here,
they
strongly
criticized the style of
working of its top officials
and alleged that they were
biased against the upcoming
local newspapers.
They said as per the laid down
norms, the meeting of
Information Department for
empanelment of newspapers
was to be held twice in an
year, once in Jammu and the
second in Srinagar after six
months of the first meeting,
but it had not bothered to
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JKAACL announces State
Art Awards
Jammu, April 9
JAMMU | FRIDAY | APRIL 10 | 2015
AIIMS for Kashmir:
JKNPP holds protest
Milan Sharma for ‘’Creative
world of a child’, Ms. Renu
The J&K Academy of Art, Bala for ‘childhood memories’,
Culture and Languages have Rohit Verma for ‘Artist at
announced State Art Awards in work’, Surya JS Babli for ‘Nari
artist and student categories shoshan kyun’. In Student
carrying cash prize of Rs. 51000 category the certificate of merit
and Rs. 10000 respectively.
carrying cash award of 1000
The
awards
were each went to Jaswinder Singh
recommended by a jury for
‘Women
portrait’,
comprising experts in paintings Ms.Khushboo Sharma for ‘life
and sculpture from outside the expression-I’, Mainderjeet
state and approved by the Singh for ‘portrait’, Suhail A H
President of the Academy Sofi for ‘The flora rise’, and
(Chief Minster). The awards in Ms. Trishla Kumar for
Artists category went to Javaid ‘Portrait’.
Iqbal for his painting titled This year as many as 74
‘Flood Fury’’ Acrylic on canvas entries in Artist category and 33
and Jugal Kishore for his in Student category were
sculpture titled ‘Barbed wire’ received
from
the
Stone sculpture. In student artists/students of the state. All
category the award carrying the exhibits were selected by
cash prize of 10000 went to the adjudicating committee for
Ashwan Jamwal for his painting exhibition
and
also
titled Éye catcher’ Graphic and recommended exhibits for
Samba, April 9
Jikmat Dadul for his sculpture awards. The committee
‘’Conversation’
cement comprises experts namely Prof.
Carrying forward the
sculpture . Certificate of Merit Ishwer Dayal (Painting) and
with cash prize of Rs. 1000 in Prof. Mir Imtiaz (Sculpture) agitation for the restoration of
artist category went to Arshid from Chandigarh and Delhi AIIMS to Jammu region,
thousands of Panthers Party
Sualeh for ‘Nostalgia’, Smt. respectively.
activists staged an impressive
one day sit-in protest
demonstration at Samba
spearheaded by Harsh Dev
Jammu April 9
Singh Chairman JKNPP &
First time in the history of J&K, the information technology (IT) Former Minister, Balwant
branch of legislative assembly took the initiative to provide latest Singh Mankotia President
information related to day to day business besides important JKNPP and Yashpal Kundal
information regarding government business in the house including President Young Panthers
daily bulletin of the House proceedings, govt bills, private along with Shiv Charan Singh
members bills, reports laid in the House etc. throughout the world District President Samba, Arun
by its official website www.jklegislativeassemlby.nic.in .
Khajuria, Mohinder Mankotia,
The IT branch also through its Quick SMS service sent Shamsher Singh and other
important information to the members of the House on the same senior leaders.
day and same time for their kind appraisal. All the Members of the
Expressing dismay Harsh
House have appreciated the work done by the IT branch J&K Dev Singh lambasted the BJP
Legislative Assembly with their best wishes for further leadership for surrendering the
modernization of the IT in Assembly, a press statement issued by Rs. 1600/- crores AIIMS to
the IT branch said.
Kashmir that was actually
All the information about present and previous Governors, announced for Jammu region.
Chief Ministers and Members of the House has been compiled on He revealed that the Union
the site. In near future all the activities being carried out in the Minister Arun Jaitely on 28th
Assembly have been complied and put under one Content Feb. 2015 in New Delhi had
Management System of Legislative Assembly.
categorically announced the
Webcast of LAproceedings appreciated
NPSU protest against AIIMS for Kashmir
Jammu, April 9
National Panthers Student
Union (NPSU) today held a
protest demonstration in the
University Campus in protest
against the cowardly surrender
of AIIMS to Kashmir by the
BJP leadership.
The protestors who gathered
in large number in front of the
University gate raised anti BJP
slogans and burnt the effigies of
BJP legislators for passively
surrendering on the issue of
AIIMS with no voice raised in
the Assembly by any of their
during the three week Assembly
session that concluded today.
Speaking on the occasion
Thakur Virender Singh said that
Kashmir already had SKIMS
facility with all super facility
privileges and still the newly
sanctioned AIIMS was also
given to Kashmir by the
opportunist BJP only for power
sake. He said that the Jammu
people faced sever health care
problems with utterly fragile
tertiary care system in Jammu
region.
He said that the people of this
region had to wait for months
together for availing admission
and treatment in AIIMS in
Delhi. He said that the
establishment of AIIMS in
Jammu was assured by
successive government with the
NDA government categorically
announcing the Rs. 1600 crores
project for Jammu during the
February budget presented by
the Union Finance Minister. He
regretted that the said AIIMS
project having been announced
for Jammu was meekly
surrendered by BJP to appease
its coalition partner only to
remain in power. Mr. Varinder
maintained that the people of
Jammu feel hesitant to go to
Kashmir for various reasons to
avail the treatment and in the
wake of BJP surrendering the
prestigious AIIMS project to
Kashmir the people of Jammu
region are feeling depressed,
distressed and cheated.
Strongly flaying the highly
submissive approach of BJP,
Thakur Virender Singh warned
to BJP to desist from its policies
of duplicity and decent and take
measures for restoration of
AIIMS back to Jammu region.
He said NPSU shall launch a
full throttle campaign against
the BJP for its betrayal of
Jammu people and for
establishment of AIIMS in
Jammu.
Others who were present in
the protest demonstration
included Rishi Badyal, Lovely
Singh, Bhupinder Singh, Kanu
Sharma, Asha Rani, Shubam
Jasrotia, Sumit Singh, Amit
Charak, Labu Ram, Rahul
Sharma etc.
Singh said that it is indeed a
welcome decision by Modi led
government and also is the
indicator of the seriousness on
part of the Union government
towards welfare and survival
of the farming community in
the country.
Karan Singh said that
criteria of 50 percent crop
damage
for
providing
compensation to affected
farmers has been reduced to 33
percent by Narendra Modi
government and it will
obviously help more farmers
to get compensation for their
crop loss.
He said that not only this,
other important decision is to
raise the parameters for
helping farmers. The amount
of compensation has been
increased to 1.5 times. If
earlier, any affected farmer
was getting Rs 100 as
compensation, now he will get
Rs 150, if it was Rs 1 lakh,
now it will Rs 1.5 lakh, which
means a 50 percent increase.
The Kissan Morcha
President said that the farmers
across the country have been
suffering from time to time on
account of natural calamities
and they had to run for months
together for even a single
penny as compensation, which
was very unfortunate but the
present Narendra Modi
government is well aware and
concerned for the farmers and
it is sure that they will not
have to suffer any more.
PM’s initiative on farmers uplift hailed
Jammu, April 9
BJP Kissan Morcha State
President Karan Singh, while
addressing a press conference
at party headquarters along
with
Morcha
General
Secretaries Kasturi Lal
Sharma and Raghuvir Singh
Manhas, said that for the first
time after Independence any
Prime Minister has understood
the problems and grievances
of the farmers with humane
approach and it received widespread appreciation from the
farming community.
Hailing
the
recent
announcement by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to
hike compensation for farmers
hit by unseasonal rains, Karan
establishment of the premier
Health Institute in Jammu.
Moreover, Dr. Jitender Singh
the Union MoS had also issued
a statement from the National
capital on the same day
thanking the Finance Minister
for having sanctioned AIIMS
for Jammu and Institute of
Film Production (IFP) for
Arunachal Pradesh.
Harsh Dev Singh maintained
that despite of announcements
having made by two Union
Ministers including the Union
Finance Minster on 28th Feb.
2015 at New Delhi it was
shocking to note as to how the
BJP partnered govt. in Jammu
and Kashmir state allowed the
prestigious project to be
transferred to Kashmir.
Balwant Singh Mankotia while
expressing his anger over the
discrimination meted out to the
Jammu region condemned the
BJP for playing the politics of
betrayal with the gullible
people of Jammu Pradesh by
retreating from its core issues
and promises made to the
electorate ahead of Assembly
elections last year.
Yashpal Kundal cautioned
the BJP to arise, awake and
start raising the issues of
Jammu Pradesh as the anger
and frustration is brewing and
seething among the masses.
He said that the nonrestoration of AIIMS to Jammu
would prove disastrous and
detrimental to the saffron
party. Moreover, the snatching
after conferring the highly
prestigious institute to Jammu,
BJP has been exposed for the
highly profane act in
surrendering AIIMS to the
whims of it coalition partner.
Other leaders who spoke in the
protest demonstration included
Naresh Sharma, Balram
Kundal, Tony Sharma,
Sarpanch Naginder Singh,
Sarpanch Romesh Singh,
Sarpanch Pritam Chand,
Sarpanch Bishan Dass,
Sarpanch Krishan Lal etc.
Sukhnandan inaugurates
SAHYOG camp
JAMMU, APRIL 9
Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Sukhnandan
Chowdhary today inaugurated in Marh block, a Disability Board
Camp organized by SAHYOG India in collaboration with
Directorate of Health Services Jammu and 10th Bn IRP.
Commandant 10th Bn IRP, SSP Vijay Kumar presided over
the function while SDM Marh, Mrs Sunaina Sharma was the
guest of honour. President SAHYOG India, Dr Ashwani Jojra
presented welcome address.
Among others BMO Marh, Dr Neeta Singh, SDPO Marh,
BDO Marh, Tehsildar and senior doctors of health department
were also present including Dr Arti Khajuira, Dr Madan
Gandotra, Dr Anirudh Koul, Dr Vinay Khajuria and Dr Pooja.
Addressing the gathering, the Minister appreciated the role of
SAHYOG president Dr Ashwani Jojra for providing services at
the doorstep of the disabled through his organization.
The Minister assured the organization that government will
help SAHYOG for providing benefit and its services to the
disabled as and when they require.
Sewa-II Power station
exceeds MOU targets
Jammu April 9
The 120 MW Sewa-II Power Station of NHPC, Mashka in the
state has exceeded its MOU targets set for ‘Excellent’ ratings
both in terms of Power Generation as well as Plant Availability
Factor (PAF) for the year 2014-15. At the end of Financial Year
2014-15, the Sewa–II Power station has generated 594.01 MUs
(Million Units) which is 14.23% higher than its target of 520
MUs.
The Power Station also recorded highest PAF among 18
Power Stations of NHPC i.e. 97.1% which is 11.6% higher than
our target of 87%.
It is also the highest generation since commissioning. Against
the scheduled generation of 2.88 MU per day Power Station has
generated 3.173 MU in one day i.e. all time highest till date since
commissioning. Power Station under Corporate Social
Responsibility Sustainable Development Scheme has spent
Rs.63 lacs. on different social activities for local public in this
financial year. Shri P.K. Langer, Chief Engineer-I/c Sewa-II
Power Station has credited the hard work and perseverance of all
officers and personnel of Sewa-II Power Station towards the
achievement of these milestones.
‘J&K RTI Movement’ opposes
composite townships proposal
Jammu April 9
J&K RTI Movement strongly lashes out at the centre and state
government over the proposal to set up a composite township for
migrant KPs.
Dr. Shiekh Ghulam Rasool , Chairman J&K RTI Movement
said that this move is nothing but a planted conspiracy to
promote communalism and hurt Kashmiriyat. Since partition of
India, Kashmiri Muslims and KPs have maintained communal
harmony and have set an example for other communities across
globe. This is an attempt to create the walls of hate between
KM’s and KP’s which will prove very dangerous for the integrity
of J & K .
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Restoration of bridge
over Nallah Sandran taken
up on priority: Padder
JAMMU, APRIL 09:
Minister of State for Public Health Engineering, Forest Mr.
Abdul Majid Paddar today informed the House that the restoration
work of bridge over Nallah Sandran connecting village
Rathergund and Gorinar in Dooru Constituency has been taken up
in hand on priority and likely to be completed within two weeks
time.
The Minister was replying to a Calling Attention Notice by Sofi
Yousuf on behalf the Minister for Roads and Buildings in the
Legislative Council today.
The Minister said that the Villages of Rathergund and Gorinar
are connected with a pipe crossing to cross over the Nallah
Sandran but it got washed away during the flood of September2014. He said the same crossing was restored by way of providing
a timer decked diversion under SDRF, but during the torrential
rains of March, 2015 the approaches of timber decked diversion
also got washed away.
Fire services week to be observed
from April 14 at Ramban
Katra, April 9
A day long counseling and
awareness programme was
organized at Durga College of
Education, Katra today by
District Employment &
Counseling Centre (DECC)
Reasi and Jammu & Kashmir
Entrepreneurship Development
Institute (JKEDI).
A series of seminars under
the guidance of AD DECC,
Reasi-Sulakshana Thakur were
organized for young students
during the program, in which
useful tips on selection of
subjects, development of study
skills, effective communication
and
the
employment
opportunities emerging in
different fields through
counseling were given in order
to enable them to make an
informed choice about their
career.
Counsellor DECC, Reasi Surjeet Kumar briefed the
candidates about the eligibility
conditions, examination pattern
and interview tips for these
posts. The youth were
motivated to prepare for
different competitive exams for
different jobs in addition to their
regular studies. They were
given detailed information on
the post advertised recently by
the J&K SSRB and were guided
to apply for these posts.
District Nodal Officer
JKEDI-Virpartap Singh Slathia,
also presented presentation on
various schemes run by JKEDI
for the educated youths to
become entrepreneurs like seed
capital fund scheme, Himayat,
youth start up loan scheme.
redressal of all outstanding
issues.
The dignitaries present on
the occasion were N Neihsial,
IDAS, PCDA (NC), Jammu, Dr
G.D Pungle, IDAS, PCDA
(Pensions), Shri Ajai Mishra,
IDAS, Jt. CGDA, New Delhi,
Maj Gen (Retd) G.S Jamwal,
president J&K Ex servicemen
League Jammu, Brig (Retd)
R S Langeh, Director Sainik
Welfare and many others civil,
military and police officials.
Official from the three
Services HQrs, Defence
Account Department, Public
Sector Banks and other civil
executive authority were also
present.
Speaking on the occasion,
Shri GD Pungle, IDAS, PCDA
(Pensions) outlined the various
initiatives taken by DPA in the
sanction and disbursement of
Defence pension. He stated
that there are more than 25
Lakh Defence pensioners in
India, showing the post 6th
CPC pensionary entitlement to
all the defence pensioners
including defence civilians
who
retired prior to
01.01.2006. The Sangam
project for issue of
Corrigendum Pension Payment
(PPOs) has enabled PCDA
(Pensions) Allahabad to issue
over 16 lakhs revised PPOs in a
time bound manner. He also
mentioned about opening of a
Pension Call Centre at
Allahabad with a Toll Free
number 1800-180-5321, which
pensioners can now use for
seeking clarification and
information about their
pensions.
Defence pension adalat held
Udhampur April 9
The 129th Defence Pension
Adalat (DPA) was held today
for redressal of grievances of
Defence pensioners, including
defense civilians residing in the
state of J&K. The DPA was
inaugurated by Lt Gen DS
Hooda, GOC-in-C (Army
Commander)
Northern
Command.
Speaking on the occasion
Army Commander highlighted
that, the event will provide a
composite platform to the Exservicemen (ESM) and Veer
Naris residing in J&K to
redress their wide ranging
issues related to pension and
other benefits. The Army
Commander exhorted the ESM
and Veer Naris to optimally
utilize the facilities for
BGSBU organises expert talks in CBS
Rajouri, April 9:
A series of talks were
organised by Centre for
Biodiversity Studies, Baba
Ghulam Shah Badshah
University on understanding
the structure, reproduction and
importance of bryophytes and
gymnosperms in which experts
from Jammu University were
invited for the talks.
Following directions from
Vice Chancellor, Prof IA
Hamal, and Centre for
Biodiversity Studies of the
University invited Prof. Yash
Pal Shamra, Head Department
of Botany, University of Jammu
and Prof. Anima Langer,
Former Dean, Life Sciences,
University of Jammu for
delivering the talks.
In his talk, Prof. Yash Pal
Shamra, Head Department of
Botany, University of Jammu,
highlighted the structural
diversity, reproduction and
economic importance of
gymnosperms, the nakedseeded plants.
After giving a general
overview, he deliberated on the
morphology and anatomy of
vegetative and reproductive
organs of two interesting orders
Ephedrales
and
Welwitschiales.
He also gave practical
demonstration on various
morphological and anatomical
characteristics
of
gymnosperms,
including
variations in the male and
female cones of Pinus, Cycas,
Thuja,
and
Cupressus,
morphology of long and dwarf
shoots of Ginkgo biloba, and
basic techniques of section
cutting and double staining
procedure in gymnosperms.
This was followed by a series
of lectures by Prof. Anima
Langer, Former Dean, Life
Sciences, University of Jammu.
Prof. Langer enlightened the
PG students of Botany about
general characteristics of
Ravinder Raina,BJP MLA from
Nowshera has castigated the
communal and anti national stand
of separatists,who have opposed
the rehabilitation of religiously
cleansed Kashmiri Pandits in
Kashmir. In a statement issued
today he said," Kashmiri Pandits
are the citizens of the state of
jammu and Kashmir and they have
birth right over the land of
Kashmir.No power on earth can
stop them from being rehabilitated
in their homeland with full
constitutional guarantees provided
to all citizens of the Indian nation.
Separatists like Yasin Malik who
are responsible for killing the
Kashmiri Pandits and making
them refugees in their own state
and country have no right to
oppose the rehabilitation of the
community. He and other
separatists of his ilk are anti
nationals and have waged a war
against India .By opposing the
right to life and limb of minority
community that is committed to
uphold the Indian nation is open
sedition. All nationalist forces are
united to expose the communal
In order to educate the students of educational institutions and
to aware the general public with the view to minimize the losses
caused due to the fire hazards across the district, J&K Fire and
Emergency Services department is going to observe “Fire Service
Week” from 14th April to 20th April 2015.
During the week programmes would be organised on the theme
of this year’s slogan “Adopt Safe House Keeping Practices and
Approved Electrical Appliances”.
The fire services awareness programme are generally organised
so that the lives and property of the inhabitants of the vicinity can
be saved from the fire hazards and natural calamity. All the Zonal
Education officers, Principals, Head Masters, Block Officers,
Police Officers and PRIs shall participate in fire awareness
programme and ensure that most of officials, staff members and
students attend the awareness programmes.
Handicapped beneficiaries
get scooties
RAMBAN, APRIL 9
District Development Commissioner Ramban, Farooq Shah
Bukhari today distributed Scotties among the two handicapped
beneficiaries at DC office complex Ramban.
Among others, District Social Welfare Officer Ramban,
Varunjeet Singh Charak and large number of people were present
on the occasion.
DSWO apprised that Scooties have been provided to the
beneficiaries who are handicapped with more than 60 % physical
deformity and feel difficulty in moving from one place to another
place.
DDC while handing over the Scooties to the beneficiaries
namely Mohd Arif katoch Student and Prem Nath Tailor master
told that people should come forward from all walks of life
especially the downtrodden for taking benefits of the Social
welfare and other schemes run by the Central and State
government for their upliftment. The beneficiaries thanked DDC
for taking into account their genuine requests and for providing the
Scooties which would help them in a large scale in future.
Congress a formidable
force to reckon with: Mir
Jammu, April 9
Addressing a mammoth party
worker’s meeting at Dooru
today, JK PCC President G.A.
Mir said Congress is a
formidable force to reckon with
and asked the workers to further
rejuvenate the Party from Booth
Level .It was the first meeting
of G.A. Mir in Dooru
Constituency after taking over
as President JK PCC. He was
received by Party Workers at
Banihal and was given a
rousing reception on way from
Banihal to venue of the meeting
at Dooru.
While launching a scathing
attack on PDP-BJP for
exploiting the religious and
regional sentiments of the
people during the recent
elections, he said both the
parties will have to explain to
the people of Jammu and
Kashmir their common ground
for entering into a coalition.
He strongly lashed out at
both BJP and PDP for
misleading the people for the
sake of power. He said PDP got
votes to stop and defeat the 44+
mission of BJP, but the reality is
that PDP being power hungry
entered into coalition with BJP.
This is worst ever opportunist
politics. Their only common
goal was to secure power by one
way or the other. He expressed
confidence that people of the
state will give befitting reply to
both PDP and BJP and will
certainly teach them a lesson in
coming days.
Addressing the gathering
(Mir) exhorted the workers to
remain steadfast in serving the
people to the best of their
ability, as Congress is an
instrument of Service to the
people and is committed fully
for development of all the three
regions of the state and people
and it (Congress) will never
compromise on the interests of
people and will leave no stone
unturned in mitigating their
suffering.
He said Congress is a vibrant
situation in Jammu and
Kashmir and has delivered
enough, He further assured
people that it (Congress) has
fought and will continue to fight
for safeguarding the interests of
the people, as people’s concern
is among the top priorities of the
Party.
Those who addressed the
gathering included Mohd
Anwar Bhat, Farooq Andrabi,
Hilal Shah, Dr. Uma Shankar
Paday, Pranav Shogotra,
Shaheena Nadaf,
Farooq
Malpuri, Abdul Rashid Lone,
Mushtaq Ahmad Magray, Ali
Mohd Mantoo, Mohd Iqbal
Ahanger, Aijaz Mehar and
Others.
byrophytes, the amphibians of
plant kingdom. She acquainted
the students about the
morphology and anatomical
diversity of gametophytes and
sporophytes, vegetative and
sexual reproduction and life
history patterns in Bryopsida.
The 2 days lecture series was
followed by hands on training
on the morphology and
reproductive structure of some
important mosses.
Prof. G. H. Dar, Director,
Centre for Biodiversity Studies,
stressed that the prime
objective of this programme
was to acquaint our students
with basic concepts and
understanding of structural
botany and its importance in
present-day teaching and
research in Botany.
In his message, Vice
Chancellor Prof IA Hamal has
pressed upon all the
departments to organise similar JK NTUF to hold protest
talks in their departments for
grooming the scholars.
Doda, April 09
Jammu & Kashmir National Trade Union Front NTUF is going
to hold protest on 11th April to press the authorities to fulfill the
long pending demands of the employees.
District president JK NTUF Doda Com Barket Ali in a press
and jihadi face of these anti statement issued here today said that the government has failed to
nationals."
fulfill the long pending demands of the employees and there is no
He further said ,"BJP will leave other option than to protest. A massive protest is being held on
no stone unturned in upholding the 11th April press upon the authorities so as to consider the main
integrity and territorial integrity of demands on priority he said.
Indian nation in the legislative
Other leaders of the union present on the occasion include
Assembly where the overground Jagdish Singh 'Saleem Wani 'Nazir Ahmed Zargar Kewal and
proxies of the communal Mohd Ashraf. Major demands listed by the trade union include 1
separatists of Kashmir like Regularization Policy for Casual Lab ours of all departments and
Engineer rasid are imposing the immediate regularization orders of leftover DRWs under
anti national agenda by sabotaging SRO64.2.
the rehabilitation and return of the
Release of pending wages of need based casual lab our of the
kashmiri pandits who were forced various
departments including Anganwadi Workers and helpers of
to live as refugees in their own state ICD 4Seniority
of helpers of Social Forestry by fixed from the
and country by these anti national
date they were regularized as helpers.
elements.
Raina supports dignified return of KPs
Nowshera, Apr 09
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NERPAP to hold booth
level camps Sunday
Reasi, April 9
National Electoral Rolls
Purification and Authentication
Programme (NERPAP) will be
holding camps in district Reasi
on April 12 as per the directions
of Election Commission of
India. This was informed by
District Election Officer Reasi
Sushma Chauhan. In this
connection, all the BLOs of
Assembly constituencies of
Reasi district have been asked
to remain present on the
scheduled date at respective
polling station said Chauhan.
Chauhan added that the
objective of the programme is to
facilitate the Electors during the
programme to get their names
and other particulars corrected
by filling the requisite forms to
ensure
purified
and
authenticated Electoral Rolls.
The voters with multiple
registrations in the electoral
rolls can come forward to delete
their names.
She further added that the
electoral can link their Aadhar
Numbers with the EPICS
through SMS by using the
prescribed format besides
Electors Image in the Photo
Electoral Roll whatever is
required.
The Electoral can submit
their Mobile Number and Email address to ERO to get
service link issuance of voter
slip or other election related
information.
Chauhan appealed to the
electoral of district to
participate in this special drive
on April 12, where booth level
officers will accept forms from
people who wish to submit the
form comprising details of
Aadhar card and EPIC.
was noticed by the inspection
team.
Later on, after market
inspection an awareness
programme on eradication of
Child Labour was organized in
main market Doda which was
attended by the local
shopkeepers, employers and a
handsome gathering of people.
Tehsildar Doda Tanveer
Ahmed was the chief guest in
the programme and he urged
upon the people to adhere to the
provisions of the Act. He also
highlighted the ethical aspect of
the burning issue of Child
Labour and appealed the people
to invoke their conscience and
take a firm stand against child
labour and help in saving the
child hood of the Children.
Assistant
Labour
Commissioner Doda Tabish
Saleem highlighted various
legal provisions pertaining to
child labour and called for a
collective approach and efforts
from all spheres of society for
eradication of Child Labour in
the District. He said similar
exercises would be done in
other parts of the District also
and said the motto of the
programme is to ensure a “Child
Labour
Free
District”.
Wherever instances of Child
Labour would be found, strict
legal action shall be ensured, he
added.
information as per prescribed
format to planning section
within a day. He directed the
officers concerned to provide
the photograph evidences of the
various works done by them and
submitted the same to the
District Informatics officer, NIC
for detailed record and
references.
Later, Jamwal also reviewed
the status of different roads of
R&B and PMGSY departments
in the district. He directed the
executive engineers of PMGSY
and R&B to gear up their
machinery and field staff to
open every blocked road due to
recent incessant rain so that
people residing in the far flung
areas may not suffer any
hardship.
Among others, Additional
Deputy Commissioner,. Angrej
Singh Rana, Joint Director
Planning, Rakesh Singh
Jamwal,
Assistant
Commissioner Revenue, Rajeev
Magotra,
Assistant
Commissioner Development,
Pawan Parihar, Executive
Engineer PMGSY & R&B,
Chief Education Office and
District Officers of various
departments were also present
in the meeting.
family is Rs.4000/- whereas a
Jammu Hindu Migrant family
is given only Rs.1600/- per
month. Each Kashmiri Pundit
Migrant is getting all other
benefits like medical care,
schooling, government jobs
and free admission in the
professional colleges in the
country. Kashmiri Pundit
family has been provided
some kind of respectable and
reasonable shelter wherever
they have settled in Jammu or
in any other part of the
country.
The Jammu Migrants, on
the other hand, are literally
begging in the streets without
any job or work. About 40
boys were employed as daily
wagers in the police but they
were shunted out years back.
Not a single Jammu Migrant
has been provided free
schooling facility nor even
free medical treatment and
there is no question of any
work even as a daily wager.
The Supreme Court of
India in a writ petition filed
by J&K National Panthers
Party had directed the State
and the Union governments
to pay the relief arrears to the
Jammu Migrants in 2007 at
least Rs.21 crores at that
time.
The JKNPP has been
fighting this case in the
Supreme Court and a
contempt petition is pending
in the Jammu Wing of J&K
High Court since 2009. Both
the Union government and
the State government have
ignored the Jammu Migrants
treating them worst than
animals.
Bhim Singh wondered that
the Union government
particularly the Prime
Minister, Modi has directed
for creating a separate
colony/colonies with full
security etc. for the Kashmiri
Migrants whereas the
governments have not even
mentioned a word on the
Jammu Migrants though they
are not asking for a separate
colony or any separate
homeland. Nor Jammu
Migrants are asking for any
land for residential purpose
and they were prepared to go
back to their homes provided
the Central government/State
government is prepared to
rebuild/restructure
their
homes/houses which were
destroyed by the terrorists.
them during elections, they have
started blaming media for
exposing their promises.
"It's not for the first time that
BJP leaders make a remark but
such remarks have become
fashion among the party leaders
in order to divert the attention of
public, Kundan added.
“Being a responsible
authority in government, they
should think before saying
something wrong which causes
tension in the community" said
Ajay Kumar National delegate
NSUI.
Avijot Singh General
Secretary NSUI lambasted over
V K Singh and said that attack
on media is the attack of
democracy of Nation and such
type attack on nation's
democracy is not tolerable.
Others prominent NSUI
activists those who present in
the protest included Kamal
Mangotra State Gen, Nishant
Gupta, Ranjot Singh, Abhishek
Dogra Nsui Secretaries, Sahil
Singh
Langeh
State
Coordinator, Sunny Parihar
District President NSUI Jammu,
Vishal Kotwal ex President
NSUI Doda, Prakash Singh
Dadwal NSUI President
Kishtwar and others.
Surprise inspection to check child labour
DODA, APRIL 9
As a part to check the menace
of Child Labour and to ensure
proper implementation of Child
Labour (P&R) Act a team of
officials headed by Assistant
Labour Commissioner Doda,
Tabish Saleem accompanied by
a team of police officials today
inspected all the shops and other
business establishments of
Doda city to check any instance
of child labour.
The Continuous and regular
market inspections of the
Labour Department helped in
keeping the menace under
check and yielded better results
as no instance of Child Labour
ADDC convenes DVMC meeting
UDHAMPUR, APRIL 9
Additional
District
Development Commissioner,
Udhampur, Ajay Singh Jamwal
convened District Vigilance and
M o n i t o r i n g
Committee(DVMC) meeting to
review the process of different
centrally sponsored Schemes at
Conference Hall here today.
During the meeting, ADDC
enquired about the submission
of requisite information of
achievements under CSS by the
different departments. He
directed all the concerned
officers to submit the
Bhim Singh questions
fate of Jammu Migrants
Jammu, April 9
Bhim Singh, Chief Patron
of National Panthers Party
reacting strongly over the
return and rehabilitation of
Kashmiri Pundit Migrants in
the Valley has questioned the
Modi government in the
Centre
and
BJP-PDP
government in J&K on the
fate of about 5000 Hindu
migrant families who also
were forced to migrate from
their homes by the majority
community from various
parts of Jammu region and
have been languishing in
different areas and stinking
camps in Talwara and other
places.
He welcomed the initiative
for the rehabilitation of the
Kashmiri Pundits back in
their homes in the Valley with
full financial backing and
security but asked the Union
& State governments why
discrimination with the
Jammu Migrants? Jammu
Migrant (each individual) is
given Rs.400 per month relief
whereas a Kashmiri Migrant
is given Rs.1000/- per month.
On the other hand maximum
relief to the Kashmiri Pundit
NSUI stages protest against
Gen V K Singh’s remarks
Jammu, April 9
The National Students’ Union
of India (NSUI) held a strong
protest against Gen VK Singh
remarks against media.
The NSUI activists led by
Neeraj Kundan State President
Nsui J&K raised the slogan
against the BJP and burnt the
effigy of Gen V K Singh near
Exhibition Grounds here today.
While condemning the
remark of V K Singh over
media, Kundan said the remarks
shows the mentality of BJP.
When the party has failed to
fulfill the promises made by
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drives' status
Kathua 9 April:
JAMMU, APRIL 9
Minister for Health & Medical
Education, ARI and Trainings,
Lal Singh today inaugurated 2day first Border Festival at
Hiranagar which attracted more
than 12,000 people on first day.
Legislators, Mr. Rajeev
Jasrotia and Mr. Kuldeep Raj,
District
Development
Commissioner, Kathua, Dr
Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, DIG
BSF R S Gurung, SSP Kathua
Neeva Jain, Ex-MLAs Mr.
Durga Dass and Mr. Girdhari Lal
Chalotra besides senior officers
of district administration,
officers of BSF and Army
including a large number of men
and women from the border belt
were also present on the
occasion.
NYK launches
awareness
campaign
Kathua, April 9:
In
continuation
of
Punarjagran campaign, Nehru
Yuva Kendra, Kathua has
launched 2nd Rath of Publicity
from Hiranagar. Ch. Lal Singh,
Minister of Health and Medical
Education, Sh. Kuldeep Raj,
MLA, Hiranagar and Sh. Rajiv
Jasrotia, MLA, Kathua flag off
the Rath during the Boarder
Festival, Hiranagar and
appreciated the role of NYK in
spreading the awareness and
educating the public about the
flagship programmes of the
government of India and
sensitizing & organizing youth
and public to play active role in
eradicating social evils through
Punarjagran campaign.
Nehru Yuva Kendra, Kathua
also placed a stall on
Punarjagran in Boarder Festival
and educate & brief the youth
about the aims and objectives
of the Punarjagran Campaign
by Som Datt Zard, DYC and
NYC
Volunteers
and
distributed the compendium of
the employment schemes of
Govt.
The 2-day border festival has
been organised to woo tourists
from across the state and outside
providing them opportunity to
see International Border and
areas along the border. A van on
awareness regarding State and
Centrally Sponsored Schemes
were also launched on the
occasion which will visit 100
villages to spread awareness
among masses.
District administration has
also organised border safari and
border home stay for tourists
which has got tremendous
response from visitors.
The Minister and MLAs
inspected the 104 stalls installed
in the Border Festival by
different State Governments. He
also interacted with the official
and volunteers.
Ch Lal Singh expressed
happiness over diverse fields
brought together on one platform
providing opportunities to all
especially youth and women of
the border areas of the Kathua
district. Addressing a large
gathering, the Minister has said
that border areas of the Kathua
district would be developed into
a mega Border tourist destination
for pilgrim tourists visiting Mata
Vaishno Devi and other holy
shrines of Jammu division. He
said that Government endeavour
is to promote varied tourism
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activities in Jammu division like
other parts of the state adding
this would not only boost local
economy but would also be a
source of inspiration for coming
generation. The Minister
highlighted the importance of
Border Festival in showcasing
border area of Kathua district as
a tourist destination instead of
war zone. He expressed hope
that different initiatives launched
by administration will harvest
rich dividends for peace and
development in border area apart
from providing employment.
To review the status of
ongoing membership drive of
BJP in District Kathua, State
incharge BJP of Jammu and
Kashmir and Rajaya Sabah
member Avinash Rai Khana
convened a meeting at Kathua
and later addressed a press
conference.
While addressing a press
conference, Khana told that
District Kathua is hub of BJP
workers since long and despite
this the membership drive will
be extended at the door steps of
people of the District Kathua.
Answering to multiple
questions raised by media
persons
in
connection
development, Khana said the
development of tourism and
basic infrastructure across the
state in general and Kathua in
particular are priority of state
coalition government.
He said that in J&K state
coalition government of PDP
and BJP is formed as per
"Common
Minimum
Programme" working for public
interest and its all round
development so every section of
the J&K population have a great
trust and faith in this holy
coalition. For the establishment
of peaceful, prosperous
atmosphere in J&K state for the
3 police officials suspended
Kathua, April 9:
Three police personnel including two SPO were suspended after
being found as culprit of committing a unholy act at a temple of
Mata Chandla in Basohli town on Thursday. In response, an
aggressive protest demonstration was come up and later entire
town had observed complete shutdown.
The priest at temple who was performing pooja was also beaten
up brutally by these three police personnel. The priest narrated the
whole episode and told that these three police personnel namely
ASI Satya Parkash, SPO Amar Singh and Ubrsu Din entered in the
temple with bearing leather shoes and belts with weapons and
started to thrash the priest and forced him to take him in a vehicle.
Despite this these three police personnel also lit a cigarette and
rubbed it with the statue of Mata Chandla Devi Ji.
The protest was led by college students were also joined by all
the residents of town. Taking serious notice on the incident, the
SDM and police recommended the immediate suspension and
even arrest these culprits who tried to hurt the religious sentiments
of the people.
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PARNALA BILLAWAR KATHUA
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3rd
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4th
1200
5th
1200
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1500
7th
1500
8th
1500
9th
2000
10th
2000
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Fees
150
160
170
200
200
230
250
270
350
350
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Fund
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
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6
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30
15
6
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6
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15
8
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30
15
6
6
6
6
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6
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50
15
6
6
6
6
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6
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15
8
300
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50
15
6
6
6
6
15
6
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15
8
350
8. 5th Primary 210
50
154
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6
6
6
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6
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15
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JAMMU | FRIDAY| APRIL 10 | 2015
Rs 61566 imposed as fine
by Comm Tax Authority
Kathua, April 9
The cops of commercial taxes check post Lakhanpur today
intercepted a Wagonr bearing no Ch44 1816 at yard point of
Lakhanpur and found huge quantity of mobile accessories and
imposed penalty of Rs 61,566 and security of Rs 10261. The
whole operation was done under the supervision of Deputy
Commissioner Commercial Taxes P K Bhat,C T O Vinay Samotra
,the other members of the team were Insp Arya Vir Singh Jamwal
,Sub Insp Surinder Singh Bagal and guards Barkat Hussain, Mohd
Farooq .
SHIV BAL NIKETAN ACADEMY
PREYA PLAKH, BASOHLI KATHUA
Fee Structure for the Session 2015-16
concrete and comprehensive
development of the JK people,
the union as well as State
government is determined and
commuted.
In his press conference,
Khana also replied on question
of ruthless exploitation of "Ravi
River" by illegal mining, that no
further extraction of material
from Ravi River would be
allowed and strict actions are
final to take against the culprits.
He admitted that "Ravi
River" has totally been ravaged
by the illegal miners in which
sand and stone mafia are
involved at peak level with
political shelter against which
the government will never adopt
liberal and loose handled
approach.
And so far as the membership
drive is concerned in Kathua it
is warm greetings to all the BJP
workers that membership not
only in Kathua but across the
country is laying in a leading
stage.
He also promised to put up
the cases of BJP's MPs of J&K
of becoming unresponsive
towards their voters and will
urge them to stand with their
voters of their respective
constituencies so that the
grievances of people could be
addressed easily.
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6 Opinion
THE NORTHLINES
Jammu | Friday | April 10, 2015
@ Thought of the day: "Our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius
The Northlines Editorial
The Link
West journey
E
xcept for his participation in multilateral
forums such as the Brics (Brazil, Russia,
India, China and South Africa), the G20
and the UN General Assembly, and his
bilateral engagement with the United States,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spent
much of his first year in office rejuvenating
India's ties with its immediate neighbours and
the regional powers in Asia. Now, his threenation tour will see him change track — from
revamping the Look East policy to boosting
the Link West policy. On Thursday, Mr Modi
will head to France for a three-day visit. This
will be followed by
Mr Modi will head
a two-day trip to
to France for a
Germany starting
three-day visit. This April 12, after
will be followed by which he heads
to Canada for
a two-day trip to
the last leg of his
Germany starting
trip from April 14
April 12, after which to April 16. The
Minister has
he heads to Canada Prime
already interacted
for the last leg of his with the leaders
trip from April 14 to of these countries
April 16. The PM has at different
international
already interacted
forums, but this
with the leaders of is the first time
that he will be
these countries at
bilateral
international forums, doing
tours in Europe
but this is the first and Canada.
The focus will
time that he will
be on improving
be doing bilateral
economic ties,
tours in Europe and encouraging
Canada.
commerce and
bringing foreign investment to India.
In France, the three major issues on the
agenda will be defence manufacturing, the
Rafale deal and civil nuclear trade. France
is India's largest defence supplier within the
EU, and the two have a long-standing military
and strategic relationship. Mr Modi will seek
to take that partnership to the next level
by pushing it through the prism of Make in
India, his flagship domestic manufacturing
programme which has a strong defence
production component. But this will be easier
said than done, as the Rafale deal stands
proof. In 2012, the French company, Dassault
Aviation, won the bid to supply 126 Rafale
fighter jets to India. However, even after
three years of negotiations, the deal has
not yet been finalised and it is unlikely that
papers will be signed when Mr Modi meets
French President François Hollande. But a
political boost from the top will help push the
negotiations ahead. This also holds true for
cooperation in the nuclear energy sector. In
2010, the French company, Areva, got the
contract to set up a total of six reactors of
1,650 MW each at Jaitapur in Maharashtra.
The project remains stuck at the negotiating
table.
In Germany, the focus will be on Hannover
Messe, the world's
Modi will be looking
largest industrial
trade fair which
at hi-tech German
Mr Modi will be
investment for
inaugurating along
some of his pet
with German
projects involving
Chancellor Angela
Merkel. India is the
infrastructure
partner country and
development, clean
will be presenting
energy, affordable
itself under the
Make in India
housing and smart
banner. Hannover
cities
Messe is a great
opportunity for India to deepen trade ties with
Germany, its largest trading partner in the
EU, and market itself to the rest of the world.
Prime Minister Modi will be looking at hitech German investment for some of his pet
projects involving infrastructure development,
clean energy, affordable housing and smart
cities. The last segment in Canada will also
have a strong economic component with a
focus on attracting Canadian investment,
pushing through the comprehensive economic
partnership agreement which has been stuck
for years now, and covering the last mile in
nuclear energy talks. The Canada visit will
also cater to the large Indian diaspora in that
country. Additionally, since the Prime Minister
will also be visiting the Humber Bay Park
memorial in Toronto to pay his respects to
the victims of 1984 Kanishka bombing, it will
be interesting to see if he brings up the issue
of the Khalistani terrorists who seem to have
found a safe haven in Canada.
Terror should not be allowed to revisit
Jammu and Kashmir
Jaibans Singh
A
spurt in terrorist
violence in the
Kashmir valley
over the last
few days has
reopened the debate on the
security situation in Jammu
and Kashmir.
A barbaric terrorist attack in
Shopian district of Kashmir
on April 6 led to the death of
three unarmed policemen.
On the same day, two more
attacks on policemen in
different parts of the valley
left at least one police officer,
Ghulam Mustafa, critically
injured, among others.
On March, 20 and 21,
terrorists carried out two
attacks in the Jammu region,
the first on a police station
in Kathua and the second on
a military establishment at
Samba. Four policemen lost
their lives in the first attack.
Chief Minister Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed believes
that mollycoddling extremist
and separatist forces and
Pakistan will open doors for
peace in the state. So strong
is his belief that his first steps
on assuming office were in
this direction, regardless of
the possibility of upsetting
an already fragile coalition of
his party with the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP).
He also ordered the release
of militant leader Masarat
Alam from police custody
and called for talks with
Pakistan, and has now called
for a phased removal of the
Armed Forces Special Powers
Act (AFSPA) from the state.
There is a widespread belief
that Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
has advocated a dovish policy
in the initial euphoria of
taking over as chief minister.
In any case, it makes good
political sense to offer a
hand of friendship to all on
forming a government. It
was expected that he would
carry out a course correction
in policy in the wake of a
belligerent response to his
offer by both the terrorists
and other divisive forces.
What came as a surprise
was the refusal of the new
chief minister to look at
the security picture in a
pragmatic and logical manner
even after the terrorist
attack. He stood firm in
his resolve to push for his
declared agenda.
The Pakistan-based terrorist
leaders would have surmised
that the passive policy of
the chief minister would
negatively impact the morale
of the security forces. Direct
attacks on them at this
juncture would further dent
their self confidence and
make them vulnerable.
Buoyed by the placid policy
of the state government, the
terrorists, under directions
from their masters across the
border, moved decisively to
establish their writ.
The recent attacks in the
valley send out a clear
message of their intent
and capacity to attack at
will across the state. It is
also quite evident that the
terrorist cadre operating in
the state has been specifically
instructed to target the
security forces, especially the
Jammu and Kashmir Police.
It is reported that the
four policemen killed in
Shopian were unarmed. The
army standard operating
procedures dictate that
vehicles will move in pairs
and with proper armed
escort. If the police had
followed a similar procedure,
the policemen would not
have lost their lives.
It seems that the policy
of minimum force being
enunciated by the existing
leadership is leading to
complacency within the
police force to the extent
of disregarding mandatory
precautions. A second
reason for moving unarmed
and in singles could be the
lack of weapons, vehicles and
equipment. If the latter is the
case, then the question arises
– if the Jammu and Kashmir
Police does not have the
infrastructure to protect itself,
how can it be expected to
protect the people if the army
moves back to the barracks
on revocation of the AFSPA?
The chief minister, instead of
making political statements
on the AFSPA and other
such matters, should be
restructuring the operating
procedures of his police
force. He is, after all, the
Chairman of the Unified
Command and the Jammu
and Kashmir Police functions
under his direct control.
Under the aforementioned
circumstances, one cannot
find fault in the agitation
expressed by the BJP
Members of Legislative
Assembly (MLA) when
their chief minister chose
to speak of revocation
of AFSPA a day after
the terror attacks in the
Kashmir valley.
BJP MLA, Ravinder Raina,
very rightly stated that
the attacks are indicative
of the security situation
in Kashmir being far from
normal. His demand for
a motion to condemn
Pakistan also stands to
reason.
While commenting on the
statement given in the state
Legislative Assembly by
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed,
Congress spokesperson
Abhishek Singhvi said,
“Unilateral declarations like
these are a recipe for disaster
and should be avoided."
One cannot but agree with
this comment. The Congress
can say all this because it
did not succumb to pressure
in the matter of security of
Jammu and Kashmir even
when its coalition partner
and chief minister, Omar
Abdullah, made similar
demands of partial revocation
of AFSPA.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
should take cognizance of
the opinions of other political
parties (including the National
Conference now) the security
forces, the defense analysts
and the academicians.
None are in favour of a hasty
change in the security model
in the state.
In case he wants a
revocation of the AFSPA
and other legislations, he
must build a consensus,
and that too, after creating
a conducive atmosphere on
ground. As a first step, he
must concentrate his entire
energy towards ensuring the
development of the state
and on strengthening of its
security apparatus.
Chief Minister Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed is a
seasoned politician and must
realise the gravity of the
situation, and handle it with
sensitivity. He must ensure
that the hard work and
sacrifice of the people of the
region and the security forces
in fighting and eliminating the
curse of terrorism does not
go in vain.
More importantly, he
must not do anything that
even remotely creates the
possibility of a revisit of the
terrible terrorist violence
that the people of Kashmir
have been witness to and
subjected to.
(Jaibans Singh is Editor
– defenceinfo.com. @
jaibanssingh)
Time veggies joined the Indian non-veg mainstream!
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T
In a country like India, it is clear that respecting religions -- in politics
or in the kitchen -- is disastrous
Amberish K Diwanji
he Bharatiya Janata Party
government in Maharashtra
has banned the selling of
beef derived from oxen
and bullocks. Many in the
Hindutva brigade have rejoiced at this
decision, seeing it as another step
towards a Hindu Rashtra, or at least
towards a step where Hindu values are
made supreme.
The argument used is that since Hindus
are in a majority, their sentiments must
be respected. Hindus revere the cow.
Ergo: Muslims, Christians, Dalits, etc,
should not consume beef.
Simple as it sounds, it actually creates
more problems. There are two aspects
here. The first is secularism, and the
second is respecting the majority view
and/or sentiments.
Let us take the first criterion. India is
a secular country. If the BJP or any
of its cohorts want to change the
Constitution, they have to achieve that
kind of majority to do so, with all its
inherent consequences (in my opinion,
if India stops being secular, it won't last
beyond this century).
Secularism, in the Western concept,
means we keep religion and State
separate and distinct from each other.
In India, over time, it has come to
mean treating all religions equally.
The Indian concept is inherently more
dangerous, because it is impossible to
treat all religions equally given that all
religions have practices that no modern
civilised State can follow or allow.
For instance, let us take the banning of
certain foods. Many Hindus claim that
the cow is holy and hence killing cows is
offensive to their sentiments and should
be banned. This ban on killing cows has
now been widened in Maharashtra and
some other states to include a ban on
killing oxen and bullocks, as part of the
same 'sentiment.'
The problem is if we are to respect
sentiments when it comes to diet, will
we tomorrow ban the selling of all nonvegetarian food because it offends the
sentiments of Jains and some sections
of Hindus (Brahmins, etc)? (While
defending the beef ban in the Bombay
high court on Monday, April 6, Advocate
General Sunil Manohar told the court
that the state may consider banning the
slaughter of other animals too, which
forced Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
to clarify in the state assembly the next
day that no such ban was on the anvil.)
This isn't as far-fetched as it sounds:
In Mumbai, in various housing societies
with a Gujarati/Jain majority, nonvegetarians are openly discriminated
against and not sold apartments for fear
of bringing home non-vegetarian food.
Then we must also consider the
sentiments of the Muslim community,
India's second largest community. Islam
proscribes alcohol, so why not ban the
sale of alcohol?
Drinking alcohol is far more damaging
to the social fabric than eating beef, so
surely there is a case here.
And going further, Sikhism forbids
smoking tobacco so it is surely time to
ban tobacco which everyone knows is
truly dangerous.Jains don't like onion
and garlic, so time to stop eating and
growing them.And if tomorrow some
new religion says drinking milk hurts
our cows, surely we should stop that
too.The above paragraph would actually
be funny were it not so tragic and
appear probable. In a country like India,
it is clear that respecting religions -- in
politics or in the kitchen -- is disastrous.
Religion can dictate our individual diet;
it can never dictate State policy. That
is why the framers of the Constitution
sought to keep religion and religious
beliefs at a distance, the further the
better. By banning the killing of
oxen and bullocks, the Maharashtra
government has narrowed the
difference in the name of majority
sentiment.
This too has pitfalls. No doubt in
a democracy, majorities matter. It
was the decision of the majority
that allows the BJP to rule India and
Maharashtra today, and no matter
how much some may abhor this view,
it must be respected.
Fair enough, but when the majority
starts deciding what we may or may
not eat, we have to first ask: Who or
what constitutes the majority?
India is home to perhaps the
largest number of races, ethnicities,
languages, religions, etc. No country
can even come close. Take ethnicity,
for instance: There is no single
ethnic majority (the term Indo-Aryan
consists of numerous ethnicities
within).
In languages, Hindi as the first
language of India is spoken by, at
best, about 35 per cent of India, and
less if dialects are listed separately.
There is no single dominant caste in
the country, though in states some
castes do dominate.
Only in terms of religion does
India have a huge majority. Hindus
comprise over 80 per cent of India.
The second largest religion, Islam,
is a distant 13 per cent. The gap is
sufficient for some Hindus to insist
that Hindu beliefs be respected.
It is for this reason that over the
years, though the Constitution did
not ban the slaughter of cows,
governments fearful of losing power
found ways to respect this sentiment
(via the Constitutional loophole that
allows the preservation of milch
animals). But if the sentiments
of a majority of Indians must be
respected by all others, then let us
look at this question in another way.
The majority of Indians (including
Hindus) eat non-vegetarian food.
Then surely the minority vegetarian
Hindus must respect this sentiment
and consume non-vegetarian food.
Should we as a country even
allow vegetarianism among a
minority, when such a sentiment is
disrespectful of the majority view
that relishes eating mutton, chicken,
and fish! It is time for vegetarian
Brahmins, Gujaratis, and Jains to give
up their vegetarianism, and join the
non-vegetarian mainstream.
After all, some non-vegetarians might
find vegetarianism offensive to their
sentiments!
Narrowing down to Maharashtra, no
one will deny that the majority in the
state are non-vegetarian. So should
the Shiv Sena and MNS be allowed to
start forcing the vegetarian Brahmins,
Jain, Marwaris, Gujaratis to respect
this sentiment and start consuming
fish, mutton, and chicken?
Is not the restrictions imposed by
the vegetarians (whether in housing
societies or 'pure veg' restaurants)
disrespectful of the Marathi manoos?
Today, in the name of respecting the
Hindu majority, killing of bullocks has
been banned.
Similarly, in the name of respecting
the non-vegetarian majority, no
Gujarati/Jain housing society must
henceforth bar non-vegetarians from
purchasing an apartment in such
societies.
After all, besides religious majorities
and minorities, there are majorityminority in terms of language
(Marathi-Gujarati), caste (nonBrahmin-Brahmin, or non-Jains-Jain),
etc.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra
Fadnavis may have had his political
compulsions in seeking to ban the
killing of bullocks. But he should have
realised why India chose secularism,
and why previous chief ministers
made haste slowly when it came to
the question of killing bullocks.
His decision will unleash the religious
bigots, and may well turn out to be a
political disaster. Watch this space.
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PM Narendra Modi departs on
a nine-day visit to three nations
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 9:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves
before his departure from New Delhi on
Thursday for the three-nation tour. PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nine
days abroad will be the longest overseas
visit that he will be undertaking after
becoming Prime Minister eleven months
ago.
The focus of the visit is to shore up as
much foreign direct investment (FDI)
and technological expertise as he can for
the BJP-led NDA Government's pet
projects: Make in India, Smart Cities,
Clean India, Skill Development,
Defense, Energy Security, Railways,
Roads and Ports Management. All of
these programmes have the Prime
Minister in the driver's seat. The success
of each of these initiatives is as
important to the BJP as it is to the Prime
Minister.
Former Prime Minister Dr.
Manmohan Singh had made the nuclear
deal with the United States his flagship
programme during the tenure of UPA-1.
He almost sacrificed his government to
ensure that the deal went through. Not so
for Mr. Modi. He has several projects on
the anvil. And, he has energized his
cabinet and party to work simultaneously
on all of them. Not to miss the fact that
the private sector is egged on at every
possible opportunity.
No wonder that over a 100 CEOs are
winging their way to Hannover,
Germany, to take part in the Hannover
Messe business fair. Almost 400
companies are displaying their products
there. Public sector undertakings are
there as well, jostling for both space and
contracts. No one left behind.
The Prime Minister's schedule is
packed with meetings with business
leaders and CEOs of manufacturing and
defence majors.
"It's the economy stupid" was Bill
Clinton's successful media slogan in
1992. In 2015, it is Narendra Modi's
agenda. He is taking off from where
Mr.Narasimha Rao and Dr. Manmohan
Singh began and faltered. With a
massive mandate in his cabin baggage,
the Prime Minister is hopping on and
hopping off at country capitals with a
message and his intent quite clear. Come
and invest in India. No red tape, just red
carpet. Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar
said, "If I were to pick a common theme
for these destinations, I think you would
all appreciate these three countries are all
G7 countries, they are industrialised
democracies. We have a considerable
economic interest in partnering with
these countries. They are very relevant to
lot of our national development
programmes. They are all democratic
countries as well. So, in that sense we
have a larger political convergence with
them. With each of these countries, the
Prime Minister's programme is devised
in a way in which the outcomes are most
relevant, the messages are most
effective." R Swaminathan, Special
Secretary (MEA), said, "The overall
objectives are to alleviate, diversify and
deepen our engagement across a whole
range of fields and impart new vigour
through concrete steps."
Industry experts are looking for
exactly that. The French Ambassador to
India, François Richier, on Monday
announced that India can look forward to
USD 5 billion in investment in the
insurance sector. This follows the nod
that the government gave for raising the
cap on FDI in the insurance sector from
26 to 49 %. The Prime Minister's 'Make
in India' project needs fresh impetus. A
recent Reuters report states the since
2013 Indian firms have spurned some
USD 15 billion worth of government
tenders to make a range of weapons. The
Prime Minister wants to shed the Indian
image of being the largest importer of
defence equipment. It takes away from
the India-the manufacturing destination
that he plans for the country.
And he is unwilling to wait for things
to happen. The Prime Minister realizes
that the tag of 'policy paralysis' that the
media attached to UPA-2 cost it an
election. Clearly, the youth in India is in
a hurry. "Achche Din" (Good Days) was
the promise, and he has to deliver on it
soon. Mr. Modi and the BJP raised
expectations sky high during the tenmonth-long election campaign. The
delivery on those promises will have to
be at express speed too.
In his interview to the Hindustan
Times published on Thursday, the Prime
Minister reiterates that "creating jobs
and opportunities for millions of
Indians" is his priority. The visit to the
three G-7 industrialized democracies is
to collaborate with rich countries to
propel India towards prosperity.
Court to record pre- Akhilesh Yadav hits out at BJP,
summoning evidence in accuses it of dividing society
a plea against Kejriwal
Agencies
Basti, Apr 9:
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 9:
A city court on Thursday fixed
July 21 for recording presummoning evidence on a
criminal complaint seeking
action against Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal for
allegedly exhorting voters to
take bribe from Congress and
BJP and vote for AAP in the last
assembly
elections.
"Complainant present inperson. Put up for recording of
pre-summoning evidence on
July 21," Metropolitan
Magistrate Richa Gusain
Solanki said.
During the pre-summoning
evidence, the complainant is
required to bring material on
record in support of his
allegations. Based on this, the
court then decides whether
prima facie offence is made out
against the accused for
summoning him. Advocate
Arun Kumar, who is also the
complainant in the matter, has
alleged in his plea that Kejriwal
had instigated the public to take
bribe from political parties like
Congress and BJP but vote for
his party in February assembly
polls.
He has also said the Election
Commission had issued notice
to the AAP Convenor and later
directed him not to make such
remarks, warning him of strict
action in the event of any
violation. In his complaint,
Kumar has alleged that
Kejriwal, despite himself being
a former Delhi chief minister
and knowing that acceptance of
bribe is a punishable offence,
instigated the voters to do such
a thing. The complainant sought
Kejriwal's prosecution for
alleged offences of abetment,
offering or accepting bribe and
punishment for bribery under
the Indian Penal Code.
A similar complaint was also
pending in the court seeking
lodging of FIR against Kejriwal
in which it had earlier sought a
status report from the police.
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 9:
A senior IAS officer has been
deemed to have resigned from the
service after he reportedly failed
to return on duty after completion
of his foreign assignment.
Prashant, a 1988-batch IAS
officer of West Bengal cadre, is
deemed to have resigned from the
service with immediate effect, an
order issued by the DoPT said.
Prashant was on August 18, 2009
appointed as Senior Disaster Risk
Management Specialist at the
Global Facility for Disaster
Reduction and Recovery under
the Ministry of Petroleum and
Natural Gas in Washington.
He failed to after completion
of his tenure in 2010. President
Pranab Mukherjee has directed
that Prashant is deemed to have
resigned from the Indian
Administrative Service (IAS)
under the rule 7 (2) (c) of the all
India services (leave) rules, 1955,
the DoPT order said.
The rule says, a member of the
service shall be deemed to have
resigned from the service if he
continues foreign service beyond
the period approved by the central
government. 50-year-old Prashant hails from Bihar. "The
government is taking action
against officers who are on
unauthorised leave," a senior
DoPT official said.
Want kids in our schools to
learn German? Get your kids
to learn Hindi. If Hindi is a
problem, any other Indian
language will do.
This quid pro quo will form
the basis of the Modi
government's offer to Germany
to tamp down the diplomatic
problems caused by the human
resource development ministry's surprise decision last year
to discontinue German being
taught in Kendriya Vidyalaya
(KV) schools across the
country .The Smriti Irani-led
ministry has come up with this
solution ahead of the PM's visit
to Germany for the world's
largest industrial fair, Hanover
Messe, this month. The
proposal comes six months
after
the
government
discontinued German as a third
language in the state-run KVs
and triggered a minor
diplomatic standoff.
The new agreement has been
vetted by the external affairs
ministry. It seeks to introduce
an element of `reciprocity' into
the equation under which
German will be taught as an
optional subject in KVs and
the Indian government, in
exchange, will expect an equal
number of schools in Germany
to start classes in Hindi or any
other Indian language. The
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 9:
In a scathing attack on the BJP,
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday
accused the saffron party of
misleading people and fanning
communalism. Addressing a
public meeting at Changerwa
Mahotsava in Basti, Yadav said,
"BJP is misleading the people,
fanning communalism and
dividing the society."
He also criticised the party and
its affiliates for organising
various 'parikramas' without any
occasion. Hitting back at Yadav
over his comments, the BJP
alleged that it was the state
government which was dividing
the society by following the
"policy of appeasement".
"Akhilesh's government is
itself dividing the society by
following the policy of
appeasement. They are the ones
who are indulging in caste and
religion based politics," BJP
spokesperson Vijay Bahadur
Pathak said. He alleged that even
in police recruitment, candidates
of a particular region were given
preference. "To distract attention
of the people from poor
governance their own failures,
the Samajwadi Party are levelling
baseless allegations," Pathak
said. Meanwhile, speaking on the
issue of farmers affected by
unseasonal rains and hailstorms,
Yadav said relief was being
provided to the affected farmers.
"Even those who suffered 25%
loss would be compensated," he
said at the mahotsav.
Announcing that the coming
year would be observed as
"Kisan Varsh", Yadav said his
government is providing a relief
of Rs seven lakh in case of
farmer suicide where the central
share in Rs 1.5 lakh.
He also said that the state
government wants to update
technical resources of police
department including the
Quid Pro Quo: HRD Ministry wants
Germany to teach Hindi in schools
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government will run the new
terms of agreement with its
interlocutors on the German
side in a day or two.
The government's proposed
memorandum of understanding
(MoU), however, does not
offer any specifics on how
many schools in Germany will
have to teach Indian
languages. It also does not
commit any expenditure to
train teachers in German
schools. These details,
ministry officials told ET, will
be worked out later.
The fresh MoU, which will
be signed by the Kendriya
Vidyalaya Sangathan and the
Goethe-Institut, has been
drafted after MEA asked HRD
ministry last December to sort
out all outstanding issues over
the
German
language
controversy fearing that it
could cast a shadow over
Modi's visit to Berlin. India is
the chief guest at the Hanover
fair -the US and China were in
preceding years -and the Prime
Minister's Office considers the
event crucial to the
government's Make in India
initiative.
The government's diktat
discontinuing German as a
third language in KVs and
replacing it with Sanskrit came
in for much criticism and
subsequently assumed a
diplomatic colour when
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel took up the issue with
Modi. The HRD ministry had
justified the move on the
ground that a foreign language
cannot be taught as a third
language subject in schools as
it violated the three language
formula enshrined in the
national education policy .
Germany's Ambassador to
India Michael Steiner has
reiterated his stand on the issue
and said the Supreme Court
has allowed teaching of
German language in KVs from
class VI to VIII, and the
government should implement
the order.
“In December last year, the
court had provided a very good
solution for a pragmatic
outcome which would allow to
continue to teach German in
KV schools,“ he told reporters.
“It is also possible to teach
German in classes IX-X.
Under the current situation, I
think what we need is the
implementation of what the
court has said."
ambulance service which will
enable cops to reach the spot
within 15 to 20 minutes.
"Generation of 500 MW
power has also been started in the
first phase at Anpara D plant and
plans are underway to start
generation of 500 MW in 2nd
phase and another 660 MW later.
"The state government aims at
providing 16 hours of power
supply in rural areas and 22 to 24
hours supply in urban areas," the
CM said, adding, 24 hours power
was being supplied to weavers at
11 places through separate
feeders. The Chief Minister said
that special arrangements for
weavers to manufacture and
market their products in Bhadohi
district are also being made.
Referring to social utility of
Samajwadi pension scheme and
Lohia Awas scheme, Yadav said
the target was to cover every poor
in villages and cities.
The CM laid foundation stone
and inaugurated 54 projects,
besides
making
other
announcements at the mahotsava
which is organised every year in
the memory of minister Raj
Kishore Singh's son Upendra
Pratap Singh Shubham.
JAMMU | FRIDAY | APRIL 10 | 2015
Arun Jaitley bats for MP CM, says
his credibility unquestionable
Agencies
Bhopal, Apr 9:
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is
under siege from opposition
Congress over examination and
recruitment board (MPPEB)
scam, got a strong backing from
Union Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley who hailed him for his
"unblemished" credibility.
"In Shivraj Singh Chouhan
we have got a leader whose
biggest quality is his credibility.
If a leader has such a high
credibility it usually perturbs
opposition. As a result of which
the opposition Congress is
levelling false and baseless
allegations against Chouhan,"
Jaitley said at the inaugural
session of the two-day
executive meeting of state BJP.
He was apparently referring
to Congress' allegations that
Chouhan and his kin, including
his wife, are involved in the
multi-crore State Examination
Board or Vypam scam. While
Congress has been demanding a
CBI probe, Chouhan has
already denied the allegations.
The Special Task Force (STF) is
currently investigating the
scam, which is monitored by the
Special Investigation Team
Trinamool Congress does
U-turn over CBI summons,
submits party's account details
Agencies
Kolkata, Apr 9:
This move by the Trinamool
Congress comes a day after party
supremo and West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee had
threatened
the
central
investigating agency that her
party will not furnish its account
details.
In a major U-turn, the
Trinamool Congress submitted
documents to the CBI on
Thursday, after the party was
summoned by the investigating
agency recently.
This move by the Trinamool
Congress comes a day after party
supremo and West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee had
threatened
the
central
investigating agency that her
party will not furnish its account
details. “I am not going to share
the details of my party’s
accounts. My party has paid the
taxes on time and if the CBI
wants to know the details, they
should approach the IT
department,” said Banerjee
while delivering her speech at a
protest rally against the Land
Ordinance.
She even went to the extent of
saying that she would send the
summon notices back to Delhi.
“ED and CBI are sending us
notices on a daily basis. I am
going to pack them all in a bag
send it back to Delhi,” she said,
mocking the BJP-led Central
government.
A four-member team of
Trinamool Congress leaders, led
by Tapas Ray reached the CBI
office at CGO complex at Salt
Lake around 11.40am. In a
meeting, which stretched over
40 minutes, the Trinamool
Congress leaders met the CBI
officials and submitted a 180page document.
“We have furnished details of
everything that the CBI had
sought from us. I am here,
representing the party and have
submitted all the details of the
party’s account,” said Ray.
The CBI, currently probing
the multi-crore-rupees Saradha
chit fund scam, had summoned
Trinamool Congress all-India
general secretary Subrata Bakshi
on Monday. The investigating
agency sought details of the
accounts of the Trinamool
Congress from the year 20102014. The agency also sought
details
of
donation,
advertisement and Banerjee’s
paintings. According to sources,
the Trinamool Congress
furnished details of the party’s
account between the year 2010
and
2014,
donations,
advertisements and sale of party
mouthpiece ‘Jaago Bangla’.
(SIT) set up by the Madhya
Pradesh High Court.
In his address, Jaitley praised
Chouhan for his leadership,
saying Madhya Pradesh
liberated itself from the tag of
'Bimaru' states and has
registered an agricultural
growth rate of over 20 per cent
which is "highly remarkable" in
the country.
Madhya Pradesh government's model of empowering
people socio-economically has
helped in improving overall
situation of the state to a great
extent, the Finance Minister
said. Jaitley said Madhya
Pradesh became a revenue
surplus state after 2003 when it
dislodged Congress from
power. He also commended
development of roads and work
done by state government on
fronts of water and power.
Government to
provide round-theclock cheap power
to all: Goyal
Agencies
Guwahati, Apr 9:
The government aims to provide
round-the-clock cheap electricity
to everyone across the country,
Power Minister Piyush Goyal
said on Thursday.
"The states have been asked to
prepare action plans (that are)
specific to their particular states
to ensure provision of 24X7
power to all," Goyal said while
addressing a conference of
Power, Renewable Energy and
Mines Ministers of states and
union territories.
Andhra Pradesh and
Rajasthan have already prepared
their action plans. Other states
have also taken it up and all
documents are likely to be
completed by December 2015,
he said. Goyal said a record
power generation capacity of
22,566 MW was achieved
during 2014-15 as against a
target of 17,830 MW. Actual
power generation has been 1,049
billion units (BU) against a target
of 1,023 BU in 2014-15,
registering a growth of 8.5%
over 2013-14, he added. He
asked the state governments to
evolve a transparent procurement plan by putting in place eprocurement and tendering
mechanisms to take advantage of
the available power.
Madras High court closes PIL on LPG distributors
Agencies
Chennai, Apr 9:
The Madras High Court has closed a PIL
seeking a direction on restraining LPG
distributors and dealers of oil companies from
forcing consumers to purchase other materials
such as tubes for connecting gas stoves to get
the connections.
The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice
Sanjay KishanKaul and Justice M M Sundresh,
before which the PIL filed by'Coimbatore
Consumer care' came up recently, closed the
petition after hearing counsel for Hindustan
Petroleum, IndianOil Corporation and Bharat
Petroleum, who submitted that necessary
remedial steps were taken and instructions
already issued to dealers in the matter.
Innovation, entrepreneurship can eradicate poverty: Gadkari
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 9:
Concerned over suicides by
farmers, Union Minister Nitin
Gadkari on Thursday said India
can wipe out poverty by promoting innovation, entrepreneurship and technology.
"In the area of Vidarbha in
Maharashtra, more than 10,000
farmers have committed suicide.
I am working in rural areas and
really understand it... Innovation,
entrepreneurship and technology
can eradicate poverty," Road
Transport and Highways
Minister Gadkari said at the
Global Sankalp Summit here,
organised by business solutions
firm Intellecap and industry body
Ficci.
About 2,000 small industries
are being set up in Vidarbha
region to provide employment to
farmers, he said, emphasising on
the need to promote innovation in
organic farming.
He
said
innovation,
entrepreneurship and technology
could change the socio-economic
scenario and address India's basic
problem of poverty by creating
multitudes of jobs.
Urging industry bodies to
come forward to promote
innovation among youth, he said
India Innovation Foundation,
Ahmadabad, alone had done
20,000 innovations and if tapped
well these small initiatives could
result in economic prosperity of
the nation. Speaking at the same
event, Science and Technology
Minister Harsh Vardhan said his
ministry is promoting an
initiative 'Prism' wherein support
is provided to start-ups and
individuals, including scientists,
technologists, farmers and
students
for
converting
innovative ideas into workable
models or prototypes.
"Technology Development
Board has also collaborated with
CII to create global innovation
technology alliance" to leverage
Indian creativity expertise, he
said.
Meanwhile,
US
Ambassador to India Richard
Verma said the partnership
between India and US has
evolved through years from
strategic priorities to the one that
is now driven by innovation and
technology. "India and US now
work together in developing
countries in Asia and Africa and
triangular efforts showcase
Indian leadership and knowhow," he said. He stressed on the
need for more emphasis in areas
of sanitation and water, saying,
"2.5 billion people lack access to
improved sanitation and 780
million people still do not have
access to safe drinking water."
First Indian group to scale Mt Everest feted
Agencies
New Delhi. Apr 9:
The first Indian group to scale the world's
highest peak Mt Everest was felicitated at
an event to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the feat. The group of 10
Indians led by Avtar Singh Cheema scaled
the Everest in May 1965, becoming the
fourth country to achieve the distinction
then. It was the third mission undertaken by
the Indian Army after two failed attempts.
Cheema, MS Kohli and Sherpa Nawang
Gombu successfully summitted the peak on
May 20 followed by Sonam Gyatso and
Sonam Wangyal on May 22. CP Vohra and
Sherpa Ang Kami were the next to set foot
on the peak on May 24. HPS Ahluwalia,
HCS Rawat and Phu Dorje climbed the
Everest on May 29.
The team were felicitated at the India
International Centre here on Wednesday.
The commemoration included short
speeches by living members of the team -Ahluwalia and Kohli -- and featured a
documentary showing their climb.
Kohli spoke of the difference in climbing
the peak 50 years ago and now.
"Today most of you are exposed to Mt.
Everest and it is commercialised. The
mountain is already roped and you just have
to pay $5,000 to the Sherpa agency. You can
pay for using their equipment," he said,
adding that when they climbed, they did the
roping themselves and it was not
commercialised.
"We feel proud to have opened the
floodgates of mountaineering in India."
Indian Mountaineering Federation (IMF)
president HS Chauhan said the achievement
set the tone for adventure sports in India.
Chauhan added an All India Services team
is currently attempting to scale the peak.
The IMF has planned to organise a series
of programmes to commemorate the golden
jubilee of the record.
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Double-drawl and works scam:
Crime Branch arrests
Executive Engineer, Cashier
Handwara, Apr 9, CNS:
After seizing the official
records and arresting the
Executive Engineer and
Cashier, the Crime Branch
has unearthed double drawl
scam in PHE Division
Handwara. The official
records from 2008 to 2014
also indicated that large
chunk of money was
illegally withdrawn by the
officials but were never
used for any works.
Reports said that during
the investigation of Ramhal
water supply scheme 'fraud'
in PHE Division Handwara,
it came to fore that then
Executive
Engineer
Muhammad
Afzal
and
Cashier
Muhammad
Maqbool Bhat have resorted
to fraud in the Division and
have withdrawn the salaries
of some 65 employees
illegally. Besides, the 15
cheques worth Rs 32 lakhs
have also been seized by the
Crime Branch.
"The fraud was pin
pointed by my predecessor
Iftikar
Ahmed.
While
checking the records of the
Division he found each
employee in the Handwara
Division had withdrawn the
salary twice in a month.
He also find out, money
had been withdrawn from
the Bank for some schemes
under which no work ever
was done in the Division,"
present Executive Engineer
PHE Division Handwara
Zafar Ahmed told CNS.
Both
the
accused
Executive Engineer and the
Cashier have been arrested
and are being questioned.
An official from PHE
Division Handwara who
wished not to be named said
that the accused Executive
Engineer and Cashier also
committed fraud in MarsariPachkoot Water scheme that
was supposed to give
benefit to 65,000 inhabitants
of 35 villages of Ramhal
Block of district Kupwara.
"The PHE department was
supposed to spend Rs 5
crore and 87 lakh under this
scheme. The Cashier being a
trusted worker of a former
minister every time saved
his skin by resorting to
political pressure tactics,"
he said.
Meanwhile,
Chief
Engineer Muzafar Ahmed
Lankar told CNS that the
accused Cashier has been
suspended.
"We
can't
initiate action against the
accused Executive Engineer
as he had been transferred to
some other department," he
said. (CNS)
DC orders restoration of original
width of Jehlum
SRINAGAR, APRIL 9
In compliance with fresh directions of J&K
High Court to remove all illegal structures along
the river embankments, Deputy Commissioner
Srinagar, Farooq Ahmad Lone today convened an
officers meeting to get first hand appraisal from
the concerned regarding the implementation of
High Court directions to remove encroachments
along the river Jehlum embankments.
Besides, ADC, Srinagar, SDM East and West,
Deputy Director Information, the meeting was
attended by officers of SMC, Revenue, Irrigation
and Flood Control, Police, and other concerned
officers.
The Deputy Commissioner was informed that
the demarcation of encroachments along the bank
of river Jehlum has been done and work of
removal of the same is underway and number of
illegal structures have already been demolished
so far
The Deputy Commissioner stressed upon
concerned officers to speed up the demolition of
illegal structures and ensure all unauthorized
structures on the embankments of River Jhelum
embankments are removed. He asked them to
ensure restoration of original width of River
Jhelum.
He directed intensifying the drive to remove all
encroachments so that High Court directions are
implemented in letter and spirit.
He also asked the concerned to organize all
sorts of manpower and machinery for swift
removal of encroachments across the full length
of the river.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner also
directed the officers to remove all the Russian
Popular trees in the City well before the time so
that people do not face any problem.
Regarding unauthorized coaching centers, the
DC was informed that checking squads have
sealed various coaching centers violating the
norms. He directed taking necessary action
against all such coaching centers who do not
adhere guidelines of the government.
The DC also asked the concerned officers to
ensure implementation of ban on use of
polythene carry bags in Srinagar.
Zulfkar reviews functioning
of CA&PD
JAMMU, APRIL 9
Minister for Consumer
Affairs
and
Public
Distribution (CA&PD) &
Tribal Affairs Ch. Zulfkar Ali
today asked for constitution
of committee to be tasked
with effective monitoring of
relief ration distribution
among the flood victims and
directed them to submit report
within shortest possible time.
The Minister gave these
directions during the follow
up review meeting of CA&PD
officers here today.
The Minister took a
detailed review of the stocks
and supply position of Atta,
Rice, Wheat, Sugar, Kerosene
Oil and LPG in Jammu
province.
Regarding pending carriage
liabilities of dealers, the
Minister said that the matter
would be taken up with the
Finance department for early
release of pending amount
besides strategies will also be
worked out to streamline the
payment system of the
department in future. For this
purpose he ordered creation
of monitoring cell headed by
Joint Director in Directorate
office which will oversee and
process
the
cases
of
disbursement of carriage
charges.
The Minister gave a time of
one month to SRTC to
provide vehicles to the
department
as
per
requirement to ensure timely
supply of essentials to the
consumer.
The
Minister
also
impressed
upon
the
concerned officers to ensure
completion of physical
verification of departmental
stores
and
depots
regarding stock position of
food grains within a period
of 15 days.
Taking stock of displaying
of signboards and installation
of
Calibrated
weighing
machines,
the
Minister
reiterated that the directions
have already been given to
ensure that that the dealers at
all depots install and use
Digital Weighing Scales and
asked concerned officers to
take strict action against those
dealers who have not installed
the same yet.
He also directed authorities
to ensure every ration dealer
and fair price shop should
display the signboards.
'Pray for J&K's prosperity
and integrity' - Dr. Farooq
Srinagar | April 09
National Conference President Dr. Farooq Abdullah arrived in
Srinagar on Thursday from Delhi after undergoing a surgery and
intensive follow-up treatment in London. Dr. Farooq Abdullah
was welcomed at the Sheikh-ul-Alam (RA) Srinagar Airport by
Senior National Conference Leaders, workers and party
activists.
Among those who welcomed Dr. Farooq Abdullah at the
Airport were NC Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani, NC
Provincial Secretary Showkat Ahmed Mir, NC Leader Javaid
Ahmed Dar, NC Leader Peer Mohammad Afaq, NC Leader
Tanvir Sadiq, Youth President Salman Ali Sagar besides various
senior party office bearers and activists.
Before arriving in Srinagar, Dr. Farooq Abdullah spent a few
weeks in Delhi after arriving back from London where he
underwent a Kidney transplant surgery.
On arriving at Srinagar Airport, Dr. Farooq Abdullah prayed
for the State's prosperity and integrity and said the interests of
the common-man are paramount and should be the focal point of
all politics. Dr. Farooq Abdullah also said that J&K's political
honor and dignity cannot be toyed with at any cost and that
National Conference would continue to be the bulwark of the
State's political aspirations and sentiments.
Senior NC Leaders including NC General Secretary Ali
Mohammad Sagar, Abdul Rahim Rather, Mubarak Gul,
Shameema Firdous, Mohammad Akbar Lone, Sakina Ittoo,
Sharif-ud-din Shariq, Chowdhary Mohamamd Ramzan, Mir
Saifullah, Irfan Ahmed Shah, NC Spokesman Junaid Azim
Mattu, Altaf Kalloo, Dr. Bashir Ahmed Veeri, Advocate Farooq
Ganai, Youth President Salman Ali Sagar, Senior Youth Vice
President Imran Nabi Dar besides party legislators and former
Minsiters have welcomed Dr. Farooq Abdullah back to the State
and wished him the very best of health.
Police conducts market checking
Srinagar April 9
Srinagar police conducted market checking in the Shaheed
Gunj area and booked five traders in violation of Essential
Commodities Act.
During the market checking in Shaheed Gunj area, police
booked five traders for violating provisions of Essential
Commodities Act. Cases FIR numbers 28/15, 29/15, 30/15,
31/15, and 32 under section 3/7 E.C Act were registered against
the erring traders. The accused were presented before the
Hon’ble Court and cases were challaned against them.
Govt seals 6 coaching centres
SRINAGAR APRIL 9
Acting upon the directions of the High Court, a team of
officers headed by Additional Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar
inspected various Coaching Centres in Srinagar today.
The team sealed six unregistered Coaching Centres which
include Daar’s Commerce and Management Studies Srinagar,
Glorious Vision Centre of Mathematics Srinagar, Professor’s
Academy Gulshan Nagar, Nowgam Bye Pass, Professional
Institute Nowgam Bye Pass, Bhat’s Coaching Centre Nowgam
and Ashraf Sir’s Coaching Centre Nowgam.
Market checking
intensified in Kupwara
KUPWARA, APRIL 09:
On the direction of Deputy Commissioner Kupwara, a joint
team of Officers and officials of Revenue, Police, CAPD, LMD,
Food Safety and Municipality conducted a market checking in
Kupwara town today.
During the intensifying of market checking, Rs. 13700 were
realized by the team from erring traders who were found in
violation of many Acts of Essential Commodities. Besides 30
Kgs of expired, unhygienic confectionary, 05 quintals of rotten
fruits and vegetables were destroyed on the spot in presence of
the public.
The Team was headed by the Executive Officer Municipal
Committee Kupwara during the intensifying of checking.
Woman injured in road accident
Srinagar April 9
A car bearing registration number JK13A-4839 hit and injured
a pedestrian Shoby Jan wife of Sajad Ahmad Rather resident of
Krangsoo at K.P Road Anantnag near Al-Sarwat School in the
jurisdiction of Police Station Mattan.
The injured was shifted to hospital for treatment. Anantnag
police has registered a case in this regard.
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Gani rape and murder case:
Court to pronounce judgment
on April 18
Kupwara, April 9, CNS:
The final judgement in the
brutal Tabinda Gani rape and
murder case is expected on
April 18.
After hearing the final
arguments from both the parties,
Principal and sessions judge
district Kupwara Muhammad
Ibrahim close the case and
informed the court that he will
pronounce the final judgment
on April 18 (Saturday)
Tabinda Gani, a class 8th
student, was found dead in an
orchard in Langate area in July
20, 2007 after her abduction.
Medical reports had confirmed
that the abductors had raped her
before slitting her throat.
Following the incident,
Kashmir witnessed massive
street protests with people
demanding capital punishment
for the culprits. Police later
arrested four accused including
two non-locals and a local
residents of Langate. The
accused confessed to the crime
during interrogation. The family
is awaiting justice for seven
years now.
The last witness in the case
had admitted before the Session
Court Kupwara that the four
accused held for raping and
murdering the girl were paraded
before the eyewitnesses and the
people including a minor during
the parade identified the culprits
and he is witness to such act.
The last (86th) witness in the
case, then Naib Tehsildar
Langete, presently Tehsildar
Abdul Rashid Shah appeared
before the session court for the
fifth time and during his last
turn, he confirmed to the court
that all the accused in the case
were properly identified by the
witnesses during a parade.
He had identified the culprits
as Sadiq Mir alias Sadiq Choor,
Azhar Mir alias Bilal both
residents of Langate, Jehangir
Bihari of West Bengal, a
carpenter by profession and
Suresh Mochi, a cobbler.
Both the Public Prosecutor
G.M.Shah and the counsel for
the accused Abdul Rashid
Mirchal told CNS that the
Sessions Court will pronounce
its judgment on April 18.
father of Tabinda Gani said
that he is sure of getting justice
from the court of law. (CNS)
Photostat shops seized in Sopore
for issuing fake election cards
Sopore, April 9, CNS:
District administration Thursday seized two Photostat shops in
apple town Sopore of North Kashmir's Baramulla district for
issuing fake election cards to people.
Reports said that after receiving complaints from the people, a
team led by SDM Sopore Dr Nasir raided the two Photostat shops
located opposite police station Sopore and after finding fake
scanned documents.
Confirming the incident, the SDM Sopore informed that they
seized 'Qadri Photostat' and 'Unique Photostat' shops and initiated
action against their owners.
The locals said that it is irony that both the Photostat shops
despite located opposite to police station managed to run the
racket. They demanded stringent punishment against the owners of
these shops.
Meanwhile, a scribe working for a news agency lodged a
complaint in police station Sopore against the owner of 'Qadri
Photostat' after he along with other shopkeepers allegedly
manhandled him when he was trying to take pictures of the seized
Photostat shops.
Ch Lassanvi remembered on
his 54th death anniversary
Srinagar, April 9
The Jammu and Kashmir
Academy of Art , Culture and
Languages released a special
issue of “Qadawar” on life and
work of
renowned Tribal
reformer and Gujjar Gandhi Ch
Ghulam Hussain Lassanvi today
on his 54th death anniversary in
a function held here at Seminar
Hall of the Academy.
Veteran Gojri writer Iqbal
Azeem, noted Scholars Ch
Nassem Poonchi, G R Azad,
Abdul Hameed Kassana were in
the presidium.
Give details about the book,
Dr. Javaid Rahi , Chief Editor of
JKAACL stated that the book
contained 170 pages comprising
some important articles about
the life and work of Ch.
Lassanvi who rendered his
whole life for social reformation
and Cultural upliftment of
Gujjars
and
Bakerwal
community of State.
He said late Lassanvi was a
tallest leader of Gujjars who
worked selflessly for the rights
of nomadic, tribal and other
suppressed classes .
He was among the founders
of first Gujjar-Jat Conference a
social
oganisation
later
converted into a political party
in Jammu and Kashmir.
Late Lassanvi was father of
Late Ch. Mohammad Asalm
former Speaker J&K Assembly
and grandfather of Ch
Mohammad Akram present
MLA
from
Surankote
consitutny.
Ch. Iqbal Azeem in his
presidential address appreciated
the Academy for publication of
a special number on life and
work of the great leader who
was popular among Gujjars as
Gujjar Gandhi.
Earlier welcoming the guests
Mohammad Ashraf Tak Head
of Academy’s Divisional office
Kashmir stated that Academy is
holding a series of programme
in Kashmir , Gojri and Pahari
and today’s programme was
organized in Gojri wherein
Gojri writers, poets, intellectual
from all over the vellay
participating.
Mian Arshad Qammar Asstt.
Editor Gojri said this is the fifth
volume of ‘Qadwar’(Urdu) a
book series
initiated by
Academy since 2010 to cover
life and work of Tribal Gujjar
leaders and prior to this a spcial
number was released on the Life
and work of Mian Nizam Din
(RA) , Israel Asar, Mehar –udDin Qammar and Shams ud Din
Mehjoor.
A Gojri Mushaira was also
held in which poets from the
valley participated.
DC Kupwara convenes NERPAP meet
KUPWARA APRIL 09:
The Deputy Commissioner,
Mr. K. R. Ranjan today
convened a meeting of officers
associated with preparation of
EPICs here today. The
Additional
Deputy
Commissioners, Kupwara and
Handwara,
Assistant
Commissioner, Kupwara, Sub
Divisional Magistrates and
field
functionaries
were
present in the meeting.
It was given out that all the
arrangements are in place with
regard to preparation of
Aadhar Cards linked with the
EPICs,
Purification
of
Electoral Rolls, additions,
alteration, corrections and
authentication of the electoral
rolls
under
NERPAP
programme has been started in
the district while the special
camps are being organized at
booth levels commencing from
April 12.
The
District
Election
Officer,
Kupwara
was
informed that Aadhar cards are
being linked with the EPICs
for further distribution among
the electorates of the district as
41 percent Aadhar have been
completed while 51 percent
EPICs are in place.
The Form 6, 7 and 8 are
being collected from the
Election authorities within
next two days to complete the
process. The concerned BLOs
have been asked that to
generate the left over EPICs, to
maintain registers and prepare
Aadhar cards linked with the
EPICs be collected from the
concerned voters during the
special awareness camps under
NERPAP in the respective
booths. Later, the same
information
was
communicated
to
Chief
Electoral Officer J&K at
Jammu office through the
video conferencing along with
the concerned officers of the
district. The District Election
Officer, Kupwara informed
that all the process and
arrangements are in place to
prepare the required matters
during the next special camps
to be organized by the election
authority Kupwara at all booth
levels.
Srinagar April 9
Leh police launched a
plantation drive in District
Police Lines, Choglamsar in
Leh.
A special plantation drive
was launched in the premises
of District Police Lines,
Choglamsar in Leh. The
drive was inaugurated by
SSP Leh Dr. Sunil Gupta
who planted the first sapling.
Large number of police
officers
and
Jawans
participated in the drive in
which large number of
Apricot
saplings
were
planted in the DPL.
On this occasion SSP Leh
advised the police officers
and officials to ensure
plantations at their respective
places of postings. R.P Singh
DySP DAR Leh will be
supervising the plantation
drive
in
the
police
establishments across the
Leh district.
Expert panels on M A Kashmiri,
Comparative Religion meet at CUK
Srinagar, Apr 9
The Committees framed to
discuss various parameters
with regard to the starting of
programmes in M.A Kashmiri
and Comparative Religion in
the Central University of
Kashmir (CUK) today held
meetings with officiating ViceChancellor, Prof. Mehraj
udDin in chair.
The Committee to discuss
the programme in M. A
Kashmiri was attended by Prof.
Rahman Rahi, noted poet, Prof.
Siddique Wahid, Ex ViceChancellor, Islamic University
of Science and Technology,
Prof. Shad Ramzan, Head
Department of Kashmiri,
University of Kashmir (KU),
Prof. Bashar Bashir, Chairman,
Sheikh-ul-Alam (RA) Chair
KU, Prof. Muhammad Zaman
Azurdah, former Dean Faculty
of Arts, KU, Prof. N A Malik,
Coordinator, Department of
Urdu CUK, Prof. Nazir Ahmad
Dhar, former Head Department
of Linguistics KU, Prof Lily
Want, Head Department of
English, KU, Dr. Aziz Hajni
from Sheikh-ul-Alam (RA)
chair, Mr. Shuja’at Bukhari,
Rising Kashmir Editor, Dr.
Majrooh and Dr. Mahfooza Jan
from the Department of
Kashmiri and Registrar CUK,
Prof. M Afzal Zargar.
The Committee to discuss
the programme in M.A
Comparative Religion, was
attended by Prof. A M Wani,
Dean Academic Affairs, KU,
Prof. G N Khaki, Director
Central Asian Studies, KU,
Prof Naseem Ahmad Shah,
Director Islamic Studies KU,
Prof.
Hameed
Naseem
Rafiabadi, ex Head Islamic
Studies KU, Prof. Siddiq
Wahid, Ex Vice-Chancellor,
IUST, Prof. G M Bhat, Dean
Social Sciences CUK, Prof. G
R Malik, former Head
Department of English KU and
Registrar, Prof. M Afzal
Zargar.
During these meetings, the
participants discussed various
contours of the programme
threadbare. Sub-Committees
were later formed to guide the
varsity further in this regard.
Earlier, the officiating ViceChancellor Prof. Mehraj udDin
and Registrar, Prof. M Afzal
Zargar gave a brief resume
about
the
University
functioning in both the
meetings.
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Policy needs to be same for Mukesh Microsoft launches Lumia
640 XL, Lumia 640
Ambani and common man: PM Modi
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 9:
Policy needs to be same for
Mukesh Ambani and common
man: PM ModiNew Delhi: In a
terse message to industry, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has
blamed private sector of still
being stuck with "legacy issues"
like tax terrorism and selective
exemption, and said that "red
tape" can't be removed only for
Mukesh Ambani and not for a
common man.
The Prime Minister also said
his "job is not to spoon- feed
anyone" and the industry can
come on board if it fits into the
government's policies, or else
stay where they are.
Stressing that his government
is working for the common man
and his priority is the poor of the
country, Modi said in an
interview to Hindustan Times
newspaper that the industry has
to come forward to take the
benefits of the process that has
been set in motion for good
governance.
"The government's job is
good governance for everybody.
My government will make
policies, if you fit into it, come
on board, or stay where you are.
"My job is not to spoon-feed
anyone. The private sector of
the country is still stuck with
legacy issues of governance these include tax terrorism, duty
inversion
and
selective
exemption. "That is why we
tried to address many such
issues during the Budget of
2015-16 and to correct them
across the board. We know that
such steps are important for
creating jobs and opportunities
for millions of Indians. I repeat
my assurance to all: If you take
Satyam scam:
Ramalinga Raju
sentenced to 7 years
in jail, fined Rs 5 cr
Agencies
Hyderabad, Apr 9:
Six years after the biggest accounting fraud
shook the corporate world in India, Satyam
chief B Ramalinga Raju and nine others
were today found guilty by a special court
on charges of criminal conspiracy and
cheating in the Rs 7000-crore scam. The
court also announced a 7-year jail term and
a fine of Rs 5 crores for Raju.
Raju and former employee G
Ramakrishna were also found guilty under
section 201 (causing disappearance of
evidence of offence) of IPC by Special
Judge BVLN Chakravarthi, in the case
probed by CBI.
Except Raju’s another brother B
Suryanarayana Raju and former internal
chief auditor V S Prabhakar Gupta, all the
others eight accused were found guilty
under IPC sections 467, 468, 471 and
477A, relating to forgery of security,
forgery for purpose of cheating and
falsification of accounts, according to V
Chandrashekhar, Superintendent of Police,
CBI Hyderabad Zone.
The quantum of sentence will be
pronounced tomorrow. Charges against
Raju and others include criminal
conspiracy and forgery of valuable security
carrying minimum punishment of ten years
imprisonment and maximum of life
sentence.
While the accounting fraud was to the
tune of Rs 7,000 crore, it had caused an
estimated notional loss of Rs 14,000 crore
to investors and unlawful gains of Rs 1900
crore to Raju and others.
Ramalinga Raju and his brother and
Satyam’s former Managing Director B
Rama Raju were also found guilty under
section 409 of IPC relating to criminal
breach of trust.
All the ten accused were present in the
court, where media was not allowed, when
one step; we will walk two steps
for you," Modi said.
He was replying to a question
on the business community
being upset that not much has
changed in terms of ease of
doing business and about a spate
of tax notices, which have been
recently issued to a large
number of foreign investors.
Modi's comments assume
significance in the wake of
eminent banker Deepak Parekh
having said recently that not
much had changed on ground in
the first nine months of his
government and there was little
improvement on 'ease of doing
business'.
Similar comments have been
made by some other industry
leaders as well, including Harsh
Mariwala who tweeted earlier
this week that "sheen is falling
of Modi govt in the context of
promises, and gradual delivery.
Need to move fast..."
Interestingly, NITI Aayog
Vice
Chairman
Arvind
Panagariya also said recently
that the sentiment that nothing
has changed on the ground was
very much there, although a
turnaround was visible in the
economic growth.
In reply to the question on
business community being
upset, Modi said: "First of all,
you have to understand that my
government is working for the
common man. Our priority is
the poor of the country. We want
good governance through a
dynamic
and
seamless
government. Results are visible
in all sectors. Industry has to
come forward to take the
benefits of the process we have
set in motion."
He also asked the media to
"counterpose
two
things
Nl Correspondent
together -- the allegations our Jammu, April 9
Congress friends level against
us, and the complaints that Microsoft today rolled out two
businessmen have.
new smartphones, Microsoft
"The Congress says we are a Lumia 640XLDual SIM and
government of industrialists and Microsoft Lumia 640Dual SIM
industrialists say we do nothing in India, giving consumers
for them!" Modi said his job is greater flexibility and freedom
to run a policy-driven govern- to choose when and where they
ment. "Red tape nahin hona get things done. Both devices
chahiye; Ab red tape nahin hona offer the seamless integration of
chahiye matlab Mukesh Ambani Lumia essentials with a choice
ke liye red tape na ho aur ek of screen sizes and camera
common man ke liye red tape capabilities and Microsoft
ho, waisa nahin chal sakta (Red services, to offer incredible
tape should not be there does productivity, keeping you
not mean it should not be there prepared for anything - for
for Mukesh Ambani, but be work, at home and on the go.
there for a common man; that
Lumia 640 XL and Lumia
won't do.)" Asked about the 640, both upgradable to
major achievements of his Windows 10 when it becomes
government in ten months after available later this year, come
coming to power, Modi said this armed with the latest version of
needs to be seen with reference Windows Phone 8.1with the
to the past.
Lumia Denim update. With the
"In what situation did the 12 month Office 365 Personal
people bring us to power? And subscription offer, these devices
what is the situation now? Is will redefine productivity and
there a policy paralysis with free OneDrive storage,
anymore? No. Is there a
transparency issue? No. Is there
stagnancy in governance? No.
Instead, there is dynamism," he
said.
NL Correspondent
Jammu, April 9
Announcing its latest initiative,
Tanishq, India's most preferred jeweler
is proud to unveil an effort that will
continue the company's endeavor to
offer best-in-class jewelry. The brand
pledges to always ensure every
purchase is ethical, whether it is a sale
or exchange of a product. Tanishq,
which bears the hallmark of Titan and
the assurance of the TATA group, has
always been at the forefront with an
offering of best in class jeweler for its
customers. The faith and trust of its
customers has credited Tanishq with an
envious turn around journey.
Tanishq understands the Indian woman
and promises to provide her with
superior craftsmanship, exclusive
designs and guaranteed product quality.
To live up to the expectations Tanishq
has built for itself over the years, the
brand is happy to bring forth the
Tanishq Promise - a pledge to always
keep 10 precious promises that it has
made to its consumers.
From introducing the state-of-the-art
karatmeter at every single Tanishq store
which guarantees the most accurate
way of measuring the purity of gold, to
providing 100% exchange value for
diamonds and other precious stones,
Tanishq ensures that its customers are
never disappointed.
The brand
propagates ethical practices not only by
assuring the customer purity and selling
policies, but also fair policies to the
karigars who craft the jewellery.
Sandeep Kulhalli, Senior Vice
President, Retail and Marketing,
Jewellery Divison, Titan Company
Limited, said; "Tanishq Promise is a
premise to reiterate our commitment to
jewellery lovers across the country.
While our brand is loved for its
impeccable quality, design intricacy,
compelling campaigns and superior
retail experience for over 19 years now,
not many people are aware of a unique
facet of the brand. Through Tanishq
Credit outlook rating
upgrade to help attract
FDI, says FICCI
NL Correspondent
New Delhi, Apr 9:
With rating agencies Fitch and
Moody's affirming India's credit
outlook as "stable" and "positive"
respectively, Ficci today said the
move will uplift investor
sentiment and help attract foreign
investments.
"It reflects the improving
outlook for Indian economy on
the back of various reform
measures taken by the government towards simplificat-ion of
regulatory regime, mainta-ining
fiscal and external balances and
fostering a conducive business
climate," Ficci Secretary General
Didar Singh said.
"It will further uplift global
investor sentiment and help in
attracting
greater
foreign
investments across the board. To
sustain
investor
interest,
implementation remains the key.
We hope that the reform
momentum shall continue with an
emphasis on long-term socio
economic development," Singh
said. In a big vote of confidence
for the Modi government, rating
agency Moody's today raised
India's credit outlook to 'positive',
while Fitch projected faster
growth -- raising hopes for an
upgrade in its sovereign rating in
the next 12-18 months.
India's sovereign rating by
Moody's stands at 'Baa3', the
lowest investment grade and just a
notch above 'junk' status, while it
earlier had a 'stable' outlook for
the country. ‘
Fitch, which maintained its
equivalent 'BBB-' rating with
stable outlook, on the other hand
projected 8 per cent GDP growth
for the current fiscal, higher than
7.8 per cent estimate of the RBI.
It also indicated positive rating
action if the government follows
its fiscal consolidation roadmap.
The sovereign rating and
outlook of a country are often
used by foreign investors and
global bodies to gauge its
investment climate.
Promise, we are underlining 10
distinctive features that have set
standards and best practices in the
Indian jewellery industry since its
inception. Whether it's exchanging gold
at a right price or checking your gold
jewellery for its purity through the
scientific Karatmeter, the new Promise
campaign from the house of Titan and
Tata's reinforces these features for
which the brand has stood for all these
years."
India's love affair with gold is no
secret and possession is a clear sign of
prosperity. Tanishq understands the
precious value of gold in the lives of its
customers and charges only for the
actual gold weight, after subtracting the
stone weight from the total weight of
the piece. In addition to this, Tanishq
also promises best exchange value for
old gold. It melts the customer's old
gold in front of their eyes and weighs it
in their presence. There is complete
transparency when it comes to buying
and selling of jewellery at Tanishq
As regulators try to contain one
of India`s most spectacular
investment scandals, dozens of
smaller but similar schemes
continue
to
mushroom,
employing tactics similar to the
ones that enriched the Sahara
group and later brought it to its
knees.
Sahara began as a scheme for
small depositors, but it grew over
decades with investment plans
that critics say were designed to
avoid regulatory scrutiny. At its
height, it was one of India`s
biggest business empires,
stretching from Formula One
motor racing to New York`s
Plaza Hotel.
Now its boss is in jail for more
than a year and some staff say
much of its business is
threatening to stall, after it raised
billions of dollars from investors
by selling bonds that were ruled
to be illegal.
Patchy oversight in India
means
countless
illegal
investment schemes continue to
emerge, however, often in the
villages. So far this year, the
Securities and Exchange Board
of India (SEBI) has barred more
than 70 firms that raised funds
through debentures or collective
investment schemes, promising
returns from cash put in land,
cattle and even holiday homes.
In most cases, it cited the court
order against Sahara in support of
its action.
That is cold comfort for retired
Indian army officer KL Sharma.
Hoping to raise money for his
daughter`s wedding, he placed a
third of his savings into an
investment scheme run by
property developer PACL in
2007.
The investment matured last
year, but there is no trace of the
270,000 rupees ($4,339) he put
in, never mind the promised
returns that were supposed to
double his money.
"It was hard-earned money
that I invested because agents for
PACL in my village convinced
me I would get good returns.
Now I am stuck," said Sharma,
speaking from Rajasthan,
western India.
As late as November, months
after PACL was put under
investigation and barred by
regulators, local media reported
that SEBI told the Corporate
Affairs Ministry it was still
raising funds from depositors.
SEBI officials say that despite
increased monitoring and
financial education programmes
since the Sahara case and a spate
of other scandals, they are still
overwhelmed by a backlog of
cases, as a financially illiterate
adult population, less than half of
whom have access to formal
banking, continues to put its trust
in local agents for such schemes.
One official said many schemes
NL Correspondent
Jammu, April 9
Mukesh Batra - Founder & Chairman, Dr
Batra's Healthcare said, "It is
encouraging that more and more people
A study conducted by IMRB
are using homeopathy for its safe and
International across Mumbai, Bangalore, effective results. It's now being used as a
Hyderabad, New Delhi and Kolkata,
first line of treatment in certain diseases.
shows 90 per cent of people perceive
"
homeopathy as a trusted form of
"We are proud that Dr Batra's has
treatment and its usage is higher than any emerged as a trust worthy and reputed
other form of treatment.
brand through this independent survey by
As per the survey conducted amongst
IMRB," added Dr Batra.
the general public it was found that 100%
. Sujai Mahadevan - Insights Director,
of people are universally aware about
IMRB International said "It is interesting
homeopathy and 92% perceive it as
to know that 100% of people are
'reputed' form of treatment. People use
universally aware about homeopathy and
homeopathy mainly for backaches,
the usage of homeopathy treatment is
gastro, skin and hair ailments.
higher than any other form of treatment.
Among homeopathy users, 91% are
Experience among homeopathic patients
satisfied with the treatment and 93% are are in the positive direction due to higher
willing to recommend homeopathy to
satisfaction levels towards homoeopathy
others due to higher satisfaction levels
which has resulted in higher advocacy
with their treatment.
ultimately signaling positive news for the
Among Dr Batra's users 75% said that homeopathy category."
this was their first choice of treatment
Homeopathy is the second largest
and 83% said they are satisfied with Dr
system of medicine in the world today,
Batra's.
according to World Health Organisation
Releasing the survey coinciding with
(WHO) and is used by over 600 million
the World Homeopathy Day being
people worldwide. In India over 100
observed on April 10; Padmashri
million people depend on homeopathy
recipient for medicine (Homeopathy), Dr for their health and wellness needs.
billion rupees from the public.
Firms issuing any form of
security to more than 49 investors
are supposed to register with
SEBI, but many flout the rules,
and activists say even when
caught and barred, companies
can simply change their names
and get back in the market. "The
regulator is trying to do its best,
given the capability and
resources they have, but is it
enough to meet the scale of the
challenge? Maybe not," said
Shriram Subramanian, managing
director of corporate governance
advisory firm InGovern.
For most investors, including
those in PACL and Sahara, efforts
to reclaim their investments are
tangled in a legal process that
could take years. The unlicensed
companies often vanish, and
others banned from the market
can challenge the order in court
for years. Sahara says it has paid
95 percent of the dues to the
bondholders, but the markets
perfect choice for consumers
looking for a trendy and
powerful phone loaded with
future-proof features." he
added.
Amitesh Jha, Vice President Retail, Flipkart, said "The
Lenovo A series has been very
well received by our customers
since its launch in January this
year. We are happy to partner
with Lenovo again to launch
Lenovo A7000 - the latest
addition to this series.
The A7000 is priced at Rs.
8,999 and will be available
exclusively
on
FlipKart.
Registrations begin from today
(7th April at 2PM) and the first
sale is scheduled for 15th April,
2015.
Uber launches autorickshaw
service in Indian capital
90 pc people trust
homeopathy: Dr Batra
had operated for decades without
oversight, until legal changes last
year gave SEBI broader powers.
"A collective investment
scheme in itself is not unlawful,
but the way these schemes have
been run, by and large as assuredreturn guarantee schemes, that`s
not allowed," he said. "The law is
clear; it requires them to come
and register with us. But they
don`t, because they have
operated without any oversight
for years. Why will they want any
supervision now?"
A SEBI spokesman had no
immediate comment.
REGULATORY GAPS
Collective
investment
schemes, often known locally as
chit funds, operated in the
regulatory gaps for years by
getting licences from state
authorities that were ill equipped
to monitor them.
Last year, SEBI was mandated
to oversee any investment
vehicle that raises more than 1
experience with a powerful
battery life required for all-day
connectivity. The A7000 is
powered by a 2900mAh battery
along with enhanced battery
optimization features that
provides enough power to the
powerful 64-bit octa core
processor. While having a large
battery,
the
A7000
is
surprisingly thin at 7. 9 mm and
light at 140grams making it
highly portable. "At Lenovo we
are committed to providing
cutting edge technology to our
consumers" - said, Sudhin
Mathur, Director- Smartphones,
Lenovo India. "The A7000
brings in flagship worthy
features and performance at an
incredible price making it a
Lenovo today announced the
launch of the much-anticipated
smartphone A7000 in India
exclusively with Flipkart,
India's largest e-commerce
marketplace platform. The
4G/LTE smartphone sports a
64-Bit 1.5GHz Octa-Core
processor and 2GB DDR3
RAM for smooth gaming, a
great multimedia experience
and lag-free multitasking.
Featuring a brilliant 13.97(5.5)
cms HD display with ultra-wide
viewing angles, the A7000
ensures clarity and accurate
color reproduction. The A7000
is also the world's first
smartphone featuring all-new
Dolby Atmos technology
providing
moving
audio
technology for an unparalleled
acoustic experience.
In addition to its impressive
audio and visual technologies,
Agencies
this multimedia smartphone
New Delhi, Apr 9:
provides an enhanced user
Sebi struggles to shield savers from more Saharas
Agencies
Mumbai, Apr 9:
consumerswill
get
a12
monthOffice 365 Personal
subscription worth INR 3,299/as a limited time offer
redeemable between April to
June, 2015 which also includes
a massive 1 Terabyte of
OneDrive storage. This offer
will give you access to
Office365 across 1 PC or Mac,
and 1 tablet like a Windows
tablet, iPad® or Android tablet,
plus easy access on 1
smartphone.
Adding another exciting offer
for consumers on the Lumia 640
XL, Mobikwik,theonline wallet
will offer a recharge cashback
worth INR 1000, redeemable
with a minimum recharge of
INR 200 per month for five
months.
Olacabs, the popular and
smart cab service, will offer a
cash backworthINR 800 on Ola
money
rechargeswhere
consumers will get INR 200
cashbackper recharge for the
first four recharges of INR 500
or higher.
Lenovo launches A7000 smart phone
Tanishq installs karatmeters in stores
NL Correspondent
Jammu, April 9
those important documents are
always within reach too.
Speaking at the launch, Ravi
Kunwar, Director -North,
Microsoft Mobile Devices said,
"Consumers
today
are
constantly looking for a device
to bring them more flexibility to
switch easily between work and
play. The Lumia 640 XL and
Lumia 640are the perfect
devices that are enablers of
productivity, busting the 9 to 5
myth by letting you achieve
more, on your own terms.
Packed with Microsoft services
and experiences along with the
exclusive Office 365 personal
subscription offer, the Lumia
640 and Lumia 640 XL are well
positioned to help us get back
some
of
our
scarcest
commodity, time!"
Lumia 640 XL and Lumia
640 feature the very best of
Microsoft's services to help
people accomplish more on the
go - right out of the box.
On every purchase of the new
Lumia 640 XL and Lumia 640,
regulator disputes that.
In West Bengal, factory
worker Makhan Midya saved
500 rupees from his salary of
6,000 rupees a month until eight
months ago, investing in Rose
Valley Real Estate and
Constructions Ltd.
A SEBI probe showed Rose
Valley raised billions of rupees
without the required licence, and
in June it asked the company to
wind up its business and refund
investors within three months of
the order. Midya has yet to get a
refund.
Tapan Biswas, Rose Valley
operations manager in the state
capital Kolkata, blamed SEBI,
arguing the decision to freeze its
bank accounts had hit business
and its ability to repay.
The regulator in August last
year gave unlisted PACL three
months to refund $8.1 billion to
investors, after ruling that the
company`s investment schemes
had not been registered.
Online cab-hailing company
Uber will allow passengers in
the Indian capital to book
autorickshaws, the cheaper
three-wheeled taxis, as part of a
drive to boost its presence and
compete with a local rival in
one of its key markets.
Under
the
uberAUTO
service, the company will not
charge a fee for booking
autorickshaws, users will be
allowed to pay for the journey
in cash, and the pricing will
follow government fare rules,
Uber said in a statement on
Thursday.
The launch of the service in
New Delhi marks a shift from
the company's global business
model. So far, Uber's mobile
application that connects riders
with taxis in cities around the
world has charged customers
through credit cards or other
electronic payment means, but
not in cash.
The launch in Uber's largest
market outside the United States
comes against the backdrop of
stiff competition with India's
biggest online cab-hailing
company Ola, which already
lets
customers
hail
autorickshaws.
"There were a lot of people
who were not able to use an
Uber because cash payment was
not allowed," Gagan Bhatia,
general manager for Uber in
New Delhi, told Reuters. "There
is huge potential in this
segment."
The launch comes at a time
when Uber is battling
regulatory uncertainty over how
it will continue to operate in
New Delhi. Uber was banned in
the city following allegations of
rape against one of its drivers in
December, but has found
support from India's transport
ministry. (Reporting by Aditya
Kalra; Editing by Sumeet
Chatterjee and Mark Potter)
Renault Lodgy
to fuel Renault's
expansion in India
NL Correspondent
Jammu, April 9
Renault India, one of the
country's fastest growing
automobile
manufacturers,
launched the all new Renault
Lodgy today offering customers
a compelling value proposition.
With this, Renault marks its
foray into the rapidly growing
MPV segment in India. Lodgy
will come in 7 variants.
Over the last 3 years, Renault
has already become one of the
fastest growing automobile
manufacturers and the number 1
European automobile brand in
the country.
A hallmark of its growth
remains its commitment to
innovation and this is
highlighted in the Renault
Lodgy launched today. Lodgy
breaks new ground in
performance, fuel efficiency,
comfort
and
features,
combining the best offerings of
a sedan, and the space and
convenience of a MPV.
Since manufacturing the first
MPV more than three decades
ago, Renault has constantly
built on its expertise, and Lodgy
reflects
Renault's
MPV
prowess. Sumit Sawhney,
Country CEO and Managing
Director,
Renault
India
Operations said, "Renault
Lodgy is a breakthrough
product that will redefine the
benchmark of performance and
convenience of the MPV
segment. It comes with features
and services that are people
centric,
addressing
real
customer needs and will cater to
a diverse set of customers. We
have priced it extremely
competitively, and we are
confident that Lodgy will create
a new segment in the Indian
automotive industry, as we have
successfully done with Duster
in the recent past."
"We have a very clear focus
on establishing ourselves in the
growing and volume segments
of the Indian automobile
industry.
Alongside our aggressive
product introduction plans, we
are also determined to offer
customers the best experience
with our brand and will
continue to introduce several
initiatives towards achieving
that," pointed out Sawhney.
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IPL 2015:
Gautam Gambhir, Suryakumar Yadav
drive KKR home in opener against MI
Agenciese
Kolkata, Apr 9 :
Kolkata Knight Riders launched their
title defence on a perfect note as skipper
Gautam Gambhir and Suryakumar
Yadav drove them to a seven-wicket win
over Mumbai Indians in the IPL-8 T20
cricket tournament opener here today.
Chasing 169 for a win, Gambhir's 43ball 57 (7x4, 1x6) led the KKR charge,
while Suryakumar's unbeaten 46 off 20
deliveries helped them canter to their
target in 18.3 overs.
But it was the 85-run second wicket
partnership between Gambhir and No.3
Manish Pandey (40) that set up the
chase.
There was some respite after the
visitors dismissed the duo but ironically
they found their nemesis in a familiar
Mumbaikar Suryakumar, who led
Mumbai in Ranji Trophy this season.
The talented youngster, who came in
at 121/3 with 48 required from 34 balls,
hit some sensational shots that included
a four and 5 sixes. Yusuf Pathan was
also unbeaten on 14.
Corey Anderson, Jasprit Bumrah and
Harbhajan Singh picked up a wicket
each.
Umesh Yadav bore the brunt of
Sharma's fury as six of his 12
boundaries came against the India ace
speedster.
Put in, the visitors lost two wickets in
three balls and looked shaky 37/3 after a
fiery spell from man-of-the-match
Morne Morkel (2/18) but Sharma, who
had struck an ODI world record 264
here in November last year, was again in
his elegant best.
Sharma dissected the field with
elegance and picked Indian speedster
Umesh Yadav as his bunny en route to
his 22nd IPL half-century.
Sharma's 98 not out came from 65
balls studded with 12 boundaries and
four sixes and was ably supported by
Kiwi allrounder Anderson who
remained unbeaten on 55 from 41 balls
(4x4, 3x6) in a 131-run undefeated
partnership.
After all the hoopla surrounding his
action, Knight Riders trump card
spinner Sunil Narine did not look in his
usual self and returned wicketless with
28 runs from his four overs.
The West Indian looked under
pressure and the umpire was seen
talking to him during his second spell.
Narine began with a widish full toss
and the Mumbai skipper was quick to
punish it for an easy boundary.
Sharma had earlier made his intention
clear hitting Yadav for three boundaries
in the third over.
The star Indian opener was at his
explosive best when he smashed three
fours and one six as Yadav leaked 21
runs in the 15th over.
It gave the much needed impetus to
the Mumbai Indians run-rate that went
under six after the three quick wickets
and some clever captaincy by Gambhir.
While Yadav was expensive and
conceded 15 runs for his two overs,
Morkel was the pick of the lot and
Gambhir made the South African
speedster run through his quota of four
overs from the High Court end.
Morkel dismissed Mumbai Indians
star recruit Aaron Finch (5) cheaply
when the Australian World Cup winning
opener top-edged one to deep square leg
and gave a second breakthrough in
Ambati Rayudu (0) in his penultimate
over. In between, Gambhir cleverly
brought in Shakib who foxed Tare (7)
with his flight as the Mumbai
wicketkeeper stepped out but only to
mistime it to long off.
But he was severely let down by his
fielders.
Andre Russell dropped Anderson on
23, a regulation catch at mid-on, while
part-time wicketkeeper Robin Uthappa
not only missed an outside edge of
Sharma but missed a stumping when the
Mumbai Indians skipper was on 70.
sports meet of JU
Big 7-wkt win for CWC Inter-department
in CGEWCC T20 Department of Geography
Sports & Allied News
Jammu, April 09:
Centre Water Commission
(CWC) today registered an
emphatic seven-wicket win
against Geological Survey of
India (GSI) to reach the
semifinals stages of the
ongoing Twenty20 Cricket
Tournament under the banner
of Centre Government
Employees Welfare
Coordination Committee
(CGEWCC) at GGM Science
College Hostel Ground, here.
Batting first, after winning
the toss, GSI lost all their
wickets for just 65 runs in
16.3 overs.
Arun Dev remained top
scorer with 14 runs while
Parveen added 11. No other
batsman could touch the
double figure mark.
From CWC, Ankush and
SK Shukla bowled deadly
spells taking away three
wickets each. Brij Bushan
bagged two while Bilala nd
Manish shared apiece each.
In reply, Centre Water
Commission (CWC) attained
the goal making 68 runs in
10.1 overs for the loss of three
wickets.
Raj Kumar steered the team
to an easy win contributing 31
runs off 28 deliveries. Brij
Bushan contributed 11 runs to
the team's total.
Varun, Tarsem and Deepak
were the wicket takers from
Geological Survey of India
(GSI).
Today's match officiated by
Shashi Jamwal and Sanjeev
Kumar as umpires while
Rattan Lal was scorer.
Among those present were
chairman of CGEWCC sports
committee, BS Bhan, Subash
Bhagat, Mahesh Sharma,
Ashok Chadha and Desh
Kumar Sharma.
NEXT MATCH:
Intelligence Bureau (IB) shall
take on Accountant General
(AG) Office XI at 9 am
tomorrow.
bags volleyball title
Sports & Allied News
JAMMU, April 09:
Department of Geography
clinched the men's volleyball
title after they beat The Law
School in straight but close sets
of 25-21, 26-24 in the ongoing
inter-department sports meet of
University of Jammu (JU),
organised by the Directorate of
Sports and Physical Education
on the campus grounds, here
today.
Earlier, in the semifinals, the
Law
School
outplayed
Department of Chemistry 2-0
(25-16, 25-18) while Department
of Geography trounced
Department of Physical
Education 2-0 (25-18, 25-20).
Meanwhile, the women's table
tennis final won by Department
of Chemistry. In the title clash
that took place today,
Department of Chemistry
defeated Department of Physical
Education 2-0.
The Detailed Results:
BADMINTON: WOMEN:
Department of Physical
Education bt Department of
Chemistry 2-1; Department of
Physical
Education
bt
Department of Mathematics 2-1;
Department of Political Science
bt Department of Law 2-1.
MEN: Department of Physical
Education bt Department of
Political
Science
2-0;
Department of Law bt
Department of Commerce 2-1;
Department of Physical
Education bt The Business
School (MBA) 2-0; The Law
School bt Department of
Mathematics 2-0.
TABLE TENNIS: MEN:
Department of Zoology bt
Department of Mathematics 2-0;
The Business School (MBA) bt
Department of Physical
Education 2-0; Department of
Commerce bt Department of
Law 2-1.
CARROM: MEN: The
Department of Law bt The
Business School 2-0. WOMEN:
Department of Law bt
Department of Chemistry 2-0;
The Law School bt Department
of Biotechnology 2-0.
CHESS: MEN: The Law
School bt Department of
Commerce 2-1; The Business
School bt Department of
Chemistry 2-1. WOMEN:
Department of Law bt
Department of Chemistry 2-1;
Department of Commerce bt
Department of Geography 2-0.
CRICKET: Department of
Biotechnology bt Department of
Dogri by 37 runs; Department of
Commerce bt Department of
Life Long Learning by six
wickets.
Today's events officiated by
the technical penal comprising
Sushil Kumar Sawhney, Raj
Kumar Bakshi, Ravish Vaid,
Vikas Karlopia, Gagan Kumar,
Sadiq Hussain, Vijay Dogra and
Jagtar Singh.
Winners of sports mela pose with chief guest, DySP, Mohd Rafi Geeri at Degree
College grounds, Poonch on Thursday.
Malik Club dominates
in Poonch sports mela
Sports & Allied News
Poonch, April 09:
Malik Club completely
dominated in the two-day sports
mela winning all the team
events of volleyball, kabaddi,
tug of war and excelling in
athletics at Government Degree
College, here today. Mela was
organised by Nehru Yuva
Kendra.
After winning the volleyball
Wednesday's clash between
Kolkata Knight Riders and
Mumbai Indians was the first
match of IPL 8. It was played
only 10 days after the World
Cup finished. Sunil Narine
didn't play in the World Cup.
But he bowled the 7th over of
the opening game of IPL 8. Why
did Narine not play the World
Cup, the biggest tournament of
them all, a tournament that
teams and players plan ahead
for and a tournament that only
shows up once every 4 years?
(Sunil Narine 2.0, Sizzle or
Fizzle)
Narine's bowling action was
first reported as suspect in the
Champions League Twenty20 in
October last year. After that he
was under the watchful eye of
Kolkata Knight Riders. He did
not play international cricket for
more than 3 months. Narine
worked with coaches in
Trinidad and Dr Daryl Foster in
Perth, Australia. He would
Sunil Narine made a
wicket-less return to
the bowling crease
for the Kolkata
Knight Riders in the
first match of the
2015 Indian Premier
League. The West
Indies spinner was
cleared to bowl by
the BCCI days before
the glitzy T20
tournament got
under way.
eventually return in West Indies'
domestic tournamet, Nagico
Super50, and help his side
Trinidad and Tobago win the
tourney with 6 wickets in the
final. Shortly after he decided to
pull out of the World Cup saying
'Whilst I am very happy with the
progress made to date with my
action, and I express my thanks
to the coaches working with me
in Trinidad and Dr Daryl Foster
in Perth, Australia, I am
withdrawing from the World
Cup.' The question is 'aren't 6
wickets enough to make you
believe your action is fine to
help West Indies fight for the
World Cup?' (Narine Finishes
Wicketless on Return to
Bowling Crease)
West Indies went Narine-less
to the World Cup and put up a
sorry performance. 1 day after
the World Cup final came a
report which said that Kolkata
was threatening to pull out of
the IPL if Narine's action wasn't
allowed to play. 6 days after the
World Cup and 3 days before
KKR's match in the IPL that
Narine's action was cleared by
the BCCI committee. The
timing is suspect to anyone.
"The committee concluded
that Mr. Sunil Narine, who had
remodelled his bowling action,
was within the ICC approved
limits for all types of deliveries
that were assessed and has
hence recommended to the
BCCI, that his name may be
removed from the warning list
of bowlers with suspect action,"
a BCCI press release said.
Dean Jones told NDTV that
'Narine has till date not been
tested by the ICC machinery'
which has cracked down on
committee and chairman of
Shaheed Manjit Singh Club,
Mohd Tariq, speaking to the
gathering, appreciated the
Nehru Yuva Kendra (NYK) for
involving youth in constructive
activities.
Vote of thanks present were
manager, incharge NYK,
Pooch, Kamal Sharma. Also
present were Mohd Qasim and
manager, J&K Bank, Krishan
Lal.
Saina Nehwal drops a
place to World No. 2 in
badminton rankings
Agenicese
Martina Hingis
returns to Swiss
Fed Cup team
after 17 years
Saina Nehwal of India
displays her gold medal after
winning her women's singles
final match against Ratchanok
Intanon of Thailand at the
Yonex Sunrise India Open
2015 at the Siri Fort Sports
complex in New Delhi. (AFP
Photo/Sajjad Hussain)
Ace Indian shuttler Saina
Nehwal's stay at the top of the
table was cut short as she
dropped a place to World No.
2 in the latest Badminton
World Federation (BWF)
rankings released on Thursday. The Olympic bronzemedallist had reached a career
best World No. 1 last week but
owing to her loss in the
Malaysia Open Super Series
Premier semifinals, Saina
dropped a position in the list.
She lost to reigning Olympic
champion Li Xuerui, who
regained the top spot.
Tennis legend Martina Hingis
Switzerland's Fed Cup team after a
17-year in a hope to play in the 2016
Rio Olympics.
The 34-year-old will play is now
part of the Swiss Fed Cup team,
which will take on Poland in their
World Group play-off on 18-19
April. Timea Bacsinszky, Stefanie
Voegele and Viktorija Golubic are
the other member of the team.
The former world number last
represented her country in the 1998
Fed Cup defeat to Spain. And she
must play in the women's team
competition to become eligible to
compete in Rio. The five-time
Grand Slam singles champion has
resurrected her playing career after
pairing with Indians Leander Paes in
mixed-doubles and Sania Mirza in
women's doubles. With Leander, she
won the 2015 Australian Open title.
Recently, she teamed-up with Mirza
to capture Indian Wells and Miami
doubles titles.
New Delhi, Apr 9:
The
shuttler
from
Hyderabad became the first
Indian woman to reach the
numero uno position after
winning the India Open title
last month.
She has currently opted out
of the ongoing Singapore
Open to prepare for the
gruelling season ahead.
Meanwhile, PV Sindhu,
who has not been playing for
some time due to an injury,
managed to retain her No. 9
ranking. In men's singles,
Kidambi Srikanth has also
maintained his No. 4 position
to remain the highest-ranked
Indian male. HS Prannoy has
also remained at No. 14, while
Commonwealth
Games
champion Parupalli Kashyap
climbed up two places to be at
No. 15. The 2010
Commonwealth Games goldmedallist pair of Jwala Gutta
and Ashwini Ponnappa also
gained a place to be ranked
No. 18 in women's doubles.
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 9:
Zinedine Zidane admits Real Madrid's
interest in Raheem Sterling
New Delhi, Apr 9:
Raheem Sterling's Liverpool
career may be heading for a limbo
following contractual indecision,
but the young England player has
received a moral booster. Real
Madrid Castilla manager Zinedine
Zidane has admitted that the
European champions are
monitoring Raheem Sterling
Kolkata Knight Riders Spinner Sunil Narine May
Not Play for West Indies Again: Dean Jones
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 9:
title yesterday, Malik Club
defeated Kalai Club 37-34 in
the final today amidst
appreciations from a healthy
gathering of sports lovers at the
college ground. In the finals
and prize distribution function,
Deputy Superintendent of
Police (DySP), Mohd Rafi
Geeri was the chief guest, who
gave away the title trophies as
also other individual prizes.
Earlier, part of the organising
suspect bowling actions. He has
not played a single international
match ever since first being
reported in the Champions
League T20, even skipping the
World Cup. But the moment the
power of the BCCI and KKR
are behind him he has returned
to action.
The obvious question is - Is
Narine afraid of competing in
tournaments played under the
eye of ICC?
''If he goes and plays in
tournaments under the purview
of the ICC, he is opening
himself up to be reported by the
ICC. If he is reported.
He faces a one year
ban/suspension. The other
choice he has is to maintain the
status quo of playing in the IPL
where his action has been
passed by the BCCI. So even
though he might be losing
around 70,000 USD by not
playing for West Indies he still
maintains his contract with
KKR which is far more
lucrative. So I feel he may never
play for the West Indies again'.
situation at Anfield, according to
reports. "We know about Sterling
and we're obviously following his
progress. There aren't many
players in the world that could
improve Real Madrid's first team,
so it makes sense to closely
monitor the progress of one of the
best young players in the world,”
Zidane was qouted as saying by
Spanish daily MAR-CA. Legendary midfielder expl-ained, "We
followed (Gareth) Bale for over a
year and the same can also be said
for Isco and (Raphael) Varane. We
keep an eye on the best young
players in Europe, and if they
have something to offer Real
Madrid then we contact their club
and try to take the next step".
Agencies
London, Apr 9:
Frank Lampard and Christine
Bleakley may be engaged, but
the pair having trouble deciding
their wedding date, putting
things on standby. While talking
to Hello! Magazine, the 36year-old TV presenter said that
things were 'slightly up in the
air' as they weren't sure when
the former England midfielder,
also 36, had to head off for New
York City FC, the Mirror
reported.
Football: Frank Lampard,
Christine Bleakley put hold
on wedding proceedings
Bleakley, who'll soon be seen be
presenting ITV documentary
series 'Wild Ireland,' also
cleared the rumors saying that
she was definitely not planning
to move to the US, and would
remain in her homely London
while Lampard played football
in the states. Frank-Lampard
Frank Lampard has put his
wedding on stand by as for now
Mini football team
named for Nationals
Sports & Allied News
JAMMU, April 09:
Jammu and Kashmir Mini
Football Association today
selected the state team for the
upcoming All India Mini
Football (under-19 year)
Championship to be held at
Sunder Nagar in Himachal
Pradesh from April 11 to April 13
under the auspicious of Indian
Mini Football Associa-tion.
Earlier, the selected probable
underwent trials followed by the
coaching camp held under the
guidance of experts in the field.
The Team: Nakul Sharma
(Captain), Gokul, Mehul, Sahil,
Sampuran, Rohan, Kanav,
Himanshu, Aditya, Sant, Vasu
and Paras. Meanwhile, the
selected team interacted with
Director Sports and Physical
Education, University of Jammu,
Prof Dhian Singh Bhau, who
encouraged the boys.
at LoC
Lakhvi's release belies Pak's Violence
must stop for Indo-Pak
claim of curbing terror: Nikam talks to restart: BJP
Agencies
Mumbai, Apr 9:
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 9:
The release of Zaki-ur Rehman
Lakhvi, the mastermind of 2008
Mumbai terror attacks, by the
Lahore High Court "exposes the
futile effort of Pakistan in
showing that it was serious about
curbing terrorism," special public
prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said
here today.
When criminal conspiracy
behind the attacks had been
hatched on Pakistan's soil, why
the intelligence agency of that
country did not collect and
produce evidence, asked Nikam,
who was the prosecutor in the trial
of Ajmal Kasab, the lone Pakistani
terrorist captured alive during the
attacks, before the Mumbai court.
Why Pakistan was seeking
evidence from India when Lakhvi
had hatched the conspiracy in
Pakistan as revealed by Kasab in
his testimony before the Indian
court, he said. "This blame-game
by Pakistan shows its double
The Bharatiya Janata Party on
Thursday said that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's
policy regarding Pakistan is
being hampered by the violence
taking place at the Line of
Control (LoC), adding that the
government's policy regarding
the Islamic Republic has
remained consistent since it
entered office last May.
"The Prime Minister is
reiterating his policy. If one
looks into his stand over the
past ten months there is a sense
of stability in the Government's
approach towards Pakistan.
The Prime Minister has said
today that we would want to
engage with Pakistan and that
there has to be reciprocation
from Pakistan as well," BJP
spokesperson GVL Narasimha
Rao told a news agency.
"Pakistan is responsible for
all the attacks at the LoC. When
standard in respect of the terrorists
who launch attacks from that
country and also from inside
India," Nikam said. The Indian
government had provided
sufficient material evidence to
Pakistan about terrorist acts
committed by Kasab and nine
others who caused mayhem in
Mumbai during November 26-28,
2008, claiming many lives,
Nikam said.
The Lahore High Court today
suspended the detention of 55year-old
Lakhvi
under
Maintenance of Public Order after
the Pakistan government failed to
present sensitive records against
him in the court. Nikam noted
that a judicial commission from
Pakistan had visited Mumbai and
Lakhvi's lawyer had crossexamined the Mumbai magistrate
who had recorded Kasab's
confession. The lawyer also
grilled the investigation officer.
Yemen rescue operation one of
India's biggest achievements: Jaitley
Agencies
Bhopal, Apr 9:
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
on Thursday termed India's
exercise to rescue stranded
people from war-ravaged
Yemen as country's "one of the
biggest achievements so far".
"Whatever has happened in
Yemen, I think it is India's one
of the biggest achievements so far.
Besides Indians, we have rescued
people of 32 other nations," Jaitley said
while addressing the two-day Madhya
Pradesh BJP's state executive meeting.
He said India's rescue operation in
Yemen has been "creditable". "Earlier,
we used to think how Israel managed to
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save its people, but what
India has done is
creditable," he said. Jaitley,
who is also the Information
and Broadcasting Minister,
urged the media to take up
the matter with more
seriousness and analyse it
deeply.
India has so far rescued
over 4,500 people from
Yemen in the rescue operation. The
strife-torn country has been witnessing
fierce battle between Saudi-led coalition
and Shiite rebels, who have battled their
way into various cities of Yemen
including in the former stronghold of
President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
who has fled overseas.
things become normal,
automatically bilateral dialogue
will continue," he added.
Meanwhile, Congress leader
PC Chacko said the government
has been unable to convey its
policy to Pakistan.
"We have always been open
to talk with Pakistan. But the
violence is still continuing,
hence there cannot be talks with
Pakistan," he said.
"India started high level talks,
but these talks were stopped
midway.
These Foreign Secretary
level talks should have
concluded by now and we
should have conveyed what we
feel to them. Whatever the
Prime Minister may be saying,
is not going to help India's
interests," he added.
Earlier, Prime Minister Modi,
in an interview with a national
daily, had said that India will
only conduct bilateral talks with
Pakistan in an environment free
of terrorism and violence.
Agencies
Italian marines case:
Two Central Excise Dept
employees arrested by CBI
Agencies
Chennai, Apr 9:
CBI on Thursday arrested two
employees of Central Excise in
connection with a graft case and
recovered incriminating documents after
conducting searches at five places.
The Anti Corruption Branch of CBI
'trapped' Chandrasekar, Superintendent
of Central Excise for demanding and
accepting a bribe of Rs 11,000 for
himself and one Assistant Commissioner
Lionel Fernandez, the agency said in a
release. They were arrested on a
complaint from R Bojan, Managing
Partner of RBS Group for handing over
copy of Accepted General Bond for Rs
20 lakh in favour of the company for
Funny Photo
procurement of Excisable Goods for
Export without payment of Excise duty
and for issuing a certificate against the
said General Bond, the release said.
"The accused (Chandrasekar) was
caught red handed while demanding and
accepting the bribe and on further
questioning it was revealed that the bribe
amount was shared with Lionel
Fernandez. Subsequently, he was also
arrested," it said.
They were produced before a Special
CBI court, which remanded them to
custody.
Searches were conducted at five
places and incriminating documents
were seized. An amount of Rs 29.15 lakh
in cash and Rs 18.50 lakh worth FDRs
were seized, it added.
SC allows Massimiliano Latorre
to stay in Italy till July 15
New Delhi, Apr 9:
Italian Marine Massimiliano
Latorre, who along with a
colleague, is accused of killing
two Indian fishermen three
years ago, was today allowed by
the Supreme Court to remain in
Italy for three more months on
medical grounds.
"We grant the extension till
July 15," said a three-judge
bench of justices AR Dave,
Kurian Joseph and Amitava
Roy, after taking on record the
undertaking of Latorre that he
would abide by the conditions
imposed by the apex court.
The bench also asked senior
advocates Soli Sorabjee and
KTS Tulsi, appearing for the
Italian Marine, not to delay the
hearing of the petition by which
the jurisdiction of the National
Investigation Agency (NIA) to
probe the case has been
challenged.
"There should be some
progress in the case," the bench
said and queried about the status
of trial and setting up of the
special court for prosecuting the
marines in the case.
On being told that the trial is
stayed by the apex court on the
plea of marines, the bench said,
"Let the issue be decided,
otherwise the sword will be
hanging on their heads." It also
asked the Supreme Court
registry to list the petition of
marines, also including coaccused Salvatore Girone, to be
listed for hearing in the last
week of April.
Tulsi said the plea
challenging NIA's right to probe
the deaths was filed as the
Centre, in an affidavit, has said
that the Suppression of
Unlawful Acts Against Safety of
Maritime Navigation and Fixed
Platforms on Continental Shelf
Act (also known as SUA Act)
does not apply in the case.
Latorre, who had suffered a
brain stroke on August 31, last
year, was allowed by the apex
court on September 12 last year
to go to Italy for four months.
The apex court had also taken
on record an "unequivocal" and
"unambiguous" undertaking by
Latorre regarding the dates of
departure and arrival back to
India.
The apex court had also taken
on record the undertaking
furnished by the Italian
Ambassador on behalf of the
Republic of Italy that the ailing
marine would abide by all terms
and conditions set for his travel
to his native country.
The case against marines
pertains to the killing of two
Indian fishermen allegedly by
Latorre and Girone on board
ship 'Enrica Lexie' off Kerala
coast on February 15, 2012.
Singh - before he came out of
the elevator.
"We were coming by the
lift...it got stuck... you become
claustrophobic... we had to
climb a stool to get out... It was
then that I decided that first the
CRPF DG should come out of
the lift, then my MoS
(Chaudhary)... and then only I
will come out after evacuating
others. "So, why I am saying all
this... because one should do his
or her work keeping in mind
others' well-being and one
should work with pious
thoughts," he said.
Officials who were present
during the short duration
incident said Singh's OSD first
came out of the stuck lift and
then he and others pulled out the
other three. The lift in the CRPF
'Shaurya' premises here is
placed to ferry people from the
ground floor to the first where
the auditorium is located.
Officials said they could see
palpable tension on the faces of
security
officials
who
accompany the Home Minister,
who enjoys 'Z+' category
security by 'Black Cat'
commandos of NSG, besides
other personnel for proximate
security.
The home minister quipped
that all those present during the
incident had a hearty laugh to
know that ITBP chief Krishna
Chaudhary was the "heaviest"
amongst all the paramilitary
chiefs as he had to stay out from
the lift for the next ferry.
urea manufacturing facility in
Turkmenistan and opening a
representative office by ONGC
Videsh Ltd in Ashgabat.
Swaraj and Meredov agreed
on joint efforts to expedite the
implementation of the TAPI
pipeline project. India and
Turkmenistan also discussed
bilateral cooperation in the oil
and gas sector, specifically
fertilisers and petrochemicals,
and agreed to expedite mutually
beneficial cooperation in this
field. The Turkmenistan
Afghanist-an Pakistan India
(TAPI) gas project is an over
1,800 km pipeline with design
capacity to supply 3.2 billion
cubic feet of natural gas per
annum from Turkmenistan to
Afghanistan, Pakistan and
India. It is expected to be
operational by 2018.
TAPI will carry gas from
Turkmenistan's Galkynysh field
that holds gas reserves of 16
trillion cubic feet.
From the field, the pipeline
will run to Herat and Kandahar
province of Afghanistan, before
entering Pakistan, where it will
reach Multan via Quetta before
ending at Fazilka in Punjab in
India. Turkmenistan possesses
the world's fourth-largest
reserves of natural gas and
substantial oil resources.
The Galkynysh gas field has
the second-largest volume of
gas in the world, after the South
Pars field in the Persian Gulf.
Rajnath stranded in lift,
Anaesthetic gases also responsible for climate scales
wall to come out
change and rising temperature of earth
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A
ccording to Martin
Vollmer,
the
atmospheric chemist at
Swiss Federal Laboratories,
and the lead researcher of this
study, a kg of desflurane is
same as 2,500 kilograms of
CO2 that results in greenhouse
warming. However, the
Anaesthetic gases are more
effective in context with the
impacts of greenhouse-gas,
unlike carbon dioxide.
The research says that in past
10 years, there has been
concentration of gases like
sevoflurane, desflurane and
isoflurane,
which
are
increasing at the global level
and the compounds of these
concentrations of anaesthetics
are as segregated as the field.
Anaesthetic gases also
responsible for climate change
and rising temperature of earth
How anaesthesia gases tend to
increase Earth’s temperature?
Carbon dioxide is the most
popular climate warmer. Just
like carbon dioxide, these
anaesthesia gases facilitate an
atmosphere in accumulating
and storing greater energy from
Sun. but, these gases are extra
potent in this effect than the
CO2.
Martin Vollmer explains that
on the basis of kg-per-kg, the
anaesthesia gases become more
potent. ‘
The researchers unveiled
that in the year 2014, desflurane atmospheric concentration was 0.30 parts per trillion
or ppt. Meanwhile, the
halothane, isoflurane and
sevoflurane came in 0.0092
ppt, 0.097 ppt and 0.13 ppt,
respectively.
In the research, the most
common form of anaesthesia,
i.e., nitrous oxide was not
included because it comes from
various other sources as well.
Reviewer of this research,
anaesthesiologist Jodi Sherman
at Yale University School of
Medicine, said that the gas
abundance of Anaesthesia is
rising high and this should not
be left unseen.
Jodi Sherman added that
desflurane does not have
anything unique that cannot be
tackled. It can be dealt with, in
a same manner like other drugs.
She explained that it was
possible to work even without
Desflurane. The study was
published in Geophysical
Research Letters journal on the
Internet.
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 9:
Home minister Rajnath Singh
on Thursday got stuck in a lift
and had to climb a stool to scale
the wall, sending his security
officials into a tizzy for a while.
The incident happened when
Singh went to visit a Central
Reserve Police Force complex
in South Delhi to attend the
'Valour Day' celebrations of the
central paramilitary force.
Describing the incident,
while addressing the function,
the home minister said he
himself took the initiative to
evacuate three others - minister
of state for home Haribhai
Chaudhary, CRPF chief Prakash
Mishra and Singh's OSD BK
Bobcat drags shark out of Chainsaw road rage caught TAPI construction to begin
this year: Turkmen President
on camera in Quebec
water on Florida beach
Offbeat
VERO BEACH, Fla.,
A Florida photographer captured the
moment a bobcat dragged a 4-foot-long
shark out of the water and onto the beach.
John Bailey said he was walking
Monday through Sebastian Inlet State
Park in Vero Beach when he spotted a
bobcat looking out into the water.
Bailey said the
feline appeared to
be watching a shark
feeding on small
fish in the shallows
before the bobcat
pounced into the
water and dragged
the 4-foot shark out
onto the beach.
The
photo
snapped by Bailey
shows the bobcat
dragging the shark
by its tail. Bailey said he may have gotten
too close to the bobcat while taking the
picture, as the animal appeared to
have been spooked and ran off without its
prey. Wildlife experts said it is not
uncommon for bobcats to wander Florida
beaches, but they are not often caught on
camera.
Sweet-toothed bear burglar
raids Florida kitchen
ESTERO, FLA: A Florida woman noises and bear noises." ‘z
investigating a sound she thought to be
her husband getting ready for work
discovered a black bear raiding the
chocolate from her kitchen.
Caroline Tidwell of Estero said she
awoke Friday to sounds she initially
believed to be her husband getting ready
for work, but she soon determined the
noises did not sound human.
"It almost sounded like the Venetian
blinds were off track, so it was like tick,
tick, tick tick - and then we heard the
furniture moving around," she told
WBBH-TV. "He was making slobbering
The source of the noise turned out to be
a black bear estimated to weigh 300 to
400 pounds. Tidwell said she feared for
the lives of her cats, but it turned out the
bear was feasting on the family's Easter
chocolate while the felines stayed safe
atop cabinets.
The resident, who snapped a photo of
the bear as it walked away from her
house, said the animal returned to her
property the following day. "We opened
the window and just banged on the pot
and said 'go away bear' and he went
away," she said.
ST. JEROME: A Quebec family who revved and tapped on their car window
followed a motorist they said cut them off
in traffic captured video of the motorist
threatening them with a chainsaw.
Alexandre Hermenier and Karine Cyr
said they were driving with their two
young children Sunday in St. Jerome
when they were cut off by another
motorist.
Hermenier decided to follow the
vehicle and block it from leaving the
scene while Cyr called police.
The couple said the other motorist got
out of his vehicle with a chainsaw that he
while shouting profanities at them.
The children can be heard shouting and
crying in the back seat of the car in a
video of the confrontation Cyr recorded
with her cellphone and posted to
Facebook.
Manuel Delisle, 37, was arrested
Monday and pleaded not guilty Tuesday
to a charge of armed assault.
He was given a conditional release and
ordered to steer clear of the family and
avoid any contact with them. Delisle is
due back in court July 7.
Customs: Man's underpants
load of heroin worth $61,000
Kennedy International
Airport on a flight from
Bogota, and officers
conducting a search of his
body found two cylinders
containing a brown
powdery substance in the
groin area of his underwear.
The substance tested
positive for heroin. Customs
officials said the about 2
pounds of heroin has an
estimated street value of
more than $61,000.
NEW YORK : Customs officers in
"This seizure is just another example
New York said a man entering the
of our CBP officers being ever vigilant
country from Colombia was found to be in protecting the United States from the
hiding $61,000 worth of heroin in the distribution of these illicit drugs," said
crotch of his underwear.
Robert Perez, director of CBP's New
U.S. Customs and Border Protection York Field Operations.
said Colombian citizen Ivan Rodrigo
Vidal Forero was arrested on federal
Vidal Forero arrived April 1 at John F. narcotics-smuggling charges.
Agencies
Ashgabat, Apr 9:
Turkmenistan
President
Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov
has committed to deepen ties
with India and begin
construction of the USD 10
billion TAPI gas pipeline
project this year, as the two
countries sought to step up
collaboration in the energy
sector and fertiliser production.
President Berdymuhamedov
committed to strengthen ties
with India during a meeting
with External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj at the presidential palace here yesterday.
Swaraj, who co-chaired the
fifth India-Turkmenistan InterGovernmental Joint Commission on Trade, Economic,
Scientific and Technological
Cooperation with her Turkmen
counterpart Rashid Meredov,
termed it as a "preparatory"
meeting for Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's first visit to
this country in July.
"Committed to deepening
India-Turkmenistan ties. #TAPI
construction to begin this year.
President Berdymuhamedov to
EAM @SushmaSwaraj," a
Ministry of External Affairs
tweet said. During the minister's
maiden visit to the Central
Asian country, the two nations
agreed to collaborate in the
energy sector and discussed key
bilateral and regional issues,
including defence cooperation.
Plans are afoot to set up a
Salman Family Restaurant
Police Line, W. No. 17, Kathua.
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Panaji, Apr 7: Using veteran BJP
leader LK Advani`s convent education as a defence, the Congress
on Tuesday attacked the ruling
BJP in Goa for failing to act
against its ministers and their kin
for making comments against
Christian-run schools. "Advani
studied in a convent school... I
hope he is not involved in any
(crime) she claims this kind of
education brings," a Congress
spokesperson told the media here.
Advani, a former deputy prime
minister, was born in Karachi in
1927 and was educated at the St
Patrick High School in that city.
The Congress criticism follows
statements on Sunday by Lata
Dhavalikar, wife of cabinet
minister Deepak Dhavalikar who
claimed that Western culture was
to blame for rapes and urged
Hindu parents not to send their
children to convent schools.