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Molestation: 3 cops suspended
Minister Kitchloo visits 2 police stations in old city
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Coaching centres end strike
Valley shivers as mercury dips to sub-zero levels
Icicles hang from the roof of a chatel in Gulmarg on Monday. Tribune photo: Amir War
Handwara residents seek establishment of nursing college
Power supply restored in villages
Govt adds to miseries of people, alleges PDP
Rs 50,000 aid for fishermen to construct houses
Austere marriages gaining acceptance
Villagers kill leopard in Kupwara village
R-Day: ADGP reviews security arrangements
Bar team completes visit to Jammu jails
ACC win T20 cricket tourney
Parvez to practise with Team India at Mohali
House, cowshed damage in
fire
24 traders fined 106 stranded passengers airlifted Water tanker catches fire Police-public mela
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Molestation: 3 cops suspended
Kulgam, January 21 Protests rocked the village after a family alleged that an all-men police party raided their house on Saturday night and molested two of their teenaged daughters after beating the family members. The girls along with their father and brother, according to the family, were detained at the Kulgam police station throughout the night. The police, however, had refuted the allegations. “No night raid was conducted at the Sheikh household. The family members were arrested on Sunday morning and released after questioning,” Kulgam Superintendent of Police (SP) Muhammad Shafi had said. He stated that none of the family members was beaten up or girls were molested. “It was the family members of Sheikh who attacked the police personnel inside their house. Their elder son is involved in many cases, including gambling,” the SP had maintained. He had stated that the family members had inflicted the injury marks upon themselves to frame the police in a bad light. On Monday, the DC said he visited the house and talked to the family members. “I have ordered an inquiry. The Additional Deputy Development Commissioner will head the inquiry and submit a report within 15 days,” said the DC. He said he had also directed the SP to collect prima facie evidence from the house and act accordingly. Meanwhile, the SP has put under suspension a sub-inspector, a head constable and a constable, believed to have conducted the raid. “The services of a special police officer have been disengaged. Moreover, the SHO has been line attached,” said a police source.
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Minister Kitchloo visits 2 police stations in old city
Srinagar, January 21 He interacted with officers and police personnel deputed there. The Minister, who was accompanied by Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Ashiq Hussain Bukhari, received a guard of honour on his arrival. Both police stations, Safa Kadal and M R Gunj, have been at the forefront of a major crackdown against protesters in the aftermath of 2008 and 2010 street protests. The areas falling under the two stations include several volatile neighbourhoods of the old city where protests had become a daily routine during street unrests in the previous years. The Minister appreciated the role of officers and police personnel deputed there for maintaining law and order and keeping a check on crimes, a police spokesman said. Kitchloo, who succeeded Nasir Aslam Wani and was given the new portfolio to look after the Home Department in the recent Cabinet reshuffle, also lauded the policemen for being the front runners in rescue and rehabilitation of people in case of any natural calamity, the spokesman said. “The Minister stressed upon the policemen to hone their soft skills while dealing with people, as general public look upon the police with lot of expectations,” the spokesman said. Kitchloo had on Sunday held his first security review meeting with senior officers of the police department at the Police Control Room here and had stressed upon the officers to develop better police-public relations at the grass root level to mitigate problems and grievances of the public.
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Coaching centres end strike
Srinagar, January 21 “You rightly complain about school/college infrastructure but accept rubbish from these centres. Why? No toilets, heating, rooms?” Omar posted on Twitter. He said there was no ban on coaching centres, but they had been asked to improve their infrastructure as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the coaching centres have called off their three days long strike and will resume their routine work from tomorrow. The district administration has agreed to the demands of the Coaching Centres Association (CCA) in relaxing the deadline till April for the implementation of the guidelines which were detailed earlier. In a meeting convened today by Kashmir Divisional Commissioner Asgar Saamon which was attended by Director, School Education, Muhammad Shafi Rather, District Commissioner, Srinagar, Baseer Ahmad Khan and representatives of the CCA, it was decided that all coaching centres should provisionally register themselves with the School Education Department. “The infrastructure upgradation will take time, hence the provisional registration will be done by all coaching centres,” said GN Var, chairman, CCA. He said the district administration had also directed the coaching centres to constitute an interim body for the formulation as well as implementation of various rules which could also include moral principles. “We are not against the following of these guidelines. However, we wanted more time and we are thankful to the Chief Minister, district administration for giving us the same,” Var said. He said the single tutor system, which had invited criticism from parents and government, would be done away with and that various expert teachers would come under one institute to teach students.
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Valley shivers as mercury dips to sub-zero levels
Srinagar, January 21 In Leh town of the remote and snowbound Ladakh region, the minimum temperature fell to minus 20 degree Celsius, an official of the State Meteorological Department said. The maximum day temperature in Leh town was recorded at minus 1.8 degree Celsius. Earlier this month, Kargil recorded minus 20 degree Celsius on the night of January 7. The day temperature in Kargil district today rose to a maximum of 1 degree Celsius while the night temperature fell to minus 13.2 degree Celsius, the official said. In the city here, which recorded the coldest day of the season last week when mercury rose to a high of 1.8 degree Celsius, the maximum temperature on Monday was recorded at 6.4 degree Celsius. The night temperature in the city, however, overnight fell to minus 3 degree Celsius. The mercury in many part of the Valley had stabilised above freezing point over recent nights after heavy snowfall ended a spell of extreme cold. In Qazigund, the southern gateway town to the Kashmir valley, the minimum temperature settled at a low of minus 6.4 degree Celsius while the frontier Kupwara town in north Kashmir recorded the minimum temperature at minus 4.3 degree Celsius. In the skiing resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir, the mercury overnight fell to a low of minus 11.8 degree Celsius, the official said. At Pahalgam resort in south Kashmir, the mercury overnight fell to minus 13.2 degree Celsius while the day temperature there was recorded at a maximum of 2.2 degree Celsius, the official said.
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Handwara residents seek establishment of nursing college
Handwara, January 21 They said Handwara Tehsil comprising 352 villages has been deprived of such college and students were forced to go to Srinagar and outside the state
to pursue B Sc nursing, female multi-purpose health worker (FMPHW) course and a few
other courses at much higher cost. They appealed the Minister for Health to look into the matter and consider their genuine demand. “In absence of the AMT School and nursing college, many aspirants are forced to pursue job-oriented degrees, including B Sc nursing and FMPHW, from institutions located outside the state. A degree or course, which costs around Rs 50,000 in a government college, incurs at least two times more fee in private colleges outside the state,” said Sarpanch Nazir Ahmad of Wadder Bala village in Handwara. Locals said the AMT school in Kupwara has intake capacity of only 95 seats in FMPHW, general nursing and X-ray courses and it does not
offer any degree course in nursing. “There is a growing demand for B Sc nursing in contemporary times. Hundreds of aspirants are forced to go outside the state to pursing a degree in nursing at much higher cost in private colleges. A nursing college can benefit these aspirants,” said Ashiq Hussian of Bakiakar Handwara. Minister for Food and Supplies and Transport Chowdary Mohd Ramzan, who is also MLA from Handwara, said the
AMT school and nursing college was a long pending demand of people of the border district. “Earlier, a location has been marked for constructing a
nursing college in Handwara. The foundation stone of college hopefully will be laid this year,” said the minister. |
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Power supply restored in villages
“The power supply was restored to our village after four days. We were groping in darkness as the electricity supply to the village was snapped due to snowfall on Thursday,” said Abdul Hamid of Darpora in Lolab. A senior power official of the power division Kupwara said at many places electric poles were uprooted and lines snapped due to the snowfall. “Our field men worked hard in these inaccessible areas to restore the power. At some places, wooden poles were replaced by iron poles to ensure that they do not get damaged due to snowfall in the future,” he said. Residents of few villages in Handwara town complained that electric wires were lying suspended on polar trees and pose serious threat to human lives. “We appeal to the power department to erect iron or cement poles to avert the threat to human lives. Suspended electric lines always cause threat to our lives,” said Mohd Akbar of Kandi village. Locals of few other villages complained of low voltage. “Although the power supply was restored after four days but the voltage is too low and does not serve much purpose. It (the voltage) fails to illuminate a corner of a room,” said Shabir Ahmad of Chowkibal, 27 Km from Kupwara. |
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Govt adds to miseries of people, alleges PDP
Srinagar, January 21 Flaying the ruling party for ‘failing’ to reach out to the people, Yatoo said “The recent snowfall has exposed the tall claims of the government as most of the areas of the Valley are still cut off from the main city and the power supply has also not been restored in these areas.” “During these harsh cold days, long queues can be seen on LPG and ration counters for paper clearance and ration cards. Instead of taking appropriate steps, the government is enjoying luxuries in Jammu and Delhi. They are befooling people through the same old false and hollow claims,” he said. |
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Rs 50,000 aid for fishermen to construct houses
Srinagar, January 21 The official said 42 trout units were functioning in the state and the department has generated revenue worth Rs 1.9 crore last year through the Mother Trout Farm set up at
Kokernag. “Similarly, 481 units are functioning in the private sector for which the Trout Fish Feed Mill has been set up at Kokernag and another mill is being set up at Manasbal at a cost of Rs 2
crore. There are 197 trout units in the state, each unit fetches around Rs 2 lakh income annually to the beneficiaries,” he said. Later, the minister also took stock of the situation after heavy snowfall in the Kashmir division at a meeting, which was attended by Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon and other senior officers of the division. |
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Austere marriages gaining acceptance
Srinagar, January 21 “Over a hundred women from various areas of Srinagar came to the office of the HMCC this week and submitted resolutions to its chairman Fayaz Ahmad Zaroo resolving to shun bad customs and extravagance in marriage ceremonies,” HMCC general secretary Lateef Ahmad said. The women, he claimed, stated that they were influenced by the weekly radio programme of
“Humsafar”, which aims at social reforms by advising on women related issues, particularly the
marriages. Lateef said the women in their written resolutions had submitted that the programme had been able to change their views about the marriages and inspired them to take the step for observing austere marriages. The Humsafar radio programme is a talk show aired weekly on Radio Kashmir and is sponsored by the
HMCC. “They hailed the attempt of the HMCC for reforming the society and also expressed gratitude to the producer-director of the programme and appealed the authorities of Radio Kashmir to broadcast the programme twice a week and repeat its episodes,”
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Villagers kill leopard in Kupwara village
Kupwara, January 21 "When Farhad Ahmad, a student, went to collect a ball near the shed, the leopard pounced upon him. The animal wounded his hand and flee after boys raised an alarm," said Nisar Ahmad, a local resident. The boys were playing cricket near the school when the incident took place. News of the attack created a panic in the villager and villagers rushed to the spot with sticks and axes. After fleeing from the tin-shed, the leopard took refuge under a culvert, 300-metres from the school. The animal attacked and injured Abdul Salam Baba near the culvert when he was trying to find the animal. Meanwhile, the police and wildlife officials reached the spot and successfully tranquilised the animal to evacuate it to some safer place. The angry villagers, however, attacked the animal from all directions and killed him on the spot. "The angry villagers defied the restrictions and killed the three-year-old male leopard," said a wildlife official. |
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R-Day: ADGP reviews security arrangements
Srinagar, January 21 He said the ADGP was informed that sufficient manpower had been earmarked for deployment for security and maintenance of law and order during the Republic Day celebrations. "In addition, armed contingents would participate in the celebration for which the exercise has already been started at the Armed Police Complex,
Zewan," the official added. Rajendra stressed for better coordination with other agencies to foil any untoward incident besides ensuring peaceful and successful conduct of the Republic Day functions. While the main Republic Day celebrations here will be held at the Bakshi Stadium, arrangements related to snow clearance at the venue were discussed during the meeting. The meeting was also attended by
IGP, Kashmir, SM Sahai and other police officials. Later, Rajendra along with other senior police officers visited Bakshi Stadium and inspect venue of the parade. |
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Bar team completes visit to Jammu jails
Srinagar, January 21 “The Bar Association in a meeting held today expressed its satisfaction on the completion of the first phase of the jail visits by the designated team of lawyers headed by Bar vice-president Aijaz Bedar,” the spokesman said. The findings and observations related to the jail visit were discussed in the meeting, the spokesman said, adding that the team had compiled a detailed report, which would be made public soon. The other four members who accompanied Bedar included Bar general secretary Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, treasurer Bilal Ahmad Wani and advocates G N Shaheen and Hamid Shafi.
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ACC win T20 cricket tourney
Jammu, January 21 Batting first after winning the toss, DCC was skittled out for 165 runs in their allotted quota of overs, losing eight wickets in the process. Jyoti played a fine knock of 56 runs studded with five hits to the fence. Avnish, Kuldeep and Sadiq chipped in with handy innings of 15, 18 and 19 runs respectively. For ACC, Devender was the chief destroyer with a haul of four wickets whereas Yash and Nitish took two wickets apiece. In reply, ACC got off to a decent start. Opening batsmen Sumesh played a match winning knock of 67 runs and remained unbeaten. Rohit also contributed 34 runs while Nasir and Yogesh scored 17 and 15 runs respectively. For DCC, Dhruv, Vasu and Pardeep shared a wicket
apiece. Brief Scores: Diamond Cricket Club: 165-8 (Jyoti 56) Akash Cricket Club: 166-5 (Sumesh 67) |
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Parvez to practise with Team India at Mohali
Jammu, January 21 Parvez is among the five cricketers across the country, who have been summoned to join the team, for their outstanding performances in the Ranji Trophy this season. Earlier, the cricketer was selected for India A
team for his brilliant display and was also called alongwith Ishwar Pandey of MP and Mohit Mahipal Sharma of Haryana for
the nets at Kotla in New Delhi. Meanwhile, Parvez has also been called to National Cricket Academy (NCA), Bangalore, for screening programme from January 26 to January 29. He was among the top three performers of the state at Ranji trophy, including all-rounder Ramdayal
Punia, who took a haul of 29 wickets and Ian Dev Singh who has two centuries under his belt. |
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House, cowshed damage in
fire
Srinagar, January 21 In another incident at Rezan village of Ganderbal district, a fire broke out in a house and an adjacently located cowshed of Nazir Ahmad Tedwa. Three cattle were charred in the cowshed blaze while the house was completely gutted in the incident, the spokesman said.
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