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Floriculture dept water tank in bad shape
Dashmesh Nagar residents block highway
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3 pilgrims killed in accident
Elderly person ends life
CBI probe into 12-yr-old’s death sought
Hold impartial inquiry against judges before punishment: JPPF
It’s holiday time for jewellers
3 killed as car falls in Chenab
Summer camp begins
Collage-making competition
Chinese food festival
Semis line up drawn in T20 tourney
JU appeals to striking staff
to resume work Bhartiya Gujjar Mahasabha defers hunger strike Trekkers leave for Moungri Salal power project to remain shut
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Floriculture dept water tank in bad shape
Jammu, June 14 The department, meanwhile, seems to be fast asleep. The green belt area is a posh locality of Jammu city, near which former Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma, former minister Rajinder Singh Chib and many other people live. The leakage in the water tank is near the top end, but it can reach other parts and the threat of collapse increases with that. The water tank supplies water to the entire green belt park and if it collapses, there would be no water available for the park. Apart from people living around, this park is being used by people for exercise during mornings and in evening kids learn judo in the same park. They are unaware of the threat being posed by the water tank, owned by the floriculture department. The floriculture department employees have no information about the leakage. “I am not aware about it. But I will certainly get it checked in morning,” said KK Sharma, director floriculture Jammu, when asked by The Tribune as to why the leakage had not been stopped. When one moves around the area, it looks like it has been abandoned by the department. The condition is deteriorating with every passing day and no efforts have been made for repairs. “I will make sure the leakage is stopped,” said the director. The directorate of floriculture department Jammu is the caretaker of all parks in Jammu city as well as in the entire Jammu region and the water tank is an asset with the department which provides water supply to these parks for maintenance. But the department has failed to put these assets in order.
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Dashmesh Nagar residents block highway
Jammu, June 14 The protesters, including women and children, laid a blockade in the middle of the highway and raised slogans against the administration. Vehicular movement on the highway remained disrupted for an hour, resulting in a traffic jam on both sides of the road. Led by BJP district media secretary Gurdyal Singh Bali, the protesters said the administration had turned a deaf ear to their problems and it didn’t construct the road despite several requests. “Work on other connecting roads has been completed, but the Dashmesh Nagar road has not been completed despite the fact that the project stands approved. The funds have not been released, which is causing an inordinate delay and people are being made to suffer,” said Bali. He said the contractor who had been allotted the work was complaining of blocking of payments running into lakhs of rupees. “Completion of the road is deliberately being delayed and there should be an inquiry into the matter,” he demanded and asked the government to release funds immediately. The people lifted the blockade from the highway on intervention of senior police officers, who, on behalf of the Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, division number one, assured them that the work would start within 24 hours.
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Jammu, June 14 Police says the tempo traveller (HR66A-2318) had a head-on collision with an oil tanker, resulting in the driver’s death on the spot, while 16 pilgrims were injured. Two critically injured pilgrims died while on way to Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu. The deceased were identified as Surindera, son of Bodh Ram of Bhamsanpura in Rajasthan, driver of the vehicle, Sapal Mandal, son of Anand Mohan Mandal of Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh and Devashesh Dass Gupta, son of Bakru Dass Gupta of Chhattisgarh. — TNS
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Elderly person ends life
Jammu, June 14 Giving details, the police said Yashwardhan Singh, 68, was alone in his room and committed suicide by hanging himself around 11 am on Friday. After getting the information, police reached the spot and took the body for postmortem. A case has been registered under Section 174 of CrPC at police station Gandhi Nagar.
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CBI probe into 12-yr-old’s death sought
Jammu, June 14 JKPF chief patron Satish Poonchi said the police was hand-in-glove with the criminal lawyer, and had hushed up the case. “No FIR has been registered against the lawyer’s family and police is hushing up the matter,” said Poonchi. — TNS
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Hold impartial inquiry against judges before punishment: JPPF
Jammu, June 14 Talking to the mediapersons here, Pavitar Singh Bhardwaj, president of the forum, expressed resentment on declaring the three District and Session Judges of Higher Judiciary deadwood and giving them premature retirement from service, allegedly without granting them any opportunity to be heard. Bhaderwaj said, “The rules governing the service of civil servants, including judiciary, are enshrined in the KCSR and nowhere the word ‘deadwood’ appears as default. Judges have been disgraced before punishment and before hearing and explaining their conduct. This has sent out a wrong signal in the public at large about the lack of integrity, inefficiency existing at present in the judiciary.” He said “no doubt the decision taken by the high court may be on administrative side but with the process of time it is manifest that the principles of natural justice are stretched even to the administrative tribunal, especially when an action of a deprivation of a particular right or of a punitive nature is purposed it becomes the duty of the administrative tribunal or competent authority to give the affected parties an opportunity of being heard.” “This principle was itself laid down by the Division Bench of J&K High Court cited in 1985 Kashmir Law Journal 416, 417 and also by the Supreme Court of India, but this principle has been made a scapegoat in the administrative decision of the High Court,” he added. Bhaderwaj appealed to the Governor, Chief Minister, Chief Justice and the Law Minister to reconsider the decision and said denying them the constitutional right of being heard and retiring them prematurely would cause “great disservice” to the judiciary at large.
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It’s holiday time for jewellers
Jammu, June 14 Around 1.5 lakh swarankars running jewellery shops in Jammu region have shut down their establishments to take a break from routine work and will reopen their shops on June 17. Akhil Bharatiya Swarankar Sangh and Sarafa Association Jammu announced closure of all swarankar and jewellery shops of Jammu and adjoining areas till June 16. The decision was taken at a joint meeting of the association presided over by Raj Kumar Babbar, president of the Swarankar Sangh Association of Jammu province. Jammu district president of the association Kulbhushan Anand and president of Sarafa Association Parjan Jain also attended the meeting. “We jointly decided to close all jewellery shops across Jammu region for four days. Given the nature of job of the swarankars, we generally don’t get the time for outing with our families. The decision to close all shops for four days was a collective one as if a jeweller closes his shop individually, he would suffer a loss as other shops would remain open in a particular market. To get rid of the apprehension of losses, the association decided that all such shops would be closed simultaneously,” Babbar told The Tribune. According to the association, all swarankar and jewellery shops in Jammu city, Janipur, Talab Tillo, Nanak Nagar, Bahu Plaza, Paloura, Roop Nagar, New Plot, Gandhi Nagar, Bantalab, Rehari, New Basti, Shastri Nagar, Canal Road and Subash Nagar would remain closed from June 13 to 16. Meanwhile, Jain Bazaar and other markets, where jewellery shops are located in Jammu city, wore a deserted look. |
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3 killed as car falls in Chenab
Batote, June 14 The deceased, Ishtiaq Ahmed of Bagwan Mohalla, Kishtwar, Farooq Ahmed of Chatru and his 20-day-old daughter died on the spot. A 12-year-old daughter of Ishtiaq and 9-year-old son of Farooq were admitted to the District Hospital, Kishtwar, till last reports came in. According to the sources, Farooq’s wife was in the hospital since she had delivered the baby girl (now dead) and he was taking his sick daughter to the GMC, Jammu, on the advice of the doctor.
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Summer camp begins
Jammu, June 14 On the opening day, instructors of different activities, along with students, performed activities in the fields of art, craft, singing, dancing and cooking. The main attractions of the day were penguine making from waste materials, playing old songs on harmonium and dancing on old bollywood songs. The experts who are providing special training to the students in the camp included Gourav Mahajan (art and craft), Rakesh Kumar (music) and Deepak Mehra (dance). —TNS |
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Batote, June 14 The aim of the competition was to spread awareness about the heritage and culture of our country . In all, 60 students participated in the competition. —OC
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Chinese food festival
Jammu, June 14 General Manager, Rakesh Dogra said “It has been our constant endeavor to introduce Jammuites to regional as well as international cuisines”. —TNS |
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Semis line up drawn in T20 tourney
Jammu, June 14 In the first semifinal, Challenger Club will take on Dogra Cricket Club while Laxmi Cricket Club will lock horns with Sahil Cricket Club (SCC). Earlier, in the last quarterfinal played, Challenger Club overcame the challenge of Engineer XI by five wickets. Batting first, Engineer XI scored 135 runs for the loss of nine wickets in the allotted quota of 20 overs. Raman Dogra was the top scorer with 14-ball 34 runs with the help of six boundaries and a six. Susheel Bakshi and Manoj Manhas contributed 32 and 17 runs, respectively. From Challenger Club, Madan Mohan was the chief destroyer with three wickets while Vijay Sharma, Suneet Singh, Rajesh Verma and Narinder Singh shared a wicket apiece. In reply, Challenger Cricket Club overhauled the target for the loss of just five wickets in 15.3 overs. Sachin Sharma made 34 runs off 16 balls, hitting five boundaries and one six. Madan Mohan (31 runs off 22 balls), Paramjeet Singh (29) and Narinder Singh (18) were the other main contributors. Ashok Singh of Engineer XI took three wickets and Sanjeev Sharma bagged two. For his brilliant all round performance, Madan Mohan was declared man of the match. Sadiq Hussain Malik and Ajay Sharma were the umpires while Sunny maintained the scorebook. |
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JU appeals to striking staff to resume work Jammu, June 14 The committee members informed the agitating employees, including non-gazetted officials, sweepers and cooks, about the various steps which had been taken by the university administration to address their issues. They were informed that “most of their demands had already been conceded by the authorities”. They appealed to the agitating employees to resume their work and provide sanitation facilities for the general good of the employees, students and visitors of the university. However, the employees refused to call off their agitation and announced that the ongoing strike, which entered its 33rd day today, would continue till the authorities fulfil their demands in letter and spirit. “The committee members held a meeting with the striking employees but they had nothing to offer. Our agitation will continue till they accept our genuine demands,” Krishan Chand, president of Non-Gazetted Employees Union said. The chain hunger strike, which has also been launched by the agitating employees, entered the fourth consecutive day today. Over 700 non-gazetted JU employees had been demanding regularisation of casual workers, removal of pay anomalies and reduction in the period of conducting test for promotion of Class-IV employees from five years to three years.
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Bhartiya Gujjar Mahasabha defers hunger strike Jammu, June 14 The strike was to be held on June 17 and 18 at Rajouri, in support of their long-pending demands of political reservation. In a statement issued here, state president of Bhartiya Gujjar Mahasabha Eshfaq-Ur-Rehman Poswal said the decision to defer the hunger had been taken as the Governor had given time to the delegation of the Sabha on June 18 at 10 am to highlight its issues before him. He also extended gratitude to the Governor on behalf of the Sabha for giving time to the delegation for highlighting the issues of the Gujjars and Bakkerwals. He said all the issues they had brought before the notice of the President during his recent visit to the state would be also be put before the Governor as the same had not been addressed.
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Trekkers leave for Moungri
Jammu, June 13 Four teachers of the school, namely ML Dogra, Anju Mahajan, Shiv Dutt and Tannu Jain also accompanied the group with Shashikant of Tawi Trekkers. It is the 5th group of Tawi Trekkers that has left for the Himalayan Trekking Programme wherein about 200 students have participated so far. Meanwhile, a group of trekkers of Shiksha Niketan Secondary School, Gandhi Nagar, reached back after trekking and rock climbing for three days under the overall supervision of Everester Ram Singh Slathia, Director of the the J&K Himalayan Trekking Programme. The trekkers were accorded a warm welcome on the school premises by Rameshwar Mengi, chairman of the school and teachers. —TNS
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Salal power project to remain shut
Jammu, June 14 People have been requested to restrict their consumption during these 24 hours so that the undesired curtailment can be avoided. —TNS
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