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4 students hurt in cane charge JAMMU, Jan 11 — For the third day today work in educational institutions remained paralysed here after students of various colleges boycotted classes in protest against prolonged power load shedding and admission of 54 students of a private medical college to two government medical colleges. Students belonging to different schools joined the strike today. The police resorted to a mild cane charge when a group of school students turned unruly. Four students were injured. On the call of the ABVP, students held demonstrations and raised anti-government slogans. The police stopped demonstrators from squatting in front of the Civil Secretariat. Hence, they staged a dharna at Shalimar Chowk. Transport services on several routes in the city were disrupted because of the demonstrations and processions. The Power Minister, Mr S.S. Slathia, had invited a group of students for talks today. However, the ABVP dissociated itself from the talks on the plea that attempts were being made by National Conference leaders to divide the student community. National secretary of the ABVP Ramesh Puppa said his organisation leaders had been invited by the minister for talks tomorrow. He said there could be no fruitful outcome of the talks unless the government improved power supply and cancelled the admission of 54 students to the medical colleges. He said the ABVP was firm on to intensify its agitation. He said the second phase of the agitation would begin from January 15 when on ABVP’s call a bandh would be observed in the city. Demonstrations were also staged in Udhampur against the heavy load shedding. Members of the Jammu Bar Association went on a day’s strike here today in protest against the 11-hour power cut. The lawyers urged the government to take immediate steps for improving the power supply failing which other sections of employees and those connected with trade and commerce would also resort to a strike. The police and paramilitary personnel had formed a ring around the Medical College here. |
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Where hope dies last TURTUK (Ladakh), Jan 11 (UNI) — The first conducted tour of mediapersons to this barren outpost was a shivery experience. Layers of warm clothing and jackets offered little respite from the cold breeze that swept down the snowcapped peaks on the Hindu Kush side. The temperature was minus 22 degrees at night. An Army band played languorously. A small crop of locals huddled before the military base hospital whispering secrets, the frisson of delight on meeting strangers writ large on their ruddy faces. The air was thick with memories of the war of 1999 and this was their moment before byte-hungry TV crewmen. Almost every interview ended with the question: “When will you show us on TV?’’ They spoke of the horrors of the days when Pakistani mortar and artillery shells rained down on their villages, of the men and women killed or lost, of the isolation staring their children in the face... “Yes, yes one woman was killed in the shelling...we also lost many cattle...most of us had moved out to Diksit,’’ Mohammad Ali said, deadpan. Others around him nodded in agreement. Life is not easy in this cold and barren borderland but much of the bleak talk is meant for the listeners only. There are more soldiers here than civilians and plenty of work is available for the willing. Supplies have to be carried on mules to the military posts in the mountains and a large number of men work as porters for the Army. Labour charges are as high as Rs 400 a day. “We pay them between Rs 80 and Rs 400 a day, depending on the work, said Major Atul Kumar, who is the logistics in charge at the brigade headquarters in Partappur. In a place where there is little else to earn from, a few villagers own cars and their houses are tastefully made up. “Bhai saheb, you go to their houses,’’ one soldier joked. “Some of those who carry our load are Patiala maharajas.’’ All this might change if India, Pakistan and the Kashmiri leadership succeed in solving their peace conundrum. But peace could also lead to the area being opened to tourists and the restrictions in place being lifted. Mohammad Ali was happy the Army had opened schools for his children and Razim was hopeful his nephew and the 20 other boys the police picked up near Turtuk nullah two years ago for possessing firearms would finally return some day.
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1,400 elected
unopposed JAMMU, Jan 11 (UNI) — As many as 1,400 candidates have been elected unopposed to the panchayats in Poonch, Rajouri, Kathua and Kupwara districts after withdrawal of nominations, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Electoral Officer today said. Fiftynine of them are sarpanches. He said 2,911 candidates had withdrawn their nominations. As many as 544 candidates were elected in Mendhar, Balakot Poonch, Mandi and Surankote blocks of Poonch district and 526 in Rajouri Manajkote, Darhal, Budhal, Sunderbani, Kalkote and Nowshera blocks of Rajouri district. Those elected in Kupwara district were 106 in Tanghdar Teetwal and Keran panchayats of Karalpora block, and 224 candidates in Ghagwal, Hiranagar, Kathua and Barnoti blocks of Kathua district. As many as 186 women were among the 12,019 candidates who had filed nominations for elections to the 4,585 panchayats in the Jammu region, the Chief Electoral Officer said. A
total of 2,664 candidates had filed nominations for the post of sarpanch and 9,355 for panch. Of the women candidates, 33 have filed nominations for sarpanch and 153 for panch. |
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IG denies
report JAMMU, Jan 11 — The IG, Mr R.V. Raju, today denied a press report that a ban had been imposed on the entry of scribes into Maulana Azad Sports Stadium where the main Republic Day function was to be held on January 26. In a rejoinder to The Tribune, (news item published on January 10), Mr Raju said the news story “is not correct.” He said all arrangements would be made for the print and electronic media personnel in the stadium on January 26 as per the practice. However, the IG did not deny the main contents of the story in which it was mentioned that a team of the electronic media had been prevented from entering the stadium on January 9 for taking pictures on the security arrangements. When the team personnel contacted a police officer of the rank of DIG, they were told that entry had been banned.
Qureshi flies to Srinagar
today NEW DELHI, Jan 11 (UNI) — Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Hashim Qureshi will be flown to Srinagar tomorrow to stand trial for the 1971 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane and ultimately blowing it up in
Lahore. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate V.K. Maheshwari said that on the appeal of the Jammu and Kashmir Government, he was granted transit remand and directed to be produced before an appropriate court in Srinagar on or before January
14. Mr Maheshwari pronounced the order in a packed courtroom after Qureshi was produced before him from the high-security Tihar Jail, where he was remanded in judicial custody till today after his dramatic arrival from Holland on December 29. |
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