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A day of demonstrations Jammu, March 23 Several shopping centres remained closed and public transport services were slightly affected. In the winter Capital, the Panthers Party president, Mr Bhim Singh, organised a protest demonstration involving migrants from Poonch and Rajouri. These migrants marched to the city and raised slogans demanding adequate relief and rehabilitation. Over 450 families had migrated from the upper reaches of Poonch and Rajouri a month ago, following threats from militants. They have been camping at Bellicharana near here and 10 days ago, some of them had gone to Sidhra to establish camps. But while they were clearing the area for raising huts, the sarkandas caught fire in which four migrants were burnt alive. Later, the police arrested three persons which resulted in clashes between the migrants and the police. Mr Bhim Singh, while leading the protesters, planned to get into the Civil Secretariat but the police prevented them from doing so. The city also witnessed Shiv Sena activists forcing shopkeepers to close their business establishments as they were protesting against the arrest of party workers yesterday. The police said that Shiv Sena activists had courted arrest while demonstrating against increase in militancy-related violence. Yet another protest rally was held in Jammu when Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha activists took out a procession in connection with National Security and Awareness Day. They raised anti-Pakistani and anti-Congress slogans. The morcha activists later burnt effigies of the ISI and the Congress President, Mrs Sonia Gandhi. Morcha leaders alleged that the ‘Tehelka’ expose had been engineered by the Congress for dislodging the BJP-led NDA government. In the Assembly, Congress, Panthers Party and RSP members staged a walkout in protest against the delay in granting concessions to Gujjar and Bakerwal communities which had been declared as Scheduled Tribes. |
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Srinagar, March 23 Militants shot dead National Conference block president Safdar Malik when he was returning home after Friday prayers at Sonapah village in Badgam district. Mr Malik, who was also the village head, was rushed to hospital where he was declared brought dead, the sources said. An Al-Badr militant identified as Ali Asgar Sohail of Pakistan was killed and his three colleagues were arrested after an encounter with the Army, which raided their hideout on a tip-off at Thajiwara village of Anantnag district. In separate encounters with security personnel, three militants were killed on-the-spot at Sarl and two at Mendhar tehsil in Poonch district. One Pakistani intruder was killed in an exchange of fire with BSF personnel along the International Border in the Ramgarh sector of Jammu. The security personnel found the bullet riddled body of a foreign mercenary Abdul Bagi of the Al-Badr in the jungles of Poonch district while the body of another militant, Firdour Ahmad Ghani, killed in inter-group rivalry, was found in Fazalpora-Bandipora in Baramula district, the sources said. Six persons, including two women, were injured when a grenade lobbed by the militants at a security picket missed its target and exploded on the road in the Soura locality here. Another militant, Mohammad Amin Mir, who the police said was a self-styled district commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen, and was in custody was killed in a shootout between the militants and a joint party of the BSF and the police which was taking him for recoveries in the Shopian area of Pulwama district. The sources said Mir was arrested along with his wife by the BSF personnel after a militant ambush yesterday. They said Mir, who was carrying a false identity card at the time of the arrest first claimed that he was a fruit seller but later confessed to his involvement in the ambush. The news of his killing sparked off protests from residents of the area who took to the streets, claiming that Mir was innocent and alleging that he had died in custody, the officials said.
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for thermal, N-plants in J&K Jammu, March 23 He said he had already talked to the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, for establishing a nuclear power plant at Kathua. Inaugurating a state credit seminar organised by Nabard here, Dr Abdullah referred to the problem of unemployment in the state and said it was not possible for the government to provide job to every educated youth. He said the private sector could play an important role in tackling the problem of unemployment. The Chief Minister urged banks not to declare those units sick which did not repay loans on time, but help them to revive. He said it was because of Nabard’s assistance that various rural drinking water supply and irrigation schemes had been completed. The General Manager of Nabard, Mr Bhawar Puri, said Nabard had prepared a paper for all 14 districts of the state to help government agencies to carry out various development schemes. Nabard had sanctioned Rs 420.44 crore out of the total
requirement of Rs 688 crore to the state government until March 15 under the rural infrastructure development fund. The Chief General Manager of Nabard, Mr P.P. Shrivastava, and the Regional Director, Reserve Bank of India, Mr Radhey Shyam, emphasised the need to coordinate approach between banks and government development agencies. |
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NC, SAD urged to withdraw support Jammu, March 23 Mr Wazir condemned the sacrilegious act committed by a branch of the BJP and the RSS in Punjab and said these attempts seem to be a part of a larger plan to create large-scale communal tension in the country in order to divert the attention of public from Tehelka expose. He called upon the secular-minded parties supporting the NDA to break the alliance. Mr Wazir further stated that the minorities must stay united, and especially called upon the Sikhs to remain vigilant and maintain communal harmony. |
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