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Amarnath board to charge fee for langars during yatra
NC subverting people’s interests, says PDP
Geelani gets travel papers
Two jawans commit suicide
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Fake J&K encounter: Two arrested
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Amarnath board to charge fee for langars during yatra
Jammu, March 8 The board authorities said here yesterday “we are trying to initiate measures for preserving ecology on and around the massive glacier in eastern Kashmir.” According to these authorities’ “we have decided to tighten screw on organisations holding free langars right from Pahalgam, the base camp, to the cave. One senior officer said in the past “we received a lot of complaints from pilgrims informing that some organisers of these langars charged them hefty price for food and lodging when these bodies had been granted permission to hold free langars.” He said to discourage such people and organisations “we have decided to charge registration fee of Rs 10,000, which will be refundable, from each organisation. He said the amount would be refunded to them only after they would submit no objection certificate from the board authorities at Pahalgam, confirming that the langar holders spoiled neither ecology of the area nor charged money from the pilgrims during two-month pilgrimage. Last year 128 langars were set up from Pahalgam to the shrine cave. Besides this scores of langars had been set up on the highway from Pathankot to the cave. The board has cautioned philanthropists and representatives of various religious and social organisations against using free langar facilities for extorting money from pilgrims.
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NC subverting people’s interests, says PDP
Jammu, March 8 Responding to recent statements of Omar Abdullah, a PDP spokesman said here the NC was once again performing a role of working against the people of Jammu and Kashmir as they had been doing at every crucial hour of our history marked by the party’s betrayals. The spokesman said ideally the party should have lent voice to the demand of reducing the presence of troops in civilian areas and withdrawal of the draconian laws applicable to the state, but the NC had eyes only on power. The party leadership has relegated the once mighty organisation into a virtual “political stepney” as Omar Abdullah had been every now and then “offering his support even while there are no takers”. NC leadership, the spokesman said, was aware that even the rank and file of the party, not the people of Jammu & Kashmir alone, were getting disillusioned with it. The NC has made itself a butt of ridicule as after having failed as the ruling party, it could not perform even as an opposition, keeping an eye always on a possibility of the “break-up of the coalition” and somehow getting back to power as it always treated state as family estate that it has lost, he alleged. The spokesman said the PDP’s demand for the reduction of troops was not new. It was in fact under the leadership of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed that people of the state after 2002 elections, for the first time saw the possibility of peace returning to their lives. Not only did the state government for the first time started performing its role of channelising genuine political aspirations of the people, but it also piloted the issues on which the NC had exploited the sentiments but never delivered.
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Two jawans commit suicide
Srinagar, March 8 Constable (driver) Navjeet Singh of 81st battalion of the BSF was found dead with a bullet mark on his forehead inside the Nathnoosa camp in Kupwara district late last night, the sources said. Head constable Gurdeep, who claimed to be the lone witness to the suicide, was taken into custody by the BSF. In another incident, constable Kishan Singh of 141st battalion of the CRPF committed suicide by shooting himself from his service rifle inside a camp in the Kakapora area of Pulwama district last evening. Singh was on duty when he shot himself to death
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Fake J&K encounter: Two arrested
Srinagar, March 8 The special investigation team (SIT), probing the fake encounters, arrested constable Tariq Ahmad Lone and cleric Moulvi Mohammad Ashra for their involvement in the killing of Showkat Ahmad Kataria by SOG Ganderbal, official sources said today. Kataria, who was a cleric in a mosque at Zadibal here, was picked up by the SOG in October last and shot dead at Ajas in the Badipora area of Baramula district. The SOG had dubbed him a foreign militant. However, the claim was proved wrong by a DNA mapping test. The sources said a few more arrests were expected in the next couple of days as the investigation team was making efforts to file a charge sheet against the accused in a court before the month end. With the fresh arrests, the number of persons arrested in connection with the fake encounters has gone up to 11, including eight policemen. Senior Superintendent of Police H R Parihar, his deputy Bahadur Ram and ASI Farooq Ahmad Gudoo are among the policemen arrested in the alleged fake encounter killing of Abdul Rehman Paddar, a carpenter from the Kokernag area of Anantnag district.
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