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CCTV cameras to be installed in high-security jails Normalcy through transparency: Azad 60,000 fail in Class X exams
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Students set ablaze police vehicle
Srinagar, April 2 Students of a government school blocked the road at Mujgund in Sumbal area to protest the absence of teaching staff in their school, they said. Officials said Congress MLC Ali Mohammad Bhat was passing through the area and his security guards asked the students to let his vehicle pass, which they refused. Following a brief argument, the guards opened fire in the air to disperse the crowd, they said. The firing further incited the students who set on fire the vehicle of station house officer of Sumbal police station, they said, adding that police resorted to cane charge to chase away the students. Neither any case has been registered nor any arrest effected so far in connection with the firing incident or the burning of the police vehicle, officials said. Earlier, workers of the Congress and People's Democratic Party (PDP), partners in the ruling coalition in the state, clashed with each other seeking credit for creation of Ganderbal district. Both the groups clashed at new district headquarters at Ganderbal as they had assembled outside the Deputy Commissioner's office, which began to function today.
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Resentment over not sending militants to JIC Jammu, April 2 A senior police officer of the rank of DIG told this correspondent on Saturday, while referring to the surrender of eight militants in Uri border sector recently, “On the one hand we are happy that militants have started laying down their weapons before the troops, on the other hand we are perturbed when we are told that those who have surrendered before the Army should not be sent to the JIC for questioning”. He confirmed that in recent weeks over 120 militants, camping across the LoC, had crossed the border from across Keran, Karnah and Uri sectors for surrendering before the troops. He said after handing over their weapons to the senior Army officers, they were handed over to the police after securing an assurance that they would not be arrested and sent to the JIC for interrogation. Another police officer explained that the JIC experts from the Army, paramilitary forces, the police and several intelligence agencies question the militants for establishing whether they were sincere in laying down their weapons or had plans of acting as “sleeping missiles”. He said once any militant was referred to the JIC, a proper record was made about his residence so that such rebels, even after surrendering before the security forces, could be kept under surveillance. The sources said some militants, who had surrendered before the troops in recent weeks, had informed the Army functionaries that the majority of Kashmiri militants in the training camps were a “frustrated lot”. Many among them had realised their fate and life were in a jeopardy and wanted to return provided they were not jailed. They were also convinced that the Kashmir issue awaited a peaceful settlement after even the chief of the Muzaffarabad-based United Jehad Council had supported the four-point proposal mooted by Gen Pervez Musharraf for resolving the Kashmir issue. |
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Three militants, soldier killed Srinagar, April 2 Two unidentified militants were reportedly killed in an encounter with security forces at Chithibandi in the Bandipore area of Baramulla district today. A house was also damaged in the encounter, which started last evening. The encounter started yesterday evening. Suspended for the night, it resumed this morning. The bodies were being recovered from the debris and the operation was still in progress. A top militant of Hizbul Mujahideen was killed in an encounter with police at Sofshali in Kokernag area of Anantnag district today. Acting on a tip-off, the area was cordoned off and the hiding militants were asked to surrender, police here said. The militants opened fire ensuing the encounter in which the militant, identified as Mohammad Hussain Reshi, alias Umair, a battalion commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, was killed. The police said the militant, who had crossed over to Pakistan in 2003 to receive arms training, was wanted in a number of terrorist-related incidents. A Rifleman, Mohammad Maqbool Sheikh of 32 RR, was killed in an encounter with militants in Khudwani forests in Panzlla area of Baramulla district today, police here said. In another incident, one person was injured in an Army ambush at Bangergund, Vilgam, in Baramulla district. The police said that 6 RR laid an ambush at Bangergund Bridge. On noticing some suspicious movement, the troops opened fire resulting in injuries to one person, Abdul Qayoom Khan. He has been shifted to the hospital and is stated to be out of danger. |
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CCTV cameras to be installed in high-security jails Jammu, April 2 According to director-general, prisons, Rajinder Tikoo closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) were being installed in high-security Kot Bhalwal jail near Jammu and prisons in Srinagar and Jammu. He said here today after the completion of this project CCTVs would be installed in other jails of the state. He said the installation of CCTVs and mobile phone jammers in and around all jail premises was going to be a multi-million project. Tikoo said, work on the project would be over soon adding in the next phase mobile jammers would be installed inside jails to prevent militants from being in touch with their cadres outside the jail through mobile phone network. The state government earlier took the decision to install mobile jammers inside high-security jails after the recovery of mobile handsets and SIM cards from inside the Kot Bhalwal jail, near Jammu. In October, 2006, the jail authorities recovered a few mobile handsets and SIM cards during frisking of militants and other undertrial prisoners exposing the militant-jail staff nexus. In December, 2006, the jail staff also faced resistance from the jail inmates and clashes occurred when a search was made inside jail to sanitise the premises. Taking strict action against the nexus between the junior jail staff and militants the state prison authorities had shifted a large number of jail employees and initiated inquiry against the guilty besides transferring trouble makers from Kot Bhalwal jail to other jails in Rajasthan and Punjab. |
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Normalcy through transparency: Azad Katra, April 2 Addressing a public meeting in Katra, where he was felicitated for carving Reasi as a new district out of Udhampur, Azad said a long cherished demand of the people of the state had been met by the present state government by creating eight new districts. Eight new districts of Jammu and Kashmir - Kishtwar, Reasi, Samba, Ramban in Jammu division and Bandipore, Kulgam, Ganderbal and Shopian in Kashmir - had come into existence and started functioning yesterday after the nod in this regard by the legislature in the recently held Assembly session. With this, the total number of districts in the border state had risen to 22. Azad said this remarkable development of forming new districts would help the government to take administration to every area thereby ensuring development. Advising the newly posted district officials of Reasi to discharge their responsibility with utmost dedication, Azad said government functionaries should ensure that benefits of development schemes accrue to the people speedily. He said a massive development programme in every field and a public services infrastructure development plan had been launched in the state which would lead to further prosperity. Azad also asked the people to strengthen communal harmony in the state. |
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60,000 fail in Class X exams
Srinagar, April 2 A total of 73.892 students from Kashmir division had appeared in the matric examinations conducted by the BOSE in December-January 2006-07. Out of those, only 14,525 students were declared passed. The total pass percentage stood at 19.66 per cent — per cent for boys and 18.20 per cent for girls. While only four students could manage to secure destination, 249 passed the exams in grade one while 1,441 got the second grade. The highest pass percentage among different subjects was in Urdu in which 38 per cent students were declared successful while the lowest was for mathematics in which just 14 per cent passed.
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