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College girl carrying 8 grenades held
March by road transport corp staff
Teachers oversee construction work
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Sonia’s visit tomorrow
Tributes paid to Sheikh Abdullah
Azad meets Northern Ireland’s ex-speaker
Kashmir Issue
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College girl carrying 8 grenades held
Jammu, September 8 The 21- year-old girl, who is student of a law college run by a Cabinet minister belonging to the Congress party, was arrested near the border town of Akhnoor yesterday by the Special Operations Group (SOG) and eight grenades and one under-barrel grenade launcher (UBGL) were recovered from her. She was on her way from border town of Surankot in Poonch district. Identified as Nahida, her father Altaf Hussain is posted as head constable in the police control room here the nerve centre of the 10 districts of the Jammu division. Sources said the explosive material was slated to be used here in retaliation to the recent killing of top terrorist Saifullah Kari in the suburbs of Jammu. Kari was is said to have masterminded attack on the Ayodhya temple. The SOG had been keeping vigil on the movements of Nahida. After frisking her and other persons travelling in the private vehicle, the SOG recovered eight grenades and one UBGL from her possession. She was whisked away to Akhnoor police station for questioning. A case was registered and the SOG started investigations. Recently the police came across several cases in which women carried arms and ammunition for
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March by road transport corp staff
Jammu, September 8 Addressing the striking employees, Amrik Singh Sasan and Ashok Mehra, chairman and president, respectively, of the SRTC Employees Federation, criticised the government for its failure to redress grievances of the employees. They demanded the cancellation of all “back-door” appointments in the SRTC. They are also demanding the release of wages for the four months, merger of 25 pending instalments of COLA into their pay, removal of stagnation and regularisation of the services all contract drivers and casual
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Teachers oversee construction work
Udhampur, September 8 Apart from teaching, the teachers have been assigned the task of supervising construction of school buildings in their areas. Under the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan additional buildings are being constructed in the district, especially in rural areas. Instead of giving responsibility to construction agencies, the Education Department has assigned the job of supervising these constructions to the teachers. “We are already facing shortage of teaching staff. Now a teacher from every school has to be deputed to head the Village Education Committee (VEC) for supervising construction activities,” complained the headmaster of a high school on the condition of anonymity. He added, “due to this new assignment, studies in many schools have been affected”. Chief education officer (CEO), Udhampur, Vijay Mohan Raina admitted teachers had been appointed as conveners of committees meant for constructing school buildings. He, however, said it would not affect functioning of any of the schools. He said, assistant engineers and junior engineers of the departments concerned were also involved in constructing these buildings. Over 1,300 posts of teacher are vacant in different schools of the district. It is all due to the un-availability of teaching staff that cases of students dropping-out of schools have been increasing every year. |
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Sonia’s visit tomorrow
Srinagar, September 8 She will address a conference of women organised by the Social Advisory Welfare Board and meet the Chief minister, senior Congress functionaries and leaders of the coalition parties, including the PDP. Her visit is regarded significant in view of political activities by mainstream parties ahead of the Assembly elections in the state scheduled next year. Gandhi last visited Jammu and Kashmir following the earthquake of October 8 2005 in parts of Uri and Tanghdhar in north Kashmir and parts of Rajouri and Poonch districts in the Jammu region. |
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Tributes paid to Sheikh Abdullah
Srinagar, September 8 Senior National Conference leaders and Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad visited mausoleum of the Sheikh at Naseem Bagh near Hazratbal here today and offered special prayers on the occasion. Azad also visited the Sheikh’s mausoleum this morning and paid floral tributes to the late leader. Azad also offered Fatiha at the mazaar. In Jammu the party's provincial president Ajay Sadhotra at a function at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan said the Sheikh was a saviour of the down-trodden of the state. He said Sheikh Abdullah in 1948 made an Act by which the land owned by landlords was transferred to tillers. |
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Azad meets Northern Ireland’s ex-speaker
Srinagar, September 8 The Lord evinced interest in the dialogue process and development initiatives taken by the government in Jammu and Kashmir. He informed the Chief Minister he had worked for 11 years as leader of a political party in Ireland engaged in dialogue, which ultimately resulted in peace there. Azad told the visiting parliamentarian the central government and the state government were pursuing a three- pronged strategy to address the problem. He said the process of reconciliation and dialogue had been initiated with Pakistan, which was on the right track, but for the internal situation in the neighbouring country, leading to a temporary setback to the process. He said so far as India was concerned everything was in line including visit of the Prime Minister and the foreign minister to Pakistan. However, he said following the situation in the aftermath of sacking of the Chief Justice and the resultant political uncertainty in Pakistan, the dialogue process between the two countries suffered a setback. He hoped to pick up threads from where these had been left before March this year, adding Pakistan’s cooperation was very crucial for lasting peace in the region. The Chief Minister informed Lord Alderdice t along with opening the channel of peace and reconciliation with Pakistan, the government had started dialogue with political parties and groups in Jammu and Kashmir. He said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself chaired three roundtable conferences in which all political shades of the state were represented. He said the Prime Minister also constituted five Working Groups to address various issues relating to good governance, centre-state relations, travel across LoC and people- to -people contact, balanced economic development within the state. He said the talks were also started with separatist leadership in the state to address the problem. Lord Alderdice appreciated the three-pronged strategy adopted by the government to address the Kashmir problem. |
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India, Pak under pressure: Malik
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, September 8 He was addressing a congregation after a caravan of the Safar-e-Azadi or journey for freedom, an initiative to mobilise public support for the solution of the Kashmir dispute, reached here yesterday. With this the ‘journey for freedom’ that started in the Kokernag area of Anantnag district in south Kashmir on May 20 last entered the concluding phase. The journey , held across the valley, in support of JKLF demand for the involvement of Kashmiris in dialogue process between India and Pakistan, is concluding here on Monday after 115 days. The number of rallies organised by the JKLF during the journey has reached 464, visiting over 65, 00 villages across Kashmir. "India and Pakistan are under pressure to settle the Kashmir dispute taking into consideration aspirations of Kahsmiris", he commented. Malik remarked in 19 years, people of Kashmir offered "unlimited sacrifices" and the time had come to protect their contribution to the movement from being "exploited by the mainstream political parties". He added in the USA, the UK, Delhi and Islamabad, he had talked of peoples participation in the final decision making process on Kashmir issue. Referring to signature campaign, Malik said it was also part of this programme in which 15 lakh signatures were got "and we exhibited them across the globe", he observed.
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