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10 PDD workers injured in lathicharge
Kashmir central varsity may begin session this year
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5 drug peddlers detained
Major fire breaks out at Pragwal grid station
Kashmiri singer Farash dead
Illegal B’desh migrants keep cops on tenterhooks
Martyred CRPF men given floral tributes
DGP promotes 107 on New Year eve
Vohra extends New Year greetings
Ministers misusing state aircraft, alleges Harsh Dev
Mark-sheet Tampering Case
Former XEN invents device
Class X result declared
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10 PDD workers injured in lathicharge
Jammu, December 31 The PDD daily wage workers are on an indefinite strike for the last one month demanding regularisation of their services. Today, the PDD workers had planned to march to the Civil Secretariat as part of their Civil Secretariat gherao campaign. Earlier, they had been holding protests at the office of Development Commissioner, Janipur. The protesters were cane charged at Jewel Chowk and Gummet when they were marching towards the Civil Secretariat in a rally. Three protesters were seriously injured and admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH). The protesters clashed with the police when they were stopped at Jewel Chowk. As the protesters reached near Gummet in a procession, the police again stopped them as Section 144 was in place in the area. Thereupon, the protesters tried to break the police cordon, besides disrupting traffic on the road, prompting the police to resort to a cane charge and use water cannon to disperse them. “The government has assured several times to fulfil our long pending demands, but nothing comes in black and white,” the protesting PDD workers said. Last year, the daily wage workers were told that their services would be regularised, but nothing had been done, he added. “The government has been using tactics. We have not been paid regular salaries for the past three years,” they added. Later, the protesters reassembled at the Chief Engineer’s office and staged a peaceful dharna. |
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Kashmir central varsity may begin session this year
Srinagar, December 31 “We have sent the proposals to the Ministry. A Central team would be visiting the state soon to finalise the sites,” Abdul Ghani Malik, Minister for Higher Education said. The state government had already identified some sites in Ganderbal district, near here, which had been rejected for lack of requisite standards. The Central University of Jammu and Kashmir was sanctioned by the Union in January last year. But, the persistent demand for setting up the university in the Jammu region prompted the Centre to sanction a separate Central University of Jammu later this year. While the Central University of Kashmir is being set up in Ganderbal district, that of Jammu is being set up at Samba. The two sites would get a green light with the Central team visiting during the second week of January, sources said. The team was earlier expected by year-end, but that could not materialise. The proposals with alternative sites sent by the state government for the Central University of Kashmir were under the consideration of the Union HRD Ministry, they said. The admissions to research programmes and masters in management studies, information technology and English language and literature would be completed before this summer, said Dr Abdul Ghani, OSD, Administration. Though admissions and posts were advertised earlier, these had to be re-advertised following the change of nomenclature of the university, after a separate Central University of Jammu was sanctioned, the officials said. The Central University of Kashmir covers the two regions of Kashmir and twin districts of Leh and Kargil in Ladakh. Before the academic session starts by June-July this year, all posts would be filled with the University Council and Executive Council in place, officials said. While 2009 witnessed the shift from one Central University of Jammu and Kashmir to two separate universities for Kashmir and Jammu, 2010 is all set to start the academic activities. |
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Villagers block highway for 2nd day
Tribune News Service
Jammu, December 31 Relatives of Ashok Singh, who has been missing since December 25, along with local villagers assembled around 11:30 am and blocked the highway for more than three hours in the Ghagwal area. Though they were later pacified by the civil administration officers, the protesters again blocked traffic near Samba district. A relative of Ashok said he (Ashok) had gone to Googad village in Samba district on December 25 and since then he had been missing. He alleged that the police was doing nothing to trace Ashok. “Even though senior officers, including the SSP and the Kathua Deputy Commissioner, have assured us that they will look into the matter and get the case investigated, but no headway has been made,” said a relative of Ashok. The protesters alleged that the police deliberately did not register a case and only after the intervention of the administration officers that a missing person case was registered at Kathua police station and the Samba police was also asked to investigate it.
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5 drug peddlers detained
Srinagar, December 31 Those detained have been identified as Haseena, Javaid Ahmad Ganai from Batamaloo, Shabir Ahmad Wani from Khag Budgam, Shahid Farooq Khoja from Ongam, Bandipora, and Tafazul-Khalil Wani, alias Setha, from Nadihal, Bandipora. It was found that the gang members were involved in other cases registered at various police stations of Srinagar between 2000 and 2009. The bail of all accused was cancelled by the Third Additional District and Sessions Judge, Srinagar, on December 24 after hearing the arguments of the council of applicants and report of Pantha Chowk SHO. The police had requested the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, for detaining the drug peddlers under the Public Safety
Act (PSA). As per the Section 3 of the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substance Act, 1988, the Divisional Commissioner ordered for detaining the drug peddlers under the
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Major fire breaks out at Pragwal grid station
Jammu, December 31 “We are helpless and are unable to do anything, as no one from the police, fire service and the administration has reached the station,” an employee said. However, SP, Rural, Mohan Lal said a police team along with the firemen had been rushed to douse the flames. He further said the fire broke out due to a technical snag and there was no sabotage. |
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Kashmiri singer Farash dead
Srinagar, December 31
Farash is famous for many of his compositions in Kashmiri language. Meanwhile, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development Department and Tourism Nasir Aslam Wani has expressed grief over the untimely death of the noted Kashmiri singer. In his condolence message, Wani said Farash was a gifted singer, who in his own way riveted the audiences with his performances. |
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Illegal B’desh migrants keep cops on tenterhooks
Jammu, December 31 Despite knowing the fact that crossing the border may cost them their lives, they take the risk due to poverty, police sources said. Attempts to cross over by illegal migrants from Bangladesh have increased in the last few months, that too when the BSF guarding the border was on high alert in the wake of surge in intrusion bids by Pakistani militants, they said. Though the BSF, the Army and the police foil such attempts, Bangladesh nationals continue to pose a security threat, the sources said, hinting at the nexus between the terror outfit HuJI and its sleeper cells among such migrants. “After the BSF and the Army hand them over to the police, we book them under the Foreign Nationals Act and later present the challan before a court,” SP, Headquarters, JS Johar said. BSF sources told The Tribune that though they worked efficiently arresting such illegal migrants on the border, they felt that the local police did not perform its duty efficiently. In certain cases, the police sent Bangladesh nationals on Punjab-bound buses and trains with a warning not to come back, they added. In most cases, the illegal migrants did not even carry any weapon and their sole aim was to cross over to Pakistan and later to the Gulf countries to earn a living, in connivance with some tout, the sources said. But simultaneously, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)-backed HuJI’s connection with these illegal migrants from Bangladesh was well known, they added. Recently, 10 Bangladesh nationals, including women and children, were arrested while crossing over to Pakistan from the Arnia sector. |
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Martyred CRPF men given floral tributes
Srinagar, December 31
Senior officers of the CRPF, including IG Dr NC Asthana, DIGs, Commandants and
other officers attended the function. The four jawans of 177 Bn of the CRPF
killed in the attack included head constables AK Upadhyay from Madhya
Pradesh and Prabhakar Singh from Orissa, and constable Kuldeep Singh
from Baghpat Uttar Pradesh and constable Shiv Shankar Das from Purulia,
West Bengal. The condition of another jawan, Krishan Kanahiya, injured
in the attack was stable, Prabhakar Tripathy, PRO of the CRPF, said
here. |
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DGP promotes 107 on New Year eve
Jammu, December 31 Similarly, the ASIs promoted as SIs are Moti Lal, Ghulam Nabi, Ghulam Mohammad, Fayaz Ahmad, Abdul
Rashid, Manzoor Ahmad, Varinder Singh, Satpaul Singh, Narinder Singh, Bodh
Raj, Madan Lal, Manzoor Ahmad, Triloki Nath, Mohammad Saleem, Bashir Ahmad
Magery, Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din, Ghulam Nabi Dar, Ashwani Kumar, Mohammad
Amin, Kirti Bushan, Bunti Kumari, Bashir Ahmad Naja, Mohammad Ramzan, Syed Bakir Shah, Mohammad
Saleem, Rozy Bhat, Rakesh Kumar, Pankaj Arora, Rajesh Singh Jasrotia, Ashraf Rasool Mir, Firdous Ahmad
Wani, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Vikas Sharma, Pankaj Sharma, Mohammad Saleem, Ashish
Mahajan, Reyaz Ahmad Shah, Rohit Chibber, Hira Lal Pandit, Karanjit Singh, Shakti
Koul, Rajesh Kumar Tikoo, Irshad Ahmad, Zaffar Ali, Kulwant Singh, Bansi
Lal, Surinder Singh, Hafiz-ullah, Uttam Singh, Satish Kumar, Suresh Kumar, Kanaya
Lal, Ashok Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Daleep Kumar, Nazir Ahmad, Harcharan Singh, Rajinder Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Mohammad Sadiq and Abdul
Rashid. While issuing the promotion orders, the DGP stressed upon the inspectors to devote themselves to the service of people with a renewed zeal. He said the Jammu and Kashmir Police was making efforts to provide career prospects to all ranks in the force. He said during year 2009 more than 4,000 promotions had been affected in various wings of the department. |
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Vohra extends New Year greetings
Jammu, December 31
Recalling the events of 2009, he said after a brief spell of the Governor’s rule, an elected government led by Omar Abdullah was established a year ago. The overall security scenario had improved and violence had witnessed a notable decline in 2009, he added. The Governor said the overwhelming participation of people in the Parliamentary elections, held immediately after the Assembly poll of 2008, had yet again demonstrated their faith in the democracy. With liberal financial support from the Centre for speeding up socio-economic development in the state, a great opportunity was awaiting, he added. Vohra said it would be necessary for all shades of public opinion to shed rigid postures and become vigorous partners in the process of reconstruction and socio-economic transformation of the state, in harmony with the aspirations of the common man. This would enhance the growth of the state, he added. He complimented the police, the Army and other security forces for concerted efforts and sacrifices in handling terrorism and restoring normalcy in the state. Vohra said the highest number of pilgrims visiting Mata Vaishno Devi shrine and the satisfactory conduct of the Amarnath yatra during the year reflected the vast potential of Jammu and Kashmir, emerging as the foremost tourist destination in the country. |
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Ministers misusing state aircraft, alleges Harsh Dev
Jammu, December 31 In a press note issued here yesterday, party MLA and chief spokesperson Harsh Dev Singh termed it as a financial irregularity of serious order. He said the coalition ministers had been misusing the state aircraft and helicopters for quite sometime and even the State Vigilance Organisation had given adverse findings and reports in this regard in the past. Harsh Dev deplored inaction in any of the cases as the perpetrators of the offences were occupying high offices and enjoying immunity from all kinds of legal proceedings. This had resulted in unabated misuse of public money, he added. Reminding Pranab of his recent statements as well as a government order issued on December 7 pertaining to financial discipline and austerity measures, Harsh Dev said it was an acid test for the Finance Minister to act against all those ministers who had violated the financial code and contravened the austerity measures. He further reminded Pranab of his claims of ‘zero tolerance’ in case of fiscal indiscipline and financial irregularity of any kind, whatsoever, brought to his notice. Harsh Dev pointed out large scale violations of the financial code by ministers, who were using several vehicles while on tours despite clear cut orders restricting the number of vehicles to be used by the ministers while touring. He also pointed out the instances of funding of private tours of some ministers outside the state and even foreign tours at the cost of the exchequer. It was ironical that while the government was finding it difficult to pay wages and salaries to its employees and even to daily wage workers, the ministers were frittering away scarce resources for their personal benefit, Harsh Dev said. |
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NSF vows to intensify stir
Tribune News Service
Jammu, December 31 While addressing mediapersons here, NSF president Vikas Sharma said the forum would launch an awareness campaign at college and school levels, besides meeting intellectual people to garner public support over the issue. Vikas said a forum delegation would also meet the Chancellor of university and Governor NN Vohra to seek his intervention in these matters. “The university authorities are trying to hush up the mark-sheet tampering case as some senior university officers are directly or indirectly involved in the case,” alleged Vikas. The police post being set up in the name of security would not be accepted by the NSF, he added.
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Former XEN invents device
Jammu, December 31 Gandotra says after the electromechanical device is attached with the jack the energy to operate electric control switches can be obtained from the vehicle itself. The Controller General of Patent, Design and Trade Marks, Government of India, granted patent for the device to him vide patent certificate number 236216 on October 8. The retired engineer has set up a small scale industry near the Kaluchak area in
Jammu district. |
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Class X result declared
Jammu, December 31 Four got distinction, whereas 394 achieved the first grade and 9,454 the second grade. —
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