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Five-year-old boy with speech impairment finally reunited with family
Thicker security cover for Jammu airport
Admn order Bypassed
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Sunlight packs a lethal punch
Roadside vendors a nuisance on NH
Non-teaching staff not to work overtime
Solih Sublime School emerge champs
JKNPP seeks delimitation commission
BCC, ACCK register wins
Theatre camp for children begins
Sex racket busted; 12 arrested
4 held for temple
thefts
Youth commits suicide
Workshop on software usage
Three upgraded high schools inaugurated
College teachers attend convention
Grameen Bank employees to observe strike today
Table soccer players leave for national meet
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Five-year-old boy with speech impairment finally reunited with family
Jammu, June 7 Childline Jammu, an NGO dedicated to restoring missing children to their parents, was instrumental in locating Jojo’s parents. The case was unique, as Jojo could not speak anything but his name due to a congenital disorder affecting his vocal cord. He had gone missing in March from Bhagwati Nagar, near the old bus stand, where he lives with his parents, who hail from Chhattisgarh. Manjari Singh, centre coordinator, Childline Jammu, told The Tribune: “His inability to converse was a major hurdle in locating his parents. We had received a call from the Kannachak SHO on March 19 about a missing child who could not speak. The process to locate his parents was started and his short stay was arranged at Ved Mandir, where he stayed for around two and half months.” Manjari said Jojo was later shifted to the SOS Children’s Village, Gole Gujral, for a few days. His parents were subsequently located and the child was handed over to them at the Kannachak police station after completing the legal formalities. On the efforts put in to locate the parents, she said: “The news regarding Jojo’s recovery was flashed through the police control room and over 200 centres across the country. Out team regularly goes out to raise awareness among people in different localities about our aims and objectives, and also discuss the cases lying with us.” “During our outreach programme on June 2 in Bhagwati Nagar, a shopkeeper discussed Jojo’s case and helped us locate his parent. On meeting his parents, Jojo immediately recognised his father,” she added. Kannachak SHO Rajinder Sharma said he had spotted Jojo near a pond at Kannachak village. “I saw him wandering alone near the pond. He was unable to respond to my queries. The only thing he could reveal was his name. I gave him shelter for two days and later informed the Childline,” said Sharma. Jojo’s father Sagar said Jojo had gone to the bus stand but failed to return home. “I thought he might have gone for a stroll and would return home. We looked out for him and got a missing person’s report registered at the Bhagwati Nagar police station. Jojo is the eldest of the three brothers. We have been putting up at Bhagwati Nagar for the past four months. I thank Childline and the police for their support,” he added. The curious case of Jojo
The case of Jojo, who went missing in March from Bhagwati Nagar, was unique as he could not speak anything but his name due to a congenital disorder affecting his vocal cord |
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Thicker security cover for Jammu airport
Jammu, June 7 Sources said currently over 200 personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, one company of the CRPF,s on a permanent basis, and two additional companies of the CRPF, on a daily basis, provide security cover to the airport. “With an increase in the load of air traffic, the security needs have also become greater. Over 35 flights land and take off from the Jammu airport. More than 3,000 persons arrive at the airport and the current security apparatus is not enough to meet the security needs of the airport,” a source said. ML Mehra, SP (Security), Jammu airport, said the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) had surveyed the airport in 2005. “The security network needs to be upgraded as the load of air traffic has increased manifold. To ensure the safety of passengers, more manpower is required,” he said. On the training and skills of the security personnel, Mehra said the security men deployed at the airport had undergone special training. “The BCAS guidelines are followed in training the security personnel. Our teams undergo special courses, which are frequently organised at Delhi, Jammu or Srinagar. We keep organising mock exercises for checking and frisking. The anti-hijacking squads are also trained to tackle any tough situation,” he said. Additional skilled manpower would strengthen the security grid, which was crucial for an airport like Jammu. No CISF cover
Unlike other airports in the country, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) does not provide security cover to the Jammu airport. Officials at the airport and the Jammu Kashmir Police told The Tribune that the scenario was altogether different in Jammu and Kashmir, as it was a militancy-infested state. “The local police has proved more successful in combating militancy here as they can easily detect trouble-makers. Handing over of charge to some other agency may lead to chaos,” a source said. |
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Admn order Bypassed
Jammu, June 7 Under the first phase, the administration had planned to shift idly parked buses to Khanpur, Nagrota, around 13 km from the city, to de-congest the general bus stand. However, hundreds of idly parked buses and other vehicles continue to create chaos inside the bus stand, with transporters and drives showing scant regard to the directive. On Tuesday, District Magistrate Sanjeev Verma had issued a fresh directive to the drivers and owners of all inbound passenger buses to refrain from idle parking on the compound. He had directed the bus drivers to proceed towards the available parking space at Khanpur after dropping the passengers at the bus stand to avoid congestion. “The shifting of idly parked buses and other vehicles from the general bus stand had already been facing stiff resistance from local shopkeepers. Transporters and bus drivers, too, are reluctant to honour the fresh directive of the district administration,” said an official of the Jammu Development Authority, which manages the affairs of the bus stand. The official said apart from technical glitches, coordination gap among various agencies was a major roadblock in the implementation of the project. “The administration had earlier issued a similar directive, which failed to yield the desired results. The Traffic Police had initiated a drive to remove idly parked vehicles from the bus stand and BC Road, but it fizzled out in no time,” the official said. The High Court had constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, who had issued directions for the removal of idly parked vehicles, which created serious congestion at the bus stand. A committee of officers comprising Deputy Commissioner, Jammu, JDA vice-chairperson, Jammu SSP, SSP (Traffic), Deputy Transport Commissioner, and RTO had also been constituted to ensure the shifting of idly parked buses from the bus stand. Sources said the estimated cost of the project was Rs 35 crore and it was aimed at de-congesting the city from growing traffic chaos. Around 500 local and inter-state buses enter the bus stand on a daily basis and halt there before leaving for other destinations. Ashwani Kumar, former president, Bus Stand Shopkeepers Association, said: “We have no objection to the shifting of idly parked buses to Khanpur, but the bus terminal should remain here. The shopkeepers are not against the construction of a multi-storey parking complex but they (around 250) should be allotted shops within the complex as they had been paying rent to the JDA for the past 40 years.” A senior traffic police officer said the representatives of the bus union were reluctant to shift their vehicles due to lack of modern facilities at the Khanpur bus terminal. “We have started the process of shifting idly parked vehicles at the bus stand and any violation of the directive will invite strict action under the law, including heavy penalty,” he said. Daily arrivals
Around 500 local and inter-state buses enter the Jammu bus stand on a daily basis and halt there before leaving for other destinations |
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Sunlight packs a lethal punch
Jammu, June 7 The ultraviolet (UV) portion of the radiation spectrum is classified into UV-A, UV-B and UV-C, which make up for 8.3 per cent of the total radiation. As UV-C contains high energy, it is absorbed by ozone and only a small amount of energy reaches the earth’s surface, whereas UV-B is absorbed partially by the ozone layer and can damage biological organisms. “Since the intensity of UV-B radiation varies with latitude, altitude, and season, it generally crosses 2.5 MED per hour during June. During this period, its intensity has been recorded at over 2.7 MED/hour by the agrometeorology department in SKUAST, Jammu,” said Dr MK Khushu, Chief Scientist and Head, Agrometeorology, SKUAST. “We advise people to stay in the shade especially between 10 am and 3 pm. Farmers are especially advised to avoid any farm operation during these hours,” he added. Though a handful of people are seen on the roads due to high temperatures, the scientist advises residents to cover themselves properly while venturing out in the sun. Dr Rajesh Sharma, working with the Government Medical College and Hospital, said: “The depletion of the ozone layer has resulted in an increase in the intensity of MED in the sunlight. Immediate exposure to sunlight can cause sunburn, while constant exposure may lead to skin damage like dark spots. Further, prolonged exposure to sunlight can cause skin cancer.” “People should avoid direct sunlight, wear
full-sleeve clothes, use umbrella or goggles and drink plenty of water to avoid the harmful effects of the sunlight,” he added. UV types
The ultraviolet (UV) portion of the radiation spectrum is classified into UV-A, UV-B and UV-C, which make up for 8.3 per cent of the total radiation |
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Roadside vendors a nuisance on NH
Jammu, June 7 A survey of the national highway from the airport to Bikram Chowk reveals how fruit vendors have been using the main road to run their business. And they have no fear of the law, as the Gandhi Nagar police station is located on the stretch. Motorists often halt near these pushcarts to make their purchases. Mahesh Singh, a passerby, said motorists often braked suddenly on the highway, leading to accidents. “Vehicles often stop near these pushcarts, thereby increasing the chances of mishap. I wonder why the authorities concerned are not taking cognizance of the issue. Most VIPs travel on this road,” he said. Tanya Sharma, a resident of Gandhi Nagar, said they had witnessed several accidents due to the presence of pushcarts on the highway. “Most speeding vehicles brake all of a sudden on the highway, resulting in major accidents. The city administration has turned a blind eye to the violation,” she said. Babu Ram, Joint Commissioner, Municipal Commissioner, said stationing of pushcarts was prohibited on the national highway. “We try to ensure that no pushcarts are stationed on the highway, but vendors seldom adhere to the norms. We will get the roads cleared of pushcarts soon,” he said.
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Non-teaching staff not to work overtime
Jammu, June 7 According to the sources, in a joint meeting to look into the demands of the non-teaching employees of Jammu and Kashmir Universities held at Srinagar, the representatives of the union had disagreement with the attitude of the VC Prof MPS Ishar vis-a-vis their demands. Kashmir University (KU) VC Dr Talat Ahmed, KU Registrar, OSD to JU VC Jai Kumar Sharma and the leaders of the Non-Teaching Employees Union of KU were also present. The non-teaching employees of KU had also objected to the behaviour of Prof Ishar. Sources said it was OSD Jai Kumar Sharma’s comment that infuriated the non-teaching employees. Sharma objected to certain demands of the non-teaching employees after which the VC also toed his lines. This led to anguish among the leaders of the non-teaching employees and expressed resentment against the JU VC. They even demanded the removal of Prof Ishar as VC, University of Jammu. The president of JU Non-Teaching Employees Union Sunil Sahi told The Tribune that the OSD to the VC was trying to downplay their genuine demands. “We had putforth 26 demands, including Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) before the VC. We had suggested that new designations be framed so as to adjust the non-teaching employees after promotion. But, the OSD objected and shifted the entire onus on Financial Advisor,” he added. While accusing the university administration of adopting different yardsticks for the officers and non-teaching employees, Sahi said, “Jai Kumar Sharma himself got the new position of OSD whereas Special Secretary to VC Neeraj Sharma was made OSD Finance by changing the designations. For these two positions no approval was taken from Financial Advisor. But, when it comes to the non-teachning employees, administration comes up with a huge list of excuses,” he added. “In order to express resentment against the adamant attitude of the university authorities particularly JU VC Prof Mohan Paul Singh Ishar, the non-teaching employee unions of both the universities have unanimously decided to stop working overtime from now onwards,” Sahi concluded.
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Solih Sublime School emerge champs
Jammu, June 7 Solih Sublime School emerged as the overall winner while Jamia Millia finished runners-up. In 70kg weight category, Sayib Nissar, Zamin and Abrar Rashid, bagged the first three positions, while in 45kg category, Zamin Altaf, Mirza Faisal and Suhail Gulzar, secured first, second and third positions, respectively. In 33kg category, Junaid Javaid bagged the top position while Aqib and Faizan second and third position, respectively. In junior girls section, Iqra Altaf, Atira and Sheezain Shafi, stood first, second and third, respectively. In 52kg category, Hafsa Handoo, Fizhat Rafiq and Saima bagged the first, second and third positions, respectively while in 56kg category, Anisa Shabnam, Iqra Hafeez and Nighat Rasheed finished first, second and third, respectively. In senior girls 60kg category, Muzamil bagged the top honours, while Fizhat Rafiq and Zeenat bagged second and third position, respectively. Principal Islamia College Dr Tariq Kawoosa was the chief guest while Dr Khursheed Mahajan was the guest of honour and distributed prizes among the winners.
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JKNPP seeks delimitation commission
Katra, June 7 Activists from different parties joined the JKNPP under the chairmanship of MLA and state president Balwant Singh Mankotia at a party function here today. Mankotia said their party had been fighting for the cause of Jammu since 1982. He appreciated the role of JKNPP chairman Bhim Singh, who was fighting a case of delimitation in Supreme Court, to provide equitable share of Assembly seats to both regions. Mankotia said the state government had failed to provide justice to all regions of the state, while referring to the commitment made by the Congress leadership during the 2008 Assembly elections regarding the constitution of a delimitation commission. He appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ask the Congress leadership and the state government to fulfil the commitments made during the 2008 elections and constitute a delimitation commission to end the discrimination against the Jammu region. Those present were MR Bhamagi, Pawan Dev Singh, Sham Singh, Munshi Ram, Shakel Ahmad and Sunil Sharma.
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BCC, ACCK register wins
Jammu, June 7 In reply, HCC could manage only 103 runs for the loss of nine wickets. Gagan and Harpreet scored 23 and 19 runs, respectively. From BCC, Arshad and Mudassir fetched three and two wickets, respectively. In another match, batting first GCCD scored 171 runs for the loss of four wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Aarish and Paras made useful contributions of 89 and 19 runs, respectively, while Arshad and Haroon from ACC Kishtwar, shared two wickets apiece. In reply, ACC Kishtwar did the needful in 17.3 overs losing four wickest in the process. Nisar and Shabu Dar played match winning knocks of 62 and 46 runs, respectively. From GCCD, Saddam and Ajay took three and one wicket, respectively.
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Theatre camp for children begins
Jammu, June 7 “This is one of the major annual theatre event of Natrang, which was started 22 years ago and is organised every year,” said Thakur. The workshop will be conducted by Sumeet Sharma who is Masters in dramatics and has a good experience in children theatre. He effectively uses theatre as a means of personality development. Shilpa Gupta, who is also a student of Natrang, has been doing professional theatre along with children since past fifteen years. A children’s play will be prepared during the 40-day workshop. “Top experts and professionals in the field will impart training on personality development, public speaking, memory development, confidence gain, infusing creativity through the latest developed techniques,” said Thakur.
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Sex racket busted; 12 arrested
Jammu, June 7 The police said those arrested have been remanded in police custody and were being interrogated. The police took action following a complaint by a student, putting up at Housing Colony, Udhampur. The victim, who was injured on June 6, was hospitalised at the District Hospital, Udhampur. Those arrested have been identified as Beli Ram of Lar village, Ramnagar; Showket Ali of Birma Pul, Dhanor; Subhash Chander of Battalwallian, Dhanor; Joginder Kumar of Ghordi Jagir, Ramnagar tehsil; Yog Raj of Udhampur tehsil; Balinder Kumar of Sher Manjilan, Ramnagar tehsil; Ashok Kumar of Rattangarh, Chenani tehsil; Ashok Kumar Gupta of Dhar Road, Udhampur; and Shamasdin of Malhar village, Bilawar tehsil, besides three women. A case under Sections 366, 109 and 337, RPC, and Sections 3, 4 and 5, Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act, has been registered at the Udhampur police station. A special investigation team headed by a gazetted officer of the police had carried out raids in different parts of Udhampur. — TNS |
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4 held for temple
thefts
Rajouri, June 7 Those arrested were Wakar, Ajmat, Sadiq and Riyaz of Kodedada village, Rajouri. The police has recovered stolen goods and cash from the accused. SHO Varinder Gupta said: “We had received several complaints of theft at different temples in the area wherein valuables along with cash had been stolen. A team of police had launched a search operation and nabbed the culprits. He said the accused were facing five cases under various sections.
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Youth commits suicide
Jammu, June 7 The police added that the reasons for his suicide were not yet disclosed. Later, the body was handed over to his family for postmortem. Rakesh is survived by parents, two younger brothers and four sisters. The police has registered a case under Section 174 of CrPc.
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Workshop on software usage
Jammu, June 7 Prof Rahul Gupta, Head of the Statistics Department, deliberated on the market need of statisticians who are trained to use statistical softwares like SPSS, STATISTICA, SAS, MATLAB, BMDP and MINITAB. He assured the students that similar training programmes will be organised in future for the benefit of the researchers in the field of management, behavioural sciences, social sciences, sciences and life sciences. In the technical sessions, the participants were trained to use data management, data editing, data transformations, data analysis techniques, including descriptive statistics, bootstrapping, tests of significance, MANOVA, factor analysis and regression analysis.
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Three upgraded high schools inaugurated
Rajouri, June 7 These schools have been upgraded by the government to provide secondary education facilities to students of these areas on their doorstep. With the upgrade, hundreds of students, especially poor ones, will be able to continue their studies in their area alone. Addressing a public meeting at Mangota, the minister said education was a basic tool for socio-economic transformation of society. He said the government was focussing on the expansion of educational institutions, besides upgrading education-related infrastructure across the state. He said the need of the hour was to impart students with quality and job-oriented education so that they could appear in competitive examinations. The minister said in the past few years, a number of new educational institutions, especially in the remote and hilly areas, had been established by the government where such facilities were lacking. He said the objective of upgrading educational institutions in far-flung and border areas like Rajouri was to allow students to continue with their higher studies and benefit from quality and job-oriented education on their doorstep. He urged the student community to focus on their studies as education was crucial to their overall development. |
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College teachers attend convention
Jammu, June 7 During the meeting, it was stated that the state governments had failed to implement the UGC notifications. Dr Avinash Kumar Gupta pointed out that the API score guidelines needed to be reviewed for college teachers, considering the fact that facilities for conducting research work in the colleges still did not exist. He also demanded the extension of the UGC deadline for orientation and refresher courses. It was unanimously decided to form a coordination committee of university and college teacher associations to take up the issues with the UGC and HRD Ministry. — TNS
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Grameen Bank employees to observe strike today
Jammu, June 7 The decision in this regard was taken at a joint central committee meeting here today. Their demands include parity in pension, formation of National Rural Bank of India, regularisation or absorption of part-time/daily waged workers in RRBs, withdrawl of goverment order on HR policy and representation of workman and officer in the Board of Management. The meeting was held under the aegis of Jammu and Kashmir Grameen Bank Officers Association president RS Billawaria and general secretary Parboth Chander, J&K Grameen Bank Employees Association president Satish Sharma and general secretary Ranjeet Kapoor.
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Table soccer players leave for national meet
Jammu, June 7 The team comprised Prigyanshu Guptam, Akshun Singh, Luv Sharma, Rivithik Pawar, Govind Sharma, Rajneesh Gupta, Santosh Singh, Shagun Gupta, Satya Jeet Singh, Sourav, Akhil Badkulia, Kanwaljeet Singh, Malvika Kapoor, shirin, radhika Singhal, Payal Chowdhary and Kritika. Rameshwar Singh is accompanying the team as coach while Ranjeet Singh and Aftab Aalam as managers. — TNS
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