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Two girls raped
in Domana, Arnia
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
Two girls were today allegedly
raped in Arnia and Domana areas.
Police said that they got information from the family members of a 16
year old girl, who is ninth class student, that their daughter has been
allegedly raped by the son of a
Assistant Sub Inspector’s son namely Rahul Sharma son of Tilak Raj
Sharma of Purkhu in Domana.
Police said that they shifted the girl
for medical examination where they
learnt that she was two month pregnant, while a raid was conducted
and the accused youth was also
See Two girls on page 11
Unprovoked ceasefire
violation in Poonch,
woman injured
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
Pak Army last night violated
cease fire firing mortar shells targeting Indian positions in forward
areas of Poonch district. Defense
spokesperson said that an unprecedented turn of events, Pakistani soldiers initiated indiscriminate firing
on Indian Army posts and villages
along the Line of Control in Poonch
sector in the morning hours of 14
See Unprovoked on page 11
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Received enough of Pak's
exports - terror, infiltrators: India
New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI)
Terming
as
"absurd"
Pakistan's proposal of sending supplies to Jammu and Kashmir,
India today strongly retorted that
it along with others in the region
have already received enough of
"trademark exports" from that
country including terrorism and
infiltrators. India's sharp reaction
came after it received a note verbale from Pakistan's Foreign
Ministry on Friday proposing to
send supplies to Jammu and
Kashmir.
External
Affairs
Ministry "completely and categorically" rejected the communication
from Pakistan. "A communication
was apparently delivered to our
High Commission in Islamabad on
August 12. I can only characterise
its contents that propose sending
supplies to the Indian state of
Jammu and Kashmir as absurd,"
External
Affairs
Ministry
Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.
"India and others in the region
have already received enough of
Pakistan's trademark exports -- international terrorism, cross-border infiltrators, weapons, narcotics and fake currency," he said.
India's reaction came on a day
when Pakistani forces violated the
ceasefire along the LoC in Poonch
district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Earlier in the day, Pakistani High
Commissioner to India Abdul
Basit made provocative statements over Kashmir and said his
country will continue to extend
full diplomatic, political and
moral support to the people of the
state. Basit made the comments
during
the
country's
Independence Day celebrations at
its embassy here. In Islamabad,
President Mamnoon Hussain,
while addressing a gathering at a
flag hoisting ceremony, also
raised the Kashmir issue, saying
the country will continue to support Kashmiris in their bid for the
right to self-determination.
India and Pakistan have been
engaged in a war of words over
Pakistan and its Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif's statements on the
situation in Kashmir which has
been witnessing unrest following
the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen
commander Burhan Wani.
Wani was described as a martyr by Pakistan, which has also
tried to internationalise the
Kashmir issue while India has
been maintaining that Pakistansponsored terrorism in the Valley
is the root cause of the turbulence.
Pakistan violates ceasefire in
Poonch, sweets at Waga border
Jammu, Aug 14 (PTI)
Amid ceasefire violations
by Pakistan along the Line of
Control
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir's Poonch, soldiers
from the two countries exchanged sweets at Atari-Wagah
border on the occasion of
Pakistan's Independence Day.
After a lull of over four
months, the ceasefire on the
Line of Control was violated
again with Pakistan Army firing at two places and shelling
mortars in Poonch sector of
Jammu and Kashmir today.
Indian troops retaliated to the
firing which was still going on
when last reports came in.
"The Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation along the Line of Control
(LoC) in Poonch sector of
Jammu and Kashmir," Defence
Spokesman Lt Col Manish
Mehta said here. He said the
Curfew extended to several
reviews
places in Kashmir Rajnath
security ahead of
Srinagar, Aug 14 (PTI):
Curfew was today extended to
several places in Kashmir in view of
the separatists' call for a march to
the heart of the city even as restrictions on the movement of people
were in force in rest of the Valley.
"Curfew remained in force in
entire Srinagar district and
Anantnag town but was extended to
several other places as a precautionary measure in view of the call
for march to Lal Chowk by certain
elements," a police official said. He
said curfew was imposed in
Ganderbal town, Awantipora, Tral,
Pampore, Baramulla town, Sopore
town, Bandipora town, Kaloosa,
Papchan and Ajar areas of the
Valley. "Curfew was also imposed
in Wargam area of Beerwah in
Budgam district following yesterday's sectarian clashes," he added.
Despite curfew, separatists elements managed to hoist Pakistan
flags in many localities across
Kashmir to mark the Independence
Day of the neighbouring country,
he said adding security forces
pulled down the flags as soon as
they were noticed. Authorities suspended Internet and mobile services across the Valley yesterday as
part of the security drill ahead of the
Independence Day celebrations tomorrow. While broadband services
were snapped yesterday evening,
the mobile telephony was suspended late last night, the official said.
"Only BSNL postpaid mobiles are
See Curfew on page 11
Independence Day
Home Minister Rajnath
Singh today reviewed the security situation in the
country, particularly in
Jammu and Kashmir, on the
eve of Independence day. Top
brass of the security establishment briefed him on the prevailing situation in the country and the steps taken to foil
any attempt by terrorists and
other elements to disturb
peace, official sources said.
The meeting specially
See Rajnath on page 11
Pakistan Army resorted to
heavy mortar, small arm and
automatic weapon fire in
Poonch sector since 3 AM. "Our
troops are responding appropriately and no casualties or damage to our troops was reported
till the report last came in. The
firing was still going on" the
spokesman added. Today's
ceasefire violation comes after
over four months as the last
such incident took place on
April 10, this year in Poonch
sector. Earlier Pakistan had violated ceasefire on September
18, 2015 in Balakote sector of
Poonch district. Last year, 16
civilians were killed and 71 others injured in 405 incidents of
cross-border firing by Pakistan,
the officer said. While 253 incidents of ceasefire violations
took
place
along
the
International Border (IB), 152
incidents were reported along
See Pakistan on page 11
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Girl who vowed
to unfurl tricolour at Lal
Chowk turned back
Srinagar, Aug 14 (PTI)
A 15-year-old girl from
Ludhiana, who publicly
vowed to hoist the national
flag at the historic Lal
Chowk here and had dared
the separatists to stop her,
was today turned back by authorities from Srinagar
International Airport.
Jhanvi Behal accompanied
by 30 others arrived at the
airport but all of them were
sent back, a police official
said, without assigning any
reason for the step.
Behal had grabbed the
headlines earlier this year
by challenging JNU student
leader Kanhaiya Kumar to a
debate on nationalism. The
police official said while six
persons including Behal had
come in a flight from
Chandigarh, 25 others had
arrived here in another
flight from Delhi. "All of
them were sent back by the
same flight in which they
came," the official said. After
the outbreak of violent
protests in Kashmir following the killing of Hizbul
Mujahideen commander
Burhan Wani, Behal gave an
online statement expressing
her intention to unfurl the
natinal flag at Lal Chowk. "I
would hoist the tricolour at
Lal Chowk in Srinagar on
SEE GIRL ON PAGE 11
Hurriyat is not important than
other J&K stakeholders: Singh
Jammu, Aug 13 (PTI)
that
the
Asserting
Hurriyat Conference was not
"more important" than the
other stakeholders in Jammu
and Kashmir, Union minister
Jitendra Singh today said
separatists would have to be
"on board" as much as others
to resolve the Kashmir issue.
"They (separatists) have to be
on board as much as the others," he told reporters in reply
to a question whether the
Centre will hold talks with
Hurriyat Conference leaders
in an attempt to restore peace
in the Valley. "Hurriyat is as
important as the other stakeholders. It is not more important than those in Jammu or
Ladakh or the Kashmiri
Pandits, Sikhs or those in
PoK and the West Pakistan
refugees. They are members
of the civil society and nothing more. When all the others
are taken into confidence,
they can also be there," Singh
said. Replying to another
query on the Centre's policy
on terrorism and how to deal
with the violent youth of
Kashmir, the Union minister
said the government and the
Prime Minister have clarified that there will be no compromise
on
terrorism.
"Terrorists would be strongly
dealt with, the way they are
dealt with, whichever place
they come from or whichever
ideology they belong to," he
said. "The misguided youth,
See Hurriyat on page 11
Only outstanding
issue with Pak
is liberating PoK
The government today strongly reacted to
High
Pakistan
Commissioner
Abdul
Basit's
remark
on
Kashmir's "freedom", saying the "only outstanding
issue is how to liberate
part of J&K which is under illegal occupation of
Islamabad." MoS in Prime
See Only on page 11
Police assault during march in Jammu:
SC awards compensation
to JKNPP leaders
The Supreme Court has
awarded a compensation
ranging from Rs one lakh to
Rs two lakh to three members
of the Jammu and Kashmir
National Panthers Party who
were beaten up by state police during a demonstration
in 2007. A bench of justices A
K Sikri and R K Agrawal
awarded a compensation of
Rs two lakh to Anita Thakur,
a general secretary of the party, and Rs one lakh each to
JKNPP's secretary and a senior journalist, who was also
its member, saying their fundamental rights had been violated due to the "police excess". The bench noted in its
judgement that initially it
was the protestors who had
taken law into their hands
during the protest which began peacefully but turned violent. "On the other hand,
even the police personnel
continued the use of force beyond limits after they had
controlled the mob. In the
process, they continued their
lathi charge. They continued
to beat up all the three
See SC Awards on page 11
32 JK police officers
awarded President’s Medal
CYM K
SRINAGAR, Aug 14
On
the
eve
of
Independence Day-2016, the
Central Government has announced President’s Police
Medal for Distinguished
Service, Police Medal for
Meritorious Service and
Police Medal for Gallantry.
The awardees include 32 personnel from Jammu and
Kashmir Police. President’s
Police
Medal
for
Distinguished Service has
been awarded to IGP
Kashmir,
Syed
Javaid
Mujtaba Gillani and DIG
Udhampur-Reasi
Range,
Surinder Kumar Gupta.
Police
Medal
for
Meritorious Service has been
awarded to Mohammad Shafi
Shah, Sub-Inspector, Deepti
Lal Salotra, Dy SP Police
Tech Hqrs, Abas Ali Shah,
ASI ZAPHQ, Tarsem Singh
Chib Inspector (S) ZPHQ,
Riyaz Ahmad Shah, ASI
ZPHQ, Kuldeep Raj ASI IRP
19th Bn, Predemen Kumar
Tikoo, Dy SP CID SB,
Veerinder Kumar, Dy SP
VoJ, Mohammad Saleem
Khan, Addl SP Security
See 32 JK Police on page 11
CYM K
IGP Kashmir Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani,
DIG Surinder Kumar among awardees
DIP/J-3672
dated 13.8.2016
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FIFTH DAY
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of our beloved Smt.
Sheela Devi W/o Sh. Karnail Singh
Choudhary R/o Chenani Sangote. 5th
Day will be performed on 15 August 2016,
Monday at our residence W. No. 05, H.
No. 254, Barrian Udhampur at 11.00 AM.
Smt. Sheela Devi
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10TH DAY KRIYA
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WE INFORM ABOUT THE SAD & UNTIMELY DEMISE OF OUR RESPECTED
FATHER SH RADHA KRISHEN GOJA
(BOB JEE) S/O LT. SH RAGHAV RAM
GOJA R/O GOJA MOHALLA ANANTNAG A/P 98/4 ANAND NAGAR BOHRI
SH RADHA
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KRISHeN GOJA
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SCHOOL EDUCATION OFFICE) AT 8.30 AM.
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Daughter-in-laws & Sons
Smt Mohini & Sh B L Goja
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Smt Deepa & Sh Kuldeep Goja
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Raina’s, Pandita’s, Dasi’s & Talashi’s
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise of Smt. Chand
Rani W/o Sh. Chander Prakash R/o
Tulsi Nagar, Kishtwar A/P B-901, Royal
Palms Apartments, Near Paloura Naka,
Akhnoor Road, Jammu. 10th Day Kriya
Smt. Chand Rani
will be performed on 16th Aug 2016
(Tuesday) from 9.30 am to 10.30 am in
the hall of Royal Palms (Ground Floor).
GRIeF STRICKeN
Sh. Chander Prakash -Husband
Smt. Sunita Dogra -Daughter-in-law
Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt. Usha Gupta & Sh. A.V. Gupta
Grand Children
Mrs. Sarmista & Mr. Ambuj Raman Dogra
Mrs. Kanupriya & Mr. Anuj Raman Dogra
Mrs. Divya Gupta & Mr. Ullas Gupta
M/s Ganga Bhandar, Kishtwar
Mobile : 9419154104, 9858026391
TENTH DAY
OUR BELOVED MOTHER SMT VIDYA
DEVI SADOTRA W/O LATE SH AMAR
NATH SADOTRA OF WARD NO. 9
H.NO. 124 OIVIA UNIFORM HOUSE
UDHAMPUR. 10TH DAY WILL BE
PERFORMED ON 16TH AUGUST 11
SmT VIDYA DeVI
AM AT KRISHNA PALACE DHAR
SADOTRA
ROAD UDHAMPUR. KRIYA ON 17TH
AUGUST AT DEVIKA GHAT UDHAMPUR.
GRIeF STRICKeN
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SMT & SH MADAN GOPAL
SMT & SH CHANDER MOHAN
SMT & SH SUBASH KESAR
SMT & SH ROMESH KUMAR
SMT & SH BRIJMOHAN SADOTRA
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SMT & SH RAGHUVEER SADOTRA
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SMT & SH AMIT SADOTRA
UTHALA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform you the sad demise of our beloved
daughter Ms. Ranjana Verma D/o Lt.
Sh. Satpal Verma and Smt. Leela
Verma R/o 217/A, Janipur Colony,
Jammu (Near Water Tank). Uthala shall
ms. Ranjana Verma
be performed on 15 August 2016 at occasion hall Opp. Shiv Mandir, Last
Matador Stand, Janipur Colony from 2 PM to 3 PM.
GRIeF STRICKeN
Brothers
Anil Verma (Babloo) (9858121723)
PK Ornaments, Purkhu Camp
Raman Verma (9596837350
PK Ornaments, Muthi Camp
RASAM PAGRI/UTHALA
With profound grief and sorrows, we inform the sad demise of our beloved Sh.
Brahma Nand Sharma R/o H.No. 64,
near Geeta Mandir Bakshi Nagar,
Jammu. Rasam Pagri/ Uthala will be
performed on Monday 15-08-2016 at Sh. brahma Nand
Smiriti Bhawan, Geeta Mandir, Bakshi
Sharma
Nagar, Jammu at 4:00 PM.
GRIeF STRICKeN
Smt. Shakti Devi- Wife
Sons & Daughters-in-Law
Rajan Sharma & Rajni Sharma
Vinod Sharma & Late Smt. Dolly Sharma
Daughters & Son-in-Laws
Shushma Sharma W/o Late Sh. Ashwani Sharma
Jyoti Sharma & Rakesh Sharma
9419123432, 9906154268
OBITUARY
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of Smt. Sham Rani W/o Lt
Sh. Sham Lal Kar originally resident of
Anderhama Kupwara Kmr. at present
H.No.2165, Kashmari Colony, Jain Nagar,
Karala N. Delhi-81, who expired on 11-082016. Mourning will be held at Delhi. 10th
Smt. Sham Rani
Day Kriya will be performed on 20-08-2016
at Manav Chowk, Sector-18, Rohni N-Delhi.
GRIeF STRICKeN
Smt. Kashulyawati & Sh. Arjan Nath Kar - Devar & Devrani
Daughters & Sons-in-law
Sh. Triloki Nath Dhar
Smt. Veena Ji & Sh. Bushan Lal Pandita
Daughters-in-law & Sons
Smt. Nirmala & Sh. Chaman Lal Kar
Smt. Daizy & Sh. Ramesh Kumar Kar
Smt. Dazy & Sh. Rajinder Kumar Kar
Smt. Sushma & Sh. Sanjay Kumar Kar
& All Children
Ph.No: 09716638490, 9868675814, 9419207247
CHOUBARSI
Fourth Death Anniversary of our
beloved Late Sh. Dina Nath Sharma
S/o Late Sh. Ram Chand R/o W.No 15,
H.No 151 Venus Chowk Udhampur on
15-08-2016 at 12.00 pm Monday.
DeePLY RemembeReD bY:
Sh. Dina Nath
Smt. Nirmala Sharma -Wife
Sharma
Son & Daughter-in-law
Sh. Ashwani Sharma & Smt. Usha Sharma
Smt. Shashi Prabha & Late Sh. Kewal Krishan
Smt. Shanti Devi & Sh. Subash Kerni
Smt. Sushma Sharma & Sh. Rakesh Sharma
Grand Children : Shivani
Mob. No: 9858221516
10TH DAY/KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we regret
to inform the sad demise of our beloved
Shanti Devi Chandel W/o Lt Sh Yograj
Chandel R/o H.No. 18, Kucha Sardar
Khem Chand, Chowk Chabutra Jammu.
Tenth Day will be performed on 15-8-2016
at 10:30 AM (Monday) at Rani Talab
Shanti Devi
Jammu city. Kriya shall be held on 15-8Chandel
2016 (Monday) at our residence (12:00
Noon).
GRIeF STRICKeN
Son & Daughter-in-Law
Sh Om Parkash Chandel & Smt Asha Chandel
Daughter & Son-in-Law
Smt Anita & Sh Darshan Chadha
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Sahil Sajgotra & Nitin Sajgotra
Neeaj Chandel, Prince Chandel & Ankush Chadha - Grand Children
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Anand Ram Tickoo R/o Wadwan
Budgam presently at H.No 63, Lane No
- 9, Laxmi Vihar Tomal Bohri near
Sh. badri Nath
Raghav Resorts on 06-08-2016. Tenth
Tickoo
Day Kriya will be performed at Muthi
Ghat near Directorate of School
Education on Monday, 15th of August
2016 at 9.00 am.
GRIeF STRICKeN:
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mother Smt. Sham Rani Mugloo W/o
Late Dwarka Nath Mugloo originally
resident of Malapora Habakadal
Srinagar Kashmir, presently at 326/80,
Smt. Sham Rani
Patel Marg Mansarover Jaipur on 13mugloo
08-2016 at Jaipur. TENTH DAY KRIYA
will be performed on 22-08-2016
(Monday) at Shani Ghat, Swaran Path,
Jaipur.
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M L Chogtu
Sarla and A K Chogtu
Phoola and Ashok Mugloo (9419219760)
Asha Mugloo W/o Late Vinod Mugloo
Virja and Rajinder Mugloo (9419105803)
Vijay and Manoj Mugloo (0141-2782030, 08107078000)
Saroj & Satish Toshkhani
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Hashias, Karihloos and Jailkhanies
10TH DAY KRIYA
WITH PROFOUND GRIEF AND SORROW. WE INFORM THE SAD DEMISE
OF SMT SOHNI HARKAR W/O LT.
SOM NATH HARKAR ORIGINALLY
RESIDENT OF MALLAYAR HABBA
KADAL SRINAGAR AT PRESENT
SmT SOHNI
H.NO. 11 LANE NO.2. BUTA NAGAR
HARKAR
PALOURA OPPOSITE POLICE STATION JANIPUR ON 7TH AUGUST 2016. TENTH DAY KRIYA
WILL BE PERFORMED ON 16TH AUGUST (TUESDAY) AT 8
AM AT MUTHI GHAT NEAR DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL
EDUCATION.
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CHOUBARSI
With profound grief and sorrow, we
inform the sad demise of our
beloved Mr Aurubindu Munshi S/o
Late Sh. M.L. Munshi originally
from Rang Teng, Ali Kadal,
Srinagar, presently residing at M102, Plot No. A-30, Shalimar
Garden Extn-II, (Near Ekta Park),
Sahibabad, Ghaziabad on 11-082016 at Ludhiana. TENTH DAY will
be performed on 20-08-2016
(Saturday) at 7.00 A.M. at Murad
Nagar Ghat, U.P.
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Krishna Munshi-Mother
Sister & Brother-in-law
Nivediata Munshi & Vinod Mahaldar
Vivek Munshi-Brother
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Choubarsi of our beloved Sh Yash Paul
Lakhnotra S/o Late Sh Shiv Ram R/o
H.No. 20, sec-1, Bantalab Jammu will
be performed at our residence on
Monday 15th of August 2016 at 12.00
Noon.
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mr Aurubindu
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OBITUARY
We deeply mourn the sudden demise of
our beloved mother Smt Shanti Devi
Razdan W/o Late Shri Niranjan Nath
Razdan (Formerly resident of Dhuni
Bhavan, Razdan Kocha, Bana Mohalla,
Srinagar Kmr.) who attained the lotus
Smt Shanti Devi
feet of The Creator on 6th August 2016.
Razdan
10th Day Kriya will be held on 15th
August 2016 between 8 to 10 AM at Yamuna Ghat, Behind City
Center, Yamuna Nagar, (Haryana) & between 2-3 PM at
Revera Resort Jagadhari Road, SAHA (Ambala).
In Grief:
Razdans
Asha & Amit Mitra (Daughter & Son-in-law)
Ashok, Vinod, Deepak, Vijay & Avtar (Sons)
Shishoos, Zutshish’s
Koul’s & Mattoo’s (Brothers & Sisters)
Mobile: 9728136224, 9634763250, 9355632099
SATSANG
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise of our beloved S.
Baj Singh Raina (Master) R/o Nowpora
Jagir Baramulla, Kashmir left for heavenly abode on 31-7-2016. SATSANG
will be performed on Monday 15th
S. baj Singh Raina
August 2016 at Gurudwara Digiana
Ashram Jammu from 4.30 P.M. to 6.00
P.M.
GRIeF STRICKeN
Daughters and Son-in-laws
Sdr. Kultaran Kour and Ichpal Singh
R/o Model Town Digiana Jammu
Sdr. Kawalnain Kour and Jang Bhadur Singh
R/o K.C. Colony Preet Nagar Jammu
Mob No: 9697675234, 9419232505
OBITUARY
inform the sad and untimely demise
of our sister Girja Koul D/o Lt. Sh
G.L Koul originally R/o Namchabal,
Fateh Kadal, at present 196-Sec-2,
EWS Colony, Lower Roop Nagar,
Muthi on 6th of Aug 2016. The 10th
Day Kriya will be performed on 15th
August (Monday) at Muthi Ghat,
near DSEJ at 8 am.
GRIeF STRICKeN
Sanjay Koul -Brother
Sunita Koul (Renu) -Sister
M.No: 94191-30723
Sh Yash Paul
Lakhnotra
Girja Koul
UTHALA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise of our beloved
mother Smt. Kamla Devi Amba W/o
Late Sh. Om Parkash Amba R/o W. No.
2 Samba, who left for heavenly abode
on 4th of Aug. 2016. UTHALA will be
Smt. Kamla Devi
performed on 17th of Aug 2016
Amba
(Wednesday) at 1.00 P.M. to 2.00 P.M.
at Dina Nath Memorial Hall Samba
National Highway.
GRIeF STRICKeN
Surinder Kumar Amba-Son-Promila Amba-Daughter-in-law
Kuldeep Kumar Amba-Son-Sujata -Daughter-in-law
Sh. Ashok Salhotra-Son-in-law-Smt. Nirmal -Daughter
Sh. Surinder Chopra-Son-in-law-Smt. Anita -Daughter
Mobile :- Ph: 9419143964
BARKHI
BARKHI of our beloved mother Smt. Lalita
Devi W/o Shri Ram Sarup Makhnotra
Retd. DCF R/o 49-Patel Nagar, Jammu
will be performed at our residence on 15th
August 2016 at 10:00 AM.
DeePLY mISSeD bY
Sons and Daughter in laws:Smt. Lalita Devi
Smt Vinod & Shri Vidya Rattan Makhnotra
Smt Padmaja & Col. Vidya Sagar Makhnotra
Smt Upma & Shri Vidya Bhushan Makhnotra
(Actor, Director & Producer)
Smt Ritu & Shri Vidya Bhaskar Makhnotra
(Inspector Commercial Taxes)
Daughter and Son in laws:Smt. Kamni & Er. ML Khajuria SE Retd.
Smt. Jayoti & Er. Ashok Sharma XEN Retd.
Grand sons and Daughter in laws
Smt Smridhi & Er. Vishal Khajuria
Smt Radhika & Er. Vikas Khajuria
Smt Prithu & Shri Alok Makhnotra
Er. Aditya Makhnotra
Shri Akhilesh Makhnotra
Shri Swapnil Sharma
Shri Nityam Makhnotra
Dr. Milan & Dr. Mohit Sudan
Dr. Akanksha & Dr. Anuj Shrotriya
Miss Anamika Sharma
Miss Divija Makhnotra
Miss Tawishi Makhnotra
Great Grand Sons & Daughters:Master Krishiv Sudan, Master Tapish Khajuria
Miss Snigdha Sudan, Miss Ditvi Shrotriya
Miss Gauri Khajuria, Master Atharv Makhnotra
inform the sad demise of Sh. Triloki
Nath Bhat S/o Lt. Sh. Vishna Bhat
R/o Noorpora (Gairoo) Kashmir on
10/08/2016.The 10th Day Kriya will
Sh. Triloki Nath
be performed on 19/08/2016
bhat
(Friday) at Naagbal Gowri Shri
Asthapan Noorpora Kashmir.
GRIeF STRICKeN
Smt Nancy Bhat -Wife
Sh Suman Vikas Bhat -Son
Smt Anupuma & Sh Munish Raina
Smt Amrita & Sh Raj Kumar Kour
Smt Pyaari Ji -Bhabhi
Smt Mohini & Sh H.L Bhat -Bhabhi & Brother
Smt Kamalwati Bhat -Mother-in-law
AND SAMAST BHAT PARIWAR
PH.NO: 9419897663, 9419301904, 9419121841
OBITUARY
With profund grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise of our beloved
Sanju S/o Lt. Ramesh Kumar R/o
Lakashmipuram Chinore in a tragic
road accident on 7th of August, 2016.
10th Day Kriya will be held on 16-082016 at Muthi Ghat near Directorate of
School Eduation at 8:30 AM.
GRIeF STRICKeN
Teja Ji -Mother
Nishu -Sister
Sunny -Brother
Mob : 9796673471
Sanju
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow we inform the sad demise of our beloved father Sh. Badri Nath Tickoo S/o Late Sh.
Anand Ram Tickoo R/o Wadwan
Budgam presently at H.No 63, Lane No
- 9, Laxmi Vihar Tomal Bohri near
Sh. badri Nath
Raghav Resorts on 06-08-2016. Tenth
Tickoo
Day Kriya will be performed at Muthi
Ghat near Directorate of School
Education on Monday, 15th of August
2016 at 9.00 am.
GRIeF STRICKeN:
Sons & Daughters-in-law
Sh. Raju Tickoo & Smt. Ambika
Sh. Rakesh Tickoo & Smt. Surekha
Smt. Vijay & Sh. Manoj Raina
Grand Children : Satyam, Shreerali, Tanshika & Priyam
Samast Parivars of Bakshis, Kouls, Tickoos, Rainas & Panditas
Ph: 9419718343, 9796667644, 9419136718
OBITUARY
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform about the sad demise of our
beloved mother Smt. Chunni Raina
W/o Late Sh. Lassa Kak Raina
Mahanoori original resident of Drabiyar,
Habba Kadal, Srinagar. Presently at
Navi Mumbai on 8-8-2016. TENTH Smt. Chunni Raina
DAY KRIYA will be performed on 17-82016 at Navi Mumbai
GRIeF STRICKeN
All Nears and Dears
Mobile No: 09869000144
TENTH DAY
With profound giref & sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of uor beloved Shri
Shridhar Pandita S/o late Sh Prasad
Ram Pandita, oroginal resident of
Athoora, District Baramulla, Kashmir, at
present, near K C Door, Jammu, who
left us for heavenly abode on 9th
August, 2016. Tenth Day will be performed on 18th August, 2016 at Muthi
Ghat near Director School Education,
Jammu at 8 AM.
DeePLY RemembeReD bY:Panditas, Bhats, Kouls
Contact No: 9419282966
Shri Shridhar
Pandita
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform that the sad demise of Sh Devi
Chand (Retd. Sub - Insp. JKP, Now
Sarpanch Sindra) R/o Sindra Teh.
Bhalla, Distt. Doda on 10th of Aug 2016.
His 4th Day Kriya will be performed on
Sh Devi Chand
13th of Aug 16 at his residence Sindra.
His 10th Day Kriya will be performed on
18th of Aug 2016 at 10.00 am onwards at his residence.
GRIeF STRICKeN
Smt Darshana Devi -Wife
Brothers and Bhabis
Sh Davinder Kumar (Ex. Hav) & Smt Pushpa Devi
Sh Bodh Raj (DySP JKP) & Smt Indu Devi
Sh Parkash Ram (Head Master) & Smt Rajni Devi (Tr.)
Sons
Suneel Kumar (Lect.)
Anil Kumar (Physical Teacher)
Nephew: Neeraj Kumar (Lab. Tech.), Naveen Kumar, Ankush
Kumar (Engineering), Ankit
Kumar, Suraj Parkash, Gagan Parkash
Mob: 9419122361, 9697035364
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Glimpses of Future
LOCAL
Make frequent field visits to rural areas for on spot
assessment of the problems: Saroori to officers
GOF Staff Reporter
Nagni Bunjwah, August 14:
Reiterating resolve of the
Congress to equip far-off rural
pockets of the state with all required modern infrastructure, Vice President state
Congress and MLA Inderwal,
G. M Saroori said development initiatives was taken in
Congress governments to upgrade rural infrastructure and
focused attention was paid to
core areas of health, road,
power, water supply and education. Saroori said the
Congress was leaving no stone
unturned to take the development revolution to every nook
and corner of the state but the
present dispensation has put
water on all the developmental process which started by
Congress in the state. "Pahari,
Kandi areas were given special attention but PDP-BJP
has totally failed on every
front and failed to do anything
on ground which was needed
to do. Saroori while address-
ing two public meetings at
Balgran and Nagni areas of
Drabshalla
and
Tehsil
Bunjwah areas said officers
had to make frequent field visits to these areas for on-thespot assessment of the problems as well as time-bound redressal of the issues," he directed. To take stock of the
problems being faced by people and ensure on-the-spot redressal, Sarori along with
PMGSY, RDD, R&B, PHE offi-
Army Conducts Inter Village
Volleyball Competition At Daraba
cials held a daylong tour of the
kandi and far-flung areas.
Underlining measures taken
by Congress to ensure timely
delivery of services, Saroori
said Congress was committed
in making the administration
more accountable, adding that
Public Serviced Guarantee
Act was a landmark initiative
for the purpose. He said the
time-bound delivery of public
services would have gone in a
long way in ensuring that the
administration was made people-friendly and an accountable delivery mechanism was
put in place but since BJP
came as a ruling government
developmental
everything
works any government services are going in negative way.
He said the panchayati raj bodies were empowered by the
Congress and functions of
over 14 departments was entrusted to them so as to involve
people in planning as well as
execution but the PDP-BJP
who were doing the lip singing
will failed to hold panchayat
election in near future as well.
He said that Congress opposed
amendment in Jammu and
Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act,
saying it is a ‘retrograde decision’ by the government to
negate the very basic concept
of 73rd amendment of the
Constitution introduced in the
Act and government got a big
slap when the Governor return the
controversial
Panchayat Raj Amendment
Bill 2016. Saroori said that the
Congress party had vehemently opposed the bill as it would
weaken the authority of basic
principle of democracy and basic spirit of 73 amendment of
Constitution which was incorporated in State Panchayat
Raj Act by NC-Congress government. Later Saroori also
inspected the construction of
link road from Dunadi-Nagni
which is being executed under
NABARD by R&B department
at a cost of Rs 5 crores. He di-
Check tremors of
terror from targeting
Jammu: AJCSF
rected the executing agency to
speed up the construction
work so that the road becomes
operational as soon as possible. He said with the completion of the construction work,
the local people of the area will
be benefited with all the basic
facilities at their door-step.
Prominent among those Noor
Maey, Chowdhary Abdul
Kareem, Chowdhary Issaq,
Noor Din, Mir Ali, Mohd Iqbal
Keen, Khalid Hussain Sheikh,
Chowdhary Misroo, Mohd
Israeil, Krishan Chand, Naib
Ghulam
Mohd
Chand,
Alla
Ditta,
Masoodi,
Chowdhary Farooq Ahmed,
Sunil Kumar, Abdul Gani
Mohd
Israeil,
Sheikh,
Mushtaq Ahmed, Abdul
Rashid Kandahar, Ranjeet
Singh, officials from R&B,
Revenue, RDD and Health including Aijaz Ahmed Gagroo,
Abdul Rashid, Suresh Kumar,
Ghulam Nabi, Sat Paul, Tahir
Rashid and others accompanied Mr. Saroori during the
day long tour.
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
The terror strike near Akhara camp has left at least 18
unsuspecting civilians injured to include pilgrims to
Buddha Amarnathji and one cop in Poonch of Jammu region. Half of the injured are reported serious. This happened when a delegation under the Co-convenor of the All
Jammu Civil Society Forum (AJCSF) Abdul Majid and former DC Sh. Mohammed Aslam Qureshi were at Rajouri visiting the area to strengthen the ties of communal harmony,
mutual brotherhood and national unity for which this remote hilly area is known for. Other team of AJCSF under the
chairmanship of the convener Gulchain Singh comprising
of General Secretary Annil Suri, Yashpal Gupta, S. Peter,
Kuldip Wahi, Neeraj Anand, were holding similar meetings
at Jammu where an unconfirmed news of sighting suspected terrorists was causing panic. In one voice the members of
AJCSF condemned the failure of government and the security agencies who have obviously failed in the sparks of terror from reaching the peaceful Jammu region. The epic centre of trouble, in the few affected areas of Kashmir Valley as
such seem out of control and there is no sign of governance
or any law enforcing or administrative authority there.
Denouncing this surrender to lawless elements in the
strongest words the AJCSF Convener Th. Gulchain Singh
Charak urged the government to contain the evil from
spreading and disturbing the otherwise peaceful life in
Jammu region. With the threats of strikes and identified areas in Jammu, there is need for extra vigilance and additional security troops. The aftermath of any possible strikes in
this area could have devastating impacts both in public order and the government that is in place only with the support from Jammu people. The Jammu region is suffering in
many ways. Governance has paralyzed trade and tourism,
pilgrimage are jeopardized. He strongly called for activating the winter secretariat to clear the backlog of work of the
Jammu region. Some members suggested moving the secretariat to move back to Jammu if it has become untenable, inoperative and defunct in the Valley till the situation normalizes there. In the meeting, the leading businessmen, traders
and industrialists pledged their all out support to the very
timely initiative taken by the Civil Society of Jammu
province for forming the body namely “AJCSF”, “It was the
need of the day “, they said, “when the administration is not
in sight, politicians in the hiding and the government paralyzed”. “We are with you singly and collectively” said they
in one voice and will help in promoting and protecting the
cause of Jammu in every possible way rising above all other
considerations, whatsoever. Taking a very strong view of
the terror strike after repeated calls of alerts and in the face
of perceived threats, the AJCSF expressed its dismay over
the concern shown by the authorities and their utter failure
in containing the trouble and protecting the nationalist and
secular population of the State outside the few troubled areas of Kashmir. In a strong voice the AJCSF declared that
“enough has been enough” and the Jammu region will not
tolerate any further indifference and second fiddle treatment meted out to it so far. Important leading businessmen
and AJCSF team members among others who attended the
meeting were Vinod Sachdeva, Chander Gulati, Tejwant
Singh Reen, Attar Singh, Rahul Sahai, Sandeep Gupta,
Deepak Gupta, Col. Dr. Virender Kumar Sahi, Dr. Navindu
Raizada, Rajesh Gupta, Parveen Gupta, Surinder Mahajan,
S. Kulbir Singh, Vijay Sharma, S.P Langar, Davinder Batra,
Raghbir Chander Gupta & Pavan Nanda.
Girl child as precious as boy: SS BIjral
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
Jammu August 14 :
Inter
Village
An
Volleyball competition was
conducted by the Army from
07 August to 14 August 2016 at
Daraba in Poonch district. The
competition was held to promote spirit of sportsmanship,
encourage physical fitness and
inspire the local youth to
showcase their talent in the
field of sports. The youth
whole heartdely participated
in the event in which all the
teams put up a good performance in closely contested
matches. The final match between the team Surankote 'B'
and Daranwali 'A' was well
contested and both teams put
their best foot forward, however, the Surankote 'B' team
came out victorious. The competition saw an overwhelming
response from all the teams
and spectators from near and
far flung villages. A total of 400
youth and locals witnessed the
final match. The Sarpanch,
Panch and Namberdars were
present to witness the match
and whole heartedly appreciated the gesture of goodwill
and bonhomie extended by the
Army. All teams and locals
participating in the tournament requested the Army to
conduct similar events in the
future also, as this is the event
which engages both youth and
grownups.
Combating fallen Child Sex Ratio
(CSR) in district Samba, the state
Committee Beti Bachao Beti Padhao convener SS Bijral former IGP with his team
visiting number of senior Schools in
Arnia, district Samba gave message that
‘girl child is as precious as boy’ for society.
Addressing Govt. Girls Higher Secondary
School Arnia soon after their morning assembly, awareness message was spread,
thereafter at Govt Girls High School
Arnia, Presentation Convent School
Arnia and Govt Hr. Sec. School Allah. At
all these places the focus was the students
and their teachers expecting of them to
carry back home their message. S.S.Bijral
IGP (Rtd) in his address deplored the bias
against girl child prevalent in society. He
said the growth of society is dependant on
equal role played by both male and female
beings. Preferring one over the other, he
said, is creating disastrous consequences
out of resulted natural imbalance. He said
mother is the first role model for the new
born and comes to be most loved and respected in society. Opting against girl
child is denying the society the noble institution of mother, the growth of ethics and
values that flow from the mother. He said
it was high time for people of Samba dis-
trict to realize the consequences of fallen
CSR of 729 girls against 1000 boys prevalent there and to rise against the menace of
female foeticide. Kamal Choudhary state
Committee member mentioned of female
shakti in the Hindu society in the form of
Ma Durga, Ma Lakshmi and Ma Saraswati
but surprisingly members of society are
not letting female child be born in their
family. He cautioned the society against
consequences of this so called female foeticide. Dr Monika Sharma talked about misuse of ultra sound and that the responsibility that rests with only the husband for sex
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of the new born. Woman she said has no
role whatever for the birth of female child
as male chromosome is carried only by
male. Anju Dogra member of state committee hosted all the functions and highlighted social aspects of woman life with
stress on adverse role played by dowry
system and girl child security. Those girls
who had excelled in their board exams in
the schools addressed were awarded
medals for their recognition and morale
boosting. All the principals highly appreciated the campaign and the valuable message spread.
Shiv Sena observes
August 14 as black
day, burns
Pakistani flag
Balwant Thakur meets Vice Minister,
Publicity of Jiangsu China
GOF Staff Reporter
Nanjing (China), August 14:
Jammu, Aug 14:
Hundreds of Shiv Sainiks
gathered
at
today
Maheshpura Chowk and
Bakshi Nagar observing
August 14 as black day and on
the occasion also burns
Pakistani Flag. The Protest
demonstration was organised
under the dynamic leadership of Shiv Sena (Bala Sahib
Thackery) state president
Dimpy Kohli. On the occasion
while addressing the gathering Dimpy Kohli said that
Pakistan is a sponsor of terrorism around the world. He
said that our country is suffering because of the faults
made by the leaders of
Congress who has given birth
to Pakistan on August 14. He
said that Pakistan is a country on which no one can rely
and Govt. of India must deal
strictly with the Pakistan and
its friends. Dimpy said that
Shiv Sena will oppose any
misdeed made by the
Pakistan Govt. and its agencies viz. ISI and militant outfits to disturb peace in India.
He said Kashmir is boiling because Pakistani leader is giving provocative statements.
On the occasion, Dimpy
urged Govt of India to snap all
ties with Pakistan. Those who
were present on the occasion
were Rajan Gupta, Raj Singh,
Raju Salaria and others. Shiv
Sainiks in other parts of the
state viz. Bari Brahamana
and others also observe
August 14 as Black Day and
burns Pakistani Flag.
GOF Staff Reporter
Regional Director ICCR
Jammu, Balwant Thakur
met Zhang Jian Hua, Vice
Minister,
Publicity
Department of the CPC
Jiangsu Provincial Party
Committee who is also the
Chairman
of
Jiangsu
Federation of Literature and
Art Circles at Jiangsu Art
Museum in Nanjing, China
and discussed the presentation of Days of India in
China programme with him
and his team of officials. An
official Cultural delegation
of India of which Balwant
Thakur is a member is currently travelling the entire
China to finalize the cultural programmes being held in
different pars China under
the festival of India in China
programme. The official
Indian Cultural delegation
is headed by Director
General of ICCR, Mr. C.
Rajashekhar which is interacting with China cultural
authorities and holding
meetings
with
China
Government officials. The
other members of the delegation
include
Secretary
Sahitiya Akademi Dr. K.S.
Rao and festival director of
Delhi International Festival
of
the
Arts
Pratibha
Pralhad. During formal
meetings and deliberations,
the Chinese authorities
showed great interest in
Indian dances, music, films,
classical Indian Literature,
folklore, traditional art ex-
pressions and contemporary
visual arts. A composite programme of India, showcasing the rich culture and heritage of India is being
planned for its gala opening
at the Grand Theatre of
Nanjing. India-China cultural relations have expanded
significantly in both scope
and intensity over the past
decade. Both sides have attached great importance to
cooperation on a wide range
of issues with people-to-people exchanges forming an important aspect of our bilateral relations. The two sides
recognize the importance of
expanding such contacts,
thereby contributing towards enhanced mutual cul-
tural understanding. Jammu
is fortunate of having
Balwant Thakur being a part
of the delegation as he has
been able to persuade the authorities to extend this IndiaChina cultural exchange to
J&K as well. A group of contemporary dances of China is
travelling India in November
and this world class show of
Chinese
contemporary
dances will also perform at
two places in J&K. Efforts
will also be made to include
J&K's performances in the
year of India programme in
China. This prestigious visit
of Balwant Thakur will bring
many positive and vibrant
ripples in the cultural scenario of the State.
Any disturbance to Budha Amarnath Ji Yatra will never be tolerated: Vibodh
GOF Staff Reporter
Rajouri, Aug 14:
Expressing his anguish
on the attack on the innocent
yatris of Budha Amarnath Ji
yatra, BJP senior leader and
MLC Vibodh Gupta today
strongly condemned the yesterday’s attack on the yatris.
While addressing the media
persons in Rajouri, Vibodh
said that this is a very unfortunate incident and these designs of the enemy will be defeated by the brave and patriotic people of Pir Panajl region. He said that by such
type of cowardly acts the ene-
my wants to disturb the
peaceful atmosphere of the
region. He also questioned
the lapses in the security of
the yatris and demanded a
through probe into the incident which led to such a tragic incident. Vibodh further
added that the people involved in such a incident
must be immediately arrested and no one should be
spared for such type of acts.
Referring to the recent cease
fire violations, Vibodh said
that the involvement of forces
from across the border
should also be probed. He said
that currently there is huge
chaos in POK and this is the
main reason that forces from
across the border are trying
to divert the attention of
International
community
from their misgovernence
and atrocities in POK. He also
highlighted the facts that in
POK the people who raise
their voice against misgovernece are being brutally
killed everyday. The need of
the hour is that the people of
Jammu & Kashmir must understand the nefarious designs of the enemy and should
stand united so that recent developmental initiatives taken
by the Government can be
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taken towards a logical conclusion. He called upon
everyone specially the local
youth of Rajouri and Poonch
to remain calm and have faith
in our security agencies who
are capable to deal with such
situations. On behalf of the
people of Rajouri and Poonch
Vibodh expressed his sorrow with those yatris who
were injured in yesterday’s
incident. He assured his full
support to the yarties and
hoped that such acts will
never be able to disturb the
yatra and yatra will remain
continue with same zeal and
excitement.
4
Glimpses of Future
LOCAL
BJP cautions people not to take hard-earned
freedom for granted: Rekha Mahajan
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
Under Party’s special
program ‘Azadi 70 – Jara
Yaad Karo Qurbani’ to celebrate 70th anniversary of
Independence Day, the BJP
Mahila Morcha district unit
today organised a programme at Purani Mandi.
Large number of people including ladies, children participated in the programme
During this occasion, they
chanted patriotic songs, perform cultural programmes
and remembered freedom
fighters who sacrificed their
lives for the Independence of
Baldev
Billowria
India.
District President Jammu
was also present on the occasion Speaking on the occasion BJP District Jammu
President, Baldev Billoria
said that this independence
did not come in one day.
Many had sacrifice their
lives with a smile on their
face feeling themselves as
proud Indian who were giving their lives for the sake of
Army conducts
medical camp
at Keri
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
A Medical Camp was organised at Keri in Rajouri district
by the Army recently under
Sadhavana initiative. A team of
doctors from Army attended of
about of 200 villagers of Keri,
Doongi, Shahpur, Gatote, Miari
and Sasalpur. People from border villages showed keen interest in the Camp and brought out
their problems and queries
which were answered by the experts from Army Medical Team.
An awareness campaign was also conducted at the venue where
health and mitigation measures
on issues like hygiene and sanitation, communicable / non
communicable diseases, water
purification and water borne
diseases were discussed and
populace was made aware of
preventive measures. This initiative was greatly appreciated
by locals especially the people
from the remote areas.
the freedom of their motherland. We should celebrate
this festival by memorizing
those tough moments that
our former generation faced
and by giving tribute to them
and organizing cultural programmes and make this festival colorful and remarkable,
he added. Speaking on the occasion, Mahajan said there
have been millions of lives
that sacrificed for this free-
dom and many of them are
not even known or remembered. BJP in order to pay
rich tributes to all those who
sacrificed their every bit to
see India a free country has
started special program
‘Azadi 70 – Jara Yaad Karo
Qurbani’ to celebrate 70th anniversary of Independence
Day. This is a day to remember the sacrifice of lives of the
great freedom fighters and
patriots who never cared
about their family, their
need, and their lives. To them
freedom of their motherland
was only aim and instigation.
They used to see only one
dream that is of the freedom
of their nation, a united nation where everyone will stay
in the bondage of brotherhood, she added. Cautioning
the people not to take the
hard-earned freedom for
granted, she urged citizens to
preserve the freedom and always remain prepared to
fight for retaining sovereignty. She said people should not
forget that a large number of
people fought for decades and
shed their blood to achieve
Independence. Referring to
the growing disruptive and
anti-national activities in different parts of the country,
she said such activities had
made the freedom vulnerable
and one should remain ready
to protect it. Stressing the
need for sensitizing children,
Mahajan said the younger
generation should be taken to
places like Jallianwallah
Bagh, the jails of Andaman
and Nicobar and August
Kranti Maidan which bore the
testimony to Independence
movement. Programme was
organised by Savita Anand.
Prominent among those who
were present on the occasion
include Geetanjali Mahajan,
Saroj ji, Sharda Ji, Reva
Massom, Kiran Aggarwal,
Surinder Kour, Roopali,
Ranju besides others.
Terror attack on Budha Amarnath an
attack on sovereignty of India: VHP
GOF Staff Reporter
New Delhi, August 14
Attack on Budha
Amarnath yatra is very unfortunate and VHP is taking this
attack as a challenge to the government and the Hindu society. Reacting on the attack the
international joint secretary
VHP Dr Surendra Jain said
that it is a main Hindu yatra,
no doubt but it is an attack on
the sovereignty of our nation,
too. More than a dozen yatries
are badly injured. It is a matter
of relief that there is no casualty upto now. Administration is
taking care of all the things.
VHP added. It is most unfortunate that no big Muslim leader
or secular mafia has come forward. It is not the burden of
Hindu society alone to keep the
communal harmony. There is
a great unrest in the Hindu society. We appeal the government to eliminate these elements. Otherwise it will send a
wrong massage in the Hindus.
It is the duty of the Muslim
leaders to come forward and
take all measures to put a
check on these jehadies. It is
the duty of all stake holders to
see that the unrest among the
Hindus may not increase to extreme extent.
GoI unaware of the ground Valiant ‘Mansi’, Handler awarded for
reality of Kashmir: Vakil fighting militancy in Kashmir
GOF Staff Reporter
Srinagar, Aug 14:
Welcoming the convening
of all party meet on Kashmir by
central government former
minister Abdul Gani Vakil today in a statement said that it is
unfortunate that government
of India is unaware of the
ground reality of Kashmir and
should accept they are responsible for mishandling Kashmir
issue. He urged Government of
India not to consider Kashmir
issue on development or unemployment lines if it would have
been developmental or unemployment issue then government of India had done a lot for
last two decades together but
still the issue is alive to connect
it with development or unemployment is simply to deceive
themselves and the people and
thereby turmoil will never end.
Permanent peace can be estab-
lished in Kashmir only if its solution is hammered out on political
basis
and
first
Government of India should
understand that Kashmir is a
political issue not a law and order situation Vakil added.
Vakil alleged that both Centre
and State government failed to
address Confidence Building
Measures CBMS and is now delaying in engaging all the stake
holders including Hurriyat in
the meaningful dialogue and
completely failed to tackle and
ease the situation rather annoyed people by their approach
of allowing continuous use of
pellet guns which resulted in
deaths of more than 60 people
and injuries of thousands.
Vakil asked how we can expect
improvement in the present
situation when no probe has
been ordered in the recent
killings and injuries and no
ban has been implemented on
pellet guns instead more and
more deaths and injuries are
taking place every day. No
steps taken to release detainees
and nothing have been done regarding removal of AFSPA
from some districts. It is unfortunate that Government has
not even announced any e-gratia and relief to those whose
kiths and kins have been killed
in recent protests. He warned
Central Government that if
they continue to be non- serious and silent in taking above
mentioned CBMs, the situation
will further deteriorate which
could not be controlled by the
present non serious and inexperience Government. Vakil
also stressed upon the government of India not to confuse by
diverting the attention to other issues rather to focus on
their own people and make
every effort to restore normalcy in the valley.
GOF Staff Reporter
Udhampur, Aug 14:
'Mansi', a four-year-old
labrador and a member of
Army's tracker dog unit, has
become possibly the first canine to have been selected for a
posthumous war honour, after
she and her handler Bashir
Ahmed War laid down their
lives to prevent an infiltration
bid by terrorists in north
Kashmir. Mansi was today honoured with the 'Mention of
Despatches' certificate. Her
name will appear in the
Gazette of India for making
supreme sacrifice for the nation. War, her handler and a
resident of Kupwara, was also
posthumously awarded the
Sena Medal as he died fighting
for the nation while challenging a group of infiltrating militants in Tangdhar, 150 kms
from Srinagar. The duo had
had a successful season last
year with three kills to their
credit. They were involved in
the killing of a terrorist at
Kaisuri ridge in Tangdhar
area, followed by the gunning
down of two militants on July
21 last year. Mansi and War, of
the 160 Territorial Army, were
gunned down by infiltrating
terrorists in August last year
when they were posted in the
dense forests where terrorist
from Pak- occupied-Kashmir
made an infiltration bid in
Tangdhar sector. Part of the
Army's Tracker Dog unit,
Mansi sensed a movement and
started pulling War towards
an area in the high mountainous jungles where the clouds
where low. As Mansi started
barking at the intruders, she
got shot by an enemy bullet,
something which was enough
Army conducts Independence Day Natrang presents Dogri play
at Pine Wood School Hamirpur
‘Suno Eh Kahani’
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
In the run up to the 70th Independence Day,
Army conducted the Swatantrata Diwas 2016 at
Pine Wood School Hamirpur in Poonch District
recently. With the theme being “Development
through Joint Effort”, the event captured the
various development initiatives undertaken in
the border villages along the Line of Control and
connects with people of Balakote block.
Speaking on the occasion, senior Army officials
called upon all stakeholders to work together
for a brighter tomorrow. The Army in concert
with the Civil Administration has been undertaking new initiatives for the development of
the area. These include construction of community halls, check dams, green houses and border
roads amongst others. Present at the event were
civil administration officials from various
Government departments including Rural
Development, Forest, Education, Health,
Agriculture and Horticulture. These departments had also set up their stalls to brief the locals and create greater awareness amongst the
border population. Veterans in large numbers
and hundreds of civilians particularly those
from the border villages enthusiastically participated in the event. The children from local
schools showcased a vibrant culture programme including patriotic songs befitting the
occasion. Career counseling for young boys and
girls of Class 12th was a popular draw. More
such guiding sessions shall be conducted in the
schools of the area. A medical camp with lady
doctor from the Army was also part of the event.
A number of local civilians employed by the
Army were honoured for their dedication and
devotion. A compensation of Rs. 5,84,191 was
paid to Mohd Bashir son of Late Gulab Din of village - Goladh, Tehsil - Mendhar, District Poonch (J&K) for mine blast injury. In the wake
of the unrest in the Valley, the border areas of
Rajouri and Poonch have shown great restraint
and maturity in avoiding any untoward incident. Civil administration has worked in close
coordination with the security forces in ensuring peace and development of the area which
was visible by the presence of large number of
government functionaries alongwith locals.
The Asst Commissioner Poonch thanked the
Army for its initiatives and assured of continued support for the development of the area.
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
This Sunday, Natrang presented a power packed performance of Dogri play ‘Suno
Eh Kahani’ written and directed by Balwant Thakur. The
play vociferously endorsed
Prime Minister’s mission of
‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ and
recently had received very
warm response in Poonch
where Natrang had performed
series of shows for the rural
masses. The play ‘Suno Eh
Kahani’ is based on the story of
a young girl ‘Guddi’ representing a major section of rural lower middle class adolescent
young girls, who are forced into matrimony at a very tender
age. Written and directed by
Padamshree Balwant Thakur,
this Natrang’s most celebrated
play was based on multiple subjects addressing the problems
of girl child, female feticide, education and empowerment of
women. In the play the lead
character ‘Guddi’ is fully
aware of the strains of early
marriage, as it has taken its toll
in untimely death of her mother. She wants to grow and get
educated before she takes up
the responsibility of married
life. Her dreams are shattered,
a ‘suitable’ groom is found and
marriage date is fixed. While
the marriage ceremonies are
being performed, help comes in
the form of intervention by legal
authorities and decision of marriage is deferred for appropriate
time. The play highlights the
plight of young girls who are sacrificed at the altar of rotten, redundant customs of illiterate
and ignorant sections of our society. The lead character of the
play ‘Guddi’ was played by Juhi
Singh who was equally supported by senior actor Neeraj Kant as
his father others who performed
in the play included Mohd.
Yaseen, Rahul Singh, Shivam
Singh, Ankush Lakhnotra,
Rajan Thakyal, Mahikshit
Singh, Piyush Anand, Rishav
Sharma and Sudesh Parihar.
INC in its traditions speaks of two voices
right from Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru: NCP
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
Former Minister Thakur
Randhir Singh NCP chief
J&K state veteran leader who
has worked with all the chief
ministers except Sheikh
Mohd Abdullah, Farooq
Abdullah and his son Omar
Abdullah as MLA and senior
minister right from 1962 said
that most of the stalwarts of
various parties and particularly from Congress which
ruled for the maximum period speaks in two voices on
Jammu and Kashmir. Singh
said in All party meeting at
New Delhi, Dr Karan Singh
Member Rajya Sabha suggesting that talks beheld with
separatists and leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha
Gulam Nabi Azad leaving his
position much more undefined . Singh said he has
Situation in Kashmir is very
serious. Firstly, they attacked
Amarnath yatries and now
they attacked Budha amarnath
yatra also which is organized
in punchh and rajory areas of
Jammu region. Now everyone
should make it clear that these
blood thirsty jehadi devils are
not misguided youths. They
should be dealt with iron
hands. They need no mercy.
They should be crushed like
anything. After Kashmir
Valley, now they want the
Hindus to evacuate this region
of Jammu also. We started this
yatra to stop this plight, we are
succeeded to a great extent,
helped both these leaders
when they entered in elec-
toral politics in Jammu and
Kashmir, the people of
Jammu , Kashmir and
Ladakh know better . Singh
who is founder member of
Congress party in Jammu
and Kashmir said that
Congress have got tradition
to double speak right from
Nehru’s time.
Singh welcomed the statement of another stalwart PDP’s Lok
Sabha MP Muzaffar Hussain
Beg a legal luminary, grass
root leader and former
Deputy chief minister is
learnt to have said the current unrest in the valley is
“undisclosed” different from
earlier protests in several respects, the first being it is
more influenced by religious
extremism and hence any
patchwork solution will not
work to resolve the situation.
It is like a subterranean volcano that could erupt any
time , with the involvement of
a foreign country . Beg said
that the warning of the threat
of younger generation in
Kashmir increasingly getting
influenced by IS (Islamic
state ). Singh a widely travelled politician of the state to
represent the country and
held many important potfolios in the state under G M
Bakshi , G M Sadiq , Syed Mir
Qasim like Tourism ,
Transport , Ladakh affairs ,
Excise and Taxation, relief
and
rehabilitation
,
Information, Gelogy and mining and resigned in 1975 under Indira-Sheikh accord
said the central govt headed
by Narender Modi who is
man of vision and mission
should take people of Jammu
province and Ladakh region
seriously both these areas
have been totally ignored
since 1975 in the field of education , employment , development and most important
deprived of their share in
state assembly according to
population and area by not
holding delimitation of the
assembly constituencies upto
2026 which was managed
quietly
by
Dr
Farooq
Abdullah by passing a resolution in the assembly with the
help of Jammu MLA’s and also managed by the ex chief
minister of Jammu and
Kashmir ,continue to enjoy
the same salary and all perks
what they were drawing
while in office. Singh said “I
am proud that I come from a
freedom fighter family whose
great grandfather General
Tehal Singh fought against
British Army near Lahore
and attained martyrdom near
Lahore in the famous battle of
Budhki when there was rule
of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of
Lahore and living in a rented
flat since 1976.”
to provoke her handler who
started firing relentlessly at
the intruders, besides calling
for reinforcement. War wanted to avenge the death of his canine friend whose care he had
been taking since she joined
the tracker unit. Death could
not part them, as War also soon
fell to the enemy bullets, but
not before the reinforcements
had arrived and an operation
mounted to kill the infiltrators. Maintaining the highest
tradition of Indian army:
"When a dog is injured on the
battlefield, the army jumps into action in much the same
way as it would do in case of an
injured soldier. Here we had
two casualties -- the handler as
well as the dog," recalled a senior officer. Mansi's body was
recovered and after documentations and post-mortem, a
wreath was laid on her body.
The mortal remains of the
valiant friend of the Army
were laid to rest at her unit
lines at Trehgam in north
Kashmir. Dogs have been the
unsung heroes in the war
against terror in Kashmir and
have helped the army eliminate many dreaded militants.
Their bravery has won them
battle honours, ranging from
the Chief of Army Staff's commendation cards to the
General
Officer
Commanding's commendation
cards. Dogs attached with difcounter-insurgency
ferent
units have varied responsibilities in Kashmir. For example,
trekker dogs are meant to help
troops in anti-insurgency operations, guard dogs are responsible for guarding garrisons during the nights, while
infantry patrol dogs help in
bomb and IED detection.
Enthusiastic JKBWA members
celebrate Independence Day
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
The 70th Independence
Day was celebrated here at
Rajinder Park, Jammu, today
with tremendous enthusiasm
and fervour by the Jammu and
Kashmir Batwal Welfare
Association. Amidst a huge
gathering, the Association
Deputy Chairman Capt Kamal
Chand Motan hoisted the
National Flag and took the
salute. Motan inculcated the
nationalism in the enthusiastic
community
members
by
throwing light on the supreme
sacrifices made by Shaheed
Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and
Rajguru while safeguarding
the honour of their motherland. On this historic occasion,
Association members paid
glowing tributes to Indo-Pak
War Hero Lance Naik Mohan
Lal Lakhotra. R.L. Kaith mentioned to community members
that on 7 December 1971, Lance
Naik Mohan Lal was manning
the medium machine gun deployed with a company of
Jammu and Kashmir militia
on a piquet in the Western
Sector when the enemy attacked the piquet at night in
strength, supported by heavy
artillery fire and virtually
over-ran the forward trenches
of this locality. Undeterred
Lance Naik Mohan Lal kept on
firing at the enemy stalling the
further advance, thereby enabling our troops to reorganise
for
a
counter-attack.
Eventually, his dead body was
found at his gun post but in
front of the bunker as many as
nineteen dead bodies including
that of the enemy company
commander was also found.
For this displaying gallantry
and determination of a high order, the then President of India
V.V. Giri awarded ‘Vir Chakra’
to Lance Naik Mohan Lal
The
posthumously.
Association members also paid
tributes to community’s other
brave heart Hav. Chuni Lal
Motan, a soldier of 55 Rashtriya
Rifles (Grenadiers) who was
killed on December 4, 2007 in a
militant flush out operation in
Kashmir’s Pulwama Sector
and later on, under the orders
of the President of India
Pratibha Singh Patil, the mention of his name in a dispatch
by the Chief of the Army Staff,
was published in the Gazette of
India on November 8, 2008 for
displaying most conspicuous
bravery, demonstrating battle
field leadership and laying
down his life to protect the
country. Kaith said that remembering courageous freedom fighters and valiant soldiers and paying tributes to
them on their days depict the
gratitude of the indebtedness
people to national heroes who
gave up their today for our safe
tomorrow.
Besides,
the
Association felicitated the brilliant students of the community.
Association members said that
proper encouragement and appreciation is vital to bring positive changes in students’ personality that enables them to serve
the nation in a better way in future. The Association also honoured the eminent persons for
their remarkable services and
countless contributions to the
community. Their list included
Capt. Om Parkash Tugga, Sub.
Maj. Romesh Sargotra, Sub.
Maj. Tilak Raj Motan, Hav. Des
Raj Kaith, Hav. Uttam Chand
Sandhu, Naib Sarpanch Ram
Lal Lakhotra, Hans Raj
Bahadur, Mela Ram Tugga,
Madan Raj Kaith, Gurdas
Chand Sargotra, Naresh Kumar
Kaith,
Sat Pal Targotra,
Surinder Kumar Motan and
Vinod Kumar Tugga,
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state
Glimpses of Future
Independence Day Message-2016
Restoration of peace and normalcy should be
our first and most immediate priority: Governor
Srinagar, August 14:
Governor N. N. Vohra today appealed
to the public that the restoration of peace
and normalcy should be our first and
most immediate priority. He urged the
leaders of all the mainstream political
parties in the State to ensure against delay in commencing a purposeful dialogue
to vigorously pursue a sustained political
initiative in Jammu and Kashmir, with
the support of New Delhi as has already
been assured. The political leadership, he
said, is facing a momentous challenge of
taking every required initiative to reach
out and win the hearts and minds of our
youth and that this endeavour must be
very strongly supported by the entire admachinery
in
the
ministrative
State.Greeting the people on the auspicious occasion of country’s 70th
Independence Day, the Governor observed that our liberal democratic framework allows unfettered opportunity for
the pursuit of widely diverging ideologies. Side by side, our pluralistic foundations encourage and enable the resolution of all manner of differences through
dialogues and discussions instead of
through confrontations and violence.The
Governor observed that he was deeply
saddened by the continuing disturbances
in the Valley in the past several weeks
which had led to several dozen young
men, and even women and children, getting killed and seriously injured. He said
that due to the daily incidents of stonepelting and recurring attacks by protesting groups on the uniformed forces and
their establishments it has left thousands
of civilians and Security Forces personnel seriously injured.The Governor observed that it is distressing that our enormous responsibility to look after, educate
and groom our bright youth and enable
them to compete and succeed in every
walk of life to emerge as future leaders
who would take the State to its rightful
place in the country has been paralyzed
due to the continuing disturbances.The
Governor said that it is most urgently
necessary for the Government and the
leaders of the civil society to ensure that
all educational institutions reopen immediately. He observed that despite varied
constraints in the recent years, our boys
and girls have been doing extremely well
even in the toughest all India competitive
examinations. It is the bounden duty of
the State to ensure that our students do
not face any kind of disadvantage which
may adversely affect the successful pursuit of their goals and aspirations.The
Governor observed that in the centuries
past, Jammu and Kashmir has been
known for its high traditions of communal harmony, secularism and pluralistic
belief. He said that it should be our collective endeavour to take all required steps
to revive and protect the composite identity of the State. The political leadership
would also need to take varied initiatives
to progressively strengthen communal
harmony among the people of all the regions of the State, based on the principles
LWWS stages
‘Importance of Freedom’
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
Lalded Women Welfare Society (LWWS) today staged a motivational programme ‘Importance of Freedom’ here.
The play was written by Mohd Khurshed and directed by
Naveen Pal.
The date of 15 August is the freedom of our country But in
present time we are neglecting our freedom day. We are telling
the importance of freedom from the play Nukkad. Once upon a
time an old is riding a bicycle and going to the city, the old man
stitches the national flag in his bicycle.
Then some boys are interacted with the old man and asked
him where he was going by stiching the flag on his bicycle and
asked to the young boys that today what was the day then the
young boys telling them we know about the day you are telling
but the boys asked him tell what you are explaining. Then the
old man tell them that today is the day of freedom. That’s why
he is stiching the flag on his bicycle.
The boys feels guilty by hearing the old man’s explanation
the n the old man told them don’t keep silence, go to your home
and stitches the flag on your houses and tell the whole village
peoples that today is the day of freedom. Then they move to
their told the importance of the day of 15th August.So we should
not neglect the day 15th August 1947, this is the day when our
freedom fighter are getting the freedom from the britishers.
So, we should not left the past memories we should always remember the old memories.
The main role were played by director Naveen Paul, Suraj
Naryan, Rajinder Kishor Kumar (Singer) Santosh Basotra,
Ashish Bhatti also played the role with other artists of the
group.
of mutual respect and accommodation of
each others sensitivities, concerns and
beliefs.To achieve peace, progress and
prosperity, it is imperative that the leaders of all political, social, cultural and religious organizations, and all other stakeholders in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh,
urgently join hands and work most closely together to restore and preserve harmony in the State, and that they should
work unitedly to see that the State
achieves speedy progress and early secures its rightful place at the vanguard of
the nation, the Governor said.
Following is the full text of
Independence Day Message -2016:
On the auspicious occasion of our
Independence Day I pay homage to our
great leaders who carried out a prolonged
struggle to liberate India from the colonial yoke and convey my warm greetings
and good wishes to the people of Jammu
and Kashmir.
2. I am deeply saddened by the continuing disturbances in the Valley in the
past several weeks which have led to sev-
eral dozen young men, and even women
and children, getting killed and seriously
injured. Daily incidents of stone-pelting
and recurring attacks by protesting
groups on the uniformed forces and their
establishments have left thousands of
civilians and Security Forces personnel
seriously injured.
3. While there may be varied explanations for the continuing disturbances it
is distressing that pre-occupation with
the past has paralyzed our enormous responsibility to look after, educate and
groom our bright youth and enable them
to compete and succeed in every walk of
life to emerge as future leaders who would
take the State to its rightful place in the
country.
4. For the past several years I have
been repeatedly appealing that we must
not allow any arising problem to adversely affect the educational schedules of our
children. It is indeed most unfortunate
that the recurring calls for shutdowns,
day to day protests and agitations have
led to the complete disruption of the educational system. The closure of schools,
colleges and universities and disruption
of the academic schedules has caused irreparable damage to the career prospects
of bright boys and girls who are pursuing
different educational courses.
5. It is most urgently necessary for
the Government and the leaders of the
civil society to ensure that all educational
institutions reopen immediately. Despite
varied constraints in the recent years,
our boys and girls have been doing extremely well even in the toughest all India
competitive examinations. It is the
bounden duty of the State to ensure that
our students do not face any kind of disadvantage which may adversely affect the
successful pursuit of their goals and aspirations.
The continuing disturbances
6.
have also disrupted all business, trade
and economic activities, particularly af-
fecting the livelihoods of those who earn
their bread on daily basis. The functioning of the administrative apparatus and
the public delivery systems have also
been adversely affected and this situation
is retarding the timely implementation of
growth and development projects.
7.
Our liberal democratic framework allows unfettered opportunity for
the pursuit of widely diverging ideologies. Side by side, our pluralistic foundations encourage and enable the resolution of all manner of differences through
dialogues and discussions instead of
through confrontations and violence.
8. I urge the leaders of all the mainstream political parties in the State to urgently join hands, evolve an agreed approach and commence a purposeful dialogue with all groups which propagate divergent approaches. Side by side, it is of
vital importance that all civil society
groups also join ranks and give a loud and
clear call to all those who are involved in
the continuing agitations, as well as to all
others who support their cause, and
launch all possible initiatives to make the
latter recognize that the vicious cycle of
the ongoing violence has caused enough
death and destruction and must cease
forthwith.
While the restoration of peace
9.
and normalcy should be our first and
most immediate priority, I would yet
again urge the leaders of all the mainstream political parties in the State to ensure that there is no delay in commencing
a purposeful dialogue to vigorously pursue a sustained political initiative in
Jammu and Kashmir, with the support of
New Delhi as has already been assured.
The political leadership faces a momentous challenge of taking every required
initiative to reach out and win the hearts
and minds of our youth. This endeavour
must be very strongly supported by the
entire administrative machinery in the
State.
Panthers’ party hails historic order of Apex Court
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
In a historic decision,
Supreme Court of India has ordered compensation to three
senior Panthers Party leaders
who fell victim to police atrocities on Jammu migrants,
while they were leading a
peaceful march of Jammu migrants from Reasi to Delhi
near Katra on 7, August 2007.
The Jammu migrants
were on way to national capital demanding implementation of earlier SC order dated
July, 2006 where under the
state government was asked to
provide same relief in cash and
kind to Jammu migrants as
was given to the Kashmiri migrants. Jammu and Kashmir
national Panthers Party has
hailed the historic order of the
Apex Court to award compensation to Party Vice-President
PK Ganju, senior journalist,
General Secretaries Anita
Thakur and HC Jalmeria
Advocate, who were brutally
assaulted by the police on
August, 2007 in which Anita
Thakur received nervous injuries
and
other
Jammu, Aug 14:
physical.Today on arrival
from New Delhi after attending the Supreme Court hearing, P.K Ganju and Anita
Thakur were accorded warm
welcome at the Railway
Station, Jammu by scores of
Panthers Party activists and
civil society members. The
party leaders expressed gratitude to Supreme Court of
India, Prof. Bhim Singh and
Senior Advocates of Supreme
Court Venugopal, R.K Garg,
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug 14:
of the world”, he stated.
Chuni said that in 1994,
the Parliament of India unanimously passed a resolution on
PoK and S. O. S. International
had welcomed it. In our view,
the said resolution was incomplete and passed for public
consumption only. We are
saying this just because
Government has never pressurised Pakistan to vacate
PoK in the last 22 years since
the day resolution was passed
in Parliament. In the last 22
years, India has held Foreign
Secretary, Foreign Minister
and Prime Minister level talks
but India has never spoken a
single word to its neighbour
for the vacation of its illegal
occupation over PoK. S. O. S.
International also marks the
resolution incomplete because
along
with
it,
Government should also have
shown its concern for the rehabilitation of the populace of
Dogri Sanstha celebrates
Independence Day
GOF Staff Reporter
B.S Biloria and others for supporting case of Jammu migrants.
The Panthers leaders reiterated that state government
has always been hostile to
Jammu masses in all respects
right from right from the day
J&K acceded to Indian
Republic in 1947. They said
that people of Jammu will not
get justice till the Assembly
constituencies are less than
the Kashmir province. They
demanded that reorganization
of the state is only solution to
the present turmoil in
Kashmir to create twin States
Jammu and Kashmir valley
and Union Territory to
Ladakh Province or whatever
the later demand. The Party
further demanded that to control the burning situation in
the valley Governor rule under section 92 of the J&K constitution should be imposed
immediately.
Engaging PoK in talks fine but without
PoK Refugees heart-broken: Chuni
“Although delayed, Prime
Minister, Narendra Modi has
put forth a crystal clear approach regarding dimension
of problems pertaining to
Jammu and Kashmir for
which the families of 1947 displaced from PoK extend their
gratitude to him”, this was
stated by Rajiv Chuni,
Chairman
S.
O.
S.
International
An
Organisation
for
PoK
Displaced Persons while addressing a press conference at
its headquarters at Bakshi
Nagar, Jammu.
In the press conference,
Chuni claimed that S. O. S.
International has urged so
many times to Government of
India to rake-up the issue of
liberation of PoK (Pakistan
occupied Kashmir) with
Pakistan, instead of Kashmir
for which Pakistan has insisted India scores of times.
“Regrettably, Government
has been keeping deaf ear to
the appeal of PoK Refugees.
Consequence
of
our
Government’s toothless policies that Pakistan which has
no constitutional or ethical
right has been raising the
Kashmir issue at every forum
10. In the centuries past, Jammu
and Kashmir has been known for its high
traditions of communal harmony, secularism and pluralistic belief. Today, it
should be our collective endeavour to
take all required steps to revive and protect the composite identity of the State.
The political leadership would also need
to take varied initiatives to progressively
strengthen communal harmony among
the people of all the regions of the State,
based on the principles of mutual respect
and accommodation of each others sensitivities, concerns and beliefs.
11. To achieve peace, progress and
prosperity, it is imperative that the leaders of all political, social, cultural and religious organizations, and all other stakeholders in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh,
urgently join hands and work most closely together to restore and preserve harmony in the State. They shall also need to
work unitedly to see that the State
achieves speedy progress and early secures its rightful place at the vanguard of
the nation.
12. The very significant increase in
the attempts at the cross LoC infiltration
in the past year point to the unceasing attempts of our western neighbour to perpetrate terrorism and create chaos to rupture the established order in the State. It
is, therefore, necessary for our Security
Forces to maintain eternal vigilance on
the borders.
13. I take this opportunity of paying
homage to all the brave officers and men
of the State Police, Central Armed Police
Forces and Army who have sacrificed
their lives to safeguard the territorial integrity of our country.
14. I would conclude by conveying
my greetings to Chief Minister Ms
Mehbooba Mufti, her Council of
Ministers, and to the people of Jammu
and Kashmir and wish early restoration
of sustained peace, normalcy and prosperity in all parts of the State.
contemporary 12 lakh PoK
Refugees until India vacates
the PoK area from the unlawful occupation of Pakistan” S.
O. S. International chairman
stated.
Chuni further said that
nobody has realised the agony
and pain of PoK Refugees who
have been living their lives
under utmost gloom and misery for the last 7 decades.
“Since the day of their displacement, PoK Refugees
have been eagerly looking at
the face of Government for
healing touch, they have been
expecting helping hand but
alas! But this has remained a
dream for the most destitute
community on the planet.
History is witness that
Hindus and Sikhs of PoK are
the first ever victims of J&K
problem as they fell prey to
Pakistan’s well planned conspiracy in which either they
were killed or religiously converted or forcefully thrown
out from their native areas”
Chuni said.
Speaking to media, Chuni
said
Prime
Minister,
Narendra Modi’s statement
on the time, when eyes of the
entire world are placed on
Jammu and Kashmir, in
which Modi stated that there
should be talks with the people of PoK, is welcome step but
Displaced Hindus and Sikhs
from PoK consider the said
statement of Prime Minister
deficient as he stated to hold
talks to people who live cross
the Line of Control (LoC). It is
really heart-broken. Why
won’t there be talks with 12
lakh PoK Refugees who lost
their near ones, lost their
movable-immovable property
and left everything which is
imperative for the survival of
individual only to merge with
India?” Chuni asked.
He further added that the
people with whom, Modi is
saying to hold talks in fact, are
citizens of Pakistan, not the
people of Jammu and
Kashmir because Pakistan
with well knitted plan, forcefully ousted Hindus and Sikhs
and local Muslim populace
had been sent abroad or settled in Pakistan. “Pakistan
than send their own nationals
to settle in PoK to change the
demography of the area and if
there had been no authenticity in it, and then Nawaz
Sharif’s party would not have
won in PoK. So, S. O. S.
International urged if Modi
considers PoK an imperative
part in J&K talks than the government must prefer to talk to
12 lakh PoK Refugees living
here in exile in India that have
proved their patriotism at
scores of times and have never
even imagined treachery with
the Nation, despite facing
enormous hardships in their
day
to
day
life”
he
added.Others who also present were Prof. J S Mangal,
Lalit Kumar, Roshan Lal,
Prof. NN Sharma, OP
Khajuria, VK Dutta, Virinder
Khajuria, Prof. J P Gupta and
Sanjeev Suri.
70th Independence Day was celebrated with patriotic fervour and zeal by Dogri Sanstha Jammu at Dogri Bhawan.A special Kavi Sammelan was organized on this occasion wherein
participating poets recited their poems, ghazals and songs on
various themes including national integration, independence,
human values and prevailing situation of society.The function
was presided over by Maj Gen (Retd) Goverdhan Singh Jamwal
and Prof. Lalit Magotra, Convener, Dogri Advisory Board,
Sahitya Akademi was present as chief guest. The participating
poets included Gianeshwar Sharma, Nirmal Vinod, Susheel
Begana, MS Kaa , Ashok Khajuria, KK Shakir,Maharaj Krishan,
Randhir Singh Raipuria, Girdhari Lal Rahi, Abdul Qadir
Kundaria, Keerti Salathia and Shyam Bihari.Addressing the
writers and poets General Jamwal called upon the intelligentsia
of Jammu to lead the masses in ensuring respectable status and
equitable share in power and development for Duggar.He said
that our people had made innumerable sacrifices to secure and
maintain independence and integration of country but they are
not getting their due share.Prof Magotra, who also recited his
latest poems, appreciated the standard of poems presented in
special Kavi Sammelan.Chhatrapal President of Dogri Sanstha
concluded the programme which was conducted by Dr.
Chanchal Bhasin, the literary secretary of Sanstha. Those present on this occasion also included Prof Baldev Singh, Chaman
Arora, Ravi Shankaer, Pawan Kumar and Lajja Manhas.
NCP celebrates
Independence Day
Jammu, Aug 14:
The youth wing of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) celebrated the Independence Day at Jammu and hoisted the
National Flag under the leadership of veteran State Youth
President Er.Rishi Kaul Kilam.Addressing the large number
of party activists he stated that the nation owes a lot to
Mahatma Gandhi and other brave freedom fighters who laid
their lives for the sake of freedom and achieved it after long
struggle and sacrifices. All of us must have reverence for the
father of the nation and other freedom fighters.While hoisting
the flag Er Rishi Kaul Kilam said that we are living under the
shadow and symbol of this flag but our national and state leaders have always ignored the burning problems of the poor people of India. They have become mostly political beings and less
human beings. While showing anguish Er Rishi added that
even after 70 years of independence the leaders have failed especially on economic front. Er Rishi expressed that now the
people want freedom from corruption, regionalism, provincialism, communalism and poverty. People want an end to this
menace.
Er Rishi further stated that he has no hesitation in stating that common people have virtually lost faith
on the leaders because of their callous attitude and non performance as well as their false promises.There are villages
without roads, electricity, pure drinking water, medical facilities even after independence. The leaders and bureaucrats
swell their purses resulting the unrest and revolt in the country. Other activities of the NYC spoke on the occasion and
wished happy Independence Day to all the nation loving people with the remark to make our nation strong and united.
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Glimpses of future
Liberate PoK
The strong and bold initiative taken by the present government headed by Narinder Modi on the issue of liberation of PoK deserves all praise. The life of people in
Pakistan occupied Kashmir is under threat as they have
no freedom of speech. The puppet governments are installed there by rigging elections. It is part of India and
people on other side are eagerly looking at India for support. In 1994, the Parliament of India unanimously passed
a resolution on PoK. The said resolution was incomplete
and passed for public consumption only. Previous
Governments never pressurised Pakistan to vacate PoK in
the last 22 years since the day resolution was passed in
Parliament. In the last 22 years, India has held Foreign
Secretary, Foreign Minister and Prime Minister level
talks but India has never spoken a single word to its neighbour for the vacation of its illegal occupation over PoK.
Previous governments never expressed any interest in rehabilitation of the 12 lakh PoK Refugees until India vacates the PoK area from the unlawful occupation of
Pakistan. Nobody realised the agony and pain of PoK
Refugees who are living in Jammu after the day of migration from PoK. Hindus and Sikhs of PoK are the first ever
victims of J&K problem as they fell prey to Pakistan’s well
planned conspiracy in which either they were killed or religiously converted. Narendra Modi’s statement on the
time, when eyes of the entire world are placed on Jammu
and Kashmir, in which Modi stated that there should be
talks with the people of PoK, is welcome step but Displaced
Hindus and Sikhs from PoK consider the said statement of
Prime Minister deficient as he stated to hold talks to people who live cross the Line of Control (LoC). Centre government should also hold talks with 12 lakh population
that is putting up in Jammu and are still treated as
refugees. The problem of Jammu and Kashmir is the only
occupation of PoK areas and once they are liberated from
the clutches of Pakistan the area will again become the
part of India. It is high time to give full moral and political
support to the people of PoK as that they realize that their
country that is India has not forgotten them.
Thoughts for I-Day
By : PramoD PatHaK
Today we will be celebrating the
Independence Day. Seven decades ago on
this date the Tricolour was unfurled signalling the birth of a new nation. Hopes
replaced despair and the dream of the
founding fathers to breathe in free India
was realised. But that was just a beginning as there were many such dreams
that were to be fulfilled in the free nation.
Every Independence Day thus is a
time for stock taking to find out how far
we have come. Naturally, we need to look
at the bench marks that were set. The
pledge of Independence as taken by the
people of India on the Purna Swaraj Day
(January 26, 1930) may serve as a useful
guideline. While the entire text of the
Purna Swaraj Day pledge may not be possible to be reproduce, selected portions
have been quoted below:
“We believe that it is inalienable
right of the Indian people, as of any other
people, to have freedom and to enjoy the
fruits of their toil and have the necessities of life, so that they may have full opportunities of growth...India has been ruined economically. The revenue derived
from our people is out of all proportions
to our income. Our average income is
seven pice per day, and of the heavy taxes
we pay 20 per cent are raised from the
land revenue derived from the peasantry
and 3 per cent from the salt tax which
falls most heavily on the poor.
“Culturally the system of education
has torn us from our moorings and our
training has made us bug the very chains
that bind us.” The revolutionary youth of
the Hindustan Socialist Republican
Association stated their avowed goal as
to work for a revolution which would end
exploitation of man by man. There we
have many such objectives that prompted men and women, young and old, to
join the freedom movement. But there is
a need to now evaluate how far those objectives have been achieved and how
much more remains to be done. For a
country of overwhelmingly large young
Turmoil in Valley part of larger Islamist churning
By : swaPan DasguPta
The Kashmiriyat in evidence on the
streets today is quite emphatically
Islamiyat. One of Burhan Wani’s last
messages is said to have advocated the establishment of a Caliphate in Kashmir...
If we don’t defeat Islamism in J&K, we
will be looking at the war spilling over
south of the Banihal Pass When MPs and
other political leaders direct their ire at
the Government and charge it of not initiating the political process of reconciliation in Kashmir, there is a general presumption that good ideas must be accommodated. My experience suggests that
the whole business is a combination of
the delusional and the humbug. This was
amply demonstrated by the all-party
meeting hosted by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Friday, after
Parliament had concluded its Monsoon
session. The demand for such a gathering
had been mooted by different MPs during
the parliamentary debates for two reasons: To show a measure of national unity and because it is a Pavlovian response
to any sense. When political parties feel
particularly aggrieved, they usually rush
to the well of the Houses of Parliament or
march up Raisina Hill to present a petition to Parliament. Likewise, an all-party
meeting followed by an all-party delegation to Srinagar have become template
responses to any prolonged crisis in
Kashmir. Many political leaders even
manage to look serious when pressing for
such a talk shop. At one level, there is a
genuine desire to express concern over
the happenings in the Kashmir Valley
and to reaffirm that the unity and integrity of India is non-negotiable. However,
when it comes to offering suggestions as
to what is the best course for the
Government, there is a certain paucity of
ideas. What has become sufficiently clear
is that few politicians and parties are
willing to openly acknowledge that the
unrest in Kashmir has climbed new and
more dangerous heights.
It is important to acknowledge the
changes. Had the battlelines been over
the quantum of regional autonomy to be
conferred on the State of Jammu &
Kashmir, the country could have afforded to reiterate PV Narasimha Rao’s assertion that the sky was the limit. We could
well have afforded to engage in another
bout of Constitutional hair-splitting over
the pre-1953 status or the very utility of
Article 370 that confers ‘special status’ on
the State. Alas, things have moved well
beyond regional status and deliberations
over a financial ‘package’ to the troubled
State. It is important to remember that
the present bout of disturbances originated in the demonstrations that began last
month following the death of Hizbul
Mujahedeen commander Burhan Wani
in an encounter with the para-military
forces. Wani, it is important to note, was
not a conventional politician with a mass
following: He was a proud terrorist who
had at least 20 cases pending against him.
He flaunted his gun proudly on Facebook
and in all probability had killed his opponents both Kashmiri and others mercilessly. He was waging war against the
Indian State and was killed in the course
J&K: Focus delayed is opportunity denied
By : Pavan K. varma
Has any attempt been made by the government in J&K to pursue their goal of a
‘sustained and meaningful dialogue
process with all internal stakeholders irrespective of their ideological views and
predilections’? The beautiful valley of
Kashmir is going through a phase of turbulence that should be a matter of concern to
all political parties and all Indians. For
weeks now a curfew partial or total has
been imposed. Several dozen lives have
been lost, both of Kashmiris and of our police and the armed forces. Anger and alienation has spread like a deadly pall across
the state. There seems to be an impasse of a
kind that obstructs any possibility of light
at the end of the tunnel. Rajya Sabha has
discussed this state of affairs at length and
it is a tribute to our democracy that, in
spite of differences of approach among political parties, the Upper House has unanimously passed a resolution emphasising
the importance of restoring peace and trust
in the Valley. What should be the future
course of action? There is a “hardline”
view that brute force deployed by the state
is the only answer to deal with the anti-na-
tionalism that is often on display in
Kashmir. Hardcore terrorists, who have
the backing of Pakistan, who wave the
Pakistani flag in rallies and lethally attack
our armed forces, need to be dealt with remorselessly and by greater force.
Certainly, militancy and terrorism those
openly espousing the cause of secession
and unwilling to accept the supremacy of
the Republic and its Constitution cannot
be given any quarter. But is the use of state
force in perpetuity the only response we
can think of to provide an enduring solution to the situation in Jammu and
Kashmir? I would think not. statesmanship requires the ability to go beyond brittle simplicities that look at problems in only two categories of undifferentiated black
and white. The crisis in J&K has complex
origins and no simple solutions. Quite
apart from years of neglect and flip-flops in
policies, there is the verifiable, planned
and continuous support to terrorism by
Pakistan. What can be done in these circumstances? I would suggest a four-point
agenda for consideration.
Firstly, we must work to restore normalcy. This means that those who resort to
violence and terrorism must be dealt with
firmly. Our armed forces and the police are
doing a very difficult job in highly adverse
circumstances. Their morale and resolve
must not be weakened. At the same time,
the indiscriminate use of weapons like the
pellet gun must be a reviewed. Dozens of
young Kashmiris have been blinded and
scores have been disfigured. Surely, the
armed forces can acquire less lethal, but
equally effective instruments for crowd
control. Secondly, we need to beef-up our
abilities to prevent terrorist infiltration
from Pakistan. While this is easier said
than done, an effort has to be made and the
requirements of our armed forces towards
this end must be met expeditiously and on a
sustained basis. At the same time, the sponsorship of terrorism should be made the
principal focus of engagement with
Pakistan. If Pakistan remains recalcitrant,
then we should go all out to give this issue
international resonance and enlist support
from the US, which has considerable leverage in Pakistan, to apply the requisite pressure on that country.
Thirdly, the government, both at the
state level and at the Centre, must work out
a political roadmap that includes the vital
elements of engagement and dialogue with
the people of J&K. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi recently reiterated Atal
Behari Vajpayee’s decade-old slogan of “insaniyat, jamhooriyat and kashmiriyat”.
Although much delayed, the reiteration is
welcome, but what is the follow up? When
the BJP-PDP alliance was formed, in
March 2015 they released an 11-page
“Agenda for Alliance” mapping out the future course of action. It explicitly refers to a
“sustained and meaningful dialogue
process with all internal stakeholders
which include political groups irrespective of their ideological views and predilections”, thereby including the Hurriyat.
Has any attempt been made to pursue this
explicitly stated goal? Even if we concede
that there is little to be gained by talking to
people like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, was an
effort made to identify other less inflexible
interlocutors who are and more amenable
to discussion including segments outside
the Hurriyat, opinion makers and youth
representatives? I think that however difficult this process may be, the effort has to be
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Assembly poll battleground: It’s Kishor versus Kejriwal
By : Hari sHanKar vyas
The stage is set for the Assembly
Elections scheduled for next year. Amid the
fight among the BJP, SP, BSP, Akali Dal and
AAP, there will be another unique fight one
between Prashant Kishor and Arvind
Kejriwal. According to political pundits, this
fight will be more interesting because whoever wins will be more valuable on the chessboard of 2019 General Elections. Punjab will
be the first battleground for AAP chief
Kejriwal and Kishor, who is working for the
Congress’s Capt Amarinder Singh. The
Congress has been in the Opposition for 10
consecutive years under the Captain’s leadership; this has never happened earlier. So,
the Captain has to win the upcoming elections at any cost. On the other hand, Kejriwal
is upbeat and already dreaming of victory.
Almost all surveys and predictions claim
that AAP will be a big gainer in the State.
Meanwhile, Kishor is working for the
Congress in Uttar Pradesh as well, but it is
common knowledge that it is a lost game there.
However, the party has high hopes from
Punjab. After these elections, there will be
the real fight between Kejriwal and Kishor in
Gujarat. The State has a special significance
for the political strategist. It was here that he
worked for Narendra Modi for the first time
in 2012. It is said that he has set his heart on
ensuring the BJP’s defeat in the State, even
though AAP will be the Congress’s prime tar-
get. The results of Gujarat will decide the future course of politics.
MISSING DALIT LEADERS
Almost all Dalit leaders of the Congress
have vanished, even though Dalit politics is
on the peak in the country. The party is making do with only PL Punia. When issues of
atrocities on Dalits crept in, it was Punia
who addressed the media and raised questions. The Congress is giving the argument
that since elections are due in UP, the party
is keeping the Dalit face of the State at the
forefront. However, the reality is different:
Dalit politics of the party has gone off the
track. Chief of the Dalit cell and close aide of
Rahul Gandhi, K Raju, is not happy. Since he
has not got a Rajya Sabha seat, he has distanced himself from day-to-day party activities. Rahul had given him the full responsibility for Dalit issues, so other leaders could
not understand how to move forward.
During the UPA tenure, there were two
prominent Dalit faces of the Congress Meira
Kumar and Sushilkumar Shinde. This year,
Shinde was supposed to be sent to the Rajya
Sabha, but finally P Chidambaram was given
a ticket from Maharashtra. Meira’s name
wasn’t even discussed. That is why these two
leaders have confined themselves to a limited role. Hence, the party has put Punia for-
ward. But UP leaders are of the view that he
will not be very effective when pitted against
Mayawati.
REMEMBERING RAO
The greatest hurdle in the way of implementing GST, one tax system for the entire
country, has been removed. The necessary
Constitution Amendment Bill has been
passed in both Houses of Parliament.
Interestingly, during the process of getting
the Bill passed, the father of economic reforms in India, PV Narasimha Rao, was fondly remembered. Though, the Congress has almost forgotten Rao, but this time party leaders remembered him. Last Monday, when
Arun Jaitley introduced the GST Bill in Lok
Sabha, senior leader of the Congress,
Veerappa Moily, started discussions on it. In
his speech, Moily remembered Rao and said
it was he who gave a free hand to Manmohan
Singh to initiate economic reforms in the
country. Not only this, when Moily addressed a press conference, he gave credit to
Rao for introducing several economic reforms in India. Whether he did this on the
party high command’s directions or of his
own will is unclear. Before that, even BJP
leaders referred to Rao several times while
discussing the GST Bill. When the Finance
Minister was trying to convince the
Congress to support the Bill, he said that the
party was taking credit for the economic reforms, but it was in fact the brainchild of Rao
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men and women, this is all the more important because they opened up their
eyes in a different country altogether.
They neither saw the struggle nor the exploitation during the British rule.
Therefore, in order to connect them with
the nation, it is very important to make
them understand how this India was
built and what were the dreams of the
founding fathers.
How do we measure the strength of
our democracy? Well, we may take a cue
from the acceptance speech of Senator
Barack Obama at the Democratic
National Convention in Denver as given
in the New York Times website on
August 28, 2008. It is quoted: “We measure the strength of our economy not by
the number of billionaires we have or the
profits of the ‘Fortune 500’ companies,
but by whether someone with a good idea
can take a sick and start a new business,
or whether the waitress who lives on tips
can take a day off and look after a risk kid
without losing her job; an economy that
honours the dignity of work.” These
words make a lot of sense today as we enter into yet another year of our independence. It is not a time to worry about how
tenable things are in the country today. It
is about doing things to realise the
dreams of our founding fathers.
of this war. The forces that engaged him
in battle may or may not have known that
he was present during the gun battle.
Frankly it doesn’t matter. Wani would
not have dropped his gun and come out
with his hands held high. He chose to play
by the rules of the gun and died as a consequence. The demonstrations that ensued
are in solidarity with Wani. They were
not about Kashmiri people protesting
against human rights abuses; they were
about the glorification of a terrorist. The
demonstrators were not routinely violating section 144 violations that happen all
the time in India; they were attacking all
symbols of authority with an aim of replacing them with a parallel Government
what Communist mythology used to glorify in the past as dual power. More important, the demonstrators flaunted
Pakistani flags when they chanted azadi.
This is an important issue. In the past,
many bleeding hearts have allowed themselves to believe that azadi was a benign
slogan that articulated the dream of
Kashmiri independence, the so-called
third option. To believe so today is absolute humbug. Today’s demonstrators
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Judges spar over BCCI
By : anita Katyal
After lying low for nearly a month over what was widely
perceived to be a step down from the ministry of human resource development, minister for textiles Smriti Irani has
now started taking interest in her new portfolio. She announced her arrival with a politically-correct social media
campaign for the promotion of handloom fabrics. Ms Irani
got herself photographed in a handwoven sari, posted it on
Twitter, tagged five people and tweeted “I support Indian
weavers, here’s my IwearHandloomlook”. But the minister
had better watch out. While she has discovered the beauty of
Indian handlooms, Ms Irani faces stiff competition from her
party colleague and bête noire, Lok Sabha MP Meenakshi
Lekhi, who has been passionately involved in the promotion
of khadi for some time now. Ms Lekhi has even drafted designer Ritu Beri to design a line of outfits for Khadi emporiums in a bid to popularise the handspun fabric and has been
instrumental in the setting up of a Khadi emporium outlet in
the Parliament Annexe building. Though she does not have
the advantage of heading a ministry, she is doing her bit by
helping out Kalraj Mishra, minister for medium and small
enterprises, as the Khadi and Village Industries
Commission is under his charge. This is just as well as it is
difficult to imagine Ms Irani and Ms Lekhi working together
given the cold vibes they share. Finance minister Arun
Jaitley calls them the “Khan market” group of young MPs
and has named NCP’s Supriya Sule, as its chairperson. The
reason: Ms Sule and a host of young MPs, cutting across party lines, including Sushmita Dev of the Congress, Nishikant
Dubey of the BJP and Samajwadi Party’s Neeraj Shekhar are
one happy gang which is constantly out lunching when
Parliament is in session. And Khan market is one of their
favourite destinations, although they also patronise the canteens in state bhavans, especially Andhra Bhavan. And
when they are not eating out, they often meet for lunch at Ms
Sule’s residence. Sometimes, they are spoilt for choices recently, they had to scurry from Ms Sule’s place to Shiromani
Akali Dal MP Naresh Gujaral’s residence as both hosted a
lunch on the same day. When Mr Jaitley mentioned these
luncheons to Ms Sule, she was quick to point out that despite
their outings, the young MPs attended Parliament regularly
and participated enthusiastically in the proceedings.
When the Supreme Court recently ordered for the Lodha
committee recommendations on the functioning of BCCI be
implemented, politicians involved in cricket administration
were most unhappy as they would lose their positions in the
all-powerful and cash-rich sports body. Yet, nobody was willing to confront the Supreme Court or Justice Lodha although
BCCI office-bearers constantly complain about them in private. They never fail to point out that Justice Lodha and his
team are working out of an expensive suite in a five-star hotel, all at the BCCI’s expense. Unwilling to antagonise the judiciary, the BCCI decided to outsource its fight to former
Supreme Court judge, Justice Markandey Katju, who was
hired, ostensibly, to oversee the implementation of the
Lodha panel’s report. But in reality, the outspoken Justice
Katju was handpicked by the BCCI because he has no qualms
about taking on the apex court. It also helps that Rajeev
Shukla, Congress’ MP from Rajya Sabha and IPL chief,
knows Justice Katju. It was an open secret that it was Mr
Shukla who had suggested Justice Katju to head the Press
Council when the UPA-2 was in power. So far, Justice Katju
has not disappointed the BCCI as he lost no time in denouncing the Lodha committee recommendations as “unconstitutional and illegal”. Having delegated its problems to Justice
Katju, the BCCI is now sitting back and watching as the two
ex-judges are busy battling it out in full public view.
Recently, when Congress president Sonia Gandhi cut short
her road show in Varanasi owing to ill-health, it was
arranged for her to be driven either to Gangaram Hospital or
the AIIMS on arrival in Delhi. In fact, the necessary arrangements were made at both these hospitals. But on the drive
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Mahad tragedy: Missing SUV
found, 2 bodies feared stuck inside
Mumbai, Aug 14 : (PTI)
On the 11th day of search
operations, Navy divers today
found the wreckage of an
SUV, with two bodies feared
to be trapped inside, in Savitri
river near Mahad in Raigad
district where a British-era
bridge had collapsed on
August 2.Efforts are on to retrieve the vehicle and the bodies, state disaster management cell director Suhas
Diwase said, adding the total
number of missing persons
now stands at 12.A Defence
PRO said the extrication of
the wreckage will be done
jointly by Navy divers and the
National Disaster Response
Force."Continuing the day 11
Sonia Gandhi
discharged from
hospital
New Delhi Aug 14 (PTI) :
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi was today discharged
after 11 days of hospitalisation
after being treated for her illness and shoulder injury.The
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,
where she was admitted on
August 3, said her medical condition was stable and has been
advised rest."Sonia Gandhi's
medical condition at the time
of discharge from the hospital
is stable. She has been advised
rest and continuation of medicines. Mrs Gandhi is likely to
visit the hospital for further
evaluation of her condition in
the coming week," said D S
Rana, Chairman of Board of
Management of the hospital.69-year-old Gandhi was admitted to the hospital after being taken ill during a roadshow
in Varanasi.She had undergone a surgery on her left
shoulder on August 3 and doctors said she has recovered
from the injury.
Gandhi was admitted under the care of Arup Basu, senior
consultant, Department of
Pulmonology
and
Chest
Medicine and his team.She was
operated for her shoulder injury at the hospital by Prateek
Gupta, senior consultant and
his team from Department of
Orthopaedics and Sanjay Desai
from Mumbai.Gandhi was
shifted to the Sir Ganga Ram
Hospital from the Army
Research
and
Referral
Hospital, where she was
rushed soon after her arrival
from Varanasi around midnight of August 2.The Congress
president had to cut short her
roadshow in Varanasi after she
was taken ill.
of the search in Savitri river,
the Indian Navy divers located one more wreckage, assessed to be a Tavera SUV vehicle number is MH04
GD7837. There is a likelihood
of two bodies inside the vehicle. The wreckage was found
300 metres from the damaged
bridge, in 4 to 5 meters of water. NDRF and district administration have been informed," a statement issued
here by the Defence authorities said.Naval divers had yesterday located the wreckage
of the second MSRTC bus,
which was washed away in
the turbulent Savitri river
near Mahad after the Britishera bridge collapsed on
August 2. No bodies were
found in the bus.The bridge
was to be dismantled in
December this year as part of
the Mumbai-Goa Highway expansion project.On Thursday,
the wreckage of a RajapurBorivali MSRTC bus was retrieved about 170-200 meters
from the collapsed bridge
site.The Indian Navy team,
comprising personnel specialising in diving, is searching
for survivors since the morning of August 4, braving high
water current and crocodiles
in the river.So far, 26 bodies
have been recovered after two
state transport buses and
some other vehicles fell in the
swollen river following the
bridge collapse on MumbaiGoa Highway near Mahad,
No change in decision to enter
into politics: Irom Sharmila
Imphal, Aug 14 : (PTI)
Days after she ended her
16-year-long
fast,
epic
Manipur's 'Iron Lady' Irom
Sharmila today said there is
no change in her decision to
take a plunge into politics,
notwithstanding the opposition to it and hoped to make a
"new beginning" in her campaign for the repeal of the contentious AFSPA in the
state.The 44-year-old iconic
rights activist, who suddenly
finds herself friendless and
faces a hostile response from
her supporters, also acknowledged that people were generally unhappy with her decision to break her fast on
and
enter
Tuesday
politics.The decision did not
go down well with the civil society groups as well as the general public who have kind of
abandoned her.From her family to close friends and even
neighbours, Sharmila faced
protests by locals and also reported threats by some militant groups and ironically has
returned to the same hospital
which had been her home for
16 years."Yes, I want to become Chief Minister. If I am
Chief Minister I can repeal the
most unpopular AFSPA," the
feisty activist told PTI emphatically
when
asked
whether there is any change
in her mind to take an electoral plunge following strident opposition to her
move.Assembly polls in
Manipur are due in 2017."If
people do not support me, I
will go my own way," she said
Border Security Force (BSF) personnel patrol through a paddy field near the India-Bangladesh border near Balurghat in South Dinajpur district of West Bengal.
Court wonders how Abhay Chautala
went to attend Rio Olympics
New Delhi, Aug 14 : (PTI)
but at the same time expressed confidence that she
will have the backing of the
public for her electoral
bid.Sharmila also disagreed
with a suggestion that without
any support of any political
party it will be fruitless to
turn to politics.She has been
campaigning doggedly for
scrapping the Armed Forces
(Special Powers) Act clamped
in the northeastern state after
10 civilians were killed by security forces in 2000."To end
fast is not the end of my movement. There will be a new beginning," Sharmila said.
Sharmila gave up her fast after a local court gave her bail
on personal bond in a case of
attempt to suicide under
she
was
which
arrested."People wanted me to
continue the fast but I decided
to end fast. People may not be
happy... It is up to them.
Change of my mind (to end the
PIL in SC for action against cow
vigilantes for violent acts
A petition has been filed
in the Supreme Court seeking
direction to the Centre and
some states to take action
against so-called cow vigilantes, who are allegedly
spreading violence and committing atrocities against
Dalits and minorities.The
PIL, filed by Congress activist
Tehseen S Poonawalla, said
the violence committed by
these 'Gau Raksha' groups
have reached to such proportions that even Prime
Minister Narendra Modi recently declared them as people who are "destroying the society".It alleged these groups
were committing atrocities
against Dalits and minorities
in the name of protection of
cows and other bovines and
they needed to be "regulated
and banned in the interest of
social harmony, public morality and law and order in the
about 170 kms from here.The
state Cabinet, in this particular case, has already reduced
the waiting period for granting compensation to the kin of
those missing to two months
(from seven years as per existing rules).If the missing people are not traced within two
months, the state will declare
them dead and award solatium, PWD Minister
Chandrakant Patil had earlier said.The Maharashtra
State Road Development
Corporation has announced a
compensation of Rs 14 lakh
each to the kin of deceased
travelling in the ST buses and
Rs 10 lakh each to the family
of the deceased in other vehicles involved in the tragedy.
country"."The menace caused
by the so-called cow protection groups is spreading fast
to every nook and corner of
the country and is creating
disharmony among various
communities and castes," the
petition said.It also sought a
direction to remove the alleged "violent content" uploaded on social media and
hosted by the cow protection
groups.
The plea sought to declare
as "unconstitutional" section
12 of the Gujarat Animal
Prevention Act, 1954, Section
13 of Maharashtra Animal
Prevention Act, 1976, and
Section 15 of Karnataka
Prevention of Cow Slaughter
and Cattle Preservation Act,
1964, which provide for protection of persons acting in
good faith under the Act or
rules."These laws and the protection granted therewith act
as a catalyst to violence perpetrated by these vigilante
groups," it said.The PIL has
arrayed as parties Ministry of
Home Affairs, Ministry of
Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare, governments of
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar
Pradesh,
Karnataka,
and
Rajasthan
Jharkhand.Seeking action
against the vigilantes, the petition said the atrocities committed by them were punishable under various provisions
of IPC and under the
Scheduled
Caste
and
Scheduled Tribes (Prevention
of atrocities) Act, 1989.It alleged that in many cases, the
police and other probe agencies were either "complicit in
such illegal actions or have
merely been mute spectators
against such evil".The plea
said the actions of these
groups were in complete violation of Article 21 of the
Constitution as it takes away
the victims' "Right to life and
personal liberty".
fast) was due to lack of people's
support to my movement," she
said.Sharmila said she will go
wherever she wishes if people
continue to be hostile to her
but did not elaborate."I may go
to a place and I will... as l desire," an unfazed Sharmila
said.She also said people were
having high expectations
from her in continuing with
her fast but added it is their
problem if they did not approve of her decision to end
the fast.
Sharmila replied in the
negative when asked if she deviated from her campaign because of love and whether it
was true if she was planning to
get married.There is widespread speculation that she
tie
the
nuptial
may
knot.Sharmila also said she
was not bothered about any
threat to her life following her
decision to end fast and contest the elections.
Dalit attacks to
find mention in
prez speech
New Delhi, Aug 14 :
The passage of the Goods
and Services Tax (GST) by
Parliament, recent attacks on
Dalits and instances of cow vigilantism are likely to figure in
President Pranab Mukherjee’s
address to the nation on the eve
of the 70th Independence Day
on Sunday.Mukherjee is likely
to praise the efforts of both the
government
and
the
Opposition in reaching a consensus for Parliament to pass
the country's key tax reform
law in the just concluded monsoon session.In his last
Independence Day address,
Mukherjee had lamented that
Parliament had been converted into an arena of combat
rather than debate, observing
that institutions of democracy
are under stress and “correctives must come from within.”The president had made
those comments against the
backdrop of a washed out
monsoon
session
of
Parliament last year.
270 airline crew violated safety norms this year
As many as 270 airline
crew members, mostly pilots,
were found violating safety
norms this year by regulator
DGCA which suspended over
150 of them, raising serious
concerns about aviation safety.The number paints an
alarming picture as there was a
total of 275 "enforcement actions" by DGCA last year, compared 270 such actions being
initiated in less than eight
months this year."Instances of
safety violations are increasing. To curb such incidents, the
regulator has stepped up surveillance activities," a senior
DGCA
official
said.The
Directorate General of Civil
Aviation (DGCA) had earlier
this week suspended flying licenses of two pilots of Air India
and Jet Airways for four years
as they were found to be drunk
soon after operating international flights. It had also directed the airlines to register FIRs
against them.Violation of safety requirements such as being
drunk while operating a flight
can also attract imprisonment.One cabin crew member
each from the two carriers
have also been suspended for
the same violation for one
year.As per latest data available with DGCA, there were
safety violations involving
around 270 airline crew members this year till August 12 and
the number stood at 169 at the
end of June.Most of them were
pilots, flight commanders and
first officers.Taking serious
note of the lapse, a significant
chunk were suspended by DGCA -- an action which also indicated several instances of repeat violations.Generally, first
time violators are given warnings. The next time they are
A special court has wondered how INLD chief O P
Chautala's son Abhay, who is
facing trial in a disproportionate assets case, has gone
abroad to attend the Rio
Olympics without seeking its
permission.The issue came
up when during a recent hearing, Special CBI Judge Sanjay
Garg-I was informed that
Abhay Chautala was absent
as he, being a sports administrator and former President of
Indian Olympic Association,
has gone to attend the Rio
Olympics from August 2 to
25.His counsel moved an application seeking exemption
from personal appearance of
the politician and said that
there was no specific condition imposed by the court in
the bail order regarding seeking its permission for going
out of country.
The court, however,
said,"No specific permission
has been sought by this accused from this court to go
abroad. Counsel for accused
submits that since there is no
specific condition regarding
seeking permission from the
court for going abroad in the
bail order due to this reason
no permission was taken from
this court."
CBI prosecutor Ajay
Kumar Gupta sought time to
argue on this aspect after
which the court has fixed the
warnings.The official said the
count of violators has seen a
spurt since then and from July
till August 12, 101 airline crew
members were found violating
various safety rules.According
to DGCA data, 44 crew members, including pilots, of Jet
Airways faced enforcement actions this year till June end, followed by IndiGo (25), Air India
(22), Spicejet (15), GoAir (8),
Vistara (4) and AirAsia (2).
on against his sons, Ajay and
Abhay.In its charge sheet, the
had
alleged
that
CBI
Chautala's wealth was 189 per
cent more than his income of
Rs 3.22 crore during the period.Abhay allegedly owned assets worth over five times his
income of Rs 22.89 crore as per
income tax records during the
2000-2005 period. The agency
claimed to have found Rs
119.69
crore
worth
of
assets.The CBI had also said
that Ajay was possessing assets exceeding his legal income by 339.27 per cent. His legal income between May 1993
and May 2006 was Rs 8.17
crore, but had acquired assets
worth Rs 27.7 crore, it had alleged.
CONTN. FROM PAGE 6
Judges spar ...................................................................
from the Delhi airport, Mrs Gandhi’s doctors advised that
she needed immediate medical attention as her condition had
deteriorated and that the journey to the hospitals would take
too long. It was hurriedly decided to take her to the Army’s
Research and Referral Hospital which is not far from the airport. Mrs Gandhi’s political secretary, Ahmad Patel, immedi-
ately called up the Rashtrapati Bhavan whose team of doctors
alerted the Army hospital as it obviously had no prior information about this VIP emergency visitor. President Pranab
Mukherjee, who is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces,
also intervened to ensure that Mrs Gandhi was attended to immediately.
Turmoil in valley .......................................................
and activists are demanding the integration of Jammu and
Kashmir (or at least the Kashmir Valley) with Pakistan. They are
not merely separatists, they are also secessionists and potentially a fifth column. Why anyone in their right minds would want to
trade their Indian passports for a Pakistani passport must remain a source of unending consternation. Pakistan itself is in
such a terrible condition and wracked by civil unrest and terrorism that it requires a special mental state to be a part of it. It is the
pro-Pakistan dimension that tells its own story. All the reportage
from the ground suggests that the mobilisation is being effected
from the mosques and places of worship. In short, there is now a
explicit religious dimension to the movement: The Kashmir dis-
Assembly poll
turbances are now part of a larger Islamist churning. The insistence on women’s ‘modesty’ and the claim of defending the faith
against a Hindu State are part of this Islamist dimension. At one
time Kashmiriyat did indeed imply a large dose of Sufiana. The
Kashmiriyat in evidence on the streets today is quite emphatically Islamiyat. One of Wani’s last messages is said to have advocated the establishment of a Caliphate in Kashmir. There is always a
place for goody-goody talk in our polity. Alas, that moment has
gone. We are now in the frontline of a global war. Let’s remember
that before we go on about the healing touch and other tripe. If we
don’t defeat Islamism in J&K, we will be looking at the war
spilling over south of the Banihal Pass.
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and his Finance Minister, Manmohan Singh. Jaitley was
targeting the Congress for taking Rao’s name. It is to be noted
that last month, it was the 25th anniversary of economic reforms which were started under Rao’s leadership.
KCR’S PROXIMITY WITH NDA The Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS), the ruling party in Telangana, might join the
NDA, and talks are in the advanced stage. Sources in the BJP
say that the decision will be taken after August 15. It is said
that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao wants to join the
NDA and also a ministerial berth for his daughter, K Kavitha,
at the Centre. Kavitha, too, has given an indication for this.
Things have become clearer after Modi’s first visit to
Telangana. KCR left no stone unturned to give a warm welcome to the Prime Minister. Praising Modi, Rao said it was his
leadership that has kept the Central Government corruptionfree. This must be noted that these days, things are not hunkydory between the BJP and its partner in Andhra Pradesh, the
TDP. N Chandrababu Naidu is demanding special status for
Andhra Pradesh and his party has also started a campaign for
this. That is why the BJP needs a strong ally in this part of
South India. KCR targeted Naidu in the presence of Modi, and
said he doesn’t need packages worth crores, but only the PM’s
love for the new State. It is being said that KCR’s gesture has
won Modi’s heart and he is very happy with him.
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
Before UP elections, political pundits are talking about
communal polarisation. But it seems that there is more politics on nationalism than on communalism. PM Modi has
chalked out a plan to paint UP in the colour of nationalism
from August 9 to 22. Though this plan is for the entire country,
but holds special significance for UP. The PM has launched a
J&K focus delayed
caught, the DGCA directs airlines to de- roster them from
flying duty for a specific time
period while repeat offenders
are suspended. The enforcement action depends on the
severity of violations.The
break-up available till June
end show that DGCA took action against 169 airline crew
members, of whom 110 were
suspended, 28 "off-rostered"
and
31
let
off
with
matter for August 17 for further proceedings.The CBI had
registered a case of disproportionate assets against INLD
chief and former Haryana
Chief Minister O P Chautala
and his sons Ajay and Abhay
on a complaint of Congress
Shamsher
Singh
leader
Surjewala.
Chautala and Ajay were
sentenced to ten years jail
term early this year by high
court in the 1999-2000 junior
recruitment
teacher
scam.CBI had on March 26,
2010 charge sheeted Chautala
indicting him for allegedly
possessing assets worth Rs
6.09 crore, far exceeding his legal income between 1993 and
2006. Two such cases are going
programme called 70 Saal ki Azadi, Zara Yaad Karo Kurbani,
and several senior ministers and MPs will be celebrating this
in UP. BJP President Amit Shah will go to Kakori to attend
the function being organised for the Kakori Revolution. Home
Minister Rajnath Singh will be participating in a function at
Shahjahanpur, while Nitin Gadkari will visit Varanasi and
Mughalsarai. Health Minister JP Nadda will be in Lucknow.
Apart from this, the BJP’s and Apna Dal’s 73 MPs will be on a
Tiranga Yatra from August 15 for a week, and will celebrate
Tiranga Mahotsav.
UP LEADERS IN TEAM RAHUL
Everyone is wondering as to how many leaders from UP
will find place in Rahul Gandhi’s team? Sources in the party
say that since Modi has increased the number of ministers
from UP at the Centre and has not removed Kalraj Mishra,
Rahul will also try to accommodate State leaders in his team.
A close aide of Rahul says that at least half a dozen leaders
from UP will get big responsibilities in the team. Except the
Congress President and Vice-President, no one has been given big responsibility in UP. In Sonia’s team, there is not even a
single General Secretary from the State. This time, there will
be at least one General Secretary in Rahul’s team, probably
Jitin Prasada. Meanwhile, Pramod Tiwari is also in the race
and fighting with all his might. There is not one leader from
UP in any of the important committees of the Congress.
Though Mohsina Kidwai is a part of the election committee,
but that is only for formality. Sources claim that this time, the
number of leaders from UP will increase in some of the party
panels. RPN Singh might be given responsibility of the media
department. Salman Khurshid and Pradeep Jain also might
get a place in Rahul’s team.
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made. The PM’s meeting in New Delhi with leaders of all
political parties on Friday was a good beginning, and it
should be followed up, as a first step, by the visit of an allparty delegation to J&K. Fourthly, urgent steps need to be
taken to expedite development in J&K. The unprecedented
floods last year have taken a heavy toll, both on infrastructure and livelihoods. It is estimated that two-thirds of all
Kashmiris are around the age of 30, of which roughly half
are unemployed. On November 7, 2015, the PM had announced a “Diwali” gift of `80,000 crores for the state. While
roughly half of it was meant for roads and highway projects,
a significant amount was also allocated to flood relief, power, health, agriculture, food processing and tourism. How
much of this money has been spent? If this outlay is to be
spent over five years, can we think of fast-tracking key sec-
tors, especially those which rev up job creation and incomes? The co-option processes of the Indian sstate have a
great seduction. It is instructive to remember that since 1947
not a single secessionist movement has succeeded in India.
Equally important is the fact that we have shown the maturity to negotiate with even those who have questioned the
primacy of the Indian state — witness our interactions with
rebel groups in Nagaland, Assam and even Punjab. A tough
stand against Maoists has not inhibited us from reaching
out to those among them who wish to return to the mainstream. It is time we focused in a concentrated manner on
J&K and try to apply the healing touch to win back the
hearts and minds of the people of J&K. The BJP-PDP government should try and overcome its internal contradictions
and work to achieve this goal.
8
Glimpses of Future
WORLD
Global Brief
Kurdish forces in fresh
push to close in on
Islamic State-held Mosul
Wardak August 14
Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by
US-led coalition airstrikes launched a
fresh attack on Islamic State militants in
northern Iraq in the early hours of
Sunday, as part of a plan to close in on
their de facto capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said. The offensive began after
heavy shelling and several airstrikes, a
correspondent reported from Wardak, 30
km (19 miles) south-east of Mosul, where
some of the Peshmerga forces are deployed. Clouds of black smoke could be
seen at a distance, possibly tires or other
items set on fire by the militants to obstruct the planes’ visibility. The Iraqi
army and the Peshmerga forces of the
Kurdish self-rule region are gradually taking up positions around Mosul, 400 km
(248 miles) north of Baghdad, from whose
Grand Mosque in 2014 Islamic State leader
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a
caliphate spanning regions of Iraq and
Syria.Mosul is the largest urban center
under the militants’ control, with a prewar population of nearly 2 million. Its fall
would mark their effective defeat in Iraq,
according to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi, who has said he aims to retake
the city this year. The operation that started Sunday is part of the “shaping operations” to prepare for an offensive on the
city itself, said a Kurdish official who declined to be identified. The Iraqi army is
trying to advance from the south. In July it
captured the Qayyara airfield, 60 km (35
miles) south of Mosul, which will serve as
the main staging post for the expected offensive on the city.
Boko Haram releases
new video of ‘missing
Chibok girls’
Kano Aug 14:
Boko Haram on Sunday released a
video of the girls allegedly kidnapped
from Chibok in Nigeria in April 2014,
showing some who are still alive and
claiming others died in air strikes. The
video is the latest release from embattled
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau,
who earlier this month denied claims that
he had been replaced as the leader of the jihadist group. "They should know that
their children are still in our hands," said
a man whose face was covered by a turban
in the video posted on YouTube. "There is
a number of the girls, about 40 of them,
that have been married by the decision of
Allah," said the man in the 11-minute
video, which shows girls with veils sitting
on the ground and standing in the background. "Some of them have died as a result of aerial bombardment." The mass
kidnapping of 276 Chibok schoolgirls in
April 2014 provoked global outrage and
brought unprecedented attention on the
Boko Haram conflict, in which at least
20,000 people have been killed since 2009.
Throughout 2015, the Nigerian military
announced the rescue of hundreds of people, most of them women and children,
who have been kidnapped by Boko
Haram. But the missing schoolgirls were
not among them, despite several unconfirmed sightings.
Republican Party could be near Donald Trump breaking point
Altoona August 14
The Republican Party could be
nearing a breaking point with Donald
Trump. As he skips from one gaffe to the
next, GOP leaders in Washington and in
the most competitive states have begun
openly contemplating turning their
backs on their party’s presidential nominee to prevent what they fear will be
wide-scale Republican losses on
Election Day. Back in 1996, the party also largely gave up on nominee Bob Dole
once it became clear he had little chance
of winning, so it’s not without precedent. Nevertheless, it’s jolting prospect
now, with roughly three months still left
before the November 8 vote and weeks
before the three presidential debates.
Republicans who have devoted their
professional lives to electing GOP candidates say they believe the White House
already may be lost. They’re exasperated by Trump’s divisive politics and his
insistence on running a general election
campaign that mirrors his approach to
the primaries. “Based on his campaign
record, there’s no chance he’s going to
win,” said Sara Fagen, the political director for former President George W.
Bush. “He’s losing groups of people he
can’t get back.” Trump’s campaign says
things are moving in the right direction,
a position that itself feeds the discontent
among his GOP detractors. The billionaire businessman’s loyalists say enough
time remains to change the dynamic
against Democrat Hillary Clinton who,
like Trump, is deeply unpopular with
voters. And his backers are blaming the
media for the perception that all is not
well.“Frankly, a lot of stuff over the last
week … it’s him being distorted,” said
Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul
Manafort. “For the last week or so, he’s
been very focused and very much on his
officials in Washington and states that
would be affected, including Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
They spoke to media on the condition of
anonymity because they were not authorized to describe publicly those private discussions. There is no evidence
that a formal plan to break with Trump
exists at either the state party or RNC
level, but Priebus has informally discussed the possibility with party leaders
in battleground states in recent days,
three of the officials said. Should that occur, it’s not likely to happen until after
Labor Day, as the party is still relying on
Trump to help raise money to fund its
expansive political operation. But the
amount of money needed decreases as
each day passes, giving the RNC greater
financial freedom to potentially change
course as the election nears. The dissension in the Republican ranks hasn’t affected Trump’s ability to draw supporters to his rallies. Lisa Thompson, a firefighter from St. Cloud, Florida, is among
the many who continue to stand in long
lines for hours to see Trump at his
events. She said those balking at his
missteps were being “too sensitive” — a
luxury the nation can’t afford with
growing security threats. She urged
Trump to stick with his playbook.
Milwaukee officer hit by
brick in shooting aftermath
Milwaukee August 14
Police in Milwaukee say
one police officer is being
treated after he was hit in the
head by a brick through a
squad car window.
]The injury happened
Saturday night as officers are
dealing with unrest on the
city’s north side following a
man’s fatal shooting by police
hours earlier. Police say the
man was armed and was shot
during a foot chase that followed a traffic stop. Capt.
Mark Stanmeyer says officers
stopped a car with two people
inside Saturday. He says the
pair got out of the car and ran
and that the officers chased
them. He says a 23-year-old
man who was one of the people
fleeing was armed with a handgun and was shot by an officer
during the pursuit. The man’s
name wasn’t immediately released. Stanmeyer says the
man died at the scene. The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
reports that more than 100 people gathered near the scene
Saturday night and some in
the crowd started smashing a
squad car’s windows. The 24year-old officer who shot the
man has been placed on administrative duty. The officer has
been with the Milwaukee department six years, three as an
officer.Assistant Chief Bill
Jessup told the Journal
Sentinel newspaper that it
wasn’t immediately clear
Malaysian man
controlling
actions of IS
sympathisers:
police
Kuala Lumpur Aug 14:
whether the man pointed a gun
at or shot at the officer. Police
said in an earlier tweet that
they had a large presence as
they tried to disperse a crowd.
They said some in the crowd
'No indication' Swiss train attack
was terrorist act: police
Undermining China:
towns sink after
mines close
Deep in the coal heartlands of northern Shanxi province, people in Helin village are fighting a losing battle as the
ground beneath them crumbles: patching
up cracks, rebuilding walls and filling in
sinkholes caused by decades of coal mining. Around 100 pits in Helin – buried in
the hilly rural outskirts of the city of
Xiaoyi – have been exhausted, and cluttered hamlets totter precariously on the
brittle slopes of mines.
But while local authorities have begun evacuating hundreds of thousands of
residents most at risk elsewhere in Shanxi
province, Helin’s situation – though serious – isn’t yet considered a priority. “We
haven’t been told to leave yet, but when
the government gives us the order, we’ll
be happy to go,” said Wang Junqi, who
lives in a one-room tenement with his family. “It isn’t safe here and the people who
have a bit of money have already gone. It’s
scary, but what can we do?”
Mines that burrowed under villages
and towns during China’s three-decade
coal boom have left the authorities with
the need to evacuate hundreds of communities in danger of sinking. Shanxi
province alone plans to move 655,000 residents by the end of next year from unsafe
old mining regions, with the cost of relocation estimated at 15.8 billion yuan ($2.37
billion). The Shanxi government estimates coal mining has cost the province 77
billion yuan in “environmental economic
losses”.GEOLOGICAL DISASTERS
Mine-induced subsidence is not
unique to China, but its problems dwarf
those of other countries. A notice board at
a deserted Communist Party building in
an abandoned village not far from Helin
gives an idea of the scale of the disaster. It
lists 19 geological “disaster zones” spread
across 23 villages, 55 landslides, 950 cracks
in the ground and 808 incidents of mine
subsidence — all in an area of just 13.25
square kilometres (5 sq miles)According
to official data, coal mining had already
caused as many 26,000 geological disasters
by the end of 2014, and as much as 10,000
square kilometres of land has been affected, an area the size of Gambia in Africa, according to some estimates. China’s land
ministry said last month it would spend 75
billion yuan ($11.27 billion) over the next
five years to restore mined land and treat
mining waste nationwide.
game.”Trump did show some modest
improvement as a candidate in the past
week. He has stopped criticizing a
Muslim family of a fallen US soldier.
Gone are the fights with some of his party’s most respected members of
Congress. But also in the past seven
days, Trump has questioned the advice
of senior aides, threatened to stop raising money for the party, dismissed the
usefulness of get-out-the-vote efforts
and defended his decision not to run any
television ads even as his opponents fill
the airwaves with spots backing Clinton
in several contested states. It all largely
overshadowed the content of 44 previously-unreleased email exchanges
Clinton had while at the State
Department. They became public on
Tuesday and showed her interacting
with lobbyists, political and Clinton
Foundation donors and business interests while serving as secretary of state.
To some Republicans, it’s enough for the
party to give up on their nominee. More
than 100 GOP officials, including at least
six former members of Congress and
more than 20 former staffers at the
Republican National Committee, have
signed a letter asking the party chairman, Reince Priebus, to stop helping
Trump’s campaign. “They’re going to do
it sooner or later. They might as well do
it sooner to have more impact,” said former Minnesota Rep. Vin Weber, among
those who signed. Senior Republicans
in Washington and in some of the most
contested states have discussed a scenario in which the party scales back its
presidential focus in states that don’t
feature top races for Senate. They could
abandon a state such as Virginia, for example, and focus more on a state such as
Indiana, where Democrat Evan Bayh is
trying to make a Senate comeback.
That’s according to several Republican
Geneva Aug 14:
Swiss police said on Sunday
there was so far no indication that
an attacker's knife rampage on a
train, which killed one woman and
injured five passengers, was an act
of terror. "The question of motive remains," police from Switzerland's
eastern Saint Gallen region said in a
statement, stressing: "To date there
is no indication this was a terrorist
or politically motivated act." Police
spokesman Bruno Metzger told AFP
"terrorism is not our main theory"
for Saturday afternoon's attack and
that "other motives" figured far
higher on the list, although he would
not say what they were. A 27-yearold Swiss national used flammable
liquid to start a fire on a moving
train in eastern Switzerland before
stabbing passengers, according to
police. The attack took place at
around 2:20 pm (1220 GMT) near
Salez station on a train running between Buchs and Sennwald near
Switzerland's eastern border with
Liechtenstein and Austria. Police
said the attack had been caught on
video, allowing them to determine
that the man had acted alone. The
victims included two men aged 17
and 50, three women aged 17, 34 and
43 and a six-year-old girl. Dozens of
people were on the train at the time
of the attack, police said. Regional
police in Switzerland's eastern canton of Saint Gallen said a 34-year-old
woman who had been in critical condition since the attack had died of
her injuries on Sunday morning.
Metzger said the attacker, who is not
of immigrant origin and does not
have a criminal record, remained in
critical condition. A person who had
been on the platform at Salez station
was also hurt after rushing in to pull
out the attacker -- who was on fire -out of the train, police said.
"His intervention probably prevented worst," police spokesman
Hanspeter Kruesi told the Blick daily, suggesting that more passengers
might have been injured. Metzger
said police for the time being would
not provide more details on the identities or nationalities of the victims.
Late on Saturday, police had
searched the home of the suspected
attacker, who lives in a canton
neighbouring Saint Gallen.
"The results are part of a criminal proceeding and are therefore not
public," the police statement said.
Some 90 rescue workers had taken
part in Saturday's operation, including police, firefighters, ambulances
and three rescue helicopters, police
said. Saint Gallen prosecutors, who
have opened a criminal investigation into the attack, have secured
the affected carriage, which is being
scrutinised by forensics teams.
had broken the windows of an
unoccupied squad car and set
another police car on fire.
Office on missing
persons not aimed at
targeting army: Sirisena
Colombo Aug 14:
Sri Lankan
President
Maithripala
Sirisena has made
it clear that his
government's
move to set up an
office to find about
65,000 people reported missing during the civil war was not aimed at targeting the security forces but for
the redressal of those affected
by the strife. "Those who
claim that this Office on
Missing Persons (OMP) would
betray the security forces, I
would like to tell them that I
am ready to meet them and argue our case," Sirisena told a
television channel yesterday.
He denied that the move was
aimed at targeting government troops. "We only want to
give redress to those who have
been affected not to punish
anyone," he said. Sirisena said
the original form of the OMP
bill was changed with many
amendments by the government at the last stage before
bringing it in parliament and
there was nothing to fear
about it. The function of the office is to establish whether a
missing person is dead or
alive and, if they are dead, dis-
cover when, how and where
they died. While the Tamil
rights groups have welcomed
the move, the Sinhala nationalist majority groups stay opposed. They said the move will
extract revenge from security
forces for needing the LTTE's
militancy which killed thousands of civilians and soldiers. The Joint Opposition
backing the former President
Mahinda Rajapaksa created a
rumpus in parliament when
the bill was introduced last
Thursday.
They said the bill had not
been legally adopted. Amidst
opposition protests Speaker
Karu Jayasuriya said the bill
had been approved without a
vote. He said the opposition
did not take his offer to debate
and go for a vote if needed.
The draft bill to establish an
OMP was passed with amendments in Parliament without
a vote on August 11.
A 26-year-old Malaysian
man could be the person controlling the actions of several
Islamic State sympathisers
in the Muslim-majority
country from his base in
Syria, a top police official
said. Three of the nine suspected Islamic State militants detained this month,
including two allegedly involved in the nightclub
bombing in a suburb here
last month, had taken orders
from Muhammad Wanndy
Bin
Mohamed
Jedi,
Inspector-General of Police
Khalid Abu Bakar said. Jedi
had also ordered another attack on an entertainment
outlet in Johor. One received
orders to attack police headquarters here and governcomplexes
in
ment
Putrajaya, he said. They
were detained along with six
others, including three Iraqi
militants and a 17-year-old in
Kuala Lumpur, Johor, Sabah
and Kelantan between July
20 and August 9 by the
Counter Terrorism Division.
The three Iraqis are former
soldiers who have been in
Malaysia for a few months
while the six Malaysians are
three VCD sellers, a factory
operator, an excavator driver and an unemployed man,
Khalid said.
Brexit could be
delayed until
late 2019: report
London Aug 14:
Britain's departure
from the EU could be delayed until late 2019 as civil
servants struggle with the
task and French and
German elections may hold
up the start of exit negotiations, a report said on
Sunday Prime Minister
Theresa May's government
has indicated that it is planning to trigger Article 50 of
the EU's Lisbon Treaty,
which would start a twoyear countdown to leaving
the bloc, early in 2017.
Floods kill at least 3 in southern US as heat wave bakes East Coast
New York August 14
Torrential rains causing flooding in
parts of the southern United States have
killed at least three people, US media reported on Saturday, as millions of
Americans on the East Coast sweat
through soaring temperatures and stifling humidity. Flooding in parts of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi
shut down many roads on Friday,
prompting numerous rescues and cutting
off at least one town as an area of low pressure slowly moved west along the Gulf
Coast. Rivers and streams were bursting
out of their banks, the National Weather
Service said.The floods killed at least
three people on Friday, local media reported. Among them, a man in the
Louisiana town of Zachary, near the capital Baton Rouge, drowned trying to escape flood waters, local television station
WAFB reported. “We were walking out
and he slipped and fell,” his roommate
Vernon Drummond told the station. “He
went under the water. We tried to save
him, but we couldn’t,” he further said.
The area recorded 10 to 15 inches (25.4 to
38.1 cm) of rain, David Roth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service,
told AFP. Another 10 inches were expect-
Brad Gilbert (left) helps his friend Mike Abel with his flooded business in Amite, La., picking up anything that is salvageable before
the water gets higher. Heavy downpours pounded parts of the central US Gulf Coast, leaving three people dead.
ed in parts of Louisiana over the next two
days. “Even for them it’s very unusual,”
Roth said. Louisiana Governor John Bel
Edwards declared a state of emergency
and planned to hold a news conference on
Saturday morning after meeting with
emergency officials. “We are in constant
contact with local officials and first responders, and assistance is already on the
move to affected parishes,” he said in a
press release. Layton Ricks, president of
Livingston parish in the Baton Rouge
area, told reporters, “we’re experiencing
one of the worst storm events we’ve ever
had, with flash flooding.”
He said roads that had never flooded
were under water, and that the backlog of
people waiting to be rescued was as long
as 150, even after more than a thousand
rescue operations had been carried out so
far. The National Weather Service
warned of “significant flash flooding”
through the weekend as the weather pattern moves north. “A low- to mid-level cyclone over the Lower Mississippi Valley
will slowly begin to lift northward into
the Middle Mississippi Valley by Sunday
evening into Monday,” it said.Entergy
Louisiana said more than 7,500 customers
were without power last night.
Meanwhile, on the east cost residents are
spending the weekend hot under the collar amid excessive weather warnings in
New
York,
Philadelphia,
and
Washington, DC. The combination of
heat and humidity would make it feel as
hot as 43 degrees Celsius in those cities.
Glimpses of Future
JAMMU MondAy AUgUst , 15 , 2016, PAgE 9
Del Potro ends
Nadal dream, faces
Murray for gold
RIO DE JANEIRO, August 14 :
Argentina's Juan Martin
del Potro ended Rafael Nadal's
hopes of a second Olympic
singles title Saturday with an
epic 5-7, 6-4, 7-6, (7/5) win to set
up a gold medal showdown
with defending champion
Andy Murray.The world
number 141 Del Potro, whose
career was almost ended by a
series of wrist operations, triumphed after three hours and
eight minutes of compelling
centre court action.Second
seed Murray reached his second successive Olympic final
with a ruthless 6-1, 6-4 demoliKei
Japan's
of
tion
Nishikori.Nadal, the 2008 singles champion, had won the
men's doubles on Friday with
Marc Lopez but playing his
10th match of the Rio tournament finally caught up with
him.Murray can become the
first player to defend an
Olympic singles gold but he
must get past a rejuvenated
2009 US Open champion Del
Potro, who shocked world
number one Novak Djokovic
in the first round."It means a
lot to me.
Narsingh, Yogeshwar begin Rio campaign on Monday
A turbulent run-up to the
Rio Games behind him,
Narsingh Yadav will be eyeing a fairytale climax while
old warhorse Yogeshwar Dutt
would look to bid adieu with a
second straight medal when
India begin their Olympic
wrestling campaign in Rio de
Janeiro on Monday.Midway
into the 17-day extravaganza,
the biggest ever Indian contingent of 100-plus athletes is yet
to land a medal and the onus
would now be on the wrestlers
to make up for it.Having finished with two medals in
wrestling at the London
Games four years ago, the expectations are high and it
would be up to the eight-member team to shoulder the rethe
sponsibility.However,
build-up to the Rio Games hasn’t been very smooth for the
Indian wrestling contingent
with Narsingh fighting to
clear his name in a doping
scandal till the last moments.While the entire team’s
preparations were affected
due to a doping “conspiracy”
surrounding Narsingh, but
the man at the centre of the
controversy himself had put
up a brave front all through
and fought out against all odds
to emerge triumphant in the
end.It started with two-time
Olympic medallist Sushil
Kumar demanding a selection
trial in men’s 74kg freestyle
against Narsingh, who had
bagged the quota place for
India last year in this weight
category.The fight went to the
Delhi High Court, which dismissed Sushil’s plea of seeking a trial. However, that was
not the end of hurdles for
Narsingh as there was more
trouble in store.With just 20odd days for the Olympic
Games to start, 27-year-old
wrestler from Maharashtra
tested positive for a banned
substance in two dope tests
conducted by the National
Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).The failed dope tests almost derailed his participation in the Olympics but
Narsingh appealed and NADA
constituted a three-member
panel to hear his case.After a
week’s ordeal, NADA gave a
verdict in Narsingh’s favour,
exonerating him of all charges
after being convinced by the
‘sabotage’ theory advanced by
the wrestler’s legal team, just
four days ahead of the Games
Opening Ceremony.Finally,
on Wrestling Federation of
Tripura waits with bated
breath for Dipa’s performance
AGARTALA, August 14 :
India’s request, the world
World
(United
body
Wrestling) reconsidered his
name in the 74kg category.It is
now time that Narsingh bury
the ghosts of the past and concentrate on job at hands. And
the wrestler is more than keen
to do exactly that when he
takes the mat on August 19.“I
don’t want to think about it
(the past) anymore. I’m just focusing on my training. I just
want to win a medal for my
country.
That’s the only hope left
for me. I am giving my 100 per
cent,” Narsingh said after arriving at the Games Village a
couple of days back.In fact,
there is extra pressure on
Narsingh to prove his worth
as he denied the only double
Indian Olympic medallist a
chance to bid for a third
medal.Reigning
Olympic
Olympic wrestling champion
Jordan Burroughs, 28, is one
of the favourites to win here in
the 74kg division.
Excitement and expectations has reached a feverish
pitch in Tripura as the people
from the small north-eastern
state will watch their favourite
daughter Dipa Karmakar vault
into history during the finals at
the Rio Olympics, in Agartala on
Sunday.Agartala, from where
Dipa hails, is covered with
posters wishing her grand success and many local clubs have
performed yagnas for her.Her
parents Dulal Karmakar and
Gauri Devi are predictably
tensed.“I will stay at home today. Many of our relatives will
come in the evening to sit before
the television with us to see
Dipa’s performance. I called up Dipa and told her to go ahead and
that God will be with her,” said her father, who is also a wrestling
coach.“I am only praying to God that her performance makes the
country and our state proud,” said mother Gauri.They visited
Tripureswari mandir at Udaipur, one of the 51 shaktipeeths of the
country, about 50 km from here on Thursday to offer puja so that
Dipa did well in Rio.Mantu Debnath, an Arjun awardee in gymnastics from Tripura, said, “Dipa has already created history as
the first woman gymnast to enter Olympics from the country and
she is also the first to make it to the finals of an event.“If Dipa can
bring a prize, it will be a matter of great joy. She has all the potentials to earn a medal,” Mantu said.Tripura Chief Minister Manik
Sarkar, Sports Minister Shahid Chowdhury and President of the
Olympic Association and M.P, Jitendra Chowdhury have wished
her success.Secretary of the state Olympic Associoation, Sujit Roy
has appealed to the people to pray for her success.
Sania and Bopanna lose
semis; to fight for bronze now
Sania Mirza and Rohan
Bopanna suffered a sudden
mid-match slump to fritter
away a great opportunity as
they lost the mixed doubles semi-final from a position of
strength to Americans Venus
Williams and Rajeev Ram
here.After dominating the first
set, Sania and Bopanna lost 6-2
2-6 3-10 to the Americans and
will now fight for the bronze
medal.The Indians were cruising at one stage but once
Sania’s serve was broken in the
fourth game of the second set,
the tide turned in the favour of
Americans.Bopanna’s
the
game also crumbled under
pressure in the match tiebreaker. His strong serve deserted him and his ground
strokes also fell apart when it
mattered most.Venus could
not believe that they have won
and continued jumping with
joy and disbelief after the
match was over.Sania and
Bopanna made a strong start as
the Indians broke Venus in the
third game to seize the initiative.Sania then served well to
make it 3-1.Powerful serves
from the racquet of Bopanna
meant that the Indians only
Sarfraz Ahmed celebrates the catch to dismiss Moeen Ali, England v Pakistan, 4th Test, The Oval, 4th day, August 14,
break.
the
consolidated
Bopanna’s serves were almost
untouchable. The Americans
could not find the appropriate
returns to his serve.Venus
again struggled and handed a
breakpoint to the Indians after
losing the forehand battle with
Sania. That was saved but the
Indians soon had a second
chance which got converted
when Venus buired a backhand to the net.Sania served
out the set in the eighth with
Bopanna finding a cross court
backhand winner, bisecting
the two Americans.Rajeev and
Venus nosed ahead in the second set when Sania could not
pull away her racquet from a
Ram return that could have
flown out of the courts. That
was the second break chance of
the
for
game
the
Americans.That break of serve
worked like a tonic for Venus
and Rajeev as the Americans
raced to a 5-2 lead in no time after that and forced a match tiebreaker by breaking the doubles world number one again in
the eighth game.
Brazil, Germany power We’ll play with more positive intent in last Test: Kohli Farah roars to another
into semifinals
10,000m title
GROS ISLET, August 14 :
Brazil beat Colombia 2-0 to move into the last four and a date
with Honduras, while Nigeria and Germany both won on Saturday
to set up an intriguing semifinal line up in men's soccer at the Rio de
Janeiro Olympics.Brazil, who has never won the Olympic soccer title, was nervous, especially in a first half that had 21 fouls and five yellows cards, four of them for Colombia.The visitors rarely tried to
play, preferring to hack at their opponents and it was from a 30-yard
free kick that Brazil took the lead after 12 minutes with Neymar curling the ball through a wall that disintegrated.Brazil were the better
team throughout and Luan got the second goal they deserved seven
minutes from time when he lifted a sublime chip over the goalkeeper
from 25 yards out.“It was very important that we scored early and
that helped us not fall into their trap of winding us up,” defender
Marquinhos told TV cameras after the game in Sao Paulo.“We are
very disciplined to not lose a goal and when we score early that allows us to open up a bit,” he added. “We held it together at the back
and we played well.”Rampant Germany hammered Portugal 4-0 to
set up a semifinal clash with Nigeria.Serge Gnabry put the Germans
ahead with an angled strike just before halftime and Matthias Ginter
added a second with a commanding header from a corner 12 minutes
into the second half.Davie Selke got the third in the 75th with a goal
that was almost identical to the first before substitute Philipp Max
put the icing on the cake when he ended a sweeping move with a neat
finish into the top corner three minutes from time.
Ecstatic after clinching an
unbeatable lead in the ongoing
Test series against the West
Indies, Indian cricket captain
Virat Kohli said his team will
now play with more “positive
intent” in the fourth and final
Test starting August 18.India
hammered West Indies by 237
in the third Test here yesterday
to grab an unassailable 2—0
lead in the series.“The team is
feeling really good, especially
because we didn’t have a day of
play in Jamaica and fifth day
was really testing for us. We
didn’t get the result we wanted.
Here also we played two good
days of Test cricket, then lost
day 3, but again on day 4
bowlers came back and executed what we wanted to,” said
day’s
the
after
Kohli
play.“Bhuvneshwar Kumar
was amazing in the afternoon,
and picking up 5 wickets for 28
runs on that pitch in 24 overs
was a great spell. That really
changed things around for us.
Not to forget the first innings,
where the way Wriddhiman
Saha and R Ashwin batted was
really top class Test cricket as
well,” he added.“So the team is
really happy that we could exe-
cute our plans and wrap up the
series here. Now we can play
with more positive intent in
Trinidad and express ourselves
fully and understand the areas
we still need to improve
on.”The visitors had made
three changes for this match,
and while they were reduced to
130/5, it worked out fine in the
end as things came together on
day five.India had declared
their second innings at 217/7
and then bowled out West
Indies for just 108 runs after
they were faced with 87 overs to
bat out.“Very few people like
change. This team doesn’t
think how others would react
or what they might say. We put
out a combination that’s best
according to the pitch. When I
came at No.3 many people
asked why I did it, but I am not
fixated by my batting spot,”
Kohli said.“If the team needs, I
can open the batting too because that’s the rule applicable
to everyone in the team .
Partap Singh and Randeep
Singh, both of Sprawling Buds
School, matched each other in
strength and technique.
However, Randeep Singh
emerged victorious on the
strength of better temperament. Janmit Singh of
Shiksha Niketan clinched the
third place.There was another
lovely competition in the Mini
Girls category in which
Samiksha Manhas of Shining
Star Academy emerged victorious. Nandita Dass of
and
Niketan
Shiksha
Loveneet Kour of Shangrilla
Public School secured the second and third positions respectively.
Bindia of Udhampur excels in women’s category
JAMMU, August 14:
of
Sharma
Bindia
Udhampur clinched both the
Lead and Speed climbing titles
in women’s category in the
16th J&K State Sport Climbing
Championship which concluded at Sprawling Buds
School, here.In a close contest
with Ambreen Fatima, a fast
upcoming climber, Bindia, the
senior most climber of the
state, displayed good technique and temperament to
win the coveted Lead as well
as Speed climbing titles.
Ambreen was runner up in
both the events while Shaweta
Magotra and Vishali Sharma
clinched the third place in
Lead and Speed events respectively.In the Girls category,
the results in Lead climbing as
well as speed climbing were
on expected lines with
Shivani, a national champion
in speed climbing, Shilpa and
Nitya Sharma, securing the
first, second and third position respectively.Similarly, in
the Sub Junior Boys event,
Ajay Deep Singh, a national
climber, clinched the first
place followed by Arun Deep
Singh and Ritesh Sharma.
However, Arun Deep came
back strongly in speed competition and became the new
speed climbing champion by
upsetting Ajay Deep who had
to be content with 2nd place.
The third position was secured by Ritesh Sharma of
School,
Buds
Sprawling
Jammu.
In the Boys category,
of
Sharma
Mrityunjay
Shangrilla Public School,
Jammu upset his more fancied climber Aman Dogra, a
national speed climbing
champion, to win both Lead
and Speed climbing titles.
Tandeep Singh of Shiksha
Nagar,
Jeevan
Niketan,
Jammu secured third position
in both the events.However,
there was not much competition in the Sub Junior Girls
category and Asma Gul of
School,
Buds
Sprawling
Jammu, a Zonal medalist, won
both the Lead and Speed titles.
Pooja Sharma of SD Tara Puri
Public School, Jammu and
Shaweta Kapoor of Shiksha
Niketan clinched remained
second and third respectively.The most interesting contest was witnessed in the Mini
Boys category in which Rudra
Britain's Mo Farah shrugged off an early fall to cement his place
in the pantheon of distance greats by retaining his Olympic 10,000
metres title with a blistering final lap on Saturday.Farah ran a superb tactical race before obliterating the opposition in the final
stretch to became the first British runner to win three Olympic titles. He is now the favourite to add a fourth in the 5,000m next weekend.Should 33-year-old manage it he would emulate Finnish great
Lasse Viren, currently the only man to complete the distance "double double", by retaining the Olympic 5,000 and 10,000m titles.He has
already achieved the feat in the world championships, with three in
a row in the 5,000.The second half of the race was a masterclass in
distance running by Farah, who was accidentally tripped with 16
laps to go by American training partner Galen Rupp but picked himself up and surged through the field to claim victory in 27 minutes
5.17 seconds.“I got emotional because you put so much work in and
in one moment it's gone. That one moment could be it, I just had to
get through it and believe in myself,” Farah said.‘Great athlete’All
of his championship victories have come in a similar style, where
he tracks his usually Kenyan and Ethiopian rivals before hammering a last lap and kicking in the last 200m.So it played into hands
when none of his rivals seemed willing to set a pace that might have
drawn his sting, even after his fall.As the pace increased in the final
laps and the leading bunch lost numbers, the race finally descended
into a winner-takes-all dash for gold between Farah and Kenya's
Paul Tanui, with the composed Briton always looking favourite to
come out on top.Once again Farah relied on his finishing kick to outsprint Tanui and crossed the line with his hands placed on top of his
head in his signature “Mobot” pose.Tanui, who has won two world
championship bronze medals over 10,000m had to settle for silver,
with Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola getting bronze.
10
entertainment
Glimpses of Future
Sheila ki Jawani, Kamli,
Beedi: Best 5 songs of the
birthday girl, Sunidhi
Sidharth Malhotra lifting Alia
Bhatt in his arms shows how they
cannot get enough of each other!
Sidharth Malhotra and
Alia Bhatt are one of the cutest
couples. Their chemistry is
just adorable. If the couple is
around you cannot let your
eyes from them and I am sure
you guys will agree with us.
They are right now at their
Dream Team Tour along with
their other B- town friends.
They literally left everyone
surprised with their romantic
performance. We didn’t expect
that Sid and Alia will be performing together as they do not
want their personal life come
under the media scanner. But
this performance proves that
they are sometimes ok to display their affection for each
other in public. The Kapoor
and Sons couple performed on
Ek Villain romantic track
Banjara and it was mesmeriz-
ing. The fans out there were
amazed and couldn’t stop gushing about them. And when the
song ends Sid lifts Alia in his
arms, which turns out to be the
best part of the performance.
Amirite? Not only this, later
Sidharth, Alia and Varun
Dhawan performed on their
debut film Student of The
Year’s song Disco Dewaane
which is nostalgic for their
fans. They recreated the same
magic on the stage and the audiences were throughout
cheering for their favourite
stars. Also Varun and Alia
grooved on Humpty Sharma Ki
Dulhania song Samjhawan
which was one of the highlights of the show. These stars
are leaving no stone unturned
to keep their audience entertaining.
Zac Efron: It’s fine for
girls to ask boys out
Actor Zac Efron doesn’t think it should always be a
man to make the first move in a relationship. The 28-yearold has been single since his split from girlfriend Sami
Miro earlier this year. “I think it’s fine for girls to ask
boys out. I actually prefer it,” Heat magazine quoted
Efron as saying, reports femalefirst.co.uk. However, the
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates star says that he
can’t hide his feelings when he likes a girl. “A girl can tell
I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes,” he said.
Efron is usually comfortable with showing his emotions.
“I’m not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I’m
watching a movie, I’ll sometimes shed a tear,” Efron said.
The actor, who is also filming for Baywatch, was once left
red-faced after mistaking someone else’s fiance for his
own girlfriend. “I was walking behind somebody who I
thought was the girl I was at a party with, and I lifted her
up and whirled her around and it was not my date.”
Varun Dhawan to start shooting Priyanka Chopra’s post
for Judwaa 2 from January 2017! workout prisma picture
The Indian playback singer Sunidhi Chauhan
made her career debut at the age of 13 with the
film Shastra. But she became more popular after
singing songs in Mast. The singer has been giving
us rocking songs since then. Later she was recognized after her breakthrough release in 2000 with
the song Mehboob Mere which is still one of the
favourites. She has made her mark as one of the
top singers in the industry. She was know as the
“queen of item songs”. The singer was nominated
and has won many awards including Filmfare.
Sunidhi was also seen judging Indian Idol in its
season 5 and 6. The voice behind songs like
“Mehboob mere”,”Dhoom Machaale”, “Sheela ki
Jawani and “Kamli” has also made her international debut with Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias
with the song “Heartbeat” and the video went viral on social media. Sunidhi always wanted to try
her hand at acting, she was offered a role at the age
of 19 but felt she wasn’t prepared for it and passed
on the offer. Later she made her acting debut in
the short film, Playing Priya. She was always keen
on singing different genre of songs and now is pursuing acting. She is one of the most versatile
singers of our industry. Apart from item songs
Sunidhi has gained recognition for many other
songs like “Kaisi Paheli” and “Sajnaji Vaari”.
There are very few playback singers in Bollywood
who make their way through people’s heart and
Sunidhi is definitely one of them. On the occasion
of her birthday, we take you back to five of her superhit songs.
Varun Dhawan is currently winning hearts with his performances at
Dream Team Tour. Fans went crazy
with his shirtless act in Houston. He
not only performed on the song from
his latest film Dishoom but also revisited the 90’s classic Tan Tana Tan
from the film Judwaa. Judwaa
starred Salman Khan in the double
role. Interestingly Varun is all set to
star in remake/reboot/sequel of the
hit comedy. Varun Dhawan says that
he’ll start shooting for Judwaa sequel from January 2017. He spoke to
a news daily, “We need time to work
on the script and my look. My double
role should be unlike anything seen
so far. Luckily I’ve my dad (David
Dhawan) directing me in Judwaa 2.
He is the master of double roles.”
Talking about his tribute to the original Judwaa song at Dream Team
Tour, Varun says that the current
generation still loves this popular
number from the ’90s. “I am also doing Salman Khan’s hit Judwaa number Tan Tana Tan Tan Tan Tara.
Today’s generation may not remember my dad (David Dhawan)’s film
Judwaa. But that song is popular to
this day.” Varun told the news daily.
The song will also feature in the upcoming sequel as a remix version. It
will certainly be a delight to see
Varun take Salman Khan’s A-Game
further.
will make you sweat!
Jhalak Dikhla Jaa 9: Surveen Chawla impresses
Anil Kapoor, Chutki gets eliminated
This was one fiery
episode of Jhalak Dikhla
Jaa 9. You’d have thought
no one could match up to
the perofrmance by Salman
Yusuf Khan last week but
you were wrong. Matching
up to his level was a cake
walk for Surveen Chawla.
Mona Singh also makes a
guest appearance on the
show to support her friend
Chutki. Old memories of
her season come rushing
back to your head. She was
a diva on the dance floor.
Manish Paul’s brilliant
comic timing as a hots
keeps us entertained
throughout. And of course,
Anil Kapoor graced the
episode with his performance. He got a score of 27.
Then next performance was
by Surveen Chawla and she
burned the dance floor.
Anil Kapoor, Karan Johar
could not stop staring at
her. Her 24 co-star Anil
even said that had he knew
she danced so well he would
have changed the script of the
show according to this. She
scored a 27. Then next contestant was Chutki. He fumbled a little during the performance. He scored 23
points. Mona Singh came on
show to support her good
friend. Next performance was
by Shantanu, and Jacqueline
Fernandez found him pretty
cute. 28 points on score card.
Helly Shah’s performance
was found not to be up to the
mark. A mere 22 points was
her score. Contestants in the
Risk Zone according to
judge’s scores- Helly Shah,
Arjun Bijlani, and Chutki aka
Gaurav Gera. And unfortunately my favourite one got
eliminated – Chutki aka
Gaurav Gera. Mona Singh got
pretty upset over this. Judges
also looked pretty disappointed with the results. Chutki
will be missed.
Priyanka Chopra is one of the most active celebrities on social media
and we love it. The diva shares every bit detail about her life and shoots
with her fans and no wonder they go gaga over her. PeeCee, who is busy
shooting for the second season of her popular thriller Quantico, just
shared her post workout picture and boy, it will surely make you sweat.
PC was at her wittiest best when she posted the picture of her having a sip
of water and captioned it, “Post gym hydration with groans and moans..
Yes I’m working out now!! #prismaaddict #postgymrefuel”. This gal surely makes workout look effortless. Don’t you think so? Just a few days ago
Priyanka shared an adorable video of hers on Instagram having a burger
and confessed that it gives her the confidence when she goes in front of the
camera or red carpet. Yep! Not only that she even said that the burger
makes her the happiest. PeeCee is one person who has her share of her
guilty pleasures, but works out hard equally to shed off those unwanted
calories. Now if you want to have that SEXY BOD and plus a burger, follow
the mantra of Priyanka Chopra.
11
Glimpses of Future
NATION
CBDT to acknowledge black money
declarants by August-end
New Delhi, August 14:
Black money holders
who have disclosed their illgotten assets during July under the ongoing compliance
window will receive acknowledgement from the tax department by August 30. Since
the government has extended
the deadline for payment of
tax and penalty under the
Income Disclosure Scheme
(IDS), necessary amendments have to be carried out
in Form-2, which is the acknowledgement issued by the
CBDT to people disclosing
their wealth. The IDS Rules
prescribe that the acknowledgement in Form-2 is to be
issued by the Principal
Commissioner/Commission
er to the declarant within 15
days from the end of the
Take action to curb
crime against kids,
women: Thakre to
Maha govt
month in which the declaration has been furnished.
An order issued by the
Income Tax department said
that in view of the changes in
the IDS, it has extended the
time for issuance of acknowledgement in Form-2 "from 15
days to 30 days in respect of
the declarations filed under
the Scheme in the month of
July 2016". The government
has come out with IDS, beginning June 1. Under the
scheme, people having undeclared domestic assets can
disclose it within the fourmonth compliance window
ending on September 30.
The window provides an
opportunity to persons who
have not paid full tax in the
past to come forward and declare the undisclosed income
by paying tax, surcharge and
penalty, totalling to 45 per
cent of the income declared.
In order to meet the demand
of traders, the government
last month had extended the
deadline for payment of tax
and penalty under IDS and allowed declarants to pay the
tax and penalty amount in
three installments by
September 30, 2017.
The first installment of 25
per cent under the IDS 2016
will have to be paid by
November 2016 to be followed
by another one of 25 per cent
by March 31, 2017.
The remaining 50 per
cent will have to be paid by
September 30, 2017. Earlier
the tax, surcharge and penalty under the black money disclosure window were required to be paid by
November 30 this year. "Time
Modi to visit Gujarat
tomorrow to pay tribute
to Pramukh Swami
Thane, Aug 14:
Ahmedabad, Aug 14:
Voicing concern over
the increasing cases of
atrocities on women and
children,
Maharashtra
Legislative Council Deputy
Manikrao
Chairman
Thakre on Sunday said the
government will be asked to
take stern measures to curb
such incidents. "Cases of
rape and atrocities have increased in the recent past.
There are laws in place to
punish criminals but at the
same time, state government should take stringent
measures to prevent such
cases," Thakre said here,
adding he would instruct
the government to act in this
direction. Thakre was replying to a query of reporters
about the rising number of
crimes against children and
women in the city in the
wake of fresh incidents of
rape of a 2-year-old girl in
Mumbai and a 20-year-old
girl in Nalasopara.
When asked about difwithin
the
ferences
Congress in the city, Thakre
said such things are bound
to happen within any party
and it would be sorted out in
due course of time. To another query that are some
party leaders were unhappy
and are planning to quit
Congress, he said dedicated
workers and leaders will
never leave the party.
Prime
Minister
Narendra Modi will visit
Gujarat on Monday to pay
tribute to Swaminarayan
spiritual
head
sect's
Pramukh Swami, whose
mortal remains have been
kept at a temple in Sarangpur
near Ahmedabad. Ministers,
politicians and devotees on
Sunday made a beeline to the
Sarangpur-based
temple,
Swaminarayan
where they paid their respect
to the 95-year-old saint. The
mortal remains of the head of
Akshar
Bochasanvasi
Purushottam
Sansthan
(BAPS)
Swaminarayan
Sanstha have been kept at the
temple till August 17 to enable devotees and citizens to
have a final glimpse of the departed soul. Modi is scheduled to arrive in Sarangpur,
located in adjoining Botad
district, in afternoon, said
Deputy Chief Minister of
Gujarat Nitin Patel, who
along with Chief Minister
Vijay Rupani paid their tributes on Sunday. "Our Prime
Minister was very close to
Pramukh Swami. Modi will
arrive in afternoon to pay
tribute to the departed soul,"
said Patel. Meanwhile, Aam
Aadmi Party has announced
party's national convener
and Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal would also
visit the temple on August 16.
Modi has expressed grief
through his tweets over
Swami's death. Modi also
shared a photo where he is
seen taking blessings from
the spiritual leader. Swami,
who was ailing for some time,
passed away last evening at
the Sarangpur temple, where
he was undergoing medical
treatment. Thousands of
devotees from all over
Gujarat as well as other parts
of the country are thronging
the temple to pay homage to
the saint. Besides Rupani and
Patel, Gujarat Revenue
Bhupendrasinh
Minister
Chudasama along with newly-inducted Union Minister
Mansukh Mandaviya paid
floral tributes to Swami.
Former Finance Minister
Saurabh Patel and Leader of
in
Gujarat
Opposition
Shankersinh
Assembly
Vaghela of Congress were also among those who paid
their respects to the popular
religious leader, who enjoyed
a wide following. As the flow
of devotees is expected to increase in days to come, elaborate arrangements have been
made, said Rupani."To supervise the arrangements in the
wake of huge rush of devotees, we have deployed a senior IAS officer and five IPS officers. We have also instructed District Collector and local police to ensure people do
not face any problem during
their visit," said Rupani.
Send Pak envoy Abdul Basit back to
Islamabad in 24 hours: Shiv Sena
Mumbai, Aug 14:
Following Pakistan High
Commissioner Abdul Basit’s
provocative statement on
Kashmir, the Shiv Sena on
Sunday asserted that the former should be sent back to
Islamabad within 24 hours.
Speaking to ANI in Mumbai,
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut
called for shutdown of the
Pakistan High Commission
office in New Delhi and the
embassy in Mumbai. “Such a
person, who spews venom
against the country sitting in
Delhi, should to sent back to
Islamabad within 24 hours.
He is making such statement
a
day
before
our
Independence Day and I’m
sure the government will take
action against him,” Raut told
ANI in Mumbai. “Don’t know
why Pakistan is celebrating
Independence Day as it is observed by nations and
Pakistan is not a nation, it’s a
hub of terrorists,” he added.
The Congress also condemned Basit’s statement and
demanded an apology from
the envoy, adding the ‘56 inch’
of
Prime
government
Minister Narendra Modi has
completely failed in its efforts
to
ostracise
Islamabad.
Speaking to ANI, Congress
Abhishek
Manu
leader
Singhvi called for introspection by the Centre on how
they have failed to get
Pakistan isolated globally,
adding Islamabad’s ‘wish’ of
claiming Kashmir is destined
to go unfulfilled.“I think normally one would not give importance to such comments,
but when it comes from the
High Commissioner of a nation it has a full official
flavour and colour to it.
Pakistan will of course have
to wait for millennia to even
consider its wish being ful-
filled, which they have expressed as the year of
Kashmir ‘azadi’,” he said. The
Pakistani envoy earlier in the
day said Islamabad has dedicated the 70th Independence
Day to the freedom of
Kashmir. Basit said Pakistan
has always made efforts to improve its relationship with
India. “As far as the relation
of Jammu and Kashmir is
concerned, we dedicate this
year’s Independence Day to
Kashmir’s freedom. We are
confident that the sacrifices
made by the people of Jammu
and Kashmir would be successful,” Basit said. He asserted Pakistan has always given
moral support to Jammu and
Kashmir’s freedom struggle
and would continue to do
so.“Struggle for independence will continue till
Kashmir gets freedom; sacrifice of the people of Kashmir
will not go in vain,” he said.
schedule for payment of tax,
surcharge and penalty
payable under the IDS has
been extended...
Accordingly, necessary
amendments to Form-2 as
prescribed in the Rules are in
the process of being made,"
said the CBDT order.
The Central Board of
Direct Taxes (CBDT) had in
June notified four forms, for
e-filing or manual filing of the
black money assets by a declarant under the IDS. Form-1
is to be filled by the declarant
giving details of assets he is
declaring, Form-2 is the acknowledgement for the same
that will be issued by the
Principal Commissioner.
Form-3 and 4 pertain to payment of taxes and penalty on
these funds. a senior IT official said.(PTI)
'Wrongfully'
put under
house arrest
in Udaipur:
Hardik Patel
Udaipur, Aug 14:
Patidar quota agitation
leader Hardik Patel has alleged he has been "wrongfully" put under house arrest by the Udaipur police,
which dismissed the charge
saying it was acting as per
the Gujarat High Court order. Hardik, 23, is living in
Udaipur after he was asked
by the high court to stay out
of Gujarat for six months
while granting him conditional bail in two sedition
cases. In a complaint filed
with a local police station in
Udaipur, Hardik accused
senior police officers, including the IG and the SP, of
wrongfully confining him
to his accommodation by
misinterpreting the high
court order. Hardik forwarded the complaint to
Pratap Nagar police station
by post and it was received a
couple of days ago.
"The police officers
have blocked my freedom,
restrained my free movements, confined me and put
me under the 'house arrest'.
They have wrongfully restrained me and prevented
me to move in any direction
beyond circumscribing limits of my house and confined me in the house by applying force," Patel wrote in
the compliant.
He alleged the court order was being "deliberately,
illegally and malafidely
misinterpreted by Udaipur
police.” Hardik is staying at
the residence of former
Congress MLA Pushkar
Dangi in Srinath Colony
since July 17. He has been
asked by local police not to
step out of the house, except
for going to the local police
station to mark his presence weekly.
"The complaint was received a couple of days back
and was initially put up for
a probe but since everything is going as per the order passed by the Gujarat
high court, the complaint
was disposed of," Deputy SP
(Udaipur East) Bhagwat
Singh said.
The complaint was
against seven police officers including IG, SP,
Additional SP, Deputy SP.
Include ‘Dogriyat’ in policy for dealing with J&K crises: JKNPP
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Aug14:
Referring to the recent
statement of the Prime
Minister Narendra Modi for
evolving a solution to the prevailing crisis in the state under the policy of
“Kashmiriyat, Insaniyat and
Jamhooriyat” Harsh Dev
Singh Chairman JKNPP and
Former Minister said that the
aforesaid slogan needed modification so as to include
‘Dogriyat’ within its ambit.
He said that there had
been enough of experimentation with the AB Vajpayee’s
slogan of “Kashmiriyat,
Insaniyat and
Jamhooriyhat” which had
failed to cut the ice and to
achieve the desired results
with large scale death and destruction witnessed in the
state during the last couple of
years. He said that the
votaries of the said policy
must bear in mind that the
slogans of Kashmiriyat and
Insaniyat had failed to prevent the large scale persecution, migration and exodus of
miniscule minorities in
Kashmir in the past. He said
that though the concept of
‘Kashmiriyat’ as promulgated by Nund Rishi and
Badshah was laudable but the
same had undergone tremendous metamorphosis under
the influence of Pak and its
paid mercenaries thus bringing in it the element of intolerance. He said that the rich
culture of ‘Kashmiriyat’
nourished by the Sufi saints
and rishies had largely been
vitiated and polluted by certain vested interests who
preached non violence and
intolerance as against pluralism, brotherhood and co-existence advocated and promoted under original
‘Kashmiriyat’. Lambasting
the central leadership particularly the BJP for pushing
‘Dogriyat’ into oblivion,
Singh said that it was the
Dogra rule which provided
the most glaring example of
co-existence, tolerance and
pluralism.
He said that from 1846 to
1947 the state witnessed an
era of pluralism and communal harmony with hardly any
instance of communal polarization. He said that the rich
dogra culture has displayed
infinite tolerance since times
immemorial and still continues to be reconciling and accommodative. He said that
during the past several years
of insurgency and turmoil in
the Valley, it was the dogra
land that received the migrants and other victims of
militancy with open arms
and gave them not only space
in Jammu but the much needed love, affection and solace
irrespective of their caste,
colour, creed or religion.
He said that the Dogra
land with its age old tradition
of tolerance and peaceful co-
existence is the only land in
the world where lion and
lamb flourished and survived
together. He observed that
‘Dogriyat’ was all inclusive
and covered Hindus,
Muslims, Sikhs, Gujjars,
Bakarwals, Budhists, Jainis
besides al others communities inhabiting Jammu region. Lampooning the BJP for
harping ‘Kashmiriyat’ to the
utter neglect of ‘Dogriyat’ despite having won 25 seats
from Dogra land, Harsh Dev
Singh said that the saffron
leaders had done the greatest
dis-service to Jammu region
by relegating ‘Dogriyat’ to the
back ground. Strongly emphasizing the adoption of the
Dogra philosophy in addressing the present crisis, Harsh
Dev Singh remarked that
‘Dogriyat’ with its all encompassing, all embracing and
exceptionally tolerant principles could alone be the
panacea for various ills afflicting the state.
Spiritual head of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, Pramukh Swami with PM Narendra Modi, Swami Maharaj passed away at Sarangpur in
Botad district of Gujrat.
Posters in Rajouri school warning
not to celebrate Independence Day
Rajouri, Aug 14:
After Poonch where some
handmade poster pasted by
miscreants saying ‘Go back”,
a similar poster appeared at
the door of a High School at
Shahdra under Police Station
Thanamandi threatening the
people not to celebrate
Independence Day and asked
people to resent atrocities on
the innocent Kashmiri people
at the hands of security
forces. Sources said that the
poster was hand written and
was said to be pasted by a mischievous persons impersonating as ISIS activist to create
tension in the area. “Though
this poster, the people have
been threatened of dire consequences if they go to celebrate
Independence Day celebrations and were asked not to
forget the Kashmir struggle
and Kashmiri people, sources
said. A senior police official
said that they are verifying
the veracity of these posters
as many of such posters
turned out to be just an act of
miscreants. DIG, RajouriPoonch Police Range, Johnny
William said, “The appearance of the poster at Shahdra
is concerned it was handiwork of a local miscreants to
create tension.” He added
that a case has been registered in this case and the culprit will not be spared. He refused to apprehend any suspect in this case. “Elaborate
security arrangements are in
force in both the districts and
the suspects are under the
surveillance of security
forces including police, DIG
Williams added.
Here it needs to mention
that majority community in
Thanamandi has observed
shut down for two days during this week to express their
sympathy with the people of
Kashmir for their ongoing
struggle and also resented the
use of force against the protesters. (AGENCIES)
CONTD FROM PAGE 1
Pakistan
the LoC, he said. Around 8,000 people were temporarily
affected due to the ceasefire violations and had to be shifted
to safer locations.
Girl
August 15 because that is a place where the national flag
was insulted. "I challenge all those, including the separatists and the Pakistanis, to stop me if they can," she had
said on July 23.
Curfew
working while broadband services are available only at
Lal Chowk, Sonawar and Bemina telephone exchanges," he
added. Normal life remained paralysed for the 37th consecutive day due to curfew, restrictions and separatist sponsored strike following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen
commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with security
forces on July 8. The separatist camp, headed by Syed Ali
Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad
Yasin Malik, had asked the people to hold a "referendum"
march at Lal Chowk yesterday and today. As many as 56 persons including two policemen have been killed and several
thousand others have been injured in the clashes that began
on July 9. Meanwhile, a police spokesman said that nine incidents of stonpelting were reported.
"Stonepleting incidents were reported from Anantnag,
Shopian, Awantipora, Baramulla, Sopore and Bandipora.
"Restrictions under section 144/CrPC remained in force in
the Valley. "However, curfew was imposed in Srinagar and
in the towns of Anantnag, Awantipora, Ganderbal,
Baramulla, Sopore and Bandipora," he said. At Hillar in the
jurisdiction of Police Station Kokernag in Anantnag,
around 200 protesters tried to disrupt traffic movement on
Hillar-Kokernag road. They pelted stones on police and security forces, the spokesman said. He said at Keegam in
Shopian, a group of 500 people pelted stones on Police Post
Keegam. "At Tral, miscreants assembled at Shariefabad and
Noor Masjid and pelted stones on security force deployments. "At Azad Gunj in Baramulla, miscreants assembled
and pelted stones on security force deployments," he added.
Similar incidents were reported from Bomai in Sopore and
Nesu, Gulshanabad and Mantrigam in Bandipora, he said.
The law and order situation remained peaceful in other
parts of Kashmir Valley, he said.
Rajnath
reviewed the security scenario in Kashmir Valley,
which has been witnessing unrest after the killing of Hizbul
Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani. There were intelligence inputs earlier that militants might try to attack security forces in the run up to the Independence Day in Jammu
and Kashmir, sources said. Situation in the national capital
was also reviewed as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will
address the country tomorrow from the ramparts of the Red
Fort, where a galaxy of leaders, top civil, defence, police officials, school children and civilians will be present.
Those who attended the meeting includes National
Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Rajiv
Mehrishi, chiefs of intelligence agencies besides others.
Hurriyat
who mostly come from poor families, should be made to
understand that those misguiding them have sent their own
children to safer places for a better life. They are using them
as fodder for terrorism in the name of religion and on the
lure of 'jannat'," Singh said. He said on the one hand, we
would have to deal with the terrorists with an iron hand and
on the other, treat the misguided youth as "our own children".
Only
Minister's Office Jitendra Singh said, "Our stand is very
clear in the context of J&K issue. If at all there is any outstanding issue with Pakistan it is how to liberate the part of
J&K which remains under illegal occupation of Islamabad
after 60-65 years of Indpendence and make it a part of J&K
and part of the Indian Union. "Whatever goes on in
Islamabad and on behalf of Pakistani authorities is a reflection of confusion and frustration they suffer from," he said.
Earlier in the day, while participating in Pakistan's
Independence Day celebrations at its High Commission
here Basit said, "Pakistan will continue to extend its full
diplomatic, political and moral support to the valiant people
of Jammu and Kashmir till they get their right to self determination."
He went on to say, "As far as Jammu and Kashmir is concerned, we are dedicating this year's Indepedence Day to the
freedom of Kashmir. And we firmly believe that the sacrifices made by the people of Jammu and Kashmir will not go
in vain."
SC Awards
petitioners even after overpowering them. They had
virtually apprehended these petitioners making them immobile," it said. "However, their attack on these petitioners
continued even thereafter when it was not at all needed. As
far as injuries suffered by these petitioners are concerned,
such a situation could clearly be avoided. It is apparent that
to that extent, respondents misused their power. To that extent, fundamental right of the petitioners, due to police excess, has been violated," the bench said. The three petitioners had told the apex court that they had planned to take out
a peaceful protest march up to Delhi for ventilating their
grievances and, when they reached near Katra, they were
assaulted by Jammu and Kashmir Police on August 7, 2007.
According to the petitioners, the march up to Delhi was for
highlighting the grievances of Jammu migrants, who were
forced to leave their homes between 1996 and 1999 due to the
terrorist attacks. They said they reached Katra to speak
with the authorities concerned regarding the plight of the
migrants and had a discussion with the officials about the
peaceful march. The petitioners alleged that after the march
resumed, around 500 policemen blocked the bridge, which
migrants were about to cross, and attacked them with 'lathis' and lobbed teargas shells. They said when they approached the police and asked them to stop the attack, they
were beaten up.
32 JK Police
Kashmir, Bodh Raj Dy SP CD Udhampur, Ravail Singh
Dy SP IR 19th Bn, Pawan Kumar Gupta, Director
Prosecution PHQ, Farooq Ahmad Khan, SI PC Srinagar,
Bhagwant Singh Dy SP Rly Hqrs, Ghulam Rubani Shah, ASI
DPO Srinagar, Vijay Pal Singh, Dy SP SKPA Udhampur and
Gulzar Ahmad Sheikh, ASI Crime Kashmir. Police Medal
for Gallantry has been awarded to Rayees Mohammad Bhat,
Superintendent of Police, Sajjad Ahmad Shah, Dy
Superintendent of Police, Nazir Ahmad Teli, Inspector,
Arif Ahmad Sheikh, Sub Inspector, Nissar Ahmad Dar ,
Head Constable, Ashiq Hussain Tak, Dy Superintendent of
Police, Dilraj Singh, Sub Inspector, Nazeer Ahmad Dar,
Constable, Gazanfar Syed, Inspector, Mohammad Akbar,
Constable, Tejinder Singh, Superintendent of Police, Syed
Mansoor, Constable and Rakesh Pandita, Assistant Sub
Inspector.
Two girls
arrested. He has been booked under FIR Number 256 of
2016 under section 376 of RPC at police station Domana and
further investigation is on. Meanwhile, a rape case has also
taken place in Domana. Police have started investigation,
after the registration of case FIR.
Unprovoked
August 2016. The aggressive unprovoked action is a
clear violation of the Cease Fire agreement and comes on a
day when both armies have traditionally exchanged sweets
to mark their respective Independence days on 14th and 15
August 2016. The Army responded in a controlled and measured manner which forced the Pakistani army to cease firing by late morning hours. The Pakistani firing resulted in
no casualty to Indian troops however a local villager, Qasim
Jaan, a 49 year old Civilian woman of Kasba village suffered
a splinter injury in her left leg. She was administered immediate first aid the Indian Army and later evacuated to the local district hospital in Pooch for further treatment.
NATION
JAMMU MONDAY AUGUST 15 2016
New train service between Jammu and Haridwar flagged off
No separate railway budget from
next financial year: Suresh Prabhu
New Delhi, Aug 14:
Jammu, Aug 14 (PTI)
To facilitate pilgrims, a
new train service was today
flagged off between City of
Temples Jammu and the holy
city of Haridwar. The weekly
train service was flagged off at
Jammu Railway Station by
Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu and Minister of State
in the PMO Jitendra Singh
through video conferencing
from Mumbai and New Delhi
respectively. Addressing the
people through video link,
Prabhu congratulated them
and noted it was a long-pending demand of the people to
get a second train connecting
the two cities. "It was a longpending demand of the people
of Jammu to have connectivity between the two cities. The
Hemkunth express train, that
Jammu
with
connects
Haridwar, was not sufficient,
hence there was a need for a
new train and the demand has
been met today," Prabhu said.
Singh
said
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has
a vision to provide connectivity to all parts of the country.
"From today, the City of
Temples will have connectivity with Haridwar, the
Railway ministry has already
connected Guwahati with
Katra and in the coming days,
more such initiatives would
be taken," Singh said. Speaker
of the Jammu and Kashmir
Assembly
Legislative
Kavinder Gupta, MPs Jugal
Kishore Sharma, Shamsher
Singh Manhas and MLC
Ramesh Arora were present
at Jammu Railway Station on
the occasion. The inaugural
Tawi
Haridwar
Jammu
Weekly Express departed
from Jammu at 12.10 PM and
scheduled
to
reach
is
Haridwar at 10.25 PM today,
with enroute stoppages at
Pathankot Cant, Jalandhar
Cant, Ludhiana, Khanna,
Sirhind, Rajpura, Ambala
City, Ambala Cant, Jagadhari
and Saharanpur stations. The
service will commence from
Haridwar on August 21. The
train will depart from Jammu
at 10.10 PM on every Sunday
to reach Haridwar at 10.25 AM
next day while on its return
journey, the train will depart
from Haridwar at 05.10 PM
every Monday to reach
Jammu Tawi at 04.00 AM next
day. It consists of one AC 2Tier coach, three AC 3-Tier,
nine sleeper class, five general class and two second classcum- luggage van coaches.
The 92-year-old practice of presenting a separate
Rail Budget to come to an
end from the next fiscal,
with the Finance Ministry
accepting Railway Minister
Suresh Prabhu's proposal
to merge it with the General
Budget. According to railThe
Finance
ways,
Ministry has now constituted a five-member committee comprising senior officials of the Ministry and the
national transporter to
work out the modalities for
the merger.
The committee has
been asked to submit its report by August 31. "I had
written to Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley for merger of
the Rail Budget with
General Budget. This will
be in the Railway's interest
and also in the nation's interest. We are working out
the modalities," Prabhu
told PTI. The public sector
behemoth has to bear an additional burden of about Rs
40,000 crore on account of
implementation of the 7th
Pay Commission awards,
besides an annual outgo of
Rs 32,000 crore on subsidies. Besides, the delay in
completion of projects resulted in cost overrun of Rs
1.07 lakh crore and huge
throw-forward of Rs 1.86
lakh crore in respect of 442
ongoing rail projects. If the
merger happens, Indian
Railway will get rid of the
annual dividend it has to
pay for gross budgetary
support from the government every year.
According to a senior
Railway official, the move
to discard the age-old practice of a separate Rail
Budget is part of the Modi
government's reform agenda. With the merger, the issue of raising passenger
fares, an unpopular decision, will be the Finance
Minister's call.Prabhu had
also told Rajya Sabha on
August 9 that he has asked
the Finance Minister to
merge the Railway Budget
with General Budget in the
long-term interest of national transporter as well as
the country's economy.
Pakistan has decided to
play a "good host" and avoid a
repetition of the tense atmosphere that prevailed during
Home Minister Rajnath
Singh's recent visit by according a "warm welcome" to
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley at the SAARC ministerial conference later this
month. Jaitley is likely to attend the SAARC Finance
Ministers' Conference to be
hosted in Islamabad on
August 25 and 26 and there
are chances of "gracious
between
handshakes"
Pakistan finance minister
Ishaq Dar and his Indian
counterpart, finance ministry officials said.
The government has finalised arrangements for the
upcoming SAARC meet, a finance ministry statement
said, adding that Dar chaired
a meeting to review arrangements for the conference.
Pakistan would play the role
of a "good host" and try to
keep the overall ambiance
the
statement
positive,
added. The ministerial conference comes in the shadow
of home minister Singh's visit to Islamabad earlier this
month where barbs were exchanged between Singh and
Pakistan Interior Minister
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan,
who only had a tense and uneasy handshake during the
SAARC meeting. The duo exchanged repartee over issues
of terrorism and violence in
Kashmir. "The hostilities
were at peak during the
Deputy Chairman
LC visits Shri Buddha
Amarnath Shrine
Home Ministers' Conference
and Dar does not wish a repetition," finance ministry officials were quoted as saying
by the Express Tribune.
They further said that all regional countries except
Bangladesh have confirmed
participation of their finance
ministers. "Bangladesh has
so far only confirmed the participation of its deputy finance minister. Dar will personally call his Bangladeshi
counterpart and urge him to
attend the conference," they
However,
the
added.
Ministry of Finance did not
comment on whether a bilateral meeting would be held
between the finance ministers of India and Pakistan.
The meetings are taking
place ahead of the SAARC
Summit to be held in
November in Islamabad
wherein Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is also expected to participate. "All
SAARC countries have a lot
of potential to develop together utilising each other's potentials and energies. The cooperation is necessary in promoting the welfare and improving the quality of life of
the people of the region," said
Dar. "The upcoming conference is an important event in
this regard," he added.
The
South
Asian
Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation. Its member states
include
Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,
Nepal,
the
Maldives,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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POONCH AUGUST 14:
Deputy
Chairman
Legislative
Council
Jahangir Hussain Mir today
visited
Shri
Buddha
Amarnath Shrine and took
stock of the arrangements
made for visiting pilgrims.
During the visit, he met with
the members of Mandir
Management Committee and
sought their feedback regarding arrangements besides any additional requirements. He also met Swami
Vishvatamanand Ji Maharaj
on the occasion. Deputy
Chairman while appealing
the people to maintain peace
and harmony in the region
sought active cooperation of
the religious leaders in this
regard. He added that peace
and tranquility are the prerequisites for the development of any society.
Meanwhile, he also visited
District Hospital Poonch for
enquiring the well being of
the injured persons.
Lt Col Niranjan E K, head of NSG's bomb disposal unit who
was killed while sanitising a terrorist's body during the
Pathankot air base terror attack in January, has been honoured
with the Shaurya Chakra, the third highest peacetime gallantry
medal of the country, on the eve of the 70th Independence Day.
Niranjan, an officer of the Army's Corps of Engineer, was part of
the special NSG commandos unit that was rushed to the IAF base
in Punjab after four terrorists entered the high-security military
facility on the intervening night of January 1-2. NSG had said it
lost the experienced and brilliant counter-IED officer to a deadly
booby trap as the terrorists had used an "innovative technique"
whose antidote was not included in the Standard Operating
Procedure of the 'black cat' commandos force. Niranjan's lungs got
punctured due to the impact of the blast of a grenade that was kept
in the pocket of a slain terrorist and the officer died before being
taken to hospital. NSG Director General R C Tayal, had maintained that Niranjan, an experienced and highly trained
Commanding Officer of the Bomb Disposal and Detection Unit,
had followed all laid down SOPs while sanitising the bodies of the
four terrorists, killed in the attack on IAF base on January 3.
Niranjan was probably the only officer who had a wide-range of
experience in conducting back-to-back anti-sabotage and sanitisation checks on live bombs, including defusing IEDs found in
Patna and Bodh Gaya in Bihar, Bangalore and Burdwan in West
Bengal. The DG had said a grenade that took the FBI-trained officer's life was concealed very "cleverly" by the terrorists. The brave
officer had sanitised two bodies and was working on the third
when the fatal blast claimed his life. The Pathankot attack
claimed the lives of seven security personnel while four terrorists
were killed by NSG and other security personnel. While the NSG
has maintained six terrorists were involved in the attack, including two in the airmen billet which they brought down using heavy
explosives, according to the NIA, it so far has proof of presence of
only four militants whose bodies were later recovered.
4 police officers awarded Sher-e-Kashmir
medal for meritorious services
SRINAGAR, Aug 14
SRINAGAR, Aug 14
Border Security Force (BSF) personnel patrolling on a boat in Chenab river near the India-Pakistan International Border at Dayoli post of
Akhnoor sector, about 45 km from Jammu.
The State Government has awarded Sher-e-Kashmir Police
Medal for Gallantry (SKPMG) to 37 police officers and officials
on the eve of Independence Day 2016. They are Garib Dass, DIG
Baramulla, Ajaz Ahmed Bhat, SSP Kupwara, Shabir Nawab,
ASP Kulgam, Azhar Bashir Baba, ASP Pulwama, Shahzada
Kabir Mattoo, Dy SP (PC) Pampore, Mohammad Shafiq Najar Dy
SP (Hqrs) Pulwama, Syed Majeed Mosavi, Dy SP (PC) Srinagar,
Hilal Khaliq Bhat, Dy SP (PC) Lolab, Prithpal Singh Dy SP (PC)
Kathua, Diwaker Singh Dy SP SDPO Border Chadwal Kathua,
Satish Kumar Dy SP (Prob) Pulwama, Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh HC,
Nisar Hussain, SGCT, Javaid Ahmed Sheikh CT, Fayaz Ahmad
Khan HC, Raouf Ashraf Yatoo CT, Hans Raj SGCT, Shabir
Ahmed SGCT, Bashir Ahmad Gullar Gursi CT, Habibullah
Sheergojree SGCT, Omer Hussain Wada CT, Zubair Ahmad Sofi
CT, Saleem Yousuf Khan SGCT, Javid Ahmad Lone SI, Waseem
Gull SI, Tsewang Narboo SI, Fayaz Ahmad Bhat HC, Mukhtar
Ahmad CT, Mohammad Shafi Bhat CT, Arshid Ahmad Ahangar
CT, Mohammad Irfan Jura CT, Abdul Rashid Reshi HC, Dheeraj
Babu Jungral SGCT, Basharat Hussain CT, Irshad Ahmad Dar
CT, Javid Ahmad Lone CT, and Shakeel Ahmad Sheikh CT.
BSNL offers free unlimited calls Cleanliness drive conducted in Udhampur hospital
on Independence Day
New Delhi, August 14:
Customers of state-run
BSNL will be able to make free
unlimited calls on any network
tomorrow
also.
"BSNL...Customers will be able
to make unlimited free voice
calling from BSNL landline to
any network mobile and landline in the country on August 15,
and thereafter every Sunday,"
Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha
said in a statement. At present,
it offers unlimited night calling
on any network in the country
between 9 pm to 7 am as complimentary service for all its customers. BSNL commands
Appeals for maintaining age old communal harmony
Minister for Health and
Medical Education, Mr. Bali
Bhagat today convened a
meeting with the prominent
citizens of district Rajouri
and sought their cooperation
in maintaining peace and
harmony in the region . He also sought their active participation in facilitating the effective implementation of
government's developmental
initiatives. Bali Bhagat said
that peace is prerequisite for
development and all stakeholders should join hands to
achieve the goal of a progressive and peaceful Jammu and
Kashmir. He exhorted upon
all the participants specially
the religious heads to come
forward and play their role in
strengthening the bonds of
communal
harmony and
mutual brotherhood which is
the rich heritage of Jammu
and Kashmir. “This is region
of saints and the bonds of
amity has given it a distinct
identity which needs to be
promoted and maintained at
all costs", he added While appealing the youth to stand together and defeat the nefarious designs of the trouble
mongers who are trying to
37 police officials awarded
Sher-e-Kashmir Medal for Gallantry
Bali Bhagat convenes
meeting with civil society
RAJOURI, AUGUST 14:
Pathankot NSG martyr gets Shaurya
Chakra on Independence Day
The State Government has awarded Sher-e-Kashmir
Police Medal for meritorious services to four Police officers
and officials on the eve of Independence Day 2016. They are Mr
S K Mishra, Special DGP (Coordination) Police Headquarters,
Mr Ramesh Kumar Jalla, SSP CID SBK, Mr Sham Lal Thakur,
Dy SP and Mr Reyaz Ahmad Langoo, Inspector.
Pak to accord 'warm
welcome' to Jaitley at
SAARC meet
Islamabad, Aug 14:
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disturb the peaceful atmosphere in the State, the
Minister said that youth
holds the key to the prosperity and development of the nation and they must contribute in making the nation
stronger and progressive, he
asserted. The Minister expressed grief and sorrow
over loss of valuable lives in
the valley and said that government is making all out efforts to restore peace and normalcy in the valley. He said
that “we all are proud to be
citizens of the largest and vibrant democracy of the world
and whosoever will try to create problem for the nation
will be dealt with iron
hands”, he added. The members of civil society assured
their full cooperation in
maintaining peace and harmony in the district.
Vice Chairman, State
Advisory
Board
for
Development of Pahari
Speaking People, Kuldeep
Raj Gupta, MLA Rajouri
Qammer Hussain,
MLC
Vibodh
Gupta,
Deputy
Commissioner
Shabir
Ahmed Bhat, SSP Rajeshwar
Singh, besides prominent
citizens and religious heads
were present in the meeting.
around 57 per cent market
share with 14.35 million customers. "This service will be
available for all BSNL landline
customers besides existing free
calling scheme during night.
For new customers we are now
providing fixed line connection
for monthly rental starting Rs
49 for first six months and thereafter consumer can shift plan of
his/her choice. The lowest
monthly rental is Rs 99," BSNL
CMD Anupam Shrivastava
said. The free calling service is
available for all BSNL customers without any charge.
"These new schemes will let
people experience modern facil-
ities that are now available on
BSNL landline network like call
forward to mobile phones etc,"
Shrivastava said. BSNL free
calling scheme aims at encouraging people use landline phone
when they are at home and save
on mobile phone bills, a BSNL
official said. "The fixed line
phones will be instrumental in
proliferation of good quality
broadband service which is an
essential element of Digital
India. BSNL free calling scheme
will pave way for expansion of
broadband services in the country as well through fixed line
the
official
connection,"
said.(PTI)
Udhampur, Aug 14
A cleanliness drive was
conducted at district hospital
Udhampur by the volunteers
of Manav Uthaan Sewa
Samiti with the blessings of
Satguru Satpat ji Maharaj.
The drive was organized to
keep the parks of district hospital in clean and beautiful.
Dr. Vijay Raina, Dy Supdt. of
hospital
and
Sadhvi
Anuradha Bai supervised the
drive. New flower pants were
planted by the volunteers of
31 officials of CBI awarded medals on Independence Day
New Delhi, Aug 14:
The officers involved in the
probe of Agusta Helicopter
scam besides those securing
successful prosecution of former Haryana Chief Minister
Om Prakash Chautala are
among 31 CBI officers who have
been awarded President's
Police Medal and Police Medal
on Independence Day. Only
two IPS officers figure in the list
of awards announced on
Sunday. Ashwani Kumar
Chand, an IPS officer of 2000
batch from Sikkim cadre, who
is part of Special Investigation
Team of CBI probing cases like
Agusta Westland Helicopter
scam and Vijay Mallya cheating cases has been awarded
Police Medal for Meritorious
Service. Another IPS officer
Navjyoti Gogoi, also a 2000
batch IPS officer from
Rajasthan cadre who is posted
as DIG, Guwahati in CBI, has
been given Police Medal for
Meritorious Service. Atul
Hajela, DSP in Anti-Corruption
Branch of the agency, who is involved in the probe againstthe
Principal Secretary to Delhi
Chief
Minister
Arvind
Kejriwal, Rajendra Kumar, has
been honoured with Police
Medal of Meritorious Service.
Harish Chandra Sharma,
presently handling corruption
cases as SP, Jodhpur in CBI,
who had probed the scam in the
appointment of unior Basic
Trained (JBT) teachers in
which Chautala was convicted,
has been given President's
Police Medal for Distinguished
Service. Vijay Kumar Shukla,
presently DSP in Special Crime
Unit of the agency, who probed
Badaun suicide case, has also
been given President's Police
Service. Ramesh Chand, the
Head Constable who has
worked in the Head Qaurters
and Information Section of the
agency, has also been given
Police Medal for Meritorious
Service. Chand hails from
Palampur, Himachal Pradesh.
The officer who probed corruption case involving the then
Chief Engineer of Noida Yadav
Singh, Sanjay Kumar Dhall,
posted as DSP, STF of CBI, has
been awarded Police Medal for
Meritorious Service. Besides
Shukla and Sharma, the officers who have been given the
coveted President's Police
Service
include
S
Balasubramony, Additional
SP,
Krishnaswamy
Kumaresan, Inspector, Rawel
Singh, ASI and S Kumar
Karmakar, Constable. The other officials of CBI who have
been accorded with Police
Medal for Meritorious Service
include Additional SP Subhash
Ramrup Singh, DSPs NM
Parab,
Neeraj
Agarwal,
Surender Singh, Loverson
Kuruvila, M R Hajong,
Inspectors Arvind Dadaji
More, Tej Prakash Devrani
Sanjay Sharma, Subhash
Chander and T Rajashekara.
Independence Day: 948 police,
paramilitary personnel awarded medals
New Delhi, Aug 14:
A total of 948 central and state forces police personnel
were on Sunday awarded gallantry and other service
medals on the eve of Independence Day. The top honour of
Presidents Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) has been
given to three Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel for thwarting terrorist attacks at Indian Consulates at
Mazar-e-Sharif and Jalalabad in Afghanistan early this
year. One PPMG has also been given to CRPF Inspector
Gulam Nabi Bhat and an official of the Intelligence Bureau
and three policemen from Telangana for undertaking daring operations. The Central Reserve Police Force has yet
again been decorated with the maximum of these bravery
medals at 43, majorly for their operations in the Left Wing
Extremism affected states. The country's largest paramilitary force has got the most bravery awards among all police forces in the country for the last over seven years now.
The list of braves also include three Home Guard
jawans who laid down their lives in the line of duty during
terrorist attack in Punjab's Dinanagar police station last
year on July 27. Also, four fire service personnel from
Maharashtra who died while combating a massive inferno
in Mumbai last year have been decorated with the
Presidents gallantry medals. "President's Police Medal for
Gallantry has been awarded to seven personnel, Police
Medal for Gallantry to 170 personnel, President's Police
Medal for Distinguished Service to 88 personnel and Police
Medal for Meritorious Service to 683 personnel. "Nineteen
personnel on the occasion of Independence Day, 2016 have
also been awarded including President's correctional service medal for distinguished service to two personnel and
correctional service medal for meritorious service to seventeen personnel," a Home Ministry statement said.
Police personnel who have been awarded the PMG include 24 from Telangana, 16 from Odisha, ten from
Maharastra, eight from Jharkhand, nine each from Uttar
Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, among others.
the organization and bushes,
wild grass was removed. Dr
Raina thanked the volunteers
of Maa Raj Rajeshwari
Ashram for their self less
service to the society and
hoped that they will continue
this drive in future.
5 Indians dead after
two trawlers sink off
Bay of Bengal coast
Dhaka, Aug 14:
Authorities have found
five bodies and rescued two
people alive from the Bay of
Bengal on Sunday after two
Indian trawlers sank the previous day with at least 17 people on board. They are all
Indian citizens. Bangladesh
Coast Guard's Mongla Zone
chief Captain Mehedi Masud
said that the five bodies were
found early morning on the
sea, around 30 km away from
the Hiron Point of the
Sundarbans.
Two
Bangladesh Navy ships and a
patrol aircraft were deployed
late on Saturday after a distress signal was sent from a
ship travelling with one of
the sunken fishing boats,
called Maha Gouri, a Navy official told AFP speaking on
condition of anonymity.
"The fishing trawler sank in
the Bay of Bengal just 70 kilometres north of Hiron Point
in the Sundarbans," the official said. He said waters were
choppy this afternoon when
the distress call was sent.
Another official confirmed
the number of missing after
the boast sank in the Bay of
Bengal, the world's largest
bay. "Seventeen fishermen
were missing after the
trawler sank today," Tapushi
Rabeya, a Defence Ministry
spokesman, told AFP.
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