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SATURDAY
09 May
2015
Jammu-India
Pages:12 ` 3.00
Regd No:JK517/13-15
RNI No:- JKENG/2013/53265
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WORLD
Bikrami: 26 Visakh 2071
P-8
NATIONAL
UN chief Ban
Ki-Moon to
seek ‘realistic
options’ for
Middle East
peace talks
GLEANINGS
12 hurt in attack
on Nigeria school
Kano: A gunman wearing a suicide
bomb vest attacked a school in
northeast Nigeria’s Yobe state Friday
morning, leaving 12 people seriously injured and the attacker dead,
according to a police source and
students who witnessed the attack.
The man opened fire on students
as they underwent security checks
at outside the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in
Potiskum at 8:10 a.m. local time, and
rushed into the school firing sporadic
shots while being chased by students
and residents, a witness said. “We
have evacuated 12 people with serious gunshot wounds to hospital from
the scene of the shooting attack,” a
police officer said.
Nepal Army
launches Op
Sankat Mochan
Kathmandu: The Nepal Army
on Friday launched its ambitious
Operation Sankat Mochan to mobilise
its personnel in quake hit areas as foreign search and research teams have
left the Himalayan nation. Nepal Army
said it has deployed its personnel in
580 villages in 14 districts in a “bid to
bring the situation under normalcy,”
Nepal Army spokesperson General
Jagadish Chandra Pokharel said.
The Army will conduct search and
rescue, will assist the people survived
from the quake as the government
may not reach out in some of remote
areas, he said. The Army will also
remain engage in information collection and humanitarian assistance
like building temporary houses and
providing shelters.
9 Cr Aadhaar
enrolments rejected
New Delhi: “As on April 30,
2015, against the total Aadhaar generation of 82.93 crores, about 9.73
crore enrolments have been rejected
due to duplicate enrolments or quality
issues or technical reasons,” Planning
Minister Rao Inderjit Singh said in a
written reply to Lok Sabha. As many
as 9.73 crore enrolments have been
rejected, by the Unique Identification
Authority of India, due to duplication,
quality of data and other technical
reasons, Parliament was informed today. UIDAI has the mandate to collect
basic demographics, a photograph
and biometrics information, undertake biometric de-duplication and
issue Unique ID or Aadhaar number to
residents of the country.
Ladakh Clash: 15
Army men convicted
Jammu: At least 15 army
personnel have been convicted by
a summary general court martial
(SGCM) of “mutiny” in the infamous
clash between officers and men of an
artillery unit at Nyoma in Ladakh three
years ago. The personnel have been
awarded various terms of rigorous
imprisonment. The Army has already
tried the unit’s Commanding Officer and
three other officers by court martial for
alleged lack of command and control
and assaulting a soldier. In May 2012,
a group of officers and jawans clashed
following an incident of alleged
molestation involving an orderly.
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KASHMIR
P-7
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STATE
P-5
Govt to constitute State
Pesticides
Regularity
Authority:
Veeri
BJP targets
Rahul
Gandhi, says
Congress
engaging in
‘doublespeak’
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SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY
P-3
P-11 SPORTS
P-12
Capable
players
should get
govt scheme:
Saina
Nehwal
Eco-friendly
cars running
on air?
Indian
scientists
show a way
Humanity
and Voluntary
Action vital
to Red Cross
Movement:
Governor
Taliban claims shooting down aircraft
Shock victory for David
Cameron in splintered UK Two envoys among 7 dead
in Pak chopper crash
AGENCIES, MAY 08|15
London: David Cameron has
won an astonishing and unexpected election victory in the
bitterly divided United Kingdom. An unprecedented tidal
wave of support for the Scottish National Party helped the
Conservative leader by wiping
out Labour’s stronghold in the
north but more than 50 separatist MPs will now march into
Westminster with the central
aim of breaking up the country.
Cameron will attempt to lead
a splintered nation without the
comfort of a strong majority in
the House of Commons. While
the Conservatives won in England, the SNP swept Scotland,
Labour was victorious in Wales
and the Democratic Unionist
Party took the most seats in
Northern Ireland. Against a
backdrop of internal division,
Cameron has also promised the
British public a referendum on
the country’s membership of the
European Union. The coming
five-year parliament will be a
period of great turmoil.
Army foils infiltration bid
along LoC, ultra killed
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, May 08|15: Army
troops today foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Poonch district, killing
a suspected militant who was
in an army fatigue. A patrol
party of Barasingha Battalion of
Army came under fire at Sunigali forward area of Mendhar
sector at about 0850 hours today,
PRO, Defence, Lt Col Manish
Mehta said.
The troops, who were 300 metres inside Indian territory, took
positions and retaliated, resulting in heavy exchanges with
the suspected militants, he said,
adding that one infiltrator was
killed on the spot.
From the encounter site,
troops recovered a body of an alleged infiltrator besides one AK
rifle, four magazines, 28 rounds,
two hand grenades, one GPS besides among other items, Lt Col
Mehta said, adding he was wearing combat dress and good quality trekking shoes.
According to defence sources,
a group of three to four militants in combat dress made a
bid to infiltrate into the Indian
side under the cover of firing by
Pakistan troops in violation of
ceasefire.
While one militant was killed,
others escaped back to Pakistan,
they said.
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Speaking at dawn on Friday,
Cameron said: “I would like my
party… to reclaim the mantle
that we should never have lost.
The mantle of one nation; one
United Kingdom.” Critics will
say the damage is already done.
His campaign strategy of using
the Scottish nationalists as a bogeyman to cajole English voters
into falling in behind the Conservatives gave succor to those
very SNP candidates he claimed
to oppose.
It also appears to have worked.
Many people feared that a vote
for Labour in England would
allow the SNP to seize too much
influence in Westminster. Whatever the argument that eventually secured victory, the scale
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Srinagar, May 08|15: Uni-
dentified people thrashed employees of two mobile phone
companies overnight after one
of their technical staff removed
an unauthorized device (High
Frequency Transmitter-HFT)
from a cell phone tower. The cell
phone tower was being reportedly used by militants for communication in north Kashmir’s
Sopore town, a top intelligence
source said. The source said
that technical staff of a mobile
phone company had gone to refill diesel in the power generator
at one of the company’s towers
in Sopore on Thursday evening.
“The team discovered a device
at the transmitting tower which
was not installed by the company. They climbed up the tower
and removed the device. The device was a high frequency transmitter installed unauthorizedly
by militants,” the intelligence
source said. “Later, some unidentified people barged into the
local office of the company and
thrashed the staff asking them
to return the device immediately or be prepared to face the
consequences.
“These unidentified people
also thrashed the staff of another cell phone company in the
town which indicates the unauthorized device removed from
one tower may not be the only
Islamabad: Two ambassadors
to Pakistan were among seven
High level team visits Zanskar,
assess extent of damage
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Leh, May 08|15: A high level
team from State Government
comprising Minister for PHE,
Sukhnandan Chowdhary, Minister for Cooperative, Chhering
Dorjey, Chairman State Legislative Council, Haji Anayat Ali
and Vice Chairman, Khadi &
Village Industry Board, Syed
Bakir Rizvi today took stock of
the extent of damages in Zanskar and Leh caused in the wake
of breaching of Phuktal lake yesterday.
The experts of NDMA comprising Joint Advisor, Dhirendra
Singh Sindhu and Chief Geologist, NHPC, B D Patni while
Militants thrash telco staff for
removing High Frequency Transmitter
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
AGENCIES, MAY 08|15
Breach in Artificial Lake on Phutkal
Misuse of mobile towers for subversive activities in Sopore
one being used for communication by the militants.”
The development has been
described by security agencies here as serious because
mobile phone towers are present throughout the length and
breadth of Jammu and Kashmir.
If the misuse of these towers
for militant activities in Sopore
has not been a one-off incident,
the security forces could be facing a major challenge in the
coming days to break the communication network of guerrillas, sources said. Sources said
the militants normally carry
low-range hand-held transmitters which are used for
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briefing the State team said they
have carried out aerial inspection of River Phutkal landslide
site today again and observed
that the water level is gradually reducing as it is passing
through the artificial channel
which has deepened and widened now. The NDMA team said
they were expecting the breach
in the 14 km long lake and were
monitoring the situation round
the clock. They further said that
there seems no cause of worry
as maximum water has now
flown out and a small volume
of water is left in a length of 4-5
KMs of the lake.
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In LS: BJP, Cong
call for KPs’ return
AGENCIES, MAY 08|15
New Delhi: BJP and Congress
members in Lok Sabha today
pitched for the return of Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) to the Valley asking the government to
provide them all facilities, even
as BJP members termed Article
370 of the Constitution as an obstacle and sought its removal.
Speaking on a private resolution moved by Nishikant Dubey
(BJP) seeking immediate steps
for rehabilitation of displaced
persons from Kashmir, Adhir
Ranjan Chowdhury (Cong) however said the prevailing circumstances in the Valley do not inspire confidence among the KPs
due to the recent occurences
including separatist activities
there.
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people killed when a military
helicopter crashed into a school
in the country’s mountain-
ous north on Friday, authorities said, as the local Taliban
claimed it shot down the aircraft
and had hoped to assassinate
the Prime Minister.
The Russian-made helicopter
was one of three army Mi-17s
carrying a group of diplomats
to the Gilgit-Baltistan region as
part of a campaign to promote
tourism when the chopper collided with the building that was
reportedly empty at the time.
Leif H Larsen, the Norwegian
envoy, and Domingo D Lucenario Jr of the Philippines were
killed along with the wives of
the Malaysian and Indonesian
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West Pak refugees
deserve better
SANT KUMAR SHARMA
Jammu, May 08|15: It was
very kind and considerate
of the Prime Minister, Mr
Narendra Modi, that he
himself met a delegation of
the West Pakistani refugees
led by Mr Labba Ram Gandhi
on Thursday. Mr Modi meeting Mr Gandhi sends a clear
message: That the ruling BJP
is serious in solving the problems of these people.
A day earlier, Mr Gandhi
had met the all-powerful
BJP chief, Mr Amit Shah,
along with some senior party
leaders. Mr Shah had then
set himself (for his party
obviously) a deadline of six
months for tackling problems
of the West Pakistan refugees.
The six-month deadline
given by Mr Shah ends in
November this year, and is
not far-off. After Mr Shah
setting a deadline first and
then the PM himself meeting
the delegation only proves
the seriousness of the issue.
In fact, the issue has been
pending since 1947, right from
Independence.
The West Pakistani refugees
are citizens of our country,
India, but not citizens of the
state of Jammu and Kashmir.
They had come to the state at
the time of Independence to
escape carnage in the hands
of fanatics of West Punjab,
which had become a part of
Pakistan.
They have remained settled
in J&K for the last over 67
years, but still not been given
citizenship. In whole of the
world, there is not an example
of people like them facing
statelessness. So, technically,
they have remained refugees
all this while.
On February 20, 1987, the
Supreme Court had delivered
a judgment about them. The
apex court had then given
some recommendations but
till date, over 28 years later,
the recommendations of the
apex court have remained
unheeded by successive state
governments.
The PM has promised them
that the Centre will do all that
it can on its own, to act
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RED CROSS DAY: Celebrating the power of humanity
Shivang Satya Gupta
Editor-in-Chief
21 °C 33°C
Rajab : 19 1436 AH
T
oday it was the World Red
Cross and Red Crescent
Day, an annual observance
that falls on 8 May every
year, the birthday of the movement’s
founder, Henry Dunant. The day is
celebrated not only for Dunant but
also the International Red Cross and
Red Crescent Movement’s seven
fundamental principles: humanity,
impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and
universality and this Friday marked
the 67th year of the celebration, which
was first officially celebrated in 1948.
The theme of this year’s Red Cross
Day was “Power of Humanity: The
Fundamental Principles in Action”
as the main aim of the movement is
to help the ailing and suffering people
all over the world and has services in
almost 189 countries.
The International Red Cross and
Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement
with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide
which was founded to protect human
life and health, to ensure respect for
all human beings, and to prevent and
alleviate human suffering.
The movement consists of several
distinct organizations that are legally
independent from each other, but are
united within the movement through
common basic principles, objectives,
symbols, statutes and governing
organisations.
The International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian
institution founded in 1863 in Geneva,
Switzerland, by Henry Dunant and
Gustave Moynier.
Its 25-member committee has a
unique authority under international
humanitarian law to protect the life
and dignity of the victims of international and internal armed conflicts.
The ICRC was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize on three occasions (in
1917, 1944 and 1963).
Until the middle of the 19th century,
there were no organized or wellestablished army nursing systems for
casualties and no safe and protected
institutions to accommodate and
treat those who were wounded on the
battlefield.
In June 1859, the Swiss businessman
Jean-Henri Dunant traveled to Italy
to meet French emperor Napoléon
III with the intention of discussing
difficulties in conducting business
in Algeria, at that time occupied by
France. When he arrived in the small
town of Solferino on the evening of
June 24, he toured the field of the
Battle of Solferino, an engagement in
the Austro-Sardinian War. In a single
day, about 40,000 soldiers on both
sides died or were left wounded on the
field. Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked
by the terrible aftermath of the
battle, the suffering of the wounded
soldiers, and the near-total lack of
medical attendance and basic care.
He completely abandoned the original
intent of his trip and for several days
he devoted himself to helping with the
treatment and care for the wounded.
He succeeded in organizing an overwhelming level of relief assistance by
motivating the local villagers to aid
without discrimination.
He later wrote a book about the
experience. That book contained the
concept for the Red Cross, a series
of national volunteer groups that
would care for people injured in war.
Dunant worked with the Geneva
Society for Public Welfare and other
European leaders to hold a conference
in October 1863. The next year, 12
countries signed the Geneva Convention. They decided on a universal
symbol -- a red cross on a white background -- so people everywhere could
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