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Did Dr.
Jitender
mislead on
AIIMS?
Dr. Jitender Singh, MoS
in PMO on Saturday
addressing BJP Executive
at Katra asserted that BJP
has not given up the issue
of separate AIIMS for
Jammu region and Party
will pursue this demand
seriously.
He urged the Party men
that without opposing the
AIIMS for Kashmir region
they were free to demand
another 'such type' of
medical institute for
Jammu region to provide
better Medicare facilities to
the people here also.
The statement is a clear
admission that the BJP
has been the consenting
party to the shifting of
AIIMS to Kashmir Valley
as agreed by the party in
its Agenda for Alliance
with PDP. Clause 37 (e )
of the Agenda for Alliance
clearly mentioned as
'Setting up a Super
Speciality, AIIMS in the
Valley'.
Dr. Jitendra further
impressed upon the party
activists, "we should not
shy away from demanding
an AIIMS for Jammu or
else we would be allowing
the initiative to be hijacked
by others for a cause for
which we had struggled
and fought for so many
years''.
Pertinent to mention that
Dr. Jitendra Singh was the
first to congratulate the
Union Finance Minister for
granting AIIMS at Jammu
perhaps for taking credit
that later backfired. The
statement of Doctor is
therefore, wide far off from
the facts.
Cabinet approves
transfer of land for
polytechnic, hike in
ration allowance
JAMMU , APRIL 19
The J&K Government
has sanctioned the transfer
of over seven acres of State
land in Udhampur district to
the
State
technical
education department for
construction
of
a
polytechnic college.
"The Cabinet which met
under the Chairmanship of
Chief Minister Mufti
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Wrong info on
mobile can lead
to disconnection
NEW DELHI, APRIL 20
Mobile
subscriber
seeking portability of the
number will now have to
give an undertaking to the
service provider that he is
the genuine owner of the
number. In case the
undertaking given by the
subscriber turns out to be
false,
the
concerned
number
will
be
disconnected, as per the
directions
given
by
Telecom
Regulatory
Authority of India (TRAI)
to the service providers.
These directions follow the
regulator
receiving
disputes
regarding
ownership of the number
after its porting from one
service provider to the
other. The regulator has
already done a wide
number of consultations on
the issue.
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Cabinet frames new recruitment policy
JAMMU TAWI, APRIL 19
n a significant decision the
State Government Sunday
announced that a new
recruitment policy has been
formulated
to
make
appointment against gazetted
and non-gazetted vacancies on
contractual basis. However, the
decision won't be applicable to
the posts that already stand
referred to the recruiting
agencies for making selections.
Announcing the
decision taken by the State
Cabinet here today, Education
Minister, Mr Naeem Akhtar
said at a press conference that
the persons appointed on
contractual basis under the new
recruitment policy would be
regularized after putting in 7
years of satisfactory service.
He said the decision
would help the government to
fill the vacancies of Assistant
Surgeons,
Lecturers
and
I
 All appointments to be made on
contractual basis
 Regularization after 7 years of
satisfactory service
 Doctors, Lecturers, Teachers to
be appointed at district level
Teachers from amongst the
local human resource at the
district level and the selected
persons shall have to work in
the said area during the term of
their contractual engagement.
This will help the government
to cope up with the manpower
shortage in these crucial sectors
in the remote and far-flung
areas of the State.
Akhtar said the policy paper
for
making
contractual
appointments at the district
level envisages a transparent
and merit-based fast-track
process of selection for filling
up key posts at the cutting edge
level to tone up the delivery of
public services.
He said to facilitate the
operation
of
the
new
Mufti can resolve Kashmir issue if
given free hand: Sharad Yadav
Mufti unlikely to join
Janata Parivaar
JAMMU TAWI, APRIL 19
If given a "free hand" to run
his government, Jammu and
Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti
Mohammed
Sayeed
will
succeed in resolving the long
JAMMU, APRIL 19 (KIP):
Chief Minister, Mufti
Mohd.Sayeed,who
shares
power with the BJP in Jammu
and Kashmir is unlikely to
accept any offer from the
recently floated Janata Parivar
for joining the six-party
conglomerate.
Since
the
six-party
conglomerate, comprising
among others Janata Dal (U),
Samajawadi and Rashtriya
Janata Dal,has been formed
for countering the BJP's
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Babus need Govt nod before
accepting gifts of over Rs 5,000
NEW DELHI, APRIL 19
IAS and IPS officers will
now need to take prior
permission from the Union
Government before accepting
gifts,
including
free
transportation, boarding and
lodging, worth more than Rs
5,000.
According to the recently
amended all-India services
rules, they also need to inform
the Government if they accept
gifts of over Rs 25,000 from
their relatives or friends.
No member of the service
shall accept any gift without
the sanction of the Government
if the value of the same
exceeds Rs 5,000, the new
rules say.
They may accept gifts from
near relatives or personal
friends with whom they have
no official dealings on
occasions such as weddings,
anniversaries, funerals and
religious functions when the
making of gifts is in
conformity with the prevailing
religious and social practice
but they have to make a report
to the government if the value
of such a gift exceeds Rs
25,000, the rules state.
Free transportation, free
boarding and lodging and any
other service or pecuniary
advantage when provided by a
person other than a near
relative or personal friend
having no official dealing with
the member of the service will
be construed as a gift, as per
the definition in the existing
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pending Kashmir issue, Janata
Dal(U) President Sharad Yadav
said on Sunday.
Yadav, who met his former
Janata Dal colleague Sayeed
over lunch in Jammu yesterday,
said that the PDP leader was a
"nationalist who has lived for
this country and would die for
this country".
"I know Mufti Mohammed
Sayeed personally for very
long, he is a capable person and
I am confident that if given a
free hand to work, he would
find a way out of this (Kashmir)
problem," the JD(U) leader told
PTI. Yadav flew to Jammu from
New Delhi yesterday on the
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recruitment policy at the
earliest, Jammu and Kashmir
Special
Recruitment
Ordinance-2015 was approved
by the Cabinet which would
now be submitted to the
Governor for issuing the
Ordinance.
Enumerating the
broader parameters of the draft
J&K Special Recruitment
Ordinance, 2015, Mr Akhtar
said
it
authorizes
the
Government to exempt certain
posts or class of posts from the
purview of the J&K Public
Service Commission and the
Services Selection Board.
It empowers the
Government to lay down a
policy for making appointments
against the notified posts on
regular/contractual basis in the
prescribed manner.
It empowers the
Government to prescribe the
mode of selection for such
notified posts.
It provides regularization of
the persons, appointed on
contractual basis on the
completion of seven years of
continuous contractual service.
It lays down constitution of
an 'Empowered Committee' in
the Finance Department for
considering the cases of
contractual appointees' eligible
for regulation and for making
recommendations in this
regard.
The proposed legislation
provides for repeal of the J&K
Civil
Services
(Special
Provisions) Act, 2010, with a
saving provision in order to
protect the regularization of
adhoc,
contractual,
consolidated and temporary
appointees who are eligible for
such regularization under that
Act. The proposed Ordinance
provides that the posts which
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Militants
planning to attack
Kashmir: Reports
SRINAGAR, APRIL 19
: Even as protests continue to
rock Kashmir, militants are
planning to infiltrate from across
the border and launch terror strikes
in the valley, according to reports
on Sunday.
The attacks are being planned
with the help of Pakistan's ISI, who
are training the militants.
The Intelligence Bureau (IB) had
reportedly issued an alert to the
Ministry of Home Affairs last
month about a possible infiltration
bid and terror attack by the banned
militant outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen in
Samba and Kathua district of
Jammu and Kashmir. The LeT
terrorists had also set up terror
camps barely three kilometers near
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outside the residences of
these separatist leaders to
prevent them from leading
protests at Residency Road
here in the afternoon.
Suhail Ahmad Sofi, a
teenager, was killed
yesterday while two other
youth were injured when
security forces fired upon
demonstrators at Narbal in
Budgam as they were
protesting against the killing
of two youth in an army
operation in Tral area of
Pulwama district on Monday.
Both Mirwaiz and Geelani
had called for a shutdown in
Budgam district against
Sofi's killing.
CHANDAULI, APRIL 19
Union
Home
Minister
Rajnath Singh on Sunday said
that any kind of anti-India
activities will not be tolerated
on the country's soil.
He said this while addressing
Kisan Mahapanchayat in his
home district here, his first visit
to the place after taking over as
the Union Home Minister.
"I congratulate Jammmu and
JAMMU TAWI, APRIL 19
The Cabinet which met
here today under the
Chairmanship of Chief
Minister, Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed, accorded sanction to
the promotion of IAS
officers to the Selection
Grade of IAS (37,40067,000) + Grade Pay of Rs.
8700 with effect from
01.01.2015.
The officers include Mr.
Saurabh
Bhagat,
Mr.
Mohammad Yousuf Dar, Mr.
Hemant Kumar Sharma, Mr.
Hilal Ahmed Parray, Mr.
Kifayat Hussain Rizvi, Mrs.
Dilshad Khan, Mr. Basharat
Saleem,
Mr.
Tsering
Angchok, Mr. Shafiq Ahmed
Raina and Mr. Sajad Ahmad
Khan.
The Cabinet also accorded
sanction to the promotion of
Mr. Prasanna Ramaswamy
G, Mr. Niraj Kumar and Mr.
Kumar Rajeev Ranjan,
officers of IAS 2010 batch to
the Senior Time Scale of IAS
(15,600-39100) + Grade Pay
of Rs. 6600 with effect from
1st January 2014.
It also accorded sanction
to the promotion of Mrs.
Deepti
Uppal,
Mr.
Bhupinder Kumar and Mr.
Ramesh Kumar, officers of
IAS 2011 batch to the Senior
Time Scale of IAS (15,60039100) + Grade Pay of Rs.
6600 with effect from 01-01-
BJP skirts raking up
controversies at party meet
JAMMU TAWI, APRIL 19
The ruling BJP in Jammu
and Kashmir on Sunday passed
a resolution pledging to ensure
rehabilitation of Kashmiri
Pandits in the Valley but
avoided any reference to recent
controversies like on separate
settlements for those displaced
by militancy.
In the first meeting of the
BJP's state working committee
after it came to power for the
first time in the state, the party
appeared keen not to rock the
boat by raking up any
controversial issue, including
on separatists, and said it
would not allow any activity in
the state which will be
"detrimental to the national
interest".
The party also committed to
rehabilitation of refugees from
West Pakistan and PoK while
skirting the issue of their
citizenship.
While
releasing
the
resolution adopted by the party
during the two-day meeting of
the state working committee
held in Katra, BJP state chief
spokesman Sunil Sethi said
Kashmiri Pandits make the
"identity of Kashmir complete"
and the party would ensure
their rehabilitation in the
Valley as per their aspirations.
"It is resolved that the
identity of Kashmir is
Geelani appealed to
separatist leaders to assemble
at Pratap Park in Lal Chowk
today at 2 PM to register
their protest. Narbal
continues to remain tense but
peaceful as security forces
have been deployed in large
numbers to control the
situation.
Two policemen including
an officer have been arrested
arrested in connection with
Sofi's killing while the SHO
of the concerned police
station has been attached for
"lack of supervision".
Although the separatist
have not called for strike in
the summer capital, most of
the shops in and around Lal
Chowk? remained shut
fearing law and order
problems.
The weekly flea market
was also affected due to the
situation. Some vendors had
put up their stalls in the
morning but rainfall an hour
before noon forced them
away. Meanwhile, Director
General of Police K Rajendra
Kumar convened a high level
meeting of Police, CRPF and
intelligence officers late last
night to take stock of the law
and order situation in the
Valley, a police spokesman
said today.
He said the DGP was
Kashmir CM for acting tough
on this issue, we will not
tolerate any such kind of antiIndia activities on our soil," he
said.
He said that a separatist
leader who was involved in
anti-India activities and shouted
pro-Pakistan
slogans
in
Kashmir, is now again in jail.
Praising Modi and his
government for acting strongly
against violation of ceasefire by
Pakistan, Singh said, "When
our five jawans were martyred,
I called a senior official of the
Border Security Force and
inquired about the matter."
"The officer told me that they
showed white flags to Pakistan.
I asked what does it mean and
the officer said it means that we
want to sort out the matter
peacefully by engaging the
countries in talks. I again asked
how many times did you show
the flags, he told me 16 times,"
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16 IAS, 171 KAS officers,
5 ETO promoted
incomplete without Kashmiri
Pandits and it will be ensured
that they return to the Valley as
per the security and safety
requirements and that their
settlement in Kashmir will be
as per their desires, aspirations
and practicability," he said.
On the issue of West
Pakistan refugees, the party
said it would ensure that the
refugees are given their rights
to livelihood and meaningful
living.
Sethi said the party would
also resolve to work for the one
time settlement of the refugees
from the Pakistan occupied
Kashmir (PoK).
The party resolved to show
Uneasy calm prevails in Valley
after teenager's killing
A
SRINAGAR, APRIL 19
n uneasy calm on
Sunday prevailed in
Kashmir where
authorities have kept several
separatists including Syed
Ali Shah Geelani and
Mirwaiz Umer Farooq under
house arrest to foil their
plans of holding protests
against the killing of a
teenager in Budgam district.
While Mirwaiz was placed
under house arrest yesterday
morning, Geelani remained
under house arrest for the
third consecutive day, police
officials said.
They said a posse of police
personnel has been posted
Anti-India activities will
not be tolerated: HM
briefed by officers about
current law and order and
security situation. He was
also?given a detailed briefing
about the Narbal incident.
Kumar emphasized that
justice be delivered to the
victim family, taking into
account the complete facts of
the incident, the spokesman
said. He expressed sorrow
over the loss of
precious?human life and
conveyed his sympathies to
the bereaved family, the
spokesman said.
The DGP directed the
officers present in the
meeting to ensure that such
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gratitude to the voters of
Jammu and Kashmir, who have
overwhelmingly voted in
"favour of democracy by
rejecting all threats and
intimidations
from
organisation and separatism".
"It is resolved that the
coalition of PDP and BJP will
work for betterment of the
people of Jammu and Kashmir
by addressing the issue of
unemployment,
ensuring
corruption-free and responsive
government," Sethi said.
He said the nationalism in
Jammu and Kashmir will be
encouraged and no activity will
be allowed in the state which
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2015.
In another decision, the
Cabinet ordered the release
of Selection Grade of KAS
in favour of 171 officers of
the Jammu and Kashmir
Administrative
Services
(KAS).
The Cabinet also accorded
sanction to the appointment
by promotion of Mr. Shyam
Sunder Gupta, Mr. Pawan
Kumar (RBA), Mr. Bharat
Singh (RBA-PHC) and Mr.
Mansoor Aslam Choudhary
(ST), officers of J&K Excise
and Taxation (Gazetted)
Service, to the time scale of
Jammu
and
Kashmir
Administrative Service
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Yechury elected
as new CPI(M)
Gen Secy
NEW DELHI, APRIL 19
CPI(M)
politburo
member
Sitaram
Yechury on
Sunday was
elected as
the
new
General
Secretary of
the party, succeeding Prakash
Karat.
Karat
had
suggested
Yechury's name for the post
after the other frontrunner S
Ramachandran Pillai withdrew
from the race.
Yechury's
name
was
approved unanimously by the
party's new central committee,
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Govt relaxes norms for
compensation to farmers
JAMMU TAWI, APRIL 19
The State Government today
eased the procedure for seeking
compensation by the farmers and
fruit growers for their crop-damage
due to natural calamities, by
making certain changes in the
norms of State Disaster Relief
Fund (SDRF).
"The cabinet meeting that was
chaired by Chief Minister Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed today decided
to ease the procedure of seeking
compensation by the farmers and
fruit growers whose crop gets
damage due to natural calamities.
Now a farmer can seek
compensation if his crop suffers a
damage of 33 per cent, earlier it
was 50 per cent," Minister for
Education Naeem Akhtar told
reporters here.
He said that following the recent
unprecedented rainfall across the
State, farmers and fruits-growers
have suffered huge losses and the
Government would soon conduct a
survey and would initiate the
process of giving compensation to
them.
"The Government has also
revised the rate of compensation
and now the farmers and fruit
growers will get increased
compensation for the crop-loss," he
said.
Akhtar said that the Government
has also decided to make certain
changes in the State recruitment
policy and has empowered the
deputy commissioners in every
district to employ qualified
applicants on various positions.
"The
Government
has
empowered
the
deputy
commissioners in every district to
recruit qualified and eligible
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JAMMU | MONRDAY | APRIL 20 | 2015
Heat wave ascends in
north India
NEW DELHI:
Heat wave-like conditions
prevailed at several places
across the country as the
mercury crossed the 40-degree
Celsius mark in various cities
including the national capital
with the temperature likely to
rise in coming days.
While New Delhi posted 40.6
degrees Celsius while Jaisalmer
recorded the hottest temperature
at 44.5 degrees Celsius.
Humidity level in the national
capital oscillated between 25
per cent and 79 per cent. The
weatherman has forecast a
maximum temperature of
around 41 degrees Celsius while
the minimum is expected to
hover around 23 degrees
Celsius.
With the mercury showing an
upward trend, the western
regions of Rajasthan including
Barmer, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur,
Bikaner, and Churu were also in
grip of heat wave-like
condition, according to a MeT
report.
Dust-raising winds were
experienced in Jaisalmer,
Barmer, Bikaner, and Churu
affecting normal life in the state.
Capital Jaipur recorded a
maximum temperature of 42.5
degrees Celsius, about three
degree above the normal.
With rise in temperature in
the Jaipur division, there was a
sudden power cut in major parts
of the State capital in the
afternoon.
Mercury may rise further in
most parts of Rajasthan as dry
weather conditions are expected
to prevail for the next 24 hours,
a forecast by the MeT said.
Heat wave-like condition
prevailed in many parts of
Odisha also today with the
mercury crossing the 40-degree
Celsius mark in at least ten
places.
The industrial town of Angul
recorded
the
highest
Cabinet discusses
situation in the Valley
JAMMU, APRIL 19
The state Cabinet, which met
today under the chairmanship of
Chief
Minister
Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed, discussed
the prevailing situation in the
state, especially after the arrest
of separatist leader Masarat
Alam.
Highly placed sources said
the Chief Minister, who holds
the Home portfolio, informed
his Cabinet colleagues about the
prevailing situation in the
Valley. He sought cooperation
and suggestions from his
colleagues to restore sustainable
calm and peace in the state.
Sources said some of the BJP
ministers sought to enquire why
preventive measures were not
taken before the Wednesday
rally in which Masarat Alam and
Syed Ali Shah Geelani unfurled
Pakistani flags and raised antiIndia slogans.
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Govt
applicants in the district, the only consideration would be
merit and nothing else," he said.
Uneasy
incidents are not repeated in the future, he said.
He enjoined upon the officers to convey to the rank and
file that they should strictly adhere to laid down Standard
Operation Procedures (SOPs) while dealing with law and
order situations.
The meeting also discussed the measures to be taken to
ensure that law and order is maintained and at the same
time situations should not be allowed to develop to a level
which has a negative fallout, the spokesman said.
He said the DGP asked all the forces to work
with?utmost zeal and professionalism to ensure that
peaceful situation prevails.
He said nobody will be allowed to derail the peaceful
atmosphere and law will take its own course in all such
matters, the spokesman said.
Mufti
unlikely
winning spree in Assembly elections in a number of
states. Under these circumstances Mufti Sayeed who
succeeded in being elected as the Chief Minister of Jammu
and Kashmir with the support from the BJP, is unlikely to
join the conglomerate. Mufti Sayeed is not prepared to
forge an alliance with the National Conference which has
15 members in the Assembly. He could have cobbled an
alliance with the Congress which has 12 members in the
Assembly but he may not be able to form a stable
Government with the Congress. Hence if the Chief Minister
has forged an alliance with the BJP he has done so to ensure
proper development of the state and for ending regional
imbalance.
That way joining the six-party conglomerate would be an
affront to the BJP which the Sangh Parivaar may not accept
under any circumstances. And if the Mufti rejoins the sixparty conglomerate the BJP would, according to senior BJP
leaders, quit the Government.
Reliable reports said that when the Janata Dal (U) Chief
Sharad Yadav had called on Mufti Sayeed in Jammu the
other day he had broached the issue of Mufti's willingness
to join the six-party conglomerate. According to these
reports, Mufti Sayeed has assured Yadav that the friendship
between the two would continue even if e (Mufti) did not
join the six-party conglomerate.
Mufti
invitation of Sayeed, whose party PDP is in alliance with
BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, but said that he did not discuss
politics during the meeting.
The meeting between the two leaders, who were both
ministers in the Janata Dal government in 1989, came amid
a unification move by Janata Parivar splinter groups.
"It was a long overdue meeting, so I decided that before
Parliament session resumes, I must pay him a visit. We have
been together in the Union cabinet and I know him very
well. It was just an apolitical meeting where we discussed
everything else except politics," Yadav said.
Yadav said that the "democratic setup of India" was a
platform that provides solution to every long standing
problem and that Kashmir issue too could be resolved
within the framework of the democratic process.
He said he was confident that the BJP-PDP coalition
government will facilitate and help initiate a sustained and
meaningful dialogue with all internal stakeholders, which
will include all political groups.
He said that the successive governments have been
dealing with the separatist organisations.
"When I was a minister in the NDA government, the then
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temperature in the state at 42.7
degree Celsius as against 40.7
degree Celsius recorded
yesterday, the Meteorological
Centre in Bhubaneswar said.
The temperature in the coal
town of Talcher also increased
to 41.5 degree Celsius from 40
degree Celsius recorded
yesterday, while the maximum
temperature in state capital
Bhubaneswar stood at 40
degrees Celsius, the MeT office
said.
The maximum temperature at
Bhawanipatna, the district
headquarters town of Kalahandi
district, was recorded at 41.2
degrees Celsius, while it was
41.1 degrees at Hirakud in
Sambalpur district.
Balangir recorded 41 degrees
Celsius, while at Jharsuguda it
was 40.9 degrees, 40.6 degrees
Celsius at Malkangiri, 40.5
degrees at Titlagarh and 40
degrees Celsius at Sundargarh,
it said. (AGENCIES)
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JKLF resolves
to oppose
township for
KPs in Valley
SRINAGAR, APRIL 19
JKLF
chairman
Mohammad Yasin Malik on
Sunday ended his 30-hour
fast and resolved to oppose
establishing any separate
township for migrant
Kashmiri Panidts in the
Valley. "It was resolved that
the settlement of Kashmiri
Pandits in separate colonies
and ghettos in Kashmir is
unacceptable to all
Kashmiri Muslims, Pandits,
Sikhs and Christians as it
will create walls of hatred
among the communities
here and will erode the age
old trust between the
communities," a JKLF
spokesman said after Malik
broke the fast. The
spokesman said the
resolution was passed at the
end of a day-long seminar
organised by the JKLF on
the issue of return to
Kashmiri Pandits to
separate colonies in
Kashmir.
Snowed down surroundings of Kedarnath Shrine before it reopens on April 24 for general public.
— Photo Agency
BJP claims to have registered 8 PDP demands
removal of
lakh members in J&K
bunker in Tral
JAMMU:
BJP on Sunday claimed that it
has registered over eight lakh
members in Jammu and Kashmir
and hoped to achieve the target of
11 lakh memberships in the state.
"I feel happy to inform you that
BJP till today has registered over
eight lakh members in Jammu and
Kashmir and our target is of 11
Lakh members that will be
achieved within next few days,"
BJP state general secretary
(organization) Ashok Koul said
here today.
Koul said that the numbers were
not achieved overnight but it
involved weeks of hard work of
the dedicated workers of the party.
Koul claimed that BJP has
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had initiated dialogue
process with political groups, including the Hurriyat
conference in the spirit of Insaaniyat, Kashmiriyat and
Jamhooriyat," he said.
Yadav said that following the same principles the
coalition government will facilitate and help initiate a
sustained and meaningful dialogue with all internal
stakeholders, which will include all political groups
irrespective of their ideological views and predilections.
"The dialogue will seek to build a broad based consensus
on resolution of all outstanding issues of Jammu and
Kashmir. This is all mentioned in the common Minimum
programme of the present government in Jammu and
Kashmir," he said.
He said the country has successfully dealt with major
challenges, including in Punjab, within the democratic
framework and he was sure that "if Mufti gets his way he
would also find a way out for Kashmir problem as well."
"The country has seen worst in the past. The problem in
North East, the problem in Punjab and many other problems
that we have faced since our independence and all of these
were resolved within the democratic framework and I am
sure that if Mufti gets his way he would also find a way out
for Kashmir problem as well," Yadav said.
Earlier while taking to reporters, Yadav termed the
political situation in Jammu and Kashmir complex and said
that the situation continues to be same since 1947.
"However the degree of discontent varied from time to
time and there are historical reasons for that. Attempts have
been made in the past and by the successive governments
and the present government to bring the people of the state
into the mainstream," he said.
Babus
rules. However, the rules state that gifts does not include
casual meals, casual lift or other social hospitality.
Officers shall avoid accepting lavish hospitality or
frequent hospitality from persons having official dealings
with them or from commercial firms or other organisations,
the rules say.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has
notified the All-India Services (Conduct) Amendment
Rules, 2015.
Earlier, IAS, IPS and IFoS officers were needed to take
prior Government sanction before accepting gifts if their
value exceeded Rs 1,000, he said.
Militants
the Jammu border. Border Security Force (BSF) had
submitted the report to the Home Ministry in this matter
too.
BJP
will be "detrimental to the national interest".
As per the party sources, the resolution comes days after
when the senior party leaders asked the local unit of BJP to
keep itself away from controversies and focus on the issues
of governance and showcase its achievements to the people
of the state.
There has been unease in BJP's ties with the PDP,
especially over the release of separatist leader Masarat
Alam and on the issue of return of Kashmiri Pandits in the
Valley.
Yechury
which has has 91 members besides five special invitees
and five permanent invitees.
Yechury becomes the fifth general secretary of the party.
Karat served three terms as the party head. Meanwhile, the
new politburo of the CPI(M) will have 4 new members Hannan Mollah, Mohd Salim, Subhashini Ali and G
Ramakrishnan.
achieved the distinction of being a
party with largest number of
members in the world. "Today ours
is the political party which has
reached to first position in the
world with ten crore members," he
said.
While throwing light on the
history of the party Ashok Koul
said that BJP that was formed on
April 6, 1980, has today became
the world's largest political party
with ten crore members within a
period of 35 years. "We have left
behind Communist Party of China,
which has eight crore members"
Koul said and added that the credit
for this success goes to every
activists of the party, "who has
been devoting time.
The new General Secretary addressing the party congress
said it is an honorous and big responsibility on him and that
will try his best to discharge them. "We must strengthen
ourselves in order to meet challenges before the country and
the party," he said.
While attacking the government at the Centre, he said
that it is headed by communal forces pursuing an aggressive
neo-liberal agenda. "Seeing erosion of democratic practices
under Modi government," said Yechury.
Saying that the party should overthrow the class rule,
Yechury told that strength of CPI(M) is in its collective
functioning.
16 IAS
(KAS) (15,600-39100) + Grade Pay of Rs. 6600 with
effect from 06-12-2010.
It also approved release of Grade of Time Scale of KAS
(15,600-39100) + Grade Pay of Rs. 6600 with effect from
06-12-2010 in favour of Mr. Naresh Kumar Choudhary and
Mr. Abdul Qayoom Ahanger, retired officers of the J&K
Excise and Taxation (Gazetted) Service.
The KAS officers in whose favour Selection Grade is
released are Mushtaq Ahmad Shah, Javed Ahmad Shah ,
Asif Hameed Khan, Soujanya Kumar Sharma, Itrat Hussain
Rafiqui, Mir Altaf Ahmad, Mohammad Yasin , Sheikh
(retired), Hashmat Ali Khan (ST), Khurshid Ahmad Shah,
Amit Sharma , G ,M , Brakboo (retired) , Nazim Zai Khan,
Sheikh Mukhtar Hussain (retired) , Bashir Ahmad Dar, Ms ,
Sunita Anand , Shakeel-ul-Rehman Rather , Pradeep Kumar
, M ,M , Rehman Ghasi, Avtar Singh Chib, Bilal Ahmad
Bhat,Rakesh Gupta (deceased) ,Nisar Hussain Wani ,Rohit
Khajuria , Jagdev Singh Manhas (retired), Mukhtar-ulAziz, Bashir Ahmad Khan,Ram Ditta Charak (retired),
Bikram Singh Jamwal (retired), Javed Iqbal Balwan
(retired), Ghulam Nabi Balwan, Tsering Marup (retired),
Riyaz Ahmad Choudhary (retired), Tasaduq Jeelani
,Gazanfer Ali, Hassan Khan , Veer Ji Hangloo, Abdul Aziz
Bhat (retired), Shakeel Ahmad Teng (retired), Abdul
Rashid War, Rahul Sharma, Narinder Singh Bali, Aijaz
Ahmad Bhat, Hashmat Ali Yatoo, Choudhary Rashid Azam
Inqalabi, Majid Khalil Ahmad Drabu, Mohammad Akbar
Wani, Mufti-M-Fareed-ud-din, Ms Rifat Arif, Sheikh
Arshad Ayub, Nasir Ahmad Naqash,Rajesh Sharma , Farooq
Ahmad Shah , Ms Babila Rakwal ,Riyaz Ahmad , Ms
Shabnam Shah Kamili , Dr Ghulam Nabi Itoo, Ravinder
Kumar Bhat , Ms Rachna Sharma, Ms Leena Padha, Ms ,
Kusum Badyal, Rajinder Singh Tara, Ravinder Kumar Bhat,
Ms Rachna Sharma, Ms Leena Padha, Ms , Kusum Badyal,
Rajinder Singh Tara, Ms Vivek Sharma, Mohammad
Hussain Mir, Tariq Hussain Ganai Munir-ul-Islam,
Showkat Aijaz Bhat, Gulzar Ahmad Dar, Arvind Kotwal,
Mohammad Harun Malik, Nisar Ahmad Wani, Ali Afsar
Khan, Ghulam Rasool Mir, Jatinder Singh,Dr Ravi Shanker
Sharma, Sajjad Hussain Ganai, Ms Anoo Malhotra, Shamim
Ahmad, Ms , Nitu Gupta, Prediman Krishan Bhat, Ms ,
Anuradha Rani, Pankaj Magotra, Tariq Ahmad Zargar,
Manohar Lal Raina, Ghulam Mohd Dar, Manmohan Singh,
Bhawani Rakwal, Ms Smita Sethi, Ms Anuradha Gupta,
Ashok Kumar Pandita, Reyaz Ahmad Wani, Manzoor
Ahmad Bhat, Ravinder Nath Sadhu, Farooq Ahmad Rather,
Manzoor Ahmad Qadri, Raman Kumar Kesar, Asgar
Hussain, Tanveer Iqbal, Bashir Ahmad Khan, Khalid
Jahangir, Ms Manisha Sareen, Mohd Ishaq Shah, Ajay
Kumar, Ms , Deepika Kumari Sharma, Ghulam Rasool
Kumar , Mahmood Ahmed Shah, Muzaffar Ahmad Peer,
Ajaz Abdullah Saraf, Pawan Singh Rathore, Mohd , Rafi,
Mehraj-ud-Din Rather, Kishore Singh Chib, Shahbaz
Ahmad Mirza, Ms , Rubeena Kounser, Mussarat Islam
Soharwardy , Mohinder Singh, Dr , Firdous Ahmad Giri,
Mohammad Yousuf Mi, Mohd Younis Malik, Ms , Shubra
Sharma, Inderjeet, Ms , Mathora Masoom, Shiv Kumar
SRINAGAR, APRIL 19
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth president
Waheed Ur Rehman Parra has demanded the removal
of CRPF bunker from the main bus stand at Tral.
During his interaction with a group of youth in the
area, Waheed was informed about the problems being
faced by the locals due to presence of a bunker in the
heart of the town, a party spokesman said.
Gupta, Qazi Sarwa, Vikas Sharm, Ms , Indu Kanwal Chib,
Rajesh Kumar Shavan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Ajesh Kumar
(deceased) , Mohammad Saleem , Choudhary Mohammad
Rashid, Mohammad Mumtaz Ali, Abdul Hamid, Dr ,
Bharat Bhushan Ms , Nirupa Rai, Ashok Kumar, Rakesh
Kumar Sarangal, Mohammad Shahid, Saleem Dar, Babu
Ram, Pritam Lai Atri, Naseem Javid Choudhary, Ms
Harvinder Kour, Ms Purnima Mittal, Arun Kumar Manhas,
Y.P. Suman, Anjana Ticko, P.K. Koul, Nazir Ahmad Mir,
Mohammad Ashraf Bhat.
It is further ordered that the release of Selection Grade of
KAS in favour of the above officers shall be subject to the
consideration of the superior claims of the following retired
KAS officers:
Sheikh Nazir Ahmad, Mohammad Ashraf Shanthoo,
Sham Lal Bijyal, Mohammad Yousuf Dar, Amar Singh,
Syed Atta Ullah Simnani, Iftikhar Ahmad Banday, Soba
Ram, Abdul Gani Sofi, Mohammad Aslam Qadiri, Verinder
Slathia, Romesh Chander Sharma, Mohammad Anwar,
Gurdarshan Singh, Lobzang Thinless, Parvez Ahmad Wani,
Imtiaz Ahmad, Latif Ahmad Zargar, Jatinder Kumar Gupta,
Mohammad Muzaffar Hakim, Mohammad Matloob Khan, ,
Saleema Bano, Mohammad Anees, Mohammad Ali Khan
(ST), Gulzar Hussain, V.K. Sharma, Fayaz Ahmad Bala,
Rajinder Singh, S.C. Sharma , Mrs. Tsewang Dolma,
Tsering Narboo (ST) , B.A. Masoodi, Syed Shafiq-urRehman, Mehboob-ul-Hassan Beigh, Bashir Ahmad Najar
Anti-India
Singh said.
"And when our jawans started retaliating, Pakistan has to
seek UN's intervention to sort out the matter," he said.
Cabinet
have already been referred to the designated recruiting
agencies, viz. the J&K Public Service Commission and the
Services Selection Board, shall, however, be filled up by the
concerned recruiting agencies by following the existing
procedure of making selections.
The proposed legislation provides that some
categories of posts which are to be filled up through the
competitive examination like the J&K Civil Services
(Judicial) and J&K Administrative Services, to be
conducted by the J&K Public Service Commission, shall be
exempted from the application of the proposed Ordinance.
Relief distribution norms relaxed
Mr Akhtar said the Cabinet, which met here today
under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister, Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed, also approved relaxation of norms to
ensure that maximum number of farmers whose agriculture
and horticulture produce is damaged due of natural
calamities are entitled to relief under SDRF.
He said
the Cabinet decided to bring down the slab for entitlement
to relief under SDRF from the existing 50% to 33% damage
to crops and other produce due to rains and other natural
calamities. "Similarly, the rate of compensation has also
been increased for various categories of damages," he said
and added that these measures shall have wide-ranging
impact.
He said the Cabinet took stock of the losses
to standing crops and fruit trees on account of the recent
heavy rains and asked the Revenue Department to workout
the damage assessment on war-footing and project it to
Government urgently so that relief is provided to the
affected farmers in terms of amended SDRF norms.
Promotions
Akhtar said the cabinet also approved promotion of
IAS officers and around 170 KAS officers, which were
hanging fire due to litigations and other issues since 1999.
Digitisation of Revenue Records
Mr Akhtar said a presentation was also made before
the cabinet regarding the digitization of all the revenue
records in the State.
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Jammu, Apr 10 : Government
has created new Administrative
Units on the recommendations of
the Cabinet Sub-committee,
which include 46 Sub-Divisions,
135 Tehsils and 301 Niabats
across the State, which have been
made operational. This information was given by Minister for
Revenue, Javaid Mustafa Mir
while replying to a question by
Sham Lal Bhagat in the
Legislative Council here today.
The Minister said the Government has already crated necessary
staff for these units. He added
that however, pending regular
recruitment of the staff under
various categories through the
recruiting agencies, the said units
have been made operational by
way of making internal arrangement and also by utilizing the
promotion quota under various
categories.
The Minister also said that these
new units have been made
functional either in the existing
government buildings or in rented
buildings, pending creation of the
permanent infrastructure. The
new additional administrative
units including 09 Sub-Divisions,
50 Tehsils and 99 Naibats which
have been created on the
recommendations of the Expert
Committee headed by Financial
Commissioner, Industries and
Commerce
Department,
Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, are yet to
be made operational as the matter
is under examination in
consultation with the Finance and
Planning & Development
Departments, the minister added.
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JAMMU | MONDAY APRIL 20, 2014
Workshop on Capacity Building in Food Processing Industry AJSUF criticizes BJP's 'double standards'
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: A Three
Day
Workshop
on
'Competence Building in
Food Processing Industry
in J&K', sponsored by
National Mission of Food
Processing (NMFP) GOI,
was organized
in the
School of Business, Faculty
of Management, Shri Mata
Vaishno Devi University,
Katra, J&K concluded
today. The Chief Guest for
the program was Khurshid
A Ganai, Commissioner/
Secretary,
Finance,
Industries and Commerce
J&K. The Vice Chancellor
SMVDU Prof. S. K. Jain
graced the occasion in presence of Kifayat Hussain
Rizvi Managing Director
JK SIDCO, Prof. D.
Mukhopadhyay,
Dean
Faculty of Management
and entrepreneurs in food
processing of Jammu and
Kashmir region.
The workshop is organized
to provide a common platform where all food pro-
cessing unit entrepreneurs
of J&K to discuss the
growth and development of
the FPI in the state of J&K.
Workshop was to infuse
and enhance the entrepreneurial acumen and professionalism of the unit holders by focusing towards the
benefits of technology,
innovation, quality practices, human resource
development etc.
A panel discussion for setting agenda for the discussion in workshop was
organized which was coordinated by Dr. Saurabh,
Gurmat Samagamm organised
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: A Gurmat
Samagamm was organized
by
Shromani
Gumat
Granthi
Reg
Sabha
zJammu (Regd.) Gurdwara
Baba Fateh Singh Ji
Gandhi Nagar, Jammu in
19th of april 2015
Main motive behind the
Samagam is to help needy
children and to give religious teaching to children
by the Shromani Gummat
Granthi Ragi Sabha Regd.
Jammu.
In this programme Books,
Uniforms and starionery
items has been distributed
among 70-80 needy children.
In this connection a press
conference was organized
in which S Harbans Sigh
President, Bhai Kulbir
Singh Chirman, Bhai
Nirmal Gen . Secretary
Bhai Surjeet Singh Vice
President, Randhir Singh,
Jeevan singhand others
Executive memmers of the
sabha were present in the
press conference.
JKLF resolves to oppose
separate township for
Kashmiri Pandits in Valley
NL CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR : JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin
Malik on Sunday ended his
30-hour fast and resolved to
oppose establishing any
separate
township
for
migrant Kashmiri Panidts in
the Valley.
"It was resolved that the settlement of Kashmiri Pandits
in separate colonies and
ghettos in Kashmir is unacceptable to all Kashmiri
Muslims, pandits, Sikhs and
Christians as it will create
walls of hatred among the
communities here and will
erode the
age old trust between the
communities," a JKLF
spokesman said after Malik
broke the fast.
The spokesman said the resolution was passed at the
end of a day-long seminar
organised by the JKLF on
the issue of return to
Kashmiri Pandits to separate colonies in Kashmir.
He said it was resolved
unanimously that Kashmiri
Pandits, who got dislocated
in 1990, should return to
their homes and hearths in
Kashmir. "They will be wel-
come to restore the proverbial ethos of Kashmir represented by amity, harmony
and brotherhood among the
various communities," he
added.
organizing Secretary of the
workshop.
The panel deliberated on
various issues related to the
better alignment of Food
Processing in J&K along its
three regions i.e. Jammu,
Kashmir & Ladakh. It also
deliberated the various
issues such as cost reduction, branding, improving
infrastructure, technology
intervention,
research,
value addition and availability of quality human
resource.
Finance Commissioner/
Secretary,
Industries
JAMMU TAWI: Social
Activist Jagdish Sudan
demands reservations on the
based of poverty instead of
caste which divide the society into different sections as
a result violence.
While issue a press note,
Jagdish Sudan said that
reservations on the basis of
castes creates many obstacles for the persons whose
born in the poor family.
Reservation on the based of
caste is disease which
spread in the society rapidly
, it is not important that poor
born only on the basis of
caste and upper castes have
no poor.
There are number of candidates who left without any
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI:
42nd
KVS Jawaharlal Nehru
National
Science,
Mathematics & Environment
Exhibition was inaugurated
by Anil Paliwal IPS,
Inspector General BSF, and
Punjab Frontier at Kendriya
Vidyalaya No-2 Jalandhar
Cantt. The Inaugural function
was organized in the
Auditorium of B.D.Arya
Girls College Jalandhar
Cantt. Five hundred thirty
four participants with their
escorts from all the twenty
five Regions of Kendriya
Vidyalaya Sangathan including the Kendeiya Vidyalayas
of KVS, Jammu Region situated in J&K, parts of Punjab
and Himachal Pradesh, are
participating in this National
level
event of KVS.
Padamshri Vijay Chopra,
Chief Editor Punjab Kesri,
Jalandhar , Dr. Sarita Verma
Principal B.D. Arya Girls
College Jalandhar Cantt, Dr.
benefit as they born in upper
caste.
Further, Sudan said that
Union government as well
state government should
immediate removed reservations on the based of castes
and amendment in the law to
make it poverty reservations. There should be a only
single category I.e poverty
,it includes all castes
whether they are belong to
upper/lower caste. Country
shouldn't be divided on the
based of castes.
Sudan appealed the Prime
minister of india Narender
Modi to take immediate step
in this important matter
which removes all obstacles
in the society and only one
category that is poverty.
Illegal toll collection resented: BSP
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU
TAWI:
Bahujan Samaj Party in a
meeting held here today
under the chairmanship of its
State Gen.Secretary Rakesh
Wazir strongly condenmened
the ill legal money collection
by the Toll Post people at
Ban Talab even from the people who come under exempt
categeory including local and
other categeories prescribed
by the Ministry of Road
Transport & Highways
Govt.Of India.
Wazir said that either the
people deployed at Toll Post
Ban Talab do not know the
guidelines and rules of the
concerned Ministry or they
are making mockery of it
and fetching money from the
people on the basis of muscle
power and the state government is just acting as mute
spectator and rather facilitating them by providing them
security etc.,and said that
infact there should be no toll
keeping in view the continous turmoil in the state and
if in any case it has to be
charged it should be collected under law and genuine
considerations.
He said that rules are very
clear that people residing or
using 20 KM toll road be
treated as locals and monthly
pass be issued to them irrespective of district etc. but on
contrary to that Reasi district
and other areas which starts
senting various companies
and organizations including their managing directors participated in the
workshop.. Amit Sharma
special secretary to government animal/ sheep
husbandry department was
the Chief Guest into the
valedictory session.
He mentioned that animal
husbandry
and
food
industry go hand in hand
and the State Govt. is doing
all necessary efforts to its
maximum level to help out
industrialists and entrepreneurs.
KVS Exhibition inaugrated
Social activist demands resevation
based on poverty
NL CORRESPONDENT
Khurshid A. Ganai called
for a change in mindset to
make efforts towards creating more entrepreneurship. The Vice chancellor
SMVD University, Prof.
Sudhir K. Jain, said that
the food theme is very
important and let us make
food industry grow in
J&K.
Prof.
D.
Mukhopadhyay
Dean
Faculty of Management
expressed that the food
processing sector can take
ahead the mission for
'Make in India'. More than
fifty participants repre-
merely 6 KM from toll post
and merely by seeing Reasi
district number plates on the
cars they are being charged
exhorbant rates by giving
excuse that vehicle belongs
to Reasi district and same is
the
case
with
Jandrah,Manwal,Katra,Reasi
and other areas.
He said that if the vehicle is
local non commercial of
within 20 KM area or is of
area which diverts within 20
KM of toll road, the local
pass should be issued immediately. The meeting among
others was attended by
Gardhari
Lal,Madhu
Charak,Purshottam
Kumar,Puran Chand,Deepak
Kumar etc.
J.S Thind, Thind Eye
Hospital and Ms. Parminder
Berry Social Activist Red
Cross Society were the
Guests of Honour on this
occasion.
Rao said that Kendriya
Vidyalaya Sangathan is rendering its Services in the field
of education in the country
and abroad at mass level. He
said that KVS has proved to
be a Premier organization
throughout the world catering
quality education and infrastructure facilities.
Chief Guest
Paliwal
expressed his happiness
about the participation of
children in the inaugural
function in a large number
and excellent performance
of various cultural items.
He drew the attention of the
audience towards the great
contribution of Indian
Scientists, Mathematician
and Astrologists as to make
an impact on the future
generations of the whole
world.
A.S
Gill
Assistant
Commissioner KVS Jammu
Region extended the Vote of
Thanks.
He appreciated the role of
Kendriya Vidyalaya No-1,2
& 3, Jalandhar Cantt for conducting the event smoothly
and professionally.
D.R
Meena
Assistant
Commissioner KVS Jammu
Region,
Mahesh Gupta
Executive
Member
,
International
Vaish
Federation, Sneh Gupta Vice
president Cantonment Board,
Retired Principals of local
KV's ,Principals of neighboring KV's and other educationists, scientists and social
workers attended this inaugural function.
The Exhibits, Models and
Projects on the theme of the
Exhibition -Science and
Mathematics
for
a
Sustainable World, were displayed for judgement of the
entries under six sub themes
namely Community Health &
Environment, Landmarks in
Science and Mathematics,
Innovation
and
Communication Technology,
Energy - Resources and
Conservation ,Transport and
Waste Management. The
models and exhibits out of
these works will be selected
for participation in National
Science Exhibition to be held
in the near future.
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: A meeting of All J&k Sikh unity
forum was held under
chairman
ship
of
S.Rajinder Singh convener
along with Adv .Sangat
Singh ,S.Gurdeep Singh ,S.
Gurmeet
Singh
,S.
Manohar Singh ,Adv.
Avjyot Singh general secretary (NSUI) S.Tajinder
Singh S.Balbir Singh ,Ch
Dev Raj ,Dr. Tarik Singh
strongly demanded to centre Govt. to grant AIIMS to
Jammu region to redressed
grievous of the people
S.Rajinder Singh critised
the double standard of BJP
party which fought the parliament and assembly election on agendas against
discriminations with the.
People of Jammu region
but took u turn after getting
the power and forgot every
made promises with the
people of particularly
Jammu regions and was
also blaming before the
election even by the prime
minister Nariender modi in
his public meetings by saying that PDP and NC are
communal parties and
believing in the division
policy of Jammu &
Kashmir state.
Adv. Sangat Singh said
that BJP double standard
has been exposed and even
center Govt. cheated and
play with the interest
Jammu region people
which forgot sufferings and
discriminating with the
people of Jammu regions
by PDP and NC Govt. in
share employments, promotions tourism spots and
general developments of
Jammu regions.
Adv.Avjyot Singh has said
that all social mind people
jointly fight for rights of
Jammu & Kashmir people
against their discriminating
by communal forces in
Jammu & Kashmir states.
KTM organises a stunt show
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: KTM, the
European Racing Legend,
conducted
breath-taking
KTMStunt show in Jammu.
The Jammu-show wasorganized in order to showcasethe mind-blowing stunts
and tricks by the professional stunt riders.
The Stunt show was held in
Maulana Azad Stadium,
Jammuthe professional stunt
teamdemonstratedbreathtaking stunts on the KTM
Duke bikes.
According to Amit Nandi,
Sr.
Vice
PresidentProbiking, Bajaj Auto Ltd,
"The KTM brand is known
for its high performance racing bikes and we always
want our customers to experience the thrills and adventure which KTM bike can
provide.
Professional stunts are being
conducted in every major
city and will keep on growing in scale in the near
future. KTM is a an exclusive premium brand and we
are keen to ensure we provide KTM customers an
experience that is uniquely
KTM"
The event was open to all
and
the
spectacular
stuntstook the city by a
storm.
Till now, KTM Stunt show
has been organized at Jaipur,
Aurangabad,
Nagpur,
Udaipur, Ghaziabad, Navi
Mumbai,
Trivandrum,
Kota,Surat, Indore, Noida
and many other towns.
KTM fans can buy the range
of KTM bikes from KTM
Jammu - Shop 57, Chowadi
Morh, Jammu, Jammu and
Kashmir.
BSF troops, militants exchange Ceasefire violation:
Pakistan Rangers indulge
fire; infiltration bid foiled
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI : BSF
troops on Sunday foiled an
infiltration bid by a group
of armed militants, who
tried
to
enter
the
International Border in
Kathua district of Jammu
and Kashmir, a BSF official
said.
A group of suspected militants were spotted close to
IB in forward area in
Hiranagar sector of the district in a bid to cross over to
this side, the senior BSF
officer said.
The militants opened fire on
the troops prompting the
forces to retaliate.
There was no loss of life or
injury to anyone in the fir-
ing, he said, adding that the
militant groups make movements either to infiltrate or
attack BSF.
BSF troops have been
directed to open fire on any
suspected movement from
across IB, he said, adding
that they are alert to foil
their designs.
Meanwhile, in Islamabad
Pakistan army alleged that
the BSF resorted to unprovoked shelling.
"Indian BSF resorted to
unprovoked shelling this
evening?
on
Working
boundary in Shakargarh
sector. Pakistan Rangers
effectively responded to
Indian firing," it said in a
statement.
in heavy shelling
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: Pakistan
Rangers on Sunday indulged
in unprovoked heavy shelling
at Indian positions along the
international border in Kathua
district here.
"Pakistan Rangers started
heavy shelling at Hariyachak,
Pansar and Pahadpur villages
in Hiranagar sector of Kathua
district," a senior police officer
told IANS here.
"Three mortar shells launched
from the Pakistan side landed
at Chann Lal Din village on
the Indian side." "BSF has
begun retaliating to Pakistan
shelling. Pakistan shelling
started at 6.30 pm today
(Sunday)," he added. "Firing
exchanges are still going on at
these places."
JKNPP leaders arrested while protesting outside Pak Embassy
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU
TAWI:
JKNPP activists today staged
a massive demonstration outside
Pakistan
High
Commission, New Delhi in
protest against the gross
interference of Pakistan in
the internal affairs of India
and its overt and covert support to secessionists and terrorists in Jammu and
Kashmir. Led by Mr. Harsh
Dev Singh, Chairman and
Former Minister hundreds of
JKNPP leaders and activists
including State President Shri
Balwant Singh Mankotia,
Delhi Pradesh President, Mr.
Rajiv Jolly Khosla, Mr.
Balwinder
Khosla,
Spokesman-Young Panthers
Mr. Gagan Pratap Singh,
State Secretary, Panthers
Trade Union Mr. Purshottam
Parihar & Zonal President,
Jammu District Mr. Neeraj
G u p t a , M a h f o o z
Khan,Mohd.Junaid,Bhawani
Maharaj, Swaran Singh
Yadav,Jagmohan
Paswan
raised anti-Pak slogans and
accusing Pakistan for converting Kashmir into a vortex
of violence. They were carrying National Flags and raising pro-India and anti-Pak
slogans. The ardent protestors amidst the heated
exchanges and scuffles with
the cops in front of the Pak
embassy were arrested and
detained in the Chanakya
Puri Police Station.
Harsh Dev Singh lambasted
Pakistan for its pernicious
designs in aiding and abetting
militancy in Jammu and
Kashmir and elsewhere in the
country with utterly malevolent and ulterior motives. He
castigated Pakistan for its
highly malicious and mischievous actions and designs
in sponsoring militancy particularly in J&K and pushing
in indoctrinated traitors to
vitiate peace and tranquility
on our side of the borders.
Singh cautioned Pakistan to
break out from the mindset of
duplicity, deceit and belliger-
ence that it has embarked
upon and to stop meddling in
the affairs of J&K. He further
called for vacation of Pak
aggression from the occupied
territories of J&K which are
very much a part of Jammu
and Kashmir. Balwant Singh
Mankotia while condemning
Pakistan for inciting violence
and trouble in J&K called
upon the international community to take cognizance of
the utter hostility and belligerence of the neighbouring
country. Mankotia called upon
Pakistan to rein-in its paid
agents in J&K and refrain
from any further misadventures in the interests of peace
in South Asia. He further
maintained that increase in the
frequency of the cease fire
violations besides proxy war
launched in the State of J&K
by Pakistan called for stern
measures against the rogue
nation by taking the world
community into confidence.
Guru Ravi Dass Sabha elections conclude
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: The much talked
about elections of All Jammu &
Kashmir Shri Guru Ravi Dass Sabha
(Regd.) came to conclusion today
with the administering of Oath by the
newly elected President of the Sabha
Piran Ditta & Gen.Secretary of the
Sabha M.L. Banahalia by the chairman of the election committee in
which
Rakesh
Wazir
State
Gen.Sec.Bahujan Samaj Party was
prominently present.
It is worthwhile to mention here that
elctions of Shri Guru Ravi Dass
Sabha were held on the directions of
the Hon'ble High Court under the
supervision
of
Divisional
Commissioner,jammu in which Piran
Ditta who secured 2232 votes
remained winner by defeating Vijay
Lochan in a close contest and likewise M.L.Banahalia became the
Gen.Sec. of the Sabha by defeating
Raj Kumar Raja by securing 2300
votes that too in a close contest held
at Shri Guru Ravi Dass Temple
Krishna Nagar which is the head
office of the Sabha as well.The victory margin in both the cases was very
thin.
Rakesh Wazir while speaking on
the occasion congratulated the
newly elected team,and thanked the
High Court and especially the
Divisional Commissioner,Jammu
for smooth conduct of elections and
said that the new team will prove to
be an asset for the society
Piran Ditta newly elected President
of the Sabha while thanking the
people, High Court and especially
the
Divisional
Commissioner,Jammu
Pawan
Kotwal for conducting the free &
fair elections which was a difficult
job and assured that he would act
like a worker rather than the president and assured better relations
with all the sections of the society
and further said that we all the people connected with the Sabha unitedly as a team would try our level
best for the betterment of the socie-
ty and if every thing goes well the
Sabha will achieve new heights in
the comming days.
Newly
elected
Gen.Sec.
M.L.Banahalia and the Raj Kumar
Raja who lost the election of
Gen.Sec. by a thin margin even less
than 200 votes also thanked the people for their support.
The prominent among others present
on the occasion include Ved Parkash
President Brahmin Sabha,Bodh Raj
Bhagat
President
Bhagat
Sabha,Dineshwar Singh Jamwal
Organisor Dogra Manch,Presidents
of all the branches of Shri Guru Ravi
Dass Sabha of J&K besides thousands of people.
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Bhaderwah boy shines in Lal Singh inspects medicare
Dance India Dance Event facilities at DH Udhampur
Mohd Majid Malik
Bhaderwah, Apr 19: It will not be wrong to say
that Bablu Sheikh is a 'versatile artist' as he is not
only the youngest singer and dancer of the
Bhaderwah town to perform on the stage of
audition of Dance India Dance sponsored by ZEE
TV 2014. Besides, he have attained the glory of
being the first male dancer from the Chenab
valley to be succeed in the 6 seasons history of
Dance India Dance in 1st round. He also has the
Distinction for singing in four languages as
Hindi, Bhaderwahi, Gojri and Kashmiri. It adds
large capability for her talent. Son from an
ordinary middle class family Khadam Hussain
alias Bablu Sheikh of Sarafan Mohalla,
Bhaderwah whose father is a government
employee and mother is house wife is pursing
BPEd and had participated in various dance
and singing competition throughout state. Bablu
qualified 1st round of dance India dance but
failed in 2nd round in which thousands of youth
were participating from knock and corner of the
country. "I belong to an area where people have
reservations about women sharing a stage with
men. But things are changing for good and more
and more girls are breaking the barriers," she
quips. "I belong to an area where people have
reservations about any one sharing a stage of
dance and songs. But things are changing for
good and more and more girls and boys are
breaking the barriers." he quipped. "The
competition was quite tough in Dance India
Dance at Chandigarh audition as there were so
many good performers so I failed to qualify 2nd
round," he added. On her future plans, Bablu says
he wants to shine in all competition and take
dancing and singing as a career.
Saroori sought CM's intervention
on MGNREGA lialibilities
Jammu, April 19: - Though
the Mahatma Gandhi National
Rural Employment Guarantee
Act
(MGNREGA)
was
perceived to generate job
opportunities
for
the
unemployed rural masses but
the pending amount of liabilities
created on account of initiated
work under MGNREGA in J&K
has touched figures to the tune
of 400 crores of rupees thereby
derailing the very purpose of the
scheme. This was said by
Congress senior leader J&K and
MLA Inderwal, Mr. G. M.
Saroori.
Saroori said in sheer violation
of standing norms and the spirit
of
the much publicized
Centrally sponsored scheme
under MGNREGA, lakhs of
people belonging to the labour
class, have been denied their
hard earned wages worth over
Rs 400 crores in the J&K State
for the last over one year.
Congress leader said that the
labourers and other workers
holding job cards issued by
BDOs, often stage protests
across the region and has
repeated demanded for release
of wages but falling on deaf ears
and the poor men and women
are deprived of their right to
wages under MGNREGA for no
fault of theirs. He said the
political leadership of the
Centre has become totally
insensitive to the miseries of the
poor people.
"The delay in releasing the
wages was a cruel joke with
people who were living handto-mouth and had been provided
livelihood security through
MGNREGA by the UPA
government at the Centre. The
Centre
government
has
snatched the means of survival
from families of poor workers",
Saroori said and had sought the
intervention of Chief Minister
J&K, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
for immediate clearing the
liability of J&K including
Erstwhile Doda.
Assures early redressal of ReT demands
Cabinet enhances
Ration Money
Allowance
JAMMU, APRIL 19: The Cabinet which met here today under
the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed,
accorded sanction to the enhancement of “Ration Money
Allowance” in favour of Non-Gazetted Staff in Prisons
Department and Fire and Emergency Services Department, J&K
from Rs 600 to Rs 1000 per person per month with effect from
01-04-2015.
UDHAMPUR, APRIL 19:- A
1-day convention of employees
under the banner of All
Employees United Front,
district
Udhampur
was
organized
under
the
chairmanship of senior vice
president of J&K RET teachers
forum, Mr. Bhupinder Singh.
Minister for Health, Medical
Education, ARI and Trainings,
Choudhary Lal Singh was the
Chief Guest on the occasion.
During the convention,
employees union put forth
various demands including
early release of pending wages
and salary, transfer policy for
RET teachers, regular conduct
of DPCs in various department,
implementation of order of Cclass
classification
of
Udhampur town, risk allowance
for
PDD
employees,
regularization of all need based
daily wagers, benefit of SRO 43
for non regularized RET
teachers and daily wagers etc.
Responding to the demands,
the Minister said government
has already initiated steps to
address the grievances of all
sections of the employees
including low paid employees.
He assured the employees that
their genuine demands have
been noted and these will be
taken up at the appropriate
level. Meanwhile, the Minister
also visited District Hospital
Udhampur and took stock of the
medicare facilities available in
the hospital. Appreciating the
hospital management for
keeping the hospital neat and
clean, the Minister urged them
to provide better medicare
facilities and services to the
patients. On the occasion, Ch
Lal Singh reiterated his firm
commitment
to
further
streamline all the health
institution in the state.
Among others, Additional
District
Development
Commissioner, Mr. Ajay Singh
Jamwal, Senior Superintendent
of Police, Mr. Suleman
Choudhary, Director Family
Planning,
Assistant
Commissioner Revenue, senior
officers of various department,
presidents of various trade
unions and large number of
employees were present on the
occasion.
Army rescues injured
civilians in Kaona
Kashmir preferred tourist destination for Middle
East: Khalid Makhi
Jammu, Apr 19: A Tata
Sumo JK 01 J 0854 belonging
to Fayaz Ahmed r/o Khari, fell
into deep gorge near Kaona
village at 1100 hrs today. The
vehicle was moving from Khari
to Kaona.
On receipt of
information an Army column of
Delta Force reacted swiftly and
evacuated the three injured
civilians.
The injured civilians have
been identified as Bashir
Ahmed and Mohd Aizaz r/o
Buzla. The injured persons
were evacuated to civil hospital
Banihal. Driver of the vehicle
Fayaz Ahmed received minor
injuries and was given first aid
by Army and civil medical
team. The locals and civil
police
appreciated
and
applauded the effort of the
Army.
Public representatives to be involved in
planning of developmental schemes: Zulfkar
‘Several reformative measures in offing to
provide good governance to people’
variety of tourism products
and the government has to
give thrust to upgrade the ecofriendly tourism infrastructure
of global standards to pave the
way for high end tourists to
visit J&K.
Khalid Makhi said me and
my family is very much
impressed by natural beauty
of Kashmir. He said the
splendour tourist resorts of
Kashmir possesses have no
mach in the world. He said
that tourism is the only
industry for J&K which has
the potential to upgrade the
socio-economic status of the
people.
On the occasion Director
Tourism Kashmir/Managing
Director Jammu and Kashmir
Tourism
Development
Kashmir Farooq Ahmad Shah
said the main objective of
organizing the road shows,
ethnic food fests and other
events outside the state is to
market J&K tourism products
in the domestic market. He
said travellers of domestic
market are very much
enthusiastic to visit to J&K
and their number is increasing
every year. He said J&K has
all tourist products and is
known across the globe as a
distinct tourist destination.
He said our thrust is to
provide quality eco-friendly
tourist infrastructure and
better road communication to
our guests and Taj Vivanta,
Grand Lalit and Khyber
Resorts have already setup
quality infrastructure in
Kashmir for high end tourists
and ITC are now tying up with
local hoteliers to upgrade the
tourist infrastructure in the
state.
Large number of people
also participated in the ethnic
food fest organized by Delhi
branch of JKTDC and took the
taste of different cousins
which was appreciated by
food lovers.
Cabinet approves transfers of
land for Govt Polytechnic
College Udhampur
JAMMU, APRIL 19: The Cabinet which met here today under
the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed,
accorded sanction to the transfer of State land measuring 61
kanals and 15 Marlas, situated at village Jaganoo, Tehsil and
District Udhampur to the J&K Technical Education Department,
for construction of a Government Polytechnic college.
J&K Tourism organizes 2nd Road show
cum ethnic food fest at Dilli Haat
NEW DELHI, APRIL 19:Jammu and Kashmir Tourism
organized another Road show
cum ethnic Food Fest at Dilli
Haat, New Delhi last evening
with the theme “Paradise
Awaits You” to promote the
State’s tourism products in the
domestic market.
First Secretary of Saudi
Arabian Embassy, Khalid
Makhi was also present on the
occasion.
Officers and
officials of J&K Tourism
besides large number of
people of all walks of life
including foreign tourists and
members of travel bodies of
J&K also participated in the
show.
In an Interaction, Khalid
Makhi said that Kashmir is
preferred tourist destination
for the travellers from the
Middle East. He said Middle
East and Kashmir have
cultural and spiritual bonds
and people from Middle East
love to visit J&K. He said
Almighty has gifted J&K with
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JAMMU | MONDAY | APRIL 20 | 2015
JAMMU,
APRIL
19:
Minister for CAPD and Tribal
Affairs Choudhary Zulfkar Ali
today said the Government
would involve the public
representatives in planning to
ensure holistic development at
grassroots level.
“The coalition government
is determined to open a new
chapter for all-round progress
in the developmental history of
the State,” Zulfkar said while
addressing a public gathering
at Jammu west.
Hailing
the
coalition
government’s decision of
holding Urban Local Bodies
polls,
Zulfkar said the
government is keen on
devolution of powers at the
grassroots to develop the urban
areas on modern lines. He said
strengthening of grassroots
democratic institutions will
ensure
comprehensive,
transparent and tangible
development.
Underlining the significance
of the democratic institutions,
he said that establishment of
urban local bodies would also
help reduce malpractices and
enhance
monitoring
of
development works and
financial expenditure. He
urged people to be ready to
participate in the upcoming
urban local bodies elections to
elect best candidates and lay
edifice for comprehensive
development of towns and
cities.
Referring to various new
initiatives of the present
regime, the Minister said that
the Coalition Government has
developed a vision document
to steer the State on the path of
peace, progress and stability
and
ensure
equitable
development of all the regions
and sub-regions. He said
various reformative measures
have been taken to provide
good governance to the people
by infusing transparency and
accountability in the system.
Terming prompt delivery of
public services as an important
ingredient of good governance,
he said that govt focus is on
creation of a dependable and
upto the mark public service
delivery system in the State
where administration would be
taken to the task for any delay.
“Government’s priority is to
provide hassle-free service
delivery by the administration
to the people on all fronts,” he
added.
Improve revenue
realization: Dy
CM tells PDD
JAMMU, APRIL 19: Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal
Kumar Singh today chaired a meeting of senior officers of Power
Development Department (PDD) Jammu to review the
performance of the department.
Speaking on the occasion Deputy Chief Minister impressed
upon the officers to take all necessary steps to prevent frequent
damages to the distribution system and transformers. He also
directed the concerned for immediate reporting of the same to
the higher authorities for immediate replacement of the
transformers to avoid unnecessary inconvenience to the people.
Dr Singh also directed PDD to lay emphasis on the recovery
of revenue which is the major issue and in this regard Dr. Singh
exhorted upon the concerned officers to frame inspection squads
and conduct vigorous inspections to check the AT&C losses
which was presently very high.
Various other issues which were discussed in detail during the
meeting were HT\LT improvement scheme, review of APRDP,
regularization status of unregistered consumers, establishment of
meter testing labs, performance of DDUGJY and IPDS schemes,
status of metering in government departments etc.
Dr Singh further directed the officers to work in a coordinated
way to achieve the desired results and also said that for the
dedicated and high performers suitable rewards will be given to
in future so that best possible services will be provided to the
consumers. He also stressed on PDD authorities to be sensitive
towards the grievances of the people and make efforts to address
any issues especially pertaining to uninterrupted supply of
electricity.
Dr. Singh also said that it is the duty of the Government to
provide all basic amenities like uninterrupted supply of
electricity as the summer season is approaching and to provide
the best service the department must take necessary steps to
prevent the damages of transformers and curb the practices like
theft/misuse of electricity.
Earlier Principal Secretary PDD Sundeep Kumar Nayak
apprised the Minister about the Compliance status on
instructions given by the him on 9TH March 2015 in which Dy
CM Instructed the PDD Authority to reduce the aggregate
Technical and Commercial Losses, to prevent the damages of
Transformers, make Possible ways to replace damaged
transformers on time, to take all possible means to boost revenue
in the power sector etc and informed that every effort will be
made to provide best possible services to the people.
Dr Singh also assured his full support to the officers of the
department and also assured that their genuine issues raised by
them during the meeting will also be looked into.
The Meeting was attended by the Principal Secretary PDD
Sundeep Kumar Nayak, Development Commissioner Power
Asgar Ali Majaz, Director Planning, PDD A.k Gandotra,
Director Finance, PDD KK Gupta, Chief Engineer , EM&RE
WING Jammu Ajay Gupta, Chief Engineer S&O wing Jammu
Ajay Gupta, Chief Engineer P&MM Wing Jammu Khurshed
Budoo, Chief Engineer C&S wing J&K Shahnaj Goni, Chief
Engineer P&D wing J&K Jammu Ravi Chaniyal besides Suptd.
Engineers EM&RE circle Jammu/Kathua//Rajouri/Batote
/Kishtwar.
Govt initiating proactive measures to make education jobintensive: Priya
Minister urges
students to works
for social uplift
JAMMU, APRIL 19- Terming educational institutions as the
pillars of knowledge and enlightenment, the Minister of State for
Education, Information and Culture Priya Sethi today urged the
students to actively participate towards societal uplift. She said
the PDP-BJP coalition government is taking various proactive
measures to equip the students with requisite knowledge and
job-intensive skills.
Speaking during the valedictory function of the Worksop at
Government College for Education, Priya Sethi said; “Students
are the pillars to mould the society and onus lies on them to carry
forward the mission which could bring about the betterment of
the society”.
Urging students to make optimum use of their precious time in
pursuing extracurricular activities and sports alongside
academics, Priya said the times have changed and the youngsters
have to mould themselves as per changing times. She termed
youth as future of the state, and said they have enormous
responsibilities towards societal development and national
building.
Appreciating the dedication and endurance of the faculty in
shaping the destiny of young generation, Priya hoped that the
pass outs would find themselves in good stead to contribute
towards the harmonious society.
Regarding new initiatives for revival of education system, she
said Government is working on a well knit strategy to introduce
more innovative measures to improve and refurbish the
education set up in the State, keeping in mind the latest trends to
keep pace with the contemporary world.
“Government is taking proactive steps to ensure that students
receive the required knowledge and skills,” she added.
Later the Minister released a magazine of the college besides
distributing certificates among the participants.
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BJP welcomes
new entrant into
party fold
NL CORRESPONDENT
Kathua | April | 19
On achieving of a target of ten
crore membership across the
country, BJP unit District
Kathua today greeted the newly
joined members in BJP at
Kathua on Sunday. While
addressing the press conference,
BJP senior leader, Advocate
Shashi Paul Sharma expressed
his great wishes and wanted
well being of entire BJP Party
said BJP has become world's
large political party. Moreover,
he said that after having already
achieved the target of nine crore
five lakh members, the BJP has
extended its countrywide
membership by another month
which would now terminate by
April end. At the end of this
exercise, the party would also
train 15 lakh members in the
process to induct them as
"active members" at district
levels.
They would even be eligible to
contest elections at various
levels in the organization. Each
member would turn "active"
only after he or she enrolls 100
more members for the party.
The new members would be
made aware of party's ideology
and philosophy.
"The
response
was
overwhelming and therefore,
the party extended its campaign
for membership by another
month. The aim is to increase it
as much as possible upto April
30," they said and claimed that
the membership may cross even
the 12-crore mark, Sharma
added.
KATHUA
Preparations on to celebrate May Day
NL CORRESPONDENT
Kathua | April | 19
In order to celebrate
"Worker's Day" on 1st May a
group of intellectuals and
social workers have organized
a meeting at Zanana Park,
Kathua on Sunday. The
meeting was presided by a
social thinker and worker
Master Shiv Nandan and
attended by a large number of
representatives of different
organizations. While speaking
in the meeting, Master Shiv
Nandan told that "May Day",
the first day of the month of
May is celebrated all over the
world with utmost importance
and the day is also known as
the International Worker's Day
which has a historic
significance. The first day of
the month of May is also a day
of
political
protests.
International Workers' Day is
the commemoration of the
1886 Haymarket Massacre in
and they lack minimum wages
despite a steep hike in prices of
essential commodities. He said
the policy of privatization and
liberalization pursued by the
government had pushed the
working class to the brink of
crisis.
The May Day celebration
was also desired to be held at
Kathua by the local people so
that a relevant tribute could be
marked to martyrs of this day,
Master added.
J&K govt committed to provide better
amenities
to people : Hanjura
increase their living standards. the living standards of weaker Udhampur.
NL CORRESPONDENT
Jammu | April | 19
The Jammu and Kashmir
Government on Sunday said
that it was committed to
provide better amenities to the
people of the state in order to
"The PDP-BJP Government
headed by Chief Minister Mufti
Mohammad
Sayeed
is
committed to provide better
amenities to the people. Special
focus is being given to upgrade
Divisional selection chess tourney concludes
SPORTS & ALLIED NEWS
Kathua | April | 19
Jammu division selection
chess tournaments, organized
by All J&K Chess Association,
concluded today with the
holding of prize distribution
function at Ace Chess
Academy, here.
In the closing function, Dr
AS Bhatia was chief guest,
who gave away title trophies to
those winners of different age
categories. Dr Bhatia was
accompanied by president of
the Association, Atul Gupta,
Taranvir Singh Gujral, Vikas
Nanda and Vijay Choudhary.
Earlier, during the day,
Meenal Gupta emerged winner
of the women's open event
while Varsha Rani remained
second and Arushi Kotwal
finished third.
Similarly, in another event
of under-15 girls, again
Meenal was winner while
Arushi Kotwal bagged second
place. Third place went to
Chicago, during a general
strike for the eight hour
workday, where killing several
demonstrators were taken
place he added. And since then
the day has been celebrating
across the world.
He further said, the working
classes are languishing with
several problems and the norm
of eight-hour work schedule is
not being enforced in many
establishments and corporate
bodies are exploiting workers
sections and downtrodden
people"
Minister
for
Agriculture, Ghulam Nabi
Lone Hanjura said while
interacting with the farmers
during his tour to Bashat
village of Chenani constituency
today. The Minister also took
stock of crop and vegetable
damages in the area due to the
incessant rains. The Minister
also inspected Cocoon Seed
Rearing Centre, Sial Sallan and
Cocoon Warehouse Chery
NL CORRESPONDENT
Kathua | April | 19
As per the direction of Health Minister Choudhary Lal Singh,
the "Drug Control and Food Safety Department" come force into
action to collect the samples of food items and medicines which
are being subjected to supply in state at Lakhanpur. Taking action
after having a direct order from the office of Health Minister,
"Drug Control and Food Safety Department" on Sunday at
Lakhanpur held an inspection counter where a large amount of
food items and medicines were checked by taking their samples.
Narindra Adarsh Public School
Barwal Zone Barnoti Kathua
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are including Admission Fee.
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Winners of divisional selection chess tournament pose with chief guest at Jammu on Sunday.
Avni. In boys' under-15 age spot.
selected players from these
group, Soham Kamotra was Events were conducted by events along with other
winner, followed by Vilakshan the Fide arbiters, Anil Kotwal selected players from Kashmir
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Chief guest, T S Wazir gives away title trophy to Jammu West at
Green Field ground, Jammu on Sunday.
J&K Korfball Association, TS
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Wazir was chief guest, who
Kathua | April | 19
Jammu West defeated Jammu gave away winners and runners
South 9-7 in a closely contested up trophies as also other
final to lift the 12th Bhai individual prizes.
Gurubaksh Singh State Korfball Speaking on the occasion,
Championship held at Green chief guest told the gathering
Field ground, Gandhi Nagar, that state players have the
potential of beating top sides of
here today.
Since both finalist teams the country. He assured the
comprised local players, the Association and the players all
match created interest among possible help.
their respective fans, who Earlier, 14 teams, drawn from
enjoyed every move of the game. 12 districts of the state took part
Irfan Choudhary scored highest in this state championship held
four goals while Abeek and under the aegis of J&K State
Divanshu added three and two Sports Council. Prominent
respectively from winning side. among those present were JBS
From Jammu South, Mohit Bali (joint secretary), Brij
made three goals, followed by Bloria, Talok Singh, KS
Shubham two, Jatinderpal and Rishi,Usha Chuni, RK Sharma,
Deepanti one each. Manjeet VP Sharma, Desh Bandhu,
Singh and Tarandeep Singh Navjeet Singh Khalsa,
Bhupinder Singh, Joginder
were referees.
In the final and prize Singh, SK Sharma and Dheeraj
distribution function, former Sharma of J&K Korfball
MLC and life president of the Association.
BJP on Sunday claimed that
it has registered over eight lakh
members in Jammu and
Kashmir and hoped to achieve
the target of 11 lakh
memberships in the state.
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that BJP till today has
registered over eight lakh
members in Jammu and
Kashmir and our target is of 11
Lakh members that will be
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BJP state general secretary
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here today.
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insensitivity and negligence of District administration over the
deteriorated condition a stretch from Gurdwara to Hatli Morh
Chowk at Hatli Morh on Sunday. Locals says that at this stretch
numerous potholes and depressions are formed due to which the
part of this link road has become accident prone, and negligence
of District administration over the issue has added more problem.
The protest demonstration was led by Local residents Gardhari
Lal, Sunny Sharma, Mukesh Kumar and Brij Mohan. During the
protest; residents also shouted the slogans against District
administration.
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of village Naroli at Naroli on Sunday. The protest was led by S.K
Bhandari and alleged the district administration to provide the
BPL ration cards to some undeserved families falling under above
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space aliens is the idea that there aren't
any space aliens. We can't be the best that
creation has to offer. I pray we're not all
there is. If so, we're in big trouble."
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Upholding rule of the law
Within weeks of being released from prison,
separatist leader Masarat Alam is back behind
bars. This is as it should be, for the likes of him
are best kept incarcerated. Alam, a rising leader
of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference and
expected to succeed Syed Ali Shah Geelani, is a
known trouble-maker in Kashmir. He shot to
infamy after leading the stone pelting incidents
of 2010, which spurred violent clashes between
the security forces and the public, and disrupted
law and order across the valley. Since then,
Alam, who is also the chairman of the Jammu
Kashmir Muslim League, has spent much of his
time in prison. He has some 27 odd cases against
him for causing public disorder.
Nevertheless, Alam, who claims he was
“illegally detained”, was allowed to walk free
last month, soon after the Government of Chief
Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed was sworn
into power. At that time, the new administration
of the PDP-BJP combine, had come in for a lot of
criticism from many quarters, but the
Government's
hands were tied — Within weeks of
it had no new legal his release, Alam
ground to hold
Alam back in was back to his
prison. Moreover, old habits. He
the Mufti defended and others of his
Alam's release on ilk pounced on
the ground that the
Chief
Minister the death of a 24wanted to take year-old civilian
along
all who
died on
“stakeholders”, be Monday,
after
they from “the
mainstream
or reportedly being
outside it”. While caught
in an
this seems like a Army crossfire in
noble plan on Tral
town of
paper, one that
prioritises
the Pulwama district.
process
of On Friday, they
consensus building had planned a
and allows space huge protest rally
for dissent in an
i m m e n s e l y in Tral but were
c o m p l i c a t e d arrested on their
situation, it is also way to the city.
naïve. A veteran
Kashmiri politician Alam as well as
like the Mufti Geelani had been
should have seen put under house
the pitfalls.
a day
Either way, Alam's arrest
re-arrest
only earlier after they
the
confirms the fact unfurled
that, just like a Pakistani flag in
leopard
can't
and
change its spots, a Srinagar
antiseparatist rarely chanted
budges from his India slogans.
ideology. Within
weeks of his release, Alam was back to his old
habits. He and others of his ilk pounced on the
death of a 24-year-old civilian who died on
Monday, after reportedly being caught in an
Army crossfire in Tral town of Pulwama district.
On Friday, they had planned a huge protest rally
in Tral but were arrested on their way to the city.
Alam as well as Geelani had been put under
house arrest a day earlier after they unfurled the
Pakistani flag in Srinagar and chanted anti-India
slogans. Expectedly, these developments have
been used by the usual suspects to spread
discontent in the valley — violence erupted in
Srinagar on Friday, resulting in clashes between
security forces and the public. But the
Governments, both at the Centre and the State,
must not capitulate. Instead, they should send out
a strong message that such activities will not be
tolerated. The separatists are welcome to come to
the negotiating table, discuss their grievances
and seek solutions within the framework of the
Constitution of India. But they cannot be allowed
to bully the state, and the public for that matter,
into accepting their ways and agendas.
Meanwhile, the security forces in the valley must
be restrained in their use of power, to avoid
civilian casualties.
6
OPINION
JAMMU | MONDAY | APRIL 20 | 2015
Janata Parivar clones Hurriyat structure
Swapan Dasgupta
That the Hurriyat Conference is
merely a platform and not a
political
party
is
often
insufficiently appreciated. It
incorporates parties such as the
Muslim League — whose leading
stalwarts had a march last week
with a generous display of
Pakistani flags — and other
organisations whose ideas of a
proposed Islamic State in Kashmir
are even more frightening. That
these parties work in tandem to
pursue a separatist agenda and
combat a common foe — the Indian
state — is what distinguishes them
from other parties in Jammu &
Kashmir for whom autonomy is
more a priority than separatism.
It may seem terribly unfair and
even cruel to draw any analogy
between the Hurriyat Conference
and the yet-to-be-named political
party that has brought disparate
elements of the Janata Parivar —
minus the Biju Janata Dal in
Odisha — together under a
common banner and, maybe, a
common election symbol. Of
course, the new party with
Mulayam Singh Yadav as the
titular head, isn’t a separatist
outfit. Its innate commitment to
the Indian Constitution cannot and
should not ever be questioned. Nor
can it be denied that at least three
of the parties that offered
themselves for the merger — the
Rashtriya Janata Dal of Lalu
Prasad Yadav, the Janata Dal
(United) of Sharad Yadav and
Nitish Kumar, and the Samajwadi
Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav —
claim to be the inheritors of Ram
Manohar Lohia’s political legacy.
The INLD of Om Prakash Chautala
upholds the family legacy of Devi
Lal and the Janata Dal (Secular) of
HD Deve Gowda has no
identifiable inheritance, apart from
its commitment to its leader and
his family.
What is also clear is that apart
from the RJD and JD(U) that was
engaged in a bitter turf battle in
Bihar, the other constituents of the
unified Janata Parivar have distinct
geographical spheres of influence
and unquestioned leaders. In other
words, apart from Bihar where the
unity of the RJD and JD(U) leads
to an automatic arithmetic surge in
political influence, the coming
together of the Janata Parivar will
not make any difference to ground
realities in most of India.
In Parliament, particularly the
Rajya Sabha, however, the unity
will create an impression of a third
force after the Congress and BJP.
In short, what we are witnessing is
not so much the creation of a new
political party but the creation of a
political confederation. Mulayam
Singh may well be the nominal
head of the party on account of his
seniority, although it is well worth
asking why Lalu Yadav can’t claim
this honour since they became
Chief Ministers of their respective
States in 1990. The Chief Minister
of UP may even use his good
offices to ensure that the merger
process in Bihar is not too
troublesome. But apart from
changes in the letterhead, the party
flag and the election symbol, the
new party will be, for all practical
purposes, crafted on exactly the
same organisational lines as the
Hurriyat Conference. Its real basis
for unity is opposition to the BJP
and the immediate provocation for
the merger is the Bihar Assembly
election scheduled for OctoberNovember this year.
Bihar is, in fact, the only State
where the details of the confederal
arrangement are yet to be
satisfactorily worked out. On
paper, Nitish Kumar is the Chief
Minister and the JD(U) has many
more MLAs than the RJD. In
addition, Lalu Yadav has been
statutorily ruled out from accepting
any Constitutional post for the next
few year on account of his
conviction in the fodder scam
scandal. Yet, the awkward reality is
that as of today the RJD has a
bigger and socially distinct
following in the State. Nitish
Kumar
suffers
from
two
disabilities. First, his personal
popularity has taken a big knock on
account of his abrupt separation
from the BJP in 2013 and his patchup with the man he painted as
Bihar’s arch villain. Additionally,
the manner in which Jitan Ram
Manjhi was appointed and then
turfed out of the chief ministership
has proved socially damaging to
Nitish.
The real issue that has to be sorted
is: Who gets the upper hand in
Bihar? By right Lalu is the senior
partner on account of both
experience and electoral clout. But
will Nitish agree to play second
fiddle to Lalu? Recall that it was
Nitish and George Fernandes’
unwillingness to countenance
Lalu’s flights of whimsy that led to
the Samata Party breakaway in the
mid-1990s. Nitish didn’t prevail
because he upstaged Lalu within
the erstwhile Janata Parivar. He
became a leader of consequence
and Chief Minister because he
entered into an alliance with the
BJP. It was the BJP that propelled
Nitish as the alternative to ‘Jungle
Raj’ Lalu. And today, the BJP is on
the other side.
Politics is never static and events
shape the flow and pattern of
alignments. The Janata Parivar
merger
is
essentially
a
psychological arrangement aimed
at showing India that a cluster of
States can effectively mount a
serious challenge to Prime Minister
Modi. The belief is that a Bihar
victory can propel other local
leaders such as Naveen Patnaik and
Mamata Banerjee to be associated
with a confederal arrangement that
ensures a measure of coordinated
opposition to the BJP and complete
local autonomy for the participants.
It’s a model that could work,
although in the past it hasn’t
worked. But whether it will
meaningfully take off in the first
place will depend on a satisfactory
resolution of the leadership tussle
involving Nitish Kumar and Lalu
Yadav in Bihar. Will Lalu be
content delivering votes to make
Nitish Kumar the Chief Minister?
The Janata Parivar model has no
scope for rival claimants for the
same political space.
Chill.
When I returned from this roughly
56-day trip and people asked what
I’d done during that time, you can
imagine the look of disbelief,
horror and pity on their faces when
I said: “Nothing.”
After a while I realised that it was
better not to try and explain, so I’d
change the subject. One man’s
vacation is another man’s enigma,
I realised. In any case, it was none
of any one’s business.
And, therefore, my holiday did not
elicit the same attention as Rahul
Gandhi’s very own version of ‘Eat,
Pray, Love: One Man’s Search for
Everything Across Italy, Thailand
and God Knows Where’. After all,
I was not a national political
leader expected to lead my
country’s oldest -- and most
beleaguered -- party into the
future.
Rahul's 'eat, pray,
love' moment
F
or reasons too many to
go into here, my family
was not too big on
vacations. Even in
those pre-liberalisation
days, when middle-class India had
not discovered the joys of travel
agents and easy access to foreign
exchange, when travel was very
much a train ride to Kerala or
Darjeeling and our friends would
return with apple–blossom cheeks
and fun tales of climbing trees
with their cousins during the
school vacations, we stayed home.
This was not too bad a thing
because home was very near a
beach and when that got too hot,
there was a circulating library next
door from where we could borrow
an endless supply of books and
comics.
The one memorable holiday we
undertook as a family happened
almost by default. Our mother who
was missing our father who’d been
away a long time on work in
Punjab decided without much
warning and fuss to pack her three
kids, all under 15, into the family’s
wheezy Ambassador car and
undertake a cross-country journey
from Mumbai to Chandigarh along
with our almost deaf driver, an
office peon and my brother’s air
gun -- in case there was trouble!
To say that we had many
adventures along the way on this
ad hoc and rambunctious ‘Bharat
Yatra’
would
be
an
understatement.
Nevertheless, as an adult with my
own income and freedom, I began
to look upon vacations with
newfound respect. They were
something you took as often as
you could. And most people
worked them into their year’s
plans, taking great delight in
where they would go, what they
would do there, what they would
eat, drink, see et cetera.
Holidays were a serious enterprise.
But their outcome was meant to be
the opposite. They were taken to
help you rest, relax, refresh,
unwind, let off steam, ease up --
One man s
vacation is
another man s
enigma
chill. If planned carefully and
undertaken seriously, they would
give you reason to return to your
everyday life with new vigour and
an appreciation. They were the
reason one worked so hard.
Unfortunately, being a late entrant
to the holiday game, there is only
one holiday that I have planned for
myself that meets this criterion. A
couple of years ago, I spent a
month-and-a-half in New York, on
my own -- doing nothing. It was
my finest holiday.
All I had wanted to do was go
away for a long time
somewhere where I knew
very few people. I wanted
to sit in parks and cafés;
wander through unfamiliar
districts; window shop at
flea markets; catch a
movie if I felt like it; read
a book when I wanted to;
eschew traditional meals to
munch on apples or nuts if
I so preferred; sleep all
day if I felt like it; watch people.
{
All I had wanted to do was go away for
a long time somewhere where I knew
very few people. I wanted to sit in parks
and cafés; wander through unfamiliar
districts; window shop at flea markets;
catch a movie if I felt like it; read a book
when I wanted to; eschew traditional
meals to munch on apples or nuts if I
so preferred; sleep all day if I felt like it;
watch people. Chill.
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NATIONAL
JAMMU | MONDAY APRIL 20, 2014
Protection from prosecution only for Woman
honest public servants, says SC
injured in
acid attack
NEW DELHI: The court
noted that procedural provisions relating to sanction
must be construed in such a
manner as to advance the
causes of honesty and justice
and good governance as
opposed to escalation of corruption.
In a judgment with far-reaching effect on numerous cases
pending
under
the
Prevention of Corruption
Act, the Supreme Court held
that a public servant cannot
by default claim the legal
protection of prior sanction
against prosecution.
Under Section 197 of the
Criminal Procedure Code
(CrPC), no court should take
cognisance of criminal
charges against a public servant unless previous sanction
to prosecute him is received
from a competent authority.
This safeguard is meant to
help government servants
perform their duties honestly
without fear of malicious
prosecution.
However, the provision has
largely become a ruse to
delay prosecution in corruption cases. As a result, corruption cases tend to gather
dust in courts for years waiting for the government to
sanction prosecution.
A Bench of Justices Kurian
Joseph and A.K. Goel said
protection under Section 197
CrPC was only available to a
public servant in the honest
discharge of his duty.
Prosecution for corruption
should be exemplary and
without delay, the apex court
observed.
Besides, this protection cannot be claimed immediately
after a complaint is lodged.
The question of prior sanc-
tion would be considered
later, during stages in the
criminal trial, as and when
the need arises, the apex
court observed.
“Public servants have, in
fact, been treated as special
category under Section 197
CrPC, to protect them from
malicious or vexatious prosecution. Such protection
from harassment is given in
public interest; the same cannot be treated as shield to
protect corrupt officials,”
Justice Joseph, who authored
the judgment, observed.
The court noted that procedural provisions relating to
sanction must be construed
in such a manner as to
advance the causes of honesty and justice and good
governance as opposed to
escalation of corruption.
Citing a 2015 Supreme Court
precedent, Justice Joseph
wrote: “The question relating
to the need of sanction under
Section 197 of the Code is
not necessarily to be considered as soon as the complaint
is lodged and on the allega-
Session will be full of ‘outcomes’: Modi
NEW DELHI: Modi said,
"It is more beneficial if the
opposition attacks government, however fierce it may
be, inside Parliament."
On the eve of resumption of
Budget Session, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on
Sunday voiced hope that it
would be full of “outcomes”,
noting that the productivity
of Parliament has “reached
125 per cent” since his government came to power.
With Parliament set to witness a stormy session over a
host of issues, including the
controversial land bill,
Parliamentary
Affairs
Minister Venkaiah Naidu
asked BJP MPs to be present
in their House throughout.
In an apparent swipe at
Congress
vice-president
Rahul Gandhi over his
absence, Mr. Naidu told MPs
that they should take any
“sabbatical” or leave for
“introspection” only after the
session.
Alluding to disruptions by
Congress-led opposition, Mr.
Modi said, “It is more beneficial if the opposition
attacks government, however fierce it may be, inside
Parliament.”
Addressing
party MPs at a workshop,
where they were briefed
about the government’s propoor measures, Mr. Modi
noted that they would have
received feedback about the
Centre’s work, especially
budget, and can join the session with more focus.
“In a way the second phase
of the session is stronger
because MPs come back
with more focus. I am sure
this half would be full of
quality debates and outcomes,” he said.
Citing the poor productivity
of Parliament in the last sixseven years before the BJP
government came to power,
the Prime Minister said they
should thank the people
again and again because the
productivity has gone “up to
125 per cent as they handed
over majority to the party“.
In his speech which was otherwise punctuated with potshots at media, Mr. Modi
thanked the press for maintaining pressure on political
parties against disruption in
Parliament irrespective of
which party is in opposition
or power.
He, however, added that the
fact that the productivity has
gone up so much now has
not been highlighted adequately.
tions contained therein. This
question may arise at any
stage of the proceeding. The
question whether sanction is
necessary or not may have to
be determined from stage to
stage.”
The judgment came in a
clutch of criminal appeals
filed by the Andhra Pradesh
Police in 2013 against a High
Court order quashing criminal proceedings against two
revenue officials who successfully claimed protection
under Section 197 CrPC.
The duo figured among 41
persons, including revenue
officials, stamp vendors and
document writers, whom the
police registered an FIR
against in 1999 for allegedly
manipulating registers and
under-valuing property causing loss to the government.
Setting aside the High Court
order to quash the criminal
proceedings against them,
Justice Joseph, for the bench,
held that the trial should be
completed
expeditiously
before December 31, this
year.
AGENCY
CHIKKAMAGALURU
Two unknown persons
alleged threw acid at a
woman at Menase village
in Sringeri taluk on
Saturday night.
The incident happened
around 8.30 p.m., when
Sumana (35), the victim,
was returning home after
closing her beauty parlour in the village. She
suffered injuries on her
face and left hand. The
victim has been admitted
to a hospital in Manipal
for treatment.
Sringeri police have registered the complaint
filed by the victim. The
victim, in her complaint,
said two unknown persons in a two-wheeler
threw acid at her and
fled the place.
Supporters painted in tricolours at the farmers rally oraganised by Congress
party at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi.
Superseding BBMP is
unconstitutional: Deve
NEW DELHI: Government
has superseded the BBMP
and appointed IAS officers
as Administrators and the
Commissioner of the BBMP,
respectively, on Saturday.
Janata Dal (S) supremo and
former Prime Minister H.D.
Deve Gowda on Sunday said
the State government has
violated the constitution by
superseding the elected local
body Bruhat Bengaluru
Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)
before the expiry of the term
and opposed trifurcation of
the civic body.
Term of the BBMP ends on
April 22.
Reneging on its earlier decision, the JD(S) legislators
have decided to attend a session of the State Legislature
convened by the government
on Monday to discuss the
Bill on dividing the BBMP
into three new corporations.
He
criticised
the
Government’s decision to
hold a day’s session on trifurcating the BBMP. The
BJP legislators too decided
to attend the session.
The Government has superseded the BBMP and
appointed IAS officers T.M.
Vijay Bhaskar and G. Kumar
Naik as Administrators and
the Commissioner of the
BBMP, respectively, on
Saturday.
Addressing presspersons at
his residence here, JD (S)
national president Gowda
said the State Election
Commission should conduct
election based on the existing list of delimitation of
wards. A single bench of the
Karnataka High Court too
had directed the Government
to complete election process
before May 30.
Noting the Supreme Court
rulings on the issue, Mr.
Gowda said the Government
should divide the BBMP
after 2020. “I don’t know
what the government will do
by holding the session on
Monday”, he said.
The Congress feared its
defeat in the ensuing BBMP
elections and was making all
attempts to postpone the
elections in the guise of
splitting the civic body.
Postponing of elections on
the pretext of scams in the
BBMP was not the sound
argument. “Let the government probe all scams after
elections to the civic body,”
he said.
A similar situation was prevailed in 1995 and his party
legislators pressurised him to
postpone elections. But the
Janata Dal government conducted the elections, the JD
(S) leader said.
Visually impaired share the AAP govt. kicks off ‘participatory budget’ exercise
vision of serving people
BALARI: Loss of vision
has not dimmed the determination in these men.
Raghavendra A.G of Alur in
Kudligi taluk in Ballari district and B. Thimmappa of
Ballari are among the three
visually impaired to appear
for
the
Gazetted
Probationary Officers’ exam
conducted by the Karnataka
Public Service Commission
(KPSC) that was held here
on Sunday. With the vision
to serve people, these men
are keen to pass the examination and assume a post
where they can achieve their
goal. This is their first
attempt. They appeared for
the exams with the help of
scribes attached to them
in a separate hall allotted in M.B.S.L School
in the city. The scribes
read out the questions
and the options for the
answer given by the
candidate.
Raghavendra is a newspaper agent in his
native and a PostGraduate (MA Political
Science)
while
Thimmappa is working
as First Division Assistant in
Ballari District Court.
“I am a social worker and I
want to serve the society.
For that I need a position and
I can get it by passing the
KPSC
exam”,
Mr.
Raghavendra told The
Hindu.
Earlier, Raghavendra had
attempted online exams conducted by State Bank of
India and other banks but
could not succeed only by a
few marks.
Thimmappa too, wants to
help people.
The two informed that they
had done well and expressed
their confidence of getting
through the exams.
NEW DELHI: The AAP
government on Sunday
kicked off its first “participatory budget” exercise amidst
much fanfare and enthusiasm
at a function attended by
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal in his deputy
Manish Sisodia’s Patparganj
constituency.
the ruling party sought to
take the government closer
to the people, the event also
witnessed an odd officer
being threatened with action
over grievances aired by the
locals. Top Delhi government officials, including
Chief
Secretary
K.K.
Sharma, DM (East) Kunal
and the AAP MLAs of the 11
constituencies that are being
covered at the launch of the
exercise were present at the
meeting organised for the
residents of West Vinod
Nagar’s E-block.
Other senior AAP leaders,
too, attended the meet, which
was described by Mr.
Kejriwal as the “Parliament
of the public”. “Villages
have shown us the direction
in this regard. They say,
‘Dilli, Mumbai mai humari
sarkar, humari mohalle mai
hum sarkar’ (In Delhi and
Mumbai our government, but
in our area we are the government),” Mr. Kejriwal told
the gathering. “If the experiment is successful, then the
way democracy is practised
in the country will change.
Delhi will lead the country.
“Democracy today has
turned into a five-year exercise. After elections, leaders
turn into gods and misuse
public funds,” he said.
Pointing separately to the sitting areas reserved for VIPs
and the media, he said, “We,
the ministers, and the officials form the officers’
gallery to follow your
orders.” The residents, who
were given sheets of white
paper and pens by Civil
Defence volunteers, were
asked by Mr. Sisodia to pen
down their suggestions and
grievances “wisely” before
handing them back to the
volunteers. “Decisions taken
inside closed doors reek of
fraud whereas events such as
this, where decisions are
being taken publicly, are
credible... there are countries
where even laws are made in
this way,” said Mr. Sisodia,
who conducted the exercise
on Sunday.
“Delhi government every
year has around Rs. 40,000
crore but, after various
expenses, around Rs. 16,000
crore is left for allocation to
different departmental plans.
“A portion of that money
will be spent for the development of around 10-11 constituencies this time through
this exercise. If successful, it
will be replicated in all the
70
constituencies
(of
Delhi),” he said.
Nasim Zaidi takes over as new CEC
NEW DELHI: Nasim
Zaidi, on Sunday, assumed
charge as the 20th Chief
Election
Commissioner
succeeding H.S. Bramha
who retired on Saturday
after completing his term.
After assuming charge Mr.
Zaidi said: “I feel privileged and honoured that I
Minister said while outlaying
the government’s poverty alleviation programmes during the
inaugural session of a day-long
workshop for the BJP
Parliamentary Party.
"Our path is clear: we are
working in the direction of fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the poor," he said.
Expressing the confidence that
the second part of the Budget
session of Parliament beginning Monday will be productive, the Prime Minister asked
party MPs to come out of
being in "opposition mould"
and go into the session "holding their head high" for the
pro-poor measures taken by
the government since it came
to power last May. Mr. Modi
seized the occasion to lament
that that some of the media
was so taken up by being critical of his government that its
achievements such as the
recent evacuation of Indians
from strife-torn Yemen and
getting uranium supply from
Canada and nuclear reactor
technology from France during his recent visit to these
countries, were underplayed.
Hailing Union Minister of
State General V.K. Singh for
the successful operation in
Yemen he said he "salutes"
him. He also lauded External
Affairs Minister Sushma
Swaraj for her quick responses
to distress calls and said the
two ministers should be felicitated.
NEW DELHI: Leaders of communist outfits on Sunday
welcomed CPI(M) Rajya Sabha Parliamentarian Sitaram
Yechury’s election as his party’s General Secretary, hoping
the move will help strengthen the Left movement in the
country. Terming 62-year-old Mr. Yechury as a “dynamic”
leader, they said his experience, both inside Parliament and
outside it, will help the CPI(M) implement party programme
effectively and that the Left parties will be more active now.
“I congratulate him for getting elected unanimously as the
(General) Secretary. I know comrade Yechury for the last few
decades and I hope under his leadership, the Left parties can
work more unitedly. “Yechury is a dynamic comrade, a good
Parliamentarian. Naturally, the parties will become more
active having joint activities and all that,” CPI General
Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said. General Secretary of the
All India Forward Bloc Debabrata Biswas, shared similar
views welcoming the CPI (M)’s decision. “I welcome his
election. He is a young, energetic and dynamic leader.
Yechury is a new generation leader. He has enough experience,” Mr. Biswas said. Mr. Biswas though advised leaders
of Left parties to take up social issues concerning people and
in languages “they can understand” to ensure growth in the
movement. “The whole problem with Left movement is it
dealt with economic issues only. In India, in the Hindi belt,
social aspect is very important. That ground is there to capture. The Left should take up the social issues and in the language of people,” he said. Welcoming Mr. Yechury’s election
to the top post of CPI(M), Revolutionary Socialist Party
(RSP) leader Abani Roy said, “this would strengthen the Left
community and movement against communalism and antipeople economic policies of the government.”
Mr. Yechury was unanimously elected the new General
Secretary of the party on Sunday on the last day of CPI’s (M)
21st Congress in Visakhapatnam. His name for the post was
proposed by outgoing General Secretary Prakash Karat and
seconded by senior leader S. Ramachandran Pillai.
The party also elected 91 members of its central committee
and also the 16-member Polit Bureau on the concluding day.
BJP hits back at Cong;
seeks apology from Rahul
NEW DELHI: Hitting back at the Congress for its barbs
against the NDA government at a farmers’ rally in New Delhi
on Sunday, the BJP asked the party as to how many times
will it “launch” and “repackage” Rahul Gandhi in the name
of farmers. The party sought an “apology” from Mr. Gandhi
for accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of bringing the
Land Acquisition Bill allegedly to pay back loans taken from
industrialists to win Lok Sabha elections. “We condemn this
brazen contempt of popular mandate for Mr. Modi. Mr.
Gandhi must understand that India is a democracy, not a
monarchy to be governed by one family. By levelling such a
charge he has insulted the mandate given by the people to the
BJP. He should apologise,” said Union Law Minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad. Accusing Mr. Gandhi of spreading “white
lies” on the Land Bill, Mr. Prasad said unlike what is being
said, the proposed NDA Bill has the provision that corporates
and private sector will have to take consent of 80 per cent of
the farmers before acquiring their land. Reacting to Mr.
Gandhi’s criticism of the Gujarat model of development, Mr.
Prasad sarcastically asked the Congress if it favoured
“[Robert] Vadra model of development and land acquisition
under which state apparatus and laws were bent to ensure
windfall gains for the family from acquiring land of small
and marginal farmers.” Dismissing Mr. Gandhi’s charges
about Mr. Modi’s visits abroad, Mr. Prasad said, “some people travel abroad for introspection but the Prime Minister
goes abroad to take the country forward.” To a question on
Mr. Gandhi vowing to spearhead the debate on the Land Bill
in Parliament, Mr. Prasad shot back, “The Congress has been
waiting for the last 11 years for his meaningful interventions
in Parliament.”
Govt. college directors of physical
education to train athletes
Narendra Modi projects NDA as "pro-poor"
NEW
DELHI: Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on
Sunday attacked the opposition for trying to project the
government as anti-poor on
the issue of the Land
Acquisition Bill and said that
some people had decided not
to speak, see or hear anything
good about the NDA government. On a day that the
Congress organised a farmers
rally here against the Land
Bill, Mr. Modi said lies were
been spread on the Bill by
"perverted minds", clearly
indicating that the government
was not going to withdraw the
proposed legislation. "Don’t
measure us on the scale of rajniti (politics) but on rashtraniti (nationalism)," the Prime
Left parties welcome
Yechury’s election
Mr. Zaidi will have a tenure up to July 2017, when he attains the age of 65.
have been given this
responsibility to lead one
of the finest institutions
that the Indian Constitution
has provided. I am conscious of the onerous task
in hand.”
“Election Commission of
India will formulate a
strategic plan for efficient
election management based
on principles of independence, transparency, professionalism, inclusiveness
and measurable outputs,”
he told the media.
Mr. Zaidi further stated that
he would like the Election
Commission to become a
more vibrant and transparent organisation, which is
open to receiving new ideas
and best practices.
“Commission would like to
formulate its guiding principles based on good governance,” he said.
MANGALURU: The Youth Services department is proposing to make use of services of physical education directors of
government colleges to take care of taluk and district stadium. They will also be given responsibility of training athletes
at these stadiums.
Minister of State for Youth Services, Sports and Fisheries, K.
Abhayachandra Jain said he wants to make better use of the
physical education directors. “There are around 200 physical
education directors in the State. They stand at a better position in taking care of the stadium and lend their expertise for
the budding sportspersons,” Mr. Jain told The Hindu.
The exercise has begun by making Roshan Kumar Shetty, the
physical education director of Dr. G. Shankar Government
First Grade College in Udupi, in-charge Assistant Director of
Udupi District Stadium. “This has shown results and there is
marked improvement in facilities at the stadium,” Mr. Jain
said and this had made him to entrust Mr. Shetty with responsibility of arrangements for athletes for the upcoming 19th
Federation Cup Senior National Athletic Tournament that
starts from April 30 in Mangaluru.
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Altaf Bukhari visits Lal Ded hospital
Altaf Bukhari conducts surprise
Reviews construction work, patient care
inspection of oil pumps
“Instructs officers to launch a campaign facilities; donates 2 ambulances from CDF
against adulterated, less quantity fuel”
SRINAGAR, APRIL 17:
Minister for Public Works,
Floriculture and Gardens &
Parks Syed Mohammad Altaf
Bukhari Friday conducted a
surprise inspection of some of
the oil pumps located in
Srinagar and directed officers
accompanying him to ensure
that petrol is sold to the
consumers according to the
quantity and standard.
He also directed the officials
to strictly adopt all safety
measures at all the petrol pumps
across the Valley. During his
visit, the Minister reviewed all
safety measures at the petrol
pumps. He also examined
reading machine of pumps and
asked the officials to ensure that
there are no irregularities in
installing
fire
fighting
equipments.
Bukhari
issued
these
instructions during surprise
visits of petrol pumps in
Batmaloo and its adjoining
areas. He said that on the special
directions of the Chief Minister
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, a
campaign has been launched for
checking petrol pumps as the
matter had been brought to the
notice of Chief Minister that a
number of petrol pumps are
selling adulterated and less
quantity of petrol.
He asked the officers to go
for a surprise inspection of
petrol pumps both established
by the oil companies as well as
those depots selling fuel on the
permission issued by the district
administration. “Where ever
you find that adulterated fuel is
being sold to people or there is
sale of less quantity of fuel, seal
those
pump
stations
immediately,”
Bukhari
instructed the officers present
on this occasion.
Deputy
Commissioner
Srinagar Dr. Farooq Ahmad
Lone, Assistant Commissioner
Revenue and other senior
officers were accompanying the
Minister.
Altaf Bukhari inaugurates 24th AICR
Project on Floriculture at SKUAST-K
‘Target to make Floriculture a 100 Crore business in J&K before 2020’
SRINAGAR, APRIL 17:
Minister for Public Works,
Floriculture and Gardens &
Parks, Syed Mohammad Altaf
Bukhari Friday inaugurated
24th Annual Group Meeting of
All
India
Coordinated
Research Project (AICR) on
Floriculture at SKUASTKashmir at Shalimar university
campus.
The meeting was organized
by Indian Council of
Agriculture Research (ICAR),
Directorate of Floriculture
Research,
Pune
in
collaboration with Sher-eKashmir
University
of
Agricultural Sciences and
Technology
(SKUAST)Kashmir.
Besides eminent floriculture
scientists (100), academicians,
students and stakeholders of
Floriculture sector, the meeting
was attended by Vice
Chancellor,
SKUAST
Kashmir, Dr Tej Pratap Singh,
Director Floriculture Sciences
Pune, Dr K P Singh, Assistant
Director General (Horticulture)
ICAR, Dr T Jankiram and
Director Research SKUASTKashmir, Dr Shafiq A Wani.
Addressing the meeting, Mr.
Bukhari said Jammu and
Kashmir has a historical
garden tradition, however, the
commercial floriculture is
much recent. He said that there
is ample scope for the
production and export of
floricultural products from
Jammu and Kashmir. “So far
little attention has been paid
and the industry has not been
explored to its maximum. At
present an area of about 350
hectares is under commercial
floriculture and about 700 farm
families are directly or
indirectly involved in the
trade,” Bukhari said.
He
added
that
the
technology for the cultivation
of Aromatic crops for oil
production in Kashmir has
been developed by the state
Government. “The venture is
being taken up by some
farmers of the valley to cover
waste and rain fed areas which
otherwise hardly return any
economical
yield.
The
cultivation is now being
extended to most of the areas
in Jammu and Leh divisions as
well,” the Minister for
Floriculture averred.
Bukhari said that an
initiative for propagation of
lillium bulbs in Kashmir in
Technical collaboration with
VWS Holland has been already
taken by the state government.
“Here I want to inform the
delegates that our state in the
country is the only where
quality flowering bulbs can be
propagated. We are able to
propagate
one
lillium
flowering bulb at a cost of
Rs.5-6 only while as the
minimum import cost of the
similar bulb is Rs.12”, he
added.
The Minister told the
meeting that the State
Government’s target is to make
Floriculture a 100 Crore
business in J&K before 2020.
“I am hopeful that today’s
meeting shall lead us well to
achieve this goal and am sure
that the matters regarding
floriculture in the country in
general and that for the State of
Jammu and Kashmir in
particular would come under
intense scrutiny for the next
three days. The deliberations, I
hope would lead to concrete
recommendations and charting
out of future course and
research strategies regarding
ornamental and floriculture
industry in the country. I
extend my warmest wishes to
the
SKUASTK
and
organizers of this meeting,” he
said.
For the convenience of
farmers, the Minister for
Public Works ordered for
immediate completion of
macadamization and black
topping of road connecting
Hyderpora Railway Bridge to
Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK)
Srinagar.
Many eminent scientists
including Dr Datta, Prof
Menakshi Sinha, Dr Foja
Singh, Dr T Jankiraman, Prof
Abdul Qadoos Jan, Prof Talat
Mohammad Paul and Prof M A
Sidiqi were felicitated on this
occasion by the Minister for
Floriculture.
Earlier, in his address, Dr Tej
Pratap Singh, Vice Chancellor
SKUAST-K stressed on the
scientists to develop pasture
lands for tourism in hilly areas
especially in Sonamarg where
number
of
Primula,
Rododendron and other wild
flora varieties bloom during
the whole summer. He
underlined the significance of
those varieties of flowers in
Kashmir which otherwise
cannot be grown in rest of the
country.
Publications
including
disease and pest management
in flower crops under
Polyhouse and Present status
and prospectus of Floriculture
in Jammu and Kashmir State
were released on this occasion.
SRINAGAR, APRIL 17:
Minister for Public Works,
Floriculture and Gardens &
Parks Syed Mohammad Altaf
Bukhari Friday visited the
tertiary care maternity hospital
Lal Ded and reviewed the
patient
care
facilities,
infrastructure and construction
work on additional block of the
Hospital.
The Minister visited old and
the new blocks of the hospital
and paid a visit to various wards
to see the OPD and IPD
working. Later the Minister
chaired a review meeting
directing the executing agencies
to speed up the construction
work so that the patients visiting
the hospital get benefited by the
additional accommodation. The
Minister also directed the
hospital administration to
provide best possible medicare
to the patients suffering from
various ailments.
Bukhari directed the Public
Works officers to go for
landscaping of the hospital
premises and initiate the
necessary civil works including
boundary wall of the hospital at
the earliest. The Minister Public
Works also asked the JKPCC to
remove bottlenecks within
shortest possible period and go
for replacement of defunct lifts
without any further delay.
The Minister for Public
Works asked the Irrigation and
Flood Control department to
start work on retaining wall of
the river Jehlum facing the
hospital and strengthen the
embankment on the Bund. The
Public Works department
officers were directed to
construct wash rooms for the
attendant Saraie and complete
the project within shortest
possible period.
He assured the hospital
authorities that all roads leading
to the hospital will be
macadamized
and
the
department will ensure black
topping of these roads at the
earliest.
He
underlined
significance for coordinated
efforts between the GMC and
executing agencies like PWD,
JKPCC, UEED etc. to achieve
timely completion of works at
all hospitals in the city.
The Minister was told that
demolition of old structures at
Lal Ded Hospital has been
completed and modular theatres
are
being
readied
for
operationalization. The Minister
for Public Works directed
construction of multi layer
Army facilitates Annual
Maitra Dangal
Ramban, April 19: To encourage sports amongst local
youths, Rashtriya Rifles Battalion under Delta Force in
collaboration with Maitra Dangal Committee organised a
Mega Dangal event at Ramleela Ground, Maitra, Ramban
in which more than 100 wrestlers from various States
participated with full vigor and enthusiasm.
Commander Rashtriya Rifles Sector of Chanderkot,
MLA Neelam Langeh, and SSP, Ramban graced the
occasion. The event was witnessed by more than 5,000
people. Commander Rashtriya Rifles Sector and MLA
Neelam Langeh while addressing the locals stressed on
the important role of youth in society and urged them to
refrain from drugs and indulge in healthy activities. They
complimented the organisers and participants for making
the event a success. Army also assured full assistance and
cooperation for organising such events in future.
The Dangal Maitra committee expressed their deep
gratitude and applauded the effort of Indian Army in
providing full support and assistance in organising such
mega event.
parking at the Super Specialty
Hospital to meet the traffic rush
of coming times. He also
directed the UEED for
completion
of
Sewerage
Treatment Plant networking at
the earliest at these hospitals to
ensure
sanitation
and
cleanliness.
On this occasion, the Minister
also announced two ambulances
for the hospital from his
Constituency
Development
Fund (CDF).
Chief Engineer Public Works
S K Razdan, Chief Engineer
Attention: Flood affected traders with
turnover less than 5 lakhs per annum
SRINAGAR, APRIL 17: List of
shopkeepers/traders whose turnover is less
than Rs. 5 lakhs per annum received from
Additional Commissioner Commercial
Taxes Department Kashmir has been
uploaded on the website of this office i.e
srinagar@nic.in Proprietors of all the
business establishments included in the said
list are advised to submit an affidavit on the
format
available
on
website
srinagar@nic.in in the office of Additional
Deputy
Commissioner,
Srinagar
immediately so that their cases are
processed for relief out of Chief Ministers
Relief Fund.
Anjum Fazili conducts
tour
of Natipora
SRINAGAR, APRIL 17: MLA Ms.
Anjum Fazili today visited various areas of
Natipora including Abu Baker Colony, Naik
Bagh, Shahabad Colony, Faizabad Colony
and Budshah Nagar to assess the problems
being faced by the locals. Fazili while
interacting with locals said that Mufti led
government is keen to resolve the people’s
problems. She urged the officers to redress
local problems regarding water and power
supply, drainage system, dilapidated roads,
sanitation and installation of street lights.
Fazili was accompanied by the officers of
Irrigation and Flood Control, PHE, Revenue
and Police.
Irrigation and Flood Control
Javed Jaffar, Chief Engineer
UEED Mohammad Haneef,
Principal GMC Dr Rafiq
Pampori, senior officers of
JKPCC, Joint Commissioner
Srinagar
Municipal
Corporation, senior officers of
Civil, Mechanical divisions of
Public Works, JKPCC and
Irrigation and Flood Control
Department,
Medical
Superintendent,
Lal
Ded
Hospital, Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad
and other officers were present
on this occasion.
Power
shut down
SRINAGAR, APRIL 17:
According
to
Power
Controller,
Power
Development Department,
Kashmir, in order to carry out
necessary pruning and branch
cutting of trees, power supply
from the 33 KV BadamporaBandipora lines shall be
affected on April 19, 2015
from 10 a.m to 4 p.m.
According to another
communication from the
Power Controller, Power
Development Department to
carry
out
preventive
maintenance works on Grid
Stations, power supply from
the Grid Station Awantipora,
Lassipora Transmission Lines
shall remain affected on April
18, 2015, from the Grid
Station Pampore lines on April
19, 2015, from the Grid
Station
Cheshmashahi,
Pampore-Cheshmashahi,
Habak on April 20, 2015 and
from the Grid Station
Badampora lines onApril 21,
2015 from 9 a.m to 5 p.m.
The power supply to the
areas fed from these lines shall
remain affected on the said
dates and time.
Asiya reviews health sector
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SRINAGAR, APRIL 17: Minister of
State for Health and Social Welfare, Ms.
Asiya
Naqash
today
reiterated
governments resolve to provide quality
health care facilities to the people adding
that revival of Health Sector is top most
priority of the present Govt.
The Minister was addressing a review
meeting of Health department here today.
Commissioner-Secretary, Health Mr.
Shant Manu, Director Health Services,
Kashmir, Director ISM, all Chief Medical
Officers and Medical Superintendents of
Kashmir Division were present on the
occasion.
The meeting discussed various issues
regarding Health sector.
On the occasion, the Minister sought
suggestions from concerned officers for
making further improvements in Health
sector.
The Minister was informed that 2 new
bio medical plants, one each in Srinagar
and Jammu would be constructed at a cost
of 2.50 crore for ensuring proper usage of
bio medical waste.
Ms. Asiya Naqash directed officers to
ensure usage of Hub Cutter at every health
institutions for destroying used needles.
She also called for strict implementations
of usage of needle destroyers at every
medical shop.
The Minister also reviewed the blood
bank facilities and availability of critical
care ambulances in government hospitals.
She directed the concerned officers to
ensure availability of properly functional
Critical Care Ambulances at hospitals
especially in the areas on National
Highway so that safety of human lives
could be ensured in emergencies and
accidents.
Regarding blood bank facilities, the
Minister directed provision of proper
space in hospitals to make blood banks
properly functional.
Minister expressed concern over the
rising number of Hepatitis-C cases in
Anantnag district. She strictly directed
concerned Chief Medical Officers for
launching a vigorous awareness campaign
across the Valley so that people could be
informed about the contagious diseases
like Hepatitis-C.
Regarding shortage of staff in
Hospitals, the Minister said that
recruitments shall be made on fast track
basis to provide medical and para medical
staff to government hospitals.
The Minister also directed Health
officers to ensure speedy completion of
ongoing projects and asked them not to
take in hand any new project till previous
liability is cleared. She said government
will every take step to improve of health
sector in the State.
Later, the Minister visited Parimpore
Ghat and met the people there.
The Minister heard them patiently and
assured them that their demands would be
looked into sympathetically.
On
the
occasion,
Deputy
Commissioner, Srinagar, Dr. Farooq
Ahmad Lone and other Revenue officers
accompanied the Minister.
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LIC buys Rs 300 crore
Infosys shares in Q4
NEW DELHI: State-owned life insurer LIC has shored up
its stake in Infosys to 4.81 per cent, purchasing shares worth
over Rs 300 crore in the January-March quarter.
This is the fourth consecutive quarter of share purchase by
LIC in the software services firm. LIC held 4.69 per cent
stake in Infosys during the October-December quarter and
increased that to 4.81 per cent as of March 31, 2015, as per
latest data available with the stock exchanges. Taking into
account the current market value of Infosys shares, the 0.12
percentage point hike in LIC’s holding in the company
would be worth about Rs 317 crore. Infosys shares closed at
Rs 2,182 on Friday.
Alto is best-selling car
for tenth year in a row
NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki India continued its hold on the
country’s car market in 2014-15 with its models Alto, Swift,
Dzire and WagonR retaining the top four positions.
According to a data by the Society of Indian Automobile
Manufacturers (SIAM), Maruti’s Alto sold 2,64,492 units in
2014-15 as against 2,58,281 units in the previous fiscal,
retaining its numero uno position for the tenth year in succession. Likewise, Swift retained the second spot with 2,01,338
units in fiscal 2015 as compared to 1,98,571 units in the previous fiscal. Keeping its third position intact was Maruti’s
Dzire, which sold 1,92,010 units in 2014-15 as against
1,87,673 units. WagonR also retained the fourth best-selling
car brand status with 1,61,250 units in year 2014-15 as
against 1,56,369 units in the previous fiscal.
Hyundai Motor India’s Grand i10 jumped to the fifth spot in
2014-15 at 99,088 units from 7th in the previous fiscal at
72,789 units. However, the company’s Eon dropped to the
6th position at 78,334 units in 2014-15 from 5th spot in the
previous fiscal at 86,474 units. Hyundai’s Elite i20 was the
7th best-selling car brand in India in year 2014-15 with
77,747 units, while Honda City was at eighth position clocking 77,343 units. Maruti’s Celerio was ninth best-selling car
at 68,143 units sold, while Honda’s Amaze was 10th with
66,703 units.
Gas well blaze still on;
ONGC rushes crisis team
SURAT: Fire is still raging at the ONGC gas well near Olpad
town in the district, even 24 hours after the blow-out mishap,
and a crisis management team was rushed to the spot from
Delhi on Sunday, a senior official said.
"Fire is still on but it is under control in a way that it has been
contained in a particular area so that it does not cause damage to any property nearby," ONGC spokesperson Samrat
Choudhary told PTI.
He said the blaze was being contained and firemen are taking necessary measures to put it out completely.
"Fire is being contained and kept to cool by our firemen who
are continuously spraying water on it. The fire is being
allowed to burn out so that it may not spread to other area
and the gas in the well will be exhausted," Choudhary said.
Meanwhile, a crisis management team of senior ONGC officials reached here from Delhi and visited the injured persons
who are admitted in a private hospital, he said.
The incident occurred on Saturday when a blow-out preventer (BOP) was being repaired at the well in OLPAD-31 in
Ankleshwar basin. When the ONGC team was working on
the well to stop the leakage, some sort of spark resulted in a
huge blast and the gas coming out of the well caught fire.
A blow-out occurred as the well got activated during repairing operation. At least 12 persons, all employees of ONGC,
sustained burn injuries and condition of four of them continued to be serious, said an official.
Honda hikes prices of
Brio, Amaze marginally
NEW DELHI: Honda Cars India has hiked prices of its
entry level car Brio and compact sedan Amaze by up to Rs
800 to offset change in cost structure following tax rationalization in the Budget.
Brio prices have been hiked by Rs 600 while those of petrol
and diesel variants of Amaze have been enhanced by Rs 800
with effect from April first week.
After the hike, Brio is priced between Rs 4.21 lakh and Rs
6.79 lakh, while Amaze is priced at Rs 5.18 lakh and Rs 8.21
lakh (all prices ex-showroom Delhi). "After the rationalization of duties in the Budget, our cost structure changed but
we didn't want to pass it to consumers in March as it is usually a good month of sales. So we decided to hike prices marginally in April," Honda Cars India Ltd senior vice-president
(marketing & sales) Jnaneswar Sen told PTI. The company
has not hiked prices of any other models. This is the company's second price hike so far this during the current year. In
January, the car maker had hiked prices of its entire range of
vehicles by up to Rs 60,000. The Japanese car maker in
January had hiked Brio prices by up to Rs 18,000 and that of
CR-V by Rs 60,000. The move followed the government not
extending excise duty concessions given to the auto industry
and consumer durables sectors after the expiry on December
31, 2014. Honda currently sells five models in the country,
including the fourth generation mid-sized sedan City and
multi purpose vehicle Mobilio. Driven by strong sales
momentum for its cars throughout the year, the company
posted its highest ever annual domestic sales of 1,89,062
units during FY 15, recording 41 per cent growth over last
financial year.
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COAI roots for Net neutrality, access for internet to all
NEW DELHI: COAI urged
all stakeholders in net neutrality to have a comprehensive and informed debate on
the subject.
Industrial body Cellular
Operators Association of
India (COAI) on Sunday
reaffirmed its support for
‘Net neutrality’, but also
made a strong pitch for ‘net
equality’ that will enable
access to Internet for a billion Indians as part of the
governments digital India
vision. In a statement today,
COAI urged all stakeholders
in net neutrality to have a
comprehensive and informed
debate on the subject, keeping in mind the requirements
of India and its citizens.
“An important and complex
subject such as this, which is
still being debated in many
countries, which has taken
years to conclude in many
other countries and which is
the subject of litigation in
some, should not be left to
the opinion of a few,” the
association said.
It made a strong pitch for ‘net
equality’ that will enable
access to the Internet for a
billion Indians as part of the
government’s Digital India
vision. “We support an open
Internet and believe that consumers, should decide what
to do online. Our job is to
enable consumers to benefit
from that freedom. We offer
choice and do not block or
provide any preferential
access to any website or
app,” it added.
COAI said its members are
fully committed to investing
in digital India and need an
enabling environment that
promotes the growth of the
entire Internet ecosystem.
“Without infrastructure and
investment, there will be no
Internet access. Operators
have invested billions of dollars in license fees, spectrum
fees and network roll-outs.
Yet the Industry still makes
negative return on the capital
employed,” it said.
The industry estimates India
would need an additional
capital outlay of Rs. 3-5 lakh
crore over the next 10 years
in spectrum, new technology, equipment, towers, optical fibre backbone, etc, to
meet the Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s vision of
Digital India and connect 1
billion Indians. “The need of
the hour, therefore, is to have
a sustainable industry that
has the ability to invest in
growth of data services and
connectivity to all,” COAI
said.
The
association
stressed on the need to
ensure that same rules apply
to same services to get
Internet access.“We believe
that our role is to enable all
services to reach customers
across the country. One of
the key factors to enable this
is that same rules must apply
to the same type of services,
including Mobile and IP
Voice services,” it added.
There is a need to ensure
customers have the freedom
to choose how they want to
access the Internet. A customer should be free to
choose the device, technology and access platform -paid or subsidised as long as
the Internet is always open in
terms of access in a non-discriminatory manner, it said.
“We support this! The interests of a few should not dictate the fundamental right of
a customer to choose what
he/she wants,” the COAI
added.
Indo-US MIM investment plans Rolta India: proxy advisory
NEW
DELHI: Indo-US
MIM Tec Pvt. Ltd. is planning to invest Rs.1,000 crore
in the next 3-4 years towards
establishing medical devices
units in Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
and Gujarat.
Promoted
by
Krishna
Chivukula,
an
IndoAmerican industrialist, the
company will invest in the
state-of-the-art
medical
devices, technology upgradation, precision machining
of medical and aerospace
products and device integration.
The company is scouting for
suitable land in Tamil Nadu
and Andhra Pradesh, even
though it was offered huge
land bank in Hyderabad.
Mr. Krishna said: “The units
will produce high quality
medical devices. We have
not yet zeroed in on the number of devices or the quantity. We are putting up a unit in
Doddaballapur in Karnataka
firms suggest forensic audit
by investing Rs.700 crore,
which is scheduled to begin
operations by mid-2016.”
Indo-US MIM was planning
to invest over Rs.100 crore
in Tamil Nadu to produce
import-substitute medical
devices. Another unit would
be set up near NelloreGuntur region.
Indo-US MIM Tech was
founded in 1998 at Hoskote
near Bengaluru. The company designs, manufactures
and supplies metal injection
moulding products to customers in automotive, med-
ical, aerospace, oil and gas
and industrial sectors.
“For the last two decades, we
have demonstrated our
supremacy as a world class
company in the latest emerging — technology metal
injection moulded business.
This feat was achieved with
the help of 500 engineers
hired from local colleges.
Currently, more than 95 per
cent of our products are
exported. Last year, we
clocked a revenue of
Rs.1,000 crore,” Mr. Krishna
said.
NEW DELHI: With the
ongoing fracas between USbased research agency
Glaucus Research and Indian
tech company Rolta India,
proxy advisory firms believe
that only a forensic audit of
Rolta’s accounts can settle
Glaucus’ allegations of
widespread fudging of capital expenditure figures.
Shriram
Subramanian,
founder of investor advisory
service InGovern, said the
report only indicates its own
opinion of the company.
“Every investor is entitled to
their own opinion of a company,” he said.
Every day there are analysts
making buy or sell recommendations on companies. In
this case, with Glaucus questioning Rolta’s accounts, it is
up to the company to establish that it is transparent.
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis aggressively
pitches Maharashtra as investment destination
MUMBAI:
Maharashtra
chief minister Devendra
Fadnavis has begun aggressively pitching the state as
the most preferred investment destination and wants
it to regain its position as an
economic powerhouse in the
country. After returning from
his investment scouting visit
from Germany, Fadnavis
said that he sought maximum
investments
in
infotech, manufacturing and
agro-processing industries
sectors to create thousands
of jobs and wooing foreign
companies to set up ventures
in Maharashtra.
"A huge positive sentiment
has built up with regard to
foreign
investments.
Industries now want to keenly invest in India as they see
their growth here. There
were some apprehensions
due to a legacy of the last ten
years, but after direct interactions with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, their apprehensions are fading away,"
Fadnavis told PTI.
"In Hannover (Germany),
we have offered land to SQS
(software testing company),
which, if accepted, will create around 2,000 jobs. Apart
from that Bosch has agreed
to take over 25 Industrial
Training Institutes (ITIs) in
Maharashtra where it will
not only train people, but
also employ all those
trained," he said.
Fadnavis said that positive
talks have been held with
Continental Tyres which has
currently no presence here
and that the company has
promised to look at
Maharashtra as an investment destination.
"We also had a very good
interaction
with
ABB
Robotics (supplier of industrial robots, modular manufacturing systems and service). We have invited them to
set up robotics industries in
Maharashtra. Volkswagen is
a company that has investments here, but we have
requested them to increase
their presence in the state,"
Fadnavis said.
He said that talks have also
been held with automotive
companies like Witte and
Durr and that these companies have shown keen interest in Maharashtra.
"These companies are major
automobile parts suppliers.
We have requested them to
start their production facilities in Maharashtra. For
now, parts manufactured by
them from elsewhere reach
here. This has to change,"
Fadnavis said.
Other investors can then
decide whether to stay
invested in the stock or exit
it, he added.
Earlier this week, Glaucus,
which holds bonds issued by
Rolta’s Delaware, US-subsidiary, made a “strong sell”
recommendation of the
bonds saying that it believes
“Rolta has fabricated its
reported capital expenditures
in order to mask that it has
materially overstated its
EBITDA.”
The capital expenditure it
has called into question
involves expenditure on
computers, office fixtures,
buildings and defence prototypes. JN Gupta, Managing
Director,
Stakeholders
Empowerment
Services,
says if the research report is
true, then it merits serious
investigation into the company’s accounts. However, he
pointed out that while the
bonds were issued by the US
subsidiary, the report focuses
exclusively on the Indian
parent company. The fact
that Glaucus has taken a
short position on the bonds
does not necessarily mean
the report is meant to manipulate the price of the bond,
since Glaucus has fully disclosed its position, Gupta
said.
In an exchange filing, Rolta
India said the report is “mala
fide, malicious, and aimed at
misleading investors.”
Deutsche’s ‘buy’ call
Meanwhile, a Reuters report
said Deutsche Bank has
raised its investment recommendation on Rolta India
bonds to ‘buy’ from ‘hold’.
Deutsche said it agreed with
the company’s response that
Glaucus had made factual
errors. “Issues such as persistent negative FCF (free
cash flows) have been well
known for a while, as the
company was in the middle
of a heavy capex cycle,
which is now over, and in
fact, it finally turned slightly
free cash flow positive in the
last quarter,” Deutsche said.
The stock of Rolta India fell
2.57 per cent on the BSE on
Friday, closing at ?149.95.
IRCTC to offer baggage insurance for train passengers
NEW DELHI: Aiming at
providing passengers more
facilities for booking tickets
online, IRCTC is planning to
offer a new service of 'baggage insurance' for them.
Under this, a customer will be
offered additional services
like insurance coverage for
baggage while booking etickets on the IRCTC website.
As per the offer, the passenger can claim the insurance
money in case of lost or theft
of the baggage. The goods
like laptop, mobile phone or
any other valuable articles
will be covered as part of the
travel insurance package.
The tie-up is being formal-
options like hospitalization
during the journey," he said.
With over 2 million passengers travelling everyday and
about 52 per cent opting for
e-ticketing, IRCTC hopes
that a significant section of
passengers will opt for the
insurance service.
"It will be a win-win situation
for both the customers and
IRCTC," he added.
Besides, the passengers are
now offered e-catering and
concierge services while
booking tickets on certain
trains and routes.
"We are expanding the ecatering facility to more
trains as many reputed eatery
or joints have also joined the
ized with New India
Assurance with the details
being worked out.
"We are formalizing a tie-up
with a leading insurance
company for offering baggage insurance service to eticket customers," said a senior IRCTC official, adding
that "a customer will be given
an option to avail the insurance coverage, which will not
be mandatory".
The insurance premium will
depend on the length of the
journey and also the class of
travel.
"We are trying to make the
offer as the best travel insurance services for train passengers by including other
e-catering list," the official
said. In order to facilitate last
mile connectivity to tourists
and passengers, the IRCTC
has launched concierge services at certain selected stations in metropolitan cities
like Delhi, Mumbai and
Kolkata on a pilot basis.
The service aims to facilitate
train passengers at the station
in hiring a porter, getting
information regarding running status of the trains, and
arranging a taxi for dropping
the passenger to his residence
or hotel.
The concierge service will be
provided at all major stations
including tourist destinations
on railways network.
Indian economy clearly on RBI snaps up $49.2-billion in
recovery path: Arun Jaitley April-February, highest in 7 years
WA S H I N G T O N :
Indian economy is now
clearly on a recovery
path with a 7.4 per cent
growth in the first three
quarters and the new
government is committed to maintain overall
macroeconomic conditions on a sustained
basis, finance minister
Arun Jaitley has said.
"We are committed to
maintain overall macroeconomic conditions on
a sustained basis so that
the Indian economy is able to
achieve and sustain growth
of 8 per cent and above,"
Jaitley said in his address to
the International Monetary
and Financial Committee.
"The Indian economy is now
clearly on a
recovery path,"
he said, adding
India's growth
recovered to 7.4
per cent in the
first three quarters
(AprilDecember) of
2014-15 as compared with 7.0
per cent during
the same period
of 2013-14.
Advance estimates have also
placed the GDP growth for
the full year of 2014-15 at
7.4 per cent.
Medium-term
growth
prospects
have
also
improved following recent
policy initiatives towards
unlocking coal and other
mining activity, liberalization of FDI limits and a
renewed thrust on public
investment in infrastructure,
which would help to improve
the investment climate.
Inflation, which was a major
concern for India during
2010-13, has moderated significantly, he said.
CPI inflation, which is now
used as the main measure of
headline inflation by the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI),
declined to 5.2 per cent in
March 2015 from 11.2 per
cent in November 2013, he
said.
In terms of the flexible inflation targeting framework
adopted recently, going forward, the RBI will seek to
bring the inflation rate to the
mid-point of the band of 4
+/- 2 per cent, i.e., to 4 per
cent by the end of a two year
period starting fiscal year
2016-17, Jaitley told the
world body.
Noting that India has continued on the path of fiscal consolidation, he said the GFD
of the central government,
which was 5.7 per cent of
GDP in 2011-12, declined to
4.1 per cent in 2014-15 and
is budgeted to decline further
to 3.9 per cent in 2015-16.
India's current account
deficit (CAD) declined
sharply from 4.8 per cent of
GDP in 2012-13 to 1.7 per
cent in 2013-14 and is
expected to decline further to
1.3 per cent in 2014-15.
MUMBAI: To reduce rupee
volatility on account of higher inflows and increase fore
reserves to cushion any external shock, the Reserve Bank
of India (RBI) bought the
highest amount of dollars,
after a gap of seven years, at
$49.2 billion in AprilFebruary of the past fiscal.
The central bank net purchased the currency from the
spot market in April 2014-
February 2015, according to
the central bank data, which
comes with a lag of two
months. The Reserve Bank
had bought $115.9 billion
from the market during the
period while it sold $66.7 billion, according to the RBI
data. The period also saw the
forex reserves touching a
record $338 billion to the
week ended February 27.
"With the country's macro
fundamentals improving, we
have seen robust capital
flows," Yes Bank chief economist Shubhada Rao said.
"Simultaneously, we have
also seen RBI intervening in
the market to cushion volatility, but more implicitly
allowing
the
nominal
exchange rate to adjust closer
to its fair value, which at
present is 64-65 to the dollar
after adjusting for inflation
and productivity differentials. This has resulted in an
improvement
in
forex
reserves," Rao said.
"When inflows are more, the
supply of dollar increases and
it results in rupee appreciation, which is not good for
exports. The RBI buys these
excess dollar supply and add
to their reserves. This is a
way to maintain orderly
movement of the rupee," said
a senior dealer with a public
sector bank. The rupee had
depreciated by around 4 per
cent in the financial year
gone by, against a whopping
around 20 per cent appreciation in the previous fiscal,
making it the best performing
EM currency.
Experts say with higher purchases of dollars, the Reserve
Bank is also trying to create
buffer against any volatility.
"There is an expectation that
the interest rates in the US is
likely to go up. The RBI is
buying dollars to equip itself
with enough reserves to
avoid volatility," said a senior
bank official with a stateowned bank.
The Reserve Bank has
always maintained that its
intervention in the currency
market is to curb volatility
and not to achieve any particular level."Our intervention
in exchange market has historically been to reduce
exchange rate volatility and
that's not just the volatility
today but also anticipated
volatility,"
Governor
Raghuram Rajan had said at
the last policy review on
April 7.
the NORTHLINES Jammu
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JKOA to hold elections in May end
Office bearers of affiliated state sports associations attend
a meeting of JKOA at Jammu on Sunday.
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: Jammu
and Kashmir Olympic
Association (JKOA) has
decided to hold its over due
elections in the end of May.
Earlier, the elections were
scheduled for this month.
The meeting which was
chaired by JKOA president,
Rangil Singh and attended
besides others by represen-
tatives of the affiliated state
sports associations also discussed the modalities to
felicitate those medal winner athletes in the recently
held National Games.
All the members were of
the opinion that funds
should raised to present
medal winners cash awards
worth Rs one lakh, Rs
50,000 and 31,000 to the
first, second and third position holders as also Rs
21,000 for those coaches.
It was also decided to hold
the elections of J&K
Olympic Associations in the
last week of May.
England coach Peter Moores
defends captain Alastair Cook
GRENADA:
England
coach Peter Moores has
defended his side and
under-pressure
skipper
Alastair Cook after the visiting team were unable to
seal victory on the fifth and
final day of the first Test
against the West Indies
here.
Cook’s side entered the
final day needing eight
wickets to win and had the
home side reduced to 189/6
with more than 50 overs
still left to bowl -- only for
Denesh Ramdin (57) and
Jason Holder (103 not out)
to hang on for the draw on
Friday.
Despite the result and
Cook’s own meagre returns
with the bat -- 24 runs
across
both
innings,
Moores threw his support
behind the embattled skipper. “I have known lots of
people in sport and, in
terms of character, Cook is
one of the strongest,”
Moores was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au on
Sunday.
“Even though he didn’t get
a score here you could see
he’s found some form with
the way he’s hitting the ball
and moving. It was frustrating, but he’s a very good
player and it’s almost been
forgotten how strongly he
finished the Test summer
against India,” the England
coach said.
Cook’s opening partner
Jonathan Trott is also under
pressure after managing
just four runs, including a
second-innings duck, in the
drawn Test.
“Trott has earned the right
to get a go,” Moores said.
"It was his first Test for a
long time and that was
always going to be tough
but this is a player who has
played some brilliant
innings for England and
he’s got a good chance now
to show that he’s still got
that ability,” he said.
Yusuf is still our
trump card: Akram
Yusuf Pathan stuck with the
Shah Rukh Khan-owned
unit, playing a crucial role in
the team’s title triumph in
2012 and 2014.
Yusuf Pathan may not have
set this edition of the IPL
ablaze with his powerful batting just yet but Kolkata
Knight Riders bowling consultant Wasim Akram feels
the swashbuckling all-rounder is still the team’s “trump
card” and one of the biggest
hitters in cricket’s shortest
format.
After making an impression
in the cash-rich league for
Rajasthan Royals in the first
three seasons under skipper
Shane Warne, Yusuf was
taken by KKR in 2011 for
$2.1 million. The destructive
batsman has since stuck with
the Shah Rukh Khan-owned
unit, playing a crucial role in
the team’s title triumph in
2012 and 2014.
The Baroda-born player may
not have fired in this season
so far, but he played the
sheet anchor’s role to perfection with his 28 not out in the
95-run partnership with
Andre Russell (66) in the
team’s four-wicket win
against Kings XI Punjab, and
Akram backs the big-hitter
to come to the party and get
big runs soon.
“Yusuf is only 32, he is still
our trump card. He is still
one of the biggest hitters in
this format. He is enjoying
his confidence. It is really
handy to have a player like
Yusuf Pathan. He can bowl,
he can bat and he can field as
well,” Akram told PTI in an
interview.
The Sultan of Swing is also
impressed with off-spinner
Sunil Narine’s remodelled
action after the mystery
bowler’s doosra was questioned in the Champions
League Twenty20 event last
year. The West Indies player
may just have picked up a
wicket in the three games so
far but Akram said the champion bowler will soon get
used to his new action.
“I am very impressed with
Sunil Narine. Even with his
remodelled action his bite is
the same. Of course, it takes
a little while to adjust to your
new action. I think let him
play another two or three
matches and he will only get
better. I don’t think the
change has affected his
effectiveness,” the former
Pakistan captain said.
In a team full of spinners,
Akram has still managed to
make an imprint, with the
bowlers speaking highly of
the pace legends mentoring
ways. Akram is just too
happy to help a bunch of talented youngsters.
“See, spinner or fast bowler,
the bowling psyche is the
same. My job is to work on
their psyche, give them confidence.
We give them different scenarios in nets. We do the nets
like a match and there is a
free ball if they bowl a no
ball. How to set a field to a
particular kind of bowling,
all these drills are carried
out. We have some quality
spinners in the side.
“There is Shakib (Al Hasan),
Sunil
Narine,
Piyush
Chawla, two young spinners
in Kuldeep (Yadav) and
(KC) Cariappa and then
there is (Brad) Hogg and
(Johan) Botha. The young
spinners talk a lot to the two
senior spinners and they
bowl together in the nets and
they learn a lot from each
other,” said the left—arm
pacer.
With Pakistan players barred
from participating in the
popular league, former
Pakistan all-rounder Azhar
Mehmood has managed to
seal a deal with KKR after
holding a British passport.
Akram insists that his former
teammate has a definite role
to play in this edition.
“Look, it will be a team decision. Gautam Gambhir, the
coaching staff and I believe
in horses for courses. Where
the wicket will be seaming a
bit Azhar can make an
impact. He is a very useful
and match-winning allrounder,” he opined.
IPL 2015 SCHEDULE
Match 17
Delhi Daredevils VS Kolkata Knight Riders
Ferozeshah Kotla , Delhi
Two nice injections of confidence
helped us: Gary Kirsten
NEW DELHI: Upbeat after
getting over the line in their
previous two humdingers,
Delhi Daredevils coach
Gary Kirsten believes the
team can surely take the
momentum forward in the
four straight home IPL
games at the Feroz Shah
Kotla starting tomorrow
against Kolkata Knight
Riders.
"It's good to get the wins
and I think it was important
for us to get the winning
feeling going and the winning habit. So I was pleased
from that perspective,"
Kirsten said on the eve of
their fifth match, here today.
"I think creating some
momentum, that's the key.
Just keep the momentum
going and maintain that. We
have had two nice little
injections of confidence
now, so we need to maintain
that form and stay confident," he added.
Unlucky to lose two close
games first up, the JeanPaul Duminy-led side
bounced back in the next
two to rise up the ranks.
After chasing down 166
Young openers Mayank
Agarwal and Shreyas Iyer
have also performed well
for the team and Kirsten
said the team has always
backed its youngsters. "We
have backed them all along
(younger lot). We are happy
with that," he said.
Tournaments biggest buy,
Yuvraj SIngh, who was
bagged by DD for a record
Rs 16 crore, also came to the
party with a well-made 54
against King XI. Kirsten,
who saw the veteran lefthander get the man of the
series award in India's 2011
World Cup triumph when
the South African was the
national coach, is delighted
with Yuvraj's effort.
Victoria Azarenka propels
Belarus past Japan in Fed Cup
TOKYO: Former world
number
one
Victoria
Azarenka scored wins in singles and doubles as Belarus
scraped past Japan 3-2 in
their Fed Cup World Group
playoff in Tokyo on Sunday.
Azarenka
overpowered
Kurumi Nara 6-3, 6-3 before
being pressed into action
again as an emergency doubles replacement after Ayumi
Morita
had
stunned
Aliaksandra Sasnovich to
take the tie to the wire.
Japan`s hopes of completing
an unlikely comeback after
Udhampur, Reasi
climbing meets on May 3
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU: Organised by
the
Mountaineering
Association of J&K in
collaboration
with
Sprawling Buds School,
Lakshmipuram Chinore,
here, the Udhampur and
Reasi
district
Sport
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Championships shall be
held on May three.
"About 200 climbers
from various institutions
of the two districts are
likely to participate in
the
competition.
However, in case, the
number of participants
exceeds 200 climbers, the
competition may extend
to the two days",
informed organising secretary of the event,
Shawetica Khajuria.
The competition, to be
conducted on the pre
fabricated 40ft high
Tenzing Norgay Sport
Climbing
Wall
at
Sprawling Buds School,
shall be held in six categories of men, women
(born in 1998 and earlier), boys, girls (born in
1999, 2000 and 2001) and
sub junior boys and girls
(born in 2002, 2003 and
after).
Whereas men,
with a ball to spare against
Kings XI Punjab, DD
stopped
SunRisers
Hyderabad from getting 10
runs of the final six deliveries. Kirsten was happy with
the way the team has
responded under pressure.
"Pretty happy with the way
the guys responded in pressure situations. We had four
really tough games and
came through in two of
them. So I think we are
comfortable and on the right
track. We have come to
understand whatever we
need to do in our combinations and so I am happy,"
said the former South
African batsman.
"I have been close to having
a heart attack. But good to
have those, to kind of get
used to them. So this was
something that we needed to
do and to be able to pull
through in two of them has
been fantastic," he added.
women, boys and girls
shall compete both in
'lead
climbing'
and
'speed climbing', those
sub junior boys and girls
shall participate in 'lead
climbing'
only.
Interested climbers have
been advised to contact
the organising secretary,
Shawetica Khajuria on
Mobile No. 99062-16637
or visit personally to the
venue on any working
day up to May one. On
the spot registration
shall also be done at
Sprawling Buds School
from 8 am to 9 am on
May three. Whereas a
qualified national judge
in
sport
climbing,
Shawetica Khajuria shall
also be the president of
the jury of the competition, Shashi Kant and
Aman Arora, both senior
sport climbers, shall be
the route setters.
These technical officials
shall be supported by
another technical team of
the Association including Sonam Sidharth,
Puneet Sharma and
Hardev
Singh.
The
championship has been
sponsored by J&K State
ports Council.
Morita`s gritty 7-6, 4-6, 6-4
win were dashed when
Azarenka
and
Olga
Govortsova saw off Morita
and Shuko Aoyama 6-3, 6-4
to seal promotion for
Belarus.
Azarenka,
a
two-time
Australian Open champion
who topped the women`s
world rankings three years
ago, needed an hour and 30
minutes to wrap up her second singles win following a
delay to close the roof due to
rain.
Azarenka dropped just three
games in beating Doi in
Saturday`s opener, but Nara
levelled by wearing down
Govortsova in the reverse
singles.
As Kei Nishikori continues
to blaze a trail for Japan in
the men`s game, Japan`s
women have struggled to
make a significant impact on
the sport since Kimiko Date
reached number four in the
world in 1995.
They reached the Fed Cup
semi-finals in 1996 after
Date memorably beat Steffi
Graf 12-10 in the third set of
an epic match against the
German
in
Tokyo.
Belarusian players competed
under the Soviet Union flag
until 1991.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel hopes
for Bahrain battle with Mercedes
MANAMA: Formula One
world champion Lewis
Hamilton expects resurgent
Ferrari to be hard to beat in
Sunday`s Bahrain Grand
Prix and Sebastian Vettel
hopes to prove him right.
After the pair qualified on
the front row on Saturday,
with Hamilton on pole for
the fourth race in succession
for Mercedes, Vettel told
reporters his Italian team
had taken another important
step. "We are trying to push
on all areas but for now I
think we can be very, very
happy with where we are,"
said the four-times champion, who has been on the
podium in all three races for
Ferrari since he left Red
Bull. "Today is the first time
we were able to split them
(the Mercedes drivers) in
true dry conditions in qualifying, so very happy."
Hamilton`s team mate Nico
Rosberg qualified third,
with
Ferrari`s
Kimi
Raikkonen fourth.
"I think in the race we are
maybe a bit closer, so we
will see what happens,"
Vettel added.
"We are progressing as a
team. For this race we didn’t
bring any updates in particular, so it’s really that the circuit is maybe a little bit better for us. "And...continuously working with the car,
getting on top of what to do
with the car and learning
how the changes are reacting on track. So, I think
that’s the area where we are
making most progress at the
minute." Hamilton, who has
won two out of three races
and leads Vettel by 13 points
in the standings, will not be
able to control the race as he
did in China when he had
Rosberg behind him. All the
talk before Bahrain was of a
re-run of last year`s race, a
wheel-to-wheel
battle
between the Mercedes drivers under the floodlights.
It could turn out instead to
be a repeat of last month`s
Malaysian Grand Prix
where the front row was the
same, and Rosberg also
qualified third, but Vettel
won with better tyre management and strategy.
"We’ve gone over it tons of
times already about what we
have learned, but it doesn’t
get us away from the fact
that they are very quick this
weekend," said Hamilton.
"They are going to be very
hard to beat tomorrow, they
have great race pace."
Vettel, sitting alongside in a
news conference, could only
agree. "I hope he`s right,"
the German said.
"He is a quality player. We
know that we can get performances out of him and he
is keen to do well, so we
can't ask for more," he said.
Leg-spinner Imran Tahir, 9
scalps in 4 matches, and
Amit Mishra have also
made it count in key situations. Kirsten not only rates
them as key players but also
lauds the team's bowling
department.
"They are key bowlers without a doubt. They are important to us. But it's not only
them. We have got Coulter
Nile, who really bowled
well yesterday and closed
the game for us. That's what
you need in T20 cricket, you
need game breakers. There
are guys who do a bit of ball
and guys that do a bit of bat.
So that's got to be exciting,"
said Kirsten.
Even Duminy is happy to
get the right balance in the
four matches so far, especially after the two wins. "It
takes a team to put in a good
performance. We made a
couple of errors but we
somehow found a way to get
two points. At the start of
the tournament that was the
goal, to somehow find a
way to get two points no
matter how that happens.
"I think we have figured our
combination as far as batting is concerned and it's
going pretty well now," the
South African said.
"I think we have the balance
now in terms of who suits
where in what situation. It's
always the responsibility of
the top six to get runs and
we have done it in the past
few games," he added.
Narain Karthikeyan scorches to
maiden podium finish in Japan
SUZUKA: Top Indian
racing driver Narain
Karthikeyan overcame
a sluggish start to finish third in the season
opener of the Japanbased Super Formula
Championship here on
Sunday, sealing his
first ever podium in the
fastest single seater
series outside Formula
1. Karthikeyan, starting from second on the
grid, lost three places
on the opening lap before recovering to finish third in the 43lap race at the famous Suzuka Circuit. Three-time Le Mans
winner Andre Lotterer won the race, 9.4 seconds ahead of
2014 champion Kazuki Nakajima. It was a welcome result
for the 38-year-old Indian, who endured a tough opening season last year when he finished 13th in the Championship
with five points. Karthikeyan was extremely satisfied with
the result in his first outing with Team Dandelion Racing. "It
(the result) is definitely pleasing considering the quality of
the field. You are competing against guys like Lotterer, who
won the WEC (World Endurance Championship) opening
race just last week. Then you have former F1 drivers like
Nakajima and Kobayashi (Kamui), who has been on the F1
podium. So surely a good result and promising start,"
Karthikeyan told PTI. The ex-F1 racer is driving Hondapowered cars this season and he feels it is a much improved
engine. "Unlike last season, Honda is competing with Toyota
powered cars and that is good news for us. The car felt fantastic today. We have a strong package and now we need to
make the most out of it." Asked if the car is capable of winning, Karthikeyan replied in the affirmative. "We can surely
win with this car and that is the aim going into the next
round. Plus I know all the tracks now unlike last season. So
we will have to capitalise on all these factors and do the best
we can," he said.
Karthikeyan's 2014 campaign was further dented by a 250
kmph crash during qualifying at Autopolis. It took months
for him to recover from the accident but he is now fully fit
and in good space. "I am happy to be racing alongside some
high profile driver. People tend to talk about the age factor
but I have always believed in my ability. I will continue racing as long as I remain quick," he asserted.
The Championship moves to the Okayama International
Circuit on May 23-24.
Champion Marquez
takes pole in Argentina
ARGENTINA:
Termas de Río Hondo:
Reigning double world
champion
Marc
Marquez stormed to
his 24th pole position
in just 39 MotoGP
races in Argentina on
Saturday.
The Spanish Honda
rider will line up
alongside compatriot
Aleix
Esparago
(Suzuki) and Italy`s Andrea Iannone (Ducati) on the front
row of the grid. The 22-year-old flew around the Thermes de
Rio Hondo circuit in 1min 37.802sec to snatch pole for the
second year in a row here. Britain`s Carl Crutchlow (Honda),
Spain`s former world champion Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) and
Italian Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) will start on the second
row. Italian legend Valentino Rossi, who won the first race of
the season, could manage only eighth fastest on a Yamaha.
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Egypt court sentences 11 to
death over 2012 football riot
Agencies
CAIRO, Apr 19: An
Egyptian court on Sunday
sentenced 11 football
fans to death after a retrial over a 2012 stadium
riot in the canal city of Port
Said that left 74 people
dead.An appeals court
had ordered the retrial of
73 defendants in February last year after rejecting a lower court verdict
sentencing 21 people to
death for being involved
in the incident.
The riot erupted in February 2012 when fans of
home team Al-Masry and
Cairo's Al-Ahly clashed
after a premier league
match between the two
clubs.
Sunday's death sentences against 11 football
fans have been referred
to Egypt's grand mufti.
The court will make a final decision on their
fates, as well as those of
the other defendants, on
May 30.
The 73 defendants include nine police officers
and three officials from AlMasry club, while the rest
were fans of Al-Masry
club.Two of those sentenced to death are on the
run. None of the families of
the victims or of the defendants attended Sunday's
court session, which was
held in Cairo for security
reasons. Sunday's verdict
can be appealed.
The 2012 clashes in the
Port Said stadium sparked
days of violent protests in
Cairo, in which another 16
people were killed in fighting with security forces.
A year later, dozens of
people also died in the canal city during clashes
that erupted after the lower
court handed down the 21
death sentences.
The Port Said riots were
the deadliest sport-related
riots in Egypt, where football fans regularly clash
against rival supporters or
with security forces.
The authorities reacted
by imposing a ban on fans
attending premier league
matches and held the
games behind closed
doors. But on February 8,
at least 19 people died in a
stampede after police fired
tear gas at fans trying to
force their way into a Cairo
stadium for a premier
league match that was
open to the public.
Television
footage
showed crowds squeezed
inside a narrow metal enclosure, jostling to enter
the stadium when the
stampede erupted as police fired tear gas.
The police reject the accusations and blame the
unrest on Islamists. Sixteen suspects accused of
clashing with police on
that day have been arrested and referred to trial.
Since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed
Morsi in July 2013, his supporters have been the target of a brutal government
crackdown overseen by
his successor President
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Egypt's hard-core football fans, the "ultras", have
often clashed with police,
including in political unrest that has seen two
presidents toppled since
2011.
The "ultras" were at the
forefront of protests
against long-time autocrat
Hosni Mubarak, who
stepped down in early 2011
after an 18-day uprising
against his rule.
That uprising was essentially against the police,
who were regularly accused of torturing detainees and of being involved
in extra-judicial executions.
90,000 people have fled
IS advance in Iraq’s Anbar
Agencies
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BAGHDAD, Apr 19: The
displaced people are
mainly heading to
Baghdad a n d t h e I S M
K held city of Fallujah,
said the UN.More than
province, which has set
off fierce fighting in
and around the provincial capital Ramadi, a
United Nations humanitarian agency said Sunday. The Office for the
Coordination of Hu-
nearby villages captured by the IS group a
few days ago. It said
humanitarian agencies
have moved quickly to
provide assistance, including food, water and
shelter. “Our top prior-
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90,000 people have
fled the Islamic State
g r o u p ’s a d v a n c e i n
Iraq’s western Anbar
manitarian Affairs said
in a statement that civilians are fleeing
Ramadi as well as three
ity is delivering lifesaving assistance to
people who are fleeing
— food, water and shelter are highest on the
list of priorities,” said
Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian coordinator
for Iraq. Grande expressed concern over
the safety of the displaced people, who are
mainly heading to
Baghdad and the ISheld city of Fallujah.
“Seeing people carrying what little they can
and rushing for safety
is heart-breaking,” she
added.
Iraqi officials in Anbar
have described Ramadi
as a ghost town, with
empty streets and
closed shops.
Iraqi troops backed by
Shiite militias and USled airstrikes managed
to dislodge the IS
group from the northern
city of Tikrit earlier this
month. But the troops
have struggled against
the militants in Anbar,
which saw some of the
heaviest fighting of the
eight-year US military
intervention that ended
in 2011.
Resume Foreign Secy-level talks: Pak to India
Agencies
LAHORE, Apr 19: India
had cancelled talks in August last year because the
Paki High Commissioner in
New Delhi held consultations with Kashmiri separatists. Pakistan has called
on India to resume foreign
secretary-level talks to resolve all outstanding issues, saying with peace
the menace of poverty, illiteracy and injustice in the
region can be eradicated.
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“Although the Indian
Foreign Secretary visited
Pakistan on March 3 this
year, it was ‘a goodwill gesture’. The formal talks have
yet to resume,” Prime Min-
ister Nawaz Sharif’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs
Sartaj Aziz said.
Aziz made the remarks at
a seminar titled ‘MuslimSikh Dosti Di Tarjman
Baisakhi (Baisakhi represents Muslim-Sikh friendship)’ here at the Lahore
Fort last evening.
“Pakistan believes in
peace in the region and desires to initiate dialogue on
all issues with India. If there
will be peace, we all can
eradicate the menace of
poverty, illiteracy and injustice in the region,” he
said. He urged India to resume the process of dialogue as agreed by the two
premiers — Nawaz Sharif
and Narendra Modi — during their meeting last year.
Aziz expressed wonder at
the “inordinate delay” by
India in resuming foreign
secretary-level talks.
“Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif after 2013 general
elections had announced
an economic and social development roadmap for the
country through developing good relations with the
neighbours, including India. Under this policy, Mr
Sharif went to India and
took part in the oath-taking
ceremony of Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi,”
Aziz said.
During their meeting on
May 27, 2014, both premiers agreed to resume foreign secretary-level talks.
“And on August 25, subsequently India conveyed
to us about sending its foreign secretary to Islamabad
in this regard,” he said.
When Foreign Secretary
S Jaishankar visited
Islamabad, he was on a
goodwill visit to SAARC
countries and that only
SAARC-related matters
were discussed by him during his visit in March, Aziz
said.
India had cancelled foreign secretary-level talks in
August last year because
the Pakistan High Commissioner in New Delhi held
consultations
with
Kashmiri separatists.
Iran,Afghanistan
to join forces in
battle against
Islamic State
Agencies
TEHRAN, apr 19: Afghanistan and Iran today announced plans for enhanced security cooperation to combat threats from
the Islamic State group, including possible joint military operations.
Standing alongside visiting Afghan leader Ashraf
Ghani, Iran’s President
Hassan Rouhani said the
tumult hitting the region
meant intelligence must be
shared. His comments
came after IS, which holds
swathes of Syria and Iraq,
said it was responsible for
a suicide bombing in
Afghanistan’s eastern city
of Jalalabad which killed 33
people. The attack on Saturday at a state-owned
bank wheregovernment
workers were drawing their
salaries was the first in Afghanistan claimed by IS.
More than 100 people were
also wounded.
Ghani’s two-day visit to
Iran is his first since taking over from president
Hamid Karzai in September, and he was accompanied on the trip by his foreign minister and minister
for oil and mines.
The Afghan leader has
repeatedly raised the prospect of IS making inroads
in his country, though the
jihadist group has never
formally acknowledged
having a presence in Afghanistan.
A former finance minister and World Bank technocrat, Ghani said IS presented “a serious danger
and different form of terrorism”.
“People die daily, we face
barbarism,” he said at a
joint press conference,
prompting Rouhani to nod
in agreement.
“And without greater cooperation a macabre phenomenon such as Daesh
cannot be contained,”
Ghani said, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
Rouhani said: “We have
agreed to cooperate further in the fight against terrorism, violence and extremism in the region, especially in border regions.
“We need intelligence
sharing and, if necessary,
cooperation in operations
because the problems that
exist are not restricted and
gradually spread throughout the region, affecting
everyone.”
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Finns vote, expected
to oust government
Agencies
HELSINKI , Apr 19:- Finns
voted on Sunday in an
election expected to usher
the opposition Centre
Party into government
amid voter discontent over
conservative Prime Minister Alexander Stubb's failure to pull Finland out of
a three-year economic
slump.
Public opinion polls
have predicted a resounding victory for the liberalagrarian Centre Party
leader Juha Sipila, a 53year-old IT millionaire and
newcomer to politics.
Polling stations were to
close at 8:00 pm (1700
GMT), when the results of
advance voting - by
which more than one-third
of the electorate cast their
ballots - were to be released. Campaigning
heavily on his business
know-how, Sipila has
vowed to get the
economy back on track after three years of recession and stagnation, austerity and failed reforms.
"Our country deserves
better," Sipila wrote on his
blog Saturday. "Politics
must be returned to a climate of trust." Elected to
parliament in 2011, Sipila
became party leader in
2012 when he was still virtually unknown to most
Finns.
Stubb's four-party left-
right coalition has been
mired in internal discord,
preventing it from pushing
through any real policy
changes.
Finland was long a top
performer in the eurozone,
hailed by Germany and
credit rating agencies for
running a tight economic
ship. But it has failed to
adapt to a rapidly changing
economic climate.
The two pillars of its
economy, the forestry sector and technology industry led by one-time giant
Nokia, have shrunk dramatically, while two of
Finland's biggest trading
partners, Russia and the
eurozone, are slogging
through their own economic woes.
Unemployment is at its
highest level since 2003, at
9.2 per cent.
The Centre Party, in opposition since 2011 and
which has fostered 12
prime ministers, has recently been credited with
around 24 per cent support.
"The main point in this
election is the bad economic situation in Finland,
so I voted for people I believe are experts in the
economy," 64-year-old
Jorma Mahonen said after
casting his ballot in
Helsinki.
Rafael Donner, 25, was
pessimistic.
"I don't think this election
is going to change much.
Society won't accept that
GDP can't grow forever,"
he said.
"I believe we in Finland
have enough. I look at my
friends and they all have
iPhones, go on holiday to
nice places, and have
brunches every weekend." If a Centre victory
is confirmed, Sipila's first
task will be to pick his coalition partners. Tradition
dictates that the largest
party takes the post of
prime minister and forms a
government with the other
largest parties to obtain a
majority in parliament.
Several weeks of thorny
negotiations are expected
before Sipila is able to
present a coalition.
Faced with Finland's economic woes, "the government programme will be
quite difficult to create,"
Helsinki University political history professor
Juhana Aunesluoma predicted.
Three parties are fighting
for second place, hovering
between 14 and 17 per cent
in the polls: Stubb's conservative National Coalition Party, the Social
Democrats and the rightwing eurosceptic Finns
Party.
'Need bold solutions'
Sipila has not revealed
which parties he would
like to see join his future
coalition.
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UN report finds Afghan
women failed by justice system
Agencies
KABUL, Apr 19: The report reflects the experiences of 110 women and
girls who were victims of
violence.Afghanistan’s
women are being failed by
the country’s justice system as most complaints of
domestic violence are dealt
with through mediation
rather than prosecution,
according to the United
Nations.
A report released Sunday
concluded that only 5 percent of surveyed domestic violence cases were resolved through the judicial
system, resulting in criminal prosecution and punishment for perpetrators.
The UN’s assistant secretary general for human
rights, Ivan Simonovic,
said women often choose
mediation to resolve complaints of violence, partly
because they lack faith in
the justice system.
“The interviews with
women and girls subjected to violence revealed
that negative perceptions
of the justice system as
slow, corrupt and distant
continued to discourage
women from pursuing
criminal prosecution of
the
perpetrators,”
Simonovic said.
The UN findings also in-
largely concerned with logistical and financial matters such as divorce, receiving fair alimony, custody
settlements, and safe living arrangements rather
than seeking criminal prosecution. As such, mediation appeared to offer a
and address such matters.
The report reflects the
experiences of 110 women
and girls who were victims of violence and
whose complaints were
addressed through adjudication or mediation in 18
dicate that the majority of
women interviewed were
suitable and culturally acceptable forum to discuss
provinces between August
2014 and February 2015.
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