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Quake toll likely to touch 10,000 Mark
 Rescue ops not effective: Nepal PM
 5,057 bodies recovered so far; 8 million people affected: UN
KATHMANDU, APRIL 28
Rescuers and international
aid workers on Tuesday
struggled to reach relief in
remote areas of Nepal which is
still battling the aftermath of
Saturday's killer earthquake
whose death toll has been put at
around 10,000 by Prime
Minister Sushil Koirala.
Three days after the 7.9magnitude temblor flattened
their homes and dwellings,
desperate people across Nepal
looked for succour from
helicopters that criss-cross the
Himalayan nation as massive
international aid, including
from India, poured in.
Prime Minister Koirala, who
was in Indonesia when the
earthquake struck and returned
home on Sunday, held an all
party meeting in which he said
government was sending
desperately needed tents, water
and food supplies to those in
need.
He acknowledged that
authorities were overwhelmed
by appeals for help from remote
villages but the administration
has been unable to initiate
rescue efforts in many areas
due to lack of equipment and
rescue experts.
Koirala told Reuters that the
death toll could reach 10,000
because information from the
affected remote villages is yet
to come.
Eight million people have
been
affected
by
the
devastating earthquake, the
Spice Jet plane
suffers bird hit,
lands safely in
Srinagar
BJP distributes assignments
before municipal elections
SRINAGAR, APRIL 28
A Spice Jet flight with
over 180 people on board
suffered a bird hit while
landing at the international
airport here this morning, but
no one was injured.
The aircraft was grounded
after the incident.
"There was a bird hit on a
Spice Jet flight SG160
coming from Jammu at the
airport at 11:10 am,"
Director
of
Srinagar
International Airport, R N
Shinde said. "The aircraft
experienced bird hit on the
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Girl commits
suicide
CHENNAI: A 17-year-old
Class 11 girl student
committed suicide at her
house in Pazhavanthangal
here on Tuesday evening
after being scolded by her
parents for falling in love
with a relative.
Police
said
Janani
Jayakumar,
who
was
studying at a private school
in the area, had been often
pulled up by her parents and
teachers
for
not
concentrating on her studies.
Her parents scolded her
when they came to know
that she was in love with a
relative. They advised her to
concentrate on her studies.
On Tuesday evening, when
she was alone at home, she
hanged herself from a
ceiling
fan.
The
Pazhavanthangal
police
rushed to the spot and
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JAMMU, APRIL 28:
To further streamline the
party programmes and speed up
various activities and works,
State Working Committee of
the BJP, in its meeting held at
Katra recently, took decisions
in this regard and bestowed
responsibilities to party leaders.
According to an official
handout, Member of Parliament
Shamsher Singh Manhas and
party Spokesperson Farooq
Khan has been assigned with
the responsibility of assisting
the party in the Urban Local
United Nations said today.
Over 1.4 million need food:
UN
More than 1.4 million need
food, while water and shelter
are also in short supply, the UN
said in a report.
Hundreds of people are still
trapped under tonnes of rubble
in capital Kathmandu and some
of the worst-affected remote
mountainous areas.
Koirala has admitted that the
rescue, relief and search
operations have not been
effective. He has urged the
political parties to work
together in this national crisis.
At least 5,057 bodies have so
far been recovered after
Saturday's massive earthquake
that struck just outside of
body elections. Col. Uttam
Singh has been nominated as
Convenor and Bansi Lal Bharti,
Pawan Khajuria, Haleema
Begum, Gyal Wangyal as
members of Aajivan Sehyog
Nidhi. Pramodh Kapahi has
been nominated as Convenor
and Ashok Khajuria (MLC),
Harinder Gupta, Aseem Gupta,
Sat Sharma (MLA), Ajat Shatru
Singh (MLC) as members of
the team constituted for
supervising the construction
work of the party's Office
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capital Kathmandu, a Nepalese
police official said. Over
10,000 people have been
injured in the quake.
Indian Ambassador Ranjit
Rae today met Koirala and
briefed him on the relief and
rescue assistance provided by
India under 'Operation Maitri'.
The Prime Minister thanked
the Ambassador for India's
swift response on relief and
rescue assistance.
"Our assistance so far has
included makeshift hospitals,
food, water, medicines, search
and rescue teams, power
restoration
team,
two
engineering teams and more
assistance in terms of dry food
ration and essential medicines
are expected soon," Embassy
sources told PTI.
India's NDRF teams are also
working at the world heritage
sites in Kathmandu Valley.
Indian defence teams are
flying to far-flung areas such as
Gorkha district where the
epicentre of the quake was
located.
The Ambassador also met
with the Nepal's Chief of Army
General Gaurav Rana and
sought assistance of the
Nepalese Army for the
evacuation of Indians from
remote mountainous regions in
Nepal. To this the Army Chief
promised full support and
assistance, the source said.
Nine districts highly affected
Meanwhile, the Nepalese
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JAMMU, APRIL 28
Jammu
and
Kashmir
government had spent over
Rs 1,325 crore during 201314 in violation of budgetary
provisions, according to the
Comptroller and Auditor
General (CAG) of India.
"It was noticed that
expenditure of Rs 1325.33
crore was incurred in 68
major heads of account
without
any
(budget)
provision during 2013-14,"
said a CAG report on state
finance for the year ending
March 31, 2014.
This has been spent
without provision in the
original
estimates
and
supplementary demand and
without any re-appropriation
orders to this effect, CAG
report said.
Giving further details, the
report said that the highest
expenditure of Rs 401.51
crore
without
budget
provision was in education
department, followed by Rs
2 victims of earthquake
consigned to flames at Jammu
33 stranded persons flown back to Srinagar
death of the members of
the family. The Dy CM
announced an ex-gratia of
Rs. 1 lac each to the next
kin of the family.
Meanwhile, 36 persons
hailing from Kashmir
valley who were stranded
in Nepal following the
recent
devastating
earthquake
were
evacuated
from
Kathmandu to New Delhi
and were flown back to
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Colin Stark, Lamont
Associate Research Professor
at the Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Columbia
University.
"A part of India slid about
1 to 10 feet northwards and
underneath Nepal in a matter
of seconds," Stark said.
"The rock (we call it the
"crust", or more precisely
'lithosphere') below Bihar
slid under Nepal along a
zone from Bharatpur, through
Hetauda, to Janakpur," Stark
told PTI.
"It's important to realise
that all of northern India is
sliding north under Nepal,
etc., all the time. The point is
that the sliding takes place
abruptly at different patches
at different times," Stark
said. Geophysicists have long
monitored how fast the
Earth's plates are moving,
and it is known that the
entire subcontinent of India
is being driven slowly but
surely underneath Nepal and
Tibet at a speed of around
1.8 inches per year, Stark
earlier wrote in an article
published on CNN website.
Over millions of years, the
squeezing has crushed the
Himalayas like a concertina,
raising mountains to heights
of several miles and
triggering earthquakes on a
regular basis from Pakistan
to Burma.
"Saturday's quake was
neither unusual nor
unexpected, although it was
larger than most," Stark said.
In the 81 years since the
1934 Bihar earthquake,
which killed around 10,000
people, the land mass of
India has been pushed about
12 feet into Nepal.
"Think of all that
movement getting stored in a
272.63 crore in social welfare
department.
Rs 85.73 crore were spent
in Industries and Commerce
department, Rs 83.90 crore in
Higher
Education
department, Rs 74.16 crore in
Rural
Development
department, Rs 74 crore in
housing
and
urban
development, Rs 72.64 crore
in agriculture department and
Rs 70.14 crore and Rs 3 lakh
in hospitality and protocol
department. PTI
Vigilance files
charge-sheet in
Rs 22 Cr fraud
SRINAGAR:
Jammu and Kashmir
State
Vigilance
Organisation
on
Tuesday filed a chargesheet against 60 people,
including government
officials, for their
alleged
role
in
embezzlement of over
Rs 22 crores from funds
meant to compensate
people whose lands
were
acquired
in
Pulwama.
After government had
accorded sanction for
launching prosecution
against the serving
public servants, the
charge sheet in the case
comprising about 2,000
pages was produced
before the court of
Special Judge, AntiCorruption Pulwama,
Part of India slid about 1 foot to
10 feet northwards
WASHINGTON, APRIL 28
A part of India slid about 1
foot to 10 feet northwards
and underneath Nepal in a
matter of seconds during the
devastating 7.9-magnitude
earthquake that hit the
neighbouring country on
Saturday, a US scientist has
said.
"Saturday's slip took place
over an area about 1,000 to
2,000 square miles over a
zone spanning the cities of
Kathmandu and Pokhara in
one direction, and almost the
entire Himalaya mountain
width in the other," said
JAMMU, APRIL 29
: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed on Tuesday said he is
resolved to provide a clean and accountable
government that fulfils the aspirations of people
residing in all the three regions of the state.
Addressing a public gathering after launching
'Ans Canal Irrigation Project' in Rajouri, Sayeed
promised to put Jammu and Kashmir firmly on
the path of development and prosperity.
This was Sayeed's first public meeting after
taking over as chief minister of the state.
Emphasising upon the holistic development
of all the three regions by echoing the slogan of
"Sabka Saath Sabka Vikaas", Sayeed said the
coalition government will strive to develop
Mughal Road as an all-weather alternate
highway.
"The declaration of Mughal Road as alternate
National Highway is in the agenda of the
coalition government. Efforts are on to throw it
open in the next couple of days," he said.
The chief minister said since the four-lanning
of the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway will
take some time, the government will
J&K spent Rs 1,325 cr in
violation of norms: CAG
DY CM ANNOUNCES EX-GRATIA
SRINAGAR APRIL 28:
The bodies of two
persons- a father son duo,
were brought to Jammu
and consigned to flames at
their native place. The
coffins were received by
the
wailing
family
members in a heartrendering
atmosphere.
The last rites were
performed where a large
number of people of and
around the adjoining
villages besides the
members
of
administration and police
participated.
Deputy Chief Minister,
Dr.
Nirmal
Singh
represented the state
government besides the
local MLAs were also
presented and condoled
the tragic and untimely
Mufti pledges for clean,
accountable govt in J&K
giant spring lying under
Nepal. The spring is stuck on
a broad, rough surface which
we call a fault plane," Stark
said.
Sometimes, energy stored
in the spring gets big enough
to slip catastrophically,
releasing all that pent-up
strain and generating shaking
strong enough to destroy
buildings and kill people
over a huge area, he
explained.
The bigger the area that
slips, and the larger the pentup energy, the greater the
damage. - PTI
Haq Nawaz Zargar
against the 60 accused
persons.
"Challan of the
biggest embezzlement
scam produced by
Vigilance Organisation
Kashmir against the
accused persons for
embezzlement of more
than Rs 22 crore from
the
accounts
of
Collector
Land
Acquisition Pulwama
out of funds meant for
compensation to the
land owners for four
lanning of National
Highway, was filed
today,"
a
SVO
spokesman said.
He
said
the
investigation of the case
was conducted by a
Special Investigation
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immediately develop and use Mughal Road as
an alternate highway.
The construction on the Mughal Road, which
had started during the PDP-led government in
2004, connects Poonch and Rajouri districts
with Shopian district in the Kashmir Valley.
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KPs rehabilitation
plan gets nod from MEA,
Defence and Finance
JAMMU, APRIL 27 (KIP):Reports from New Delhi
Indicate that the Ministry of
Finance, Defence and External
Affairs, have give their yes to
the new plan prepared by the
Ministry of Home Affairs on
rehabilitation of Kashmiri
displaced people back in the
valley.
Official sources said that
after receiving nod from the
Miniseries of Finance,
External Affairs and Defence
the plan is to be submitted to
the union cabinet for approval.
According to these,sources
after three ministries have
given their okay to the plan
cabinet nod has become mere
formality which was to be
completed within a couple of
days..
Sources made it clear that
the Union Home Ministry has
found a via media between
two extreme stands,one taken
by the centre for rehabilitating
the displaced people either in
separate clusters or in a
composite township and
second by the state
Government keen to resettle
the displaced people in their
native villages and
towns.Finding that
rehabilitation of displaced
people in their natives villages
and towns was not only
cumbersome but involved
various complicacies because
majority of the displaced
people had sold their houses
and land in their ancestral
places.
Hence the Union Home
Ministry has suggested to the
cabinet that sanction be
accorded for creation of
another 3,000 posts for
displaced youth.During the
previous Congress led UPA
Government the centre had
created 6,000 posts for the
displaced youth out of which
the wages for 3,000 posts had
to be met by the Government
of India and the state
Government had to meet the
wages for the remaining 3,000
posts.However,the previous
state Government had
conveyed to the centre that
since the financial position did
not warrant the state
Government to meet the wages
of 3,000 posts the centre
should bear the establishment
cost for all the 6,000 posts.The
previous central Government
kept the matter under the
carpet with the result not
more than 1700 to 2,000
displaced youth joined
Government departments in
the Kashmir valley.
Besides creation of 3,000
additional posts for the
displaced youth the Union
Home Ministry has suggested
to the cabinet to accord
sanction to the proposal under
which the per person cash
relief to migr ants was to be
increased from Rs.1600 to
Rs.2500 and the maximum
relief per family be raised
from Rs.6600 to Rs.10,000 per
month/..
In fact the demand for
increasing the cash relief had
been made by the leaders of
the displaced people some five
years ago and the previous
state Government had
forwarded its recommendation
to the centre but the previous
Congress led UPA Government
had again kept the matter
under the carpet.(KIP)
Mehbooba defends PSA
against Masarat
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR:
Ruling PDP President
Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday
defended invoking of Public
Safety Act (PSA) against
separatist Masarat Alam saying
that
actions
supporting
Lashker-e-Taiba terror group
chief Hafeez Saeed would have
vitiated the atmosphere in
Jammu and Kashmir.
Mehbooba, who had termed
PSA as a "black spot" on
democracy earlier as an
opposition leader, made it clear
that the decision was taken
keeping
in
mind
the
forthcoming tourism season.
"We released him and you
know what kind of opposition
we faced in implemneting the
Supreme Court order. We did
not have any problems in his
preaching whatever ideology he
follows but praising Hafeez
Saeed was too much," she told
Karan Thapar in an interview
for "To The Point" on
Headlines Today.
Asked whether there was no
problem in showing allegiance
to Pakistan, she said "his
behaviour was not only posing
a threat to law enforcement
agencies but people as well".
She said people were scared as
tourism season has set in.
Mehbooba said Alam was
creating an environment which
could have hit the tourist
season.
On withdrawal of Armed
Forces Special Powers Act,
Mehbooba remained noncommittal on the timeline but
vaguely said that all that has
been decided in the agenda of
alliance with BJP will be
adhered to.
"AFSPA is not going in one
go. It will be withdrawn in a
phased manner," she said.
The phased withdrawal of
AFSPA was mooted by the
previous government of Omar
Abdullah.
On the return of Kashmiri
Pandits and controversy on
composite
townships,
Mehbooba said return of
Kashmiri Pandits was the real
test of normalcy in Kashmir.
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Dr Jitendra arranges free Insulin
for earthquake hit Nepal
NEW DELHI, APRIL 28, CNS: diabetic population of over 7 recalled that Diabetologist itself will weigh about 4 tons
As a part of a personal
initiative on his behalf, Union
Minister
of
State
(Independent Charge) for
Development of North
Eastern Region (DoNER),
MoS PMO, Personnel, Public
Grievances,Pensions, Atomic
Energy and Space, Dr
Jitendra Singh, who is also a
nationally
renowned
Diabetologist, today arranged
to send a consignment of free
Insulin worth Rs.1 crore
consisting of 75,000 vials for
persons suffering from
Diabetes in the earthquake hit
Nepal.
Disclosing this, Dr
Jitendra Singh said, a small
country like Nepal has a
lakh people and the Insulin
consignment that is being
sent, consists of different
forms of Insulin...long-acting,
short-acting and the mixed
forms.
The arrangement has been
made with the cooperation of
a
leading
Insulin
manufacturing House and
would be a great boon
particularly to those of the
Diabetics who are either
Insulin dependent or Insulin
requiring, especially in a
situation where the rescue
operation gets delayed and a
diabetic person inadvertently
places himself at risk of life
for want of Insulin,he added.
Dr Jitendra Singh
fraternity of the two countries
of India and Nepal has always
worked in close coordination
both in academics as well as
in providing diabetic care. He
has himself been a part of a
number of Diabetes education
programmes and camps held
in Nepal over the last several
years.
And therefore, it is a
responsibility and obligation
of Diabetologists like him and
others, to rise to the occasion
and come to the assistance of
both the diabetic fraternity as
well as diabetic patients in the
country,he said.
Elaborating further, Dr
Jitendra Singh said, the first
consignment of 75,000 vials
and may have to be sent in
parts but the arrangements are
being made to ensure that the
first part of the consignment
is dispatched by afternoon
today.
If required, he added, more
of Insulin and other life
saving drugs would also be
arranged from voluntary
sources and dispatched to
Nepal. He appealed to
medical fraternity as well as
all those associated with
health care to come forward
and contribute in the large
scale initiative undertaken by
the Government of India
under the direct supervision
of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi.
Kashmir repository of heritage monuments, great arts: Mufti
SRINAGAR, APRIL 28, CNS:
In a bid to revive the old cultural
heritage of Kashmir, Chief Minister
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today
called for restoration of major
heritage monuments and their
integration as destination points into
the Valley's tourism circuit.
He also passed directions for
restoration of the Old Assembly
Complex and development of
Artisan Cluster at Safa Kadal in the
first phase.
Mufti Sayeed was speaking while
viewing a presentation given by
J&K Chapter of Indian National
Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage
(INTACH), here today.
Minister for Public Works,
Floriculture, Gardens & Parks, Syed
Altaf Bukhari, Minister for
Education, Naeem Akhtar, Minister
of State for H&UDD and I&C,
Mohammad Ashraf Mir were present
on the occasion.
Expressing concern over the
alarming threat posed by wanton
abandon, vandalism and disasters
like floods to our priceless heritage
sites, the Chief Minister called for
prioritizing
mapping
and
preservation of Kashmir's Heritage,
which is precariously standing on
the edge. "The State Government
will do whatever is possible to
conserve our heritage monuments
and restore these to their original
glory so that these are integrated
into our tourist circuit as destination
sites for heritage lovers," he said,
and added that cruises on river
Jhelum are primarily aimed at
promoting heritage tourism in the
Valley.
On the instructions of the Chief
Minister yesterday, the river cruises
will begin from May 12 next month
from Peerzoo Restaurant, which will
take tourists to heritage destinations
like LD Memorial, Khanqah-eMoula, Maharaj Gung and the
Shrine of Hazrat Bul Bul Shah (RA)
in the first leg.
Describing Old Assembly
Complex as a huge treasure trove
that the State possesses, Mufti
Sayeed asked INTACH to begin
mapping of its restoration so that its
conservation and preservation is
taken up on priority. "The Old
Assembly had a Durbar Hall akin to
the House of Commons in Britain
and it had one of the finest galleries
of exquisite art works in the State,"
he asserted while stressing on the
need for revival of the Old Assembly
Complex.
Describing Kashmir as a
repository of ancient monuments
and archaeological artifacts, the
Chief Minister emphasized upon the
need to preserve these as marks of
our great historical past, which are
needed to be preserved for future.
During the meeting, INTACH
consultants briefed the Chief
Minister about the initiatives taken
for renovation and restoration of
revered Dastageer Sahab (RA)
Shrine at Khanyar and the Aali
Kadal Masjid at Eidgah, besides
Video grab from a drone shows devastation caused by the earthquake, in Nepal.
revival of three key areas along the
Jhelum Riverfront from Zero Bridge
to Srinagar Club, Shergarhi Palace
Complex and Safa Kadal Artisan
Cluster.
INTACH, which is working in
collaboration
with
Tourism
Department, also informed the Chief
Minister about the steps required to
be taken to rediscover the historic
urban spaces and restoration of
heritage
monuments
by
beautification so that authentic
representation of Kashmiri customs
is made as a Living Culture. It is
also working on the development of
access streets, facade upliftment of
existing craft workshops and shops
in many parts of the Srinagar city.
Mufti Sayeed was also briefed
about the initiatives taken by
INTACH on preservation of 40
heritage structures in Bijbehera,
which has been listed as a major
historic town under the National
Mission on Monuments &
Antiquities, Union Ministry of
Culture. The proposals under
consideration include conservation
of Baba Naseem Shrine Complex
and facade lighting of Jama Masjid,
Bijbehera.
Later, the Chief Minister also
viewed a presentation on the
proposed tourist resort at Satwainan,
Lakhanpur, which will be spread
over 67 kanals of land, ideally
located across the wide expanse of
the Ranjit Sagar Dam. The resort,
which is expected to attract tourists
from nearby states like Punjab,
envisages laying of a children's
park, restaurant, dedicated foodstreet and tourist hutments.
Principal Secretary to Chief
Minister, B. B. Vyas, Chairman,
J&K Bank, Mushtaq Ahmad,
Director Tourism Kashmir, Farooq
A. Shah, VC LAWDA, Sarmad
Hafeez, VC SDA, Saleem Sheshgar,
Commissioner SMC, Tufail Mattoo,
Chief Engineers of R&B and I&FC
and Consultant, INTACH, Sameer
Hamdani, were also present.
Death of two members of Jammu Mufti launches Ans Canal Irrigation Project Mughal Road to be
family in Nepal earthquake:
made all-weather; horticulture, tourism sectors to be prioritized
APHC condoles the death
Rajouri, April 28, CNS: develop Mughal Road as an all- valley.
SRINAGAR, APRIL 28, CNS:
Expressing relief at the news of well
being of Hurriyat Media Advisor
Advocate Shahid-ul-Islam's brother
Javed Shah who was traced in an injured
condition in Kathmandu following three
days of frantic search, Hurriyat
Conference has condoled the death of
two members of a Jammu family who
died in the earthquake.
While expressing solidarity and
sympathy with the family of deceased,
the Hurriyat said they believe that
government of Nepal would facilitate the
return of Kashmiris from the quake hit
country as soon as possible.
Expressing concern over the
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inundation of roads and localities due to
recent rains, the spokesman said it seems
the government has not learned from past
experiences. He further stated that
government has completely failed to
provide rehabilitation and relief to the
flood victims of September 2014 floods.
The spokesman said that government
made several announcements after Sept
2014 floods that it was doing enough to
save the city from flood, adding, the
government seems to be acting more
verbally than it acting on the ground
keeping in view the recent water logging
and inundation of roads streets and
colonies in Kashmir especially in
Srinagar. (CNS)
Girl
moved the body to the Chromepet Government
Hospital for postmortem. The police registered
a case and were investigating.
Spice
nose while landing," he said, adding that all
those on board were safe.
There were 176 passengers and crew members
in the plane when the incident happened,
airline officials said.
"The aircraft has been grounded and the
passengers who had to travel onwards by the
plane, were adjusted in other flights. Engineers
from Delhi will come to Srinagar to check the
plane," they added. PTI
2Srinagar.
victims
03 of them who had sustained
injuries were shifted to PCR Hospital for
treatment.
After a massive earthquake hit Nepal on
Saturday, state police immediately established
a Special Helpline at Police Control Room,
Kashmir for the people of the state who were
stranded in the affected area of Nepal. Police
Control Room Kashmir remained in constant
touch with the MEA control Room Delhi and
Control Room Kathmandu.
In coordination with Resident Commissioner
New Delhi, MEA and Indian Air-Force today
bodies of two victims were brought to Delhi
and later were handed over to their relatives for
last rites at Jammu in the evening. An
ambulance was provided by the state
Government to shift the bodies from Delhi to
Promising to put J&K firmly on the
path of development and prosperity,
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed today reiterated his resolve to
provide a clean and accountable
Government that fulfils the wishes
and aspirations of people residing in
all the regions of the State.
Mufti Sayeed was addressing a large
public gathering after launching the
Ans Canal Irrigation Project. This was
his first public meeting after taking
over as Chief Minister of the State.
Emphasizing upon the holistic
development of all the regions by
echoing the slogan of Sabka Saath
Sabka Vikaas, Mufti Sayeed said the
Coalition Government will strive to
weather alternate highway. "The
declaration of Mughal Road as
alternate National Highway is in the
Agenda of the Alliance of the
Coalition Government," he said and
added that efforts are on to throw it
open in the next couple of days.
The Chief Minister said that since
the four-lanning of the JammuSrinagar National Highway will take
some time, the Government will
immediately develop and use Mughal
Road as an alternate highway. The
construction on the Mughal Road,
which had started during the PDP-led
Government in 2004, connects
Poonch and Rajouri districts with
Shopian district in the Kashmir
Unveiling his plans for making
J&K an elite eco-tourist destination,
Mufti Sayeed said the Government
will embark on a special promotional
campaign to project nature and
pilgrim tourism potential of the
region.
He said he has flagged the demand of
the people for establishing an ecotourism park for recreational activities at
Kotranka. He asked the Deputy
Commissioner to identify a suitable
piece of land for developing the
park.Highlighting the huge potential in
the Rajouri and Poonch region in
horticulture sector, the Chief Minister
said a complete package for commercial
farming will be prepared.
HSS
condemns recruitment policy
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: Hindustan Shiv Sena organized a press
conference under leadership of Mr. Vinay Gupta State Youth
President in which he condemned the latest recruitment policy of
the State Government. He expressed anguish & asked that the new
government is committed to curb the un-employment from the
state, but after seeing the latest policy of recruitment it seems that
government has forget all the promises done before election. He
explained that after new policy government & their near & dears
will be benefited. He also appealed to the Chief Minister & newly
elected members in assembly to see the matter carefully & abolish
this recruitment policy immediately. Otherwise, Hindustan Shiv
Sena will come on the roads with the youths of J&K.
NOTICE
NOTICE
I, Shiv Charan
S/o Sh. Rattan
Singh R/o Vill.
Mawa,
Tehsil
Rajpura
Distt.
Samba has lost the
10th class diploma. I appeared in
the 10th class examination from
Distt. Kathua in the year of 1990
under the roll no. 311027 and
passed. Now I am applying for
the duplicate of the same.
Objection if any convey to
concern authority within 7 days
after publication of this notice.
I, Sumeet Gandotra S/o Sh.
Kuldeep Raj Gandotra R/o
64, New Karan Nagar
Extension, Jammu have lost
Driving License bearing No:
JK 0220020067466 dated
05.08.2002. I have applied
for issuance of the duplicate
driving license.
Anybody having objection
may file the same with the
Regional Transport Officer,
Jammu within seven days
from the date of publication
of this notice.
IN THE COURT OF ADDITIONAL
MOBILE MAGISTRATE (JMIC) SAMBA
PRESENT: SWATI GUPTA
Harish Sharma S/o Late Sh. Mela Ram
R/o Vill. Radwan Khurd,Tehsil Ramgarh District Samba
(Plaintiff)
V/s
1.
2.
Sushma Sharma W/o Late Sh. Mela Ram
Vansh Sharma aged 09 yrs, Minor, through his mother
Sushma Sharma W/o Late Sh. Mela Ram R/o Vill. Radwan
Khurd,Tehsil Ramgarh District Samba
(Defendants)
In the matter of:-.
Suit for declaration the plaintiff is the only legal heir of deceased namely
Mela Ram Sharma S/o Sh. Sansar Chand, R/o Vill. Radwan
Khurd,Tehsil Ramgarh District Samba w.r.t. the Insurance Policy No.
142493916, dated 05-05-2010 issued by the Life Insurance Corporation
of India., and is also entitled to receive the amount of the Insurance
Policy No. 142493916, dated 05-05-2010 issued by the Life Insurance
Corporation of India. With the consequential relief of permanent
prohibitory injunction restraining the defendants from claiming any
right over the Insurance Policy No. 142493916, dated 05-05-2010 issued
by the Life Insurance Corporation of India
NOTICE TO GENERAL PUBLIC
Jammu. 36 stranded persons including children
were evacuated from Kathmandu to New Delhi
and 33 of them were provided free Air tickets
by state government and were flown back to
Srinagar.
On their arrival at Srinagar, three injured
person including a lady were shifted in Police
Ambulance to Police Hospital Batamaloo for
further treatment.
Vigilance
Team (SIT) headed by SP (ABP) Vigilance
Organisation. 75 persons were accused
including the then collector land
Acquisition/ADC Pulwama Adil Rashid
Naqash, Land Acquisition Clerk, Parvez
Indrabi (LAC) of DC office Pulwama.
The accused also include officials of Jammu
and Kashmir Bank Limited Awantipora and
Lethpora.
Meanwhile, the spokesman said that matter has
also been taken up with the chairman Jammu
and Kashmir Bank Limited for accord of
sanction against 14 serving bank officers and
officials and on receiving the sanction, charge
sheet will be produced against them.
PTI
BJP
buildings at each district. Chander Mohan
Sharma has been nominated as Convenor and
Vibodh Gupta (MLC), Kuldeep Kumar
(MLA), Dr. Ali Mir as members for organizing
programmes on the Yoga Divas falling on June
21. Arun Gupta and Jaidev Rajwal has been
bestowed with the management of
modernization of the party state office. Rajeev
Charak has been nominated as Convenor and
Rajinder Sharma, Yudhvir Sethi, R. S. Pathania
(MLA), Ajay Nanda(MLA), Nawang Palzer,
Dr. Rafi as members of Prashikshan Varg.
Bhupinder Singh has been nominated as
Convenor and Charanjeet Singh Khalsa
(MLC), Sofi Yousuf (MLC), Amit Manhas,
Lama Nayamtak as members of Swacch
Bharat Abhiyan team of the party. Retd. IGP
S.S. Bijral has been nominated as Convenor
and Kamal Choudhary, VK Gupta as members
of Beti Bachao Beti Padao campaign team.
Mufti
Unveiling his plans for making J&K an elite
eco-tourist destination, Sayeed said the
government will embark on a special
promotional campaign to project nature and
pilgrim tourism potential of the region.
Quake
government has announced nine districts as
highly-affected areas.
Based on human casualty, Sindhupalchowk,
Kathmandu, Nuwakot, Dhading, Bhaktapur,
Gorkha, Kavre, Lalitpur and Rasuwa have
been declared as the most-affected districts.
The government has said that altogether 60
districts have been affected by the earthquake.
Of those killed in the earthquake, 923 are from
Kathmandu, 240 from Bhaktapur and 157 from
Lalitpur while the rest are from outside the
Kathmandu Valley.
The quake, the worst in over 80 years, and the
subsequent powerful aftershocks have forced
people out to live in the open under plastic
tents, barely shielding them from cold and
rains that have pounded the city.
Three days after the quake hit the country,
rescue teams have still not reached some of the
worst-affected areas of Lamjung, the site of the
quake's epicentre.
"We are still at the rescue and relief operation.
Rescue operation is going on even within the
valley, collapsed structures are major
challenge still.
"There have been requests from many places,
we have been able to attend to some. We are
still trying to put together group of people
here, expertise is needed from various areas,"
Nepal's Information and Communications
Minister Minendra Rijal said.
Mass cremations are being held for the victims
of the devastating earthquake that struck
Nepal, even as rescuers continued to pull out
bodies buried under the rubble of flattened
homes and buildings.
Hundreds were cremated in open grounds as
funeral pyres burned with families of victims
wailing in grief after losing their loved ones.
Nepal has issued epidemic and health
warnings, media reports said. - PTI
Mehbooba
"We will be exploring
all options. By
composite township, we mean settling of
Kashmiri Pandits, Muslims, Sikhs and
Buddhist from Ladakh.
"They can also go back to their villages and
rebuild their houses. We would like to give
them security and comfort," she said.
Whereas the above named plaintiffs have filled the above titled suit
against the defendants.
Through this notice, public at large is informed that anyone having any
objection to the claim put forth by the plaintiff for legal heir for claim in
his favour as aforesaid, shall appear before this court either personally
or through Advocate/pleader or any recognized agent and file objections
and contest the claim within 15 days from the date of publication, failing
which, appropriate order appropriate order shall be passed in accordance
with law.
Issued today the 28th day of April 2015under my seal and signature.
(Swati Gupta)
Addl. Mob. Magistrate
Samba
IN THE COURT OF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE IST
CLASS (ADDL MUNSIFF) SAMBA.
Present: Madhu (KCS Judicial)
Kumari Sneh Lata Kaskotra W/o Sh. Harjeet Lal r/o Rajpur
Koullar,Bari-Brahmana ,Tehsil Bari Brahmana Distt. Samba.
S.H.O. Police Bari-Brahmana
V/S
In the matter of
Application for Registration of birth/death of:Harsh Kumar (male) D.O.B.23-05-2009 at home
Father's Name : Sh. Harjeet Lal
Mother's Name: Smt. Kumari Sneh Lata Kaskotra
NOTICE TO GENERAL PUBLIC
Whereas, an application stand filed in this court for registration of birth
of Harsh Kumar(M) S/o Sh. Harjeet Lal & Kumari Sneh Lata Kaskotra
r/o Rajpur Koullar,Bari-Brahmana ,Tehsil Bari Brahmana Distt. Samba
in Police Station, Bari-Brahmana and through the medium of this
publication notice at large and any other interested person is/ are
informed that in case anybody has any objection in respect of
aforementioned application then he/she/they shall file their objections in
this court within 7 days from the date of publication of notice, failing
which appropriate order shall follow.
Given under my hand and seal of this court today 27th day of April
2015.
Addl. Munsiff
(Judicial Magistrate Ist Class Samba)
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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.
the NORTHLINES Jammu
Yudhvir holds candle light campaign
for earthquake victims
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: Senior BJP
leader Yudhvir Sethi today
expressed grief and sorrow
over the loss of life and property in the devastating earthquake which hit Nepal and
other parts of India. Yudhvir
along with teachers, students
and children in Jammu held a
candle light campaign to
express solidarity with those
who have lost dear ones and
family members. In his message of condolence he conveyed sympathies to the families of those who have lost
their members and prayed for
peace to the departed souls.
He appealed to public at large
to come forward and contribute in extending help to
those in distress in this time of
grief. "Neighbouring country
has suffered colossal loss and
the whole nation is with
them", he added.
Biomedical Waste Workshop
held at 166 Military Hospital
Seminar on Moral Values
at Nagbani School
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: Bio-medical waste disposal is
becoming a serious problem
today with mushrooming of
different kinds of medical
facilities in cities. The waste
generated in hospitals has
the potential of causing great
harm to citizens if not disposed of properly.166
Military Hospital, Satwari
Cantonment, Jammu under
HQ 16 Corps, HQ Northern
Command took upon this
responsibility of holding a
workshop on the subject to
educate medical officers &
paramedical staff.The workshop was attended by 35
participants who came from
various parts of the country.
The coordinator of the event
was a Pathologist, Lt Col
Alpana Gupta. There was an
onsite demonstration & lectures by Microbiologist,
Major Sudhir Dubey, Col
AS Kushwaha and even Mr.
Ajay Mehta, Mechanical
Engineer from ASCOMS
Hospital Jammu.The conference ended with a quiz and a
closing address by Col Tilak
Bose, Senior Registrar of the
hospital. The conference
generated positive feedback
& participants suggested
that more such workshops
should be held.
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI:
One of the educational
aspects which need more
emphasis is Moral values.
Keeping this in mind a seminar was organized in collaboration with Vidyalaya of
repute, from Mount Abu
Rajasthan.
Sh. Bhagwan Bhaai interacted with students through various stories & explained the
importance of Moral Values
to become a good human
beings.The session ended
with a few minutes meditation to increase positively in
one self.
Ranbir Canal needs
remedial attention
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: Awami
National Conference has
expressed serious concern
over reducing the Ranbir
Canal to a dumping drain.
ANC Provincial President,
Gian Singh raised serious
questions over the sustenance of Ranbir Canal - a
tributary of River Chenab
and a source of irrigation
for a large track of land in
district Jammu besides
allied usages keeping in
view the sheer neglect of
the canal serving as a
dumping drain.
Looking anything like a
canal, it appears more like a
nallah and a source of pollution. The stagnated water
at few places in the canal is
also a breeding place for the
involved in execution of the
government decisions on
rebuilding of roads, bridges
and raising of infrastructure
besides the relief and rehabilitation measures.
Bhat said that the party
workers are also concerned
about peoples worries and
are lending necessary cooperation to the administration
across the state in tune of
the party programme , He
said PDP assures people of
a positive change in the
atmosphere with a promise
to help provide a responsive
government and accountable administration fully
backed by independent
judiciary and other democratic institutions.
Bhat said PDP has invited
the attention of government
towards the water logged
areas including the agricultural land in low-lying areas
. PDP seeks immediate
action from the department
of Irrigation and Flood
Control as well as PDD to
address the problems arising out of water logging. He
said that PDD should
ensure adequate power supply in areas where pumpsheds are at work. Also the
irrigation department needs
to make all pump-sheds
functional in valley particu-
DAK demands separate OPD's for
old age and disabled persons
NL CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR, APRIL 28,
CNS: Doctors Association
Kashmir Tuesday castigated
the Government and termed
its attitude callous and insensitive towards various issues
raised by Association from
time to time.
In a statement to CNS,
Chairman DAK, G.M.Mir
said that they have been asking the government from
2002, from very inception of
the association, that there is a
dire need of special ticket
counters and separate OPD's
for disabled and old age people but no efforts have been
done by government so far.
"We have observed how
difficult it becomes for these
people to seek medical advice
in overcrowded government
hospitals. We also urge government and non governmental organizations to provide more and more wheel
chairs trolleys to hospitals so
that people get comfortable
treatment in hospitals," Mir
said.
DAK also appealed government that old age homes
Ravinder demands relief
package for farmers
NL CORRESPONDENT
SUNDERBANI : Ravinder
Sharma,
Chief
Spokesperson J&K PCC
asked the authorities to
assess the loss suffered by
the farmers and cocoon
reerers in the resent unseasonal rains and hail
storm.Sharma conducted
two days tour of Nowshera
and Sunder Bani and took
stock of the loss suffered
by the farmers of the area.
He said that the wheat and
vegetable crops have been
completely damaged due to
un-seasonal rains and hailstorm. The Cocoon reerers
has also suffered loss, as
the silk worms have died
prematurely. But it was
unfortunate that no assessment has been done and the
Govt. has failed to
announce relief package.
There is great resentment
amongst the people over
the indifferent attitude of
the Govt. and the authorities,
so
far.Sharma
demanded that loss suffered by the farmers and
cocoon reerers should be
assessed and Govt. should
announce relief package
immediately. Besides adequate financial assistance
for the purchase of seed
and fertilizers for the next
crops and free ration for six
months should be provided
to the farmers without further loss of time.
should be opened at least in
every district where such people who are not having any
body to take care can be
looked after. So many old age
people and disabled people
have been left to fend for
themselves. It is our collective responsibility and government should take proactive measures to address this
grave problem.
DAK also urged government to provide canteen facilities in every district hospital
so that patients and doctors do
not find any difficulties.
insects and mosquitoes
spreading several infectious
diseases, Singh added.
Singh demanded proper
monitoring and maintenance
by
Irrigation
Department to keep it clean
and flowing. He said the
spillage to canal is tapped
and awareness created
among the people stop
throwing garbage into the
canal through its own watch
and ward staff.
"There should be sign
boards with warnings and
other deterrents in place,
but unfortunately, it is not,"
Singh said adding that such
efforts will make it a place
for recreation with great
ambience for the residents
along and specially morning walkers.
Twenty-20 Tourney at Parade
from May first week
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: Parade
Sports Association is all set
to hold Twenty-20 Cricket
Tournament at Parade
Ground, here in the first
week May in Open and
Veteran categories.
16 teams in open and other
eight in veteran group shall
take part in this tournament
named 'Salute and Tributes
to the Cricketers,'which is
being organised in memory
of promising players of the
state," informed president
of the Parade Sports
Association,
Vijay
Sabarwal.
The Association has extended open invitation to the
genuine and interested
teams to submit their entries
alongwith a prescribed fee
at the Association office at
Parade between 7.00 am to
9.00 pm in person. The registration is offered on first
come first serve basis.
For further information the
interested teams can also
contact on Mobile Nos
94191-32535
(Vijay
Sabarwal) and 9419126300 (Harsh NayyerCashier).
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: Carrying
forward the initiatives
towards maintaining ecological balance and preservation of environment,
Senior BJP leader Yudhvir
Sethi today extended support to the Tawi Andolan, a
Non-Governmental organisation involved in the work
of Tawi purification.Sethi
provided Public Address
System for the event of
Tawi Arti to be held on
Sunday.
" Arti" is an effort by the
NGO to generate awareness
among the public to contribute for the cause of sav-
ing the sacred Tawi from
pollution and to help in
spreading the cause of rejuvenation
of
the
river.Expressing gratitude
for the support, convenor
Chander Mohan Sharma
said, "the Andolan is
indebted for the help and
would further strengthen
the cause for which the
Andolan is pushing.
"Speaking on the occasion,
Yudhvir said, "Tawi is lifeline for the city and a range
of flora and fauna in the
area is dependent on the
river".
He extended his support to
organisations that are
working for saving the
environment from pollution and are working to
check the ecological imbalances caused by growing
urbanisation.
"Prime Minister Narinder
Modi has taken up the cause
to develop heritage city of
Varanasi and on similar
lines we should all join
hands for the cause of our
city and its lifeline the river
Tawi," he added.
He said, "the ecological balance has to be maintained at
all costs and everybody
should contribute for ensuring the balance on mother
earth."
Yudhvir supports Tawi Andolan
Manohar seeks explanation
on AIIMS issue
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: Laying a
scathing attack on BJP for
creating confusion among
the common masses of the
state and Jammu region in
particular, former M oS
Finance and Cooperatives,
Dr Manohar Lal Sharma
sought an explanation from
Deputy Chief Minister, Dr
Nirmal Singh on the issue
of AIIMS.Dr Manohar Lal
Sharma lambasted BJP and
its leadership for dubious
stand on setting up of
AIIMS in Jammu. He pointed out that on one side, BJP
Minister of State in PMO,
Dr Jitendra Singh is maintaining that AIIMS has to be
set up in Jammu region,
while on the other hand,
Deputy Chief Minister Dr
Nirmal Singh is saying that
no one can snatch AIIMS
from the people of Kashmir
PDP seeks immediate action for
restoration of roads and power
NL CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR, APRIL 28,
CNS: Peoples Democratic
Party(PDP) has appreciated
government efforts in direction of resolving the immediate problems faced by the
people, particularly the
flood sufferers , farmers and
fruit growers.
In a statement the party
general
secretary
Nizamudin Bhat said that
the personal concern of
Chief Ministers and his
Srinagar visit has lent a
direction to the administration despite bad weather
various departments in the
administration have got
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JAMMU | WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 2014
larly in Sonawari and
Bandipore.
He urged the government
that UEED department may
be asked to expedite activity in the Srinagar city where
various roads continue to
remain blocked and some
low-lying areas face difficulties due to piled-up mud
and rain water.
Bhat sought the attention of
the government towards the
condition of employees
who have not received
salaries for several months.
He said that the government
should ensure immediate
release of funds to various
departments. (CNS)
Lady ends life
in Kupwara
NL CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR : A lady ended
her life by consuming some
poisonous substance in
Kupwara District last
evening.A 32 years old lady
(name with held) resident of
Devar Anderbugh, Lalpora
consumed some poisonous
substance at her home. She
was immediately shifted to
Sub District Hospital,
Sogam where she breather
her last.Kupwara police has
started investigation under
section 174 CrPC in this
regard.
Valley."During the election
days, BJP through its well
planned conspiracy of creating polarisation in the
entire state, managed to bag
most of the Assembly seats
from Jammu region. And
now after befooling the
people of Jammu region,
BJP is championing the
cause of Kashmir valley,
from where it failed to even
open its account", he pointed out. Dr Manohar Lal
Sharma questioned that
when everyone knows that
Jammu region requires
AIIMS, keeping in view the
number of daily referral
cases from entire Province
to
PGI,
Chandigarh,
AIIMS, New Delhi and
other private hospitals of
other states then why BJP is
deliberately supporting setting up of AIIMS in
Kashmir Valley?
NSF mocks BJP leaders for ambiguous stand on AIIMS
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: The National Secular
Forum (NSF) has castigated the state
government, in general, and Bhartiya
Janta Party (BJP), in particular, for
surrendering the interests of Jammu
region before the dominating
Kashmiri leadership.Addressing a
press conference here, NSF president
Sukhdev singh said BJP had been raising issue of discrimination at all the
forums but ever since it joined the
government as coalition partner its
leaders have themselves adopted a
silent posture.While coming out heav-
ily on the remarks of the Deputy CM
Nirmal Singh on the eve of April 24
saying that there is no question of
snatching AIIMS from Kashmir and
giving it to Jammu Sukhdev wondered
on the recent statement of Union MoS
Dr. Jitendra Singh quoting that Jammu
is the fittest case for establishing
AIIMS as Kashmir already has
SKIMS in Soura while Jammu sans
such facility.He said, "Centre
announced establishment of AIIMS in
Jammu but the Kashmiri leadership
manipulated the whole things and
cleverly managed to say that AIIMS
International Moot-Court Competition
JU students adjudged as
"Spirit of Stetson"
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: The Law
School, University of
Jammu participated in the
Stetson University College
of Law 19th Annual
I n t e r n a t i o n a l
Environmental Moot-Court
Competition, International
Finals held as the Stetson
Campus
at
Gulfport,
Florida, USA from April
16th to 18th, 2015.A total of
thirteen teams participated
from all over the world out
of which five teams were
from India who had qualified the National Rounds
held at The Law School,
University of Jammu in
November 2014. The Law
School team, University of
Jammu participated in four
rounds against the teams
from Ateneo de Manila
University School of Law,
Wake Forest School of Law,
University of Cebu and The
Law School of China
University of Political
Science and Law.The team
members Rajdeep Singh
Thakur
and
Prashant
Kargotra received participating certificates for
"Demonstrating superior
appellate advocacy skills
and
knowledge
of
I n t e r n a t i o n a l
Environmental Law". The
role of the team from JU
Law School was appreciat-
Teachers protest ended on peaceful note
'Press release accused police of using force'
NL CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR, APRIL 28, CNS:
Hundreds injured and arrested when
police pounced upon protesting teachers'- this was the heading of the press
release distributed by Jammu and
Kashmir Teachers Forum among
media men when hundreds of teachers
assembled in Press Enclave Srinagar
on Tuesday to protest against the nonreleasing of salaries in favour of
teachers deputed in different educational institutions under RMSA and
SSA schemes.
The protest that was led by Chairman
Teachers Forum Abdul Qayoom Wani
ended on a peaceful note and yet the
press release accused police of committing excesses against the protesters.
"This is the mind set that people have
developed here for police. During previous regime, police usually resorted
will be established at Kashmir but the
BJP ministers and leaders maintained
absolute silence over the issue while
the other regional parties have been
fighting the issue on roads. He
demanded that AIIMS should be
established in Jammu instead of
Kashmir and the institutions that have
been put in the quote of Jammu be
given to Kashmir.Among those who
were present in the press-conference
included,Barket Tahir, Papinder
Singh, Narinder Singh, Qayoom
Malik, Amit Sanotra, and Bhupinder
Singh.
to force to quell all kinds of protests.
The teachers might have anticipated
that police will flex muscles on them
and will arrest them so they came up
with such kind of press release in
advance," said a scribe to CNS.
When a journo drew attention of a
senior leader of Teachers Forum
towards the erring press release during
the protest, he quickly informed his
seniors and they all requested the
scribes to retrun the press release.
Some of the scribes obliged but 'unfortunately' some had left the venue
along with the erring press release. "I
am just laughing after going through
the press release. Look, we did not
touch them or stop them from organizing a peaceful protest and yet they
have accused us of excesses," a police
official who was amused to read the
press release in Press Enclave
Srinagar told CNS.
A teacher was too candid to admit
that press release was prepared a day
before the protest. "We thought police
will not allow us and will use force, so
we wrote hundreds were injured and
arrested after police cane charged
protesting teachers," he said.
Meanwhile, the Teachers Forum
threatened to launch a state wide agitation if the government did not
release the pending salaries of the
teachers. Addressing the protesting
teachers, Forum Chaiman Abdul
Qayoom Wani appealed all the teachers to observe pen down strike on May
11 and 12 and a complete strike on
May 13. "From past six months, the
teachers deputed under RMSA and
SSA are without salaries. They have
been suffering and government is
doing nothing," Wani said.
ed by the organizers of the
event.The Law School,
University of Jammu was
adjudged as The "Spirit of
Stetson" which recognized
civility, justice and fair
play.The Vice-Chancellor
applauded and appreciated
the efforts of The Law
School fraternity in general
and moot court committee
in particular towards nurturing of the students in practical aspect of law and mooting techniques. Further
Director, The Law School,
University of Jammu Dr.
Sanjay Gupta acknowledged the support of the
Vice-Chancellor, Prof. R.D.
Sharma.
Husband sets
wife ablaze
NL CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR : A lady was
allegedly set ablaze by her
husband in Khankah-i-Molla
area of Srinagar. Police has
registered a case against the
husband and investigation has
been taken up.A lady identified as Manzeela wife of
Manzoor Ahmad Wani resident
Chalpan
Kocha,
Khankahi Molla in the jurisdiction of police station
M.R.Gunj received serious
burn injuries when her husband allegedly sprinkled
kerosene oil on her and set her
ablaze. She was rushed to the
hospital for treatment.Srinagar
police has registered a case
FIR no. 43/2015 under section
307/RPC in police station M R
Gunj and investigation has
been taken up.
Engineering diploma holders
rue violation of SRO 180
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU TAWI: In final
selection of JE Civil of different advancements as
under 3 of 2013 of PHE
and R&B vide advancements 11 of 2013 for 633
post of different departments , after following all
process of selection , written were held on 3 of
august 2014 , all short list
was declared for interview
, but after all process by the
JKSSB board the final list
which declared was found
only degree holders and
only 35 diploma
has
appointed which is in justice with diploma holders
as per SRO 180 dated 26
may 1997.
it has mentioned that ratio
of appointment of JE'S as
1:3 which to fully violate
the SRO 180 , now we
appeal to the Governor of
Jammu and Kashmir look
into the matter and give's
the direction to authority 's(
selection committee)that
prepare the said selection
list as per SRO 180 dated
26 may 1997 norms , so the
justice will don with diploma holders otherwise we
are going on road for
protest against JKSSRB
selection . Where from we
diploma holders engineer
civil applied to Governor
N.N .Vohra took into matter
done justice for backward
diploma holders.
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NGO laments poor
municipal services
'Work on gathering voters'
details in full swing'
NL Correspondent
Reasi, April 28
District Election Officer,
Reasi Sushma Chauhan
informed that the task of
registering the complete
particulars
of
voters
including Aadhar card
details has been progressing
at full swing across the
district. The Election
Commission has launched
this drive under the mission
mode
project
for
authenticating, purifying and
linking Aadhaar with the
electoral roll.
The objective of the drive
is to weed out electoral roll
duplicates and to make the
electoral roll error free
informed Chauhan. The
NERPAP, launched recently,
throughout the country is
being implemented in a very
successful manner in the
district, said Chauhan,
adding that 27090 electors
furnished their Aadhaar
details, 18623 electors their
contact information, 372
electors submitted their ID
numbers, 2005 electors
submitted Form 6, 1808
electors submitted Form 7
and 1714 electors submitted
Form 8, adding that feeding
of data is simultaneously
being done in a very
systematic manner.
To make NERPAP
successful, special camps
once a month on a Sunday,
door-to-door campaign and
various other types of
publicity
would
be
conducted to make the
people aware and to
participate
in
the
programme,"
Chauhan
inform.
She also added that
around 61% per cent eligible
citizens have been issued
Aadhaar cards in the district.
When 61% per cent people
have been already given
Aadhaar cards here, this
drive of rectifying electoral
rolls will move faster," and
the process of registration
and capturing of biometrics
of the left out population is
geared up on war footing so
that hundred percent target is
achieved, said Chauhan.
placement drive by inviting
professional of Multicare
Services India Pvt Ltd in the
University Campus who
selected 17 students for the
job in the company. Six
students viz Shiraz Ahmed
Khan, Autif Shafi, Waseem
Mohammad, Jan Mohammad,
Sajad Sherwani and Javaid
Ahmed Sofi have been
recruited directly while 11
students viz Zahid Rahim Batt,
Zahoor Rather, Naim Ahmed
Wani, Mohammad Azar Mir,
Rouf Majeed Lone, Irshad
Ahmed Rather, Mudasir Teli,
Auqib Ahmed Shan, Mubashir
Nazir, Aamir basher and
Toufeeq were recruited
through Udaan scheme. The
interview for this company
was held by Prashant Raval,
Senior Operation Manager of
the Company, Parveen
Kotwal, Manager Recruitment
and Amit Parimoo State
Coordinator of the Company
for J&K. The drive was
conducted by Placement
Officer Dr Sameer Raina while
Dr Parvez Abdullah of
Department of Management
Studies coordinated it.
17 BGSBU's MBA
passouts get job in MSI
NL Correspondent
Rajouri, April 28
In yet another big
achievement for MBA course
in Baba Ghulam Shah
Badshah University, 17
passouts have been given job
on handsome package by
Mumbai based reputed
company Multicare Services
India (MSI). Six students have
been selected as direct
recruitment while 11 have
been engaged through Udaan
Scheme. In this regard,
Placement Cell of the
University
conducted
Police Meet held
supply etc. in the area. The aim
of the meetings was to maintain
better relationship between
Police and Public.Participants
were assured by the officers that
their demands will be taken up
with concerned Departments for
redressal and those pertains to
Police department shall be
resolved on priority.
MOHD MAJID MALIK
BHALESSA/ ASSAR APR 28--
Bushan Kumar Ganjoo, SDPO
Gandoh conducted a Police
Public meeting at village
Chounary (Gandoh). The people
voiced different demands viz.
scarcity of water, dilapidated
condition
of
roads,
enhancement of VDCs
honorarium, providing uniform
articles to the VDCs members,
fixation of Sumo fare plying on
Gandoh-Chounary road and
control on distillation of desi
liquor.Besides, Shri Sanjeev
Kumar, SHO PS Assar also held
a PCPG meeting at Kora Pani,
which was attended by 20-25
prominent citizen of the area.
The participants demanded for
clearance of landslides along
the road, continuous water
DIG Doda Kishtwar
range holds meet
MOHD MAJID MALIK
BHADERWAH,APR 28--
Nisar Ahmed, DIG DKR
Range alongwith Sh. Z. N.
Manhas, SSP Doda visited
Bhaderwah and conducted
police public meetings with
the respectables of the area at
Dak Banglow Bhaderwah.
The aim of the meetings was
cemented the relations
between Police and public.
The meeting was attended by
150-200 people including
members of all communities,
Political and Social group,
Sarpanches /Panches of
adjoining area and prominent
citizens of Bhaderwah town.
Participants appreciated the
role of Police for conducting
such meetings to ensure better
relationship between Police
and Public.
Prominent
among others Khairat Hussain
Farash, President Anjuman-eIslamia, Ranbir Singh
Manhas, Mohd Iqbal
Choudhary, Dhananter Singh,
Shoket Malik were present in
the meeting. Shri Amit Bhasin
Addl. SP Bhaderwah, Shri
Bashir-ul-Hassan, Incharge
SDM Bhaderwah, Shri
Bandeshwar Singh Manhas,
SHO PS Bhaderwah and Shri
Fayaz Mehta, AEE BDA
Bhaderwah were also
witnessed the meeting.
During the course of meeting,
the participants put forth their
demands
viz.
regulation/parking of traffic
in Bhaderwah town, widening
of roads, deficiency of doctors
in SDH Bhaderwah, shortage
of ration and insufficient
supply of water and electricity
etc. The participants also
requested for Special Police
recruitment
drive
at
Bhaderwah and fencing of
play ground of Degree
College, construction of toilet
block at Seri Bazar,
establishment of Gym under
Civic Action Programme.
However, the participants
applauded the role of District
Police to eradicate the menace
of drugs, but there is need to
work a lot on so that this kind
of venom could be swept out
from
the
society.
Participants were assured that
their demands will be taken
up
with
concerned
Departments for redressal and
those pertaining to the Police
Department will be taken up
on
priority.
Nisar Ahmed, DIG DKR
Range urged upon the
participants to co-operate and
strengthen the hands of
Police, so that the social
crime, smuggling of Drugs,
bovine, illicit liquor, forest
produce etc be eradicated
from the society. The
participants were assured that
District Police Doda is trying
its best to curb the crime from
the society and asked for
more cooperation from
public, so that a crime free
atmosphere is build up in the
area. Moreover, they were
asked to maintain peace and
communal harmony in the
area.
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Army organizes Veteran's rally
HILL DISTRICTS
Army organizes
Territorial Army
recruitment rally
NL Correspondent
Udhampur, April 28:
Over 1200 candidates took part
in the Territorial Army
Recruitment Rally at Reasi in
Subsidiary Training Centre
(STC), Talwara.
A close coordination between
Army authorities, civil
administration and civil police
ensured smooth and disciplined
conduct of the Recruitment
Rally. Civil administration has
proactively supported the
conduct of the rally.
NL Correspondent
Rajouri, April 28
NGO, for Social Justice criticized the Rajouri Municipality for
neglecting the people residing near Pahari hostel. In a press
statement, the NGO members S K Mughal and Adv R K Mehta
alleged that Rajouri Municipality has failed to provide proper
attention to the basic sanitation and hygiene for the people of the
area. Mir and Inqlqbi said that there was no garbage disposal
process in the town and the garbage of the whole town is disposed
off in the bus stand area or the inside the river. S K Mughal
further alleged that some corrupt officials acting as an agent of
some political leaders and is involved in mismanagement and
there is nexus between land encroacher land mafia and illegal
construction is on its peak. Mughal said that it is unfortunate that
municipal committee does not even know the number of shops
that are running under its jurisdiction & more than 500 hundred
houses in the town have been constructed in municipal
jurisdiction who have not get there sketch /Map passed from
Municipality due to which common people are suffering badly
because these people have encroached lane drain & closed lane
drainage. One of the residents of the area, Mohd Tariq said that
he along with other residents of the area approached Rajouri
Municipality regarding illegal encroachments on drainage but
municipality did not take any action in this regard. He further
alleged that some people have openly damaged the drainage
constructed by rural development in 2007-8 and in this regard
people lodged complaint to Muncipality & DDC Rajouri. After
getting the reports from the locals, DDC, Rajouri gave orders to
Tehsildar Rajouri for conducting inquiry in this regard and take
immediate action to stop any further loss to the resident's but
nothing has been done so far. One applicant Shahbaz has
approached the Court & has appealed the Court to constitute a
commission to inquire all the matter because his double story
house is in danger because the resident have blocked the lane
drainage & water is coming with flow into the house.
Mughal said that People of Ward no 5, also approached DDC
Rajouri several times with written complaint and in return DDC
directed AEO, Municipality for taking action in this regard but
nothing has been done so far. “Mughal said that sometimes ago,
the Additional DC has written a letter to Director Local Bodies
appraising him about the negligence shown by the municipal
committee in its functioning while a final one week time has been
given to the officials of the committee to submit the detailed
report else strict disciplinary action could be taken against the
officials”,. Saleem Malik ADDC has warned the committee
employees & directed them to remove illegal construction and
encroachments in Rajouri town immediately. “If any official of
the committee is found involved in it, action will be taken against
them”, ADDC assured.
Radio Kashmir organises Gojri
Mushiara, Folk Concert
NL Correspondent
Kalakot, April 28
Radio Kashmir Jammu organized a Gojri Mushaira and Gojri
Folk Music concert at Kalakote in collaboration with Anjuman
Gojri Zubaan-o-Adab Dharamsal at Dakbanglow Kalakote.
Minister for Transport Ch A G Kohli was the chief guest on the
occasion. Addressing the fully packed venue, Kohli thanked
radio Kashmir Jammu for organising this event at Kalakote and
promised his full support for the cause of Gojri language and for
the development of the area. Kohli particularly thanked station
director V. K. Sambyal for promoting and supporting Gojri
language and organising such an event at Kalakote which is a
first in the history of this place. The programme started with
paying tributes to the victims of massive earthquake at Nepal and
adjoining states of India. Addressing the audience the Minister
reiterated the commitment of his government for overall
development of the state and putting j&K on the road of fast track
growth and development. The poets covered a vast range of
topics and emotions in their poems that included female
foetecide, pollution and environment, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao,
communal harmony, national integration, health and sanitation ,
beauty of the state and country also featured in poems of many
poets. The poets who presented their poems were Dr. M. K.
Waqar, Lal Hussain Lal, Tariq Fahim, Shokat Naseem, Shabir
Shakir, and Mohd. Yaseen, Mohd. Parvaiz Mallik, Serwar
Hussain, Khalid Wafa, Sufi mazam Din, Mohd. Rafi, Basharat
Ali. The Mushaira was followed by Gojri folk music concert,
prominent singers of the language presented choicest gojri songs.
Ayaz Ahmad Saif, Gulnaz Ahmad Chiuhan, Ghulam Hussain
JAMMU | WEDNESDAY | APRIL 29 | 2015
NL Correspondent
Udhampur, April 28
A veteran's rally was
today organised at Samote
by
Rashtriya
Rifles
battalion under the aegis of
Reasi
based
Force
Headquarters for the Exservicemen, Veernari's, War
Widows
and
their
dependents.
During rally, Lt Gen K H
Singh, GOC White Knight
Corps was the Chief guest
who while speaking on the
occasion, that the event
(rally) will provide a
composite platform to the
Ex-servicemen (ESM), Veer
Saying that education is basic
tool for all-round development
of the society, the Minister of
State
for
Education,
Information and Culture Priya
Sethi has called upon the
teaching community to mould
students with modern and
scientific education to enable
them to face the challenges
ahead. The Minister was
interacting with the teachers
during her visit to Higher
Secondary School Sohal,
Government
Higher
Secondary
Jourian,
Government Middle School
Jourian in Akhnoor and
Chamb constituencies.
Vice Chairman Kissan
Advisory Board Daljeet Singh
Chib, MLA Chamb, Dr.
Krishan Lal, Director School
Education Jammu, CEO, Dy.
CEO besides other senior
officers also accompanied the
Minister. Speaking on the
occasion, the Minister said
education being a priority
sector receives focused
attention of the government
adding that efforts are being
made to improve and upgrade
education standard at Primary,
Middle, High and Higher
Secondary level particularly in
far-off areas of the state.
She impressed upon the
teachers to impart moral and
value based education to the
students for better perceptive
and high discipline which in
turn bring
positive and
innovative thoughts in them.
She asked the students to take
part in extracurricular
activities side by academics to
keep themselves physically
and mentally fit.
She also underlined the need
to increase enrollment in
government schools as these
schools have highly qualified
and trained staff.
Responding to the demands of
Over 41 stalls included
PCDA Allahabad, JAK LI
Records etc besides many
stalls
established
by
Civil/Govt administration
officials were established at
the rally site.
Lt Gen K H Singh
felicitated 31 War Widows
and around 2750 Exservicemen, Veernari's and
their dependants attended
the rally.
A Medical Camp was held
for those who attended the
camp.
A cultural
programme, dog show and
Band display were other
highlights of the rally.
Sunil Sharma reviews R&B, PDD functioning
Stresses on efficiency and quality in works
NL Correspondent
Kishtwar, April 28
Chairing separate detailed
meetings of R&B and PDD
departments in Distt Kishtwar,
Minister of state for Revenue
and R&B Sunil Sharma asked
the engineers and officers to
maintain utmost efficiency and
high quality in all the works.
The meeting regarding R&B
sector which stretched late in
evening on Monday, was also
attended by MLC Firdous Tak
besides
DDC,
ADDC,
ACR,CEO, X Ens of Div
Kishtwar, Chatroo and special
div Marwah, AEEs, other
engineers other officers of
R&B, PMGSY, mechanical
engineering and JKPCC.
Deliberating upon various
issues, the minister enquired
about the progress on various
projects. He sought detailed
explanations from officers
regarding issues being faced by
them and the action plan that is
being adopted to meet these
challenges. The minister
expressed his concern over the
huge damages to Batote
Kishtwar Road and said that till
the road is handed over to
National
Highway
Development Corporation, the
R&B is maintaining the road
and in spite of all odds the road
has remained mostly opened.
The minister also reviewed
the progress of various bridges
and asked the officers to remove
Mould students with modern− scientific
education: Priya to teachers
NL Correspondent
Akhnoor, APRIL 28
Nari's and War Widows
residing in Rajouri, Reasi
and Ramban areas to redress
their wide ranging issues.
The Ex-servicemen Rally
primarily
aimed
at
addressing the grievances of
pension related issues and
also provide them an
opportunity to interact with
civil
administration
officials, police and bank
officials.
Pension office officials
from Allahabad who deals
with Army pensioners
rendered on the sport advice
and assistance in resolving
the grievances.
inadequate staff, infrastructure
in educational institutions of
the area, the Minister said that
government is abreast of all
the
genuine
requirements/demands and
added that the same would be
redressed in due course of
time. The Minister expressed
grave concern over the
mismanagement of Kendriya
Vidyalaya School at Maley
where students are studying in
tented classes. She directed
principal to shift the school to
adjacent building at Maley
within a week's time so that
the students do not suffer
during the summer season.
the bottlenecks. He asked
concerned authorities to make
projects for rope ways at remote
and mountainous villages as the
centre has promised liberal
funding in constructing rope
ways. The condition of Synthan
road, Padder road, Marwah road
and other roads was discussed
in detail. The minister also took
stock of PMGSY roads and
assured that new unconnected
habitations will be included in
the new plan. In the second
important meeting today,
comprehensive review of PDD
department was taken by MoS
Sunil Sharma and MLC Firdous
Tak. The X En PDD gave
detailed presentation regarding
the demand and supply of
electricity in the district. He
informed that out of total
requirement of 50 MW, only
32mw is available. The minister
said that the government is
going for argumentation of
existing infrastructure and the
department should work in an
efficient manner with highest
integrity. He asked the
department to increase the pace
of work in extending the
electricity supply to hitherto unelectrified villages. The repair
and
maintenance
of
transformers was discussed in
detail. The forest clearance at
various locations was also taken
up in the meeting. The minister
assured that he will take the
matter with forest ministry. The
minister directed the department
to work on a comprehensive
action plan to ensure consistent
and reliable electric supply in
the district. The progress on
ongoing power projects was
also sought from CVPP.
Director RDD
Reviewed
progress in Doda
NL Correspondent
Doda, April 28
To review the performance of
the Rural Development
Department in Doda Director,
Rural
Development
Department, Jammu G.N
Balwan yesterday convened a
meeting of officers and
officials of RDD at Zila
Gramin Vikas Bhawan Doda
which was attended by
Assistant
Commissioner
Development Doda, Susheel
Kumar, Executive Engineer
(REW) Doda, Ashok Kumar,
Block Development Officers,
Assistant
Executive
Engineers,
Assistant
Engineers and concerned
officials.
In the meeting a detailed
review of various rural
development schemes viz.
MGNREGA, BRGF, IAY,
13th FC (Panchayat Ghars)
and NBA was conducted. The
Director, Rural Development
Department Jammu stressed
on early submission of
verification reports of
liabilities under MGNREGA,
created during the financial
year 2013-14.It is pertinent to
mention here that for the
verification of liabilities
under
MGNREGA a
committee has already been
constituted on the instructions
of Minister for Rural
Development & PR during
review meeting held at Doda
on 15th of April 2015 in some
selected Panchyats of the
District.
Regarding IAY, Balwan
instructed ACD Doda to
submit the utilization
certificates
for
the
revalidation of funds. He also
issued instructions for timely
completion of all Panchayat
Ghar buildings and instructed
that in case there are some
bottlenecks related to
completion
of
these
Panchayat Ghar buildings
including non-availability of
land and cost escalation the
same should be brought to the
notice for redressal.
He also asked Block
development Officers of the
District to expedite the pace
of the execution of ongoing
works under various schemes
and ensure strict compliance
to the guidelines of these
schemes so that schemes are
implemented in a transparent
manner and benefit percolates
down to the people.
Faculty Promotions in SMVDU
Katra, Apr 28: In a consistent
effort to enhance the faculty
strength and profile, Shri Mata
Vaishno Devi University has
made fifteen promotions under
CAS, seventeen direct fresh
recruitments of Assistant
Professors in areas ranging
from Engineering, Sciences
and Literature and promoted
seven faculty members at
Assistant Professor level to
Associate Professor level in
different Schools of the
University. This promotion is
the first ever direct promotion
of substantial faculty members
of the University in the open
direct recruitment particularly
during the times when country
is facing dearth of teachers at
Associate Professor and
Professor Level in various
Universities and Institutes.
The seven candidates who
have been appointed Associate
Professors fulfilled the norms
of UGC and possessed good
service record in the
University besides other
eligibilities associated with
the promotion which was not a
career Advancement Scheme
(CAS) but a direct
recruitment. The selection
procedure was stringent for all
candidates where they had to
make presentation of their
research work in front of
selection committee
comprising of experts from
IIT Delhi, University of Delhi
and other universities. As an
outcome of the vision of the
Vice Chancellor, Prof. Sudhir
K. Jain, the seven Assistant
Professors promoted to
Associate Professors are: Dr.
Suparn Sharma, Dr. Ashutosh
Vashist, Dr. Jyoti Sharma in
the College of Management;
Dr. Vandhana Sharma in the
School of Languages and
Literature; Dr. Varun Tripathi
in the School of Philosophy
and Culture; Dr. Sharda
Potukuchi in the School of
Biotechnology and Dr. Amit
Kant Pandit in the School of
Electronics and
Communication Engineering.
In addition to this, the Vice
Chancellor has taken several
other initiatives which are yet
to fructify even in premier
institutes of the country like
Professional Development
Assistance (PDA) in favour of
each faculty member to the
extent of Rs. 50,000/- per year
per faculty members for a
block period of three years
upto 1,50,000/- for
professional activities. The
University has also started
Post Doctoral programmes in
various schools.
Congratulating all the newly
appointed Associate
Professors, the Vice
Chancellor, Prof. Jain said
that it is recognition of their
consistent commitment to
academics and research which
increases manifold with any
such further promotion. He
advised all to work with more
zeal and commitment to
elevate SMVDU to the global
level.
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USTA frames KZC
KATHUA, APRIL 28:
Jammu and Kashmir United
School Teachers Association
(USTA), Kathua Zone Unit
held one-day conference under
the leadership of Provincial
President Hari Singh, District
President Shashipal Singh and
Roop Lal, here at Kathua on
Tuesday.
The motto of the meeting
was to discuss the various
issues related to uplift of
education system and to frame
new Zonal Committee of the
association for Zone Kathua.
While addressing, Hari
Singh, the Provincial President
of USTA, said that the present
education system is a total
failure. Whether it relates to the
quality education of students or
it may concern the grievances
of teacher community.
District President Dr. Shashi
Pal Singh while expressing his
views said that due to the
lackadaisical attitude of the
government as well department
the teacher community is bound
to stage protests repeatedly for
the sake of their rights. He
added that department is not
bothered to fulfill their long
pending demands. As part of
the motto of the conference, the
association members passed
several resolutions keeping in
view the betterment of
education system in the
schools.
The resolution includes the
payment of salaries to teachers
under one head, initiate
primary classes in schools,
distribution of books before
month of March, and filling up
the vacant posts of teachers in
the schools.
Later, the association
members announced new
Kathua Zone Unit, representing
Subash Khajuria as President,
Rattan Chand Basotra as Senior
Vice-president, Harbans Lal,
Pooja Devi and Ram Lal as
Vice-presidents, Abdul Rashid
as Organizer, Naresh Singh as
Cashier and Karan Singh as
Joint-Secretary. Other than this,
the members announced
Suriender Rasotra and Suresh
Kumar as advisors.
Residents protest against CTM 18th day of sit in
KATHUA, APRIL 28:
Irate residents of Chack Rijju
staged a massive protest
demonstration against the
Chenab Textile Mill (CTM) in
front of the main gate of the mill
on Tuesday and resented
residents held the CTM a major
creator of noise pollution in the
nearby village Rijju Chack.
Residents shouted the slogans
against the administration of
CTM and alleged it for playing
with the lives of thousands
families of village Chack Rijju
which is the nearby area to the
CTM. Residents turned
protestors accused the CTM for
causing noise pollution created
from fans of machines of
CTM's newly installed units 7, 8
and 9. These fans are producing
a sound of high frequency
which can never be heard by a
normal person, they said. Due
to this large amount of sound
has become the headache of big
population of the Chack Rijju,
the students are deprived of
their regular concentration in
studies, and no one can have a
good sleep over night and all
these things are badly affecting
the health of residents. Despite
the matter brought in to the
notice of administration of
CTM
and
District
administration also but neither
the district administration nor
CTM's administration have
taken step to overcome the
problem and in contrary left the
people to face the challenge,
protestors added.
Parents hold protest
against shifting of school
protest, demands
still
pending
K
, A 28:
ATHUA
PRIL
Demanding justice since
long, the farmers whose land
was more than 300 canals was
acquired for the construction of
university campus at Janglote
Kathua are fighting and sitting
in protest for 18th day in the
premises of campus at Janglote,
Kathua. The irate families who
were denied of being given
their right of compensation
against the land given to
university authority, had gone
on protest sit in on 9th of April
2015 has reached 18th day on
28th of April but no impact on
University authority as well as
District administration is seen
till date, Balwant Singh, Rattan
Singh, Uttam Chand and
Farooq said in a joint statement.
5
KATHUA
JAMMU | WEDNESDAY| APRIL 29 | 2015
11 injured in accident DYSS organizes Inter School
District Level Tournament
KATHUA, APRIL 28:
An accident between car and
school bus happened at College
Road resulting in injuries to
eleven people.
According to police sources,
on Tuesday car number JK02-J8955 hit a school bus of Little
Angels Senior Secondary
School, standing at College
Road near Punjab National
bank. As a result, eight students
and three car passengers were
injured. The locals with the help
of police rushed the injured
persons to district hospital.
The injured passengers were
identified as Aman S/O
Chanchal Singh, Upasana D/O
Chanchal Singh and Sudhir S/O
Baldev, all resident of Panjtirthi
Jammu. The injured students'
identifies as Ani (4 years) S/O
Rakesh, Ashipan (12 years)
D/O Vijay, Kuljeet Singh (12
years) S/O Raju, Priyanka (13
years) D/O Raju, Iyan (6 years)
S/O Ghulam Nabi, Farah
Sheikh (10 years) D/O Ghulam
Nabi, Kirti D/O Ramesh,
Sumni (10 years) D/O Janak
Raj all resident of ward number
17 Kathua.
The police has registered a
case in the matter and initiated
the further course of action.
Long traffic jams on Udhampur NH
UDHAMPUR, APRIL 28:
Long traffic jams were
witnessed on National Highway.
The vehicular movement on the
Jammu-Srinagar
National
Highway was from Jammu side
Jawan dies
mysteriously
UDHAMPUR 28 APRIL:
A 52 RR Jawan identified as
Bupinder Kumar son of Lila Dhar
of Shiv Pur MP died under
mysterious
circumstances
Tuesday morning. According to
the police an army jawans
(52RR) travelling from
Udhampur to 52 RR HQ Kashmir
was found unconscious condition
near Kud. He was rushed to the
nearest PHC Kud where the
doctors declared him brought
dead. The Kud Police has
registered a case under section
174 and started investigations.
The dead body was later
handed over to the 52 RR officials
by police after postmortem for
last rites.
which resulted into heavy traffic
jam on National Highway. Heavy
jams were witnessed at Rehmbal,
Gahri, Chinar, Omara Morh, and
Military Hospital Chowk. As the
up convoy included Army, civil
and School Buses other heavy
vehicles, Kendriya Vidyalaya
School students face everyday
problem as they reach school late.
Hundreds of vehicles got stranded
and commuters face manifold
problems, due to the negligence of
the Traffic Department.
KATHUA 28 APRIL:
The department of Youth
Services and Sports, District
Kathua has organized a two
day "Inter School District
Level Tournament" in the
discipline of football U/14
years and U/17 years boys was
concluded with great pomp and
show at Sports stadium Kathua
on Tuesday.
The tournament was
KATHUA, APRIL 27
The thieves broke open the
door of the Amar Pinak Shiv
Temple near Sukrala Temple,
in Kathua district and
decamped with gold, silver
and brass ornaments.
According to the reports, on
April 22 after night prayer
the priest of the temple
closed the temple and
returned home. But when he
reached the temple in the
morning he found the lock of
the main door of the temple
Parents of students on
Tuesday protested against the
District Administration and
Education Department under
the leadership of Soma vice
president Labour Union J&K
state against the shifting Govt.
Primary School Dyali Chak-B
in Panchayat Sansu. They
took out a procession outside
the school against the District
Administration and Education
Department for their demand
to non-shifting of primary
School. Soma told media that
department wanted to shift the
school to another side of
national highway which will
be dangerous to the small
children of the school. He
further told media that if
department shift the school, it
would be dangerous for small
children to cross the national
Highway
and
the
administration should not take
such a risk. He demanded to
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temple as well as broken
mirror, which may be of the
culprits.
On getting information, a
police team from police
station Billawar reached the
spot along with forensic
experts, searched the temple
and collected samples for
investigation.
A case FIR No 55/2015
under Sections 457/380 RPC
has been registered at police
station Billawar and further
investigations are on.
One injured when army vehicle rolled down into deep gorge at
near Dudhar Nallah District Udhampur. According to the reports a
new army vehicle was on its way from Jabalpur to army vehicle
company Udhampur at near Dudhar Nallah driver lost the control
over the vehicle and it rolled down into deep gorge Tuesday
morning.Police and local rush the spot and took the injured
persons to Udhampur District Hospital, where doctors referred
injured person to GMC Jammu Hospital. The injured identified as
Virban (32) son of Rabban of Jabalpur. Udhampur police
registered the case and investigation starts.
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broken. As he entered into
the temple, he found that
some ornaments including
one gold Nath of 5-6 g, one
silver bansri of 10 g and 2
idols of brass each 50 g,
having total value of Rs
21500
were
missing.
Besides, some cash of Rs 500
was also missing from the
temple and the glass was
broken into pieces.
According to the priest of
the temple, some blood spots
were seen on the floor of the
UDHAMPUR 28 APRIL:-
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UDHAMPUR, APRIL 28:
PEM. This tournament is the
rest of annual calendar of
activities 2015-16, a total of
118 players participated in the
said tournament Naveen
Singh PET, Punjab Singh
PEM, Tilak Raj, Mohinder
Kumar were the officiating
official result at a glance both
the group U/14 and U/17 yrs
boys DPS Rajbagh won the
matches.
Burglary at temple
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Kathua under the supervision
of Deputy Director Youth
Services and Sports Gandhi
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"”To be or not to be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why we Indians
are an unhappy lot
Money is not
everything, but can
you be happy if you
don't have it? That's a
no-brainer, obviously.
But the SDSN report
reminds us to
seriously consider a
policy orientation that
may help in climbing
the happiness chart.
The third edition of
the World Happiness
Report suggests that
India figures way
down the list, meaning
it is a more unhappy
place to be in than
most countries in the
world. In a survey of
158 countries, it found
itself in the rear of the
pack at place 117, a
slide from the rank of
111 a year ago. This
can hardly be good
advertisement for our
society, our
government, or our
political and economic
system. Obviously,
there is a long way to
go before we can turn
the corner since we
are so lowly placed. It
hasn't helped that the
Indian economy flew
at more than seven per
cent annual average
rate of growth
between 2004 and
2014 in spite of the
last two years of the
UPA recording growth
rates of less than five
per cent - the best for
any democracy ever.
And the forecast for
the first year of the
Narendra Modi
dispensation is
somewhat higher. But
even if this is not
realised, the data
should still be
reasonably
comforting. And yet,
high growth rates do
not automatically
translate into
promotion on the scale
of the world happiness
index, as tabulated by
the Sustainable
Development
Solutions Network, an
initiative of the UN
helmed by the wellknown Columbia
University economist
Jeffrey Sachs. But it
cannot be lost on
anyone that the
world's happiest
countries Switzerland tops the
list this year - are also
among its richest.
Money is not
everything, but can
you be happy if you
don't have it? That's a
no-brainer, obviously.
But the SDSN report
reminds us to
seriously consider a
policy orientation that
may help in climbing
the happiness chart.
The yardstick adopted
by SDSN makes it
obvious that societies
and countries should
be caring, have social
systems to be proud
of, should respect
freedoms, and should
obviously also provide
their people access to
health, education and
housing, and, not the
least, should be low
on corruption. India
loses out on many of
these pegs, and we
should move quickly
to fix the problem.
The Modi government
had promised much
when it came in about
a year ago, but the
sense many have - rich
and poor alike - is that
action has not
followed on words,
although much was
promised. Corruption
levels have not
changed but tolerance
thresholds are lower,
making for social
disharmony. The
economic expectations
have not been met.
While we take these
on board, it does
cause surprise that
countries like war-torn
Iraq, the nursery of
terrorism Pakistan,
and politicallywracked Bangladesh
have outperformed
India on the happiness
index - Pakistan by a
mile (it is ranked 81).
No less surprising,
Pakistan is ahead of
China. The question
then is, does the index
need fixing, and, if so,
how?
The yardstick adopted
by SDSN makes it
obvious that societies
and countries should
be caring, have social
systems to be proud
of, should respect
freedoms, and should
obviously also provide
their people access to
health, education and
housing, and, not the
least, should be low
on corruption. India
loses out on many of
these pegs, and we
should move quickly
to fix the problem.
OPINION
Amending Article 370 only
solution
to
J&K
problem
Prof. Om
Gupta
Article 370 is an enigma
for Indians in particular
and the whole world in
general. This article
created in 1950 by the
then Indian leadership
headed by Jawahar Lal
Nehru in a tearing hurry to
appease world opinion
continues to be Achilles'
heel of successive union
governments of India. Not
only the parliament but
even the office of
president of India has
been compromised in this
historic blunder. Let's
understand how.Jammu
and Kashmir is a Muslimmajority state of India. At
the time of partition, it
was broadly agreed upon
that the then princely
rulers will decide whether
they want to remain in
India or become a part of
Pakistan. The religion of
the majority of the
population was one of the
criteria. Despite being a
Muslim state, the then
ruler of J and K Maharaja
Hari
Singh
was
indecisive. His initial
stance was that his state
would
remain
independent but under the
pressure of Nehru, he
conceded to merge with
India. Pakistan waged an
attack on India with the
help of tribals. Maharaja
got panicky and sought
Indian help. Before Indian
forces could take control
of the situation, Pakistan
forcibly occupied a large
portion of J and K that it
continues to control. It is
known as Pakistan
occupied Kashmir (PoK).
At this juncture, the
United Nations intervened
and enforced a ceasefire.
Nehru agreed to not only
this but also accepted a
plebiscite to decide
whether the majority of
population wanted go to
India or Pakistan? India
later took a position that
successive J and K
assembly elections have
established that the people
of Kashmir believe in
Indian Constitution and
the democratic system by
voting in elections.
Coming back to Article
370, it was added in the
Constitution by the
Constituent Assembly as a
temporary measure and its
sole purpose was to
control the monarchy of
Maharaja Hari Singh.
Article 370 clearly states
that the President of India
has the sole power to
make any law but with a
condition. He will have to
take the concurrence of
the government of Sheikh
Abdullah on March 5,
1948. The Maharaja had
appointed
Sheikh
Abdullah, the prime
minister of J and K. But
the million dollar question
what was the need to
create Article 370. Why
Maharaja's rights were not
confiscated like it
happened in case of other
princely rulers. More than
500 such rulers had signed
the annexation conditions.
It is surprising why an
exception was made in the
case of Maharaja Hari
Singh. It was a blunder on
the part of then federal
government. The situation
was made more confusing
by imposing the condition
that the President of India
could armed laws in J and
K as per Article 370 but
only after taking the
consent of the J and K
government. Shockingly
enough, no debate, no
discussion was done by
the historians, legal
experts, constitutional
scholars chose to remain
silent. Article 370 would
have died a natural death
when J and K Constituent
assembly passed a
resolution to dissolve the
monarchy of Mahraja Hari
Singh on 29th August,
1952. Along with this
crown prince Karan Singh
was made the Sadar-eRiyasat (Head of the state).
History will continue to
ask
why
Indian
government opted to look
the other way at this
development.. But Nehru
ordered to arrest Sheikh
Abdullah on August 9,
1953 and put him behind
the bars. Again the
thinkers of this country
chose to remain silent
spectators.
Perhaps
Abdullah
dethroned
Maharaja because he
wanted to seize power or
might be as per the
suggestion of the UN
adviser Owen Dixon, he
wanted to declare J and K
as Islamic Republic of
Kashmir. Whatever might
be the actual facts, the day
Maharaja was dethroned
and monarchy was
abolished Article 3670
became
redundant.
Because as per the
Constituent Assembly
decision, the President
could only seek the
consent of Maharaja to
amend laws. Now there is
no Sheikh Abdullah, no
Maharaja's monarchy and
not even the Constituent
Assembly. In January 1957
the Constitution of J and k
was adopted by the J and K
Assembly. According to
its section 3, J and K is an
integral part of India and
will always be so. Then
what is the relevance of
370. Government of India
is fully empower to amend
Article 370 and removed
all confusion and chaos.
That is the only solution.
6
JAMMU | WEDNESDAY | APRIL 29 | 2015
Return of Pandits
is imperative
Shankar
Roychowdhury
T
he Government of India
has called upon the
chief minister of
Kashmir for "ghar wapsi" of
the displaced Kashmiri Pandit
community to their homeland.
Such a "ghar wapsi" is a
strategic imperative to ensure
that a credible Indian civil
presence is maintained in the
Valley. But can the
beleaguered community at all
return as part of a larger
"Kashmiriyat" family, even if
ensconced in "composite
townships"? Or will they
continue to remain hostages to
hostility and militancy inside
India, should they choose to
exercise their "right of return"
to their homes?This is the
dilemma confronting the
Kashmiri Pandits and has to
be addressed by the state and
the Central governments. The
return of Kashmiri Pandits to
Kashmir will be actively
opposed by the large and
active pro-Pakistani fifth
column in the Valley headed
by the Yasin Malik-Syed Ali
Shah Geelani gang and their
underlings.Given the street
protests in Srinagar that
marked the announcement, the
situation could escalate to an
urban
insurgency
in
downtown
Srinagar,
combining frenzied street
mobs of stone throwers, with
groups of armed terrorist
hitmen targeting minority
areas. In this context, it would
be advisable for India's
Unified Headquarters in
Srinagar to contemplate and
prepared for, say, the rocket
launchers recently shown-off
by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan
(TTP) somewhere in Af-Pak
being smuggled into the
city.Given the history of their
exodus, insurgency in
Kashmir and the results
thrown up by the Assembly
elections, the "ghar wapsi" of
Kashmiri Pandits will be a
watershed moment in Indian
history, but it can come about
only if the Government of
India intervenes directly in the
process. Paving the way for
their return requires major
political restructuring in the
Valley itself, even, perhaps,
carving out space for a
separate new state of "Panun
Kashmir". This can take the
shape
of
complexes
established under protection
in the Valley, as safe enclaves.
It is an inevitable watershed in
history that cannot be put off
further.Only the future will
tell whether the idea of
"Kashmiriyat" really does
exist among the Kashmiris, or
has been obliterated, perhaps
forever. Meanwhile, the
country watched with a
growing sense of frustrated
outrage as Massarat Aalam,
an active "hate India" leader
in Kashmir, calmly strolled
out of jail facilitated by a
snafu between the Central and
state bureaucracies, with
babus now shooting off
indignant memos to each
other.The failure of the state
government to bring charges
against
to be contd......
Taliban flaunts missile launch: Threat to
world security
Vikas Khanna
The deadly Pakistan-based
Islamist group Tehreek-eTaliban (TTP) has become
deadlier. If its claims that it
has developed an indigenous
missile named Omar-1
which it successfully testfired are true then it poses a
grave threat not only to
Pakistan and Afghanistan but
to the regional and
international security as
well.
Terrorism has acquired new
dimensions and threatens to
alter the status of the world
order. The scenario is very
scary. The new firepower
will not only help grow the
influence
of
the
fundamentalist
Islamic
forces, it will also endanger
the actors who created them.
And Pakistan will be the first
to face the heat as its security
forces have stepped up
operations against the
Taliban
following
a
dastardly attack on a
Peshawar school in which
145 people lost their lives,
including 132 school
children. And the Taliban has
made its intentions clear by
stating that its enemies will
be on the run. From now
onwards, the Taliban will not
only be able to inflict
maximum pain on its
adversaries, it can widen its
operations as the missile can
easily be assembled and
dissembled in accordance to
the situation. What we are
witnessing today is a new
version of terrorism. The
movement is acquiring a
very deadly shape after it has
drawn in its fold several
highly qualified technocrats,
who
are
religiously
motivated, indoctrinated and
bent on establishing an
Islamist state. Technology, it
is now apparent, is their
latest weapon of the Taliban.
With terror as their chosen
instrument, these radical
Islamists seek to remake the
world.
The more worrisome trend is
the links between some
retired Pakistani military and
intelligence officials and
nuclear scientists to Taliban
and al-Qaeda militants.
Without their help, it would
not have been possible for
the fundamentalists to
acquire the technology to
develop a missile. The latest
development will give
Western leaders nightmares
about militants acquiring
nuclear materials, or worse,
an entire weapon. When the
militants can develop a
missile, can that be far
behind? It certainly will be
next on the agenda of
militants. And god forbids if
that happens, the entire
mankind will be endangered.
The consequences of the
cocktail of terrorism and
nuclear weapons can be very
devastating. If militants have
gained strength today, then
Pakistan can not absolve its
responsibility. It has allowed
the militants to grow, giving
them not only shelter but
finances. Pakistan has long
been suspected of playing a
double game, fighting some
militants while supporting
those its generals have
regarded as strategic assets
to be used against rivals and
neighbours, India and
Afghanistan. Not only that,
Pakistan has notoriously
played a vital role in nuclear
proliferation. One cannot
forget the enormity of what
Pakistani nuclear scientist A.
Q. Khan has done. He
created an elaborate, wholly
illicit network by selling
nuclear secrets to Iran, North
Korea and Libya. Was he
doing it alone? Looks
unlikely! The Pakistani
establishment and the
military in particular were
completely complicit as
Khan widened his nuclear
black market. The fear of
nuclear terrorism in Pakistan
stemming from the danger of
radical Islamists overrunning
the country and gaining
control of the country's
nuclear assets is arguably the
greatest
threat.
The
possibility of Pakistan's
nuclear weapons falling into
the wrong hands looks more
real now than ever. And the
world can't turn its eyes off.
There can be no second view
about the fact that TTP is
now a force to reckon with.
Over the last few years and
especially since the Nawaz
Sharif's PML (N) has come
to power, the government of
Pakistan
has
been
floundering in its policy to
tackle the challenge posed
by this militant organisation.
The government cannot be
faulted for efforts to engage
the TTP in talks as was
spelled out in its election
manifesto; it bent backwards
in its efforts and managed a
few rounds of dialogue. The
TTP, however, arrogantly
perceived this effort as a sign
of weakness and has adopted
unreasonable postures. Most
distressing has been its
policy of continuing with its
violent activities even as the
talks are underway.
Time has come for Pakistan
to act and act decisively. It
will have to shun its
approach of differentiating
between good militants and
bad militants. The United
States has often reminded
Pakistan to fight militant
groups that threaten Afghan,
Indian and U.S. interests. It
is high time that pressure is
built on Pakistan to target all
militant groups to bring
security to the region.
Pakistan should also realize
that a lot of its own citizens
have died as a result of
terrorism. A lot of members
of their military have fallen
dead.
While the people of Pakistan
talk in hushed tones against
the TTP, an all out popular
upsurge is not being
witnessed. No violent
movement can be quelled
unless the people do not
provide unrelenting support
to the military and political
initiative. Terrorism can be
contained by the security
forces only with unrelenting
support of the local
population.
The people in Pakistan are
presently on the fence-sitters
phase, they want the Taliban
out of their lives but are
dependent
upon
the
government and the security
forces to do the dirty job,
they are not coming forward
to make a contribution. Not
much can be achieved
without such support coming
by.
It's important for Pakistan to
recognize that threat and to
act against that threat. Not
only Pakistan, it is also the
responsibility of the
international community to
ensure that these militant
groups do not gain a
foothold but are pushed back
into the recesses of memory.
The world can't afford to
remain a silent spectator
now. The top priority should
be to ensure that Pakistan's
nuclear weapons and
technology do not fall into
the hands of terrorists.
invest in the cash-rich, fifthlargest smartphone vendor in
India, the Chinese $45billion Xiaomi Corp. While
the amount Mr Tata has
invested is not known, it is a
real coup for the Chinese
company, which has
ambitions to be the number
one smartphone vendor in
India in three years. They
had approached Mr Tata to
act as adviser and mentor.
But even more than helping
us "tweak our business
model", as Xiaomi's Manu
Jain said, it is significant that
Mr Tata, by putting his
signature on one of China's
most successful start-ups,
has helped dilute fears that
Indian security agencies
have had about Chinese
equipment makers. Of
course China's credibility
has come a long way since
May 2013, when it was said
that the Indian government
had
launched
an
investigation of Huawei and
ZTE, both Chinese telecom
equipment-makers,
following security concerns
over Beijing's alleged
involvement in cyber
espionage. Prior to that there
were concerns about using
Chinese telecom equipment
to roll out fibre optic
networks. But that is all in
the past as India too has
advanced technologically to
be able to put in place
security safeguards.It is
exciting to see what Mr
Tata's contribution will be in
Xiaomi, which made news
this week with the
spectacular launch of the
Mi4i, with 4i standing for
India. Mr Tata has in the last
one year invested in several
e-commerce start-ups, but
this one is different.
Jaitley's big challenge
Finance minister Arun
Jaitley faces one of his
biggest challenges this week
as the Lok Sabha decides the
fate of the constitutional
amendment bill on the
Goods and Services Tax.
The entire Opposition and
some BJP allies had opposed
the bill's introduction, and
many of them, excluding the
allies, walked out, making
the fate of the bill a fait
accompli. Jaitley is said to
be in hectic parleys to get
the Congress and others to
Xiaomi's Tata coup
Industrialist Ratan Tata has agree to a discussion as they
created quite a flutter by keep insisting that the bill be
becoming the first Indian to sent to the standing
committee. This is just
political cussedness as the
bill, that was first talked
about in 2003 during the
first
BJP-led
NDA
government, has already
been with the standing
committee for two and a half
years.The Congress seems to
be paying the BJP back in
the same coin as it were
BJP-led states that had
scuttled agreement on GST
even though it was discussed
threadbare
by
the
empowered committee of
state finance ministers
during the Manmohan Singh
government. It was alleged
then the BJP was
deliberately opposing the
bill as it did not want the
Congress to take credit for
it. It is a sad commentary
that such a major reform that
could increase GDP by 2 per
cent, facilitate the ease of
doing business and give the
states financial strength is
being sacrificed at the altar
of tit-for-tat. Mr Jaitley will
need enormous give-andtake and generosity to get
the Sonia Gandhi-led
Congress to transcend its
hurt pride.
Why we Indians are an
unhappy lot
Money is not everything, but
can you be happy if you
don't have it? That's a nobrainer, obviously. But the
SDSN report reminds us to
seriously consider a policy
orientation that may help in
climbing the happiness
chart. The third edition of
the World Happiness Report
suggests that India figures
way down the list, meaning
it is a more unhappy place to
be in than most countries in
the world. In a survey of 158
countries, it found itself in
the rear of the pack at place
117, a slide from the rank of
111 a year ago. This can
hardly
be
good
advertisement for our
society, our government, or
our political and economic
system. Obviously, there is a
long way to go before we
can turn the corner since we
are so lowly placed. It hasn't
helped that the Indian
economy flew at more than
seven per cent annual
average rate of growth
between 2004 and 2014 in
spite of the last two years of
the UPA recording growth
rates of less than five per
cent - the best for any
democracy ever. And the
forecast for the first year of
the
Narendra
Modi
dispensation is somewhat
higher. But even if this is not
realised, the data should still
be reasonably comforting.
And yet, high growth rates
do not automatically
translate into promotion on
the scale of the world
happiness
index,
as
tabulated by the Sustainable
Development
Solutions
Network, an initiative of the
UN helmed by the wellknown Columbia University
economist Jeffrey Sachs.
But it cannot be lost on
anyone that the world's
happiest countries Switzerland tops the list this
year - are also among its
richest.
Money is not everything, but
can you be happy if you
don't have it? That's a nobrainer, obviously. But the
SDSN report reminds us to
seriously consider a policy
orientation that may help in
climbing the happiness
chart. The yardstick adopted
by SDSN makes it obvious
that societies and countries
should be caring, have social
systems to be proud of,
should respect freedoms,
and should obviously also
provide their people access
to health, education and
housing, and, not the least,
should be low on corruption.
India loses out on many of
these pegs, and we should
move quickly to fix the
problem.
The
Modi
government had promised
much when it came in about
a year ago, but the sense
many have - rich and poor
alike - is that action has not
followed on words, although
much was promised.
Corruption levels have not
changed but tolerance
thresholds are lower, making
for social disharmony. The
economic expectations have
not been met.
While we take these on
board, it does cause surprise
that countries like war-torn
Iraq, the nursery of terrorism
Pakistan, and politicallywracked Bangladesh have
outperformed India on the
happiness index - Pakistan
by a mile (it is ranked 81).
No less surprising, Pakistan
is ahead of China. The
question then is, does the
index need fixing, and, if so,
how?
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Freedom
fighter
Choudhar
y Jaswant
Singh
Arya dies
Saharanpur: Choudhary
Jaswant Singh Arya, who
took part in the country's
freedom movement, passed
away after prolonged illness at Gangaram area here
on
Tuesday.
He was 102 years old.
Singh was jailed several
times during the country's
freedom struggle, Sub
Divisional
Magistrate
Heera Lala Yadav said.
His mortal remains
wrapped in the national
flag were consigned to
flames by his son
Dharmpal Singh.
NIA to probe blasts in Roorkee,
Bijnor, SIMI hand suspected
New Delhi: The National
Investigation Agency (NIA)
will probe the 2014 blast at a
VHP rally in Roorkee and
explosion at a house in
Bijnor as members of the
banned terror group SIMI are
suspected to be involved in
both the incidents.
Minister of State for Home
Haribhai
Parathibhai
Chaudhary said this in Lok
Sabha on Tuesday.
Replying a written question, he said the undertrial
fugitives who escaped from
Khandwa jail in Madhya
Pradesh are suspected to be
involved in various terrorist
acts in different parts of the
country.
However, their actual
involvement or otherwise can
LS MPs to donate a month's
salary for Nepal quake victims
New Delhi: All Lok Sabha
members, who have agreed
to donate a month's salary
towards relief work for those
hit by the quake in Nepal and
India, were on Tuesday asked
to contribute the money to
the Prime Minister's Relief
Fund.
Parliamentary
Affairs
Minister M Venkaiah Naidu
said all members would
donate a month's salary for
relief work. Since everybody
has agreed to it, there is no
need for a resolution to be
adopted by the House, he
said.
"I will write to all the
members (with regard to
donating their salary),"
Naidu said in the House.
The month's salary needed
to be contributed to the
Prime Minister's Relief Fund
as the money would be sent
to a foreign country, he
added.
A 7.9-magnitude earthquake jolted Nepal on
Saturday, which was followed by several aftershocks
that left a trail of death and
destruction. There have been
loss of lives in some parts of
India. In Nepal, the death toll
in the quake has climbed to
more than 4,000.
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only be determined after a
thorough investigation into
such incidents.
In this regard, the Home
Ministry has requested the
state governments concerned
to send their reports on these
incidents in accordance with
section 6(2) of the National
Investigation Agency Act2008, along with their views
for transfer of these cases to
the National Investigation
Agency (NIA).
Chaudhary said the governments of Uttar Pradesh
and Uttarakhand have recommended transfer of the case
of IED explosion at Bijnor
and IED explosion at
Roorkee, respectively, to
NIA. "These cases have been
handed over to NIA for fur-
ther investigation," he said.
A 12-year-old boy was
killed in the blast at the rally
in Roorkee in Uttarakhand on
December 6, 2014 while the
December 14, 2014 explosion in Bijnor took place
when Students Islamic
Movement of India (SIMI)
accused were mixing chemicals with improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
The role of five terrorists
of the banned SIMI, who had
escaped from the Khandwa
jail in Madhya Pradesh in
October 2013, is suspected in
both the cases.
Two of these terrorists
were killed in a recent
encounter in Telangana earlier this month while three others are still on the run.
OBC women not entitled to
benefits in migrated state: Govt
New Delhi: Women hailing
from
Other
Backward
Classes (OBC) are not entitled for benefits in the state
they have migrated to, Lok
Sabha was informed on
Tuesday. In his reply to a
question, Minister of State
for Social Justice and
Empowerment Krishna Pal
Gurjar said that the prescribed authority may issue
OBC certificate to a person,
who has migrated from
another State on the production of a genuine certificate
issued to his father by the
prescribed authority of the
State of her father's origin.
"However, she is not entitled for the benefits in the
State she has migrated," the
minister said. In order to get
benefits of reservation for
employment
in
Delhi
Government and admission
in
Delhi
Government
Educational Institutions, one
has to be in the State
Government list of OBCs
and subject to fulfilling other
criteria laid down by the
Delhi Government, he added.
The Minister also said that
the OBC status of a female
applicant is determined keeping in view the status of her
father and not her husband.
SC stays breach of
privilege notice
against Shobhaa De
Tagore's 'Kabuliwala' has given
us a brand : Afghan Prez
New Delhi : A breach of privilege notice sent to author
Shobhaa
De
by
the
Maharashtra State Assembly 16
days ago was stayed by the
Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The breach of privilege notice
was issued to De for her tweets
over the state government order
on Marathi films. De was
directed to file her written submission by Monday. However,
an apex court bench comprising
of Justices Dipak Misra and P C
Pant, after going through all her
tweets, said her views was
against the government's decision and wondered how it violated the privilege of the state
assembly. After a brief hearing,
the court stayed the proceeding
initiated against the writer by
the assembly. The notice was
issued on April 12 asking
Shobhaa De to explain her
tweets about the state government's decision to make it
mandatory for multiplexes to
screen Marathi movies during
prime time.
New Delhi: Rabindranath
Tagore's famous short
story "Kabuliwala" has
contributed more to brand
Afghanistan which it
could not do with billions
of
dollars,
Afghan
President
Mohammad
Ashraf Ghani said on
Tuesday while fondly
remembering the late
Nobel laureate.
Ghani, who arrived here
yesterday, identified terror
as a major challenge facing the region and said his
government was determined
to
make
Afghanistan the "graveyard of terror".
He was full of praise for
Indian democracy as he
talked about Tagore and
the cultural links between
the two countries.
In "Kabuliwala", Tagore
depicts the story of an
Afghan travelling to India
with the intention to earn
some money in order to
pay debts and to save his
home in Afghanistan.
"May I take a moment to
thank
Rabindranath
Tagore. 'Kabuliwala' has
done more to give us a
brand which we could not
buy with a billion dollars
of advertisements.
"I am delighted that the
old version is being
watched and a new version
is being prepared that will
give you a much more
authentic sitting inside
Afghanistan," Ghani said
while speaking at a joint
briefing along with Prime
Minister Narendra Modi at
Hyderabad House.
He fondly remembered
the works of Tagore and
said that he was taught
about the famous author
during his childhood by
his grandmother. "I speak
of Tagore because I was
raised on Tagore by my
grandmother who lived in
Dehradun...," Ghani said
while talking about India's
vision and the remarkable
transformation.
"But India's impact on
others is not been as much
understood."
Ghani also spoke about
Abul
Kalam
Azad,
Mahatma Gandhi and
Jawaharlal Nehru and
talked highly about Indian
democracy.
"Abul Kalam Azad,
Mahatma Gandhi and
Jawaharlal Nehru were not
names but ideas people
leaders. I would like to
pay tribute to Indian
democracy, to the discourse of rule of law, to
the discourse of equality,
to the discourse to the
engagement in transformation," he said.
Modi third most
followed world
leader on twitter
New Delhi: Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
remains the third most followed world leader on the
micro-blogging site Twitter
while External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj is
the most followed foreign
minister, according to a latest
study.
Twiplomacy Study 2015,
accessed by IANS, showed
that Sushma Swaraj is the
most followed foreign minister with 2,438,228 followers.
She is far ahead of UAE'
Abdullah
Bin
Zayed
(1,608,831) and Turkey’s
Mevlut
Cavusoglu
(376,429).
The study, which counted
data till March 24, is an
annual global survey of
world leaders on Twitter. It is
aimed at identifying the
extent to which world leaders use the site and how they
connect on the social network.
The study revealed that
three most followed world
leaders were US President
@BarackObama
with
56,933,515 followers, Pope
Francis (@Pontifex) with
19,580,910 followers on his
nine different language
accounts, and Modi with
10,902,510 followers.
Since his election in May
2014, Modi's account has
moved into the top three
most
followed Twitter
accounts of world leaders,
said Twiplomacy's Matthias
Luefkens. He told IANS that
Modi was also among the
most effective in terms of retweets per tweet. Modi's
huge victory in the 2014 general election was partly credited to a well-organised
social media campaign.
Besides, the study found
the most followed world
leaders have one thing in
common: they have discovered Twitter as a powerful
one-way broadcasting tool.
They are only following a
handful of other world leaders, if any, and are hardly
conversational which is
almost impossible, given the
sheer size of their audience.
Among the foreign ministries, the US State
Department (@StateDept) is
the most followed with 1,7
million followers ahead of
the
Turkish
(@TC_Disisleri),
the
'Shaheed' not defined in defence
or central forces : Govt
New Delhi: Government on
Tuesday
informed
the
Parliament that the term 'shaheed' or martyr is not defined
"anywhere" and there is no
official order to accord the
same to defence or paramilitary personnel.
"There have been demands
for giving shaheed/martyr
status to the Central Armed
Police Forces (CAPF) and
Assam Rifles (AR) personnel
killed in action. In the meeting of Committee of
Secretaries
held
on
September
14,
2011,
Ministry of Defence indicated that shaheed/martyr is not
defined
anywhere
and
presently they are not issuing
any order/notification to this
effect in respect of defence
personnel.
"Similarly, no status of
shaheed/martyr is given to
the CAPF and Assam Rifles.
However, their families/next
of kin are given full family
pension
under
the
Liberalised
Pensionary
award rules and lump sum
ex-gratia compensation of Rs
15 lakh as per rules in addition to other benefits admissible," Minister of State for
Home Kiren Rijiju said in a
written reply in Lok Sabha.
The CAPFs like CRPF,
BSF, ITBP, CISF, SSB and
NSG have made representations to the Union Home
Ministry that 'shaheed' salutation is being demanded by
the personnel of these forces.
The Central Reserve
Police Force, last year, had,
however, issued in-house
orders making it mandatory
to use 'shaheed' before the
name of a martyred personnel and in all communications vis-a-vis its slain men
and women.
Russian (@MID_RF) and
the French (@FranceDiplo)
all with less than a million
followers.
The study said it was
impossible to say whether
governments pay to promote
the accounts of their leaders.
But “we have seen an
interesting
pattern
on
@IndianDiplomacy (official
account of India's public
diplomacy) and @MEAIndia
(India's ministry of external
affairs) accounts whose
tweets are automatically retweeted by an army of 90
tweeps who all follow each
other and whose sole purpose is to re-tweet the tweets
from @IndianDiplomacy
and
@MEAIndia,
the
accounts listed on each of
their public Twitter list, aptly
Want to work positively with
India to help Nepal: China
Beijing: Playing down
reports of competition with
India in quake relief efforts
in Nepal, China on Tuesday
said it would like to work
with India "positively" to
help the Himalayan nation to
tide over the crisis.
"China and India are
neighbours to Nepal. We
would like to work together
and coordinate positively
with India in our assistance
efforts in Nepal to help it to
overcome the difficulties and
rebuild
its
homeland,"
Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman Hong Lei told a
media briefing here today.
He was responding a question on the reported remarks
by
Nepalese
Foreign
Minister Mahendra Bahadur
Pandey that Nepal has divided areas between India and
China for quake relief.
"Since the Nepal was
struck by the earthquake,
international
community
including China and India
extended helping hand to
Nepal providing all kinds of
assistance and support. We
will continue to increase
efforts in this regard," Hong
said.
Yesterday, former Chinese
ambassador to Pakistan
Zhang Chunxiang who
addressed the media here on
China's relations with South
Asia denied any competition
between New Delhi and
Beijing in trying to help
Kathmandu as part of effort
to vie for influence in the
Himalayan Kingdom.
"There is no competition
in quake relief efforts. We do
not have competition with
India and other countries.
There is no competition in
humanitarian assistance,"
Zhang had said.
Rahul takes a train to Punjab,
to see condition of farmers
One dead,
241 injured in
South Africa
train collision
NGT announces Rs 5,000 fine for open
burning of leaves, garbage in Delhi
New Delhi: Stepping up its effort to
curb pollution, the National Green
Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday announced
a fine of Rs 5,000 on individuals spotted
burning garbage, leaves, plastic, rubber
etc in open areas in parts of Delhi and
the National Capital Region (NCR).
The Green tribunal had earlier passed
directions, ordering confiscation of
petrol vehicles older than 15 years and
diesel vehicles older than 10 years from
the NCR to check the alarming pollution
levels in the national capital.
The Centre, however, moved the NGT
seeking stay on its ban order on older
vehicles in Delhi, saying that it would
affect public and essential services.
The NGT bench had earlier directed
the DPCC and Delhi State Industrial and
Infrastructure Development Corporation
Ltd (DSIDC) to submit a complete plan
regarding the establishment of a hazardous waste disposal unit in Bawana
and Narela. Coinciding the NGT order, a
recent report prepared by the World
Health Organisation (WHO) termed
Delhi's air as the worst in the world.
The air quality levels measured in
2014 by WHO in as many as 1600 cities
across the globe showed New Delhi as
the most polluted city in the world.
It showed that the air pollution in the
national capital is 10 times higher than
acceptable standards.
Net Neutrality debate: TRAI and govt consider law
New Delhi: It appears that
TRAI has taken down the
public comments which had
the 1 million email IDs.
Currently we’re getting the
404 error when you click on
anyone of the sections.
The Net Neutrality debate
has once again picked up
pace in India after telecom
regulator TRAI released the
responses it has received on
its paper, which called for
regulation of OTT players
like WhatsApp, Skype, etc.
TRAI reportedly received
over 10 lakh responses to its
paper and later put out all
responses, including email
ids of common users who
had sent their replies on the
issue. TRAI’s move to make
so many email ids as public
was seen as a careless one,
given that it exposed over 1
million users to spammers.
TRAI divided the comments into three sectionsComments from the Service
Providers; Comments from
the
Service
Providers’
Association, and Comments
from other Stakeholders
(which includes the regular
folks, tech start-ups, etc.)
We take a look at the latest
on the debate regarding Net
Neutrality.
TRAI and government
looking at law: The Indian
Express had reported earlier,
TRAI and the government
are veering towards the view
that there is a need for a public law spelling out “dos and
don’ts” to ensure net neutrality.
According to our report, a
background note by the
department of telecom (DoT)
to a six-member committee
argues for “having specific
measure for enforcing net
neutrality”, keeping in view
factors relevant in the Indian
context. Three of the four
factors — need for increased
broadband availability, a
competitive environment and
low telecom tariff — clearly
suggest that market forces
will take care of any aberration by telecom service
providers (TSPs).
entitled 'RT',” the study said.
“Thanks to their dedicated
action the tweets of
@IndianDiplomacy
and
@MEAIndia are consistently
re-tweeted 100 times but
rarely favourited,” it said.
The study also showed
Rwanda's President Paul
Kagame as the most conversational world leader with 86
percent of his tweets being
@replies to other Twitter
users followed by Norway’s
Prime
Minister
Erna
Solberg.
Conducted by global communications firm BursonMarsteller, the report studied
669 Twitter accounts of
heads of state and government, foreign ministers and
their institutions in 166
countries worldwide.
Ambala : Rahul Gandhi on
Tuesday took his fight
against the contentious land
acquisition bill to Punjab as
he travelled by train today
to visit the NDA-ruled state
and see the condition of
farmers "with my own
eyes". Dressed in a brown
tee and jeans and sporting a
stubble, the Congress Vice
President reached this town
in
Haryana
bordering
Punjab this evening sitting
in a general compartment of
the Sachkhand express for
the visit dubbed as "political" by his critics. "I have
been told that the situation
is very bad. So I want to see
it with my own eyes. I am
going to Punjab. I had also
stated in my speech (in
Parliament) that those who
provide grains to the country, food to the country,
from them their land is
being snatched. This is
wrong and we will counter
it," Gandhi told reporters
from his window seat earlier at the New Delhi Railway
station from where he
boarded the train.
Congress
leaders
Jyotiraditya Scindia and
Shakeel Ahmed, AICC incharge of Punjab accompanied Gandhi. Asked to
respond to the criticism that
his visit had political overtones, Gandhi shot back,"
What do they want to mak
everything non-political."
Gandhi is on his way to
visit
Khanna
and
Gobindgarh by road in the
SAD-BJP ruled state and
will take stock of the situation in the state's grain markets where farmers are finding it difficult to sell their
produce after the recent
unseasonal rains. He will
also have a stop at Sarhind
Mandi The visit comes at a
time when farmers in the
region have accused the
government of tardy wheat
procurement. The state has
also been witnessed suicides by farmers.
Khanna grain market is
considered one of the
largest grain markets in
Asia. The visit to Punjab is
a precursor to the Kisan
Padyatra that Gandhi will
undertake next month to
reach out to farmers against
the backdrop of the agrarian
crisis.
Johannesburg: At least
one person was killed and
more than 200 were
injured after two commuter trains collided in a
suburb of South Africa`s
biggest city Johannesburg
on Tuesday, train operator
Metrorail and emergency
services said.
Both trains were travelling from the capital
Pretoria when one train
crashed into the other in
the Johannesburg suburb
of Denver, Metrorail
spokeswoman
Lillian
Mofokeng told Talk Radio
702.
"We just do not know
how it happened. We will
be investigating that.
There is an indication that
people have been injured,"
she said.
Local media reported
that one of the trains had
stopped at Denver station
when it was hit from
behind.
Emergency
services
provider ER24 said in a
statement that one person
had died and 241 others
suffered injuries.
Train collisions and
derailments
are
not
uncommon
in
South
Africa, often caused by
cable theft on train lines or
human error.
Last year, more than 80
commuters were injured
when two trains collided in
the port city of Durban. In
2013, at least 300 people
were hurt after passenger
trains collided in Pretoria.
The government has
said it is in the process of
overhauling the country`s
ageing rail network.
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Ayush awareness camp Alam: Old city reflects
begins at Kupwara
Kashmir's glory
NL Correspondent
Srinagar, April 28
Hailing the efforts being taken by the state
government over the restoration of old city's lost
glory, PDP senior leader and MLC Mohammad
Khurshid Alam expressed hope that Srinagar
would witness new horizons of development
during the present dispensation of Jammu and
Kashmir.
While interacting with peoples' delegations,
Alam maintained that the city was not only
ignored on the developmental front but its
historic importance was also undermined by the
successive regimes here.
Alam also hailed the recent visit of the chief
minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to old city
wherein some of the extremely important projects
have been assured to be completed in near future.
The PDP leader while hailing the concerns shown
by the chief minister over the dilapidated
NL Correspondent
Srinagar, April 28
The District Development
Commissioner,
Kupwara
inaugurate the Awarenesscum-Mega Medical Camp
organized by the Directorate
General
of
ISM
in
collaboration with Ayush
Health Club, Kupwara here
today.
The Doctors, Para medical
staff and locals were present
on the occasion.
About 1000 people were
treated during the camp and
medicines provided by the
higher
authorities
were
distributed
among
the
registered needy persons on
the spot.
The District Development
Commissioner also paid
inspection to various wards of
Ayush unit and medicine
distribution centre to review
the facilities and working of
the centre.
The ADMO, ISM, District
Co-ordinator Ayush, Medical
Officer (ISM Ayush), Kupwara
welcomed the chief guest at
the camp.
Meanwhile, the Seminar on
the topic Non Communicable
Diseases and role of Ayush was
also organized in the ANMT
School where in the District
Development Commissioner
Kupwara participate as chief
guest.
It was given out that the
4000 children in school and
Anganwari Centres were
screened, 27 Ayush Units are
functioning in the district,
besides 2 Ayush Hospitals in
Kupwara and Handwara while
40 doctors are performing their
regular duties at every PHCs in
the district.
The District Development
Commissioner
Kupwara
impressed upon the all
stakeholders to perform their
duties as per the guidelines of
the Health department and
Doctors
should
take
responsibility to work in the
far-flung areas of the district
either rotationally, voluntarily
or manually so that people of
these areas would be able to
take necessary precautionary
steps about their health care.
He said that 12 lakh needy
patients were treated during
the year 2014-15 in Ayush
units functioning in the
district.
Chief Medical Officer
Kupwara Dr. Muneer Ahmad
Kuja, ADMO, ISM, District
Co-ordination IEC (Ayush),
Principal ANMT School,
Deputy Director ISM and
various health experts share
their views on the topic.
condition of various areas of Srinagar said that
the visit of the chief minister has infused hope
among the inhabitants that the ending of their
woes too is a priority. "Earlier Srinagar used to
get vandalized and authorities taking its residents
for a ride every day. Now the time has come
when the government has shown its sincerity in
addressing the grievances of the old city of
Srinagar. It will not only help in preserving its
glorious past but would give new boost to the
tourism sector of the state," Alam said.
He maintained further that the shrines and the
structures of the historical importance must be
protected and preserved and whatever has been
left in shambles by the previous regime should be
instilled with new life. "Old city is the place that
used to be recognized with the massive traffic
jams, erratic power and scarcity of water. It will
now be a center for heritage, culture and learning.
We all have to do our bit to make it the face of
Srinagar city."
Director Handicrafts inspects
training centres
NL Correspondent
Srinagar, April 28
Director Handicrafts
Tariq Hussain Ganaie
today took stock of
various
Handicraft
Training
Centres
of
district Srinagar and
Budgam.
Director
Handicrafts interacted
with almost 200 trainees
that
are
currently
undergoing the training
of various world famous
Handicrafts of Kashmir.
During the interaction,
Director
Handicrafts
advised the trainees to
follow the schedule of
training
religiously.
Stating that the State
Government is mulling to
enhance the stipend of
the trainee artisans, he
told that the Government
is
contemplating
to
enhance the stipend from
Rs. 500 to Rs. 1,500 for
elementary trainees and
for advanced trainings
the trainees may get an
enhanced stipend of Rs.
2,000 per month.
On spot instructions
were passed on to the
Assistant Directors of
both the districts for
encouraging the male
folk of their respective
Death of Jammu residents in SMC starts
nocturnal washing of
Nepal earthquake
dusty bumpy roads
APHC condoles the death
Srinagar, April 28, CNS:
Expressing relief at the news of
well being of Hurriyat Media
Advisor Advocate Shahid-ulIslam's brother Javed Shah who
was traced in an injured
condition
in
Kathmandu
following three days of frantic
search, Hurriyat Conference has
condoled the death of two
members of a Jammu family
who died in the earthquake.
While expressing solidarity
and sympathy with the family of
deceased, the Hurriyat said they
believe that government of
Nepal would facilitate the return
of Kashmiris from the quake hit
country as soon as possible.
Expressing concern over the
inundation of roads and
localities due to recent rains, the
spokesman said it seems the
government has not learned
from past experiences. He
further stated that government
has completely failed to provide
rehabilitation and relief to the
flood victims of September
2014 floods.
The spokesman said that
government made several
announcements after Sept 2014
floods that it was doing enough
to save the city from flood,
adding, the government seems
to be acting more verbally than
it acting on the ground keeping
in view the recent water logging
and inundation of roads streets
and colonies in Kashmir
especially in Srinagar. (CNS)
Srinagar, April 28, CNS:
The
Srinagar
Municipal
Corporation
(SMC)
has
embarked on a fresh drive of
night cleaning of the city roads
to avoid inconvenience to
pedestrians and commuters.
The drive will be carried
out on all major roads in the
city in the coming days.
SMC spokesperson said
that the necessity of nocturnal
clearing was felt because of the
unusual dust observed postfloods in the city during the
day. Under the drive, broom
decisions on rebuilding of roads,
bridges and raising of infrastructure
besides the relief and rehabilitation
measures.
Bhat said that the party workers are
also concerned about peoples worries
and are lending necessary cooperation
to the administration across the state
in tune of the party programme , He
said PDP assures people of a positive
change in the atmosphere with a
promise to help provide a responsive
government
and
accountable
administration fully backed by
independent judiciary and other
democratic institutions.
Bhat said PDP has invited the
attention of government towards the
water logged areas including the
agricultural land in low-lying areas .
PDP seeks immediate action from the
department of Irrigation and Flood
Control as well as PDD to address the
problems arising out of water logging.
He said that PDD should ensure
adequate power supply in areas where
pump-sheds are at work. Also the
irrigation department needs to make
all pump-sheds functional in valley
particularly
in
Sonawari
and
Bandipore.
He urged the government that UEED
department may be asked to expedite
activity in the Srinagar city where
various roads continue to remain
blocked and some low-lying areas face
difficulties due to piled-up mud and
rain water.
Bhat sought the attention of the
government towards the condition of
employees who have not received
salaries for several months. He said
that the government should ensure
immediate release of funds to various
departments. (CNS)
Husband sets
wife ablaze in
Srinagar
Srinagar, April 28, CNS: A
lady was allegedly set ablaze by
her husband in Khankah-iMolah area of Srinagar city on
Tuesday. Police has registered a
case against the husband and
investigation has been taken up.
A lady identified as Manzeela
wife of Manzoor Ahmad Wani
resident of Chalpan Kocha,
Khankahi
Moloh in the jurisdiction of
police
station
M.R.Gunj
received serious burn injuries
when her husband allegedly
sprinkled kerosene oil on her
and set her ablaze. She was
rushed to the hospital for
treatment.
Srinagar police has registered a
case FIR no. 43/2015 under
section 307/RPC in police
station M R Gunj and
investigation has been taken up.
(CNS)
Husband sets wife ablaze
Srinagar April 28
A woman was allegedly set ablaze by her husband in
Khankah-i-Molla area of Srinagar. Police have registered a case
against the husband and investigations have been taken up.
The woman was identified as Manzeela wife of Manzoor
Ahmad Wani resident Chalpan Kocha, Khankahi Molla in the
jurisdiction of police station M R Gunj.
The reports said she received serious burn injuries when her
husband allegedly sprinkled kerosene on her and set her ablaze.
She was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Srinagar police have registered a case FIR no. 43/2015 under
section 307/RPC in police station M R Gunj and investigation
has been taken up.
Woman ends life in Kupwara
Srinagar April 28
A woman ended her life by consuming some poisonous
substance in Kupwara district late last evening, reports said here
today.
A 32 years old woman (name with held) resident of Devar
Anderbugh, Lalpora consumed some poisonous substance at her
home. She was immediately shifted to Sub District Hospital,
Sogam where she breathed her last, the reports added.
Kupwara police have started investigation under section 174
CrPC in this regard.
Seven hurt in road mishaps
Srinagar April 28
Seven persons were injured in two separate road accidents in
South Kashmir's Anantnag district.
A 'Tavera' vehicle bearing registration number JK03C/5091
collided with another 'Tavera' bearing registration number
JK03C/7633 on the National Highway near Sethar Sangam,
Bijbehara resulting in injuries to six passengers traveling in these
vehicles. All the injured were shifted to a hospital for treatment.
Bijbehara police have registered a case in this regard.
Meanwhile, a vehicle bearing registration number
JK03D/1966 hit and injured Abdul Rashid Dar near Tantrey Pora
Siligam, Ashmuqam Anantnag. The injured was shifted to
District Hospital, Anantnag for treatment. Anantnag police have
registered a case in this regard.
House, shop damaged in fire
Srinagar April 28
A residential house and a shop were damaged in two separate
fire incidents in Anantnag and Srinagar.
Fire broke out in the residential house belonging to Gurpurab
Singh son of Ishar Singh resident of Mattan in District Anantnag,
resulting in partial damage to the house. Fire was brought under
control with the help of fire tenders and police.
Meanwhile, fire broke out in a shop belonging to Imtiyaz
Ahmed Gagloo resident of Nawakadal at Shah Complex Goni
Khan resulting in partial damage to the shop. In the incident
readymade garments were also damaged. Fire was brought under
control with the help of fire tenders and police.
Cheques distributed among ‘poor’ students
cleaning is done first and is
followed up by the sucker
machines. The water is
splashed on the streets to
reduce dust particles from the
streets.
The SMC has already
carried out the nocturnal
cleaning of the Raj Bagh-Lal
Chowk roads in the first phase.
It will be followed up on all
major roads and tourist places
like Dal Gate etc. The Srinagar
International Aiport-Lal Chowk
road will also be part of the
drive. (CNS)
PDP seeks action for restoration of
roads, power
Srinagar, April 28, CNS:
Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has
appreciated government efforts in
direction of resolving the immediate
problems faced by the people,
particularly the flood sufferers ,
farmers and fruit growers.
In a statement the party general
secretary Nizamudin Bhat said that the
personal concern of Chief Ministers
and his Srinagar visit has lent a
direction to the administration despite
bad weather various departments in
the administration have got involved
in execution of the government
areas
for
enrolment
especially in the crafts of
Wood
Carving
and
Copper
Ware.
The
Director was of the
opinion
that
the
Handicrafts Training is
the best option for the
unemployed
youth
especially for the school
drop outs. He stressed
that the Handicrafts
business is fast turning
into
a
lucrative
profession as more and
more people World Wide
are realizing the potential
and
importance
of
genuine
handicraft
products.
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NL Correspondent
Srinagar, April 28
Abu Zar (RA) Charitable Trust, a social
organization run by senior citizens of Srinagar
Tuesday distributed cheques among needy
students in Rainawari area of Srinagar.
At a function held at Government Boys High
School (Hari Singh), Rainawari, 41 students
were given cheques while senior citizens of the
city graced the occasion. The students included
those from Government Boys High School,
Nowhatta and Government Boys High School,
Rainawari.
"Begin Self, Begin Small," is our motto said
Riyaz Ahmad Bhat while moderating the
function. "We don't want to go for big donations
but we have a silver line to start from ourselves
and however less or however much we can give,"
he said. Bhat is President of the Trust.
Chief Guest on the occasion, Prof Ab Rashid
(Rtd Dean KU) asked students to give-in their
best and prosper in their lives.
"You are the best amongst the lot; financial
hurdles should not be a hurdle in your path to
excellence," he asserted. He lauded the role of
Abu Zar (RA) Charitable Trust in taking such an
endeavor.
Former Assistant General Manager J&K Bank,
Mushtaq Ahmad Hamdani said, "Education
inculcates belongingness and inner light of
human opens up," he said. Hamdani was Guest of
Honor at the occasion.
Patron of Abu Zar (RA) Charitable Trust, Altaf
Muntazir announced on the occasion that the
Trust shall support education of those needy
students who pass with good results in the senior
secondary examination.
"I assure Principal Madam, Faculty and senior
citizens present on the occasion that this Trust
shall not stop working; it will be a routine affair
in the area.
While giving vote of thanks, Principal of the
School, Nighat Ara said, "our students have made
us proud from time to time."
She thanked the Trust members and said that
such programs shall continue in the future.
Haq takes stock of work
Panchyat Bhawan
NL Correspondent
Srinagar, April 28
Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Abdul Haq Khan taking stock of ongoing construction work of
Panchayat Bhawan at New Airport Road Humhama, in Srinagar on Tuesday.
Photo: The Northlines
Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Abdul
Haq Khan today visited district Budgam and took stock of
ongoing construction work of Panchayat Bhawan at New
Airport Road Humhama spread over three kanals three marlas
land of Rural Development Department.
On the occasion, the Minister was informed that Rs.9.21
crore would be spent on the project. He was also told that an
amount of Rs.2 crore have already been released out of which
Rs. 1 crore has been spent on the project so far. Constructed
on an area of 17907 square feet, the Panchayat Bhawan will
have facility of one hall having seating capacity of 700
persons, 6 bedrooms, store, dawning hall besides parking
facilities for 100 vehicles and sanitary units. He was informed
that the project is expected to be completed within next two
years. The Minister directed the concerned executing agencies
to speed up the pace of work on the project and complete the
same within a stipulated time frame.
He directed them for judicious use of funds and use only
standard quality material in the construction of the project.
Deputy Commissioner, Budgam, Director Rural Development
and Panchyati Raj Kashmir, Executive Engineer, JKPCC,
Commissioner Development Budgam and other senior officers
accompanied the Minister.
Naat, Qirat
contest held
Baramulla, April 28
Government Girls Higher
Secondary School Baramulla
organized a Naat and Qirat
competition in collaboration
with Education Department
Baramulla.
About 30 participants from
various education institutions
participated in the event.
In Qirat competition Ishfaq
Ahmad Dar of Hr Secondary
School Delina got 1st position,
Mehraj-u-din of High School
Malmoh bagged 2nd position
and Danish Mohammad bagged
3rd positions, while in the Naat
competition Tehseem Sajad of
Higher Secondary School
Behrampora
bagged
1st
position and Gousia Majeed of
Higher Secondary School
Delina and Sabreena Ahad of
Hr bagged 2nd and 3rd
positions respectively.
Later, prizes were distributed
among the winner of the
competition.
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FXTM receives ‘Most Trusted
Forex Broker Award’
Jammu Tawi, April 28:
International
Forex
Broker ForexTime (FXTM)
has been recognized as
‘Most Trusted Forex Broker’
at the recent 14th MENA
Forex Awards 2015. The
award ceremony which took
place in Dubai closed the
first day of the ‘14th MENA
Forex Managed Funds &
Investment Show’, with the
awards being selected by an
international jury of professionals.
Olga Rybalkina, Chief
Executive
Officer
at
ForexTime Limited said:
‘Being recognised as ‘Most
Trusted Forex Broker’ is a
testament to FXTM’s fair
and transparent service, and
our commitment to providing our customers with a
reliable, high quality trading
platform. As a company
which takes its regulatory
requirements
seriously,
FXTM is properly capitalized and always follows
industry guidelines, giving
our clients peace of mind
when trading.”
The announcement comes
hot on the heels of several
other recent accolades for
FXTM, including the award
from ‘Most Educational
Broker
2014’
from
FXEmpire, a leading online
financial portal, and ‘Fastest
Growing ECN Broker Asia‘,
from the Global Banking &
Finance Awards.
Educating traders is one of
FXTM’s key priorities and
goes hand-in-hand with
offering a trusted service
through which clients can
trade successfully. FXTM
encourages both new and
experienced traders hone
and refresh their knowledge
and expertise of the trading
tools and markets by providing a range of educational
materials.
Thomas Cook India introduces ‘Top-Up Holidays’
Jammu Tawi, April 28
Thomas
Cook
has
launched ‘Top-Up Holidays’
- offering travellers the
option to select from a variety of tour inclusions and top
up their itinerary, based on
their individual interests/
preferences. The ‘Top Up’
options include an array of
sightseeing tours, transfers,
hotel upgrades and more.
Thomas Cook India’s
research data has highlighted
two clear observations: the
fact that the Indian consumer
is not cost but rather valueconscious and the growing
significance of value in holiday decisions. This innate
need for value was identified
as an untapped opportunity,
leading to Thomas Cook’s
creation of an innovative
“pizza model” holiday,
involving a simple ‘base’ of a
no-frills holiday package and
a range of “top-up” options.
Thomas Cook Top-Up
Holidays’ attractive assortment of convenient top-ups
empowers travellers with
both choice and flexibility to
personalise their holiday, and
at unbelievably affordable
prices of 99, 149, 199 & 299
(units based on the destination currency).
The Thomas Cook Top-Up
Holidays range covers Asia,
the Middle East, Europe,
USA, Islands and Australia,
adding value and diversity to
the traveller experience.
Shibani Phadkar, Senior
Vice President & Head Leisure Travel Outbound,
Products & Operations,
Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.,
said, “Today’s Indian travellers are not only keen to
design their own holidays but
are equally focused on maximising value. Given our significant volumes at Thomas
Cook, we are able to negotiate considerable savings for
our customers which we’ve
inbuilt into our unique TopUp Holidays. So, a strong
dual benefit – one, the flexibility of personalizing their
holiday by selecting from a
host of top up options and
two, great value-for-money
pricing.”
Yahoo unveils new online video series
New York: US Internet
giant Yahoo said on
Tuesday it was expanding
its online offerings, unveiling 18 new video series
with which it hopes to
attract a larger audience and
advertisers.
Of these, 14 will be featured in Yahoo's digital
magazines, which focus on
beauty, show business and
finance. "I Am Naomi,"
starring model Naomi
Campbell, and "Riding
Shotgun with Michelle
Rodriguez," which will feature
actress
Michelle
Rodriguez driving cars, are
among the new offerings.
Music will be another big
focus for the company as it
courts millennials. It will be
extending a deal with Live
Nation to broadcast music
festivals, and will join
iHeartMedia to broadcast
other music events.
Electronic dance music
will be the theme of
"Ultimate DJ," produced by
Simon Cowell.
And Yahoo unveiled a
new long-form series: a
comedy
called
"The
Pursuit" aimed at millennials in the digital age.
Chief executive Marissa
Mayer is trying to get
Yahoo back on the growth
track.
"Yahoo is amidst a multiyear transformation to
return an iconic company to
greatness," Mayer said in an
earnings statement last
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BUSINESS
JAMMU | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015
week.
"This quarter, we saw
encouraging
revenue
growth of eight percent,
with display revenue growing a modest two percent
and search growing 20 percent." Yahoo has been under
pressure from activist
shareholders to deliver
more value with lower costs
and a narrower focus.
Mayer spent more than
USD 1 billion to acquire the
blogging platform Tumblr
to reach a younger market
segment and has made a
push to focus more on
mobile content and search.
But Yahoo remains far
behind search market leader
Google, based on market
surveys.
FIU begins tracking
overseas money transfer
New Delhi: As part of its enhanced
measures to check black money, country's elite Financial Intelligence Unit
(FIU) has begun tapping information on
all suspicious cross-border fund transfers
made from India to offshore destinations.
The premier technical snoop wing
under the Finance Ministry has rolled out
a new system where all banking and
financial institutions are mandated to file
formatted Cross Border Wire Transfer
Reports (CBTRs) exceeding Rs 5 lakh to
it under the provisions of anti-money
laundering laws.
According to a FIU report, also
accessed by the media, all financial intermediaries and agencies operating in
India need to send these reports to the
FIU on a monthly basis and also in those
cases where the funds movement are
below the stipulated benchmark of Rs 5
lakh but look to be "suspicious or interrelated."
"The Indian FIU is one of the few
agencies of its kind in the world to have
implemented this new mechanism,
aimed to check black money, from the
domestic economic channels to locations
abroad. "The FIU is aggressively working to enhance its new platform to
analyse Illicit Financial Flows (IFF)
from India which has been a major irritant when it comes to combating the
menace of illegal funds. The job is being
done aggressively and diligently," a senior official said, quoting the report.
The report, while commenting on the
new action of the FIU, said "several
studies, including those by the OECD
(global economic body), indicate that
developing countries lose hundreds of
millions of dollars every year through
illicit flows, including through trade misinvoicing.
"It is hoped that the analysis of CBTR
data will help in analysing the problem
of IFF from India," it said.
The new measure has been implemented and notified to all banking
organisations, financial intermediaries,
insurance companies, payment system
operators and capital market operatives
by the FIU under the provisions of the
Prevention of Money Laundering Act
(PMLA) beginning 2013-14, the report
said. A CBTR pertains to transfer of
funds through various banking channels
abroad.
As part of efforts to check the menace,
the FIU, after an amendment in the
venture funding for Babajob
after a Series-A round led by
GrayGhost Ventures, Khosla
Impact in 2012 and a
USAID-DIV Award in 2013.
"We look forward to bringing access to better jobs to
every Indian and to helping
every employer reliably hire
aspiring workers," said Sean
Blagsvedt, the chief executive
and
founder
of
Babajob.Com.
Babajob.Com is offers job
opportunities to the informal
job sector (delivery boys,
office helpers, drivers, cooks,
maids and security guards)
by connecting employers and
job seekers via the Web and
mobile phones. It was founded in Bangalore in 2007.
21 banks lower lending rates
after RBI rate cut: Sinha
New Delhi: As many as 21
banks including four public
sector players have reduced
their base rate or the minimum lending rate in the
range of 0.1-0.5 percent till
April 15, following consecutive rate cuts by RBI,
Parliament was informed on
Tuesday .
Reserve Bank of India had
cut the repo rate by 0.25 percent on January 15 and further by 0.25 percent on
March 4. "Following the
reduction in the policy rate,
out of 91 scheduled commercial banks, 21 banks (4 public sector banks, 6 private
sector banks and 11 foreign
banks) reduced their base
rates in the range of 0.1-0.5
percent so far (up to April
15)" Minister of State for
Finance Jayant Sinha said in
written reply in the Rajya
Sabha. Accordingly, he said,
the weighted average lending
rates on fresh rupee loans
sanctioned by banks for
housing and vehicle loans
have also come down in the
range of 8.53 basis points
during the same period.
In a separate reply, he said,
banks have written onefourth of the bad loan above
Rs 1,000 crore.
As many as 24 borrowers,
with loans over Rs 1,000
crore, defaulted. The NPA
generated by these borrowers
are to the tune of Rs 36,123
crore.
PMLA, has also begun getting reports
from the sub-Registrar or Registrar or
real estate agents about the registration
and sale of any immovable property in
the country.
Also, dealers in precious metals,
stones and other high- value goods and
those engaged in safekeeping and administration of cash and liquid securities on
behalf of other persons (like Angadia)
are supposed to send Suspicious
Transaction Reports (STRs) to the financial intelligence body.
qaThe latest report had also said the
government detected over Rs 7,800 crore
of illegal monies within the country and
abroad during 2013-14 as the FIU found
an all-time high cases of suspicious
transactions in the country's economic
channels.
Reliance Power terminates 3,960 MW Tilaiya UMPP
New Delhi: Anil Ambaniled Reliance Power on
Tuesday said it has terminated the contract for Rs 36,000
crore Tilaiya ultra mega
power project in Jharkhand
over inordinate delays in land
acquisition. The firm had, in
August 2009, won rights to
set up a 3,960 MW power
plant at Hazaribagh in
Jharkhand after bidding a
levelised tariff of Rs 1.77 per
unit but couldn't start work
on the project as the state
government had not provided
the required land even after
more than five years.
Jharkhand
Integrated
Power Ltd, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Reliance
Power, "has terminated the
Power Purchase Agreement
(PPA) of its 3,960 MW
Tilaiya Ultra Mega Power
Project (UMPP) in district
Hazaribagh, Jharkhand," the
company said in a statement.
JIPL, a special purpose
vehicle created for implementing the project, had
signed PPA with 18 power
off-takers in 10 states for 25
years. The project was based
on captive coal blocks for
which coal was to be sourced
from Kerendari BC coal
mine block.
The total land requirement
for the project was over
17,000 acres. According to
the statement, there has been
a delay of over 5 years in
land acquisition by the state
government for the power
plant, captive coal blocks and
related infrastructure.
The PPA required procurers to handover land and
other clearances by February
2010. "However, the required
land is yet to be made available. Even the forest land in
the power station area, for
which the Stage-II Forest
Clearance was accorded by
central government way back
in November 2010, has not
been handed over to JIPL till
now. "As regards the coal
block, the land acquisition
process is yet to get initiated,
for which the application was
submitted way back in
February 2009," the statement said.
The company said in spite
of more than 25 review meetings and extensive and continuous follow-ups with the
state
government,
the
required land is yet to be
made available.
"Even after relentlessly
pursuing the project development for nearly five and half
years, due to procurers' failure to provide land for the
project, execution timeframe continues to remain
uncertain," it said, adding
that the project cannot be
completed before 2023-24,
going by the present estimate
of land handover process.
With the termination of
this project, Reliance Power
has reduced its future capital
expenditure by Rs 36,000
crore and remains financially
conservative with debt equity
ratio of 1.5:1, which is one of
the lowest in the sector.
According to an analyst
with a leading brokerage
house, "the move by the company to wriggle out of unviable projects where there
seems to be no definite time-
line for completion is a big
positive for the company.
"This demonstrates the
intent and strategy of the
management to be more
focussed on the projects
which are time bound and
reflect clarity on the capex
front as well."
Earlier, the company had
commissioned its 3,960 MW
Sasan UMPP in Madhya
Pradesh, 12 months ahead of
PPA schedule.
The Sasan UMPP is the
largest integrated power
plant cum coal mining project at a single location in the
world, involving an investment of over Rs 27,000
crore. The company has also
commissioned 1,200 MW
Rosa Power project located
in Uttar Pradesh, 600 MW
Butibori Power project in
Maharashtra as well as 185
MW of solar and wind projects located in Rajasthan and
Maharashtra.
Reliance Power has an
operating portfolio of 5,945
MW, based on coal and
renewable energy.
Mumbai: Sebi is hopeful
of taking a call in the next six
months on listing of nation's
premier bourse BSE after the
integration of the capital market watchdog with the commodities regulator Forward
Markets
Commission
(FMC). "We are hopeful that
in about six months from
now, we will be able to take a
call on listing of BSE after
resolving several issues pertaining to the integration of
Sebi and the FMC," Sebi
Chairman U K Sinha told
reporters on the sidelines of
an
Indian
Merchants'
Chamber function here.
Meanwhile, Sinha refused
to answer a question on what
the Securities and Exchange
Board of India (Sebi) is doing
on United Spirits-Diageo
controversy, wherein the
British company wants USL
chairman Vijay Malyya to
leave the company, saying "I
cannot comment on individual cases." After the demutualisation process, the country's premier stock exchange
sought regulatory permissions for listing on bourses.
In 2012, Sebi had allowed the
stock exchanges which have
completed over three years of
operations to list their own
shares through an IPO. Under
Sebi
guidelines,
stock
exchanges should have minimum net worth of Rs 100
crore and were given three
years to achieve threshold
capital base. Sinha pointed
out that since then several
other issues have come up.
For example, what is going to
be exchange space, especially when commodities markets will also come under the
ambit of Sebi and those
exchange will also technically become security market
instruments.
"Since commodity futures
are going to be defined as
securities, they can also technically demand and be eligible for trading in futures. So
there are whole lot of issues,
which are still unresolved.
But my feeling is that in period of about six months from
now, we will be able to take a
call," Sinha said.
"Exchanges in our country
today are performing regulatory functions. This includes
regulation of brokers and regulation of listed entities...We
are trying to evaluate whether
we are comfortable with the
current arrangement," Sinha
added.
Honda`s annual
Gold surges
profit
slumps 8.9%
by Rs 305 to
as recall costs soar
7-week high
of Rs 27,355
per 10 gm
Jobs marketplace SEEK
invests $10 mn in Babajob
Mumbai: Leading Indian
jobs website Babajob.Com
has secured USD 10 million
(about Rs 63.3 crore) in a
minority investment from
Australian
counterpart
SEEK. The capital will be
used to grow Babajob's team
and brand, further develop its
mobile apps, and improve its
telephony services such as
'Missed Calls for Jobs' and
'RapidHire'.
SEEK and its affiliate
companies are the largest
global online employment
marketplace, available to
about 2.6 billion people
across
Australia,
New
Zealand, South East Asia,
China, Brazil, Mexico,
Bangladesh and Africa.
This is the second round of
Call on BSE
listing in 6
months postSebi-FMC
merger: Sinha
Black
money
New Delhi: Gold regained sheen
with its price surging by Rs 305 to over
7-week high of Rs 27,355 per 10 grams
at the bullion market here today, tracking a firm global trend along with brisk
buying by jewellers to meet wedding
demand.
Silver also spurted by Rs 1,000 to Rs
37,500 per kg on increased offtake by
industrial units and coin makers.
Bullion traders attributed the sharp
rise in gold prices to firm global cues
where it rebounded from five-week
low. Speculation that the US Federal
Bank may wait longer before raising
rates weakened the dollar to a sevenweek low, boosting demand for gold.
Besides, increased buying by jewellers in the local market to meet marriage season demand supported the
gains in India.
Gold in New York, which normally
sets price trend on the domestic front,
shot up by 1.80 percent to USD
1,201.70 an ounce and silver by 4.09
percent to USD 16.40 an ounce in yes-
terday's trade.
In the national capital, gold of 99.9
percent and 99.5 percent purity spurted
by Rs 305 each to Rs 27,355 and Rs
27,205 per 10 grams, respectively, a
level last seen on March 2.
Sovereign, however, remained
steady at Rs 23,700 per piece of eight
grams.
Following gold, silver ready recorded significant jump of Rs 1,000 to Rs
37,500 per kg and weekly-based delivery by Rs 875 to Rs 37,055 per kg.
Silver coins also spurted by Rs 1,000
to Rs 56,000 for buying and Rs 57,000
for selling of 100 pieces.
Honda said Tuesday that
its fiscal-year net profit fell
8.9 percent to $4.4 billion as
Japan`s
number
three
automaker grapples with
soaring recall costs, including from an exploding airbag
crisis linked to at least five
deaths. The Civic maker earlier warned that the airbag
scandal at supplier Takata
would take a toll on the
results, as well as falling
demand in Japan and the
world`s biggest vehicle market, China.
Office space leasing in Delhi-NCR drops 57% in Jan-Mar
New Delhi: Delhi-NCR witnessed a 57 percent decline in the
office space absorption in the first
quarter this year due to delay in
decision making by corporates,
according to property consultant
Cushman & Wakefield.
However, the consultant said
office space absorption (leasing) is
expected to pick up on strong
demand in the coming quarters.
Net absorption of office space in
Delhi-NCR fell to 6.26 lakh sq ft
during January-March from 14.61
lakh sq ft in the year-ago period.
"NCR has registered a signifi-
cant decline in office space net
absorption at 60 percent in Q1
2015 as against the same time last
year, largely due to the result of
some delays in decision making as
demand still remains strong from
occupiers given that a number of
transactions are in the pipeline,"
Cushman & Wakefield said in a
statement.
However, besides NCR, the net
office space leasing in India's
other top eight cities rose by 35
percent to 7.97 million sq ft in
January-March 2015 from 5.91
million sq ft in the year-ago peri-
od.
These eight cities are -Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai,
Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Kolkata,
Mumbai and Pune.
"Chennai and Bengaluru saw the
highest increase in net absorption
as demand from IT-ITES companies remain strongest for the
southern cities in the improving
business environment," C&W
said.
Bengaluru witnessed over sixfold jump in the absorption of
office space at 3.2 million sq ft
during January-March period of
2015 from mere 5,31,000 sq ft in
the same period last year.
Other markets that saw significant decline in net absorption were
Ahmedabad (-75 percent) and
Hyderabad (-37 percent).
"We expect to see a growth in
the office space absorption of
approximately 15 percent by the
end of 2015. Basis the same, we
expect total net absorption to be
recorded between 36 ?37 million
sq ft at the end of 2015, majority
of the demand coming from the
IT/ITeS and the BFSI sector in key
markets of Bangalore, Delhi-NCR
and Mumbai," C&W South Asia
Executive Managing Director
Sanjay Dutt said.
Net absorption/net leasing refers
to the new/additional occupation
activity and includes only the
incremental new space take-up in
instances of relocations and expansion from within the city. It does
not include lease renewals and
relocations to same sized office
spaces.
On supply front, C&W said it
declined by 2 percent in the first
quarter of 2015 at 7.4 million sq ft
from the year-ago period.
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JAMMU | WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 2014
Pitched battle: ICC-BCCI spat turns ugly
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI:
The power struggle within the
Indian cricket board (BCCI) has
spilled over to the International
Cricket Council's (ICC) and has
now become an ICC-BCCI spat,
that too in full public view.
Barely 12 hours after the ICC
letter to the BCCI, in which cricket's world body drew the board's
attention to its secretary Anurag
Thakur 'socializing' with a suspected bookie, an angry Thakur
shot off a mail to ICC chairman N
Srinivasan on Monday , taking a
dig at him and his family .
While accepting that he knew
the suspected bookie, Karan
Gilhotra, because of his active
participation in political and cricket activities in Punjab and adjacent
states, Thakur questioned
Srinivasan's wisdom in not sharing
the list of 'unverified suspected
bookies' with him when Thakur
was first the joint secretary of the
board and later elected secretary
this year. "The BCCI has received
intimation from the ICC ostensibly under your direction that I
should keep away from one Karan
Gilhotra who is a 'suspected bookie'. The intimation further states
that the information is unverified.
I have earlier been the joint secretary of the BCCI under your presidentship and I am now secretary
BCCI.
I only wish that you had
shared the list of 'unverified suspected bookies' with me and other
colleagues so that we could identi-
J&K volleyball players
qualify level-I course
NL Correspondent
JAMMU, April 28:
Two senior volleyball
players from Jammu and
Kashmir have successfully
completed the international
course level-I conducted by Volleyball Association of
India (VAI) at Dr Sivanthi Adityan Federation
International Volleyball Regional Development Centre
Chennai.
Both Azhar Aziz Raina and Neeraj Sharma were part
of the 35 trainees, who underwent a 10-day course learning the latest techniques. The team of resource persons in
this course was headed by FIVB instructor, Branislav
Moro of Serbia as course director.
Belongs to districts of Rajouri and Poonch, both these
senior spikers expressed their gratitude to the Volleyball
Association of J&K for the initiative. They were all praise
for Association president, Siddarth Daluja, CEO, Kuldeep
Magotra, Hardeep Singh and Vijay Magotra.
Law School faces Physical
Education in final
Nl Correspondent
JAMMU, April 28:
Law School shall be playing against Department of
Physical Education in the final of the inter-department
cricket tournament of University of Jammu (JU), being
held under the banner of Directorate of Sports and
Physical Education on the campus ground, here on May
one. Earlier, in the second semifinal of the tournament,
Law School outplayed Department of Law by a margin
of 14 runs.
Batting first, Law School set a target of 172 runs
for seven wickets, which, in reply Law Department
could not chase completing their innings at 157 for six
in 19.4 overs. Gourav Khajuria remained top scorer
with 45-ball 68 runs including six fours and two sixes
while Sahil Sharma contributed 40-ball 49 runs. Viren
and Sohail contributed 24 and 16 runs respectively.
Shahroz and Vikram clinched three and two wickets
respectively from Law Department. Rokmesh bagged
one wicket.
Later, Department of Law fell short of 14 runs to
the target after their innings ended at 157 for six in
19.4 overs. Arun played brilliant innings of 72 (off 52
balls, 7x4, 1x6) runs while Dalbir Singh contributed 18
and Akash 12 runs. Rokmesh added six-ball 11 runs.
Gourav emerged as most successful bowler from Law
School with two for 34 in four overs while Sohit, Sahil
and Yashuwardan shared apiece each. Today's semifinal officiated by Vijay Dogra and Opinder Singh as
umpires while Manu Khajuria was scorer.
fy such persons and keep away
from them," Thakur wrote in his
letter addressed to Srinivasan, also
telling him that he would be making the letter public.
The letter written by the ICC
to the Indian board, informing of
Thakur's 'friendship' with Gilhotra,
was first leaked to the media on
Sunday . "I have known this person (Gilhotra) who has been
active in the political and cricketing activities in Punjab and adjacent states. I had no knowledge
about his activities as a suspected
bookie," Thakur claimed.
The BCCI secretary alleged
that Srinivasan's friend Neeraj
Gunde informed ICC about
Thakur's meeting with Gilhotra.
"Neeraj Gunde incidentally is circulating the details of documents
against your critics in the BCCI to
the media in Delhi.
He operates on your behalf,"
Thakur pointed out to Srinivasan
in the letter. Srinivasan faced
another bouncer from Thakur who
asked him to "share the list of suspected bookies with his own family members, whose involvement
in betting has been proved."
Srinivasan's son-in-law
Gurunath Meiyappan was found
guilty of betting on IPL matches
by the Supreme Court in the 2013
IPL betting and fixing case.
Thakur said Gunde had been
circulating the ICC letter to the
BCCI and its members on the eve
of the Board's working committee
meeting held in Kolkata on
Sunday and accused Srinivasan of
doing it deliberately because he
hadn't reconciled yet with his election as the honorary secretary of
the board.
Srinivasan, who ruled Indian
cricket with an iron hand for many
years, lost his control over the
cash-rich body after he was barred
by the Supreme Court from contesting BCCI election in the wake
of the IPL fixing case. His rivals
pounced on the opportunity to further dent his position in the board
by making sure his nominees lost
important positions.
The ICC missive on Thakur is
being seen as an attempt by the
Srinivasan camp to embarrass the
BCCI. On the other hand, the allegation levelled against Srinivasan
that he gave Rs 14 crore to a
London agency to spy on some
BCCI officials (it surfaced in the
media on Sunday), is being seen
in the Srinivasan camp as an effort
to damage his credibility further.
St. John’s Convent bags
kho-kho titles in Satwari Zone
NL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU, APRIL 28:
St. John's Convent
School
clinched
both
under-14 and under-17 khokho titles in the two-day
inter-school competitions
of Satwari Zone held under
the banner of Department
of Youth Services and
Sports
(DYSS)
at
Government High School,
Jammu Cantonment, here
today.
In the under-14 category, St. John's defeated
Government High School
Old Satwari 4-2. Rahul and
Harish were top scorers
from
winning
team.
Similarly, in under-17 age
group, St. John's trounced
Government
Higher
Secondary School Bhour
Camp 6-3. Anil and Shobit
Singh were highest points
earner from St. John's
Convent. Meanwhile, the
under-17 boys Kabaddi title
went to Government High
School
Jammu
Cantonment, who beat
Government
Higher
Secondary School Mandal
37-09.
In Volleyball final,
People Academy outplayed
Government High School
Jammu Cantonment in
straight sets to claim the
title trophy. The under-17
boys' volleyball final again
won by People Academy
after they beat Banyan
International School 2-0.
The competition held under
the supervision of ZPEO,
Sroman Dogra.
MIRAN SAHIB ZONE:
Government High School
Simbal Camp won the boys'
under-14 kho-kho title
beating MMS Indian PS 7-3
in the final played today.
The under-17 boys' final
again won by High School
Simbal Camp, who beat
JKPP Miran Sahib 9-4. The
competition held under the
guidance of ZPEO, Sarita
Pandha.
JAMMU
ZONE:
Meanwhile,
the
girls'
under-17 kho-kho final won
by SOS School, who beat
GHS Resham Ghar by six
points Jammu zone. Later,
girls' team from same SOS
School defeated HS RN
Pura by two points to claim
the under-14 title trophy.
The competition held under
the guidance of ZPEO
Jammu Zone, Kiran Jyoti.
IPL 2015 SCHEDULE
Match 19
Banglore VS Rajasthan
M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
Wimbledon the richest
Grand Slam but prize
money rises slow
LONDON:
The acceleration in the
size of the overall prize
money pot at Wimbledon is
slowing but the grasscourt
championships remains the
richest of the four Grand
Slams.
All England Club officials on Tuesday announced
a seven percent overall rise,
compared to 10.8 percent last
year, taking the total prize
pool to 26.75 million pounds
($40.88 million).
The latest round of
increases, unveiled by All
England Club chairman
Philip Brook at a news conference, means the singles
champions will each pocket
1.88 million pounds compared to the 1.76 million
handed to Novak Djokovic
and Petra Kvitova in 2014.
Prize money for the singles has risen eight percent
compared to last year.
First round losers in the
singles will take home
29,000 pounds compared to
11,250 five years ago.
"After three years of
favouring the left-hand side
of the draw we feel we have
got the balance about right,"
Brook said.
"Without the world's best
tennis players we wouldn't
have the world's best tennis
tournament. We are very
proud of our prize money
record over the past four
years."The French Open
recently announced a 12 percent increase in total prize
money, taking it to $29.61
million.
This
year's
Australian Open boasted $32
million, while last year's US
Open had total prize money
of $38 million.
Improvements to the
club's infrastructure have
continued and all 19 courts
will be in use this year after
work to create facilities
under Court 14 and 15,
which involved digging out
an area equivalent to 200
London buses, was finished
on time. As part of the club's
master plan, which in 2019
will see a new roof on Court
One, Wimbledon's player
facilities have also been
enhanced with six permanent
ice baths installed, a bigger
warm-up area and private
treatment rooms.
Baroda Cricket Association suspends Srinivasan's
aide Sanjay Patel, ex-BCCI secy to move court
APR 28, VADODARA:
Former BCCI president N Srinivasan
received another jolt as one of his closest
confidant Sanjay Patel was removed from his
primary membership by the Baroda Cricket
Association on allegations of financial irregularities. Former Test opener and Patel's bete
noire Anshuman Gaekwad said, "Sanjay
Patel's primary membership has been cancelled for financial irregularities. There was
a sanction of Rs 25 lakh for renovation of
dressing room and BCA office. However the
bills ran upto Rs 89 lakh. No approval was
sought for spending such amount.
"Therefore the managing committee
decided to suspend the primary membership
of Patel, Arun Gandhi (another secretary and
treasurer Sachin Dalvi after an inquiry committee headed by Anant Tendulkar submitted
the report," Gaekwad added.
Patel on his part said: "I will be moving
court. I am not surprised as Anshuman and
my differences go back a long way. I will
obviously move court as these are absurd
allegations. Also let me tell you when rs 89
lakh was spent, everyone from president
Chirayu Amin to all other members were
aware about it."
On the day, BCA president Samarjeetsinh
Gekwad was conducting the meeting with 23
items on the agenda including discussion on
inquiry committee report.
"He (Samarjeetsinh Gaekwad) adjourned
the meeting saying he had not received copy
of the report of the inquiry committee. At
this juncture, I pointed out that's it's there in
BCA's email but we can't get a hard copy of
it as its a secret document," Anshuman narrated the event.
"President Gaekwad did not agree with it
and left adjourning the meeting. His five
supporters in the committee also followed
him."
BCA secretary Gaekwad said: "The 16
out of total 22 members present in the meeting, decided to continue the meeting and
appointed J T Patel vice president of BCA to
preside over this meeting."
Lionel Messi is God-Like, Sushil Kumar, Mary Kom get Rs. 75 lakh
Says Franz Beckenbauer
each for Rio Olympics preparation
pointing
end to
2014 to
inspire
his side
to a fine
run of
f o r m
domestically and
i
n
Europe
to leave
the club
c h a l lenging
for silverware
on three
BARCELONA:
German football legend Franz Beckenbauer
on Tuesday labelled
Barcelona star Lionel
Messi as "God-like" and
believes the Spanish
team's hope of success
this season rests on his
shoulders.
The 27-year-old has
recovered from a disap-
fronts.
"Messi is a divine
player, he is god-like. The
hopes of Barcelona are
reliant
on
Messi,"
Beckenbauer told channel
Sky 90.
Barcelona lead La
Liga by two points ahead
of Real Madrid and face
Bayern in the semi-finals
of the Champions League,
while Athletic Bilbao
await the Copa del Rey
final.
Beckenbauer will, of
course, hope Messi has a
dip in form as his side
take on Luis Enrique's
men over two legs, but
admitted he is a big
admirer of the Argentina
international.
The
European tie will see
Bayern Munich coach Pep
Guardiola face his former
club for the first time
since leaving the club in
2012 and Beckenbauer
believes his knowledge of
the club could be key.
NEW DELHI:
Led by Beijing Olympics gold-medallist Abhinav Bindra, there are 17 shooters
from among 45 athletes, who have been
selected by the government for financial
assistance under the Target Olympic
Podium (TOP) scheme.
The government on Tuesday released
the names of all the athletes under six disciplines and the amount it will spend on
their training for their preparation for the
2016 Rio Olympics.
The total amount would be 30.075
crore, of which Rs.96.80 lakh has been
released so far.
Six shuttlers who have been named are
London Olympics bronze-medallist Saina
Nehwal, P V Sindhu, P Kashyap, K
Srikanth, Guru Saidutt and H S Prannoy.
According to a sports ministry release,
doubles players Jwala Gutta and Ashwini
Ponappa have also requested for their
inclusion in the scheme. The ministry hinted that their names could be included later.
"There is provision for periodic review
of performance of sportspersons, who reach
the prescribed benchmark, for induction in
the Scheme," the release said.
The sports minister has also signed a
Memorandum of Understanding with India
Infrastructure Finance Company Limited
(IIFCL) which will contribute Rs.30 crore
to the National Sports Development Fund
for the TOP Scheme under government's
initiative for Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR).
The ministry hinted that the names of
Ashwini Ponappa and Jwala Gutta could be
included later. (TOI Photo)
IIFCL will contribute Rs.10 crore each
year and this year the amount will be used
to fund Badminton.
In a written reply to Lok Sabha, sports
minister Sarbanada Sonowal said the
selected sportspersons will get customised
training at Institutes/Centers, having world
class facilities and high quality support
staff, under the guidance of reputed coaches.
The minister said criteria for selection
included recent performance, consistency,
and performance viz-a-viz international
standards. There are five athletes, who have
been sanctioned an amount of Rs 1 crore
and Rs.12.5 lakh. They are Vikas Gowda
(athletics), Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang,
Sanjeev Rajput and Manavjit Singh Sandhu
(shooting). Top wrestlers Sushil Kumar,
Yogeshwar Dutt and Amit Kumar will get
Rs.75 lakh each while Bajrang, Rahul
Aware, Vinesh Phogat and Babita Kumari
will get Rs.45 lakh each. Two sailors -Varsha Gautam and N Aishwarya will also
get Rs 45 lakh each.
Four top boxers -- MC Mary Kom
(51kg), Vijender Singh (75kg), Sarita Devi
(60kg) and L Devendro Singh (49kg) -will also get Rs.75 lakh each while Pinki
Jangra (51kg), Shiva Thapa (56kg),
Mandeep Jangra (69kg) and Vikas Krishan
(64kg) will get Rs.45 lakh each. Women
discus thrower Seema Antil will get Rs.75
lakh, Triple Jumper Arpinder Singh, 20km
Race walker Khushbir Kaur and K T Irfan
will get Rs 45 lakh each.
12 JAMMU | WEDNESDAY | APRIL 29 | 2015
Texas professor fails his entire
class for 'lacking competence'
A Texas A&M University Galveston
professor has failed his entire management
class this semester for lacking "the
competence and/or desire to do the quality
work necessary to pass the course," Inside
Higher Ed reports.
TAMU management professor Irwin
Horwitz told IHE that his spring 2015
students were the worst he's seen in 20 years
of teaching college students. He informed the
students of their failing grades in an email to
the entire class.
"This class is unique. I have never failed
a class, it is very rare that I fail students,
sometimes learning incorporates tough love,"
Horwitz told Houston NBC affiliate KPRC.
In his email — excerpted below via IHE
— Horwitz also announced that he was
quiting teaching the course, in addition to
failing the students:
"None of you, in my opinion, given the
behavior in this class, deserve to pass, or
graduate to become an Aggie, as you do not
in any way embody the honor that the
university holds graduates should have
within their personal character. It is thus for
these reasons why I am officially walking
away from this course. I am frankly and
completely disgusted. You all lack the honor
and maturity to live up to the standards that
Texas A&M holds, and the competence
and/or desire to do the quality work
necessary to pass the course just on a grade
level ... I will no longer be teaching the
course, and all are being awarded a failing
grade."
Horwitz seems to have a reputation as a
tough teacher. The San Francisco Chronicle
cites a student reviewer at Hallway.com, who
calls Horwitz "One of the least empathetic
people I have ever had teach a class."
A TAMU Galveston spokesperson told
IHE that the university is investigating
Horwitz's claims, but the failing grades will
not stand.
We have reached out to both professor
Irwin Horwitz and Texas A&M University
Galveston for comment and will update this
post if we hear back.
www.thenorthlines.com
Return Safely With Stories: A Letter To Google
Exec Who Died In Mount Everest Avalanche
funny photo
fighters," he wrote.
Before Dan's climb, his
girlfriend Ashley asked
friends and family to write
letters to him, so that he could
read them when he reached
the top of Everest.
You must be really high
up for this written Echo (echo
echo). Everyone you know
and love is eventually going to
die (die die die). When we do,
we leave behind our stories.
Those stories are told and
passed on, impacting the lives
of others until they are stories
(stories stories stories).'Your
story has already greatly
impacted mine for the better.
With each adventure you
return with stories that most
people wouldn't dream of
experiencing
themselves
(selves selves selves).
Thank you for pushing the
human race to be greater,
more daring, and to truly live
life rather than survive it (it it
it). And even if you don't...
We'll all be horrified,
saddened, and heartbroken,
that we can't create new
stories with you but we'll also
know that you've already lived
the equivalent of at least 100
LAWRENCE, Kan. — An
lifetimes.
89-year-old former University
of Kansas football player has
gained fresh fame after
making a touchdown run
during an alumni scrimmage.
Bryan Sperry was all grins
Saturday as he jogged toward
the Memorial Stadium end
during the scrimmage
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providers
and
OTT zone
before
annual spring
communication service providers offer footballKansas'
the same communication services such as City game, The Kansas
Star
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“While TSPs are subject to a number reported. His decades-younger)
of regulatory and licensing requirements, opponents
intentionally
such as payment of licence fee, taxes, missed repeated tackles
before
security conditions, among others, OTT showering
him
with
communication service providers have congratulatory hugs and pats
no such obligations,” Airtel said.
on the back.
Idea also said there should be “Same
"That was fun," the
Service, Same Rules” so that all Pittsburg resident said. "I
stakeholders are bound to offer same didn't know if I could run."
services under the same regulations and
Sperry was 17 years old
no one gets an undue advantage.
when he first left home to play
Internet
Service
Providers football at Kansas State, but
Association of India echoed the demand World War II interrupted his
for same service same rules.
schooling. The process of
On OTT players impacting traditional returning soldiers home by
revenue stream of telecom operators, boat after the war took months,
Internet & Mobile Association of India so the military sent Sperry to a
(IAMAI) said it is not true that university in England to wait.
innovations of VoIP and text apps have While there, he says, he played
affected the TSPs financial stability and 13 games on a team that was a
mix of professionals, college
available data, points to the contrary.
“Indicators of revenues from players and high school
regulatory filings, earning calls of graduates with limited football
telecom companies and public statements experience.
Upon returning home in
clearly indicate that data is driving
February 1946, he headed for
telecom growth,” IAMAI said.
As the number of comments was a tryout, mostly for veterans,
by then-Kansas football
huge, TRAI has divided the comments held
Sauer.
under three categories — comments from coachHeGeorge
played
while at
service providers, comments from Kansas — "end"
and
service providers associations and defense, Sperryoffense
said:
"Well,
comments from other stakeholders.
played both ways in those
Telecom industry body GSMA said we
days."
the efficient way to manage multiple
Jayhawks finished 7traffic types is not to treat all traffic 2-1 The
in 1946 and in 1947, with
Among the many heartwrenching stories of loss
emerging from Nepal is this.
Dan Fredinburg, the 33-yearold Google executive who
died in an avalanche at Mt
Everest base camp caused by
the earthquake that devastated
the country, was carrying
letters from friends and
family. They had asked him
not to read the letters before he
reached the summit.
Now, his friends will
never know if he read their
heartfelt messages or not
before his tragic death.
Dan's friend Max Stossel,
who had written one of the
letters, posted the note on
Facebook on Sunday. In the
Facebook post, he wrote that
Dan, one his 'dearest friends,'
was a wonderful human being.
"He was a silent force for
justice in the world in a way I
thought only existed in fiction,
someone who cared about
others so much that he
sometimes had trouble
looking them in the eye.
Someone who created fun and
mischief out of thin air.
Someone who broke up fights
by walking into the middle of
them and dancing with both
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OFFBEAT
89-year-old former Kansas player
scores in alumni scrimmage
Sweet Surprise: Palace Telcos propose licence regime
delivers pastry to royal fans for apps like WhatsApp, Skype
LONDON (AP) — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
have offered a sweet surprise to die-hard fans, sending luxury
pastries to thank them for camping outside the hospital and
awaiting the birth of the royal baby.
Kensington Palace says Prince William and the former Kate
Middleton sent the box to the five fans waiting in tents outside St.
Mary's Hospital in London, where the royal couple plan for their
second child to be born.
Kathy Martin, 50, from London, says the group noticed that
the package came wrapped in pink ribbons. She says the fans
"think it's a sign they are having a girl."
Amy Thompson, 14, says she's been camping for eight days.
She says, "some people camp out for iPhones and concert tickets.
I do this."
Quacking duck ringtone helps
firefighter rescue ducklings
SLIDELL, La. — Quack! Quack! A duck call ringtone helped
a Louisiana firefighter rescue six ducklings from a storm drain.
Spokesman Chad Duffaut of St. Tammany Fire District #1
says even with realistic quacking sounds coming from his
cellphone, it took Firefighter Cody Knecht about 90 minutes to
catch the first four baby mallards in the southeast Louisiana
community of Slidell.
Duffaut says Knecht rescued the others after giving them
about an hour to calm down.
All six ducklings were reunited with their mother Saturday in
the canal behind a home, where residents had reported seeing the
ducklings go into the drain.
Duffaut says it was fire station's second duck rescue in a
week. On April 19, firefighters rescued a duck that got stuck in a
chimney.
South Indian Avengers: Who
Will Giri Thor, Kaakeye and
Hyderabadi Hulk Fight?
While Marvel's Avengers are off saving the
imaginary country of Sokovia from imminent
destruction, who's going to be defending us, here in
India, against artificial intelligences bent on desi
domination?
Worry not folks, for the South Indian Avengers are at
your service.
After the famous 'What If Batman Was From
Chennai' video, marvel at this - comedy group Put
Chutney has made a hilarious spoof of... don't-waitbecause-we-kinda-already-told-you... The Avengers.
Giri Thor, Kaakeye, Hyderabadi Hulk and other Put
Chutney-created superheroes are all suited up, complete
with bindi, to rid South India of any lurking terrors.
Except that there appears to be a depressing lack of
Ultron or alien invaders for the South Indian Avengers to
fight. Must they join the ranks of the unemployed?The
answer lies in Director Fury Jagannath's S.H.I.E.L.D (he
also has an app for it).
If you're wondering what that is and how it can help
you, watch the hilarious video, posted on YouTube on
Tuesday, below.
Two-way manned trips to Mars
possible with electric solar sail
Electric solar wind sail could make two-way manned
Mars flights possible by making fuel available in Mars
orbit, researchers claim.
In the heart of this scheme is the electric solar wind
sail (E-sail) which provides propellant-less
transportation within the solar system, thus enabling
economical asteroid mining. The E-sail, which was
invented in Finland in 2006, utilises long, charged
tethers to convert natural solar wind momentum flux
into spacecraft thrust.
After finding a suitable water-bearing asteroid, a
mining unit using the E-sail can be sent to extract the
water from asteroid soil. Water can be split into
hydrogen and oxygen and liquefied, and the liquid
hydrogen/oxygen (LH2/LOX) mixture can be used as
fuel. The E-sail vehicle can ferry the extracted water and
fuel to the orbits of Earth or Mars to be used to fill the
tanks of manned vehicles travelling between Earth and
Mars, researchers said.
According to Pekka Janhunen, a researcher in the
Finnish Meteorological Institute, and colleagues the Esail could provide essentially free logistics in the solar
system outside of Earth’s magnetosphere.Due to the
exponential nature of the rocket equation, intermediate
fuelling reduces the launch mass dramatically.
During the trip, asteroid-mined water could also be
used as radiation shielding of the manned module to
reduce the launch mass further.With cheap propellant
available in Mars orbit, there is also the option of fully
propulsive landing on Mars which eliminates the need of
a massive and expensive heat shield.
To have a level-playing field, telecom
operators have proposed a licensing
regime for over-the-top (OTT) players
like WhatsApp and Skype, a view which
is opposed by internet firms and
associations.
This comes after all the stakeholders
submitted their comments on TRAI’s
consultation paper on Net Neutrality.
April 24 was the last day to summit the
comments.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India (TRAI) has released the name and
email IDs of over one million people who
gave their comments on the consultation
paper.
The telecom operators said they
should be allowed to offer services based
on mutual agreements with the OTT
players.
“There is a pressing need to find a fair
regulatory and commercial solution
especially for VOIP telephony services,
which if not addressed could endanger the
entire Digital India programme of the
Government,” Vodafone India said in its
comments on TRAI’s consultation paper
on regulatory framework for OTT
services.
However, Nasscom said the
Information Technology Act is mandated
to ensure this and believe there is no need
for any additional regulations for content
and services.
“Internet Platforms and Services
communications do not require licensing.
There are user led evaluation reports that
helps consumers make an informed
choice as they adopt internet platforms
and services,” Nasscom said.
Airtel said, at present, telecom
with the same priority, but to match the
prioritisation of network resources to
the traffic characteristics and the
service requirements.
“To ensure internet remains open
and functional, mobile operators
should be permitted the flexibility to
differentiate between different types of
traffic,” GSMA said.
Vodafone said companies should be
free to pursue commercial agreements
which offer consumers innovative new
content and services underpinned by
new business models.
“This should include the option to
pursue two-way charging models under
which operators and content providers
implement bilateral agreements for the
benefit of consumers,” Vodafone said.
a team captained by KU
legends Otto Schnellbacher
and Don Fambrough, the
Jayhawks went 8-1-2, their
only loss coming to Georgia
Tech in the Orange Bowl.
Sperry finished his career in
1948.
"There aren't many people
that are lettermen of both KU
and K-State," Sperry said.
With his playing days
behind him, he spent decades
as a high school football coach
and math instructor at
Pittsburg State.
This is How Hong Kong Plans to Shame its Litterbugs
For all those who think they can get away with quietly dropping that discarded gum wrapper or
empty crisp packet on the street because nobody will know you've done it, beware. There's a chance
a huge poster with your face on it could end up all over the city, shaming, if not naming, you. A new
campaign called 'The Face of Litter' has been launched in Hong Kong as a scientific prescription for
the 'epidemic' of littering.
Instead of going the usual route of simply warning people not to litter on pain of penalty, the
cleanliness drive will use DNA phenotyping to help put a face to litterbugs. A cautionary tale like no
other The campaign, launched on Earth Day, will target key locations in Hong Kong to create a visual
representation of the person who litters using their DNA data. These posters of said litterbugs will
then be put up across the city and online, not only to shame the culprit but also to create awareness
among other would-be litterers. "This campaign is one of a kind. It's interactive. It's innovative. It's
our own science experiment that we're using to create social change. Litter is such a major problem
in Hong Kong and thanks to technology we can now put a face to this anonymous crime and get
people to think twice about littering," said Reed Collins, Chief Creative Officer Ogilvy & Mather
Group Hong Kong, responsible for developing the campaign. We'll be waiting with bated breath to
see how effective this terrifying yet exciting campaign turns out to be.
Bats use brain just like humans: study
The study paves the way to better
understanding human language disorders
and improving computer speech
recognition.
Just like humans, bats also use the
left and right sides of their brains to
process different aspects of sounds, a
new study has found.
Aside from humans, no other animal
that has been studied — not even
monkeys or apes — has proved to use
such hemispheric specialisation for
sound processing; meaning that the left
brain is better at processing fast sounds,
and the right processing slow ones.
The study opens a pathway to
studying bat brains in order to
understand certain human language
disorders and potentially even
improving computer speech recognition,
researchers said.
“These findings upset the notion that
only humans use different sides of their
brains to distinguish different aspects of
sound,” said the study’s senior author,
Stuart Washington, a neuroscientist at
the Georgetown University Medical
Centre.
Washington said the findings of
asymmetrical sound processing in both
human and bat brains make evolutionary
“Bats need to use the fast timing of
the left hemisphere to distinguish
communication sounds from each other,
because their communication sounds
have rapid changes in frequency.
Otherwise, they cannot communicate
with other bats, and bats are even more
social than humans.
“The bats also need to use the slow
timing of the right hemisphere to use
sonar — which relies on detecting small
changes in frequency — to track the
velocity of the fast-moving insects they
fly after and eat,” Washington said.
This asymmetric sampling in bats is
sex-dependent (males have more
asymmetry than females), which is also
consistent with humans, he said.
“Women tend to use both the left and
right hemispheres for language, but men
largely use just the left hemisphere.
sense.
“The slower timing of the right
hemisphere may allow us to identify
who is speaking, to gauge their
emotional state via tone-of-voice and to
tease out pitch in music, which is
thought to be important for getting
groups of people to coordinate their
activities and can ultimately lead to the
formation of cultures,” Washington said.
“It is therefore reasonable to
understand why humans needed to
evolve this asymmetry in their brains,”
Washington added.
For mustached bats, the need is even
more compelling, he said.
Since this asymmetric sound
processing is the basis for left
hemispheric specialisation for language,
it too is assumed to be more common in
men than in women. Our results in bats
may spur research to confirm that
assumption in humans,” he said.
The study was published in the
journal Frontiers of Neuroscience.