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| As New Delhi simmers in anger, gang rape in Gharota | | Omar deliver's sermons in Delhi, fire in backyard | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Dec 23: With 23 year old young girl battling for life in a hospital in New Delhi and youth outside demanding tougher laws for speedy justice in rape cases, a 21 year old girl was gang raped by two persons in village Gharota of Akhnoor area.
The incident has taken place within days of the brutal and heinous gang-rape of a 23 year old girl in New Delhi, who had been battling for life in Safdarjung Hospital from the last 8 days. While young have been agitating across the country against this brutal incident and seeking stringent punishment for accused besides framing of tougher laws to check physical violence, abuse, molestation, rape and eve-teasing, two person gang-raped a 21 year old in the outskirts of city of temples.
Unlike the New Delhi victim, this 21 year old has returned home from the hospital but with trauma and unbearable pain of being helpless before the sexual beasts, who are arrested, put behind bars, taken to courts, remanded to the police custody, kept in the jails and then, either bailed out or acquitted for lack of evidence. If it goes the... | |
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| Valley tutorials become money minting centres | | Norms violated with impunity as authorities yawn | | | Saahil Suhail
Srinagar, Dec 23: Indif-ferent authorities have allowed private tutorials which have mushroomed across the Valley in last few years to admit students much beyond their intake capacity and pack them in classrooms in hundreds to make a quick buck.
Private tuition centres in Southern district of Anant-nag, are violating all rules prescribed for them by the district administration in terms of accommodation, bathroom-toilet facilities as well as number of students to be admitted in a course and class.
Noted tutorials like CIA , BFI, BCI and Usmania Coaching centre are packing over 200 students in single class room having capacity of not more than 60 students in a bid to make... | |
| | | | Probe panel has tried to save its own skin : Harsh | | LC Wall Collapse | | | early times report
Jammu, Dec 23: Expressing shock and anguish over the report of the probe panel constituted by the Government to enquire into collapse of legislative complex on the intervening night of Dec. 10 and 11, Harsh Dev Singh NPP MLA has said that the expert probe committee has tried to shift the blame to a non existent New Delhi based consultancy firm in a bid to save their own skin.
He said that the members of probe panel were the same engineers and heads of State Engineering wings who had conceptualized the project and approached a private firm named M/S Consulting Engineering Services, New Delhi for consultancy. He argued that the said Engineers were required to explain in t... | |
| | | | IGNOU exam centres under scanner | | Mass copying in lieu for money | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, Dec 23: Skel-etons have started tumbling out of the cupboards following incident of manhandling of the Chief Education officer Kishtwar in Chatroo the previous day. Reports have indicated towards 'money for copying' mafia being run in connivance with centre owners who have allegedly amassed huge wealth.
According to reports, each students paid Rs. 3000 to Rs.5000/paper for copying in examination held in nearly one dozen IGNOU centers at Kishtwar, Doda, Ghat, Bhaderwah, Padder, Chatroo, Kilotran,
Gandow and at other places. Reports suggest that students appearing in Semester exams have been asked to pay Rs. 2000/3000 per paper, while the students appearing in ye... | |
| | | | Fake rubber stamps racket busted | | | | early times report
Rajouri, Dec 23: Rajouri Police have busted a fake rubber stamp-cum-forged document racket being operated in Thanamandi tehsil and recovered more than 8 forged rubber stamps of various Government departments meant for official use.
Three persons including a Forest Protection Force employee were arrested by the police and were booked under Sections 419,420,468 and 469 RPC. The lid was taken off from the network when police intercepted a Tata Mobile during routine check and recovered the stamps on Friday. During sustained interrogation, Mohd Sharief driver disclosed the details about the stamps and on his disclosure Waqar Qureshi, mastermind and Mohd Mushtaq of Shahadra... | |
| | | | More voices resonate seeking GMC Principal's head | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 23: Amidst efforts from within the Government to shield Principal GMC Dr. Aniece Choudhary who was in the middle of huge public outcry following the death of a minor girl in the SMGS hospital due to his alleged callousness and greed, more voices are pouring in seeking his ouster from the coveted post, with Panchayat Maha Sabha of block Bhalwal lending its support to the demand.
Dr. Choudhary was recently removed from the post of head of ENT department but continues to be the principal even as the enquiry has been initiated in the case.
The general secretary of Panchayat Maha Sabha of block Bhalwal Subash Sharma alleged that Dr. Choudhary is thoroughly corru... | |
| | | | ‘A drama that would lead it nowhere’ | | NC on 1975 Accord | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 23:: The 1975 Accord also known as Indira-Abdullah Acco-rd has been widely discussed since August. National Conference leaders especially Dr Mustafa Kamaal and Sheikh Nazir have been saying that the Accord was not signed and that it was an incomplete exercise. Their statements evoked response from Minister of Irrig-ation and Flood Control, Taj Mohi-ud-Din and GH Mir.
Why is National Conference rejecting the Accord now? And why do some people like Taj and Mir vouch for it? It merits a mention here that both Sheikh Nazir and Kamaal belong to a camp that is considered ‘anti-Indian’ by the National Confe-rence workers.
Sheikh Nazir was by and large, ignored by t... | |
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