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| Agents ruling roost at Railway Station, commoners’ suffering | | Top railway officials hand in glove with agents, sharing huge percent of commission | | | Dev Raj Singh
Jammu | Feb 4
Commoners’ altogether standing in long queues and waiting for turn to get their railway ticket reserved and agents (Black Marketers) openly auctioning the reserved railway tickets, believe it or not but it’s a routine trait at the reservation counter of Railway Station Jammu. The agents are carrying out this illegal practice on the behest of railway higher ups as they use to share the percentage of commission charged by these agents from the travelers, as per sources.
These agents are freely and openly operating in the reservation section under the patronage of Chief Reservation Supervisor (CRS), Railway Station Jammu, as divulged by some highly placed sources of railway department. In lieu of handsome commission, railway officials provide free access to agents inside the railway reservation counters. Sources confirmed that agents use to charge anything between Rs 100- 300 per ticket from the needy travelers and out of this handsome commission indirectly passes to the top railway official through other intermediaries. It is to mention that each agent ... | |
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| Militancy is rising in Afghanistan | | | |
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NEW DELHI, FEB. 4: The government of India has strong reasons to closely monitor happenings across the country's border, in Pakistan and Afghanistan. New Delhi is aware of the prevailing difficulties the ruling political class in Islamabad and Kabul continues to be confronted with. If the Afghan President, Karzai, finds himself in an unenviable position with the growing threat from the Taliban, Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, is also best with a set of handicaps.
But Gen. Musharraf's biggest handicap must relate to his own controversial position as head of the military and Pakistan's civilian government. His failure to resolve the discord surrounding Pakistani polit... | |
| | | | Shivani Dramatics Workshop opens at JIAR | | "Cultural aptitude infuses ethical discipline among students" | | |
JAMMU |FEB 4
The introduction of cultural aptitude among the students infuses ethical discipline which is dire necessity in contemporary education that is marred by foreign invasion of destructive forces corrupting our generations' mind sets, said Dr. Roop Lal Sharma, chairman Sain Charitable Trust, while declaring open the first theatrical workshop organized by Shivani Cultural Society in Trikuta Group of Colleges at Nardani, here today Dr. Sharma explained the need of holding such workshops so that the aspiring youth may join such streams and be saved from falling into the prey to other corruptive means.
The workshop which is first ever of its kind is meant to tap the talent in its ri... | |
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