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| 26 POLICEMEN INJURED AS LOCALS DEFY CURFEW IN MENDHAR | | | | Jammu, March 24
At least 26 policemen were injured and few transport buses were damaged by members of the majority community in Mendhar tehsil after they came out on streets defying curfew to regain claim of the disputed piece of land set free by district administration from their custody on Friday evening.
The district administration had earlier clamped curfew since early morning to prevent situation going completely out of hands.
Columns of army jawans carried out a flag march in the area at the behest of the civil administration and also appealed to members of both the communities to maintain communal harmony and peace in the area.
Divisional commissioner Jammu Pramod Jain ... | |
| | | | Drug Paddlers arrested | | | | Srinagar, Mar 24
Srinagar police today claimed to have arrested three drug paddlers from whome 190 Corex bottles were recovered.
Superintendent of Police City (North) Bashir Ahmed told News Agency of Kashmir that on specified inputs Khanyar police conducted raids at two different places and seized 190 Corex bottles.
The contrabands were allegedly being kept by the accused to be supplied among the youth especially school and college children.
Police said that it raided three persons during the raid who have been identified as Mushtaq Nabi Kaw of Khanyar, Aijaz Ahmed Wani of Nowgam and Muhammad Muzaffar Pir of Lal Naga.
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| | | | Copying menace rampant in Gool centers | | | | Udhampur, Mar 21
Not withstanding the claims of authorities of Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education, mass copying has been a routine matter during the annual Secondary and Senior Secondary examinations in far off area of Gool in district Udhampur.
Informed sources told News Agency of Kashmir that students indulged in mass copying during the Matric exams in connivance with the staff on duty, adding that the same is being repeated now in the ongoing Higher Secondary Exams. These examination Centers are Girls High School Gool, Higher Secondary Schools at Gool and Sangaldaan, High Schools Dharan and HSS School Tharka.
Sources said that the superintending staff is giving the appea... | |
| | | | CB summons RTO staff, questions transport officials | | Work paralysed in RTO office | | | Jammu, Mar 24
Entire staff of Regional Transport Office Jammu was questioned by Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police, which is investigating a case of fake Registration Certificate racket, here today.
Sources revealed that the work in RTO Office remained paralysed throughout the day today as all most all the staff members were being questioned at Crime Branch Office, Jammu.
It was reliably learnt that on Friday the Crime Branch questioned at least dozen employees of the office in connection with the preparation of a fake registration certificate in 1991. The police again summoned the staff members, including cashiers today, to its office along with the record, sources said, on the co... | |
| | | | Man arrested with 50 live cartridges at Airport | | | | Jammu, Mar 24
Panic gripped Jammu Airport, this afternoon, when an Indian Airlines passenger on way to Leh was arrested with fifty live cartridges by the security personnel on guard duty.
Official sources informed that the security personnel deployed on the airport arrested a man who was to board Jammu-Leh flight.
Giving details, a senior police officer told NAK that one Sham Lal son of Ramolla resident of Udhampur was among the passengers who had to board Jammu-Leh flight when he was arrested.
When the luggage of Lal was examined in the X-Ray machine police noticed a box inside and asked him to open the bag. On opening the bag police noticed 50 live cartridges of .22 bore gun.
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| | | | Maj Gen Nair assumes command of CIF | | | | Jammu, March 24
Major General Satish Chandra Nair, assumed the command of Counter Insurgency Force (Romeo) today. The General, who was commissioned into Rajput Regiment in December 1973, has had a prestigious stint at Indian Military Training Team at Bhutan and was an Instructor at Defence Services Staff College, Wellington
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| | | | Sainik Sammelan at Delhi | | | | Jammu, March 27
A special Sainik Sammelan was held at Delhi Cantt today, prior to the departure of the Indian Army Contingents for deployment on United Nations Mission. The Indian Logistics Company of 182 personnel comprising 17 Horses and personnel of the Corps of Engineers, Signals, Electronics and Mechanical Engineers, Army Medical Corps, Corps of Military Police and Army Postal Service are proceeding to Golan Heights for deployment as a Logistics Company of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). 67 Personnel of INDBATT-IX are also proceeding on a United Nations Mission to Lebanon (UNIFIL), an official spokesman... | |
| | | | Panic grips Bhaderwah town | | | | DODA,MAR 24
Panic gripped Bhadarwah town today when hundreds of people under the banner of Zila Vikas Party assembled in the historical Seri Bazaar ,Bhadarwah and started shouting slogans against the state government led by the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and the local administration .
In the morning, the people of the ST Community assembled at Athkar area, about 8 km away from the main town, where three days back one woman and a teenaged girl of 5th class washed away in Neeru River and rescue team only recovered the dead body of woman. The protestors blamed the administration for its callous approach in fishing out the body of the girl from the river despite lapse of three days. As... | |
| | | | Computers, other items gifted to schools | | | | Nowshera March 24
Mountain Artillery Dah Brigade under the aegis of 1822 light regiment gifted some furniture and fixtures to several government schools in the area.
The items presented included Computers, sport items, stationary goods and other furniture and furnishing items. The schools covered today included Government
High school Solki , Middle school Salal Chatha , High and Middle School Dharmsal and Anganwari Centre Solki
On this occasion, commanding officer of the regiment assured all possible assistance to the people living in border and far flung belts of the state and enumerated the steps taken by the Army for speedy development of border villages.
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| | | | Central team inspects works taken up under HTM program | | | | JAMMU MARCH 24
Project Coordinator S K Koul and Sudesh Vats Deputy General Manager Small Farmers Agri Business consortium (SFAC), of Union Ministry of Agriculture, today inspected various horticulture development activities taken up under Horticulture Technology Mission (HTM) Programme in Jammu division.
The team visited field areas of Purmandal, Vijaypur, Bari Brahmana and Marh block and inspected various on going schemes including bore-wells, strawberry plots and the orchards, developed under area expansion program.
The visiting team also interacted with the beneficiaries and expressed their satisfaction on the implementation of the program at the ground level.
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| | | | Delhi in no hurry to withdraw troops from glacier | | Cost of a chapatti is Rs 10,000 at Siachen! | | | NEW DELHI, MAR 24
The Siachen story is to be told once again--this time in Rawalpindi where the Defence Secretaries of India and Pakistan are scheduled to meet on April 6. While Islamabad is for demilitarization, New Delhi is in no hurry to pull troops back from the Siachen glacier in the strategic Ladakh region. Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, is understood to have conveyed to Indian Premier, Manmohan Singh, that Pakistan would not capture Siachen even if Indian vacated it.
True, New Delhi is for a peaceful settlement of the dispute it has with Islamabad over the Siachen glacier. But it is almost certain that New Delhi will not withdraw troops from the glacier on the basis of... | |
| | | | Kashmiri model back with a bang | | | | NEW DELHI, MAR 24
Tariq Dar, a Kashmiri youth, became suddenly infamous last year after he was accused of being a terrorist by the Delhi police. Suddenly, again, he is now a famous person.
Tariq, Kashmiri model, is back with a bang. And the stage could not get bigger than JJ Valaya's fashion show at the Wills Lifestyle Indian Fashion Week. He has surely come a long way by breaking into the Indian fashion scene and walking the ramp for one of the country's best designers.
Says Tariq Dar: " I can't believe it. This is what I love doing and am glad I am getting to do what I am doing. That time I was like an animal in a small cage". Tariq was has been working as a model in Bangladesh. And... | |
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