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| 3 labourers among 4 die, 8 wounded in mishap | | | |
Jammu, Aug 2
Four persons, including three non-local labourers returning home after threats from militants groups, were killed and eight others wounded when a mini-bus skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Ramban district along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, this morning.
Reports revealed that a Tempo Travelers (JK08A-3677) which was on its way from Jammu to Srinagar skidded off the road and fell into a gorge near Sherbibi on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, this morning.
Sources told that the police and local residents immediately launched a rescue operation and shifted the injured to Banihal hospital.
Driver of the vehicle, identified as Sunil Chopra of Udhampur, and three Bihari labourers were killed on the spot, while eight others sustained injuries, police said. The deceased labourers were identified as Nikhil Kumar, Gotam and Ajay of Bihar.
It was reliably learnt that the labourers were returning home following an ultimatum by a militant group to all the non-local labourers to leave Valley.
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| Media persons assaulted | | Health employees on rampage, damage camera | | |
The journos were trying to expose irregularity in the department
Jammu | August 2
Media persons today lodged a strong protest against Director Health Services Jammu Dr Jasbeer Singh when some of employees of his department assaulted two press reporters and broke the camera of a lensman in front of him. When some media persons demanded action against the erring employees for their misbehaviour, the director snubbed the media men.
According to reports, two reporters of electronic media went into the office of Director Health Services to shoot some shots of ambulances being used as goods carriers and immediately the employees informed the director about this.
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| | | | In charge police post transferred for exposing trade | | Flesh trade flourishing in politicians’, bureaucrats’ kothies | | | ET Expose
Jammu | Aug 2
The khothies of the some top politicians and bureaucrats are being used for flesh trade in the city and outskirts by the employees looking after these palatial buildings in absence of their occupants. According to sources, some employees of these khothies are getting thousands of rupees per day on this count.
Students, police personals, officer’s kin, gangsters and many other persons use these khothies for their satisfaction.
Sources said some persons who are house keepers of these khothies have made a chain of their customers and they did not allow any new person in their trade.
An in charge of a police post was transferred when the officer raided one of the ... | |
| | | | Who wants to silence Megha's husband? | | | | Jammu, Aug 2: The death mystery of Captain Megha Razdan took a dramatic turn today as exactly a month after the incident her husband alleged an attack on his life resulting into cut injuries on his tongue.
Captain Megha Razdan was found dead in her Army camp quarters on July 1. she was married to a Captain.
Her husband Captain Chaitanya Bhatawadekar, who is recuperating in the Army hospital, alleged that somebody tried to cut his tongue. The wound was so deep that he could not speak and a written statement has been obtained from him for further investigations.
Captain Megha Razdan, the young army officer of 113 Engineers regiment hanged herself from the ceiling fan at her official res... | |
| | | | On the day de-stress policy is framed, two more soldiers end life | | | | ET REPORTER
Jammu, Aug 2: Even as the Central Government today approved a friendly policy for the troops to cut down their stress and reduce the killing tendencies, two more soldiers are reported to have committed suicide in Jammu and Kashmir. While deaths are being described as mysterious but it is believed that they ended their lives out of stress.
Reports said that a Army soldier was found dead in mysterious circumstances at his residence at village Toda Chack in Kathua district. Identified as Sepoy Balbir Singh had recently come on leave from his present posting in Assam Though the cause of his death was not ascertained immediately, police suspects consumption of some poisonous ... | |
| | | | SAC questions Panditji | | | |
ET REPORTER
Jammu, Aug 2: The Congress veteran and the Minister for Health and Medical Education, Pandit Mangat Ram Sharma has come under the scanner of the anti-graft panel for making some illegal appointments when he was incharge of the Industries department.
A petition before the State Accountability Commission has alleged that when Mangat Ram Sharma was Deputy Chief Minister and incharge of the Industries and Commerce departments, he made illegal appointments in the Khadi and Village Industries Board. The petition accused him of scuttling the rules to adjust wards of his relatives, colleagues and those of the officers of the Board.
Khadi and Village Industries Board is a centra... | |
| | | | Whose crime was serious –Sanjay Dutt's or Bitta Karate's | | | |
NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
Jammu, Aug 2: When bollywood megastar Sanjay Dutt was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment on the charges of possessing a weapon, the actor himself and millions of his fans across the country went into a shock but each respected the decision of judiciary –an institution of supreme importance in the country.
Interestingly and unfortunately, on the same day but thousands of miles away, in Jammu and Kashmir a court acquitted a former militant who was charged of much heinous crimes. A debate is now on in the informed circles about both the judgements. It is not the application of the mind of judges which is under discussion but it is the prosecution which has com... | |
| | | | Fuel tanks dry for PDP leaders | | | | ET REPORTER
Jammu, Aug 2: Adding salt to the bruises of an already tormented relation between the ruling partner, the security wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police have withdrawn fuel facility to some Peoples Democratic Party thus kicking off yet another bitterness.
It has been reliably learnt that the security wing, which is responsible for providing security, vehicles, drivers and fuel to the protected persons, have withdrawn some of the facilities to some Peoples Democratic Party. However, this has not been done in case of the Congress leaders.
Confirming this to EARLY TIMES, a senior PDP leader said that the government is making deliberate attempts to irritate them and their leaders. ... | |
| | | | 'Media power' throws City out of gear | | | | ET REPORTER
Jammu, Aug 2: It was "media power" spilled on the roads this afternoon that the routine life went out of gear in the city with maddening traffic jams and giving no clue of the cause of rare protest.
The routine traffic in the city went haywire this afternoon with thousands of vehicles smashing against each other as the vital link between two parts of the city –the Tawi Bridge –was blocked by the protestors. With a persisting jam while the vehicles had to queue up from Satwari Chowk on the end to Manda on the other end, those which tried to divert on the inner roads created quite a mess out of it. The Traffic cops were caught unawares as it all happened suddenly.
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