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New court verdict on whether 2 flags must be flown in J&K

January 1, 2016January 1, 2016 Editor

A court order that said all government buildings and cars in Jammu and Kashmir must use both the national and state flag has been suspended today. On December 18, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court had said the state’s flag – red and white with three vertical stripes and a plough – must be used on government property along with the tricolor. The order of the single bench has been stayed or suspended today by division bench of the high court today. The earlier order had been challenged by a…

10 people charred to death at a construction site in Ramban

January 1, 2016 Editor

Ten people, most of them labourers working on a tunnel project, were charred to death in a fire incident in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. “There was a fire caused probably by a short circuit at the barracks of labourers working on a tunnel project in Talwas in Chanderkote belt of Ramban district at around 1 AM today,” IGP Jammu, Danish Rana, said. He said that 10 people died in the blaze while four others were injured. Police and other agencies launched an operation and recovered 10…