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Jammu

Complaints of adulteration of milk increase during festive season

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With the start of festive season with Navratras, the milk adulteration has also increased in the city. There is no check on milk adulteration, where milk vendors are adding water to milk on regular basis and cheating consumers. The worst affected are small children, who are fed adulterated milk as pure milk is not available in the market. If at a few places pure milk is provided, the rate goes above Rs 50 per litre. “You can get best quality of everything from the market, but not the milk. Neither…

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110 foot bridges to be build in Udhampur till March ’16

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The district administration here has initiated construction of over 110 foot-bridges in the remote areas to facilitate free movement of students, residents and livestock during rainy season. The construction is being carried out under the “Rahat” project of the Udhampur administration. The construction of bridges would substantially reduce the threat to human life and livestock due to flooding of rivulets every year. The project has been initiated after five-month long participatory planning, formulation of designs and estimates, technical consultations, field visits and a series of meetings at various levels. A…

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Traffic police ‘fail’ to make riders of two-wheelers wear helmets

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Putting their life at risk and not caring two hoots about the rules, people are generally found riding two-wheeler without wearing helmet in the city, despite strict measures taken by the traffic police. In most parts of the city, college and school students could be seen zooming on two-wheelers without wearing helmets, despite clear directions that two-wheeler riders need to wear them. At times riders could be seen talking on mobile phones and roaming around without any safety gear — a leading cause of accidents and fatalities on road. “Rash…

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Begging by children goes unchecked in state

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Jammu has become a hub of begging mafia. Hundreds of children are being pushed into the inhuman practice by well-coordinated rackets allegedly being run by Bangladeshi and Burmese Rohingya refugees, who are illegally living in the state. In the absence of stringent anti-begging law, no effort has been made by law enforcement agencies and the administration to carry background check of people roaming in the city along with children seeking alms. Though Jammu and Kashmir had enacted the Prevention of Beggary Act-1962, but it has failed to stop beggary. The…

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Six-storeyed project to ease parking problem in Jammu

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The six-storeyed mega multi-level parking complex at the General Bus stand here would go a long way in provide much-needed relief from parking problem by accommodating 1,300 cars and providing access corridor to 80 buses and a taxi stand. The complex being completed at an estimated cost of Rs 201 crore would also have 160 shops for the shopkeepers who are being dislocated after its construction. It will also have air-conditioned ticket booking office and waiting hall, besides open landscape courts at the commercial complex level. It will also have…

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Amid azadi slogans, former state home minister leads thousands in funeral of 2 militants

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Pro-azadi slogans resonated in the mountainous district of Doda on Thursday during the funeral of the two policemen-turned-militants, which was led by a senior National Conference leader and former minister and attended by thousands of people from several villages of the district. Hundreds of people converged outside the house of slain militant Ghulam Mohammad Mangnoo in Shah Mohalla village of Doda, when news about his death in a gunfight spread like wildfire this morning, witnesses told . The crowd swelled in numbers by the time body of the slain militant reached the…

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Police disarms militants-turned-cops in Chenab Valley

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Two local militants active in Kishtwar, one since 1992: DIG   Police in Chenab valley have disarmed the surrendered militants, who have joined the police force, following apprehensions that they may be lured back to militancy. “We have disarmed all surrendered militants, who have joined police, in Chenab Valley. They have been posted in such places where they cannot take any harmful step,” DIG (Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban Range), Nissar Ahmed told . He said about six to seven surrendered militants are serving in the police department in the region. DIG said police…

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Protests in Jammu, Kathua over Kotkapura killings

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The Sikh community in Jammu and Kathua districts today held protest demonstrations and blocked the Jammu-Pathankot highway at different places against the killing of two Sikh activists in the police firing following desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib in the Kotkapura area of Punjab. The protesters also torched effigies of the Akali-BJP coalition and the Punjab Police and demanded registration of an FIR under section 302 IPC against the responsible policemen. They also sought a compensation of Rs 50 lakh each for the victims’ families. In Jammu, Sikh activists from…

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Mushroom growth of Bars & Wine shops in Jammu

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In view of the mushroom growth of bars, resturants and wine shops in City of Temples, Jammu, the court today directed the government to file response within one week. The court directed that the response must be with reference to the license granted in favour of liquor shops at the places of worship, hospitals, educational institutions, state highway or National Highway. The directions were given a Division Bench (DB) of State High Court comprising Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey and Justice BS Walia in response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL)…

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Govt appoints panel to probe illegal appointments of ReT teachers

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Jammu and Kashmir government has appointed a one-man panel to probe alleged illegal appointments of Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers in Doda district of the state. “On the recommendations of State Vigilance Commission (SVC), government has appointed Joint Director Education Jammu as inquiry officer. “He will identify all those responsible for making appointments of ReT teachers without advertisements and vacancies in Doda zone in violation of rules and initiate departmental and legal action against them,” an official spokesman of SVC said. The alleged irregularities came to the fore after hearing a complaint…

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