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Efforts to check spread of dengue scaled up across Jammu Region

November 4, 2021 Editor

With dengue cases in J&K nearing the 1,000 mark, the authorities in the Jammu region have scaled up efforts to check its spread, officials said on Wednesday. A total of 993 cases of dengue have been reported in the Union Territory with Jammu (639 cases), Kathua (172) and Samba (87) districts in the Jammu division accounting for the majority of the cases till Tuesday. “The office of the state malariologist in Jammu has scaled up preventive activities such as vector-control activities (bio-larvicide fish, spraying and fogging) and information education and…

JCO among two soldiers killed in Poonch-Rajouri forest gunfight

October 17, 2021 Editor

Two more soldiers, including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO), were killed as the massive search operation to track down terrorists continued for the sixth day in the forest areas of twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri on Saturday, officials said. In the past six days, nine Army personnel, including two JCOs, have lost their lives in the ongoing counter-insurgency operation that began in Surankote forests of Poonch on Monday and later spread to nearby Thanamandi in Rajouri and Mendhar in Poonch. The Army said Subedar Ajay Singh and Naik…

Another jolt for NC; Over 20 functionaries resigned in Jammu

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Editor

NC got another jolt; Over 20 functionaries resigned in Jammu

A day after former MLA Devender Rana and former minister S S Salathia quit the National Conference, over 20 more party functionaries, including provincial secretary and two district presidents followed suit and left the party. While announcing their resignation from the primary membership of the party, they also extended their support to Rana. District President Jammu Urban and former Deputy Mayor Dharamveer Singh Jamwal flanked by all these members, while addressing media, said, “We’re resigning in the support of Rana Sahib. He tendered his resignation. We are following suit responding…

Over 50 Rural Local body members quit in district Ramban

October 11, 2021 Editor

Over 50 sarpanches and panches have resigned en masse in two blocks of Ramban district in Jammu and Kashmir over various issues, officials said on Saturday. They have resigned alleging lack of promised empowerment, unnecessary interference, and their side-lining by the administration during the ongoing public outreach program of the Central ministers, officials said. The Peoples Democratic Party took a pot-shot at the BJP government, saying the “cosmetic normalcy and pomp and show being projected (in the Union Territory) stands punctured.” Officials, however, said the district panchayat officer Ashok Singh…

On first day of school reopening 32 students test positive for Covid in Rajouri

September 28, 2021 Editor

At least 32 students of a private educational institution in the Thanamandi area of Rajouri tested positive for Covid on Monday, said, officials. The school was reopened on Monday and a team of health departments had visited there for sampling. Rajouri CMO Dr. Shamim Bhati said none of the students had severe symptoms. “They are being isolated, but the parents are reluctant to send them to Covid care center. The administration is trying to convince them. The students belong to small villages and hamlets in the nearby areas,” she added.…

127th Birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh celebrated across Jammu

September 24, 2021 Editor

Several events were on Thursday organised here to mark the 127th birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh amid demands that the day is declared a public holiday. Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha paid tributes to the ruler on his birth anniversary. “He made an immense contribution to India’s freedom movement. His distinguishable and unmatchable services in the field of education, agriculture, administrative, social, and economic reforms will always be remembered,” he said. On this occasion, many social and political organisations of the Jammu region, including the Congress, demanded…

Jammu Traders called for a shutdown on September 22 against the opening of Reliance Stores

September 18, 2021 Editor

Feeling the heat of the annulment of Special Status of Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu-based leaders from different groups including the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) have called for a shutdown on September 22 against the opening of Reliance Stores in Jammu. Some business leaders even appealed to Jammuties to stop selling land to Reliance who according to them will prove counterproductive for the local business population. Secretary-General Chamber of Commerce and Industries Jammu, Gauraw Gupta told that strike call has been forwarded in wake of multiple problems they…

Ex Deputy CM of J&K, who slammed govt land transfer was himself an illegal occupant of State Land: RTI

August 21, 2021 Editor

Former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and senior BJP leader Kavinder Gupta, who described the transfer of state land under the controversial Roshni Act (now annulled) to private individuals as “land jihad” in the run-up to the District Development Council (DDC) elections last November, was himself an illegal occupant of state land from 2010 till the beginning of 2017. According to information obtained from the Bhalwal Tehsildar under an RTI application filed by Advocate Sheikh Shakeel, Kavinder Gupta along with two others — Subash Sharma and Shiv Rattan…

For demanding road connectivity eight persons booked in Bhaderwah

June 26, 2021June 26, 2021 Editor

At least eight persons including four Sarpanchs and a government teacher have been booked in Bhaderwah for staging a protest for demanding road connectivity to their respective villages during an official visit of Farooq Khan, Advisor to LG Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday. An official told a local news agency, Kashmir Post that they have been booked under Epidemic Disease Act 1997 for violating Covid-19 restrictions imposed in the district. He said the several locals of various panchayats of Bhaderwah had assembled on Bhaderwah-Pul Doda road and blocked the road,…

BJP appeasing Valley leaders at our cost: Pro-Jammu parties

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 Editor

Though statehood remains an emotive issue on either side of the Pir Panjal range, PM’s all-party meeting at Delhi has drawn sharp criticism from pro-Jammu parties, including the West Pak refugees, PoJK refugees and the internally displaced Kashmiri Pandits. West Pak Refugees Front chairman Labha Ram Gandhi said, “We will be happy if Jammu and Kashmir becomes a state again, but we had to wait for 72 years for getting citizenship in J&K… it was not a separate country. However, even after abrogation of Articles 370 and 35-A, we have…