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Local Muslims helping ‘Illegal’ settlement of Bangladeshi, Rohingya refugees: RSS body

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Bharat Raksha Manch (BRM), an RSS affiliate, today blamed the local Muslims for the “illegal settlement” of immigrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar in Jammu region. The right wing organisation alleged that the Muslim organisations in Jammu have been assisting the Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees “just to change the demography of Jammu region as was done in Kashmir after ousting the Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland.” “They (the Muslim organisations) want Jammu to be another Kashmir. And to make this happen, they are helping the refugees in establishing their shanties, colonies;…

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Today RSS-BJP meet in Jammu after roadmap ‘Chalked out in Nagpur’

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) senior leader Manmohan Vaidya, who is on two-day visit to Jammu to discuss future strategy of the rightwing Hindu organization in J&K, is meeting BJP ministers and office bearers on Saturday. “Vaidya has come with future roadmap and programmes for J&K, some of which were chalked out at the recently concluded Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha (all-India representatives’ meet) of the Sangh at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur,” party insiders said. Sources informed that besides discussing the overall political scenario of the state with the State BJP…

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BJP forced to change meet venue to RS Pura post Kathua fallout

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Fearing peoples’ wrath over its inability to support the demand of locals to hand over the Rassana murder case to the CBI, the ruling BJP was forced to change the venue of its high-profile state executive committee meeting from Kathua to RS Pura. The two-day executive committee meeting would be held at the “safe” border village of Suchetgarh in RS Pura subdivision on March 31 and April 1, and is likely to be attended by party’s J&K incharge Avinash Rai Khanna. “Despite having an equal partnership in the government, BJP…

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Jammu division witnesses driest winter in 5 years

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Receives 72.8-mm rainfall this year, lowest since 2013 | Scientists attribute it to La Nina, El Nino effect Jammu witnessed the driest winter in the past five years. This could adversely affect water security and agricultural sector in summers. During the first three months of the year, the district, inhabited by 15 lakh people, received 72.8-mm rainfall, lowest as compared to the last five years. In (January-February-March) 2017, the district recorded 215.6-mm rain, while in 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013, it received 154.7 mm, 468.5 mm, 188.1 mm and 265-mm…

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Seven injured in road accident near Jyotipuram in Reasi District

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Seven people were injured when the minibus they were travelling in met with an accident here on Wednesday. The minibus was involved in an accident near Jyotipuram, when it was on its way from Reasi to Arnas. Police rushed to the spot and shifted the injured to hospital, where the condition of two was said to be critical, and they were referred to Government Medical College, Reasi. The injured were identified as Ramesh Kumar (37), Lal Singh (54), Abhishek Sharma (23), Wasim Shaza (23), Vandana (15), Sudesh Kumar (24) and…

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Jammu University not to revoke students suspension, Stalemate Persists

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Stalemate continued to persist on the Jammu University campus on Tuesday after the administration decided not to revoke the suspension of five students following the “adamant behaviour” of protesters, who announced to carry on their stir till the removal of Dean Students Welfare (DSW). Most of classes on the campus went off peacefully. However, a section of students held a demonstration outside the Vice Chancellor secretariat. They demanded a “written order” on the revocation of the suspension of students and the removal of DSW. However, the university has decided to…

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Tension mounts in Nowshera after attacks by right wing groups over Christian conversions

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A number of Christian families in Sayal village of the border town of Nowshera are facing nightmarish situation after allegations of attacks by right wing groups on them over the conversion of Hindus into Christianity. Earlier a church, some shops and a tractor were set on fire by a right wing mob on January 15 after a woman died under “suspicious” circumstances. The allegation of conversion of Hindu families into Christianity and their reconversion to Hinduism has triggered unprecedented tension in Rajouri and Poonch districts. The woman Seema Devi, who…

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Hindu Ekta Manch and Hiranagar residents protest ‘Harassment’ in Kathua Rape & Murder Case

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Hindu Ekta Manch activists and Hiranagar residents on Thursday staged a protest against the government for its failure to handover the alleged rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Rasana village of Kathua to the CBI. They accused the Crime Branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Police of “harassing” innocent people. The protesters blocked the Jammu-Pathankot national highway at Kootah Morh and burnt the effigies of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh for their alleged failure to fulfil their demand for a CBI probe. “The…

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Jammu simmers with anger against BJP- PDP Govt

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Jammu is simmering with anger against the PDP-BJP Government “for its failure to redress various issues being confronted by the people across the division”. There are fears that situation may snowball into major agitation, ahead of Darbar move to summer capital Srinagar. To take up the agitation to its logical conclusion, prominent organizations like CCI Jammu Rakesh Gupta, Jammu Bar Association and All Sikh United Front have joined hands with the agitators “to fight for their rights”. Like Nowshera, Jammu-Samba-Kathua districts are also up in arms on various issues i.e.…

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Students went on rampage after protest turns ugly in JU

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Tension prevailed in the University of Jammu (JU) on Thursday after the students of different departments turned violent and ransacked the Vice Chancellor’s secretariat and the office of the Dean Students Welfare (DSW) against the alleged thrashing of a fellow by the latter on the campus. DSW Prof Satnam Kour, however, said she was allegedly “manhandled and pushed” by the students, who also made an attempt to “strangulate” her. She said she thrashed the student in “self-defence”. The university has decided to lodge an FIR against the students who ransacked…

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