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2 Kids killed, 12 Injured in cross-LoC firing in Poonch

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Govt constructing 40 community bunkers for safety of border residents: DC Poonch Two children were killed and 12 civilians injured in firing and shelling by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district on Monday. Five children were among the injured and the youngest was identified as five-year-old Zobia Kousar, who was airlifted to a hospital in Jammu in a helicopter. The ceasefire violation by Pakistani troops along the LoC in Dighwar, Shahpur, Qasba, Kerni and Mandhar sectors started around 6.30 am and continued till 11.30 am,…

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Old Jammu to be developed as ‘Heritage City’: Nirmal Singh

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Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh today said the government has targeted to develop old areas of Jammu (old city) as heritage city through a string of projects initiated for traffic decongestion, sanitation and cleanliness. He was speaking at a function organized in connection with the disbursement of old age and other pension cheques to beneficiaries of Jammu East areas. Dr Singh said numerous upcoming and completed multi-storey parking projects around historical old city are path-breaking steps towards restoring its pristine glory. He said these projects including upcoming ambitious general…

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Youth Congress gheraoes Deputy CM’s house over holiday row

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Youth Congress activists, led by state president Pranav Shagotra, today gheraoed the residence of Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh over the state’s failure to declare the birth anniversary of last Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh a holiday. They were protesting against the BJP leadership, which, they said, failed to convince its ally PDP to declare a public holiday on September 23. They also blocked vehicular movement on the Talab Tillo road. Shagotra said Jammu Deputy Chief Minister had betrayed the people of Jammu, who had voted for the BJP hoping…

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Minorities worried after armed rallies by saffron groups: Jammu Muslim Front

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Jammu Muslim Front (JMF) today condemned administration for allowing armed rallies on the birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh. As per press statement, Front chairman, Shuja Zaffar and its president Imran Qazi said that many deputations have met them in their office and expressed their concern over growing sense of insecurity among the minorities. “The government should investigation as to why these armed rallies were allowed. I don’t know whether the administration would have allowed similar armed rallies if anyone had tried to do so. How can they turn their…

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Search ops launched in Hiranagar after three armed men spotted

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Amid the prevailing tension on the International Border in Hiranagar, an input about the movement of “three armed men” in a border village of Hiranagar sector today kept security agencies — Army, CRPF and Kathua police — on their toes. Immediately after the input, the Army and the police launched a massive search operation in the Maheshechak area of Hiranagar to trace the suspected militants, whom a man had seen in a field. Garrjeet Singh of Maheshechak village said he had seen three armed men suspected to be militants in…

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No holiday on Hari Singh’s birthday, J&K’s deputy CM heckled

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Hari Singh was the last Dogra ruler, who signed instrument of accession with the Union of India on October 26, 1947. Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister, Nirmal Singh, was allegedly heckled by people from the Dogra community over PDP-BJP coalition government’s failure to declare September 23 as a state holiday on the birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh. Hari Singh was the last Dogra ruler, who signed instrument of accession with the Union of India on October 26, 1947. Singh, who reached the Tawi Bridge to take part in…

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How did Rohingyas get voter cards: Chaman Lal Gupta

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Welcoming the Centre’s move for tackling the Rohingya problem, former Union Minister Chaman Lal Gupta said there was a need for a probe to ascertain who brought these people to the border state and facilitated their stay in sensitive areas in and around Jammu city. In a statement issued here today, Gupta said it was a serious matter that these unauthorised immigrants had been provided ration cards, voter cards and even Aadhaar cards, besides electricity connections. He said most of these foreigners had come to Jammu during the reign of…

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Pakistan trains guns to scare basmati farmers along LOC

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DGMOs establish hotline contact after 6 Pak nationals died in retaliatory fire In six weeks from now, the basmati crop in Jammu, Samba, Kathua and RS Pura in lower parts of the state will be ready for harvest. As per the past pattern, Pakistani forces are now keeping up with intermittent fire from across the Line of Control to scare away farmers as the crop nears maturity. Indian and Pakistani troops yet again exchanged fire yesterday and this morning. The Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) of both sides intervened…

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Nirmal Singh’s letter to Mehbooba Mufti over holiday issue draws flak

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Anger is brewing in the Jammu region following the PDP-BJP coalition government’s cold response to the demand for declaring a state holiday on September 23, which is the birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh. Facing criticism for allegedly succumbing to separatists on the issue, Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh wrote a letter to Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti as a “damage-control” exercise. However, his letter, sent at the eleventh hour, proved to be “counter-productive” as the people lashed out at him for the delayed response. “The resolution was passed in the…

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BJP faces Jammu’s ire on Hari Singh holiday issue

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Delay in declaring a state holiday on the birth anniversary of last Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh on September 23 is snowballing into a big controversy as the ruling BJP is facing ire of people of the Jammu region for “succumbing” to the PDP on the issue. Not only the mainstream political parties, such as the Congress, Panthers Party and NC, have supported the demand, social organisations also took BJP ministers to the task for bartering peoples’ aspirations for power. “The BJP ministers should keep in mind that it is…

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