Category: Jammu

Jammu

Water woes put power dept, PHE at loggerheads

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Frequent faults in special power lines supplying electricity to water-lifting stations has brought the Power Development Department (PDD) and Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department at loggerheads. It has created artificial scarcity of drinking water in Jammu and surrounding areas during summer, but the civic departments are blaming each other for the mess. For weeks now, several residential colonies are not getting regular supply of water during the sweltering summer. On Sunday, the main water-pumping station at Company Bagh remained shut from 8 am to 6 pm due to a technical…

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Jammu gears up to welcome Amarnath Pilgrims

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Spiritual ambience gripped Jammu ahead of the annual Amarnath yatra, set to commence on July 2 (Shivratri) and conclude on August 18 (Shravan Purnima and Raksha Bandhan). Sadhus started coming to Jammu to get registered for the yatra and the administration arranged their stay in different religious buildings and community halls. On-the-spot registration was arranged at Ram Mandir at Purani Mandi. Looking at the massive response of pilgrims, the state administration introduced token system at Sangam banquet hall near the railway station for on-the-spot registration. Simrandeep Singh, Deputy Commissioner (DC),…

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Govt revokes PSA order of ‘lunatic’ Doda youth

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The J&K Government on Thursday evening revoked the Public Safety Act of a “lunatic” Muslim youth who was arrested for allegedly desecrating a temple in Jammu last week. The prompt action from the Government after the issue echoed in the Legislative Assembly this morning. “The detention order Mo 08/PSA of 2016 dated June 20, 2016 is not justified…and hence has not been approved,” said an order issued by Home Department, disapproving PSA detention of the youth. As per the Home Department order, accessed by Kashmir POST, Yasir Alfaz doesn’t have…

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Strike in Doda against Indian police’s highhandedness

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Complete shutdown was observed in Doda against highhandedness of Indian police. A rally was held amid complete shutdown in Doda to protest over the use of force by the police on the demonstrations against Power Development Department last night. Call for the shutdown was issued by Seerat Committee Doda which said that the District Administration and police used brutal force against the protesters without any provocation. Thousands of people participated in the rally which passed through the main market of Doda town raising slogans against police and district administration. Meanwhile,…

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Family of Kud victim told to prove death during terror attack

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Authorities tell victim’s daughters to give proof of relationship It sounds inhuman, but is true. The authorities have asked family members of Mamata Thapa, killed by a terrorist at Kud on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway on June 13, to come with proof to establish that she lost her life in the encounter to pursue the case for ex gratia. The authorities have flatly refused to provide a copy of the postmortem report to daughters of the terror victim, asking them to prove their relationship with the terror victim. The government…

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Muslims object to use of loudspeakers in Hindu temple; leads to tension in Poonch

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Tension gripped Poonch this morning as news spread about some youths of the majority community forcibly entering Lakshmi Narayan Temple at Jhullas the previous evening and manhandling youths of the minority community while objecting to the use of a loudspeaker. This was the third incident within a week wherein attempts had been made to disrupt peaceful atmosphere in the region by interfering in religious affairs at temples. Sources said youths of the majority community barged into the temple at Jhullas at 8:30 pm on Sunday, which was resisted by youths…

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Mughal Road major security concern: Johnny William

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The security grid has been tightened in the frontier districts of Rajouri and Poonch following sacrilegious acts at two Jammu temples, threats by militants to disturb and attack the Amarnath yatra and exfiltration attempt by three Kashmiri youths for arms training. Johnny William, DIG, Rajouri-Poonch police range, said additional police posts had been set up on the Mughal Road and security tightened around all religious places in both districts. “Though no infiltration has been reported from the two districts in the last few years, we can’t take the matter casually.…

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Pandits, Refugees unite to take on separatists

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With separatist organisations closing their ranks to oppose settlement of Pandits back in the Valley and granting of rights to Hindu and Sikh refugees displaced due to Kashmir issue since 1947, refugees’ organisations have decided to unite to fight “propaganda” against them. Refugee leaders have also reaffirmed their resolve to continue fight against the discrimination meted out to them by successive governments in Jammu and Kashmir and silence of the Central government, which they said had “succumbed” to pressure tactics of fundamentalist and radical elements in Kashmir. A seminar “J&K,…

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Union ministry ‘exposes’ MP’s claims on toll exemption

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The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has denied having received any written correspondence or submission from Jammu and Kashmir, seeking exemption of toll tax at Ban Toll Plaza set up on the Jammu-Udhampur National Highway. The ministry’s position has come as a shocker for the residents of Nagrota and Dansal blocks in the Jammu district as Member of Parliament from the Jammu-Poonch parliamentary seat Jugal Kishore Sharma, who belongs to the ruling BJP at the Centre, had publicly claimed that he had used his “good offices” to “get…

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