Jammu
Monsoon arrived in Jammu and Kashmir 10 days ahead of its predicted date, which was July 1. According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), on the basis of rainfall during the last 24 hours and weather system, the monsoon has hit the state. The forecast for the next 24 hours says moderate to heavy shower to occur across the state.
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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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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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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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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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Motorists are being charged for parking vehicles on roadsides Having failed to construct multi-storey parking complexes to “decongest” the roads of the winter capital city of the state, the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) seems to have “sold” city roads to private contractors by creating parking spaces on the roadsides to fill its empty coffers. The irony is that the congested and busy roads have come under the gambit of this new scheme of the civic body that resulted in total chaos and confusion among motorists as these “newly created parking…
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The state government on Friday said it was investigating whether there was any conspiracy to disturb the peace in the state after the twin incidents of desecration of temples in Jammu. “The government is looking into the incidents and will investigate whether any conspiracy is there to disturb the peaceful atmosphere in the state,” Minister for Law, Abdul Haq Khan told the Legislative Council after BJP, Congress and Peoples Democratic Party legislators from Jammu asked the government to make a statement on the two incidents of sacrilege. “The investigations in…
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Internet ban extended up to June 17, accused booked under PSA Close on the heels of desecration of a temple in Janipur area of Jammu, another temple was ransacked in Nanak Nagar locality by a drunken dismissed police constable. As a preventive measure and to avoid any flare-up in the situation, the District Administration has extended the internet ban up to June 17 and booked the accused-Gurcharan Singh alias Minta-under Public Safety Act (PSA). Deputy Commissioner Jammu, Simrandeep Singh confirmed to Kashmir POST about slapping of PSA on the accused.…
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All the 22 persons arrested for torching vehicles and damaging public property in Jammu on Tuesday were released on Wednesday by the police following a meeting held between Health Minister Bali Bhagat, police and civil administration officers, and leaders of RSS and VHP. Sources said that the meeting, held at the PWD guest house, was dominated by the RSS-VHP men who threatened a “2008-like agitation” if the arrested persons were not released by 6pm. The right-wing leaders at the meeting included prominent lawyer and former BJP leader Leela Karan Sharma,…
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After a senior police officer refused to release the 22 men, VHP leader Leela Karan Sharma threatened a “repeat of the 2008 Amarnath agitation”, which had sparked communal violence in the region. Twenty-two people detained by the police following violence in Jammu were released Wednesday after the VHP threatened a “repeat of the 2008 Amarnath agitation”. The 22 were arrested after violence erupted in Jammu Tuesday over a 29-year-old man, Yasir Alfaz, allegedly kicking a Shiva idol at a temple. The youth, who is of unsound mind according to police,…
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