Category: Jammu

Jammu

School to withdraw notebooks with India, Pak flags

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A private school in Jammu and Kashmir today decided to withdraw its notebook with national flags of India and Pakistan on its cover, following protests by locals. The Holy Cross Convent High School, located in border belt of R S Pura sector, had distributed notebooks to its students with national flags of the two countries on the cover of its notebooks. There was widespread protest by parents and local residents yesterday against the notebooks given to students for the current academic session. “We received a public complaint that the school…

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Basohli tense after boy’s throat-slit body found

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Villagers manhandle DSP, set afire SHO’s vehicle in Kathua Basohli and Mahanpur towns of Kathua district today observed a shutdown following tension triggered by the recovery of the throat-slit body of a Class VIII Dalit boy in the area on Monday night. Police sources said the student had been identified as Karan Kumar, 13, a resident of Ward Number 13 in Basohli. He had gone missing from his residence on Monday evening and his throat-slit body was found in an under-construction bathroom of a government school near his home. The…

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Fight separatist forces for J&K’s development : Jaitley

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today that political combination of the BJP and PDP was an electoral arithmetic which gave heavy mandate to the BJP in Jammu and PDP in Kashmir to form the government in the state. He termed the political reality existing in the state as unique and called upon all Kashmir-based political parties and people to join hands with the BJP to fight separatist forces for an overall development of the state. “We have a political ideologue that doesn’t compromises with any kind of separatism and we…

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Three day Jammu fest from tomorrow

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The Dogra Sadar Sabha today said the Jammu festival this year would showcase the Dogra culture of the region to make the city residents and tourists aware about different traditions of the community. Dogra Sadar Sabha president Gulchain Singh Charak said the April 13-15 festival would be organised in association with the Tourism Department. “The annual event will showcase history, heritage, culture and age old tradition of peaceful co-existence and communal harmony among different sections of society in Jammu,” Charak told reporters. During the celebrations this year, a procession presenting…

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Non-Kashmiri students want NIT extension centre in Jammu

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Following the government’s decision not to shift the National Institute of Technology campus from Srinagar campus, non-Kashmiri students of the institute have demanded an extension centre at Jammu on the pattern of Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Ranchi, and the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad. After the statements of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the state government that there will be “no question of shifting the NIT-Srinagar campus from Kashmir”, the fear-stricken students have requested for an extension centre of the institute at Jammu. “If…

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60 C-BYTE-trained youths clear physical, medical tests of Army recruitment

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The Centres for Border Youth Training and Empowerment (C-BYTE), being run under the skill development component of the Border Area Development Programme (BADP) scheme in Jammu, have brought a new ray of hope for border youth for better future. Nearly 60 boys of border areas, who underwent training at C-BYTE since the inception of the centres on January 1 this year, have cleared physical and medical phases of the Army recruitment being held at Samba since April 2. Nearly six centres are being run at Arnia, Suchetgarh, Mandal, Marh, Pargwal…

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Navratra festivities begin at City of Temples

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On the first day of Navratras today, thousands of devotees paid obeisance at the historic Bahu Fort temple, also called Bawe Wali Mata. From early morning people visited the shrine and offered prayers. Apart from the Bawe Wali Mata shrine, special prayers were held in the temples dedicated to Goddess Durga across the region with number of social and religious organisations putting up various food stalls. The festival is also known for fasting and irrespective of age, devotees survive on fruits, curd, milk and dishes made of water chestnut flour…

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Kashmiri students attacked in Jammu after refusing to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’

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Several Kashmiri students were allegedly thrashed after refusing to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ at a college in Jammu on Thursday. A group of Kashmiri students at Government Engineering and Technology College Jammu told over phone that their valuables, books and other goods were also thrown out by ‘goons’ and local students who barged into their rooms and thrashed them. “We were in our hostels. Everything was peaceful. Suddenly we saw a large number of students along with locals shouting anti-Pakistan slogans,” they said. They said these protestors straightaway barged…

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Jammu erupts in protests against ‘use of force’ on NIT students

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Activists of various groups block roads, demand action against ‘guilty’ policemen A day after non-Kashmiri students were allegedly beaten by the local police in the Srinagar NIT campus, Jammu, the winter capital of the state, today erupted in protests with several social, political and nonpolitical groups taking to the roads against the “excessive use of police force” on the protesters. The protesters also had scuffle with the policemen after the latter tried to stop them from blocking some important road links that resulted in disruption in normal movement of vehicles.…

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Tight security measures lead to traffic chaos in Jammu during Oath Ceremony

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Tight security measures enforced due to oath-taking ceremony of the new government and Monday rush led to hours of traffic chaos in Jammu. Right from Janipur to Gandhinagar and Jewel-Canal road route thousands of vehicles were seen moving at a snails’ pace to reach their respective destinations. As there was movement of high-profile people towards Raj Bhawan, where Mehbooba Mufti was to take oath as the first women Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, the police repeatedly stopped movement of vehicles to allow “safe travel” of invitees to the venue.…

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