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Jammu

BJP misleading House over NIT Controversy : Hari Om

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Seeks privilege motion against Minister of State for Home Jammu for India (JFI) convener Hari Om today accused the BJP of misleading the Lok Sabha and not narrating facts about the NIT-Srinagar row in the House. He appealed to non-BJP Lok Sabha members to bring a privilege motion against the Minister of State (MoS) for Home for being economical with truth and wilfully misleading Parliament. Prof Hari Om asserted that bringing a privilege motion against the MoS for Home was imperative to ensure that justice was dispensed to non-local students.…

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Realty prices soar in Jammu

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Buying plot or flat beyond reach of middle class Rapid urbanisation and increasing population in Jammu city, which has touched the 15-lakh mark, have made it nearly impossible for the middle class to own a plot or flat. “Prices of plots and flats have gone up alarmingly. While the price of a one-marla plot in areas like Sainik Colony Extension, Trikuta Nagar and Greater Kailash is between Rs 4 lakh and Rs 10 lakh, a two-BHK or three-BHK flat costs between Rs 50 lakh and Rs 80 lakh,” says Raj…

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Heat wave continues in Jammu, Mercury touches 36 Degree

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It is just the beginning of summer season but heat wave has gripped Jammu, the winter capital of the state, for past few days and today’s temperature crossed 36 Degrees mark. Jammu has been experiencing extreme heat for the past several days and Monday the city recorded its highest temperature for the month of April. “Jammu has crossed 36.3 degree Celsius in April, it not normal,” said Jammu-based Met spokesperson. The Meteorological Department also predicted dry weather for the next few days. “The weather is expected to remain dry in…

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Bus carrying wedding party turns turtle in Rajouri, injuring 45

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Around 45 people were today injured, two of them seriously, when a bus carrying a marriage party turned turtle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district. “The bus full of Baratis was on its way to Thandi Kassi from Saranu village when it turned turtle near Jamola bridge in Rajouri,” a police officer said. He said that 45 Baratis were injured in the mishap, two of them seriously. “The seriously injured persons have been shifted to Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu for specialised treatment, whereas others are admitted to Rajouri…

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Need to initiate steps to restore Mubarak Mandi : Nirmal Singh

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Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh today said preservation and restoration of Mubarak Mandi complex, one of the major architectural heritage landmarks of Jammu and Kashmir, needed a revamp through administrative change. He said the slow pace of development of the historical monument in Jammu was a cause for concern as nearly a decade had passed since the renovation work had started on it, but with little success. “I am personally concerned over early restoration and preservation of the architectural heritage landmark. There is an immediate need for an administrative change…

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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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