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Jammu

Indo-Pak cricket match turns nightmare for Darbar move employees, their families in Jammu

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Guards joined saffron group, shouted provocative slogans, harassed Govt quarters’ inmates: Employees NGCSEU to take up issue with Chief Secretary Minutes after India won 20-20 cricket match against Pakistan last evening, saffron groups allegedly with the help of locals entered the government quarters’ premises in Old City where Darbar move employees have been staying and allegedly shouted ‘provocative slogans’. The incident has spread fear among the move employees and their families who have decided to meet Chief Secretary B R Sharma on Monday and seek proper security arrangements. “Security guards…

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Vehicle wheels’ theft on the rise, police clueless

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The police seem to have no answer to the growing number of vehicle wheels’ theft cases in Jammu as people continue to face the brunt of thieves who might be working in tandem to do the job perfectly. Almost every day a gang of thieves is stealing wheels from vehicles parked on the roadside by putting bricks and stones beneath the vehicle. One such incident happened in the Gandhi Nagar area city last night when thieves stole wheels of a Hyundai I10 Grand vehicle, bearing registration number JK02BN-0313, belonging to…

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BJP targets Jammu University dept over seminar, forces explanation

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Amid debate over the freedom of expression in India, Political Science department of University of Jammu is under fire from rightwing BJP for having organised a seminar, with the authorities forced to seek an explanation from its head. Sources told that the vice-chancellor (VC) of the university, Prof R D Sharma, has sought a detailed explanation from the Political Science head of the department (HoD) about the seminar themed ‘Pluralism in J&K: Crisis and Way Forward’. It was organised by a Non-Governmental Organisation in collaboration with the department. Dean Academic…

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Youth arrested for uploading ‘provocative material’ online

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A man has been arrested from here for allegedly uploading “provocative material” on social networking and media websites, a charge denied by his family who claimed that he was “innocent” and had no connection with Pakistan or any terror outfit. “The counter intelligence (CI) wing of Jammu and Kashmir police arrested Ashiq Khan from his house here last evening after a police team found uploading of ‘provocative material’ on social media sites including Facebook and Whatsapp by him. We are also trying to ascertain whether he has links with any…

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Kerosene leakage on tracks poses risk to passengers at Jammu rly station

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Slum children jostle with each other between moving trains to collect oil Always on the terror radar, Northern India’s busiest railway station of Jammu that daily witnesses rush of over 50,000 passengers sits on a powder keg in the form of continuous leakage of kerosene from a water pipeline between two tracks in front of platform number one. Unabated leakage in turn has all the ingredients to pose grave risk to trains and passengers besides slum children, who jostle between moving trains at the spot to collect kerosene. Over 30…

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KAS officer, three of family die in Doda accident

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Four persons were killed when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge near the Khelani area of Doda on the Batote-Kishtwar national highway. Kalyan Singh, a promising KAS officer of the Jammu and Kashmir Government, was one of the victims. He was posted as Additional Secretary, Roads and Buildings Department, at present. His wife Anita Devi and her aunt Soma Devi were also killed in the accident. Kalyan Singh’s brother-in-law Vinkel, who was critically injured and airlifted to the Government Medical College and Hospital in…

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ABVP takes out ‘Tiranga rally’ against anti-national elements

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The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) today held a “Tiranga rally” to lodge protest against the alleged anti-national elements prevailing in varsity campuses all over the country. The rally was taken out from the University of Jammu to Maharaja Hari Singh statue at the Tawi bridge. Around 400 ABVP activists participated in the rally wherein they took pledge for maintaining integrity of the nation. While addressing the rally, Varsha Jandial, ABVP state secretary asked the anti-national elements to be on the right track of nationalism. “The nationalistic youth of the…

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PDP demands judicial probe into killing of Gujjar youth

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today demanded a judicial probe into the alleged killing of a member of a Gujjar community during an anti encroachment drive in the Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir yesterday. “The killing of a civilian is unfortunate and the PDP demands that a judicial probe be immediately ordered into the killing”, senior PDP leader and former Education minister Naeem Akhtar told reporters here today. A member of the Gujjar community was killed during the clashes between an anti encroachment team of the Jammu Development Authority (JDA)…

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After Kashmir, pro Kanhaiya protest in Jammu

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After protests were held in Kashmir University, All India Students Federation (AISF) state council Wednesday held protest in the support of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar at Press Club Jammu. A number of students took part in the protests. State council member Manish Chandail while talking to the media persons, said “we want release of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.” “Why the police are not arresting the real anti nationalist persons?” he questioned.

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Youth Congress activists take out ‘shav yatra’ of NDA govt, detained

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Scores of activists of the Youth Congress were today detained by the police after they took out a “shav yatra” (funeral procession) of BJP-led NDA government for its failure on all fronts. Hundreds of activists, under the leadership of Pradesh Youth Congress (PYC) chief Pranav Shagotra, gathered in front of the Press Club of Jammu as part of the programme announced by the party to lodge protest against the NDA government. As soon as the Youth Congress activists marched towards Dogra Chowk, they were stopped by the police, who were…

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