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Jammu

Cold wave tightens grip over winter capital

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Temperature dips below normal, rail traffic hit Cold wave tightened its grip over the winter capital with the maximum and minimum temperatures dipping several notches below the normal, forcing the people to remain indoors. According to the Indian Meteorological Department, Jammu registered a maximum of 17.9 degree Celsius, nearly two notches below the normal. The minimum temperature plummeted to 3.4 degree Celsius, five degrees below the normal. “People in Jammu have been battling shivering cold wave as the day and night temperature remained below normal. There seems to be no…

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Mother-son duo killed after VDC member opens fire in Rajouri

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A mother-son duo died after a member of Village defence Committee (VDC) allegedly opened fire on them in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, said an official. News agency GNS reported that the VDC member Mushtaq Ahmad, son of Mohd Sharief R/O Mohra Dhaveen village in Budhal area of Rajouri district opened fire upon the woman and her four-year-old son after barging inside her kitchen at Samote village today morning. “In the firing incident, the duo sustained serious bullet wounds”, GNS reported, adding that the injured were immediately shifted to…

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First cable-stayed bridge of North opens today

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Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will inaugurate Northern India’s first cable-stayed bridge on the Ravi river in the Basohli area of Kathua district on Thursday. The 592-metre-long bridge is important for quick induction of armed forces from Punjab to J&K. The load of the bridge will be borne by 96 cables supported by two towers Built at a cost of Rs 14,543.52 lakh, the bridge will provide additional route to Srinagar from Pathankot. It will shorten Pathankot-Basohli distance by over 35 km

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Lack of parking space at political parties’ offices creates traffic chaos

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All the major political parties of Jammu and Kashmir do not have parking space at their party headquarters in Jammu, which creates major traffic chaos during any function in the party office. All the main political parties have their party headquarters in Jammu, from where they operate, but interestingly all these party offices do not have parking space for vehicles of their leaders and workers. However, the BJP, which claims to have a small lot of parking space, is working in an unsafe building located at the most crowded place…

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Christmas celebrations pick up in Jammu

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People from various communities, faiths join Christians in celebrating the festival With Christmas celebrations gradually picking up in the city, Christians, who feel more secure and safe in the heterogeneous society of Jammu, say that people from various communities, faiths and beliefs join them to celebrate the festival. Domes, minarets and tombs of temples, gurdwaras, mosques, Sufi shrines and monasteries in Jammu stand testimony to Jammu’s heterogeneous character, which has withstood many onslaughts in the past to polarise it. “While successive governments never bothered to give the community its share,…

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Will get chopper tax on pilgrims withdrawn, says state BJP chief

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New state BJP president Sat Sharma has vowed to get ‘jaziya’ levied on Vaishno Devi pilgrims withdrawn. In an Interview, Sat Sharma, also sitting MLA from Jammu West, said, “This is the main demand of the party. We will take up the issue of withdrawing the tax on pilgrims with the government again.” On September 2, the Finance Department issued a notification, directing Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, to impose 12.5 per cent service tax on pilgrims travelling by helicopter. This was being seen as interference in the working…

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Three Kashmiris attacked by Hindu miscreants in Udhampur

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Three Kashmiri passengers were thrashed by a group of Hindu miscreants at Udhampur, where four Kashmiri truckers were attacked—one of them died later in September this year. According to Kashmir Media Service, the victims, Hilal Maqbool Malik, Yawar Hanief Butt and Bilal Ahmad Butt work as medical representatives for a pharmaceutical company. “Around 11 am, we hired a taxi from Banihal Railway station to Jammu. We stopped at a Dhaba near Udhampur for snacks. Suddenly a group of men started thrashing us,” Hilal told media men. “While raising anti-Kashmir slogans,…

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Jammu Airport expansion to be complete by June next year

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The wait for the modified and expanded Jammu Airport will be over by June next year as the authorities have speed up work. The airport authorities have directed the construction agencies to complete the expansion and upgrade work of the Jammu Airport by June 2016. The airport, which was ranked the 27th busiest airport of the country, needs immediate upgrade as the flow of air traffic and passengers have increased manifold in the past few years. The Centre had proposed expansion and upgrade of the airport to increase its landing…

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Govt has no plan to smoothen traffic in overburdened Jammu

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Despite huge traffic problem in the winter capital of the state, the authorities have no plan to smoothen its flow, except creating “check nakas” to fine private and commercial vehicles. The Jammu roads are flooded with vehicles these days as for the limited road length (about 500 km), about 6 lakhs vehicles have been registered in Jammu district. As many as 5,86,388 vehicles stand registered with the RTO, Jammu, till March 2015. Now with the Durbar Move in Jammu, about 50,000 vehicles have been added to the city. “Traffic jams…

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Announcement of IIT jacks up realty prices in Jagti

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In the backdrop of the snow-clad Pir Panjal range and NHAI’s neatly laid highway that meanders along hillocks, at the first look, it resembles an exotic and picturesque place of Europe. And announcement of setting up an elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has increased the prices of reality in the Jagti area of Nagrota. The government has already identified the land for the IIT at Khanpur in the vicinity of Jagti. “The four-lane National Highway 1A (NH1A) project had already changed the look of this area and now the…

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