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Contractual lecturers' hunger northlinesIRDP felicitates Dr Balwan with the 'Govt focused on JK's holistic strike enters day 244 Research Excellence Award development'

The hunger strike of 10+2 contractual Dr. Wahied Khawar Balwan, Sr. Speaker Jammu & Kashmir lecturers enters 244th day here today. Assistant Professor of Zoology has Legislative Assembly, Kavinder As per press statement, president of been felicitated with "Teaching and Gupta today said that the the association, Arun Bakhshi said Research Excellence Award" by Government was focused on 3 4 5 development of every part .... that I have never seen such... Innovative Research .... INSIDE

 Vol No: XXII Issue No. 246  16.10.2017 (Monday) Daily  Jammu Tawi  Price 3/-  Pages-12 Regd. No. JK|306|2017-19 Turn up the heat before the China understood strength of India, all 7 Lok Sabha chill in valley: Doval to Forces issues with Beijing resolved: Rajnath by-elections soon NL CORRESPONDENT Bengal); and Rashtriya Tayiba on Saturday, there are shaking up the unit. He also In a scathing attack on , OCT 15 Janata Dal leader just a handful of feels that all the commanders Pakistan, the union minister Mohammad (Araria commanders left in the must be cleaned up before said that Pakistan has been Even as the result of the constituency in Bihar). Valley. The Army prior to the the winter sets in. trying to cross its terrorists Gurdaspur Lok Sabha by- U.P. seats launch of Operation Clean Once the winter sets in, the across the border but faces defeat in the hand of Indian election in Punjab was In Uttar Pradesh, up or Operation All Out had infiltrations stop. If the declared on Sunday, by byelections are also to be prepared a kill list of 223. As commanders are cleaned up armed forces every time. "Pakistan tries to send its elections to seven Lok held to the Gorakhpur seat, of today 171 terrorists have by then, it would help in Sabha seats in various States held by Chief Minister Yogi been killed in encounters and maintaining peace in Jammu terrorists to our side. We have succeeded in finishing are expected to be Adityanath, and the Phulpur what is significant is that and Kashmir he says. conducted soon. seat, won by Deputy Chief most of them have been top Further, there is also a need off 5-10 of them every single time. India is not Some of these seats fell Minister Keshav Prasad commanders of outfits such to maintain a very strict vigil vacant following the death Maurya. It has become very weak anymore," he said. as the Jaish-e-Mohammad, along the border areas since NL CORRESPONDENT of sitting members, The Election Commission powerful. In recent times, Hailing PM Narendra Modi, NEW DELHI, OCT 15 Hizbul Mujahideen and Pakistan would up the ante NEW DELHI, OCT 15 including Peoples had on May 25 cancelled Rajnath said, "For the first Lashkar-e-Tayiba. and try sending more China has understood the Democratic Party chief the byelection in the time, the country has got a Turn up the heat before the Currently there are just a terrorists before the winter Union Home Minister strength of India and our constituency, prime minister who has winter was a message that handful of commanders sets in. If the commanders Rajnath Singh on Sunday dispute with Beijing has also (Anantnag, Jammu and after deferring it for over a decided that right to knock the National Security remaining in the Valley are targeted before the said that India's disputes been resolved," he said. Kashmir); BJP leaders month, for security reasons. on the doors of big banks Advisor, Ajit Doval sent out while the rest are foot winter sets in, then terror with neighbouring China Rajnath, who is on his two- Sanwar Lal Jat (Ajmer) and The State government and to the security forces in the soldiers. Doval feels that the groups would not be able to have been resolved and that day visit to Uttar Pradesh's should not be limited only to Mahant Chand Nath the political parties had . With the Army and the police should carry out attacks in the they have understood our , was addressing a big companies but must also (Alwar); Trinamool requested the electoral body successful killing of Waseem focus on cleaning up the Valley as the numbers would power. press conference when he go to poor. Congress leader Sultan to delay the polls in view of "Our Prime P2 Shah of the Lashkar-e- commanders as it leads to have dwindled. "India is no longer the same. made these remarks. Ahmed (Uluberia, West the increased P2 Pro bono activity can be criterion GoM on GST scheme JK Officials 'disrespect' National NEWS IN BRIEF for elevation as judge: Govt Anthem; Probe ordered "Scientists told to make pollution-free crackers" NL CORRESPONDENT activity can easily be a holds first meeting NL CORRESPONDENT teachers alleged that NEW DELHI, OCT 15 criterion for becoming a JAMMU, OCT 15 Assistant Commissioner judge for those coming to Revenue (ACR) MS NL CORRESPONDENT up the GoM to examine Haseeb Drabu, Punjab NEW DELHI, OCT 15 A probe has been Khan, who had gone to Free legal assistance the bench from active bar NEW DELHI, OCT 15 ways of making it more Finance Minister Manpreet extended by a lawyer to the service, the functionary said. attractive. Businesses with Singh Badal and ordered into the alleged the school on Thursday Union Environment Minister Dr needy should be an Pro bono is something which Within a week of being set turnover of up to Rs 1 crore Chhattisgarh Minister of disrespect of the national in district on an Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday important criterion while is done for the public good up, the group of ministers can opt for the composition Commercial Taxes Amar anthem by a government inspection, did not that the Indian scientists have considering him for without any payment or (GoM) on making the GST scheme and they can pay Agrawal. The GoM has also officer at a school in respect the national been asked to make pollution free elevation as a judge, the compensation. composition scheme more taxes in the range of 1-5 per been tasked with revisiting Jammu and Kashmir, an anthem playing there. crackers so that the health of government feels. On whether the government attractive held its first cent and file returns the tax structure of different official said on Sunday, "An inquiry has been people was not impacted and the A senior government feels that pro bono service meeting today. The 5- quarterly. The GST Council, categories of restaurants calling on people to ordered into the incident. traders remained unaffected. functionary said the be made a criterion for member GoM, under Assam chaired by Finance Minister with a view to rationalising maintain peace in the The people, especially Dr Vardhan, along with Minister guidelines laid down becoming a judge of the Finance Minister Himanta Arun Jaitley and consisting or reducing the rates. area. Jammu: A probe students, are advised to of State Mahesh Sharma, was recently by the apex court Supreme Court or a high Biswa Sarma, has also been of his state counterparts, had Currently, GST is levied at has been ordered into the maintain peace and not talking to the mediapersons at outlining the importance of court, Law Minister Ravi tasked to revisit Goods and on October 7 constituted the 12 per cent on non-AC alleged disrespect of the play in the hands of India Gate here on the occasion of pro bono has "strengthened" Shankar Prasad merely said, Services Tax (GST) rates for GoM, which will submit its restaurants while it is 18 per national anthem by a vested interests who the mini marathon, Run for Clean the feeling in the "Our government is keenly restaurants. With only over report by the end of cent for air-conditioned government officer at a want to vitiate the Air, a programme organised to government that "pro bono promoting pro bono 15.50 lakh businesses out of November. The other ones. The GoM will school in Jammu and atmosphere," District commemorate the 86th birthday lawyering" be made a pre- lawyering. Exposure to pro 98 lakh registered under the members of the GoM are examine whether the AC Kashmir, an official said Development of former President Dr APJ Abdul requisite to become a judge. bono lends its own weight." GST regime opting for the Bihar Deputy Chief Minister restaurants pass on the on Sunday, calling on Commissioner Angrez Kalam. P2 Like getting the gown of a The guidelines fixed by the composition scheme, the Sushil Modi, Jammu and benefit of cost reduction people to maintain peace Singh Rana told PTI. Senior advocate, pro bono Supreme P2 GST Council decided to set Kashmir Finance Minister under GST P2 in the area. Students and Rana said P2 ITBP raises maiden column SC seeks Centre's response on guidelines Police to prevent attacks J&K Bank launches App Based Online Loan for quick deployment at China border for abortion beyond 20 weeks with new gadgets Product "Phone Pe Loan" for J&K Police NL CORRESPONDENT Medical Termination of the policemen is an NEW DELHI, OCT 15 NL CORRESPONDENT and J&K Bank. Soon after NEW DELHI, OCT 15 Pregnancy Act which SRINAGAR, OCT 15 intrusion detection system its e launch, during an prohibits termination of for important police For the first time in its over 50 interaction Dr Nirmal The Supreme Court has pregnancy beyond 20 The Jammu and Kashmir installations in the state, years history, the ITBP is raising sought a response from the weeks, saying that the issue Singh appreciated the and deploying a mechanised Police is in the process of especially the valley, to outreach of the J&K Bank Government on framing of fell within the legislative acquiring new gadgets prevent any suicide attacks column of power vehicles and guidelines for setting up a domain. to the Police Personnel machines to speedily mobilise including intrusion on these establishments. through 24*7 digital permanent mechanism for "On a perusal of the reliefs detection system and "The intrusion detection troops along the Sino-India NL CORRESPONDENT "Phone Pe Loan" facility channels to facilitate the termination of pregnancy sought, we find that as far as border in case of Chinese military electric boom barriers to system has shock sensors JAMMU, OCT 15 during the inauguration of credit needs of the Police beyond 20 weeks in the prayer is concerned, that transgressions and Doklam-like prevent militants from which use vibrations or "Police Diwali Mela" Personnel who were doing exceptional cases. is in legislative realm, hence standoffs. carrying out suicide attacks shock waves to trigger an J&K Bank today unveiled organized by J&K Police an admirable job and A bench headed by Chief we are not inclined to The decision to raise such a on its installations. alarm at the monitoring "Phone Pe Loan" a department at Gulshan remained mostly on the Justice Dipak Misra issued address the said prayer. military-style combat wing in the The equipment worth Rs 8 desk. This will give enough specially customized App Ground Jammu, in move. "This will save lot notices to the ministries of "Issue notice, fixing a paramilitary was taken after the crore will be procured by time to the security Based loan facility presence of Mrs. Bharti of their time and effort of health, women and child returnable date within four Union home ministry recently the police, which is at the personnel to not only through J&K Bank Vaid Chairperson, visiting development and the weeks," the bench said. approved deployment of snow forefront of fighting prepare but also counter any Mobile Banking App JKPWWA,, Director the branches for availing Medical Council Of India The top court was hearing a scooters at all the high-altitude militancy in the state, within intrusion bid by terrorists," mPay for the J&K Police General of Police Dr S.P the loans besides and sought their reply in plea filed by Karnataka- border outposts of the mountain- the next two to three the sources said. Personnel in Jammu Vaid, Parvez Ahmed, dispensing the need for four weeks. based Anusha Ravindra warfare trained force along the months, sources in the For improving daytime today. Dr Nirmal Singh, Chairman & CEO J&K going through the hassles The apex court, however, seeking amendment of the 3,488-km long frontier it guards. police department said. security and ensuring Dy. Chief Minister of the Bank, senior of paper work"," said Dy refused to amend the 1971 1971 Medical P2 They said on the wish list of smooth entry P2 state, e-launched the officials of J&K Police Chief Minister. P2 A senior home P2 Braid Chopping incidents soar across Kashmir Terrorists' jilted lovers turn informers; We have started scientific investigation, may get any clue: IGP information source for intelligence SRINAGAR, OCT 15 (KNS) said he has spoken a lot to media about this braid NL CORRESPONDENT intelligence agencies vital trend was catching up fast, earlier this year after forces With several incidents of chopping. "What more SRINAGAR, OCT 15 information, which is and the forces were now were tipped off by their Braid Chopping reported on remains there to be talked immensely helping the deliberately identifying lovers. Sunday, the state now? We have started a Hell hath no fury as a forces track down the women who might have Dujana was trapped in government continues to scientific investigation, may woman scorned, the terrorists. been exploited by these in August, after remain helpless over the be it will lead us to some terrorists in Jammu and In fact, according to some womanising terrorists before giving the security forces a mysterious chopping of hair where to get some clue," he Kashmir are fast learning to sources in the security being abandoned. slip on at least five of Kashmiri womenfolk. said. their dismay. Their jilted establishment, some of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) occasions. He was visiting The J&K Police, which has clueless, which has created braid chopping by resorting During the past one month, girlfriends have found a way top terrorists gunned down commander Abu Dujana and his wife at the time, but she constituted a Special more resentment among the to intense teargas shelling hair of over 100 women and to hit back, and hard, where this year were nailed after Khalid, who headed the and other locals were Investigation Team (SIT), to local populace. Police is also and other "brute use of young girls has been it really hurts. These women their heartbroken lovers Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) apparently irked with his probe the Braid Chopping facing wide criticism for force". mysteriously cut in Kashmir have been turning in to became turncoats. The operations in Kashmir, were womanising ways. "His wife incidents continue to remain choking the protests over IGP Kashmir Muneer Khan valley. P2 informers, giving the sources further said that the traced and gunned down and her father P2 the northlines 2 CITY Jammu | Monday | Oct | 16 | 2017 If Kashmir is an integral part of Murderous assault on Advocate by in laws India what issue is to be resolve? JAMMU TAWI, OCT 15 Ankit Gupta and Rohit Gupta. Advocate committing a murderous not permitted by any law to eliminate the applicant are JAMMU, OCT 15 (KIP) that no power on the earth can It may be mentioned that both A K Sawhney and Advocate assault on him after they came take law in hands and tried to still absconding and have not take away Kashmir from India In a case of murderous assault the arrested accused have Aseem Sawhney with prepared to kill. The accused kill him. The act is totally been arrested by the Police, A sort of confusion has crept in and if this is the stand of the on Advocate Vishal Mahajan filed a bail application before Urkarsh Pathania, Neeraj brought a baseball bat, kirch illegal and the act of the therefore at this stage the bail the Union Council of Ministers Indian ruling leaders then what son of Advocate M P Gupta the CJM Court Jammu, where Singh, Shiv Dev Thakur, Anil (hurra) and other weapons petitioners is very serious and application may kindly be as far as the settlement of the do by his own brothers in law the CJM Jammu Mr Ashwani Sharma, Ila Sharma, Anil with them after making a therefore the applicant be rejected he requested. Kashmir issue is concerned. they have to resolve? namely Ankit Gupta and Kumar Sharma has called for Kumar and Rupali Chadha preparation to kill the permitted to assist the Court It was submitted it is settled While the Union Home If the rate of killing of militants Rohit Gupta an FIR was the status report from the Advocates. applicant- who had in this matter and arguments principle of law that granting Minister, Rajnath Singh has in Kashmir is any indication Dr registered at Police Station concerned Police. The Court after hearing matrimonial problems with be considered bail in non-bailable offence is said that the BJP led NDA Jitendra Singh is right when he Channi Himmat Jammu under In the meanwhile the victim submissions of Advocate A K his wife namely Ms Amisha, It was further submitted the a concession allowed to the Government was determined to said militancy in Jammu and sections 307, 452, 147 RPC Advocate Vishal Mahajan has Sawhney and perusing the who happens to be sister of applicant is still in Hospital - accused and it pre-supposes resolve the Kashmir issue Kashmir was in its "last phase" and 4/25 Arms Acts. filed an application for application has issued notice the accused. GMC Jammu and is under that this privilege shall not be his colleague. Dr Jitendra Singh and that "militants are on the In this connection the FIR has seeking permission from the to the accused and directed In the application Mr treatment as his hand has been abused. The Advocates has stated that since Kashmir is run". Militants operating in named as many as 6 accused Court to be imploded and has filing of Status report and Sawhney submitted that fractured, the injured caused appearing for the victim an integral part of India nobody Jammu and Kashmir are on the who entered the house of the sought to oppose the bail of objections to this application. assuming not admitting that on head, back, legs etc are requested that they be given can snatch it. If Dr Jitendra run and are under tremendous Advocate with intention to the accused. In the application it has been there were problems in the serious in nature. There have permission to oppose the bail. Singh's claim is right what sort pressure and Singh is . sure that kill him and caused grievous The application for submitted that that the matrimony of the applicant been about 15 stitches put on The Bail application by the of settlement of the Kashmir this is going to be the last phase injuries to him. Out of these 6 permission to be heard and petitioners are brothers in law with his wife, still howsoever the body of the applicant nd accused has been filed issue is required? And the same of militancy in Jammu and accused only two have been intervene and oppose bail has of the applicant/ victim and grave the problems were still the other accused who were through Mr D S Saini Rajnath Singh has later stated Kashmir,. arrested by the Police namely been filed by victim through have tried to eliminate him by the petitioners/ accused were hand in glove to kill/ Advocate. "Besides reducing the risk of casualties during sanitisation students. work in bringing more and more people in the ambit of FROM PAGE 1 operations, the GPR system will also help in tracking down digital platform thus taking the ammunition and explosives hidden by militants forward Prime Ministers vision of less cash economy. China understood strength of India, all underground," the sources said. GoM on GST scheme Parvez Ahmed, J&K Bank Chairman & CEO stated: "The issues with Beijing resolved: Rajnath On the law and order front, policemen, who have to deal Banking industry has been witnessing the digital drive over with street protests in the valley on regular basis, will soon holds first meeting the past few years which has been fast tracked in the past ten Minister has set a target to end poverty in the country by be getting anti-riot gas masks, they said. months or so post demonetization; we at JK Bank are racing 2022 which will be fulfilled by our government," he said. "The law enforcing personnel have to fire tear smoke shells to consumers and if they are not, whether they should be to keep pace with the changed consumer preferences and other gas-based crowd control weapons during street disallowed input tax credit claims. To make the composition especially the younger generations for digital channels. In protests. scheme more attractive, the GoM would look into whether our endeavor to leverage our digital channels for the ITBP raises maiden column for "Many a time it becomes an impediment in restoration of turnover of exempted goods can be excluded from the total convenience of our customers especially Government quick deployment at China border order for the policemen as they face lot of difficulty in turnover threshold for levying tax under the composition employees who comprise a substantial part of our loan book crossing the gas-affected areas while chasing away scheme. It will also consider whether the scheme can be in the state we have launched this 'Phone Pe Loan' scheme miscreants. The gas masks will remove this impediment," extended to taxpayers dealing in inter-state supplies of ministry official said on the condition of anonymity that the with a turnaround time of two the sources said. goods. mechanised column of the force will comprise over 250 working hours for loan disbursement which will be further Besides, the panel will look at whether the manufacturers Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs), all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), improved to make it an instant facility for the preferred opting for the scheme can be given the benefit of input tax snow scooters, excavators and few other medium-lift four- We have started scientific customers of the Bank." The Customers he added just have credit. The GST Council, in its last meeting, hiked the wheeled vehicles. to log in to the Bank's Mobile banking App mPay which investigation, may get any clue: IGP threshold for availing of the composition scheme to Rs 1 While the army has the mechanised infantry, it was essential will land the request in the bank's Central Processing Centre crore, from the Rs 75 lakh set earlier. The tax rate for traders to have a mechanised column in the border guarding force who will then process and disburse the request of the Massive protests broke out in today after a woman's of goods in the composition scheme is 1 per cent, while it is as it secures this border in peace times and will bear the first customers within the defined time. This facility neither braid was chopped off by unknown persons. 2 per cent for manufacturers and 5 per cent for restaurants. onslaught in case of a war or a conflict, the official said requires the customer to visit the branch nor put his manual According to KNS correspondent, unknown persons barged explaining the rationale for the latest move. signature on any inside the home of a woman (name withheld) in Khushal Till now, only the Border Security Force under the home Pro bono activity can be criterion document. "We are highly thankful to the Director General Mattoo in Sopore town. As the news broke out, people took ministry, that guards the Indo-Pak border, had an artillery Police who allowed to streets and started massive protests. unit and some mechanised components to aid it. for elevation as judge: Govt integration of their employee database expeditiously These girls and women have told their families that A proposal to raise a full-fledged mechanised column under keeping in view the welfare of the Police Personnel and unknown persons sprayed something in their eyes, leaving the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force was moved by Court for itself and the 24 high courts last week to govern drove the product from concept to completion culminating them unconscious and chopping off their braids. the forces' headquarters here sometime back, the official the exercise of designating lawyers as Seniors, talk about in its launch today. In near future we are going to In outskirts of Srinagar city, protests erupted in Dargah said, with the force Director General (DG) R K Pachnanda pro bono activities undertaken by an advocate. extrapolate the product for employees of all the locality where people resorted to stone pelting after a word making a specific presentation to the ministry in this Under the new system, all matters related to designation of Government spread about the incident of braid chopping. context. Senior advocates would be looked into by a committee departments and autonomous institutions who have a ready Police has maintained a stand on the mysterious braid The about 90,000-personnel force has sanctions to procure which will consider the reputation, conduct, integrity of the employee database.," said the JKB chairman. "Presently, the chopping terming it hysteria. However, people refuse to buy about 150 SUVs for high-altitude deployment, out of which advocate, including participation in pro bono work, reported facility is available for two products viz., J&K Bank police's argument and instead blame the force for it has about five dozen already deployed, half-a-dozen snow judgement in which the advocate has appeared and the Saral/Saholiat Loan and J&K Bank Cash Credit scheme "sheltering the braid choppers". scooters and few excavators to clear snow-bound passes and number of such judgements. however, in future we can extend it to other loan facilities as "Where are these braid choppers vanishing after committing landslide-prone border tracks. But the Supreme Court collegium - a body of top five well," he added Dr S.P Vaid, Director General of police a crime? Are they supermen or ghosts? This is a crime now A senior ITBP official said many more such vehicles and judges of the apex court which recommends the names it while acknowledging the and Police should see it as a crime and solve accordingly," machines, including anti-skid ATVs, will be procured by the finds fit for appointment as judges - will have to take a final customized and hands on approach of the Bank's Leadership State Women Commission Chairperson Nayeema Mehjoor force in the next few months. call on the issue. briefed Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister about the MoU in a meeting over Braid Chopping at her office. (KNS) The force has about 30 border posts above the height of Free legal aid and service in India is primarily the mandate signed between the Bank and J&K Police. "J&K Bank is 15,000 feet and some 50 such posts above 12,000 feet and of National Legal Services Authority and State Legal Aid our preferred banker and we appreciate bank for the home ministry has accorded sanctions to the ITBP to SC seeks Centre's response on guidelines Services authorities which have a wide presence throughout understanding the needs of police personnel and designing have at least one snow scooter at each of these frontier for abortion beyond 20 weeks the country. a bases. However, the legal needs of people continue to grow, thus simple and instant loan facility for us. This facility will The force has also been given sanctions to upgrade its Termination of Pregnancy Act for abortion of foetuses older requiring meaningful contribution from the legal further ease out loan sanctioning procedure for police firepower by modernising the support weapons like 81mm than 20 weeks involving rape survivors and women with community. personnel, who remain on the move and find it difficult to mortars, he added. abnormal foetus. But pro bono legal service as a concept has not gained much visit branches for completing the paper work required for "Sanctions have already been accorded to procure modern The plea, filed through advocate Abhinav Ramkrishna, also momentum in the country and remains more of an ad hoc, getting loans," said DG Police. J&K Bank has also put up a machines and vehicles for the force. sought constitution of a committee for setting up a individualised practice lacking an institutional structure. Mobile ATM and a stall at the mela venue for creating So, apart from expeditiously completing the construction of permanent mechanism for expedient termination of "Many lawyers provide the poor and underprivileged clients awareness about the products and digital services of the China border roads in the wake of Doklam-like incidents pregnancies beyond 20 weeks in the exceptional cases with valuable legal advice and support without seeking any bank, downloading mPay and imparting training and and transgressions, the government has decided to involving rape survivors and women with abnormal foetus professional fee. Unfortunately, this laudable tradition of awareness about usage of the App for availing loan facility strengthen the assets and strength of the both the army and under safe medical facilities with adequate inputs from an public service has not received any deserving recognition… and other banking services. Police personnel who register the ITBP, the first line of defence on the Line of Actual association of professionals and experts. (AGENCIES) ," the department of justice in the law ministry has said in a for mPay and loan facility through mPay during the Mela Control (LAC)," the home ministry official said. note. will also be eligible for the lucky Draw scheme of the bank. The defence ministry had recently decided to significantly Now, the department of justice intends to create a database 7 Lok Sabha of lawyers willing to provide their services to litigants. enhance infrastructure along this border including around Terrorists' jilted lovers turn informers; the areas of dispute with the Chinese forces. It has already written to all bar councils and bar associations The decision was taken at the Army's commanders by-elections soon across the country to provide information of lawyers who information source for intelligence conference which extensively deliberated on the Dokalam are engaged in providing pro bono legal services to the poor face off with China besides analysing all possible security terror activities and angry protests. and those who otherwise cannot afford legal representation. decided to share the information, which finally led us to challenges on the northern border. About a month ago, the Election Commission had asked for (AGENCIES) success," an official said. The ITBP, as part of bolstering its capabilities to effectively a report from the Jammu and Kashmir administration to Similarly Khalid, who was responsible for the recent attack secure this border, had last year procured over six dozen determine if the Anantnag by-election can be held before on a Border Security Force camp in Srinagar, was killed last SUVs and sent them to far-flung border areas for patrol and November 15. "Scientists told to make week after his girlfriend tipped off the security forces about transportation of troops and had similarly procured five Review on his movement. snow scooters early this year. "The situation on the ground is being reviewed constantly. pollution-free crackers" Only sketchy information was available about him after he The force was raised in 1962 in the aftermath of the Chinese As and when the Commission receives reports of a infiltrated from Pakistan in August last year. He was active aggression. (AGENCIES) favourable condition, ensuring free and fair elections, the He said that at the India International Science Festival, the in Sopore area but the intelligence agencies knew very little process for conducting the by-poll in Anantnag will be Government had asked the scientists to make pollution-free about him. initiated," said an official. crackers, so that people enjoyed Diwali without harmful One of his girlfriends, who were upset with his Police to prevent attacks It will be busy days ahead for the Election Commission as impact on environment. philandering, provided specific details about where he was it has announced that the Himachal Pradesh Assembly The Supreme Court banned the sale of firecrackers on supposed to meet her. A trap was laid accordingly and he with new gadgets election will be held on November 9 and the election results October 9th in Delhi and adjoining areas citing was killed. will be declared on December 18. environmental pollution, and the ban had upset the people "These top terrorists were traced because of the information of Delhi and traders. and exit of authorised security personnel to police The elections to the Gujarat Assembly too will be held in shared by their partners. So, now an effort is being made to "Celebrating the Run for Clean Air" marathon programme establishments, the department will install radio frequency December, though the dates have not been announced yet. win the confidence of these women and their families. It has on the birth anniversary of late President Dr Kalam, who identification (RFID) based vehicle access control system at given us good results as many women have come forward was a great visionary. these places. and shared information about their hideouts and JK Officials 'disrespect' National The programme is to realise the dreams of Prime Minister "The vehicles of authorised personnel, like senior officers movement," a security officer said. Narendra Modi, who wants to deliver a new India where of the department, will be fitted with RFID tags that will Anthem; Probe ordered According to sources, most of the top Pakistani terrorists there is a high level of environmental protection", Dr allow them entry and exit without any manual intervention. lead debauched lives. The local Kashmiri youth, who are Vardhan said at the event. This will save a lot of time at the entry and exit points of Khan visited the school as part of a raid in the district to joining the terror ranks, are also getting influenced by this. He said, the mini marathon is an initiative to send a strong important police establishments. check absenteeism. Many of these terrorists start indoctrinating teen-aged girls, message to the people that each should contribute to protect "This will ensure that vehicles not fitted with RFID tags will "He was checking nearly a dozen offices and was ordered to before exploiting them. and ensure the air quality. (AGENCIES) be thoroughly checked before being allowed to enter," they ensure prompt inspection. He was in a hurry, moving from "They have a Robin Hood-like image and young girls get added. one place to another. He was told to submit his report within attracted to that. We noticed the trend and started Hand-held ground penetrating radar (GPR) system is the shortest possible time," Rana said. J&K Bank launches App Based Online Loan approaching the girls' families," an official said. Sometimes, another important gadget on the shopping list of police. The official has been accused by the students and teachers neighbours of these women also help agencies track down "The GPR system is used for effective detection of of moving into the principal's office during the inspection Product "Phone Pe Loan" for J&K Police the terrorists, sources said. improvised explosive devices, landmines and other while the national anthem was being played at the school. Over 170 terrorists have been killed this year, so far, as explosives which are buried underground. Some teachers raised the issue, leading to protests by He further added that J&K Bank is doing a commendable compared to 150 last year.

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NL CORRESPONDENT society. Dr.Suja Nabi NL CORRESPONDENT JAMMU TAWI, OCT 15 constituted the front flank in the name of . under a design directed and Qureshi, scientist said that JAMMU TAWI, OCT 15 of the Invasion only to Dr. Hari Dutt Shishu dictated by Pakistan and by commercial organic disguise the role of further said that the Wahabi establishment Krishi Vigyan Jammu and Kashmir Unity vegetables cultivation they Pakistan Army. He said that infrastructure of across the border. Despite Kendra(KVK), of Foundation will be can generate extra income the entire mobilization of indoctrination is continuing the public pronouncements Sher-e-Kashmir University observing Black Day on and employment for them. tribals and army was done to flourish and expand in by the Govt of India to of Agricultural Sciences and October 22, 2017 to He also spoke on in the name of Jihad. It will the State under the pretext deport illegal Rohingya Technology- remember the sacrifices of entrepreneurship be very proper to describe of preserving freedom of immigrants nothing Jammu(SKUAST-J) lakhs of Hindus, Sikhs, development in organic the 1947 invasion of religion. JKUF leaders concrete has been done in celebrated Mahila Kisan Muslims of Jammu and fruits and added that they Jammu and Kashmir by asserted that it needs to be this direction in the state of Divas here today at organic Kashmir to defeat the about the significance of the Yojna, etc. He guided the should adopt the advance Pakistan as the first Jihad noted that Wahabi/Salafi Jammu and Kashmir. village Talwara in Pouni invasion of the State Mahila Kisan Divas and women to form the Self technologies in the organic unleashed after the influences have entered JKUF appealed all the block of in spearheaded by Pakistan highlighted the Help Groups/farmers clubs horticulture. During the Independence of India on deep into the separatists victims of Pakistani Jihad J&K which was attended by Army in 1947 erroneously extraordinary contribution and start the micro- programme, KVK scientists 15 August 1947. Advocated thinking in the state. in Jammu and Kashmir, more than 35 women also felicitated progressive described as Tribal of women in agriculture. He entreneurships in the rural Ankur Sharma said it is Separatism in the State is India and abroad to observe farmers of the village. The women farmers Smt. Invasion. A Seminar titled elaborated number of areas so that their socio- unfortunate that central now a total war against Oct 22 as a Black Day to programme was organised Neelam Kumari and Smt. "Pakistan's Military services supportive for economic condition can be government is still tolerance, co-existence, name and shame Pakistan. under the guidance of Baby Rani with the shawls. Invasion not Tribal Raid of women's socio-economic improved. The scientist also reluctant to recognize the National Unity and Others present on the Associate Director In this event programme, Jammu and Kashmir will empowerment such as Self- discussed on the balance violence unleashed in the Integrity. They informed occasion were Sanjay Extension and Incharge of women farmers interacted be organized on Oct 22. Help Groups, Pardhan diet for the rural women and state by Pakistan and its that the sanctuary provided Gupta, Pushvinder Singh, KVKs of SKUAST-J, with the KVK scientists and Addressing a press Mantri Kaushal Vikas guided them about the flanks as Jihad. He said that to Rohingya illegal Vikram Chib, Zeeshan Dr.R.K.Arora. The asked them various conference here today Yojana, Kisan Credit Cards, balanced dietary pattern for Pakistan is spending crores immigrants in the state is Kazmi and Neeraj Sharma. programme was inaugurated Support to Training and a good health. He elaborated technical quarries which the Ajaat Jamwal, president through its cronies in by Dr.Banarsi Lal, Scientist Employment Programme for the Beti Bachao, Beti Padao scientists answered in a JKUF alongwith Advocate Jammu and Kashmir to and Head of KVK, Reasi Women (STEP), Rashtriya campaign and said that there satisfactorily way. The vote Ankur Sharma Dr. Hari Contractual lecturers' radicalize of segments of Mahila Kosh, Indira Mahila is dire need to control the of thanks was presented by Dutt Shishu said that with the warm welcome of Muslim society in the State the participants. He briefed Yojna, Mahila Samridhi declining sex ratio in the Dr.Banarsi Lal. Tribals from Pakistan only hunger strike enters day 244 KAS aspirants SSS stages protest against stage protest against PSC sale of Chinese products NL CORRESPONDENT by issuing date sheet for every JKPSC exam to get JAMMU TAWI, OCT 15 KAS examination 2016. caught in multiple litigations especially the businessmen They took 8 months to resulting in undue delays and who are using the Chinese A massive protest held by declare a result and expect us consequently chaos and Products, not to purchase KAS aspirants against the to do wonders in one frustration. The only thing and use these foreign recent decision of JKPSC month.The whole problem as that aspirants want is products hi usual and postponement of the especially during this holy KAS 2016 mains festival Deewali. Gupta examination as there are stated that such tactics of multiple reasons for the Chinese Govt, is just to JAMMU, OCT 15 same. Antriksh Chib derail Indian economy and The hunger strike of 10+2 contractual lecturers enters aspirant said that in view underestimate the Indian 244th day here today. As per press statement, president of of these things, we products. He also urged the association, Arun Bakhshi said that I have never seen requested PSC (J&K) to upon the Indian Prime NL CORRESPONDENT his policies to sabotage the such a worst type of govt. which is against the interests postpone and shift the JAMMU TAWI, OCT 15 Minister to immediate ban Indian Economy by floating of the common people and that is only in order to exam to a more the import, use and sale of illegally the Chinese ) continue with their chairs. Arun Bakshi said that we are convenient date. It will Shiv Shakti Sena, J&K Chinese products in every Products in the Indian demanding for our regularization as per civil services be magnanimous on staged a protest field and promote Make in Market Rakesh Gupta, provision act. 2010, A Legislature passed for the their part to show to all demonstration today in front India products. president, Shiv Shakti Sena, regularization of all the contractual/ adhoc/ the disgruntled aspirants of Main Chowk, Near An effigy of the Chinese J&K while criticizing the consolidated/employees as one time and demanded postponement everybody believes has been who are fuming with anger Saugat Showroom, Janipur, Prime Minister was also businessman in India who exception/relaxation. Balvinder Kour also said that while of KAS main exams. The created by PSC's that JK PSC can be Jammu, against the illegal burnt on spot. The protest are allowing rather addressing the media persons it is very strange to say that protest was led by Vishal carelessness. Had they taken considerate, humane and sale of Chinese products in was led by Gupta ard promoting sale of Chinese 244 days have passed and nobody paid any heed towards Kotwal NSUI president due care before the prelims rational also. The other the open market. Shiv Shakti attended by a large gathering products ill the Market, thus we people which shows the dirty as well as the shameful Jammu University (JU). exam, the problem won't aspirants who were present Sena, J&K along with Party comprising of Shiv Deep causing great loss to the face of the representatives of the J&K State. Those who During the protest, Kotwal have surfaced in the first in the protest included workers and general public Gupta, Ashwani Gupta, Sat Indian Economy. were on rotational chain hunger strike included Anil, said that PSC has finally place and exam would have Raghav, Akshay, Mukesh, in the Protest Demonstration Pal Sharma, Mahinder Gupta, urged upon the Mangeshwar Kumar, Monika Devi, Balvinder Kour. come out of their self certainly finished by now. Rohit, Jagdeep, Bashir raised slogans against the Dogra, Kaka, Rahul Gupta, General Public and imposed deafening silence It has become a norm for Ahmed. Chinese Prime Minister for Aman Kumar. BJYMKDD holds meeting 120 new flats for move Employees in offing JAMMU, OCT 16 Kansal visits proposed sites; directs for early start of work Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Kashmir Displaced District (BJYMKDD) conducted a General meeting at Bohri under NL CORRESPONDENT agencies to speed up the sanitation in and around the Ahta Amar Singh and leadership of Ramesh Koul, President BJYM KDD. The JAMMU TAWI, OCT 15 meeting was called to discuss the arrangements being made pace to complete the same premises, uninterrupted Panjtirthi where new flats well before opening of the power supply and provision are going to be constructed to participate in To take on the spot review of move offices in the winter of safe drinking water for the for the employees. He the upcoming preparations ahead of annual capital. He also took stock of colonies. He asked directed the concerned Bike Rally to move of civil secretariat and power, drinking water, Divisional Commissioner department to start the welcome other offices to winter sanitation, security and other Jammu to ensure that all execution of work National capital, Principal Secretary facilities for employees. He arrangements are in place at immediately. He also President BJYM to Chief Minister, Rohit directed the concerned the time of Darbar Move. directed for immediate black Smt. Poonam Kansal, today visited department to ensure proper He also visited the sites at topping of roads of Civil Mahajan Ji on different Estate department Secretariat. 23-10- 2017 at Jammu. On this occasion, a social media colonies and took stock of Among others, Chief campaign was also launched to garner support for the the arrangements being Snake found inside bottle Engineer PDD, Ashwani implementation of the e_Postal Ballot System for Kashmiri made for comfortable stay of Gupta, Chief Engineer, PHE Migrants living outside J&K. Prabhari KDD, Abhishek filled from hospital the employees. Ashok Gandotra, Chief Singh Slathia was also present.The meeting was attended by He was accompanied by NL CORRESPONDENT a water cooler at a District Engineer, PWD Sudhir Sanjay Bhat & Kamal Warikoo General Secretaries, Vineet UDHMAPUR, OCT 15 Divisional Commissioner, Hospital in Jammu and Shah, Deputy Director Raina Publicity Secretary, Ankush Bhat & Ankush Pandita Jammu Dr. Mandeep Kashmir's Estates Satish Sharma, Mandal Presidents, Sahil Bhat & Aman Bhat Mandal Bhandari. In a serious lapse of District. Executive Engineer M R General Secretaries, Sunil Raina, Ranjan Mantoo, Satish Principal Secretary inspected sanitation and safety to Horrified with the incident, Sharma and other officers of Bhat, Surinder Kumar Bhat, Sunil Raina, Rohit Koul, Rikki the renovation, facelift and health, a small snake the patient's father informed Estates Department Bhat, Rakesh Bhat, Piyush Pandita , Puneet Moza, Rohit other repair works and entered a patient's bottle that he had gone to fill his accompanied the Principal Munshi & Vijay Raina. directed the concerned while he was filling it from son's water bottle, who is Secretary. admitted in the hospital Government of Jammu & Kashmir when the snake was found. Directorate of Horticulture Planning & Marketing Srinagar ABVP organizes Rangoli Competition "I went to fill the bottle Notice from the water cooler and was putting it to my son's Whereas complaints regarding excessive charging delayed payments wrong weighments, unauthorized NL CORRESPONDENT deduction and charging of doubts entry fee in certain fruits & vegetables markets are being preferred by the mouth when I saw the snake Fruit Owners. JAMMU TAWI, OCT 15 inside the bottle," he Whereas the matter has been examined in reference to the APMR Act.1997 and APMR Rules, informed. 2003 and Rule 120 of J&K State APMR Rules which deals with the charging of the commission reads as Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad under. He added that this was "No commission shall be charged from seller of Agriculture produce and commission shall (ABVP) unit of Central University of heights of carelessness and be charged from buyer of agriculture produce subject is a maximum at shown against each class". Jammu (CUJ) organised Rangoli people who are not sick, S.No. Class Percentage commission to be charges Competition on the eve of Deepawali at even they would die after 1 All fresh Fruits and Vegetables 6% both the campuses (TAB, Sainik drinking water from 2 All Dry Fruits 4% Colony and Main Campus, Bagla) in hospital's premises. 3 All others notified commodities including live stock 2% order to explore and encourage Giving an explanation about creativity among students and offer Now therefore the general public especially the Fruit Owners and traders are through the medium the whole incident, them a platform to showcase their skill. of this notice informed that no deduction whatsoever are to be made from the seller of the Agriculture produce Superintendent of the (except actual expenses paid as transportation, unloading etc fro which due receipts and other records shall be It inspires students to think and work District Hospital Dr. Vijay maintained and kept intact by the Traders), Besides the Act of individuals and the groups reportedly creatively and promote artistic charging entry fee In addition to the one managed by the APMC is a criminal offence and punishable said that there could be a excellence. The jury in both the under law. campuses were Dr. Anju Thapa, Dr. students. The winners of the the faculty members and students by possibility that the All concerned would note that trading in Agriculture Produce including the Fruit & Vegetable be underground pipe connected made strictly in accordance with the provisions of the APMR Act & Rules and any violation will be dealt Vandana Sharma, Dr. Jegan Nathan, competition were Malika from Bagla giving them handmade cards,spreading under the relevant provisions of the said law including section 71 which reads as: Dr.Vinita Sharma and Dr Shelly. The and Kavya from TAB. Those who got the message of safe and eco friendly to the cooler might have "Any person who contravenes any provision of the Act, or of any rule or bye laws or under issued the chief guests were DSW Dr. Deepak 2nd and 3rd position were Mishika, Deepawali. On the occasion, ABVP brought in the snake. rounder shall be punishable with simple imprisonment which may extend to six months or with fine which "I have instructed the may extend to Rs.1000/- or with both……………………………….. " Pathania, Dr Vinay Kumar and Dr Rekha from Bagla and Nisha, CUJ President Anubhav Sharma, Naina Anybody having grievance in this behalf may approach the nearest Agriculture Produce Market Committee or Shreedharan. They appreciated the Harsimerpreet from TAB. Conslation Dogra (State Executive Member), sanitation department to see the Director Horticulture Planning & Marketing Department J&K Government. Sd/- skills of the students as well as prize winners were Gurmeet, Nikita, Mishika, Simran,Bhawani, Sahil, if there is any such (M.A. Qadie) KAS No:- DHAM/201/APMC/2017 DIRECTOR welcomed the initiative of ABVP for Muskaan, Aashima and Sunnia. After Muskaan, Pritika, Kavya were also collection in our pipes," he Dt:- 09-10-2017 Agricultural Marketing J&K, organising such programme for this ABVP karyakartas also wished all present on the occasion. added.(Agencies) DIP/J-6305/17 Jammu the northlines 4 HILL DISTRICT Jammu | Monday | October 16 | 2017 SVSC organizes Rangoli Competition Police-Public meet held

NL CORRESPONDENT NL CORRESPONDENT such kind of programme is to , OCT 15 RAJOURI, OCT 15 boost the level of competition in the minds of With an aim to strengthen To inculcate the spirit of students. He further added competition within the relationship with public and that we would continue to students, SVS Degree also to establish first hand hold such kind of College for women organises contact with masses, Rajouri competitions in our college Rangoli Competition at its police today convened a premises on Saturday. SVS in future too. The dignitaries police-public interaction Degree College, Sunderbani, present on the occasion were meeting at Chatyar police SVS Paramedical college, Shamshid Ahmed, Principal, post in which people from Sunderbani, Tariq College of SVS Degree College for Chatyar, Doongi, Agrati, Education and SVS Degree Women, Palvi Bali, Keri, Sarol, Kallar and other College for Women, Rajouri Dr. Poonam, Principal, SVS Speaking on the occasion, Principal, New Era Public villages participated. participated in this Paramedical College, Dr.Shamshid, Principal, SVS School, Rajouri, Amandeep Meeting was convened on Officer Rajouri, Ajay Chib on local routes, lengthy shortage of drinking water. competition. In the contest, Sunderbani was the Chief Degree College for Women Anand, Principal, Tariq the directions of SSP Rajouri and Chatyar Chingus Police process of availing character In his address, DySP Hqrs Tariq College won first prize, Guest on the occasion and said that this type of inter college of Education, D.K Yougal Manhas and was Post Incharge SI Fareed certificates, dilapidated Jaswant Singh assured that SVS Women College won Shakti Bala, Raja Ram and college competition was first Sopori, Principal, SVS chaired by Deputy Ahmed. Locals of the area, conditions of link roads, their demands will be second prize and SVS Rajiv Sharma were of its kind in the colleges of Degree College, Sunderbani Superintendent of Police, during the meeting, raised a non-availability of communicated to concerned Paramedical College designated as judges of the Rajouri and . besides staff members of Headquarters, Jaswant Singh number of issues including ambulance in PHC Chatyar departments and will also be sunderbani got third prize. competition. The main motive to organize concerned colleges. alongwith Station House problem of public transport and demanded upgradtion of out before district Police Post Chingus to administration for redressal. Police Station Chingus He also asked them to keep ST Status for Paharies ultimate goal: JKPJF IRDP felicitates Dr Balwan with because of vast area under cooperating police as in past its so that peaceful atmosphere NL CORRESPONDENT campaign to aware members and if their demand of Research Excellence Award jurisdiction. Locals also in this entire border belt is RAJOURI, OCT 15 of Pahari community reservation is neglected then highlighted the problem of maintained. regarding their rights. "Youth govt should get ready to face NL CORRESPONDENT J&K Pahari Joint Front activist, Aquib Wani said, it's consequences in next DODA, OCT 15 (JKPJF) organized a press Health Dept clarifies "Successive governments Assembly elections." Rafi conference at Dak Dr. Wahied Khawar Balwan, have always exploited Pahari Malik another youth activist Bungalow, Rajouri today Sr. Assistant Professor of allegation of 'undue charges' Community in the name of said, "I appeal members of with the aim to introduce Zoology has been felicitated Pahari community to NL CORRESPONDENT for treatment. In all other with "Teaching and Research RAJOURI, OCT 15 participate in upcoming cases, the family of the Excellence Award" by signature campaign in patient has to bear the Innovative Research Medical Superintendent favor of ST status which is shifting charges. Developers and Publishers District Hospital Rajouri He informed that the State going to be organized (IRDP), during the Dr Mehmood Hussain Health Transport Authority within next few National symposium on Bajjar today issued a days."Amir Khan along Education Excellence at clarification regarding the while taking into account with Mustafa Khan, & Chennai organized by IRDP allegations of charging Rs the mileage of ambulances Touseef Khan present group of Journals. 2700 by ambulance driver has fixed Rs 2700 as during press conference He was presented the award Principal, Govt. Arts and this kind of award. The while shifting border shifting charges from warned govt of dire for an outstanding Science College, Chennai; purpose of the award shelling injured from the Rajouri to Jammu. people with aims & reservation but it has been consequences if they are failed excellence and remarkable Dr. Prantosh Paul, Director ceremony was to recognize DH Rajouri to GMC&H He further informed that in objectives of newly more than 3 decades that no to fulfill longest pending of achievements in the field of Computer Science, Madras honour and encourage the Jammu. the said case, ambulance constituted organization. development is visible in this reservation. Another youth, teaching, research and University and Dr. Aneesh experts from various field of In a written driver charged from the Speaking during press regard." Sayed Shadab Shah Ishtiaq Ahmed & Abdul publications by Thiru Justice kumar Director IRDP. higher education. The award communication, the girl family Rs 2700 as shifting conference, Tazeem Dar Pahari Youth Activist said, Rehman appealed Pahari S. Rajes waran, High Court It is pertinent to mention includes gold medal, was critically injured charges, as per the said, "we are going to "Every government has community to wake up for of Madras, Chennai; Dr. C. here that Dr. Balwan was certificate and crafted yesterday in cross border established norms and only from J and K to receive memento. organize a signature deceived Pahari community their rights before it's too late. Jothi Venkateswaran shelling in Mendhar and nothing has been done in was rushed to District contravention of any 11 kanals encroached Hospital Rajouri and later guidelines. 'Rs 850 cr projects initiated in Darhal shifted to GMC & H Pertinently, soon after the land retrieved Jammu for further reports of said allegations treatment. appeared in some sections RAJOURI, OCT 15 Constituency during past 30 months' He said that for cases under of social media, the Deputy Continuing crackdown against the encroachment Janani Shishu Suraksha Commissioner Rajouri of state land, district authorities today removed NL CORRESPONDENT Government. ''We were even completed soon and it will locals and raise their income. Yojana, there is provision directed the Additional JAMMU TAWI, OCT 15 encroachment on 11 kanal land during separate not given Rs 500 crore from change the fate of farmers and The Minister said that the of free transport for DDC to enquire into the drives. 1947 to 2015 but in less than people of the area. long pending demand for shifting a patient to Jammu matter. On the direction of Deputy Commissioner Rajouri, 3 years, we got more than Rs Expressing pleasure over release of funds for Darhal - a team headed by Assistant Commissioner Terming Development as 850 crores worth projects'', sanctioning of Medical Prori Road has been met by Distt admin team visits Revenue Rajouri Abdul Qayoom Mir, Police and priority of State Government, Zulfkar said adding that this College in the area, Zulfkar releasing Rs 35 Crore for the officials of Public Works Department removed the Minister for Food, Civil shows the commitment of said that Government Medical project. He said that Ujhan encroachment on 2.5 kanal land at Dhandkote. Supplies, Consumer Affairs shelling affected areas government led by Mehbooba College at Mehra was a dream Bridge was under construction The encroached land had stalled the construction and Information Department, Mufti for developing ruler project and the same will be for last 4 decades but there work of Dhandkote-Soukadgali road for past some NL CORRESPONDENT Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali has realized soon. He said that was meager funding for the Panday, SDM Mendhar, years. In another case, 8.5 kanal encroached land areas which remained POONCH, OCT 15 said that Rs 850 crore Government has released Rs project. He said that he has Rahul Yadav, and others, of Government Middle School Ujjan was retrieved neglected in past. developmental projects have 200 crore for the project and visited shelling village from the illegal possession of locals by joint efforts Listing major projects, now brought Rs 16 Crore for A district administration been started in Darhal the work is in progress. He Sandhote met with of officials of Revenue, Police and Education Zulfkar said that during 2014 the project which is nearing team led by Deputy Assembly Constituency in said that government was Mohammad Nasib the Departments. The land will be used for election campaign, he briefed completion. Thanking Chief Commissioner Poonch, past 30 months while some developing Baba Ghulam father of three children construction of play ground and upgrading of former Chief Minister Mufti Minister for Tariq Ahmad Zargar, today more are in pipe line. Shah Badshah Eco Park at injured in LoC shelling. school infrastructure. The fencing work on the land Mohammad Sayeed about the liberal funding, Zulfkar said visited shelling affected Addressing various Patli Qilla which will be one The DC handed over was started by the education department soon after importance of Anas Irrigation that development is the main areas to take the stock of delegations of people of of the best tourism spot in the Rupees ten thousand as getting the possession. DC, while informing about Canal project and after taking agenda of this government and damages to property and Darhal and Budhal here today, Pir panjal region. He interim relief and promised the issue of encroachment in the district, said that over as Chief Minister, in his government has proved it on assess the situation appreciated District for extending every State land at many prime locations has been Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali said first public address at ground. He added that some prevailing on the forward administration for expediting possible support to the illegally occupied or mutated to benefit some that he is happy that for the Kotranka he announced Rs more projects are in pipeline LoC areas of sub division work on this prestigious family in this hour of grief. private persons. He urged such persons to first time in history Darhal 100 crore funding for the which will change the fate of Mendhar. project. He said that this Park Meanwhile, deputy voluntarily vacate state land in the interest of the Constituency has received project. He said that this the people and improve their The team of officers will give employment to the commissioner directed the Public at large. liberal funding from dream project will be economic condition. including SSP Rajiv revenue officers to Nexus between Telecom Co's, Govt agencies immediately process the DC takes stock of people's problems case of victims for further relief. It is pertinent to mention detrimental for Bhaderwah-Chamba road NL CORRESPONDENT NFSA keeping in view the meant for the uplift of the KISHTWAR, OCT 15 here that three children of limited cropping season of poor masses to organize MOHD MAJID MALIK then destroying them. There Mohammad Nasib were the area , early payment of awareness camps at BHADERWAH, OCT 14 is no urban planning," said District Development injured last night, one of land compensation, old age Gulabgarh Padder. sources, while pointing Commissioner Kishtwar them seriously, when pension, augmentation of Certain innovative There is the prohibition of towards condition of Angrez Singh Rana today mortar shells exploded near electric and water supply suggestions regarding the using JCB in digging by the Bhaderwah Chamba road. called upon public to his house. Seriously injured schemes, clearance of wage improvement / development telecom companies Local residents alleged that cooperate with the Tahira Nasib age 15 years liabilities under NREGA, of Gulabargh were also contractors while the government agencies has departments in removing was shifted to Jammu for companies are using same failed to take action against maintenance of road given by the participants. advance treatment, while bottlenecks hampering network in the area The DDC assured that the on 49 km stretch of the telecom companies other two Tariq Nasib age developmental works. He including blacktopping of beautification of Gulabgarh Bhaderwah Chamba road contractors which have dug 14 years and Rafia Nasib also warned that law shall the Karthie-Gulabgarh which includes under the nose of local roads by JCB to lay the age 10 years with minor take its own course against stretch of Galhar-Sansari illuminations from Entry administration and R&B cables and have left them injuries were discharged the persons involved in Road. gate to Helipad, parking without facing any that the company contractor they felt helpless to see the unrepaired. "We are after first-aid. causing hindrances in the Rana passed on spot yards, and parks shall be action.Sources termed the carried out the digging at destruction. However, when appealing PWD Minster for Later, the team of officers smooth execution of the directions to the concerned completed before the unholy nexus of Private night on roads to avoid it comes to repairs, the the intervention so that the also visited to other Telecom companies and getting caught and after government agencies never important Bhaderwah works. officers to resolve the issues commencement of coming shelling affected areas R&B officers detrimental to laying the cables, fill the dug follow the rules. Also, the Chamba and Bani roads may He was speaking at a public on priority basis and assured Machail Yatra. He said that Drana, Basooni, Balakote condition of Bhaderwah up area with rubbles and telecom companies are the be saved from destruction" meeting here at Gulabgarh the public that the matters besides pilgrim tourism to get appraisal from the Chamba and Bani road and leave and said If they are worst offenders. In other they said. It is worthwhile to (Padder) to get firsthand which do not come under the Gulabgarh will also be local regarding damages to alleged that the black toped working for the betterment cities, the civic bodies have mention here that to appraisal of the compliance of the DDC developed as base camp for Bhaderwah Chamba road is of area the company and created permanent minimize the damage to the developmental scenario in would be taken up with the the trackers. DDC also properties & livestock due being dug by JCBs giving an government agencies should underground ducts alongside existing infrastructure, the area and to have direct higher authorities. informed the public that two to heavy cross border ugly look to the newly work under the ambit of law roads for laying cables, but it reportedly government has interaction with the local The DDC directed the mega Hydro Electric shelling during the repaired and constructed as they had no authorisation hasn't been considered in put a blanket ban on digging residents about the problem officers of KVIB , Projects Karthie Ist and intervening night. road. "The drain like to dig up a road with Bhaderwah and Doda roads. of motor able roads with they face in day to day life. Handicraft Handloom, Karthie IInd are under the Zargar, asked the officers structure formed due to machinery and JCBs . This "There is some inherent machines to lay underground The Public of the area Social Welfare Sheep/ active consideration of the to keep close eye on the digging has made the roads in turn damages the road. problem in our system which cables and this stretch has demanded filling vacant Animal Husbandry, Labour, Govt. for which committee situation and maintain close accident prone and threat for Many residents said they does not want to see clear been recently upgraded after posts in various Horticulture, Agriculture - on environmental clearances liaison with locals for the passengers," sources feel bad when clean roads roads. They are happy in spending Rs 80 crore under departments, enhancement the departments directly is meeting on21st of October tackling the situation in alleged. Sources informed were dug using a JCB and first constructing these and Central Road Fund (CRF). in the scale of ration under involved with the schemes 2017. case of any eventuality. the northlines 5 Jammu | Monday| October 16 | 2017 Diwali arrangements reviewed 'Upgrading connectivity Govt's top agenda' DIC organizes slogan NL CORRESPONDENT is no alternate for KM stretch from Kamala to NL CORRESPONDENT Kerosene Oil and ration to directed the officials of SAMBA, OCT 15 development of an area. Radha Swami Ashram to be He called upon locals to be completed at Rs 40 Lakh writing competition KATHUA, OCT 15 far off places, regulation of Health and Local Bodies Minister for industries and part of development process under City and Town traffic, adequate stock of life department to take NL CORRESPONDENT India' from 9th -14th commerce, Chander Parkash by keeping close eye on development program, on Deputy Chief Minister, Dr. saving drugs at Hospitals preventive measures KATHUA, OCT 15 October 2017. Ganga today reiterated that quality of work and material Length 400 Mtr Rara village Nirmal Singh today advised and PHCs, sufficient including fogging in high The school staff, teachers upgrading and expansion of uses. "We will not waste a Link road involving a cost of District Information Centre and students of participating the officers to motivate strength of Doctors and Para risk areas. surface connectivity was on single moment to take action Rs 5 Lakh and construction people to associate the Medic staff and deployment The meeting was attended Kathua organized a slogan- schools were present at the top of government's if any complaint of poor of 300 M Deep Drain at writing competition on the event. In all, 10 students celebration of Diwali of ambulances during the by SSP Kathua, Suleman development agenda as road quality work is received Village Barota Camp at a culmination of the Beti from different schools festival with cleanliness and festival days. Choudhary, ACR, ACD, connectivity is a key to from the public" he assured cost of Rs 6 lakh. Bachao Beti Padhao Week participated in the sanitation campaign as this He directed SSP Kathua to Chief Education Officer, AD overall development. the locals. He said The Minister was here at New Mahavir Vidya competition. festival has special constitute teams to keep Fire and Emergency Interacting with the people development targets can be accompanied by ACD High school, Govindsar. Shobha of Learning Temple significance in people's check on anti social after launching blacktopping achieved only through Samba Sushil Kumar Atri, Services, Tehsildar, CEO The slogan writing School bagged first prize lives. activities during the and other works at three proactive, transparent and Xen PDD Ashok Gupta, MC Kathua, Executive competition was organized and Aarti Kumari of New The Deputy Chief Minister celebration. places here, he said good governance with the Tehsildar Ramgarh Raman as part of activities Mahavir Vidya School was Officers of Municipalities was speaking at a meeting of Earlier, ADC Kathua, government has formulated a due cooperation of people. Chalotra, BDO Ramgarh undertaken by DIC Kathua adjudged as second, while and Engineers of PDD, comprehensive plan for The Minister launched officers of Rishpal Singh apprised the Mukesh Kumar, AEE PHE to observe 'Beti Bachao Beti the third position went to Ms upgrading all roads as there blacktopping work on 1.50 convened to discuss the Minister about preparedness PWD. PWD and PDD and SDPO Padhao' week on the theme Neha Satwal of R.S Golden arrangement being made in being made by the District Vijaypur. of 'The daughters of new School. connection with the Administration in case there UMEED organizes awareness rally celebrations of Diwali was any attempt from across LMD recovers Rs 40600 as penalty festival. the border during the festival Program Manager and The Dy CM reviewed the season. Archana Kumari Cluster NL CORRESPONDENT adjoining areas. The Departmental team Coordinator Block Ghagwal. SAMBA, OCT 15 During inspection, more arrangements made for Later, the Dy CM also urged all the traders to use According to the report, all than 90 traders dealing in only Weights and Measures security, maintenance of law reviewed the progress of the service help group A team of Legal Metrology different trades were duly verified and and order, traffic regulation, works taken up under R- members were took Department today launched inspected for their authenticated by the Legal installation of cracker stalls, APDRP, IPDS, PMDP and participated in the awareness a special drive ahead of compliance to the provisions Metrology Department and drinking water and power DDUGJY schemes. rally. The rally started from Diwali festival and charged of J&K Standard of Weights ensure that Maximum Retail supply, sanitation, medicare, MLA Kathua, Rajeev Baba Chamliyal temple and Rs 40600 fine from traders and Measures Enforcement Price (MRP),Date of checking of quality and price Jasrotia sought passing through several for violation of various Act 2011 and Packages NL CORRESPONDENT (UMEED) at Baba packing(PKD), Net Contents of eatables and deployment establishment of cattle farm villages and clean the norms. The team conducted Commodities Rules. SAMBA, OCT 15 Chamliyal in Ramgarh and complete address of the of fire tenders. at Kathua for increasing surroundings areas of village extensive checking of The team booked 09 erring sector in district samba Manufacturer/Packer and Chamliyal and highlighted business establishments traders including sweet Dy CM laid special number of stray animals in An awareness rally was under Swachhata Pakhwada Customer care Number have the importance of Swachhta particularly Sweets shops, shops, Provisional stores, emphasis on quality and the town. He also raised organised by the Jammu and here today. been declared on the Pakhwada. During the rally a Provisional stores, Dry fruit Karayana Shops and regulation of rates of concern over rising number Kashmir State Rural The program organized Commodities to be sold in colorful placards with shops, Hardware and Hardware /Sanitary stores eatables, adequate supply of of Dengue patients and livelihoods Mission under the supervision block package form. The slogans and messages were Cement stores, Bartan shops, dealing with the Weights and Department also appealed displayed by the people to and Bakery shops at main Measures and charged a the traders not to charge spread the awareness of Bazar Samba, Vijaypur, Bari penalty of Rs 40600 from Minister launches black-topping work more than MRP declared on cleanliness among the Brahamana, Nud and them. the Product. the administration and going projects in a time masses. Later the Self project their developmental bound manner.He issued Helping Group members demands in a systematic way instructions to the concerned were also organized a Dy CM inaugurates Diwali Mela so that these are attended on officers to ensure quality of cleanliness drive at Baba Chamliyal Dargah and clean priority. He said work strictly as per the NL CORRESPONDENT liberty, property, human phone line for J&K Police inside and outside the area of Government agencies are specifications, adding that JAMMU, OCT 15 rights and dignity of the Personnel. Baba Chamliyal.Among closely monitoring the no compromise with the public. Deputy Chief Later, Dr Nirmal Singh other those present on this developmental process in all quality will be tolerated and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Minister congratulated the along with the DGP and occasion including Jyoti areas and locals should assist any complaint to this effect Nirmal Singh today organizers and said such other dignitaries, went devi, Asha, Samriti, Anil and inaugurated two-day Diwali events provide police around the stalls put up by them to complete the on- shall be dealt with strictly. Suman. Mela being organized by personnel a break from the Police Establishment Jammu and Kashmir Police monotonous routine and Centres and others. 'Govt focused on JK's holistic development' Wives Welfare Association create positive and happy The Mela was attended by a state, the Speaker called (PWWA) here at Gulshan environment as well as large number of people from upon the people to actively Ground.It for the first time strengthening police-public all walks of life. They participate in the Jammu and Kashmir Police relationship. Meanwhile, showed great enthusiasm in NL CORRESPONDENT formation of the present have organized a Diwali Deputy Chief Minister in purchasing goods kept for JAMMU, OCT 15 Government, the focused development process to reap the fruitful outcome. Mela at such a grand scale. presence of DGP, Chairman sale at the stalls, food of attention has been given to The aim of the event is to J&K Bank and other various kinds and varied Maintaining the momentum the upgradation of road Meanwhile, the locals expressed their gratitude to provide officers and their dignitaries launched JK cultural presentations. of strengthening the road infrastructure in all areas and families the opportunity to Bank Loan on Phone app for Among others, the Inaugural NL CORRESPONDENT constituency" he said. the Speaker for taking up infrastructure in Raipur- more than 150 kms link socialize on such festivities. JK Police personnel. Function was attended by JAMMU, OCT 15 The Speaker gave a patient their demands of on priority Domana segment, Minister roads have been The Chairperson, Jammu Dy CM was briefed about Inspectors General of Police hearing to the issues put and executing various for Health & Medical upgraded/black-topped in and Kashmir Police Wives the "Loan on Phone" facility and other senior serving and Speaker Jammu & Kashmir forth by the locals pertaining developmental works in the Education, Bali Bhagat Raipur,Domana constituency Welfare Association, Bharti through mPay /dedicated retired Police officers. Legislative Assembly, to augmentation of PDD and area.The Speaker said that launched the block-topping alone. He said that a Vaid, women members of Kavinder Gupta today said PHE infrastructure besides more such public meetings work at Panchayat Hakkal comprehensive plan has the Association, Director that the Government was improving the drainage would be held to strengthen In the court of Judicial Magistrate 1st with an estimated cost of Rs. been devised to upgrade the General of Police, Dr S P focused on development of systems in the colony. The 1.04 crore near here today. entire road network in the agenda of participatory Vaid, Chairman J&K Bank The black-topping on 3-km Raipur-Domana in a phased every part of the state, Speaker assured them to governance. Senior Class (Addl. Munsiff), Samba particularly upgrading of resolve their issues on Parvez Ahmed were present road stretch was an manner and work is in functionaries of concerned on the occasion. Present : Shabnam Sheikh basic amenities and raising priority and issued on spot Paras Ram S/O Karam Chand R/o Dug Channi Fatwal Teh Ramgarh outstanding demand of the progress accordingly. departments, Senior After inaugurating the Mela, locals that has been fulfilled Maintaining that socio-economic status of instructions to the concerned Politician Baldev Baloria Distt. Samba Dr Nirmal Singh paid Vs after a long gap will benefit Government is committed to people. He was speaking at a officers for immediate besides prominent citizens public meeting organized to redress of their problems. tributes to the police martyrs Incharge Police Station Ramgarh Panchayat Hakkal along the overall development of of the areas were present on listen to the demands of Listing the developmental who laid down their life In the matter of with half a dozen villages the State with special focus the occasion.Later, the Application for Registration of birth/death of:- residents of Meenia colony initiatives initiated in the while safeguarding the connecting the area. in rural areas, the Minister Speaker distributed free gas people and maintaining law- Karam Chand (male) D.O.D. 30-03-1981 at home and review the status of Gandhi Nagar constituency, father's Name: Hari Chand Speaking on the occasion, said that during the past connections among the and-order in the state. the Minister said that road development works being the Speaker said besides NOTICE TO GENERAL PUBLIC three years the pace of women beneficiaries at Crediting Jammu and Whereas, an application stand filed in this court for registration of connectivity is key to the executed in the area. development focus is also development has picked up "Since people are ultimate being laid on efficient Gangyal. He urged the Kashmir Police for ensuring death of father Karam Chand S/o Hari Chand R/o Dug Channi Fatwal development of people, and substantially and people can beneficiaries of the service delivery and good people to take benefits of peace in the state by offering Teh Ramgarh Distt. Samba, in Police Station Ramgarh and through Government has accorded the medium of this publication notice at large and any other see the change on ground. government policies, our governance Emphasizing on various welfare schemes supreme sacrifices, Dr priority to this important interested person is/ are informed that in case anybody has any He asked the people to focus is on the holistic collaborative efforts for all- launched by the state and Nirmal Singh said police sector. He said right after the objection in respect of aforementioned application then he/she/they maintain close liaison with development of every round development of the central government for the administration plays pivotal shall file their objections in this court within 7 days from the date of uplift of their socio role in upholding and publication of notice, failing which appropriate order shall follow. economic status. enforcing law to protect life, Given under my hand and seal of this court today 14th day of Ganga inaugurates folk dance festival October 2017 DIC organizes Dogri Mushaira presented their creative Samba Shikhi Sambyal, who Addl. Munsiff, works. Speaking on the won accolades for getting NL CORRESPONDENT eighth schedule of the Indian (Judicial Magistrate Ist Class Samba) occasion, Minister first award from PM in SAMBA, OCT 15 Constitution. Parbhakar appreciated the massive 'Beti national level essay writing The literary events were Bachao Beti Padhao' competition on the topic District Information Centre, organised with the objective In the court of Judicial Magistrate 1st campaign launched by the 'Swachta hi Sewa', was also Samba organized Dogri of providing stage to local District administration. He felicitated on the occasion. Mushiaras here at Govt Hr poets and to promote the Class (Addl. Munsiff), Samba said that IEC activities being Shoba Devi, Sakshi Devi and Sec School Gho Brahmana local language. undertaken for promoting Preeti Devi were also and Govt Middle School The poetry recitation was Present : Shabnam Sheikh girl empowerment and felicitated for excelling in Gadwal of Vijaypur. followed by a healthy Hans Raj S/O Karam Chand R/o Dug Channi Fatwal Teh Ramgarh NL CORRESPONDENT Magotra, ADC Tilak Raj Distt. Samba education are clearly visible various fields. Renowned and young poets interaction among young Vs SAMBA, OCT 15 Sharma, Additional throughout the district. He The 'Beti Bachao Beti recited their poems poets with senior Incharge Police Station Ramgarh Secretary JKAACL said that enabling of female Padhao' week celebrated by highlighting social issues counterparts. In the matter of The Minister for Industries Amrinder Singh Aman , child can change mindset of District Administration saw and importance of The poets appreciated the Application for Registration of birth/death of:- and Commerce, Chander DSWO Mushtaq Choudhary, society so that instead of massive participation of conserving Culture and initiative of the department Hari Chand (male) D.O.D. 10-05-1975 at home father's Name: Devia Parkash inaugurated Folk EO Samba Jodh Raj and considering them as burden, students, employees and Language. and said that more such Dance festival on concluding senior officials from District Toti Devi (Female) D.O.D. 10-06-1978 at home they are held in high esteem. general public. The poets Ajit pal Sharma, programmes should be Husband's Name : Hari Chand day of 'Beti Bachao Beti administration.The artists The MLA Samba stressed Earlier, a sensitization Ajay Slathia , Naresh Kumar organized in near future to NOTICE TO GENERAL PUBLIC Padhao Week' here at from JKAACL presented upon sensitization at the programme was organized at ,Basakhi Ram, Satya Paul promote local languages. Whereas, an application stand filed in this court for registration of historic Samba Fort. colorful folk dances and death of grandparents Hari Chand S/o Devia & Toti Devi W/o Hari ground level in rural areas ICDS Project Ghagwal in Gadwalia , Neelam Principal Govt Hr Sec The festival was organized enthralled the audiences by and regular monitoring of Chand both R/o Dug Channi Fatwal Teh Ramgarh Distt. Samba, in which mothers of newly Gandotra , Sat paul , Jasbir School Gho Brahmana, Ram Police Station Ramgarh and through the medium of this publication by District Administration in their performances. The folk the campaign by the born female girls were Kumar and Surjeet Kumar Swaroop Sharma, Head notice at large and any other interested person is/ are informed that in collaboration with Jammu groups led by Sanjeev respective officers. He presented their poetry with felicitated by SDM, Narayan Master Govt High School case anybody has any objection in respect of aforementioned and Kashmir Academy of Kumar, Sachin Katal, Buia emphasised upon better great perfection and won application then he/she/they shall file their objections in this court Dutt Sharma and CDPO Gadwal, Neelam Kumari Sr. Art, Culture and Languages. Ditta, Charan dass, Bishan coordination between ICDS great applause from the within 7 days from the date of publication of notice, failing which Cultural Assistant Balbir appropriate order shall follow. The Minister was Dass, Ajit Paul Sharma, Des and Health department Ajay Sharma. The ICDS audience. They stressed on accompanied by MLA Raj ,Satinder Kumar parties functionaries were also Singh, school staff and Given under my hand and seal of this court today 14th day of asserting that Asha, standardizing the language October 2017 Samba Dr Devinder Kumar presented the dances. Dogri Anganwadi and FMPH shown 'Dangal ' movie and promoting its use as it prominent citizens were Manyal, DDC Samba women poets Sunita Padwal workers has a pivotal role in promoting female has also been given due present in these Addl. Munsiff, Sheetal Nanda, SSP Anil and Usha kiran also the campaign. Daughter of empowerment. official recognition in the programmes. (Judicial Magistrate Ist Class Samba) Parbhakar the northlines 6 OPINION Jammu | Monday | Oct | 16 | 2017 The Politics of Fake News and WhatsApp Forwards Those who live without doors

AMIT MEHRA Most of us just put such mails and the poorest amongst us The erstwhile Chinese understand our reality today is in spam or phishing folders have been victims. The most whispers, rumour mongering a world divided on political, when we receive them or block powerful and most common has now been institutionalised religious, social lines, but this his is a Frankenstein's numbers, WhatsApp messages, powerless individuals have as fake news and the is an issue on which we must monster that will social media accounts, etc. been victims of gullibility. WhatsApp industry. come together. 'Tengulf us all in its rage However, there are still many Today, it has taken a dangerous I understand there are many The alternative is far too dark and greed.' gullible people amongst us who mass gullibility epidemic turn. Web sites, blogs, perhaps and far too dangerous for all 'This fake news/WhatsApp are victims of these scams. I knew then that it was a matter companies, which create such our nations. forwards industry -- and The mythical Mr Natwarlal has of time when this gullibility fake content to serve their Fake news and WhatsApp especially, the use of it in become mass mailing and was exploited for other types of political customers whoever forwards, especially employed politics -- is one of the biggest social media fraud. benefits. they might be. in politics, makes our world threats to our world today,' During the late 1990s, up to the The sudden and phenomenal No aspect of our life is safe vulnerable, weakens our warns Amit Mehra. first decade of the 2000s, even growth of apps like WhatsApp, from this fake industry, but I systems, erodes our faith, our The politics of fake news and as Nigerian scam cases social media like blogs, am going to limit this article to trust in long held institutions. fake WhatsApp forwards emerged, these fake email Facebook, Twitter, etc, have politics as it concerns all of us We can't go back to uncivilised originate from Nigerian scam scams did not stop. paved the way for new types of anywhere in the world. ways. We need politicians, emails. They evolved, diversified, to crimes and before we knew it, The people who create such political parties and political Our gullibility has no include fake SMS texts and came the dawn of fake news content are nothing less than systems, but we need them to boundaries, unlike our nations. whatever media was available politics. criminals. While some of us be built on truth, facts and It was in the mid 1990s that I to these criminals. The Nigerian scams were to may think of them as people honesty. first noticed these emails of I have known many cases extract money. Fake news or creating funny or non serious Today, more than any time, we lottery win scams. Typically, where many enterprising WhatsApp forwards as a tool of content, it is not that. need to be aware and fight this KISHORE SINGH children would occasionally mosquito netting, but in the the message would read, 'You criminals tried to recreate such communicating in politics have It is a crime because it leads to menace with all our might. call out to us, stopping to winter the ground under their have won a lottery of millions scams in real life situations. I far more dangerous influencing how people are This is a bipartisan issue. here was no TV, no fondle the dog, or try and lift mattresses must have been of dollars' or a pot of gold. have been a witness to one such connotations. informed or rather misinformed Irrespective of who started it, 'Contact us with your scam which almost conned It is unbelievable how and hence wrongly respond to who benefits now, who benefits fridge, just him in the air -- they usually freezing. information so that we can someone very close to me a educated, intelligent, street serious issues. in the future, we will all be 'Tillumination, so at failed, for though they were As the house neared transfer it to you'. few years ago. smart people amongst us, even When the facts come out -- as victims in the end. least they could avoid the the same size, the dog was completion, the fittings Over the years, the content got He is a well placed, sharply today, in the age of the truth always and eventually No good can come out of this. occasional snake, the heavier. began to arrive along with innovative and elaborate. intelligent, individual who has information, become gullible does -- the victims pay dearly, I expect each one of you frequent scorpions,' says Mostly, servants walked the marble for the floors and I found these mails amusing held very senior and and fall for fake news and but in the case of politics, the reading this, irrespective of Kishore Singh. other dogs, and they ignored glazing for the windows. initially, but later started responsible jobs all his life. WhatsApp forwards. whole nation pays too. your political leanings or Two summers ago, past the the rabble of construction At least then, the workers reading about criminal cases Luckily for him, he chose to Most of the fake news scams Also, the issue loses credibility. country to help me create park where we sometimes workers and their families. could move in should the rain that told me that many amongst involve me in dealing with this are so easy to verify thanks to Be it corruption or communal awareness about this epidemic. walk, work began on a In the evening, music played be unceasing and flood the us, the world over, were falling businessman who we later Google and so many official violence or racism or gender It affects us all. house. on their mobile phones. roads -- which was more for these obvious scams. discovered was a conman. I Web sites, data, and so many equality, global warming, all Copy paste my words or tweet, First, there was the When an electricity often than not, the drainage You do a little research and you was able to sense the scam experts in every field available, issues have been targeted by share, post your own if you groundbreaking ceremony connection was obtained for system choked with will be shocked to know how immediately. accessible to almost all of us. this fake news industry. don't wish to use my words, or followed by a thanksgiving the under-construction construction debris and many amongst us, including And when I started asking So many people have been We must come together in a share my article or my name. party in another empty plot house, a line was pulled in to garden refuse. tough questions, the conman saved from hardships, bipartisan way and protest this No problem, but do create educated folk, were victims of opposite it. electrify the shabby cluster It was evident that they had got angry and left immediately. embarrassment and financial strongly and demand action awareness regarding the harm Nigerian fake email scams. We saw garlands and of makeshift homes, but, of begun to use the facilities of I am not getting into data The person, who was saved by loss thanks to these tools. against such criminal and of fake news and fake discarded decorations and course, there was no TV, no the bathrooms they had built, because I wish to make a larger my tough questioning, initially However, many of us continue dangerous activities, which are WhatsApp forwards. thrown scraps of catered fridge, just illumination, so though they tried to remove and more important point. I got angry with me and thought to be victims of our gullibility. fast getting social acceptability. Most importantly, please stop was brought up in a time when I had spoilt his chances of Sadly, some even knowingly. Whatever are the benefits are believing in any news, message food among which the strays at least they could avoid the any evidence before the we could discuss social issues making pots of easy money. Some of us know they are fake, short lived and whoever they you read wherever without first foraged, appearing like occasional snake, the arrival of the supervisor, or without having to validate each Since that person was close to but we still forward, share fake benefit are also not immune to verifying it from reliable foolish grooms when frequent scorpions. the owners, who came only and every aspect of our concern me, I requested someone I news, WhatsApp forwards it. sources. marigold petals stuck to their Over time, as the dog and the sporadically. with diagrams and data. knew to investigate the because it supports our political This is a Frankenstein's It is not that difficult. All it coats. urchins became friends, they When the landscapist arrived I believe even today, we don't lucrative 'business offer' further views or objectives with no monster that will engulf us all takes is a few seconds. There As the family's designated would sometimes save him a to lay the gardens, they were need data to tell us that we need and into the conman's claims. accountability. in its rage and greed. are many fact check Web sites 'walker of the dog' who treat -- a biscuit hoarded forced to move further away, to save ourselves from dangers This friend returned with fact Please note this is happening This fake news/WhatsApp today. Call a few friends you preferred the route over from a sibling's precious or indoors -- at any rate, I like global warming, checks that proved I was right. across the spectrum. No one forwards industry -- and trust if you are not Internet or others, I saw the ground stock, which I allowed them rarely spotted the kids any communal hate, terrorism, It was a total con. political set can be blamed for especially, the use of it in research savvy. being cleared, little tents for to feed the pooch even more, and I could sense the violence against women, I have not shared names or the it alone. politics -- is one of the biggest And for God's sake, please stop workers spring up, and though he has gluten allergy. dog missed his friends. prejudice, racism, casteism, nature of the con as I do not I have observed this enough to threats to our world and sharing such. bricks, sand, cement and The dog wagged his tail Then, just as suddenly, they etc. wish to derail the point I am be objective and the purpose of democracies today. Hold yourself responsible as a metal rods appeared on the whenever he saw them, and were gone, replaced by the This is one issue that threatens making in this article, which is this article will fail if we use it And by allowing it to exist, we citizen. Even if no one knows site. would tug at the leash should owners. a clear and present danger. Far to pin blame on any one are arming evil anti-national that you did it, you will. to dwarf even such big evils The seasons changed and I wish to change his walking It has been a month now, and more sinister and bigger than political side irrespective of forces to use it as a weapon If tomorrow our nations suffer, that exist in our societies the slowly the house began to route: He preferred the path as I walk past the house, I see world over. what these small time conmen how we feel. against our political systems, you will know you too were take shape, floor by floor. he'd gotten used to, and had cars in the driveway, lights There were and still are so were doing in the early part of Facts are facts. They can't be societies and countries. part of the problem. Meanwhile, in the tiny tented his friends to cheer him blazing from windows, and a many of us who are fooled due this century. manipulated by our personal Most importantly, fake news We need to believe in the to our gullibility. The cost of Gullibility comes from the feelings. and WhatsApp forwards are an system that serves us. habitation, a baby was born, along. semblance of habitation. executing these scams was and human desire to find a shortest Some believe fake news, epidemic that cannot be fought Think of your respective then another. Slightly older Meanwhile, I wondered how But of the inhabitants, I have still is negligible with no means line between two points. This is WhatsApp forwards because with by just education, nations first, your people first. children played in the sand. so many of them fit into the no idea, our new neighbours of tracing the sources. common in almost all human they want to. That, many times, awareness and laws. We need Today, this is not only our Mothers who worked by day, tiny huts, which had only preferring to stay indoors, Over the years, the cyber police beings and exists in different stems from faith or hate or all of that, but most patriotic duty, but our patriotic woke to light kindling in plastic sheets as protection leading us to miss those and technology have made measures. sensationalism and by sharing importantly, we need political priority. makeshift stoves over which against the monsoons. who'd built and lived some advances to mitigate the None of us are bereft of this such, they spread it too, will. they cooked their dal-bhat. In the summer, they slept on clandestinely in the house risks, but such scams continue. flaw. The richest amongst us knowingly or unknowingly. We need unity amongst us all. I Jai Hind! As the days passed, the the sidewalks, under before it had doors. How Pakistan is erasing Ahmadis from their own lands in the name of Allah

MEHR TARAR all others. November 21, 1996, and was buried in Bahishti Maqbara, an always does. It is about the blatant distortion of Mohammad Ali Jinnah's Ahmadi cemetery in Rabwah, Pakistan. In 2014, his grave Ahmadis are persecuted in the name of Allah, his prophet, hmadi Muslim. The two words I am not allowed to fight for a state for Muslims that was not based on was desecrated to remove the word "Muslim". The world whereas there are various hadith and narration of Prophet put together if I write for a publication in Pakistan, theological principles. It is about convoluting a just fight for still reveres him as the man who discovered the God particle. Muhammad's actions that challenge most theories that Aor speak on national television. Once, it was simply rights of Muslims into a monolith of bigotry that declares all The history of Ahmadi persecution is long and bloody. endorse such persecution. the details of the punishment meted out to Ahmadis for who are not Muslim as outsiders, pariahs in their homeland. Religious oppression is often a by-product, a side-effect, an "Whoever says, 'None has the right to be worshipped but practising Allah's name that I had listed - an ordinance of the It is about the audacity of holding a man-made decision of a auxiliary of political dynamics of hegemony, of controlling Allah', faces our Qibla [Mecca] during the prayers, prays Pakistan Penal Code and not my personal opinion - which constitutional amendment higher than a divine order. It is society, of the exploitation of masses. The protests and like us and eats our slaughtered animal, then he is a Muslim, were edited out from an op-ed I wrote for a national daily. about Pakistan being the country that is only for Muslims condemnations against the Ahmadi faith were the perfect and has got the same rights and obligations as other Muslims Another time, during a talk show on a leading news channel, despite weak protestations to the contrary. decoy to maintain the self-proclaimed position of the have." (Bukhari) One day, as Prophet Muhammad was my comments on the persecution of Ahmadis were not While Safdar's abominable remark attacking Ahmadis' guardian of Islam many political and religious leaders in sitting with few people, a man came to him and asked: "O bleeped out - the whole portion, in fact, was edited. Media patriotism - "...enemies of the finality of Prophet Pakistan had apportioned for themselves after the creation of Allah's Apostle, what is belief?" The Prophet said: "Belief is folks are scared. And justifiably so. Muhammad should not be inducted in armed forces and key Pakistan, which they insisted was made as a fortress of to believe in Allah, His Angels, His Books, His Apostles, Ahmadis are not Muslims, however, is a sentence that is posts... Ahmadis, Qadiyanis are enemies of the nation" - was Islam. and the meeting with Him, and to believe in the readily accepted as a declaration, a judgment and a verdict. repudiated in categorical words by Lt Gen Asif Ghafoor, DG The 1974 Second Amendment of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's Resurrection." The man asked: "O Allah's Apostle, what is It is a sentence against an entire community, an entire set of ISPR. Safdar's words, like the effects of a chemical attack on parliament sealed the fate of Ahmadis, thus labelling them Islam?" The Prophet replied: "Islam is to worship Allah and people, an entire set of beliefs, positioning the Ahmadi a hapless community, did deep damage. General Ghafoor non-Muslims in the Constitution. I cannot think of any not worship anything besides Him, to offer prayers perfectly, identity in an unchangeable box of rigidity and bigotry, said: "We are a Muslim-majority state but the white part of constitution in which the state decides who gets to be a to pay zakat and to fast the month of Ramadan." (Bukhari) marking them as the outsider in their society, finalising their our flag stresses that Pakistan is for all irrespective of one's Muslim, Jew, Christian, or Hindu. No country comes to Prophet Muhammad "repeatedly cautioned that judging isolation in their own country. Pakistan - cleaved from India sect or religion." Ghafoor also showed pictures of some of mind, notwithstanding its treatment of its "minorities" - the someone's truth or sincerity to their claim of Islam was a in 1947 in an effort to provide a new country for the the most important minority personalities in Pakistan. "They word I refuse to use for a smaller number of people of a prerogative of God alone". When the renowned general safeguarding of the rights of one particular group of Indians, work for Pakistan and not because they belong to a different particular faith in a country whose bigger number prays in a Khalid bin Waleed said to the prophet, "there were many that is Muslims - in 2017 has ensured that it is not a country sect or religion. They are all Pakistanis." different way. people who outwardly professed Islam while there was no for anyone who is not a Muslim, or is the "wrong" kind of a Safdar, during his speech/spewing of venom, called for In 1984, Ordinance XX, promulgated by General Zia-ul- faith in their heart," the latter simply responded: "I have not Muslim. "reversing the name of Professor Abdus Salam Centre for Haq's regime, ensured Ahmadis became not just "non- been commanded to pierce through the hearts of people, nor Faith is deeply personal. Faith is between an individual and Physics in Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad to its Muslims" and pariahs in their own country but also to split their bellies [to look what is inside them]." (Muslim) God. Faith connects human to the divine. And only God is to original name... If the name associated with Dr Abdus Salam criminals. They were legally prohibited to "practise Islam Another oft-recited incident is that of a Muslim killing a be the judge of the veracity, or lack thereof, of that Physics department is not changed, I will protest against it and the usage of Islamic terms and titles." It also made it non-Muslim during a battle, and that was after the man had connection. daily." illegal for Ahmadis to "recite the six Kalimas, the shahada recited the Kalima. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) on finding The white in Pakistan's flag, ostensibly there to establish the The response from the Quaid-e-Azam University was quick (declaring belief in the oneness of God and the prophethood out became angry. The soldier's words were "O Messenger existence of "minorities", is so deeply discoloured that no and courageous, like the sentiments of millions of Pakistanis of Muhammad), from building mosques, calling the azaan, of Allah, that man read the Kalima merely to protect himself amount of empty words and all-Pakistanis-are-equal rhetoric who reacted against Safdar's callous words. "We strongly undertaking Muslim modes of worship, worshipping in non- from our sword," to which Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) would bring back its original pristine hue. There are too condemn obtuse and brainless demand by MNA Cpt (R) Ahmadi mosques or public prayer rooms, and making any reprimanded him: "Did you open his heart and look inside many stains of blood, too many memories of injustice, too Safdar to change the name of Dr Abdus Salam Centre for citations from the Quran and Muhammad's hadith." it?" long a trail of persecution. Physics. We cherish Nobel laureate's achievements and are Punishment for anyone convicted of doing any of the above And Allah says in the Quran, the fundamental and final Recently, one of the worst attacks on Ahmadis came in the honoured to host the centre at QAU." is imprisonment of up to three years in addition to a fine. authority for Muslims: form of a speech by none other than Captain (retd) Forced to live abroad after his self-exile from his country for On October 12, 2017, three Ahmadis in Sheikhupura district, "The Arabs of the desert say, 'We believe.' Say, "You have Muhammad Safdar, the son-in-law of the three-time prime his personal faith, the faith for which an individual is Punjab, were sentenced to death on a blasphemy charge. The not believed yet; but rather say, 'We have accepted Islam,' minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif. Amidst the answerable only to God, Abdus Salam remained a fiercely accusation: in 2014, in their village, they tore down posters for the true belief has not yet entered into your hearts." overwhelming backlash his words received on social, print patriotic Pakistani and a staunch Muslim. And in 1979, he that urged the villagers to boycott Ahmadis. The posters, (49:14) and electronic media, it is important to understand that his became the first Pakistani to be co-awarded - along with reportedly, were inscribed with Islamic verses. words are not mere electoral bombast or a point-gaining American theoretical scientists Steven Weinberg and The persecution is deep, and it is nothing less than a (Hadith and narrations courtesy Kashif Mahmood; orotundity. His hate speech is the blatant manifestation of Sheldon Lee Glasgow - for "developing the theoretical genocide. Killing is not just of the body, it is also of the doctor, writer, public speaker based in Canada.) the narrative of sidelining, isolation and outright framework that led to the apparent discovery of the spirit. Ostracisation, punishment, beating, prohibition on ostracisation of not just those who are considered not subatomic known as Higgs Boson" and more popularly as profession and practising one's faith, desecration of mosques (Disclaimer: The views expressed here are personal Muslim despite being Muslim, but of all those who belong the "God Particle". Salam's name became immortalised with and graveyards and killings. Methodically, consistently, opinions of the writers. The information, facts or opinions to other faiths and religions. the word God. Ahmadis are being erased from Pakistan, and the law- appearing in the articles do not reflect the views of The It is about the monopoly of those belonging to one faith over The Nobel laureate died in Oxford, Cambridge on enforcement agencies and government abet it all. Silence Northlines and it does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same) the northlines 7 KASHMIR Jammu | Monday| October 16 | 2017 'Good governance, accountability Akhtar visits Chrar-e-Sharief shrine MLA lays foundation NL CORRESPONDENT from Kumar Mohalla to the carry out immediate de- stone of Girls' Hostel benchmarks of present Govt' , OCT 15 shrine, to be executed at an silting of the Talab. estimated cost of Rs 4.5 While taking stock of pace NL CORRESPONDENT and recreation. NL CORRESPONDENT The Minister said that Veeri also said that Minister for Public Works, crore. of other ongoing works, the , OCT 15 Pertinently, the hostel will ANANTNAG, OCT 15 rationalization of Patwar Digitization of settlement is Naeem Akhtar, today The Minister also directed Minister was apprised of the offer accommodation to ST Halqas will go a long way the need of the hour as it directed the concerned to for revamping of Bada status of under-construction Member Legislative girl students of secondary Minister for Revenue, Relief in easing out the process of will curtail down the immediately start Talab, instructing the shopping complex being set Assembly Noorabad, classes from far flung areas construction work on the Rs Housing and Urban up for the rehabilitation of Rehabilitation, seeking revenue extracts frequency of litigations. Abdual Majeed Padder, of DH Pora sub-division. Reconstruction and Disaster from Patwaris. He also said The DCs detailed the 12 crore drainage project Development Department to shopkeepers, being informed today laid foundation stone Earlier, Abdul Majeed Management Abdul Rehman that government is minister about the surrounding the shrine of prepare and submit a project that work on the complex of 100-bedded Girls' Hostel Padder inaugurated a Veeri today said that Good contemplating many steps to achievements made under Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Wali report at the earliest. will be completed within the governance, accountability make the revenue preparation of jamabandis, (RA) at Chrar-e-Sharief He also entrusted upon the next six months. at DH Pora here. medical camp, organized by and performance are the department people friendly girdawaris, number of here. Public Health Engineering Earlier, while taking stock of The MLA was accompanied the Health Department, at bench mark of present and accountable. revenue estates measured The Minister issued these (PHE) Department to ensure progress of ongoing works at by Director RMSA, Tufail DK Marg, in which a large government. Veeri said that Revenue under settlement system, instructions during his visit upkeep of the Talab under the shrine, Naeem Akhtar Matoo, Executive Engineer number of people were The Minister was speaking Officials have an important extent of Kahcharia and to the shrine, directing for the supervision of DDC directed for immediate R&B (Kulgam), Tehsildar given free consultations. at high level Revenue role to look after the measures taken for disaster immediate commencement Budgam besides directing muck-clearing and cleaning, DH Pora among other Facilities like medical Conference of Revenue functioning of the different mitigation. of phase one of the project, the concerned department to resurfacing and district officers. check-ups, consultations in officers of Anantnag, departments and beautification of the shrine The 100-bedded Girls' gynecology, psychiatry, Pulwama, Kulgam and implementation of various compound. Hostel will be constructed ophthalmic perdition and JKSJA holds sensitization prog Commissioner Secretary here. schemes envisaged to at an estimated cost of Rs. dermatology were offered The Conference was provide succor to the H&UD, Hridesh Kumar, NL CORRESPONDENT that right to health is a samples and crucial 3.10 crore and is projected to the public in the camp. attended by Financial common man. Commissioner Secretary SRINAGAR, OCT 15 fundamental right and has procedural matters which to be completed within two Besides, USG, ECG, Commissioner Revenue The Minister stressed on the R&B, Sanjeev Verma, DDC been recognized in the were responded by the Lokesh Jha, Divisional officers to call for regular Budgam, Haroon Ahmad years. laboratory investigation and In its endeavor to strengthen constitution, statutory as resource persons.In the Final Commissioner Kashmir meetings of different Malik, SSP Budgam, Briefing the MLA about the consumable drugs were also the Judicial, Administrative well as in the international Session, the participants Baseer Ahmed Khan, departments supplemented Tejindhar Singh, and senior project, the concerned offered on the occasion. Institutions and improve laws.In the first working made presentations on Settlement Commissioner by field visits to ensure officers from different Executive Engineer R&B Dy. Director Health, Dr. necessary skills and Session, Justice Hasnain successes, failures, Shahid Inayatullah, Deputy smooth functioning of these departments accompanied said the hostel will have all Showket Laloo, CMO and efficiency of all stakeholders Masoodi deliberated upon challenges and way forward Commissioner Anantnag departments on the the Minister during the visit. the boarding and lodging BMO DH Pora were also of Justice Delivery System, the importance of the for effective implementation Younis Ahmed Malik, expectations of the general facilities besides dinning present on the occasion. Jammu & Kashmir State implementation of the Drugs of the Drugs & Cosmetics ADCs, ACRs, SDMs, and public. Judicial Academy today & Cosmetics Act. He Act.Director, JKSJA Abdul Tehsildars of these districts. He also asked them to have organized One Day emphasized that it is the duty Rashid Malik, expressed his Haq lays foundation stone of road Minister directed the DCs of the periodical review of the Sensitization Programme for of the state to take care of the gratitude to the resource Kulgam, Pulwama and preparation of Disaster District Judges, Assistant health of society because it persons, participants and NL CORRESPONDENT Khumriyal, Dooniwari and that the government can Shopian to establish management and formulate Controller Drugs and Drug is the question of life. hoped that the deliberations , OCT 15 Surigam and the work will improve the quality of work. Grievance Redressal Cells at inventory of tools, boats, Inspectors under Drugs & Resource person Rajinder and discussions during the be started on these three Later the Minister the district headquarters boatmen, high rise buildings Cosmetics Act, 1940 at Kumar Harna deliberated programme will prove Minister for Rural locations with an aim to participated in the annual level. in their respective areas. Moominabad, Srinagar. upon the overview and beneficial for the Development, Panchayati complete the work at day and Parent day On the occasion, Director, salient feature of the Drugs participants to sharpen their Raj Law and Justice on earliest. celebration of Government Police Public meet held J&K State Judicial Academy and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and skills and intellect.He Sunday laid foundation Speaking on the occasion, Girls High School Divar. Abdul Rashid Malik Rules, 1945. He made a emphasized that this stone of 17 kilometre minister said the government Speaking on the occasion, SRINAGAR, OCT 15 welcomed Justice Hasnain detailed Presentation upon sensitization programme Khumriyal-Shumriyal- aims to increase connectivity Minister said education is a A police public meeting was held at Chewdara Beerwah in Massodi, former Judge, the legal framework under will help in developing a Dooniwari-Surigam road at in rural areas as connectivity first and foremost necessity which respectable citizens of the area participated. High Court of J&K, Rajinder the Act. During the consensus over the next an estimated cost of Rs 15 is the first step towards of a society without which a The meeting was chaired by SHO Beerwah in which they Kumar Harna, Resource presentation, the participant steps required, for sustaining crore in . development. He said the society cannot survive. He discussed about braid chopping incidents. SHO requested Person, District & Sessions District Judges and officers our quest of continuously Fulfilling a long pending up-gradation and renovation appealed the parents, the participants to cooperate with police to curb such Judges, Officers of the of the Health & Medical improving standards of the demand of about a dozen of this road was much teachers and students to incidents and urged the participants not to believe in Health & Medical Education Education department raised field Officers of Health village dwellers, the needed and a long pending provide conducive rumours spread by rumour mongers. He also shared the Department and participant many issues with regard to department responsible for Minister laid the foundation of the people and he had atmosphere for the students contact details of police officers and officials for reporting Drug Inspectors. institution of complaints the implementation of the stone on Saturday at three promised the people that this so that they can get any case of braid chopping incident. Abdul Rashid Malik said under the Act, taking of Act. locations including road will be build very soon. education and become good He said he feels satisfied by human beings to lead us in fulfilling the promise and future. Abdul Haq said Chief Public grievance Workshop on disaster management organized appealed the people to be Minister Mehbooba Mufti is eyes and ears of the keen to provide every redressal camp held NL CORRESPONDENT Singh were guests of honor emergency is the most was to involve youth, who government by keeping possible assistance to the girl BUDGAM, OCT 15 on the occasion. essential rescue period and can provide helping hands track of the development students for their education KUPWARA, OCT 15 Large participation, of to face such an eventuality during such crises. He said works and provide feedback and has announced many Minister for Social Welfare, Sajad Gani Lone today District Disaster students, rescue volunteers, our response force should be their objective must be to to the government about the schemes for the girl students conducted public grievance redressal camp at Management Authority home guards, Aganwadi fully prepared and also in avoid the adverse impact of developmental activities so in past. to listen to the problems and issues being faced by the (Civil Defense) in workers, Fire & Emergency combat position negotiate hazards and means to check people there. coordination with the district workers, was seen on the this all. them from turning into During the public durbar, various deputations apprised the administration Budgam occasion. The DDC said hazards of disasters. Minister inaugurates Minister about issues of public concern. He gave them a today organized a day-long While inaugurating the any natural calamity or The day-long workshop also patient hearing and assured the public that there will be no workshop on disaster workshop, the DDC in his manmade disasters could witnessed mock drill of first compromise on the developmental issues and all of their management, preparedness address said there is need to happen any time without aid presented by SDRF and photo exhibition and rescue at Sheikh-ul- regularly organize such warning and that the other concerned rescue projected demands will be resolved within shortest possible NL CORRESPONDENT the Minister while Alam Hall in Budgam. workshops. He elaborated on administration must remain workers. A mock exercise by time. SRINAGAR, OCT 15 congratulating Yasmin He also said that facilities at the Bungus valley in the The workshop was presided the role of students, pro-active and fully medical teams and fire and over by DG SDRF, Dr volunteers and other equipped with all first aid emergency workers and Hussain said it was a district would be upgraded to make it a prime tourist resort Minister for Information brilliant initiative, adding in Kashmir. Dilbagh Singh, as chief guest agencies in handling resources to tackle such an home guards was also Technology, Technical Dal Lake is intrinsic to Further, the Minister said work on Vilgam power project, whereas DDC Budgam emergent situations. emergency. displayed during the Education, Youth Services Kashmir's beauty and there Biotechnology Park, under construction district hospital Mohammad Haroon Malik He said that the first Speaking on the occasion, workshop. Handwara, distribution of solar lights would be completed and SSP Budgam Tejinder response during an DG SDRF said their focus and Sports, Imran Raza is need everyone does more within the stipulated time frame. Ansari, today inaugurated a to help restore it to its glory. AMK's annual conference concludes photo exhibition by local He also said there was a Ansari inspects ongoing development works photographer Yasmin need to promote local artists NL CORRESPONDENT Prof Rajab and Bashar best performers. The 'Sherfi Hussain at Rajbagh here. and their talents even as he NL CORRESPONDENT bring swiftness for timely macadamization works of BANDIPORA, OCT 15 Bashir shared the presidium. Kamraz' award was given to The exhibition was called reiterated the government's SRINAGAR, OCT 15 completion of the entire main and link Speaking on the occasion, literary forum Bandipora Hope Floats and the theme commitment to provide developmental works roads of the constituency 38th State Level 2 day Dr Itoo said the government which was received by its of the exhibition was Save greater avenues for the Minister for Information already initiated in the within a stipulated time. annual literary conference of decision relating to President Mubashir Nazki. Dal Lake. same. Technology, Technical constituency. The Minister During the visit, the Adbee Markaz Kamraz introduction of Kashmiri The Sherfi award was also DC Srinagar, Syed Abid The exhibition included half Education and Youth also reiterated that Minister also interacted with Jammu and Kashmir language will be given to Dr G M Ajar Rasheed, Director images of the remains of Services and Sports Imran government is committed in several deputations and (AMKJK) concluded today implemented with full spirit. Raza Ansari today providing basic amenities to at Wullar Valley College of He stressed the need of renowned literary figure of Information and Public what has been lost of the listened to their issues and conducted a tour of Nowleri the people of the state. Education Papachan, holding a joint meeting of Kamraz. Relations, Muneer-ul-Islam famed lake over the years and Kakerpora Mirgund The Minister also made demands. He assured that Bandipora. Kashmir University, The conference was among others were present and aimed to show the dying areas of constituency surprise visit to Kakerpora, their genuine issues would Director School Education JKBOSE, Cultural Academy held in coordination with on the occasion. phase of lake through photo to inspect the ongoing Mirgund where he inspected be considered and redressed Kashmir, Dr G N Itoo and Directorate of School literary forum Bandipora. Speaking on the occasion, frames. developmental works. the ongoing macadamization in a time bound manner. presided over the second Education for further The officers from all the work. He was informed that Responding to the session titled 'Issues development of Kashmiri concerned departments the work is in full swing and public demands, the Minister Relating to Kashmiri language. He said all Edu Deptt hands-over all terrain accompanied the Minister is near its completion. The instructed the authorities to Language', while as former languages including during his tour. Minister exhorted upon the Vice-Chancellor of Islamic Kashmiri should get make estimation of various bicycles to meritorious students While addressing the public concerned officials to ensure University of Science & equitable treatment from the projected developmental gathering at Nowleri Pattan, that quality of work is not Technology, Sidiq Wahid, government. NL CORRESPONDENT the students on the occasion. local MLA for his efforts and works so that same can be the Minister directed compromised and to Director Academic Concluding session of the BANDIPORA, OCT 15 Speaking on the occasion, interest in development of concerned authorities to expedite the taken up in coming time. JKBOSE, Dr Farooq Peer, conference was presided Dr Itoo said the Education education sector in the over by the former VC The Department of Department is committed to district. Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign concludes Islamic University, Sidiq Education today organized a promote and develop merit DDC Bandipora while Wahid. In his address, he function in Bandipora in of education in government- speaking on the occasion stressed upon the teaching which all-terrain mountain run schools and encourage NL CORRESPONDENT Mohammad Aijaz Asad, said competitions under the save make the campaign said the bicycles will prove community to make their bicycles were provided to 30 the meritorious students. SHOPAIN, OCT 15 the main objective of the the girl child theme and successful. very helpful as a means of best efforts in teaching meritorious students of class He said some 1400 all terrain campaign was to generate door-to-door campaigns MLA Shopian, Adv. transport for the students. He Kashmiri language in the 10th from 2016 annual mountain bicycles costing As part of the week-long awareness among common displaying the importance of called on the Education Mohammad Yousuf Bhat, schools. He said no regular batch of the district. Rs. 2 crore are being Beti Bachao Beti Padhao masses about the importance a girl child through songs, Department to also provided Senior Superintendent of institution but only teacher The students who were distributed among campaign on raising of a girl child in the society. taranas, sloganeering and mountain bicycles to Police Shopian, Shriram can help Kashmiri language provided the bicycles live at meritorious 10th standard awareness on the importance He said encouraging and couplets were held as part of students from and to transform it to new a distance of 2.5 or more students in all 12 districts of of saving a girl child, a educating the common the campaign to create Ambarkar, Chief Medical generation. kilometers from their . He added Sumbal sub-divisions. concluding ceremony was people about the importance awareness among people Officer, Chief Agriculture President, AMK Dr Shujaat existing educational while half of these have Director Academics, JK today organized by the of 'Beti' in the society is throughout district. Officer, CDPOs of Shopian Bukhari thanked all the institutions. Director School already been distributed BOSE, Dr. Farooq Pir, Chief ICDS Department at Mini important in order to correct The DDC lauded the and Keller, Anganwadi guests for their participation Education Kashmir, Dr G N among the students, the Education Officer, Deputy Secretariat Arhama here. the dismal low child sex concerned staff including workers, supervisors and in the 38th annual Itoo, and District remaining half will be be CEO, Principals, ZEOs Speaking on the occasion, ratio in the district. Anganwadi workers and other employees of the conference. Development Commissioner distributed in coming besides teachers, students District Development During the week-long supervisors for showing Department were also On the occasion, special Bandipora, Sajad Hussain, months. and parents were present on Commissioner Shopian, campaign, painting their zeal and dedication to present on the function. awards were given to the handed over the bicycles to The Director thanked the the occasion. 8 the northlines FoodsFOODS Jammu | Monday | Oct | 16 | 2017 Diwali is also synonymous with indulging in Baked and sugar-free sumptuous ladoos, crunchy karanjis and a Kolhapuris this host of other faral items. Faral for

But what about those extra calories that get added on at the end of it all? Kolhapuris are now getting more creative and health conscious when it comes to deciding on the faral menu. From sugar free and cost effective varieties to the quirky versions of the regular sweets, we tell you about the hottest faral items sure grace dining tables this Diwali. Of fancy and quirky faral With interesting shapes and vibrant colours, there is a variety of faral items up for grabs, serving as a welcome change from the regulars. Madhavi Joshi who loves to experiment with food, explained, "As kids we weren't very exposed to the idea of interesting variants of sweets. It was always the regular chaklis, karanji and the regular pan like one would make rotis. This ladoos. But kids on the other hand always technique to make the regular papdi, a snack Diwali lends to it being light, crisp and more long lasting." want something attractive, new and tasty, and made from flavored flour. She explained, Vimla will be similarly making her other faral with so much available in the market, it is "Instead of frying the papdi, I toss and bake it on without much use of oil and butter. now easy to come up with interesting Sugar-free goodies Having become more variants." Madhavi has come up with aware of the extra calories that sugar- colorful alternates to the regular faral loaded sweets contain, people in the city like shankarpale painted with bright are choosing to opt for the low-fat and low- food colours, square ladoos and a host sugar variants. Sweet stores in the city are of other quirky spinoffs. One can also also coming out with tasty sugar-free get hold of similar items at city sweet sweets that differ little from the regular shops. ones in taste. Using interesting and Opt for no-fry faral Ever considered healthier ingredients like figs to make the sampling faral items like shev and ladoos, those sweet cravings are sure to be papdi that have been baked instead of satiated, with a lesser sugar intake of deep fried? With city residents course. "Last year, there were several becoming more conscious about their orders for sugar free sweets. Seeing that calorie intake, sweet vendors and there were several takers for these items, homemakers alike are reinventing the we have decided to make them regulars at way they make traditional faral items. our shop," said a sweet vendor from New Tarabai Park-based Vimla Kakade has Shahupuri area. come up with a different and healthier

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Cooking time: 10 minutes to the festive season. For actress Komal Onion- 1, thinly sliced Tomatoes - 4, (ripe juicy ones, big in Red chillies - 5 TRADITIONAL FALVOUR IS THE Ingredients Thacker, the festive snacking is all about Green chilli -1, slit size) For seasoning KEY Cooked rice - 2 cups (can be basmati "enjoying food amidst a lot of chirpings When it comes to farsan options, the list Ginger -1 inch, finely chopped Onions - 2, medium sized, chopped Mustard - 1 tsp or any ordinary rice u and musings with family and friends. And is endless.Says Jyoti, "Food is a very Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp Green chillies - 2, slit Urad dal - 4 tsp Fresh grated coconut -1 cup the farsan and mithai are best sampled important part of Diwali celebrations. Salt - as required Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp Chana dal - 4 tsp For the seasoning when you have great company ." As the Earlier, we used to start preparing secial To be roasted and ground Sambar powder - 2 tsp Red chillies - 4 (split into 2) Oil -1 tbsp great Gujarati snackathon is going to delicacies for Diw a l i couple of day in Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp Asafoetida - 1/2 tsp usher in the festive cheers, here's raising a Mustard seeds - 1 tsp advance.Farsans like farsi puri, mathia, Chana dal - 1 tbsp Coriander leaves - a few Turmeric powder - 1 tsp toast to the eat, pray and stay happy motto. Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp (optional) dal mooth, cholafali, sev, gathiya, Urad dal - 2 tsp Salt - as required Roasted peanuts - 100 grams OUTSOURCE AND LIVE Chana dal - 1/2 tbsp Red chillies - 3 For seasoning Curry leaves - a few THE OCCASION Urad dal - 2 tsp Black peppercorns -1/4 tsp Oil - 2 tbsp For mixing the rice Unlike earlier, when the women Red chillies - 2 Coconut - 1 tbsp Mustard - 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp of the house would dish out a Green chillies -1, slit For the seasoning Asafoetida - a pinch Sesame seed oil - 2 tsp series of namkeens and Curry leaves - a few Oil - 1 1/2 tbsp Curry leaves - a few Method pakwans before Diwali, these Ginger - 1 inch, finely Mustard -1/2 tsp - Dry roast fenugreek seeds, coriander days women go in groups to chopped various farsan hotspots Urad dal -1/2 tsp seeds and red chillies until it gives a nice Asafoetida - a scouting for some specially Asafoetida -1/4 tsp aroma. pinch doled out Diwali fare. Says Curry leaves -a few - Dry roast sesame seeds separately and Cashew nuts - 8 to Rekha Goyal, an entrepreneur, Method powder everything together. Keep it 10 "Now-a-days, women indulge - Soak basmati rice in water for 20 aside. Salt - as needed in so many things like travelling minutes. Method during Diwali and they feel they - Drain the water and cook the rice - Cook rice and can save more time in sakkarpara, suvanli were a regular adding 2 cups of boiling water. ensure that the grains outsourcing the farsan making.It has feature in one's kitchen. Sweets like - Cut brinjal into cubes or lengthwise. are separate. made our lives simpler. Moreover, women ghughura, mithai and halva made from - Heat a teaspoon of oil and fry are too tied up with work, home affairs - Add a tsp of cooking fresh mava, sukhadi are relished by coriander seeds, chana dal, urad dal that makes time management difficult. oil to the cooked rice everyone alike. and pepper. So, outsourcing mithai and farsan jobs to and spread the rice on a Now-a-days most of things are readi l y - After it turns slightly brown, add the organisations or women handling such plate and allow it to available in the market, making it less coconut and fry. projects makes it easier for women to cool. tedious in the kitchen." - Powder it and keep aside. enjoy the festivities." And when it gives Nothing can replace the traditional fare, - Grate coconut and keep - Heat a tbsp of oil, add the the same home cooked feel to the fare, during Diwali, feel many. Says entrepre aside. ingredients mentioned under why not feel many . neur K i n j a l Shah, "Entering the kitchen - Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seasoning. THE KICK OF FARSAN SHOPPING during Diwali rings in a sense of seeds, cumin seeds (optional) and To go shopping in a group is always - Add the sliced onion and saute. nostalgia. The recipes, the processes and add chana dal, urad dal and red special and when it comes to doing some - Add brinjal, green chilli, finely- the way each sweet is made and each chillies. farsan hopping in the city, there is a chopped ginger and turmeric powder. farsan is cooked takes one back to the - When the dal changes colour different kick involved, agree women - Cook on low flame sprinkling water days when our grandmothers used to slightly, add green chillies, chopped unanimously.Says Rekha, "Most of the and stirring occasionally. cook so many stuff within such a short ginger, asafoetida, curry leaves and times, one observes a lot of new recipes span of time. That's why Diwali is a very - Add the ground masala and required cashew nuts. and new farsan experiments during special occasion for everyone in Gu salt. - Saute until cashew nuts turn golden exhibitions. And for women, stocking the jarat." the northlines 9 NATION Jammu | Monday | October 16 | 2017 After release in Aarushi murder case, Talwars to US must decide appropriately on visa visit Dasna jail every 15 days to check inmates policy: Arun Jaitley on H-1B Dasna: “The doctors from the dental Dentist couple Rajesh and college will also visit Dasna Washington: “We conveyed our concerns Nupur Talwar will visit the Jail twice a week to attend to Asserting that Indian IT to the US,” he said in Dasna Jail every 15 days to patients so that inmates don’t professionals coming to response to a question. attend to inmates facing face problem,” Tyagi added. America on H-1B visa are “These are very high quality, dental problems after their Since their acquittal by the not illegal economic highly trained professionals. release following acquittal in Allahabad High Court, there immigrants, finance minister They’ve contributed the murder case of their has been a steady increase in Arun Jaitley has said that the immensely to the US daughter Aarushi and patients wanting to consult US must decide economy. They add value to domestic help Hemraj, jail the couple. appropriately while taking a the US economy. Therefore, authorities said. Sources in the jail said decision on its visa policy. when the US decides its visa The two are lodged in the at the prison hospital, a jail have also been treating jail Rajesh Talwar’s brother The H-1B visa is a non- policy they must decide it in Dasna prison in Ghaziabad official said. staff, police officials and Dinesh Talwar, who is an immigrant visa that allows relation to these people since November 2013 after “We were concerned about their children. ophthalmologist, would also US companies to employ appropriately,” Jaitley said. they were awarded life the fate of our dental “Since Talwars have come visit the prison every 15 days foreign workers in speciality illegal economic Commerce Secretary Wilbur Indian technology sentence in the case. department after their here (prison), they have along with his team to see occupations. It is the most immigrants, about whom Ross. companies depend on the H- Both Rajesh and Nupur (Talwars) release. They treated thousands of patients patients. sought after by Indian IT there is concerns in the US. Indian IT professionals 1B visas to hire tens of Talwar are likely to be (Talwars) have assured us who are happy with their The dentist couple had professionals. They come here legally,” deserve a different treatment, thousands of employees each released from Dasna prison that they would visit jail to services,” he said. challenged the sentence in “Those coming from India Jaitley said. said the minister who is here year for their US operations. on Monday following their attend to inmates every 15 To manage rush of dental the Allahabad High Court, on H-1B visas are high value Jaitley said he raised this to attend the annual meeting The US market accounts for acquittal in the sensational days even after their patients at the jail hospital which acquitted them in the professionals, who issue in his meetings with of the International about 60 per cent of the double murder case. release,” jail doctor Sunil after Talwars’ release, prison sensational double murder contribute immensely to the US Treasury Secretary Monetary Fund and the revenue of the Indian IT The dentist couple had Tyagi told PTI. authorities have also tied up case earlier this week. US economy. They are not Steven Mnuchin and World Bank. industry. helped revive the near Tyagi said besides prisoners, with a Ghaziabad-based “defunct” dental department Rajesh and Nupur Talwar dental college Govt wants lawyers becoming judges to have Colonial-era military farms soon to be worked for poor clients for free shut down as govt eyes cost-cutting New Delhi: high court collegia – panels to the cabinet secretariat Allahabad: New Delhi and other big told AFP on condition of Free legal assistance to the of senior-most judges in the saying the process of Under a hot afternoon sun cities. They have about anonymity. “But we will be poor will soon be included in HCs – and sent to the “detailed scrutiny of workers scrub down cows at 25,000 cattle and hundreds [moved] elsewhere in other the criteria for lawyers to be government. proposals received for the Allahabad Military of workers. wings of the armed forces.” selected as judges, sources in The ministry vets them and appointment of judges from Military authorities are the Union law ministry said. attaches a report from the high courts has been trying to give the sturdy Law minister Ravi Shankar Intelligence Bureau and initiated”. cows, bulls and calves to Prasad said the government forwards it to the Supreme The ministry’s plan to widen commercial dairy farms and is looking to promote pro Court collegium — a body of the scrutiny to assess the Indian Council of bono (Latin for the phrase India’s top five judges candidates for pro-bono Agricultural Research. ‘for the public good’) work, headed by the Chief Justice lawyering is also being seen One media report said the which is crucial for a country The decisions comes close put forth, pro bono work of India — which takes a as part of a larger initiative animals could be auctioned like India where millions are on the heels of the Supreme done by the lawyer; final call on the by the government. Earlier off. It is not sure who will unable to afford the fees Court making pro bono work publications and finally, a appointments. this year, the government buy them however as few usually sought by lawyers. as one of the parameters that personality interview. The HC collegia also send launched tele-law to connect farms have the expertise of Sources in the law ministry will be taken into account for The selection of judges in performance records. For poor litigants in remote looking after the Frieswals. said that the government is lawyers to be designated as India varies according to members of the bar, it is the locations with experienced The cows yield an average yet to lay down the criteria senior advocates. levels with the lower-most cases they have argued, and lawyers in state capitals Farm, the latest hangover of Over time, their upkeep has of about 3,600 litres every but the proposal has already The top court’s ruling, made wrung — magistrates — for lower court judges, the through video conferencing. India’s colonial past being become expensive -- the 300 days compared to the been accepted in principle at on October 12, laid down for selected by state judgements they have issued. Prime minister Narendra forced into the 21st century. farms cost more than $46 national average yield of the highest levels in the the first time a four-layer commissions through written The SC collegium then Modi recently issued an The 700-acre (285-hectare) million a year to run -- 2,000 litres. government. evaluation criteria for senior tests and interview. selects the final names based appeal to practicing lawyers farm in the city of 1.1 according to media reports. Besides shutting down According to Prasad, advocates. Points will be Judges to high courts are on a set of guidelines called to come forward and offer million people, along with It is also cheaper to get milk farms, the government is mandatory voluntary work given for years of appointed either from the Memorandum of Procedure free services to the 38 other military farms set for the 1.2 million-strong also to close army postal will also act as a means of experience; domain lower judiciary or from (MOP) and sends them to the marginalised as part of an up by the former British Indian army from units and revamp ordnance “diversity inclusion” in expertise, quality of among members of the Bar. government for appointment. initiative of the department rulers, is to be closed in cooperatives. depots. India’s judicial system. judgments and arguments Candidates are shortlisted by In August, the ministry wrote of justice coming weeks. The cross-bred Frieswal cow The yellow and white -- a mix of Holstein-Friesian Victorian-era buildings will cows from the Netherlands Adityanath govt in UP working to RSS’ Scientists asked to develop probably be demolished and India’s native Sahiwal -- while the 500 cows face an at Allahabad is high- zero-pollution firecrackers: uncertain future. maintenance and requires agenda, Samajwadi Party alleges The Allahabad farm, set up special nutrition. Environment minister in 1889, is the oldest of n the scorching summer Lucknow: proportion,” he claimed. those once used by the months, the animals also The Samajwadi Party on To a question whether senior New Delhi: children. British to house the cows need to be showered up to Sunday accused the BJP SP leader Shivpal Singh Scientists have been asked to The event was attended by transported to Asia to three times a day as they government in Uttar Pradesh Yadav was satisfied in the develop zero-pollution around 10,000 students from provide milk for the troops cannot cope up with the of working according to the party, Chaudhary responded in city barracks. heat. Rashtriya Swayamsevak in affirmative. he government announced in Workers at the Allahabad Sangh’s agenda and claimed “Shivpal Yadav is satisfied August that it would shut the farm had mixed feelings that its ordering of the in SP. The entire party is now military farms to cut costs about the closure although survey of Bangladeshi united and blessings of and better use its vast the government has said they people was part of it. Netaji (Mulaym Singh defence land portfolio. will be redeployed. “The Yogi Adityanath Yadav) are with Akhilesh The 39 farms are spread over “We have been told that the government in UP is Yadav,” he said. 20,000 acres in all and farm will shut down working as per the agenda of He had also said that an failed in Gujarat. Apart from Chaudhary’s statement include prime real estate in permanently,” one officer the RSS and as a part of this, intensive campaign should playing the Hindu card, the comes within days of is undertaking survey of be conducted to check BJP has no other option.” Mulayam Singh Yadav and Darjeeling toy train Bangladeshi people living in infiltration of suspicious “Adityanath will not be able Akhilesh Yadav being seen the state,” senior party elements from states sharing to do any magic in favour of together at a public event starts chugging again leader Ram Govind borders with UP. the BJP in Gujarat, as he has after a gap of several firecrackers that do not cause various schools in Delhi and Chaudhary told reporters Hitting out at the BJP failed completely in UP,” he months, triggering health hazards to children, the NCR. here. speculation of a possible : government, Chaudhary said. Union Environment Minister “Dr Harsh Vardhan told the “We believe in the principle rapprochement. The Darjeeling said, “A large number of Chaudhary also accused the Harsh Vardhan said on gathering of students that the of Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam Mulayam Singh Yadav, who Himalayan Railway Indians live in different BJP government of Sunday ahead of Diwali. scientists have been asked to (the world is one family) was unseated as the SP chief (DHR) or Toy Train countries across the world. “orchestrating communal The comments come close develop zero-pollution and by adopting this by Akhilesh Yadav in has resumed services What will happen if they are riots” in the state to divert on the heels of the Supreme firecrackers that do not cause principle only, we live in January, moved in a golf cart on an experimental being pushed out?” the attention of the people Court banning the sale of health hazards to children,” peace and harmony,” the with his son and waved at basis on a 35-km track He added that this was a from its failure and to win firecrackers in Delhi and the the union environment Leader of Opposition in the excited party workers on between Siliguri and government “not of the the urban local bodies National Capital Region ministry said in a statement. state assembly said. October 12. Sukna, an official said common people”. elections. (NCR) till October 31. On this occasion, Vardhan Chief minister Adityanath Akhilesh Yadav (44) touched on Sunday. Asked about chief minister “The Yogi Adityanath Flagging off the ‘Run for also administered a pledge to had on October 12 directed the feet of his 77-year-old The DHR, which has Adityanath campaigning in government has failed on all Clean Air’ campaign here as promote clean air -- “Let us police officials to launch a father, who is the SP patron, incurred an estimated loss of Rs 2.5 crore as a fallout of the Gujarat for the Assembly fronts. Law and order has a part of the ‘Clean Air together pledge for a New survey to identify foreign at the function at the Lohia Gorkhaland agitation, is carrying out inspections along the elections, Chaudhary said, deteriorated, price hike has Campaign’, he said that the India... Let us together nationals staying illegally in Park to mark the 50th death entire length of the track. “Both Prime Minister virtually reached its peak ill-effects of pollution cause pledge towards a Clean “We have started services on an experimental basis from the state and they be sent Narendra Modi and (BJP and unemployment is anniversary of socialist maximum problems to India... Let us together Siliguri to Sukna. We will out. President) Amit Shah have assuming an alarming leader Ram Manohar Lohia. pledge towards a casteism- notify soon and passengers free India”. may be allowed to board Speaking on the occasion, again,” Northeast Frontier China delays Railways’ ambitious high speed train project in India Minister of State for Railway’s (NFR) Chief Environment Mahesh Public Relations Officer Sharma said ‘swacchata’ Pranav Jyoti Sharma told New Delhi: lies in limbo because the Chinese meetings with officials of the area between June 16 and August (cleanliness) has to be a IANS. “Inspection is being An ambitious high speed train railways has failed to respond to Board. 28 this year that seems to have collective endeavour. done by different project in has been the ministry’s communiques. However, officials say that the derailed the project. “The legacy that we leave departments on every inch of delayed after Chinese railways, “The Chinese company submitted Board has been unable to get in “The study began in 2014 and they behind in terms of clean air is the track between Siliguri that completed a feasibility study a the final report in November 2016 touch with officials of CREEC submitted the report in 2016. The very important,” he said. and Darjeeling and we hope year ago, did not respond, railway and after that the Chinese team has despite repeated communications entire cost was borne by them. In Singer Durga Jasraj, sang a that after we get a clearance officials have said, suggesting that suggested for a face to face sent to them via mails in the last six fact they have shown so much couple of compositions, from them we can run the “lack of response” may be due interaction. No date has been fixed months. interest in collaborating with us for including a song on the regular services after to the Dokalam standoff. from their side,” said the note “We have even tried to get in touch other projects as well, so we think importance of clean air. October 25,” Sharma said. An internal brief of the Mobility prepared by the Mobility feasibility study by the China with them through their Embassy that it was the standoff that must Environment-friendly The UNESCO granted world Directorate on the status of nine Directorate. Railway Eryuan Engineering here, but we are yet to hear from have raised doubts,” said a senior slogans on banners and heritage status to the DHR in high-speed projects of the On the reason for the delay, the Group Co Ltd (CREEC) was them,” said an official. rail official. posters such ‘Sab milkar December 1999. The hill railways, accessed by PTI, shows brief states -- “lack of response” submitted to the Railway Board in The ministry officials said that it An email to the Chinese Embassy karo virodh, roko Paryavaran passenger railway started that the Chennai-- from Chinese railways. November 2016 and after that the was the standoff between the two by the PTI on the issue did not ka durupayog’ dotted the operations in 1881. Mysore corridor, a 492 km stretch, The brief also states that the Chinese company had sought countries in Bhutan’s Dokalam elicit any response. India Gate lawns. the northlines 10 SPORTS Jammu | Monday | October 16 | 2017 Jammu faces Udhampur Aircel Beat Media-XI CC by 50 runs Football camp Rodney Jone starts in women's final today begins at DPS Aircel XI mount 201 runs JAMMU: target on scoreboard in 20 Kathua District Jammu shall be playing coaching sessions at KCSC over’s on a slow batting KATHUA: against Udhampur in women's track. A five-day special coaching JAMMU: the Birmingham and during his exchange visit of final in the ongoing 5th State For Media-XI CC side, camp started at Delhi Public A Level III coach of District Premier League. one full term to Ellesmere Handball Championship, Ranjeet Singh, and Sunil School (DPS) campus, here, England and Wales Cricket Recipient of ECB Award for College when he was a organised by J&K Handball Bali took 1 wicket each in 3 today under the guidance of Board (ECB) since 2002 his distinguished student at KC Public School. Association, at Sher-e-Kashmir over spell, international footballer from and currently Chairman of achievements as an assessor Earlier, Jones started his ten indoor Stadium, Srinagar Chasing the target, Media- Jammu and member J&K State tomorrow. XI CC, led by Mir Imran Sports Council, Arun Meanwhile, in men's category, could make only 150 run, Malhotra. Involving around Jammu and Udhampur as also thus losing the match to 100 young football enthusiasts district Poonch won their Aircel XI by a margin of 50 of different educational respective matches to strengthen runs. institutions of district Kathua, their position in the competition. Nitin kanotra scored a the camp is supported by Jammu trounced Kathua 22-08 highest from Media-XI CC Mehta Football Academy. The with Sahil Padha and Utkarsh side 33 runs in 22 balls for joint venture of DPS Kathua Raina being top scorers with Jammu: his team while Sunil Bali scored and Mehta Football Academy five and three goals respectively. Aircel XI Jammu trounced Media 21 runs in 22 balls. has been extended a helping In other scheduled game, –XI Cricket club by a margin of Mandeep Singh from Aircel XI hand by Arun Malhotra, who Poonch defeated district 50 runs in an Exhibition match grabbed 3 wickets in 4 over’s’ spell has come all the way from Pulwama 16-11. played at Maulana Azad Stadium while Arun Sharma took 2 wickets Dehradun to guide young Whitchurch Cricket Club and a coach, he has also days long coaching schedule District Udhampur also won Jammu, in 4 over’s spell. Sahil Sharma and students in their endeavour to and Shropshire Cricket been decorated with other at KCSC today with a their match today beating After winning toss, Aircel XI Kewal kotwal took 1 wickets each excel in the game. Board Coaches Association, awards such as Sky Sports sizable group of cricketers Sports Straining Centre (STC) Jammu team, led by skipper, apiece in their over’s’ spell. The organisers of the camp UK, Rodney Jones has Coaching Award 2007, enrolled for coaching Jammu 35-33 in a close contest. Baldeep Singh elected to bat first Mohd Irshad was adjudged as 'Man have not charged any fee from started coaching sessions at Shropshire Sports programme. In the next nine KC Sports Club (KCSC), Partnerships Award 2003 days, he intends to interact Amit Choudhary played fine and made 200 runs losing 3 of the Match' for his 104 runs. On the participants while DPS here today. and 2017 Shropshire Award with young Cricket game for winning side of wickets in 20 overs. Irshad made the occasion, Media- XI CC vowed Kathua has provided free Rodney has played for for Outstanding enthusiasts of Jammu Udhampur contributing highest 104 of 48 balls and Anand Tripathi for promoting sports and initiating transport facility and Whitchurch Cricket Club in Contribution to Cricket. through a series of six goals to the tally. the movement against drug. refreshment. scored 56 of 25 balls to help Roney Jones has been workshops and training working as Head Coach of sessions. It is a precious Gavaskar, Shastri contributed to Ranji: Vidarbha shoot out Cricket at Ellesmere opportunity for the College, UK, for several youngsters of Jammu to our C T win: Pak manager Ali years. Managing Director of interact with him and gain Punjab for 161 on Day 1 KC Sports Club, Arjun invaluable knowledge and New Delhi: they gave us no chance. That how Thisara Perera dropped Chowdhary trained with him skills under his guidance. Nearly four months after fired up the boys. It was that catch. Then in the final, : the team in dire straits. Pakistan beat India in the called a no-contest and we Fakhar was out off a no ball Vidarbha seamers shot out Wicketkeeper Abhishek ‘With Football, I am Ronaldo’ final of the Champions were written off. We said ‘let when he was on three.” hosts Punjab for a paltry 161 Gupta (89) was the topscorer Trophy in London, their the bat and ball do the “I am told that TV channels on Day 1 of their Ranji for the team. Virat Kohli is a very keen footballer, as is evident team’s manager has spoken talking’,” Ali told a cricket rate India-Pakistan clash as Trophy encounter at the For Vidarbha, Lalit Yadav from the intensity he shows while playing football with his about the role played by website. the third biggest in the PCA Stadium in Mohali. and Siddesh Neral took three team as a warm-up before cricket practice. Football is the Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi He accepted that Pakistan world. Football obviously In reply, the visitors were wickets each. Rajneesh flavour of the season and in a TV interview, Kohli discussed Shastri in Pakistan’s victory! got lucky, too. “We had quite takes the top spot,” he comfortably placed at 106/1 Gurbani and left-arm spinner his love for the game. “What should be my FIFA football Pakistan had been badly a bit of luck. Difficult to added. “The coverage of that with S Ramaswamy (52) and Akshay Karnewar took two rating? 98!” he said, laughing. “No chance it should be beaten in the group match figure out why India put us game in Pakistan was Wasim Jaffer (22) unbeaten wickets each. between the two teams in after winning the toss,” he tremendous and I am sure at stumps. Opener Faiz Fazal Action Jackson lesser than that. My shooting is good, my right foot is good, earlier in the tournament, said. “With our strong that was the same case in (21) was the only batsman Sheldon Jackson (181) and my left foot too... As a footballer, I feel I lack nothing. I can and went into the final as bowling attack, once we put India. I hope we play out with Abhishek Sharma Ravindra Jadeja (150 not defend, I can play in the midfield. I can play as a winger, I underdogs. In the final, decent total on the board, it regularly so that the tension accounting for his wicket. out) helped Saurashtra post a can be a centre forward! I do everything. I have great Pakistan beat India by 180 was going to be tough for goes off. The more cricket Earlier, Punjab were out for Manan Vohra and Jeevanjot mammoth 428/4 against desires about football in my heart.” Really, who does he runs, one of the biggest India.” we play, the better it will be. 161 runs in just 41.2 overs. Singh — out for duck. Jammu and Kashmir on the think he is! “From a footballing point of view, I’m shocks in any ICC Got lucky I hope the bilateral series The hosts began disastrously Skipper Yuvraj Singh scored first day of their second- Ronaldo,” he said. He said if he was playing football tournament in recent times. On that warm June 18 day in resumes soon.” with both the openers — 20 runs off 30 balls to leave round match in . seriously, he would be a left winger. Talat Ali, the manager of the London, opener Fakhar Pakistan team in the Zaman smashed 114 off 106 Champions Trophy, said balls while Mohammad India vs Pakistan, a match made in Dhaka former India players Hafeez made an unbeaten 57 Gavaskar and Shastri had a off 37. “We had quite a bit of Dhaka: their next match. Less than a month into his new huge role in Pakistan’s win. luck, as I said. We were India would face their toughest India are currently sitting atop job after replacing Roelant He said that the two writing lucky in that South Africa test in the Asia Cup hockey Pool A with six points from two Oltmans, coach Marijne faces the Pakistan off had fired up the game where we had lost tournament when they take on wins while Pakistan are placed biggest challenge of his short players. early wickets and then it arch-rivals Pakistan in their second with four points. With two tenure tomorrow. “India wrote us off in the rained,” Ali said, referring to highly-anticipated clash here wins, India are comfortably Dominant India final,” Talat Ali said. “I was Pakistan’s earlier matches. tomorrow. through to the Super 4 stage of the Of late, India have dominated listening to the analysis of “Against Sri Lanka, we were The Indians have been impressive tournament. The Sjoerd Marine- Pakistan in hockey, the latest Gavaskar and Shastri and struggling and I have no idea so far, beating Japan and hosts coached side would be hoping to result being the 6-1 thrashing in Bangladesh comprehensively in finish the pool stages with an all- their 5th-8th place classification Lahiri rises with 64, their opening two Pool A matches. win record. match at the Hero Hockey World After beating Japan 5-1 in their In the first two games, the Indians League Semi Final in London in opening match, the Manpreet showcased beautiful one-touch June. That loss dented Pakistan’s Perez secure in lead Singh-led side mauled minnows hockey and used both flanks to hopes of booking a berth at next past, but they have been blighted make things better. Tomorrow’s Bangladesh 7-0 yesterday. create numerous scoring chances. year’s Bhubaneswar World Cup. by poor management and security game is big for them because a Kuala Lumpur: Pakistan, on the other hand, have What is heartening is that the Pakistan would be desperate for concerns and are now ranked loss can dent their Super 4 Anirban Lahiri roared back into contention at the CIMB had a mixed outing so far. While Indians have scored some revenge. world No. 14. But with a new chances as Japan are expected to Classic golf tournament with a bogey-free 64, his second- they thrashed Bangladesh 7-0 in excellent field goals but a matter With four world titles and three management in place, Pakistan win hands down against best round in all his years of playing here. their campaign-opener, they were of concern for them is their Asia Cup titles (1982, 1985, have recalled some experienced Bangladesh in the other Pool A The 64 helped him move up from the overnight 4-under and held to a 2-2 draw by Japan in penalty corner conversion rate. 1989), Pakistan have a glorious players to the squad and this could match of the day. T-23rd to a healthy 12-under and sixth place after three rounds on a day that was cloudy to begin with but became hot and sultry as it wore on. Dhawan back in ODI team; Thakur, Karthik return, Rahul, SSP Chawrasia, the other Indian in the field, wilted under the heat and shot a 74 to drop to T-60th at a 1-over 217. Umesh and Shami left out For the second year in succession, the leader goes into the Karthik, Thakur too recalled final round with a four-shot lead as Pat Perez continued with New Delhi: tour in July and was also a The Squad: Virat Kohli Ashwin and Jadeja are his remarkable transformation from being a journeyman this Wicket-keeper Dinesh part of the Champions (captain), Rohit Sharma currently playing the Ranji time last year to a Top-30 star. Karthik and pacer Shardul Trophy squad, has been (vice-captain), Shikhar Trophy for their respective Perez’s 8-under 64 with nine birdies and one bogey saw him Thakur were today recalled picked again. Speedster Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, states and the former had swell his lead from one to four over Xander Schauffele (67), for the three-match ODI Thakur has been picked in Manish Pandey, Kedar even cleared the yo-yo while Korean Sung-hoon Kang (65) stayed third. series against New Zealand place of Umesh Yadav, who Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, MS fitness test. On another low-scoring day, when 32 players shot in the 60s while the selectors continued has been dropped. Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, The Team: Virat Kohli and 55 were under par in a field of 78, the day’s best card to ignore Ravindra Jadeja Notable names missing from Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, came from Hideki Matsuyama (63), who shared the fourth (captain), Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Aswhin. the squad are KL Rahul, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit spot with Keegan Bradley (65). Though Perez is four clear (vice-captain), Shikhar Opener Shikhar Dhawan has Ashwin and Jadeja. The spin Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar of Schauffele, the former would do well to remember that Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, also returned to the ODI duo of Ashwin and Jadeja Kumar and Shardul Thakur. Lahiri, too, led by four and yet lost to Justin Thomas last New Delhi: The 32-year-old was named Manish Pandey, Kedar team after missing the series has not played for India since Astle, Phillips among six year. Wicket-keeper Dinesh in the India T20 squad for Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, MS against Australia due to his the Test series in Sri Lanka added to NZ squad Karthik and pacer Shardul the recently-concluded Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, wife’s illness. However, he two months ago. Kuldeep : Glenn Phillips and Warm welcome for Thakur were today recalled Australia series but did not Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, did play the T20 series Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal Todd Astle are in line to for the three-match ODI get a game. Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit against Australia. and Axar Patel are the three make their ODI debut after Indian players in Imphal series against New Zealand Speedster Thakur was Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Karthik, who last played for specialist spinners in the being inducted to the New Kumar and Shardul Thakur. Imphal: while selectors continued to ignored for the series against India during the West Indies team. Zealand squad for the three- Seven Manipur players, who participated in the FIFA U-17 ignore senior spinners Australia after playing in Sri match series against India, World Cup returned here today to a rousing welcome. Ravindra Jadeja and Lanka. Now, he has been Yawn! Man U, Liverpool play dull goalless draw beginning here on October A large number of football fans and veteran footballers Ravichandran Aswhin. picked in place of Umesh 22. Besides Phillips and Opener Shikhar Dhawan has Yadav, who has been Astle, Matt Henry, Henry cheered when the players came out of the airport. The Indian Liverpool: that meant his team teams at Anfield preserved also returned to the ODI dropped. Nicholls, Colin Munro and team members were garlanded and the people clapped for Manchester United ceded registered just one shot on United’s seven-point team after missing the series Notable names missing from George Worker will join the their spirited performances. the initiative in the target. Jurgen Klopp’s advantage over Liverpool against Australia due to his the squad are of batsman K national team after the Captain Amarjit Kiyam expressed his gratitude to the Premier League title race Liverpool have now won in the table. wife's illness. However, he L Rahul, Ashwin and Jadeja. after drawing 0-0 with just once in eight matches, The result meant United conclusion of the series supporters and said such a huge support would encourage did play the T20 series The spin duo has not played between India A and New the young players to do better in future. He urged for the arch foes Liverpool in a but this was a brighter fell short of setting their against Australia. for India since the Test series drab game at Anfield. showing on a balmy best ever points tally after Zealand A in development of a world-class stadium in the state. Karthik, who last played for in Sri Lanka two months Despite his side having Merseyside afternoon, with eight games of a Premier tomorrow. Star batsman Midfielder Jeakson Thounaojam, who scored the first ever India during the West Indies ago. previously matched leaders Joel Matip and Emre Can League campaign, Kane Williamson will goal by an Indian in a FIFA World Cup during the second tour in July and was also a Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Manchester City stride for going close either side of although they have now captain the Black Caps on match against Columbia, also drew huge crowd. Goalkeeper part of the Champions Chahal and Axar Patel are stride, United manager half-time. gone seven games without the India tour comprising Dheeraj Moirangthem, who received praise from the US Trophy squad, has been the three specialist spinners Jose Mourinho resorted to The second successive defeat against their eternal three ODIs and as many T20 coach, stayed back in New Delhi. picked again. in their absence. familiar spoiling tactics goalless draw between the rivals. Internationals. the northlines 11 BUSINESS Jammu | Monday| October 16 | 2017 NSL to pursue intellectual property Tata Steel targets 20% women in workforce by 2020 MUMBAI OCT 15 opportunity employer, talent in the early years of helps us progress and believes that women can engineering,” she added. develop as a company, she litigation with Monsanto over GM cotton Tata Steel targets to have 20 perform any role with equal Further, she said, there is a added. per cent women in its competence as that of a man. need to devise policy “Workplace diversity attracts NEW DEHLI OCT 15 Pravardhan Seeds. last year cut the fees these NSL’s Chairman and workforce by 2020 as gender “We have not restricted interventions to offset the the best talent and retains the “We do not want to local firms paid to Missouri- Managing Director M. diversity ensures availability ourselves to defining certain challenges which come with India’s Nuziveedu Seeds compromise,” Narne Murali based Monsanto. Prabhakara Rao told same. It builds a great of different mindsets to deal roles or levels where we will more women going for reputation for the company. Ltd (NSL) said on Saturday Krishna, a company (http://reut.rs/2yf4qvA) Reuters that Monsanto with challenges, a top employ women. Our it will not settle a long- secretary of NSL, said on Since then, Monsanto - should never have been extended maternity. A mix of people with diverse company executive said. diversity targets have been standing intellectual the phone from , which is being bought by allowed to collect royalties “Our recent Take 2 policy views encourages innovation “Gender diversity is taken for the overall property dispute with the capital of the southern Germany’s Bayer for $66 after an initial payment to aims at filling these gaps due and problem solutions, essential, and not having it organisation and we are open Monsanto Co over state of Andhra Pradesh. billion - has been at use its technology. to maternity and child care thereby leading to increased can be detrimental to to employing women across genetically modified (GM) “On the IPR (intellectual loggerheads with the seed At the very least, Rao leaves by hiring women who profitability and business. A diverse all roles and levels,” she cotton, despite some other property rights) matter, firms and India’s added, prices should have are experienced opportunities for business, workforce ensures that we added. Indian companies doing so we’ll continue with our government over how much been set by the government. professionals on project she said. have different mindsets When asked about the in recent weeks. legal case in the Delhi High it can charge for its GM “Since we first signed the basis for short-term dealing with challenges in difficulty in finding women However, for this purpose Reuters reported on Court.” cotton seeds, costing it tens licensing agreement with different ways, and this helps with the required skills in engagement. the company will Wednesday that three Indian Mahyco Monsanto Biotech of millions of dollars in lost Monsanto in 2004, we have “This is a mutual benefit as compromise on merit at any seed makers - Ajeet Seeds, (India) (MMB), a joint revenue a year. paid 7.09 billion rupees us strategise better,” Tata manufacturing, mining and Steel Chief Diversity Officer engineering, she said the we have a good replacement stage of selection or Kaveri Seed Co Ltd venture between Monsanto “Based on the advice of ($109.59 million), which resource for a woman and it promotion. KVRI.NS and Ankur Seeds and local firm Mahyco, competent IPR lawyers and Monsanto should refund to and Chief Group HR Atrayee availability of women is also becomes a platform for “Our recruitment - have agreed to resolve licenses a gene that communications of NSL,” Krishna said. S Sanyal told PTI here. gradually improving. those women looking to differences and end their produces its own pesticide Monsanto with the Indian A Monsanto spokesman She said Tata Steel has a “It is supply-led demand to a sensitisation handbook resume their careers,” she arbitration proceedings with to more than 45 local cotton patent office, NSL realised said: “NSL has already target to have 20 per cent great extent. Engineering clearly mentions that at an added. Monsanto. seed companies in lieu of that it was cheated by collected the royalty fee women in its workforce by institutes need to have more equal level of merit and 2020, from the current level women and only then She said when diversity is But Monsanto is yet to settle royalties and an upfront MMB’s false from India’s cotton farmers. competence, we would of 11 per cent. companies can recruit recognised and employees the dispute with Sri Rama payment. representations and claims Instead of honouring the prefer a female candidate but Agri Genetics, Amar Acting on complaints by on IPR,” Krishna said. mutually agreed bilateral “We are definitely planning women in these areas. We feel included, they have a we consider merit as the Biotech and NSL along with some local seed companies Earlier this year, citing a contract, it continues to to employ a large number of engage early with various better responsiveness to two group companies, that MMB’s royalties were local law that excludes default on payments women in the coming years. leading institutes that helps changing customer needs. ultimate criterion for Prabhat Agri Biotech and too high, the farm ministry seeds from being patented, rightfully due to MMB.” Tata Steel, as an equal us capture the best women Everything, cumulatively, selection,” she added. Indian economy on ‘very solid JioPhone booking to resume post Diwali Six of 10 most valued companies

NEW DELHI OCT 15 Chairman and Managing Customers have the add Rs 76,383 crore in m-cap track’: IMF chief Christine Lagarde Director Mukesh Ambani flexibility to reach the Rs NEW DELHI OCT 15 to Rs 5,55,174.77 crore, Reliance Retail will start the had announced that the 4G 1,500 per year usage figure emerging as the biggest “Turning to India...we have little bit of a short-term second phase of booking for phone will be "effectively according to their The combined market gainer among the top-10 slightly downgraded India; slowdown” as a result. JioPhone post Diwali after free" for users, but to prevent convenience by choosing valuation of six of the 10 firms. The m-cap of TCS but we believe that India is “But for the medium term, completing delivery of about misuse of the scheme among the various tariff most valued Indian soared Rs 21,363.45 crore to for the medium and long- we see a very solid track six million mobile devices JioPhone buyers will need to plans announced by the companies surged Rs Rs 4,89,435.48 crore and term on a growth track that is ahead for the Indian that were booked in August, pay one-time fully company. 76,382.8 crore last week, that of HDFC Bank surged much more solid as a result economy,” she said to a an industry source said. refundable deposit of Rs Similarly, on return of the with Reliance Industries Ltd Rs 13,992.34 crore to Rs "The second phase of 1,500. phone in the second year, the of the structural reforms that question on India. (RIL) and TCS stealing the 4,78,930.85 crore. JioPhone booking will start The entire money will be customer will get refund of have been conducted in India “We very much hope that the show with maximum gains. HUL's valuation advanced after Diwali. Likely from refunded to customer after Rs 1,000 and in the third While ITC, Maruti Suzuki by Rs 8,896.01 crore to Rs in the last couple of years,” combination of fiscal, October-end or November usage of the phone for 36 year entire amount of Rs India, ONGC and SBI 2,69,823.90 crore and that of WASHINGTON OCT 15 the IMF Managing Director because the deficit has been first week," a Reliance months. 1,500 will be refunded. suffered losses in their HDFC rose by Rs 4,035.59 Lagarde said. reduced, inflation has been Retail channel partner told The company has further Reliance Retail started Days after the International market capitalisation (m- crore to Rs 2,81,582.08 Describing the two major down significantly, and the PTI. relaxed refund scheme. delivery of JioPhones in cap) for the week ended crore. The m-cap of Infosys Monetary Fund lowered its About six million Jiophones Under the new condition set small towns from Navratri recent reforms in India - structural reforms will Friday, RIL, Tata went up by Rs 2,860.2 crore growth forecast for the demonetisation and Goods were booked by people in by Jio for the users, handset festival. actually deliver the jobs that Consultancy Services to Rs 2,14,056.80 crore. On current and the next year, and Services Tax (GST) - as just three days when the buyers can get refund of Rs "The shipments started in (TCS), HDFC Bank, HDFC, the other hand, ONGC's the Indian population, IMF chief Christine Lagarde a monumental effort, company opened bookings 500 if they return the device metro cities from Saturday. Hindustan Unilever Ltd valuation slumped Rs particularly the young Indian of the 4G feature phone from in the first year, provided said on Sunday the Indian Lagarde said it is hardly The target is to complete all (HUL) and Infosys saw 4,619.97 crore to Rs people expect in the future,” August 24 in the first phase. they have made recharge of economy is on a “very solid surprising that there “is a shipments around Diwali," e gains. RIL's valuation 2,18,293.33 crore. SBI saw Reliance Industries Rs 1,500 during the year. track” in the mid-term. Lagarde said. channel partner said. zoomed Rs 25,235.21 crore its m-cap drop by Rs 3,625.46 crore to Rs 2,17,916.11 crore and that of Slowdown in economy bottomed out, 7% Indians now spending more on Maruti slipped Rs 1,137.34 crore to Rs 2,37,803.46 breakfast, dining industry gets a boost crore. The m-cap of ITC GDP growth likely this fiscal: Niti Aayog dipped by Rs 243.67 crore to The report in a are also popular among the Rs 3,23,902.24 crore. In the 7.5%,” Kumar said in an and therefore downward leading national Indian masses. The study ranking of most valued firms, RIL continued to interview to PTI.The Niti spiral started.”“My daily says that quotes Bengaluru as an Aayog vice chairman said considered view and gut remain at the top followed breakfast meals example to explain how the country did very well feeling is that, this by TCS, HDFC Bank, ITC, from 2007-13 and the downward cycle has now are keeping the growth rate in dining- HDFC, HUL, Maruti, downward cycle started in bottomed out in July,” he restaurants busy spending was 67 percent for ONGC, SBI and Infosys.? 2013-14, mainly because of asserted. as more and quick service restaurants Both indices rose last week, spurge in lending to While the International more people are (QSR) and take-aways in with the Sensex adding Monetary Fund (IMF) has undeserving projects since NEW DELHI OCT 15 getting aware about their 2016 over the previous year, 618.47 points or 1.94 per 2007. lowered India’s growth importance in the daily compared with 44 percent in cent, and NSE Nifty soaring “The high economic growth forecast for the current fiscal Breakfast, the most routine.Not only omelettes Delhi-NCR and 63 percent 187.75 points or 1.88 per NEW DELHI OCT 15 growth in the first quarter of between 2007-13 was on the by 0.5 percentage points to important meal of the day, is other non-vegetarian options in Mumbai. the current fiscal has slipped basis of huge increase in 6.7%, the World Bank has cent. fuelling growth for the Niti Aayog vice chairman to 5.7%. loans and spurge in private pegged economic expansion Rajiv Kumar has said the “I think by the time you debt for which there was at 7%, down from 7.2% Indian dining industry. Karbonn partners with Airtel economic slowdown that come to the first quarter of zero control. That was given projected earlier. According to a report titled began in 2013-14 has 2018, you will see a stronger by the banking sector to the The Asian Development 'Business Insights on Dining bottomed out and the GDP is recovery, and fiscal 2018-19 most undeserving cases Bank too lowered India’s Industry' by American likely to grow 6.9-7%?this will be the much better year to offer 4G smartphones (projects) and on completely current fiscal growth to fiscal and 7.5%?in 2018-19. than fiscal 2017-18. And that Express, total spending on false assumptions,” he 7%?from 7.4%, while the NEW DEHLI OCT 15 reach with the consumer that options to the market and The economic growth will then continue because it the morning meal has observed. RBI cut economic growth resides at the heart of smart build an 'open ecosystem' of slowed to 7.1%?in 2016-17, will on much more sustained increased by 56 percent in Noting that growth stalled forecast to 6.7%?from Leading homegrown brand telephony. The real strength low cost devices. This is yet the year in which 87%?of the basis,” he said, adding that after 2013 because of policy earlier projection of 7.3%?. 2016 over 2015. Karbonn Mobiles and Bharti of our consumer base being another step in our ongoing currency was demonetised, growth will be about 6.9- stance, Kumar said, “As Airtel ("Airtel"), India's an Indian smartphone brand journey to deeply understand despite a very good show by 7%?in the current fiscal year. soon as that happened, all the largest telecommunications is towards the bottom end of customers and bring the agricultural sector. On a “In the next fiscal year, the Quarterly earnings, inflation debt began to becoming bad services provider, , today the pyramid and through this innovation that delights quarterly basis also, the growth would be about data to steer mkts this week announced theirpartnership association we want to bring them." The customer needs Demonetisation report by parliamentary to bring an affordable 4G the best to our customers to make a down payment of NEW DEHLI OCT 15 Head Private Client Group smartphone to the market, such that they can utilize the INR 2899 for the 4G & Capital Market Strategy, effectively at the price of a best of this offer at a price of smartphone and make 36 panel could be tabled in next session Quarterly numbers from HDFC Securities. feature phone. Karbonn is just INR 1399. The core of continuous monthly bluechips Axis Bank and WPI inflation data for the first smartphone vendor our business has always been recharges of INR 169. The NEW DEHLI OCT 15 A draft of the report was likely to be placed in the Wipro and inflation data September is due on to partner with Airtel to simplified technology and customer will get a cash prepared and circulated in winter session of Parliament. would play a key role in Monday. bring highly affordable we are more than delighted refund of INR 500 after 18 bundled 4G smartphone A parliamentary panel's previous tenure of the panel, The winter session is guiding stock market trend "The focus will continue to to expand our network with months and another INR report on demonetisation, but now the committee has normally month-long and options to the market and such associations." Raj 1000 after 36 months, taking in the holiday-shortened be on results in this month. which is critical of the been reconstituted so it will convenes from mid- fulfill the digital aspirations Pudipeddi, Director - the total cash benefit to INR week ahead, say experts. Major companies which will government's note-ban again be circulated, a November. of millions of Indians. Consumer Business & 1500. In case the customer Stock markets would be announce July-September decision, is likely to be member of the panel said on In an unprecedented move, Karbonn A40 Indian - a very CMO, Bharti Airtel said, does not wish to opt for the closed on Thursday and quarter earnings this week tabled in the next session of condition of anonymity. the government on popular model already in "As the market leader and INR 169 bundled plan, Friday for Diwali. Markets include ACC, Axis Bank, Parliament. The report is overall critical November 8 last year, India, now comes at an pioneer of 4G services in she/he has the flexibility of The Parliamentary Standing of the demonetisation banned old Rs 500 and Rs will open on Diwali Bajaj Auto, Wipro and effective price of INR 1399 India, Airtel's aspiration is to doing recharges of any Committee on Finance, decision and is set to be 1,000 notes in an attempt to (Thursday) for an hour for Ultratech Cement," said only (compared to its current digitally empower every denomination and validity headed by Congress MP tabled in the next session of weed out black money in the Muhurat trading session. Arpit Jain, AVP at Arihant market price of approx. INR Indian with high speed data as per individual Veerappa Moily and of Parliament, another member country. "This is a holiday-shortened Capital Markets. 3499).Commenting on the access. We are delighted to requirements. However, to which former Prime Minister said. The old notes were allowed week with the markets Both the indices rose last association with Airtel, Mr. partner with Karbonn to claim the cash refund Manmohan Singh is also Some members of the panel to be deposited in banks, opening on Diwali for an week, with the Sensex Pardeep Jain, Managing remove barriers to benefit, recharges worth member, had been looking had sought redrafting of the with unusual deposits hour for Muhurat session. adding 618.47 points, or Director, Karbonn Mobiles smartphone adoption and INR 3000 must be done into the issue of report as the RBI at that time coming under income tax Economic data is not much 1.94 per cent - the biggest said, "Karbonn is proud to enable millions of Indians to within the first 18 months demonetisation. had not provided some scrutiny. In its annual report this week except for China?s such weekly jump since July announce its association leapfrog to a full (to claim the first refund The panel had also called crucial details such as the for 2016-17, the RBI had third quarter GDP data and 14 when it read 660.12 with Airtel in order to touchscreen smartphone installment of INR 500) RBI governor Urjit Patel and quantum of the junked Rs disclosed that all but about 1 our WPI numbers. The points, or 2.10 per cent - and provide exciting offers experience. We plan to and another INR 3000 over top officials of the Finance 500 and 1,000 notes. per cent of the scrapped general trend of the markets the NSE Nifty soared through bundled services. partner with multiple the next 18 months (to claim Ministry to deliberate upon When contacted, Moily also currency notes have come is largely expected to be 187.75 points, or 1.88 per Through this association, we manufacturers to bring the second refund the issue. confirmed that the report is back into the system. positive," said VK Sharma, cent. aim at strengthening our affordable smartphone installment of INR 1000). 12 JAMMU || MONDAY | OCT | 16 || 2017 The NORTHLINES Dokalam effect? China delays high-speed Sunil Jakhar wins Gurdaspur Lok Sabha byelection with huge margin train project in south India Beats BJP’s Salaria by 1,93,219 votes , OCT 15 Aam Aadmi Party candidate the third sport with 23,579 candidate Partap Singh NEW DELHI, OCT 15 the note prepared by the two countries in Bhutan's borne by them. In fact they Major General (retd) Suresh votes. Bajwa had won this seat by Mobility Directorate. Dokalam area between June have shown so much interest Congress candidate Sunil Khajuria finished a distant The seat had fallen vacant defeating BJP candidate An ambitious high-speed On the reason for the delay, 16 and August 28 this year in collaborating with us for Jakhar on Sunday won the third. after the death of BJP MP Vinod Khanna. train project in south India the brief states -- "lack of that seems to have derailed other projects as well, so we Gurdaspur Lok Sabha Jakhar polled 4,99,752 Vinod Khanna in April this Khanna was four-time MP has been delayed after response" from Chinese the project. think that it was the standoff byelection by beating his votes while Salaria polled year. from the Gurdaspur Lok Chinese railways, that railways. "The study began in 2014 that must have raised nearest BJP rival Swaran 3,06,553, a poll official The Congress won this seat Sabha seat. The actor had completed a feasibility study The brief also states that the and they submitted the report doubts," said a senior rail Salaria with a huge margin said. Aam Aadmi Party after the 2009 Lok Sabha won this seat in 1998, 1999, a year ago, did not respond, feasibility study by the China in 2016. The entire cost was official. of 1,93,219 votes, while nominee Khajuria was at poll when Congress 2004 and 2014. railway officials have said, Railway Eryuan Engineering suggesting that the "lack of Group Co Ltd (CREEC) was response" may be due to the submitted to the Railway Dokalam standoff. Board in November 2016 An internal brief of the and after that the Chinese Mobility Directorate on the company had sought status of nine high-speed meetings with officials of the projects of the railways, Board. accessed by PTI, shows that However, officials say the the Chennai-Bangalore- Board has been unable to get Mysore corridor, a 492-km in touch with officials of stretch, lies in limbo because CREEC despite repeated the Chinese railways has communications sent to them failed to respond to the via mails in the last six ministry's communiqués. months. "The Chinese company "We have even tried to get in submitted the final report in touch with them through November 2016 and after their Embassy here, but we that the Chinese team has are yet to hear from them," suggested for a face to face said an official. interaction. No date has been The ministry officials said it fixed from their side," said was the standoff between the Davp 15201/13/0034/1718