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12 Dec-2019.Qxd C M C M Y B Y B RNI No: JKENG/2012/47637 Email: [email protected] POSTAL REGD NO- JK/485/2016-18 Internet Edition www.truthprevail.com Truth Prevail Epaper: epaper.truthprevail.com Chelsea hold on against Lille to advance in Champions League 3 5 12 JD takes stock of Frozen Semen JWAM holds protest to start Rohingyas Should be sent back to Project Kashmir internet services their Country : Kavinder VOL: 8 Issue: 340 JAMMU AND KASHMIR, THURSDAy , DECEMBER 12, 2019 DAILy PAGES 12 Rs. 2/- Inside Oppn speaking Pak's language on Inside Indefinite curfew imposed in Assam's Guwahati amid Citizenship Bill: PM Modi at BJP meet Govt sanctions 130000 New Delhi : Prime ple, mostly of the minority It said the police at some fresh pension cases Minister Narendra Modi on community, were killed. places were ineffective in violent protests over Citizenship Amendment Bill Wednesday accused the oppo - The commission's report controlling the mob because under ISSS, NSAP Guwahati : Amid violent Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. quillity'. protests triggered at several sition of speaking Pakistan's was tabled in the Gujarat of their inadequate numbers SRINAGAR, DECEM - protests over Citizenship The Indian Railways has The state government has places in the city. language on the Citizenship Legislative Assembly by or because they were not BER 09 : Department of Amendment Bill 2019 in cancelled 12 trains and par - already suspended internet Earlier, Assam Chief (Amendment) Bill and assert - Minister of State for Home properly armed. Social Welfare today Assam, an indefinite curfew Minister Sarbananda Sonowal ed that the legislation will be On some communal riot informed that the govern - was imposed in Guwahati on was stranded for two hours in written in "golden letters" in incidents in Ahmedabad ment has sanctioned 1, Wednesday evening. The cur - the Guwahati airport where history. city, the commission said, 30,000 fresh pension cases few that was earlier imposed agitators gathered in large Addressing BJP parlia - "The police had not shown under the Integrated Social from 6.15 pm on Wednesday numbers to protest against the mentary party meeting, Modi their competence and Security Scheme (ISSS) and till 7 am on Thursday has now CAB. likened the bill to the govern - eagerness which was neces - National Social Assistance been extended till an indefi - He was later safely escort - ment's decision to nullify sary." Programme (NSAP). nite period. Guwahati police ed out under high security. Article 370 and said it will The commission has According to a statement commissioner Deepak Kumar The move on the ban of the provide permanent relief to recommended inquiry or of the Department, male said, "Curfew has been internet in Assam follows minorities of neighbouring action against the erring senior citizens of 60 years imposed in Guwahati after the Tripura government's countries who arrived in India police officers. and above and female senior (Assam) since 6:15 pm today. decision to ban the internet fleeing religious persecution. Former Supreme Court citizens of 55 years and It will remain imposed until and SMS services for 48- He also asked party MPs Justice G T Nanavati (retd) above shall be eligible to normalcy is restored here." hour, on Tuesday (December to gather feedback from all and ex-Gujarat High Court receive the pension. The A bus was torched by pro - 11), to prevent mischief mon - sections of society -- from Justice Akshay Mehta pension is also for widows testers, near Janta Bhawan in gers from spreading rumours. farmers to the poor and indus - (retd) had in 2014 submit - and women in distress and Dispur. Two columns of Thousands of protesters trialists -- on the coming ted their final report on the physically challenged. Army which were on standby tially cancelled 10 trains on services for the next 24 hours, against the Bill descended on Union budget and share the Pradeepsinh Jadeja on 2002 riots to the then state The new pension which at Bongaigaon and Dibrugarh December 12-13 due to the starting from 7 pm on the streets of Assam since inputs with the Finance Wednesday, five years after it chief minister Anandiben has been sanctioned recently have been rushed to Guwahati indefinite 'Rail Roko' by vari - Wednesday. The ban is being Monday (December 9), clash - Minister. was submitted to the then Patel. in November 2019 shall be after the situation escalated. ous organisations and associ - imposed over 10 districts of ing with police and plunging 2002 Guj riots: Nanavati state government. The commission was disbursed before December Both the columns have been ations, in Tinsukia division Assam, including Lakhimpur, the state into chaos. Although panel gives clean chit to ex- "There is no evidence to appointed in 2002 by the then 31, 2019. “The first category deployed in Guwahati. and Lumding division in Dhemaji, Tinsukia, no party or student body has CM Modi show that these attacks were state chief minister Narendra to be cent per cent covered The Bill seeks to give citi - Assam. The Dibrugarh Dibrugarh, Charaideo, called a shutdown, protesters, The Nanavati Commission either inspired or instigated or Modi to probe the riots, that will be physically chal - zenship to refugees from the District Magistrate has Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, a majority of the students, has given a clean chit to the abated by any minister of the took place after the burning of lenged and senior citizens Hindu, Christian, Sikh, ordered the closure of liquor Kamrup (Metro) and fought pitched battles with then Gujarat chief minister state," the commission said in two coaches of the Sabarmati above 70 years of age,” the Buddhist and Zoroastrian licensed premises from 4 pm Kamrup. Meanwhile, curfew security forces in the restive Narendra Modi-led govern - its report, which runs into Express train near Godhra statement added. communities fleeing religious on Wednesday for 'preserva - has been imposed in state, including in front of the ment in the 2002 riots in the over 1,500 pages and is com - railway station, in which 59 Rest of eligible appli - persecution from Pakistan, tion of public peace and tran - Guwahati after massive Secretariat. state where over 1,000 peo - piled in nine volumes. 'karsevaks' were killed. cants who can be accommo - dated within the allotted Rajya Sabha passes Citizenship Pakistan violates ceasefire along LoC in quotas of Jammu and AJKPC hunger strike ends, 300 Kashmir shall also get pen - Amendment Bill 2019 Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district sion before December 31, New Delhi : Union Home that the BJP-led government at members court arrest Poonch : Pakistan on tar shelling by Pakistan took 2019, the statement said. Minister Amit Shah introduced the Centre was least bothered Wednesday evening resorted place in ShahpurKirni and In this regard all eligible the Citizenship Amendment about addressing concerns Jammu, December 10 : Director expressed his inabil - Earlier, senior sarpanches The 168-hour-long hunger ity in fulfilling the major offered juice to the panchayat to ceasefire violation along Kaswa sectors of the district. beneficiaries are informed to Bill 2019 in Rajya Sabha at 12 around the economy and issue the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan is targeting urban contact the concerned noon on Wednesday of price rise and is only trying strike started by the All demands of by the AJKPC members, including AJKPC Jammu and Kashmir and said he would take up the president Anil Sharma and Poonch district of Jammu and areas. The Indian Army retal - District/Tehsil Social (December 11) despite strong to divide the nation. There are Kashmir, after a lull of sever - iated to the firing Welfare Officer for neces - protests by opposition and sev - 240 MPs in the Rajya Sabha as Panchayat Conference matter with the higher Jitender Singh, to end their (AJKPC) today ended with authorities. hunger strike. al days. This is a developing story. C M sary guidance to avail pen - eral groups in North East and five seats are lying vacant, C M court arrest of over 300 Agitated over the alleged The protesters have been The heavy firing and mor - More details are awaited. sionary benefits. other parts of the country. therefore, the BJP-led govern - y B Y B The Bill that seeks to give ment at the Centre needs the sarpanches from different “helplessness” expressed by demanding clearing Rs Deploy CAPF at High Court, Indian citizenship to refugees support of merely 121 MPs to parts of J&K. Hafiz Saeed indicted on District Courts: HC issues from Hindu, Christian, Sikh, pass the bill. Since the BJP has The protesting members notice to UT Govt, GoI Buddhist and Zorastrian com - 83 Rajya Sabha MPs, it will were miffed with the alleged terror financing charges munities fleeing religious per - need the support of 38 more “indifferent and insensitive Islamabad : An anti-ter - made and held in the names JAMMU, DECEMBER 11: attitude” of the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir High Court secution from Pakistan, MPs. In North East, massive rorism court in Pakistan on of Trusts/Non Profit (HC) today issued notice to Afghanistan and Bangladesh protests erupted on Tuesday as the J&K administration Wednesday indicted Mumbai Organisations (NPO) includ - Government to urgently deploy was passed with a thumping various tribal groups and towards sarpanches and terror attack mastermind ing Al-Anfaal Trust, Dawatul Central Armed Police Force in majority in Lok Sabha on youth organisations joined panches. Hafiz Saeed on terror financ - Irshad Trust and Muaz Bin respect of the Jammu and Kashmir Monday night (December 9) hands to register their opposi - They also announced their ing charges. Jabal Trust. High Court and all District Courts after six hours of intense tion against the Citizenship second phase of agitation The Counter Terrorism Under pressure from the in Jammu and Kashmir.
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