Govt. Junks Border Wall Plan Remarks by Moots 24X7 Seamless Virtual Fence with Sensors to Stop Iniltration from Pakistan Army Chief
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follow us: saturday, february 18, 2017 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 24 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Allahabad . Malappuram . Mumbai NEARBY CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Centre backs Skyfall Govt. junks border wall plan remarks by Moots 24x7 seamless virtual fence with sensors to stop iniltration from Pakistan Army chief Vijaita Singh of the Army, 541 violations Special Correspondent New Delhi were reported during the NEW DELHI The Centre has given up its same period. In these viola- The government on Friday PM outsider to U.P., proposal to build a wall tions, 57 locals and 26 secur- came out in support of says Priyanka along the Pakistan border in ity personnel were killed. Army chief General Bipin Lucknow Jammu, originally envisaged The Home Ministry is now Rawat for his remarks Making her much-awaited as a barrier to cross-border working on a Comprehens- about local residents com- debut in the campaign for the terror. ive Integrated Border Man- ing in the way of counter- Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi The raised embankment, agement System (CIBMS) for insurgency operations in Vadra joined her brother and initiated by the UPA govern- 24X7 surveillance. the Kashmir Valley. Congress vice-president ment in 2013 after the twin Minister of State in the Rahul Gandhi on Friday in attacks in the Hiranagar/ Pilot project under way Prime Minister’s Office attacking Prime Minister Samba sector, was to come “Currently a pilot project is (PMO) Jitendra Singh said Narenda Modi for his claim of up along 179 km of the Inter- under way, where an integ- General Rawat had not being the “adopted son” of national Border in Jammu. rated system of human re- warned locals and only ex- the State. The wall proposal was op- sources, sensors, networks, pressed concern over pos- NEWS Ī PAGE 9 posed by Pakistan, which intelligence and command sible ‘collateral damage.’ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD shot off letters to the United and control solutions are be- Dr. Singh accused the Con- Nations Security Council in ing worked upon,” the offi- gress, which had criticised Police case against 2015 accusing India of con- cial said. the Army chief’s warning Shehla for FB post verting what it called a “Our endeavour is to im- of tough action against loc- MEERUT “working boundary” into a prove situational awareness als helping militants, as The Uttar Pradesh police “quasi international identify any infiltration. willing to let go of their land. to facilitate prompt and in- speaking in the ‘voice of have registered a case boundary.” The Army too opposed We could hardly acquire 25% formed decision-making and separatists’ and of ‘politi- against former Jawaharlal A top official told The the embankment, saying it of the land,” said the official. quick response to emerging cising’ his remarks. Nehru University Students’ Hindu that the plan for rais- would pose hurdles for their Since 2014, when the NDA situations. Defence Minister Mano- Union vice-president Shehla ing an embankment was not forward movement during government came to power, “A major component of har Parrikar also backed Rashid, based on a complaint materialising and that the military operations. there have been more than this system will be the smart Gen. Rawat saying the gov- by the Aligarh Muslim government would instead “There were multiple is- 900 ceasefire violations fence, which will be a seam- ernment had given a free University Students’ Union, depend on ‘technological sues. Unlike the Line of Con- along the Pakistan border in less virtual fence, compris- hand to the Army to carry alleging that she made The Yakovlevs, U.K.-based aircraft formation and aerobatic derogatory and objectionable solutions’ such as a ‘smart trol, the IB is densely popu- Jammu. ing various sensors and out anti-terror operations. statements against the fence’, a seamless virtual lated and has fertile agrarian At the LoC, which is un- laser-based technologies,” display team, performing at Aero India 2017 at the Yelahanka K. MURALI KUMAR CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 Prophet in her Facebook fence with sensors to land. Not many people were der the operational control he added. Air Force Station in Bengaluru on Friday. post. 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The and propagate the ‘National the Constitution and respect The petition also sought the Islamic State in Mosul hospital was set up in 1966 Song’, along with the Na- its ideals and institutions, to “ascertain the feasibility last year, they depended on with India’s help. tional Anthem and the Na- the National Flag and the Na- of singing/playing the Na- specialist and critical care tional Flag. tional Anthem. “Therefore, tional Anthem and National provided by Artemis Treatment in India A Bench of Justices Dipak we do not intend to enter Song in the Parliament/As- hospital in Gurgaon. It has Later, Northern Alliance Misra, R. Banumathi and into any debate as far as the sembly, public offices, treated more than 450 Iraqi fighters were in India for Mohan M. Shantanagoudar, National Song is concerned,” courts and schools on every soldiers since 2014. Helping hand: PM Narendra Modi and Tajik President Emomali treatment. in a short order, said it the court concluded. working day.” But then, it is not just Rahmon at the India-Tajik Friendship Hospital in 2015. PTI Some years ago, Indian Iraq. Eman Ahmed from officials turned an empty Egypt got a visa for tradition, extending today medical diplomacy,” said building of the Tajikistan treatment in Mumbai, after from Ethiopia to Myanmar. former Ambassador to the military into what is now a Dr. Muffi Lakdawala, a “Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis who US, Ronen Sen, who worked hospital serving the public. bariatric surgeon urged went to China during the on the policy when Rajiv The former ambassador External Affairs Minister Long March, and Mahatma Gandhi was the Prime said after seeing the work by Sushma Swaraj to help. Gandhi’s Ambulance Corps Minister. He was posted in Indians in Afghanistan, Diplomats see this as part in the Boer war inspired the PMO as diplomatic Maldives and Sri Lanka also of India’s medical diplomacy India to have a policy on adviser. sought support. 90% operations hit by stone throwers J&K police says trend is growing Peerzada Ashiq operational commander, Srinagar Abu Dujana, managed to es- Around 90% of anti-milit- cape from Pulwama on ancy operations were Monday due help from the hindered by stone-throwing locals. “This his seventh es- crowds in the Kashmir Val- cape in south Kashmir,” ad- ley this year, resulting in the ded the police. escape of over 12 militants, According to data, of the according to an assessment 19 militants killed in the first by the J&K police. The re- 46 days of 2017 in the Valley, port also talks about a grow- 10 were locals, six foreigners ing trend in the Kashmir Val- and three are yet to be iden- ley — since 2016, residents tified. Six security person- have started converging at nel, including an Army Ma- encounter sites and throw- jor, also lost their lives. ing stones at security forces. The report has put the number of active militants 15 operations in Kashmir at 250. “Around The security forces 225 are listed militants,” said launched nearly 15 opera- the report, adding that LeT tions in the Kashmir Valley ranks have once again this year. All the anti-milit- swelled to 95, while Hizbul ancy operations were af- Mujahideen is active with fected by stone-throwing 90 militants, most of whom residents in south Kashmir are locals. and Bandipora in north A top counter-militancy Kashmir, where militants police officer told The were hiding in residential Hindu that unlike the past, a areas. The report added that law and order component of eight militants managed to the police and the CRPF escape the cordon in Hajin, goes with the Army attack Anantnag and Kulgam team. “We try to keep oper- districts. ations swift to delay public “However, there was less reaction. Many a times, it public hindrance in the bor- has worked against us,” said der districts of Kupwara and the police officer. Baramulla, where militants The authorities on mainly hide in the forest Thursday advised the gen- areas,” the report added.