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 Virat Kohli is only batsman in current generation destined to be a legend : Moin Khan 3 5 12 2000 vital projects to be completed Congress and allies do not want Former Legislators, several delegations by March 2021 in JK : AK Mehta J&K to prosper : Raina call on Lt Governor VOL: 9 Issue: 36 JAMMU AND KASHMIR, TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 11, 2020 DAILY PAGES 12 Rs. 2/- Inside China praises PM Modi’s letter to Xi Inside After intense Pak firing, J-K authorities on coronavirus assistance 12 injured in Beijing, February 10 : lives due to the outbreak. work with India and other bus-truck collision China on Monday appreciated The Prime Minister also members of the international advise people not to touch mortar shells Prime Minister Narendra conveyed to Xi his apprecia - community to jointly tackle in Samba Jammu, February 10 : fered damages in heavy ing in a number of casualties border residents due to fre - Modi’s letter to President Xi tion for facilitating evacua - fight the epidemic and safe - Jammu : At least 12 Authorities on Monday asked shelling in Mendhar and on Pakistani side. quent cross-border shelling,” Jinping offering solidarity tion of around 650 Indian cit - guard regional and global people were injured on residents of Jammu and Balakot sectors on Sunday. He said the army guarding Mohammad Aslam, 68, a res - and assistance to deal with the izens from the worst-affected public health security,” Geng Monday when a passenger Kashmir’s Poonch district to “The Pakistani guns fell the LoC is on high alert and ident of Drana village of deadly coronavirus outbreak, said. Indian bus collided with a truck on avoid unnecessary movement silent around 8 pm and there keeping a close vigil as Mendhar told PTI on phone. saying it “fully demonstrat - Ambassador to China the Jammu-Pathankot high - during shelling and not touch was no report of ceasefire Pakistan is using the cross- He said the situation is ed” New Delhi’s friendship Vikram Misri told the way in Samba district of the mortar shells lying scat - border shelling to peaceful today but nobody with Beijing. Indian media here on Jammu and Kashmir, police tered in various localities, push terrorists into knows when the guns start In a letter to Xi, Modi Monday that India was said. after two days of intense fir - this side. roaring again. expressed solidarity with the in touch with Chinese The bus was on its way to ing by Pakistan along the “The district “We appeal to the govern - President and people of China officials to find out the Jammu from Kathua district LoC. administration has ment to speed up the work on over the outbreak of the virus immediate require - and collided with the truck The heavy shelling of advised people to the community and individual that has claimed over 900 ments to deal with the near Gagwal, a police offi - mortar bombs from across remain cautious and bunkers for our safety. The 15 lives in the neighbouring epidemic. cial said. the border killed a soldier on avoid unnecessary community bunkers and a few country. The death toll in He said the injured, all Saturday. movement during individual bunkers have been “We thank and appreciate China’s coronavirus travelling in the bus, were There was no report of shelling,” a police sanctioned for our village but India’s support for China’s outbreak has gone up to taken to a local hospital. ceasefire violation by official said, adding only one had got completed fight against the NCP Novel 908 with 97 new fatali - Pakistan after 8 pm on that the local resi - so far while the work on the Coronavirus Pneumonia, the ties reported mostly in Four of them were referred Sunday, officials said. dents have also been others is going on,” he said. to the Government Medical official name for coron - the worst-affected The heavy shelling of directed not to touch Aslam said he, along with avirus,” Chinese Foreign Hubei province and the College Hospital Jammu for mortar bombs from across the mortar shells his family, hid inside their Ministry spokesman Geng Hubei province last week. confirmed cases of infection specialised treatment. the border also triggered a lying scattered in dif - house to escape the intense Shuang said. A sizeable number of crossing 40,000, Chinese Administration forest fire in Mendhar sector violation by Pakistan from ferent localities. shelling. “It is the grace of the “India’s acts of goodwill countries have evacuated health officials said on re-seals 2 illegally and efforts are on to douse the anywhere along the LoC,” an Nearly a dozen shells almighty that nobody is our fully demonstrate its friend - their citizens from China and Monday. flames, they said. army official said. failed to explode during the village was hit despite heavy ship with China,” Geng said restricted movement of peo - A team of international operating premises Naik Rajeev Singh He said the Pakistan Army cross-border shelling and are shelling,” he said and during an online media brief - ple and goods to and from experts led by the World in Srinagar Shekhawat, 36, was killed used artillery guns and long- being defused by experts, he demanded more individual ing while replying to a ques - China.India, too, has put Health Organisation (WHO) SRINAGAR, FEBRU - and three others were injured range mortar bombs to target said. bunkers to cover all residents tion on Modi’s letter to Xi. restrictions on the movement would arrive in China on ARY 10 : On the direction in the intense Pakistani firing forward posts and villages in “We are lucky to survive in the village given its prox - Modi also offered India’s of people to and from China Monday night to assist the of Divisional Commissioner in Degwar sector on Saturday, the three sectors in the past the intense shelling by imity to the LoC and frequent assistance to China to face the as part of precautionary meas - Chinese health officials to Kashmir Baseer Ahmad while several residential two days. The Indian Army Pakistan on Sunday. Life has ceasefire violations from challenge, besides conveying ures to contain the spread of contain the spread of coron - Khan, action has been initi - houses and cattle sheds suf - retaliated befittingly, result - become a virtual hell for the across the border. condolences over the loss of the virus. “We stand ready to avirus outbreak. ated against illegal operation and de-sealing of sealed Fresh batch of foreign envoys Omar Abdullah's sister moves SC premises at Polo View and Fresh test result of India's first coronavirus Sonwar areas of Srinagar. to visit J-K this week challenging his detention under PSA Commissioner SMC and case comes out negative New Delhi : Former for urgent listing before a Srinagar, February 10 : Those who would be part Jammu and Kashmir chief bench headed by Justice N V SHO Ram Munshi Bagh A fresh batch of foreign of the delegation included Thrissur, February 10 : The health department February 3, was withdrawn reached the under-construc - The latest test result of the had earlier said those in isola - on Friday after no new posi - minister Omar Abdullah's sis - Ramana. Sibal told the bench envoys will visit Jammu and envoys from European Union ter on Monday moved the that they have filed a habeas tion Paras Hospital Building Kashmir this week to get and Gulf countries, the offi - woman medical student, who tion wards of various hospi - tive cases of infection were arrived here from China’s tals in the state have come detected. After the first posi - Supreme Court to challenge corpus petition challenging at Sonwar and took swift first-hand information about cial said. his detention under the Public the detention of Abdullah action in the matter and the ground situation after the A team of 15 envoys, Wuhan region and was the down to 34. tive case was reported from first positive case from India “A total of 3,252 are still Thrissur, two other Keralite Safety Act. under the PSA and the matter C M against those involved. Four Senior advocate Kapil should be heard this week. C M persons were also detained for the novel coronavirus under observation across the students from Wuhan, the Y B (nCoV), has come out nega - state, of which 3,218 are epicentre of the virus, had Sibal, appearing for the peti - The bench agreed for y B for being involved in it. tioner, mentioned the matter urgent listing of the matter. The team also resealed tive, health officials said on the Samci restaurant at Polo Monday. View which was operating Her condition was “sta - Omar Abdullah's sister moves SC in violation of sealing orders ble”, they said. issued earlier. According to the state challenging his detention under PSA The Divisional health department as of now, New Delhi : The govern - Hour, saying that the 34 people are in isolation ment will make a statement in Question Hour was "impor - Commissioner has directed wards across various hospi - suspension and initiation of Lok Sabha on the Supreme tant". tals in the state. Court ruling on reservation in The recent Supreme Court disciplinary action against “The blood test result of the concerned SMC ward promotions for SC/STs, ruling is a "sensitive issue" the first patient from Deputy Leader of the House and the Social Justice and officer and enforcement Thrissur, from the National wing officials.