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 Vol No: XXII Issue No. 90  15.04.2017 (Saturday) Daily  Jammu Tawi  Price ` 2/-  Pages-12 Regd. No. JK|306|2014-16 ‘JK's Industrial Estates to Five held for assaulting CRPF men, get 24X7 power supply’ disturbing videos spark resentment NL CORRESPONDENT video shot in Budgam were under instructions to "We have registered an FIR SRINAGAR, APR 14 district, police said. Budgam not open fire, sources in the in police station Chadoora Rs 100 cr Technology Centre coming up in Samba: Ganga accounted for the death of paramilitary said. against the ruffians who Ganga, MLA, Samba DK and hydro power, he added. Five people were arrested seven of the eight protesters The CRPF had strongly heckled the CRPF Manyal, Director, Industries Dr Singh said that Kandhari today in connection with the during the poll-day violence. protested with the Jammu personnel. They will be dealt and Commerce Department Beverages in Samba will assault on CRPF men during The video surfaced a day and Kashmir police as its with as per law," Vaid told Rajinder Singh Tara, MD largely contribute towards bypoll to the Srinagar after the polling in which personnel and polling staff The central government had SIDCO Amit Sharma, the development of parliamentary seat on April some CRPF personnel were had abandoned the polling also promised to take strict Chairman & CEO, beverages sector in the 9, while two more disturbing seen walking down a street station early, officials said. action against those who Hindustan Coca-Cola region and also create videos went viral, sparking a while being heckled, kicked Jammu and Kashmir Police were seen assaulting the Beverages T Krishna Kumar opportunities for fresh row in the restive and punched by youths, chief S P Vaid today lauded CRPF jawans. and officers of various entrepreneurship and Kashmir valley. setting off a nationwide the restraint shown by the The Jammu and Kashmir departments were present on employment in the State. After receiving a complaint outrage. There was no CRPF jawans and said, Police identified 11 people the occasion. He further said that the from the CRPF, five persons retaliation by the security "Any armed force in the and filed a complaint against The Deputy CM further said government has formulated were arrested and a hunt was personnel, who quietly world would have retaliated the youth who were seen that concerted efforts are a comprehensive P2 on for others seen in the walked to their camp as they with force". heckling and P2 being made to make J&K self-sufficient in every sector. The State Minor allegedly raped in Kishtwar, accused held Former JK Governor NL CORRESPONDENT industrial activities in the SAMBA, APR 14 State. Government is committed to NL CORRESPONDENT girl's neighbourhood lured in concerned police station. Saxena dies at 90 The Deputy CM said this provide conducive and DODA, APR 14 the girl and took her into Senior Superintendent of The Deputy Chief Minister after laying the foundation industry-friendly his room and allegedly Police, Kishtwar Sandeep after a brief illness, his Dr. Nirmal Singh today said of Coke Bottlers Company, environment to woo the Minor girl of five years old raped her. Wazir said, "We have family said. that Industrial Estates in Kandhari Beverages at investors in sectors like was allegedly raped by her Police said that the incident conducted medical of He was 90. Bari Brahmana, Samba and SIDCO Industrial Estate infrastructure, neighbour in hilly district came into light after the minor girl and Saxena's brother Naresh Kathua will get round-the- Phase-III in Samba. pharmaceutical, horticulture, Kishtwar. However, the girl narrated the whole investigation of the case Chandra, former Cabinet clock electricity supply for Minister for Industries and agro, food and fruit accused has been arrested incident to her family and has been started. Secretary and Ambassador making Jammu, a hub of Commerce Chander Parkash processing, textiles, tourism by police. her mother filed a "It's a shocking incident to the US, said he was Police said the incident complaint against the came into light after NL CORRESPONDENT rushed to a hospital in the Poor polling makes separatists to took place on Tuesday accused. The accused has parents registered NEW DELHI, APR 14 wee hours after he when five year old girl was been arrested by Police complaint in police.the complained of playing with her brother in identified as Ishtiaq Ahmed accused has been arrested Former Jammu and breathlessness. move about with their chin up the front yard of her house Hajam (35) son of Late by police within no time Kashmir Governor Girish He was declared dead at in Akhiarabad, Kishtwar. Gulam Ahmed and case has and started inquiry." he Chandra Saxena, lovingly 4:30 AM, Chandra said. He was born in P2 JAMMU TAWI, APR 14 (KIP) en tire Srinagar LS forces and the protesters. They said man living in the been registered against him added. called Gary, died here today constituency 7.13 per cent Voters had fears that despite Though incidents of polling was recorded which tight security they could be 'No change in India's violence, on the pattern is considered the lowest in attacked by militants or Govt provides Rs 2.5 Cr to position on Tibet witnessed on April 9, were the hi story of elections I n supporters of separatists. missing during the repoll on Jammu and Kashmir. And out of fear majority of NL CORRESPONDENT 38 polling stations in Inspite of the fact that in and voters remained indoors surrendered militants in 13 years NEW DELHI, APR 14 Budgam district, part of around all the 38 polling which affected the overall Srinagar Lok Sabha stations security grid had voting percentage. NL CORRESPONDENT militants were received by asking militants to give up accept the integrity of India, India today asserted that constituency what has lent been upgraded people did Even though no incident of SRINAGAR, APR 14 the government since 2014 the arms. and the constitution to join there is no change in its credence to separatists' poll not move out to cast their violence was witnessed du under the rehabilitation The government started a mainstream and lead a position on Tibet being boycott was the very poor votes. There were a number ring the repoll but the very The Jammu and Kashmir policy in Jammu and 'surrendered policy' in 1997 normal life. part of China and it will polling recorded on of polling stations which poor voting percentage has government has provided Kashmir. that was subsequently According to the policy, the continue to seek a fair, Thursday. If separatists recorded zero per cent motivated the separatists to over Rs 2.5 crore as monthly "So far, the government said adapted to with state government will reasonable and mutually claim that it their victory voting. It was scare created keep their chin up as they incentive to surrendered it has provided Rs 2.68 crore 'rehabilitation policy' in provide them incentives acceptable solution to the they are not wrong by the last Sunday's violence believe that poor polling militants in the last 13 years. as monthly incentive to 216 2004. The policy is aimed to including fixed deposits of vexed boundary issue. because during the repoll in which eight people were meant peoples' response to As per the official figures of cases while 219 cases have "encourage misguided Rs 1.50 lakh, payment of External Affairs Ministry only two per cent polling dead and 117 were injured in their call for poll the Home Department, 437 been rejected. youth/militants" who want monetary incentivea for Spokesperson Gopal was recorded whereas in the clashes between the security boycott.(KIP) cases of surrendered The government has been to abjure "violence" and also surrender aP2 Baglay said, P2 IN BRIEF Kashmir valley video shows man tied to Will look into video of man tied 3 killed, 2 injured in road mishap in J&K jeep, CM seeks report, Army orders probe to army jeep in Kashmir: Rajnath NL CORRESPONDENT we will look into it." BHADARWAH (J&K), APR Army investigating video KOLKATA, APR 14 The video showed a man 14 (PTI) tied to an army jeep, showing youth tied to jeep: DGP Home Minister Rajnath purportedly to be used as a Three persons, including an Singh on Friday said he human shield against stone employee of the Forest SRINAGAR, APR. 14 would look into the issue of pelters, in the Beerwah area Department, were killed a video showing a man tied of Budgam district on April and two others seriously Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) to an army jeep, purportedly 9. injured when a vehicle they S.P. Vaid on Friday informed that no one has approached to be used as a human shield Singh said, "I have already were traveling in skidded the police yet in connection with a video in which a youth against stone pelters in asked for filing an FIR on off the road and fell into a was seen tied allegedly to an Army jeep as a human shield Kashmir, which has gone the incident (of) CRPF being heckled by protesters 100-feet deep gorge near against stone-pelting. He, however, P2 viral. jawans (being heckled) in the Chadoora area of here in Jammu and He said he had no while carrying electronic Budgam district. Kashmir's hilly Doda information on the video as voting machines." Another video shows a NL CORRESPONDENT former chief minister Omar CRPF video generated. I'm won't generate the same district. P2 of now, but added, In that video, a CRPF man stonepelting protester being SRINAGAR, APR 14 Abdullah tweeted, "I also outraged that the video anger." "Whatever has happened, on polling duty was seen shot dead P2 Law on triple talaq only Reacting to the video, understand the outrage the of the youth on the jeep Two days after P2 after consensus: Naqvi

MUMBAI, APR 14 India to appeal against Jadhav's death sentence: Envoy

A law on the practice of SAJJAD HUSSAIN High Commissioner in Islamabad Pakistan turning down India's Pakistan's legal system. Secret Act of 1923, according to a Pakistan High Commission in 'triple talaq' among ISLAMABAD, APR 14 (PTI) Gautam Bambawale to Pakistan request for consular access to Bambawale also said that he has statement. New Delhi. Muslims would be Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua Jadhav, the Indian envoy said, no information about former She said that during the period of She said the "rhetoric in the formulated only after there India said today it would appeal during a meeting sought by him. "They have denied our request for Pakistani army officer trial, "due judicial process was Indian Parliament was is a consensus among the against the death sentence to "We would definitely go to appeal consular access 13 times (in the Mohammad Habib who followed and he was provided a unwarranted and only added to stakeholders, Union Kulbhushan Jadhav and against the judgement but we last one year). I have forcefully reportedly went missing from lawyer in accordance with fuelling hatred against Pakistan Minister of State for demanded from Pakistan a cannot do it unless we have the asked for consular access on the Nepal. Pakistani officials suspect relevant laws and the constitution which was not conducive for Minority Affairs Mukhtar certified copy of the charge-sheet details of charges and the copy of basis of international law and on that Indian spy agencies were of Pakistan". promoting cordial ties between Abbas Naqvi said here as well as the army court order in verdict. So, my first demand was humanitarian grounds as he is an behind his disappearance. Janjua alleged that the Pakistanis the two countries, in accordance today. the case, besides seeking consular to provide us the details of the Indian national." Foreign Secretary Janjua said the "incarcerated" in Indian prisons with our Prime Minister s vision "Triple talaq is a serious access to the retired Indian navy charge-sheet and copy of the Apart from diplomatic options, trial against Jhadev was have not been provided consular for peace in the region." issue. Non-serious players officer. verdict," he said. India is also exploring legal conducted under the Pakistan access for years, despite repeated The death sentence to Jadhav, 46, should not P2 This was conveyed by Indian Expressing disappointment over remedies permitted under Army Act 1952 and Official requests and follow-up by the was confirmed P2 2 CITY the northlines Jammu | Saturday | April | 15 | 2017 Counting for Srinagar LS seat on Saturday

SRINAGAR, APR 14 (KNS) incidents in some areas of Budgam district was held on The counting for Srinagar April 9 and re-poll in areas parliamentary constituency hit by violent incidents on will be taken up at 8.00 am last Sunday was conducted tomorrow (Saturday) and Thursday this week. the results would be Just 7% turn out has been announced by 5.00 Pm in recorded in the Srinagar the evening. parliamentary constituency. A top official told KNS National Conference "Counting for Srinagar President and former Chief parliamentary constituency Minister Farooq Abdullah will be taken up at 8.00 am the joint candidate of the tomorrow and the results are opposition NC-Congress likely to be announced by alliance is facing challenge 5.00 Pm in the evening same from PDP's Nazir Ahmad day." The polling in Srinagar Khan the joint candidate of parliamentary constituency ruling PDP-BJP alliance. disturbed by some violent (KNS)

condoled the demise who passed away early today at New the state's electoral history, said Election Commission April 9. FROM PAGE 1 Delhi. officials. Director General of Police S P Vaid said three persons have In her condolence message, the Chief Minister described However, the overall polling percentage in the entire been arrested in the case. "Five people were called for 'JK's Industrial Estates to late Saxena as an able administrator who left an indelible constituency now stood at 7.13, they added. investigation, three have been arrested," he said, adding that mark in the State during his gubernatorial assignments. The repolling was necessitated due to large-scale violence a search was on for a fourth. Earlier, the CRPF had lodged get 24X7 power supply' Mehbooba Mufti has conveyed her personal condolences to during last Sunday's polling in the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat. a formal complaint at Chadoora police station and the bereaved family of Saxena, particularly his wife and two demanded stern action against the youths involved in the daughters. incident. policy to provide hassle-free services to the industrial India to appeal against Jadhav's Lovingly called as Gary Saxena, he was the Governor of the PTI adds: In Kolkata, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said he estates in the State. He said J&K is moving forward to State twice from May 26, 1990 to March 12, 1993 and from death sentence: Envoy will look into the issue of the videos shot in Kashmir, become a fast developing and state- of- the-art industrial May 02, 1998 to June, 04 2003. including the one showing a man tied to an Army jeep. hub. Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh too has expressed "Whatever incident happens anywhere, we will look into The State Government under single window system has by army chief General Bajwa after the Field General Court grief over the demise of Saxena. the issue. I do not have any information on the video as of eased the process of clearances for setting up industrial Martial found him guilty of "espionage and sabotage In condolence message, Dr Nirmal Singh conveyed his now," he told a press conference. "I have already asked for units at affordable and subsidized rates, the Minister activities" in Pakistan. sympathy to the bereaved family and prayed for the peace filing an FIR on the incident (of) CRPF jawans (being asserted. He said the government is providing several Pakistan claims its security forces had arrested Jadhav from to the departed soul. heckled) while carrying electronic voting machines," he incentives to the entrepreneurs. the restive Balochistan province on March 3 last year after said. Minister for Industries and Commerce Chander Parkash he reportedly entered from Iran. It also claimed that he was Ganga, in his address, said the area would soon be 'No change in India's "a serving officer in the Indian Navy." developed into major industrial hub and Samba would The Pakistan Army had also released a "confessional video" Law on triple talaq only prove to be a well connected industrial corridor with of Jadhav after his arrest. However, India denied Pakistan's reputed business and commercial centres. position on Tibet contention and maintained that Jadhav was kidnapped by after consensus: Naqvi The new plant is being built in Industrial Area Samba at an the Pakistan authorities. investment of Rs 200 crore over 100 kanals of land. India had made it clear to Pakistan that given the "Let me make it absolutely clear that there is no change circumstances of the case, absence of any credible evidence destroy the positive, constructive debate over it. Reforms The Minister informed that a first of its kind Technology whatsoever in the Government of India's policy towards the should start from within the community, not from outside," Centre is coming up in Samba which would be constructed to substantiates the concocted charges against Jadhav, Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of farcical nature of the proceedings against him and denial of Naqvi, who was in the city to attend a programme at the Haj at an estimated cost of Rs. 100 crore. The Government is China. House, told reporters. working under a well-knit plan to accelerate the pace of consular access to him, the people and the government of "Similarly, our approach to seeking a fair, reasonable and India will consider carrying out of the army court verdict as He said suggestions on 'triple talaq' were pouring in from industrial growth in the State, besides creating fresh job mutually acceptable solution to the boundary question different sections of the society and discussions were opportunities for locals, he added. a "premeditated murder". remains unchanged." Pakistan today rejected India's accusation that there was no underway with all the stakeholders. He was responding to a query on whether the visit of the credible evidence against Jadhav, and warned that "Some people are supporting while some are opposing. It is Five held for assaulting CRPF men, Dalai Lama to Arunachal Pradesh signals a change in "inflammatory" statements over his death sentence would all part of a healthy democracy. As far as the Government is disturbing videos spark resentment India's policy on Tibet or on the boundary negotiation issue. only result in escalation of tension in the bilateral ties. concerned, we will wait for a consensus before forming any India's position on Tibet has been that it is a part of China. Pakistan Prime Minister's Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj law on triple talaq. It (the law) will not be sudden. The However, after Tibetan spiritual leader's recent trip to process is on," Naqvi said. physically abusing - slapping and kicking - CRPF personnel Aziz said that due process of law was followed in Jadhav's Arunachal Pradesh, China had accused India of violating its in a series of videos that went viral. trial. commitment on the Tibet issue and warned that allowing the "Eleven identified five of them arrested, two others being India had yesterday criticised the Pakistan government for Army investigating video showing Dalai Lama to go there will have "negative impact" on the questioned and the main accused is absconding," SP Vaid, not sharing Jadhav's location and details of his condition settlement of the border dispute. youth tied to jeep: DGP Jammu and Kashmir DGP told. and said that the international norm to provide consular The central government had also promised to take strict access was not followed. India and Pakistan have a bilateral added that the Indian army is doing its own investigation action against those who were seen assaulting the CRPF Govt provides Rs 2.5 Cr to agreement on consular access. into the same. jawans while they were returning with the EVMs after the Meanwhile, there was no official confirmation on reports of surrendered militants in 13 years Vaid told, "I did see the video. No one has approached the bypolls. The jawans were carrying guns but did not retaliate India asking its high commission in Pakistan to go slow on police yet." maintaining their calm as they crossed the street after the visas to Pakistan nationals in wake of the development. The video was reportedly shot in Beerwah area of Budgam elections ended. of weapons and stipend for a period of 3 years at the rate of district where the miscreants disrupted polling during Home Minister Rajnath Singh had also said that he had Rs 2,000 per month from the date of surrender. Kashmir valley video shows man tied to jeep, Sunday's by-poll to Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency by spoken to the DG CRPF and that they were "looking into In the past three month, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti CM seeks report, Army orders probe pelting stones. the video." recently said atleast 12 Kashmiri youth who had picked up guns have returned to mainstream life. The Chief Minister In the video, it shows a young man tied to an Army jeep and Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir Nirmal Singh, anonymous users uploaded a video of Kashmiri youths said she had said that directed the security agencies to it is moving in front of a convoy of vehicles. while condemning the incident, praised the CRPF jawans heckling and assaulting CRPF personnel, another video did ensure the return of local youth involved in militancy to "The contents of the video are being verified and for showing restraint and patience. "There will be stern the rounds of social media Friday, this time showing a youth mainstream life. At the same Union Home Ministry said investigated," a defence spokesman said in Srinagar. action against perpetrators. It's noteworthy how the jawans tied to the bonnet of a moving Army jeep, ostensibly as a 104 local youths of the state have joined the militancy since The video is being widely shared on social networks in were patient. Our security forces are disciplined. Such warning to stone-pelting protesters. 2016. Kashmir and is drawing condemnation. incidents aren't acceptable at all, action will be taken," The video of the man tied to the jeep triggered an outrage, The video has caused outrage with former chief minister Singh had said. prompting Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to seek a report Omar Abdullah demanding a probe into the incident. (ANI) "The jawan had gun in his hands and he could have done Will look into video of man tied to from police. An official release stad that the Chief Minister anything when he was being insulted. But he kept calm and army jeep in Kashmir: Rajnath described the act as unacceptable and asked police to submit maintained high discipline," the Deputy CM said. a detailed report so that necessary action is initiated. She 3 killed, 2 injured in "It is a condemnable act. The state government will take expressed concern and anguish over the surfacing of the from close range by security force personnel outside a stern action and all such elements will be punished," he videos. polling station in Kashmir. road mishap in J&K said. Army spokesman Col Rajesh Kalia told The Indian Express Lauding the security forces in the troubled state, Singh said that the Army was verifying credentials of the video. In the no one should try to demean their role. clip, a soldier can be heard saying, "Those who throw The accident occurred near Pounra village here late last "We should not demean the role of the security forces. Former JK Governor stones will meet the same fate." The video shows the jeep at night when the vehicle was on its way from this town to Whenever there is a situation in the Valley, the security the head of an Army patrol. Manthla, police said. personnel risk their lives to save the people of Kashmir," he Saxena dies at 90 Reacting to the video, former chief minister Omar Abdullah On hearing about the accident, the villagers rushed to the said, while replying to a query about a section of politicians tweeted, "I understand the outrage the CRPF video spot and took all the five passengers to Sub-District blaming the army for violence in the Valley. generated. I'm also outraged that the video of the youth on Hospital here, where doctors declared three of them, Agra in 1928 and is survived by his wife and two daughters. Singh said the low polling percentage in the recent by-poll the jeep won't generate the same anger." including the driver of the vehicle, as brought dead, they Governor N.N. Vohra has expressed grief over the demise in Kashmir was a matter of concern and added that Calling it "shocking" and "shameful", Tanvir Sadiq of said. of Girish Chandra Saxena, former Governor Jammu and "something would be done to improve the situation". National Conference claimed the incident had taken place at The two seriously injured are undergoing treatment at the Kashmir, who breathed his last today morning. "It is a matter of concern of course, but we will do Gundipora village in Beerwah. hospital, police said. In a message of condolence the Governor conveyed his something to improve the situation," he said. Meanwhile, the J&K police arrested three persons who they The deceased have been identified as Des Raj, the forest sympathy to the bereaved family and prayed for the peace Only a two per cent turnout was recorded in the repelling said were involved in heckling and kicking CRPF personnel gaurd, Om Kar and Vejinder Kumar, and the injured as Arun to the departed soul. held at 38 polling stations of the Srinagar Lok Sabha soon after polling ended for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat on Kumar and Rakesh Kumar, they added. Meanwhile, Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti has also constituency, making it the lowest registered percentage in

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Birth Anniversary, in a with govt completely averse Lambasting the govt for its function held at PCC HQ. spoke on the occasion to the woes of the aggrieved included PCC General culpable neglect and most Shaheedi Chowk, Jammu, teaching community despicable apathy in which was presided over by Secretary Th.Manmohan including contractual Singh, Ex-MLAs-Gurbachan adjusting master promotees the Former Minister and lecturers, unadjusted of 2014, Singh said that Kumari Rana, Indu Pawar-, Vice-President J&K PCC promoted Masters of Jammu never before in the history of K.C. Bhagat, Prof. Gharu Mula Ram and attended by Raman Bhalla recalled his Ambedkar and recalled his and RETs, Harsh Dev Singh Education Deptt had the Ram Bhagat, President several senior leaders of the relentless efforts for the contributions under the JKNPP Chairman and promotees been kept PYC- Pranav Shagotra, party. While paying floral rights of the under privileged guidance of Mahatma Former Minister today unadjusted for as long as Gurdarshan Singh, Subash tributes to the father of sections of the society and to Gandhi, Pt. Nehru and other announced to gherao the three years. While all of the Indian Constitution, the get them their constitutional great stalwarts of the time. Bhagat, Pawan Raina, Education Minister in case 900 odd Masters promoted senior Congress leader Mula rights in every sphere of life He criticized the attempts to Suresh Dogra, Kulbir Singh the genuine concerns of the in 2014 in Kashmir Division Ram described Baba Sahib on the principle of equality. distort history and mislead Pathania, Thomas Khokar, said community were not were adjusted during the Bhim Rao Ambedkar as one Bhalla also cautioned the about the role of great Rajveer Singh, Ch. Sukh addressed within a week. He same period, the 581 of the towering personalities people against the designs of stalwarts for the country. Dev Singh, S. Kirtan Singh, said that it was extremely promoted Masters of Jammu of modern India who will anti-social and anti national Chief Spokesperson Gajan Singh, Uttam Singh, hurtful that so called builders of the contractual lecturers release of their pending Division during 2014 were always be remembered for forces and lashed out the Ravinder Sharma Bikramjit Singh, B. B. of nation had to take to roads sitting on chain hunger strike salaries besides retrospective still unadjusted and thus his outstanding contribution present dispensation in the remembered the contribution Gupta, Madan lal Malager, even for the realization of for the last more than sixty regularization of all eligible subjected to the worst for the upliftment of the country and state for their of Dr. Ambedkar during Naresh Mani, Chanchal their lawful rights which days, Singh said that the RETs from 2014 as regular humiliation and harassment downtrodden people in this failure check such forces. freedom struggle and post Popli, Prabha Salathia, were genuinely and ruling alliance had made the teachers, payment of arrears by the authorities concerned, country. Former Minister Jahangir Mir Dy. Chairman independence era. Smt. P.S.Chouhan, Dr. Ramakant legitimately due to them. He most unusual and of regularized Education maintained the former and Vice President PCC LC paid rich tributes to Dr. Kanta Bhan and Anil Chopra Khajuria, Gorav Chopra. was addressing a press conspicuous mockery of the Volunteers (EVs), entry of Education Minister. PCPG meeting held POWERGRID NRTS -II pays homage to Dr. Ambedkar Awareness prog held to mark Jammu, Apr 14 To strengthen the Police-Public relations NL Correspondent In his address Sh culmination of Digi Dhan Melas Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 and bring the people closer to the Police, R.V.S.Kushwaha General today a PCPG meeting was held by I/C PP NL Correspondent occasion. Manager (Asset Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 Pallanwala Sh. Jeet Singh at PP Power Grid Corporation of Important public sector as well as Management ) , highlighted Pallanwala, Khour. People including India Ltd, Northern Region private sector banks and other the role of Dr. Bhimarao District administration organized a prominent/Senior citizensand youths of Transmission System - II, stakeholders installed their stalls at Ramji Ambedkar in function at Teacher Bhawan to the venue and provided information the area participated in meeting. At the Jammu celebrated the 127th amelioration of the cause of celebrate the successful culmination related to digital initiatives, mobile outset of the meeting, the participants were birth anniversary of Dr. the downtrodden and weaker of Digi Dhan Melas held across the apps and also provided services like welcomed by the chairing Police officer Bhimarao Ramji Ambedkar sections of society. He urged country beginning on 25thDecember, instant opening of bank accounts, and requested them to put forth their across its establishments in upon the children to follow 2016. Aadhar seeding of accounts, genuine problems. During the meeting the Northern Region-II . In these participants put forth their problems. The the path of Dr. Ambedkar Commissioner Secretary distribution of POS machines etc. celebrations respectful chairing police officers assured them to members and children took Manager (Asset and help in making this Information Technology , Tribal Verma while speaking on the homage was paid to Dr. take up their problems with concern active interest and were full Management ) was the chief country a socially developed Affairs and Technical Education, occasion exhorted upon the people authority for their redressal. Besides, the Bhimarao Ramji Ambedkar . of enthusiasm to showcase guest . Sh. Sanjay Gupta, nation. Documentary on the Sanjeev Verma was the Chief Guest to participate and encourage the issues like-drug abuse, traffic violation, Painting, clay modeling, their talent. The beautiful DGM(Finance), Sh. Shiv life and vision of Dr. on the occassion while Deputy digital initiatives being introduced by rash driving, and eve-teasing were also quiz, lecture competitions and expressive drawings Jyoti Sharma , DGM(C&M), Ambedkar was also screened Commissioner, Jammu, Anuradha the Govt. He emphasized that J&K is discussed. At last chairing Police officer and various cultural and models added to the Dr. J.S.Chouhan , Chief on this occasion. The Gupta presided over the function. an equal partner in responding to thanked the participants for sparing their programmes were organized glory of the events. . Manager(HR) and several programme ended with prize Senior officers of district these initiatives at par with other valuable time to attend the meeting and in which the life and In one such event organized officials of POWERGRID distribution among the administration, education and progressive States in the country. He assured them for better co-operation from contribution of Dr. at its Regional Headquarters alongwith their family winners of various Information Technology department expressed hope that these initiatives Police. The participants appreciated the Ambedkar was highlighted. in Jammu , Sh members participated in this competitions organized on teachers, students and people in large will transform the social and Police for arranging such meetings. The employees, their family R.V.S.Kushwaha General function. this occasion.(Vinul Koul). number were present on the economic fabric of the State. Fire Service Day observed Speaker takes stock of dev works NL Correspondent all those gallant personnel Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 NL Correspondent who lost their lives while Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 saving others. Fire and Emergency Joint Director Fire and Services Jammu and Speaker, Jammu and Kashmir today country Emergency Services Jammu Kashmir Legislative observed the Fire Service Range R T Dubey, Deputy Assembly, Kavinder Gupta Day to remember and pay Director Fire & Emergency today visited the different homage to martyrs of the Services Command Jammu areas of Raipur Satwari and Services who have laid their C K Peshin, Medical Officer took stock of issues faced by lives while saving life and Fire & Emergency Services the people of these areas. property of people. Dr. Farooq Ahmad and The Speaker said the The main function was held Accounts Officer T L Raina government is committed to at Fire & Emergency were also present on the provide all basic amenities to Services Headquarter occasion and laid wreath on the people and it is also irrigation channel on drain area in which the locals put including clean drinking Gandhi Nagar Jammu where the memorial. important for the people to for widening of the road in up their demands and water, constructions of Director Fire and Similar function was show interest in different Lahori Mohalla, Raipur problems before the Speaker bathrooms under centrally Emergency Services RK organized at Fire and state and central Govt Satwari at a cost of Rs 2.50 including setting up new sponsored schemes like Haq laid wreath on emergency Services Hqrs schemes for maximizing the lakh by Irrigation electric poles and wires, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, memorial to pay tribute to April 20, 2017. awareness programmes in Batmaloo Srinagar, where benefits at grassroots level. Department Division-I. repairing and construction of Widow and Old age Pension gallant firemen who were RK Hak, elaborating on this Schools, Colleges, Mohammad Akbar Dar The Speaker also said that The Speaker asked the lanes and drains in the area, related issues etc. martyred in the line of duty. year's slogan 'Firemen- your Industries to inculcate fire Deputy Director paid several developmental works executing agencies to stick uninterrupted power supply The Speaker gave patient While speaking on the partner for saving Life and preventive and safety homage to Martyrs. Besides are going on in different to deadline in the execution and availability of ration. hearing to the people of the occasion, RK Hak property' stressed upon measures so that the losses all Command Officers also areas of Gandhi Nagar of the project and ensure the A number of delegations area and assured them that emphasized the importance officers and jawans of the during any fire emergency organized and attend the Constituency for betterment usage of quality material. enroute to the venue also met their genuine demands of Fire Service Day and Fire department to play their role can be minimized. programmes on the of basic facilities in the area. On the occasion, the Speaker Speaker and projected their would be addressed as early Service Week which is being in Nation's development by The Fire Service Day is occasions in their respective During his visit, the Speaker also convened a public demands and developmental as possible in a phased observed from April 14 to launching massive observed to pay homage to Commands. also started the work of meeting of the people of the issues to the Speaker manner. Natasha gets best Child artist BJP remembers Dr. Ambedkar on birth anniversary CM launches Transparency Portal Award in Drama Festival of FCS&CA Deptt NL Correspondent Code throughout the India that's conditions, earning Doctorates Jammu,. Apr 14 Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 why he was personally against form World class Universities, NL Correspondent working to evolve an online of the portal by the Natasha Thakur D/O Rajesh Thakur from Article 370 which he promptly gaining reputation as a scholar Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 mechanism in the Department is a step forward Sangam Theatre Group Reasi got Best Child On the occasion of 126th birth conveyed, but the then political for his researches. Balbir Ram Government functioning in the digital revolution in the artist award for the anniversary of Bharat Ratna Dr. compulsions and self interests of Rattan said that Dr. Ambedkar Chief Minister, Mehbooba wherein a common citizen country. He stressed the need play "Kabuli Wala" in Bheem Rao Ambedkar, BJP certain persons at the helm of believed that education to Mufti today advised all would not have to move from for undertaking awareness District Drama Departments to put their Anusuchit Jaati Morcha under its affairs led to the present chaos children is must, as the root table to table and office to among people regarding the Festival recently activities and services in State President & MLA Dr. and turmoil in this border state. cause of all social evils is office for redressal of his or benefits of the online display organized by J& K digital mode so as to improve Davinder Manyal, organized a Dr. Devinder Manyal said that backwardness prevalent in the her grievance. She said she is of stock and supply position Academy of Art, their public interface and programme at Trikuta Nagar Dr. Ambedkar gives the lesson of society. Baba Saheb himself hopeful that such a system of ration. He also stressed Culture and bring in more transparency in Office.BJP State President & progress in life not only to a worked whole life, whole would be introduced soon that the step would help in Languages. Natasha their activities. Addressing a MLA West, along with State particular community or sect but heartedly for the cause of dalits. giving the people the much bringing more transparency received theatre gathering here after General Secretary Dr. Narinder to the whole mankind that hard Proceedings of the programme needed relief. The Chief to the system. Minister for training from Sangam launching the Transparency Singh, Chief Whip & MLA work always pays, no situation were conducted by Morcha State Minister complimented the Food Supplies, Consumer Theatre Group Reasi Portal of Food, Civil Supplies Rajesh Gupta, Chhamb MLA Dr. can stop a person from achieving General Secretary Dr. Manohar FCS&CA Department for the Affairs & Public Distribution under the guidance of and Consumer Affairs Krishan Lal Bhagat, senior a goal, no matter how bad the Lal Rao.BJP State Secretary initiative adding that it would (FSCAPD) and MOS Ajay M. Akram Khan. She is first time participated (FCS&CA) Department, the not only streamline the ration Nanda also addressed the leader & Morcha Prabhari circumstances be. Rajesh Gupta Sanjay Baru, State Spokesperson in the drama Festival. Chairman Brhum Chief Minister said bringing distribution by the gathering. Divisional Narsingh Dass Rajwal, State said that history is witness to the S.S. Bijral, SC senior leaders Saroop Sharma all the artist present in the their activities and services Department in a transparent Commissioner, Jammu, Dr. Spokesperson Balbir Ram fact that Vedas were written by Chaman Lal Kanathia, Ashok function congratulates the Natasha Thakur for onto online platform would manner but also provide an Pawan Kotwal; IGP, Jammu Rattan and Morcha General Ved Vyas, Ramayan by Valmiki Gandhi, Sharda Devi, District outstanding performance in the festival. Other not only encourage the opportunity for the zone, S D Singh; Secretary, who present included Ajay Waguzari, Suraj Secretary Manohar Lal Rao, laid and Indian Constitution by Dr. President Baldev Singh deserving to get their rightful consumers to directly Food Supplies, Consumer Narayan, Jiginder Kumar, Barkha Thakur, wreaths at the portrait of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, all of them Billawaria, Mahila Morcha shares but also get the communicate with the Affairs & Public Distribution, Shipali Devi, Karan Mengi, Rashad Khan, Ambedkar and paid their rich belonged to dalit community. Dr. District President Rekha Departments an enhanced Departmental authorities. Shafiq Raina, senior officers Tanav ,Raja Aamir Khan, Parveen Akhtar, tributes. Dr. Narinder Singh said Krishan Lal Bhagat said that Dr. Mahajan and office bearers of public interface as well. Speaking on the occasion, of the Department and a large Anam Khan, Shadab Khan, M. Rashad that Dr. Ambedkar always Ambedkar was a prolific student BJP and SC Morcha also paid Mehbooba Mufti said for a Deputy Chief Minister, Dr. number of senior citizens ,Rakesh Bhagat and Sudhir Sharma. advocated for a uniform Civil under difficult socio-economic their tributes. year now she has been Nirmal Singh said the launch were present on the occasion. 4 HILL DISTRICT the northlines Jammu | Saturday | April 15 | 2017 MLA highlights teachings of Dr. Ambedkar Ambedkar Jayanti celebrated in Bhaderwah

human beings. Meantime a MOHD MAJID MALIK Dodaled by MLC Naresh Symposium was also held at GHSS BHADERWAH, APR 14 Kumar Gupta celebrated where participants lauded his major Birth Anniversary of Dr. B.R contribution by protecting the Bharat Rattan, Baba Saheb Ambedkar in its office with Fundamental Rights for the social Dr. BR Ambedkar's Jayanti great fervour. MLC along freedom, equality and eradication of was celebrated by All J&K with other congress workers untouchability for low group people Guru Ravi Dass Sabha, presented garland and and directive principles enhancing the Bhaderwah in collaboration flowers on the photo of B.R living status by securing the fair with SC /ST/OBC Youth Ambedkar. While distribution of wealth of state policy Committee Dalian here highlighting his in the Indian constitution. He today in the premises of achievements Naresh continued his social revolution till the temple in Dalian village Kumar Gupta said that NL Correspondent MLA Ramban was also present there. end of his life and he has been Bhaderwah. All participants Ambedkar always stood by RAMBAN, Apr 14 Speaking on the occasion, MLA Shri Guru Ravi Dass Ji OBCs.He alleged that in honored with the Bharat Ratna. paid tributes to Baba Saheb. the poor and down trodden Ramban said that Ambedkar Jayanti Maharaj and Baba whole Bhaderwah Speaking on the occasion, Dy. CEO Addressing the gathering, people and was a real social Like other part of state as well as is celebrated by the people of India Sahib.Swami Raj President constituency Dalian village Ramban said that on the directions of Parshotam Kumar President worker. He said that as a country, Ambedkar Jayanti was very happily to remember his Guru Ravi Dass Sabha in his is based on 100% SC District Development Commissioner SC/ST/OBC youth Chairman of the celebrated in district Ramban with immense contributions for the poor address said that it is all due population but instead of that Ramban Mohammad Aijaz 126th Committee said that Dr BR Constitution Drafting great enthusiasm more than like a people of India. Dr. Bhimrao to Baba Saheb that political Dalian village is without Ambedkar anniversary was celebrated Ambedkar was a great Committee his greatest gift festival on 14th of April in order to Ambedkar is the father of Indian and service class reservation dispensary , road link and in various schools and institutions of visionary, champion of to India was the world's commemorate the birthday of Dr. Constitution who had drafted the is provided to the other basic facilities . He the district. He further said that it was downtrodden and father of biggest Constitution which Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and his Constitution of India. He run a social a big moment for the people of India downtrodden communities demanded that modern Indian Constitution. He envisaged security to every contributions for the people of India. movement for people using slogan when Ambedkar was born in the year like SC, ST and OBCs. He village should be created in always fought for social and citizen of India irrespective Ambedkar Jayanti was celebrated at "Educate-Agitate-Organize" aiming 1891. Senior Lecturer Shushma Rani, said government should Dalian village of Bhaderwah economic equality and of caste , colour and creed. Higher Secondary School Ramban to eradicate the casteism in India as and staff members of participating provide justice to the under- for upliftment of under- universal brotherhood, he He was the real architect of (GHSS), Parayas Hemkrish Model well as rebuilding the Indian Society schools besides students attended the privileged and give all privileged people . Those said and advised the people the Indian Constitution. School and Maitra Ramban where by following the rule of equality of function. facilities to SC, ST and who spoke on the occasion to follow the path shown by included Ajay Kumar , Workers present in function Biharai Lal , Lochu Ram , were Wasim Ganai , Ashraf MLA Udh Fulfilling Ambedkar's dreams will Baldev Raj , Om Raj , Butt , Kamran Ganai , Rakesh Kumar , Raksha Dharampal Dogra , Chuni Badotra , Rakesh Basotra Lal , Ab Quyom Khan visits Pandav Temples be real tribute to him: Vibodh and others also spoke on the ,Saleem Wani ,Zargam occasion .Meanwhile Mughal , Kulbhushan NL Correspondent even it has a big scope of area is presently facing NL Correspondent District Congress Committee Kotwal. Udhampur, Apr 14 Nowshera, Apr 14 tourism but this ancient scarcity of drinking water temple is never properly badly and they demanded MLA Udhampur Assembly To pay tributes to Dr. Rich tributes paid to Dr Ambedkar highlighted by the state hand pumps in Pandav Constituency Pawan Gupta Bhimrao Ambedkar on his government under Temple and approach road Poonch, Apr 14 today made an extensive birthday today a special unannounced policy of of Pandav Temple from the function was organised at The Poonch Chapter of Jammu and Kashmir Reserved tour of historic Pandev Kashmir centric leadership main road. Gupta assured Thakar Duwara in Categories Empowerment Alliance (JKRCEA) celebrated Temples of Krimchi of because Udhampur and the people that he will Nowshera. The programme the 126th birth anniversary of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar at Mansar area of Udhampur. its historic places are being broad this matter into the was organised by B R Dak Bungalow here today. It is recalled that this ignored from a very long notice of concerned higher Ambedkar Movement and a Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Harun Malik was the ancient Temple is under time. He immediately authorities of Government large number of people that Dr. Ambedkar , one of payments through the chief guest while Assistant Commissioner Development, Syed Zubair Hussain Shah was the guest of honor. Archeologists Department makes a telephonically and he will also submit a driven from different walks the architects of modern fingerprint scanner, by The programme saw attendance from a large number of Government of India. contact with Executive proposal with the of life participated in the India was a great visionary authenticating the biometric people hailing from all sections of the society. On the occasion, MLA Engineer of the Archeology government of India for the programme. On this and his futuristic thoughts details of a user with Deputy Commissioner in his address paid rich tributes to Pawan Gupta has expressed Department and has given occasion, BJP senior leader are still very relevant to take Aadhaar database. On this development of Krimchi Dr. Ambedkar and described him a great social reformer, that this Temple has him required instructions Mansar area keeping in and MLC Vibodh Gupta India forward. In his occasion Chairman B R was Chief Guest. jurist, economist and social reformer who fought for the historic and religious for the proper development view of its tourism address Vibodh also Ambedkar Movement Addressing the gathering informed people about the Sanam B Raina also rights of the disadvantaged sections of society. He importance but it is of Pandav Temple. Locals possibilities. Others who Vibodh said that today the launch of BHIM-Aadhar addressed the gathering. In exhorted upon the participants to follow the vision of Dr. unfortunate that the temple of the area have informed were present on the Ambedkar to bring about desirable social changes in is not properly developed MLA that Krimchi Mansar year long celebrations pay app by Hon'ble Pime his address he described occasion included Raj which started last year by Minister Narendra Modi. He Babasaheb as the voice of society. Kumar Bucha, Raj the BJP Government on the said that this is also a great the poor and marginalised. Paying rich tributes to Dr. Ambedkar, President JKRCEA Digi Dhan Mela held to Muhummad Chandail, Devi occasion of 125th birth tribute to B R Ambedkar as Prominent among other who Ch. Muhammad Asad Noomani said that Dr Ambedkar Charan , Raj Paul Verma, aniversary of Babasaheb this will allow people to were present on the devoted his life and efforts towards bringing a positive Darshan Verma, Dyanand have culminated. He also make payments without occasion included Vishal difference in the lives of the poor, marginalized and lesser promote cashless economy Khajuira and Raghubhir threw light on the life of using a smartphone. Instead, Gupta, Arpan Gupta, Neena privileged. Singh. Ambedkar. He further added the app will enable Sharma, Sumit Singh. Chairman Sir Sayeed Education Mission, Sarfraz Ahmed NL Correspondent Center, Udhampur in Mir, Farooq Saqi, Rajesh Kumar Vice President Udhampur, Apr 14 collaboration with Lead JKRCEA, Yogesh Kumar Secretary JKRCEA, Haji Bank also installed LED Farooq Dehdar Chairman, Khalid Amin Kohli Teh Gen. A slew of awareness 'Ponds maintain climatic balance in TVs for screening of the Secy, Lal Hussain Terwa Sr Vice President, Gulnaz programmes were held live telecast of PM's Ahmed Zonal President, Altaf Choudhary Pub. Secy, across the district to address from the 100th extreme weather conditions' Farooq Tanha, Afzal Poswal, Rahim Ch, Amrish Kumar, promote digital payments and the last mela of this Utkrsh Kumar were also present on the occasion. and cashless transactions series at Nagpur. NL Correspondent achieving tangible results in complete transparency, officers to revive and Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 among the people Similar programs were a time bound manner. accountability and strengthen the defunct Army conducts pre- The main event was organised at different The Minister said that the efficiency at all levels and nurseries by developing Minister for Forest, recruitment training for youth organised at Devika Ghat blocks, Panchayats and Forest Department is improve the delivery system ornamental species. He Environment & Ecology, where awareness schools of the district with directly connected with the on ground. directed to remove bushes, Poonch, Apr 14 Choudhary Lal Singh today programmes were an objective to spread health of the people and the Stressing the need for close proper landscaping, In its endeavour to actively pursue measures for the said that water bodies, organized by the awareness about cashless functionaries of the coordination between irrigation of parks and welfare of the youth, the Army conducting a Pre- especially ponds maintain organization must put in Information department economy among the various agencies to achieve forests. He asked for Recruitment training for the youth of Poonch district at climatic balance in extreme their best efforts to achieve and Field Publicity Unit , common masses besides the common goal, Singh constructing small ponds in Youth Centre, Surankote on 10 April 2017 for a weather conditions. the objective. He stressed observing the 126th birth said that collective efforts forests and nurseries for duration of four weeks. The training preparing the Udhampur to sensitise the The Minister visited and the need for evolving anniversary of the Dr between the departments irrigation purpose. He also youth as per the requirements of recruitment standards people . Besides this, took stock of ponds and innovative mechanism to B.R.Ambedkar like industry, local bodies, directed for proper for Army and Paramilitary Forces. During the training speakers from various other eco-tourism sites in implement the Central and Among others, ACR and transport can ensure patrolling on check posts to the candidates are being imparted the basic physical banks also threw light on Birpur and Bantlab area in State Sponsored Schemes Subhash Chander Dogra, better results. He said these avoid theft of timber. fitness and written examination training. The the benefits of cashless Jammu region. He stressed by the Forest and its allied agencies must work in He also said that efforts are ACD Om Prakash, GM candidates are also looking at it as an opportunity for transactions. on taking requisite Departments to maintain a synergy and review the afoot to rejuvenate various Additional Deputy DIC Angrez Singh, DPO enhancement and improvement of their personal and measures to streamline the healthy environment in progress of various ponds inside various Commissioner, Avny Sandeep Seointra, DSWO social abilities. The response to the initiative was functioning of Forest Jammu and Kashmir. He common issues periodically sanctuaries besides Rachna Sharma, DIO Esha overwhelming and the trainees are hopeful that the Lavasa was the chief guest Department, adding that called upon the to address these strengthening the walls Chib besides other district training imparted will help them succeed in enrollment on the occasion laboratory infrastructure functionaries of the expeditiously. covering the wildlife officers attended the mela. District Information needs to be strengthen for Organization to ensure The Minister directed the sanctuaries. in Army, Paramilitary Forces and Corporate Sector. MLA inaugurates Digi Dhan Mela UNDP team calls on Dir Info

NL Correspondent NL Correspondent programme, the Deputy Country are various districts across the operational mechanism. He also Doda, Apr 14 Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 Director and Head Environment State which are craving for called initiating capacity Unit, Dr Preeti Soni said that professional intervention from the development programmes for the To promote cashless A two member team comprising UNDP is doing the baseline organizations like World Bank, officials of the State Government transactions and digital United Nations Development surveys in Jammu and Kashmir to UNDP, UNESCO, UNIICEF etc. in order to provide better payment system a Digi Dhan Programme (India), Deputy understand the area and hoping to He highlighted the process and governance in the State. Later the Mela was organised by district Country Director, Dr Preeti Soni take it forward to the next level. success of constructing of over UNDP team informed the administration at Boys Higher and Programme Analyst She said that UNDP also finds 140 small bridges in Udhampur Director that their organization Secondary School here today. (Biodiversity and Natural substantial general differences district few years back in has had excellent partnership MLA Doda Shakti Raj Parihar Resource Management) Energy major hurdle in developmental convergence model. He said such over the years with the was the chief guest on the and Environment Unit, Ruchi Pant outcome of any area. Dr interventions and innovative Government of Jammu and occasion. Additional Deputy today called on Director Choudhary, who is also Additional measures uplift the Government's Kashmir in various areas like Commissioner, Mohammad Information, Dr Shahid Iqbal Secretary to Chief Minister and face and help to provide good National Rural Livelihood Hanief Malik, ADDC Narinder focus of customer awareness payments options like credit & Choudhary to discuss the current Managing Director, Jammu and governance to the people in far off Mission (NRLM), designing the Singh Bali, ACR Tariq Naik, campaign is to spread digital Debit Cards, POS terminals, e- projects of J&K Government and Kashmir Tourism Development places in the State. Lauding capacity building programme for Principals, various officers of awareness thus facilitating wallet options and Loyalty explore how best UNDP could Corporation (JKTDC), presented UNDP's technical assistance in the PRIs, supporting Women's other departments, bankers and people to use cashless payment cards at Retail Outlets, the support in better implementation a detailed sketch of the implementation of various Development Corporation in locals attended the program. options in their day to day convenience lies in being of these projects. During an hour Government's developmental development and welfare capacity building of women Speaking on the occasion, the transactions. cashless in today's time, he long meeting, the UNDP delegates policies. He urged the delegates to programmes, Dr Choudhary said groups for product design MLA said that the main Mr Parihar further said that the added. hoped to work with the State explore the possibilities of skill development of youth and besides a study has also been objective of the event was to campaign will fulfill the Various digital payment Government and enhance the entering into MoU with various human resource management in commissioned with University of educate people about the objective of moving towards a solutions available to the livelihood and socio-economic Government run departments for school education can be areas Kashmir to develop strategy and benefits of cashless cashless economy. With the general public were also profile of the Himalayan State. capacity building. Dr Choudhary where UNDP can support the action plan for ecological transactions. He said that the introduction of cashless showcased during the program. Divulging details about the in his presentation said that there State to put in place a better security of the Dal Lake. the northlines 5 KATHUA Jammu | Saturday | April 15 | 2017

Dr Ambedkar's Birth Anniversary MoS pays tributes to Dr Ambedkar 'Govt taking tangible measures to bolster artisan community'

NL Correspondent find it easier to participate in reconstruct society along Samba, Apr 14 any domestic or international modern democratic ideas of fair. liberty, equality and Stating that the Handloom He further said the artisans fraternity. and Handicrafts are among can get benefit of life On the occasion, a huge major employment insurance and Rs 1200 per function was also held at the generating sectors, Minister year for their children Minister residence which NL Correspondent for women empowerment India, students as the Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 for Industries and studying between class 9 and saw participation from a was exemplary and his future of the nation should Commerce, Chander Parkash 12. large number of people pioneering thoughts still Minister of State for also strive, work Ganga today asserted that He urged the participants to gathered to remember the hold true today. Education and Tourism progressively to achieve the present regime is taking make full use of various contribution of Dr Ambedkar ''He believed that society Priya Sethi today paid her their goals and become tangible measures to give initiatives launched by the and discussed their relevance tributes to Babasaheb will progress only when stakeholders in the nation fillip to both the vital sectors government for their benefit and applicability in present Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, women are empowered building process. across the State. especially the Digital India times. principal architect of and thus upheld women's On the occasion, students The Minister said this during Campaign which will help Among other, Director shape the nation and Handicraft and Handloom Indian Constitution, right to higher education from Dr Ambedkar the celebration of 126th birth facilitate transparency and Department Rajesh Sharma, saying that Dr Ambedkar and employment and the Convent School, Bantalab anniversary of Dr Babasaheb economy in the state, of BHIM app for cashless accountability in the Sub Divisional Magistrate used his education to present dispensation under and Rajpura presented Ambedkar organized by education about use of India payments. Handmade Bazar Portal Ganga speaking on the functioning of the state. Vijaypur Ravinder Sharma, spearhead the cause of the leadership of Prime enthralling cultural Assistant Director besides other schemes as occasion said that these Earlier, the Minister paid Assistant Director equality, fraternity and Minister Narendra Modi is performances (Handicraft) Ministry of part of the campaign. cards being distributed shall tribute to the Principal Handicraft R.L Verma, liberty and we should striving to achieve that to communicating strong Textile at Birpur, Samba. An awareness camp was also On the occasion, the provide benefits, including Architect of Indian Branch Manager LIC follow his example ensure women get their social messages. organized to promote Digital Minister distributed the easy access to loan, Constitution Babasaheb Jitender Bhat, officers of rightful place in society'', The Minister said this Many prominent members India campaign by means of PAHCHAN cards among insurance and credit Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar various departments besides the Minister added. during a function of the society were present artisan enrollment to artisans and educated them guarantee funds adding that and said that people should a large number of artisans organized to observe She urged the students to on the occasion. facilitate the cashless especially artisans on the use by help of this card, they will follow his footsteps to present on the occasion. 126th birth anniversary at focus on education and Shaheed Amar Nath said that as Dr Ambedkar Bhagat, at Shalamar, used education as a tool to Slathia slams BJP-PDP Sunil pays tributes to Jammu. rise above the ordinary The Minister said that Dr and become one of the Dr Ambedkar Ambedkar's contribution great leaders of modern for pursuing deceptive politics NL Correspondent his efforts to eradicate the Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 during six years on putting the state on social evils like Digi Dhan Melas held untouchability and caste the path of progress and normalcy have Minister of State for restrictions which united been undone by the present insensitive Transport, Revenue, Public across Kathua whole country in one and anti-people coalition. Speaking on Works (Roads & the occasion, senior NC leader and direction. He added that NL Correspondent about digital transactions. Buildings), Rural Kathua, Apr 14 MLA Dr Kamal Arora dwelt upon as Baba Sahib's Life He appealed people to use Development & fluid political situation across the state inspire us to fight for our mobile apps like UPI, Panchayati Raj, With the aim to sensitize and said that being premier political rights and to abolish the USSD, mobile banking, e Agriculture Production, party, the National Conference cadre curse like untouchability, people regarding cashless banking and e wallet which YSS, Sunil Sharma today We are also of the view transactions, Digi Dhan are easiest and safe means to had to get further activated to meet the paid tributes to Babasaheb that every human being Melas were organised all transfer money. He also challenge. Both the leaders, Slathia and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, should be treated equal as across the district today. appealed people to adopt and NL Correspondent BJP has cost the state dearly, not only Dr Arora exhorted the cadre to principal architect of Vijaypur, Apr 14 desired by the Constitution Programmes at panchayat, encourage others for digital in terms of gap between the people mobilize workers for identifying the Indian Constitution, saying besides on the basis of block and tehsil level were transactions and to link their widening but also performance of the problems facing to people in their areas that Dr Ambedkar used his Caste, color and creed. organised to make people adhaar and mobile numbers National Conference Sr. State Vice administration taking nose dive due to and agitating these at appropriate fora. education to spearhead the ''He believed that society aware of digital transactions with the bank accounts. President and former minister Surjeet lack of political direction. The former On the occasion, several activists of the cause of equality, will progress only when its essence and uses to curb The Deputy Commissioner Singh Slathia on Friday assailed the minister assailed the PDP-BJP BJP and Congress, including Sunny fraternity and liberty and women are empowered and black money. informed that mass PDP-BJP duo for sowing seeds of Government for contemptuously Nathyal, Mohinder Singh, Jarnail we should follow his thus upheld women's right People were given live awareness is being created discord among people and plunging ignoring peoples' aspirations and Singh, Bittu Choudhary, Sonu example. demonstrations by joint about digital transactions Jammu and Kashmir into crisis like taking vicarious pleasure in their Choudhary and their associates joined The Minister said this to higher education and teams of representatives through stalls, lectures and situation. "The coalition partners are accumulating woes. Slathia expressed the National Conference. Prominent during a function employment and the from banks, concerned display of POS machines suffering from inherent contradictions concern over the failure of the coalition among those present in the workers organized by Chenab present dispensation under department and agencies on etc during the Baisakhi Mela and playing to galleries, as a on all fronts, saying lack of meeting were ex- Sarpances Rampal Valley SC/ST Forum at the leadership of Prime various modes of cashless Billawar . consequence of which the people of coordination between various Sharma, Jasbir Singh, Omparkash Kishtwar. Sharma Minister Narendra Modi is transactions. The arrangements for live Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh find components of the government is Choudhary, Mohan Singh Patti, highlighted the remarkable striving to achieve that to Deputy Commissioner screening of the launch of themselves pushed to the wall", Mr detrimental to the overall interests of Mohanlal Sharma, Subhash Sharma, and immortal contribution ensure women get their Ramesh Kumar informed BHIM app by Prime Slathia said while addressing workers the sensitive state. Referring to Tajinder Singh, Pagwan Dass, Darshan of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar. rightful place in society," that the district Minister Narendra Modi was at Village Nandpur Ramnagar in disenchantment and dejection among Singh, Jogeshwar Singh, Ramesh He said that Baba Sahib's the Minister added. administration has planned a also made at panchayat and Vijaypur Assembly Constituency this people over disruption in peace and Sharma, District President NC contribution to Indian Many prominent members slew of activities to create block levels across the afternoon. He said deceptive politics development, Slathia said the efforts of Mohinder Gupta, District President democracy is remarkable of the society were present awareness among people district. and disruptive posturing of the PDP- the Omar Abdullah led government NC Youth Riyas Malik. and immortal especially on the occasion. 'Baisakhi brings joy to farmers, Good Friday celebrated with religious fervor

NL Correspondent the Biblical narratives of over sin and death. On this Lord and therefore it is strengthens bonds of brotherhood' Kathua, Apr 14 the passion of Jesus, day every Christian is called Good Friday. including the veneration of reminded to focus his life Meanwhile, Sawan Chidha NL Correspondent Good Friday was Suchetgarh, Apr 14 the Cross. After the passion on the life of Jesus, on his conveyed the message of celebrated with a spirit of readings the faithful sorrowful journey to mount Good Friday to the people partaking in the suffering An amazing display of folk Catholics received the holy Calvary and his death. of the world that every act and death of Jesus Christ dance, satirical drama and Communion. It said the Though it is a sad day it is of oppression and by the Christian scintillating local art mixed Cross is glorified on this celebrated solemnly as this suppression anywhere in community with faith and with traditional attire today day as a sign of Christ's day brought salvation to all the world by any ruler shall devotion across the Kathua marked the celebrations of resurrection and victory mankind though Jesus the not last long. Baisakhi festival being today. organized by Department of To celebrate the day befittingly and Tourism in collaboration Ravi-Tawi Irrigation district administration were throughout the year, just to meaningfully, St. Peter's with Jammu and Kashmir Complex HC Jerath, present in the festival see their crops floating in the Catholic Community took Academy of Art, Culture Executive Director, celebrations. open air, he added. and languages (JKAACL) at Communication and While addressing the MLC Ramesh Arora, in his part in the solemn `way of Octroi Post in Suchetgarh. Capacity Development Unit gathering, the Minister said address, appreciated the cross enactment' on the city Minister for PHE, Irrigation of PHE, I&FC Department these festivals strengthen the efforts of the artists who roads, while reciting the & Flood Control Sham Lal Rajeev Malhotra and bonds of friendship and tried to put across message historical details of Jesus Choudhary was the chief Assistant Director, brotherhood among different of cleanliness, water crucifixion trying to walk guest on the occasion. Department of Tourism sections of the society. It conservation and eradication along with Jesus on his MLC, Ramesh Arora, Chief Rupali Mahajan, besides also beings happiness for the of various social evils from way to crucifixion. This Engineer, PHE Susheel other senior officers of farmers, who toil hard in the the society through their was followed by a long Aima, Chief Engineer, various departments and agricultural fields cultural performances. prayer service to listen to Several Orgs pay tributes to Dr. Ambedkar Young panthers for cancellation of

NL Correspondent labour laws and castism. On this Kulbushan Jadav's execution Kathua, Apr 14 occasion Sh. Roshan Choudhary NL Correspondent saidHe further said "despite making Jammu Tawi, Apr 14 said that Bharat rattan Dr. B. R numbers of promises regarding 126th Birth Anniversary of Bharat Ambedkar wasn't just a politician but Holding placards in their hands, hanging over of Sarabjeet, the Indian Rattan Baba Sahib Dr. B.R an intellectual as well who did some Young Panthers activists today prisoner in PAK's Kot Lakhpat jail, Ambedkar was celebrated at great work as an economist. Those demanded cancelation of execution back to India, Pakistan brutally Ambedkar chowk near old bus stand who spoke on the occasion were of Indian, Kulbushan Jadav. The murdered him". Partap also appealed Kathua by All India confederation of D.R Soni, Sushil Gupta, Omkar Ji, activists, led by Partap Singh Jamwal the External affairs ministers, SC/ST/OBC organization and Lord Sumit Kumar, Ajay , Miss Ankita , State Vice President YP appealed Sushma Sawraj to know the exact Budha Club along with various President of guru Ravi Das Sabha , various human rights organization where about of Jadav in Pakistan social and religious organizations. Babu Ram President of Kabir sabha working in and around the country to extradite the Indian back to his On this occasion, several prominent Kathua, sabtantra Bharti, Nav mount a pressured on Pakistan Govt. country. Other who were present speaks about the life and Chetan, thoru Ram , Ashok kumar cancel his hanging.Jamwal said, including Aditya Hans (Sr. YP achievement of Dr. B.R Ambedkar. President OBC, sansar Chand, "world knows this fact that Pakistan leaders), Rajinder Kumar (org. Secy District president Sh. Shiv Kumar RamKrishan Verma, Nazir Ahmed, is not a trust worthy nation" "This YP), S Raspreet Singh, Shubam, Pangotra highlights the achievement Murari Lal, Sardari Lal, Munish nation has history of back stabbing Yogesh Talwar, Dixit Sharma, Yogal of Baba Sahib particular in formation Kumar. The vote of thanks was you can take the case of Zia-Ul-Ali- Kishor, Sajaad Bali, Nikhil Sharma, of Indian Constitution/ reservation presented by BD Ladwal president Bhutto against his (ZIA's) elevation Sumit Singh, Naveen Bali Sidhant and women empowerment and also Lord Budha Club. by the later to army chief' Partap Dogra, Anuj. the northlines 6 OPINION Jammu | Saturday | April| 15 | 2017 What Indian immigrants in the US Ambedkar answers: Why Muslims can do to counter racist attacks doubt the BJP on triple talaq It is in the self-interest of billionaires and have signed the Giving Pledge initiated why can't Indian Muslims? certain circumstances people. India are placed in a chief executives to fund human rights, by American billionaires Warren Buffett Utkarsh Mishra civil liberties, social and political groups. and Bill Gates. The pledge is a public But the All India Muslim obtain a divorce.' 'This view no doubt political environment commitment by the world's billionaires he right actions may Personal Law Board Such an argument is in accords with the facts of which is also Ignatius Chithelen and their families to give most of their help reduce this refuses to give in. Each stark contrast with the real history. After the first predominantly Hindu. He wealth to philanthropy. This is purely a Ttrust deficit. time a demand is made to situation, because 'No spurts of their activity, the feels that he will be s an immigrant from India in the moral act with no scrutiny of whether or But what we have today is abolish triple talaq, the Muslim girl has the scale of which was suppressed and that US, I liked that Indians in Houston not the billionaire makes the donation. over-enthusiastic vigilante AIMPLB defends the courage to repudiate her undoubtedly stupendous, political suppression will Adonated $1,00,000 in March to Ian Traditionally, Indian billionaires, like groups targeting the practice even more marriage, although it may leading to the foundations make the Muslims a Grillot to help him buy a house. Grillot, 24, many from other countries, donate small minorities over beef or vehemently. be open to her on the of vast empires -- the depressed class. It is this is the white hero who survived after being amounts seeking business and political 'love jihad,' against whom How do we break the ice ground that she was a Muslims suddenly fell into consciousness that he has shot while chasing a gunman at a bar in returns and for social climbing. Funding the government does little then? Dr Ambedkar seems child and that it was a strange condition of to save himself from being Olathe, Kansas in February 2017. programs to improve the lives of the less apart from meek to have an answer. brought about by persons torpor, from which they submerged by the Hindus The white gunman had earlier shot two 32- fortunate are not popular due to the belief condemnation, says In his book Pakistan, or other than her parents... never seem to have socially and politically, year-old Indian engineers after asking that the poor are lazy and do not seek Utkarsh Mishra. the Partition of India, Dr No Muslim wife will think become awake.' which to my mind is the about their immigration status and shouting work. From Modi to Yogi, the Ambedkar touched upon it proper to have a clause 'This answer, though primary cause why the at them to "Get out of my country." One of Since the '80s, several billionaires have leaders of the Bharatiya the many 'social evils' of entered into her marriage obvious, cannot be the true Indian Muslims as the engineers, Srinivas Kuchibhotla later emerged in India due to the rapid growth Janata Party have waged a Hindu and Muslim contract reserving her the answer. If it were the true compared with their died. of businesses based on intellectual war against the practice of societies and explained right to divorce...' answer, how are we to fellows outside are The donation got good media coverage, labour. Some of them are funding major triple talaq. Their why a determined effort to 'While she cannot account for the stir and backward in the matter of and news about it was widely shared. It social campaigns, notably Aziz Premji 'conviction' to end the get rid of them was not repudiate the marriage, the ferment that is going on in social reform.' shows that Indians, the most educated and who has signed the Giving Pledge. 'miseries of Muslim being made. husband can always do it, all Muslim countries 'If the Muslims in other affluent ethnic immigrants in the US, can Premji started Wipro, a $7.7-billion women' and getting them There are four parts of his without having to show outside India, where the countries have undertaken positively influence racial and social issues software company, and has a net worth their rights is argument: What the any cause. Utter the word spirit of inquiry, the spirit the task of reforming their through philanthropy. estimated at more than $15 billion. He unprecedented. conservatives say in "Tallak" and observe of change and the desire to society and the Muslims of Indians in the US, estimated at more than has donated more than $5 billion so far That the ideological heirs defence of such practices; continence for three reform are noticeable in India have refused to do so, three million, are mostly in engineering, seeking to improve public education in of those who, more than why their argument fails to weeks, and the woman is every walk of life?' it is because the former are medical, management and other India. He was inspired by his mother, a half-a-century ago were convince the seekers of cast away. The only 'Indeed, the social reforms free from communal and professions as well as business owners. doctor who ran a free hospital for opposed to similar rights reforms; what reasons are restraint on his caprice is which have taken place in political clashes with rival Nearly three quarters of Indian immigrants children with polio and cerebral palsy in being given to Hindu generally given for the obligation to pay Turkey have been of the communities, while the over age 25 have a college degree and their Mumbai. women are showing such Muslim society to largely dower. If the dower has most revolutionary latter are not..' median annual household income was over Mazumdar-Shaw, with an estimated net 'conviction' is definitely a staying away from already been remitted, his character. If Islam has not This trust deficit has only $88,000, far higher than that of other Asian worth of $2.1 billion, is founder of change for the better. reforms; and why Indian right to divorce is a matter come in the way of the deepened by the words and Americans, according to a Pew Research Biocon, Asia's largest producer of If he had seen such Muslims actually resist of his sweet will.' Muslims of these actions of the Hindutva Center study. insulin. She focuses on improving vehement support for these reforms. 'This latitude in the matter countries, why should it forces over the years. A Several Indian immigrants have achieved healthcare, especially in developing 'social reform' among the Reading his arguments of divorce destroys that come in the way of the massive mandate in a major financial success as founders and countries. Hindu right, Dr B R also makes it clear why sense of security which is Muslims of India?' couple of elections is not investors, mostly in technology companies In the US, Romesh Wadhwani is the only Ambedkar would have most Muslims in India will so fundamental for a full, Here comes the question going to bridge this gap and as chief executives of major US Indian on the Forbes 400 list to sign the been very happy. He always doubt the Hindu free and happy life for a which many in India ask overnight. corporations. Giving Pledge. He is a software would have possibly right's 'conviction' to bring woman. This insecurity of today, that if Muslim The right actions may help About 90 per cent of Indians in America entrepreneur and founder of Palo Alto- excused them for about such reforms, no life to which a Muslim majority countries can end reduce this trust deficit. But were born in India. Their philanthropy, as based private equity firm Symphony stonewalling the Hindu matter how many times it woman is exposed is this practice, what stops what we have today is with their love of Bollywood films and Technology Group. His net worth is Code Bills, which forced is said that large numbers greatly augmented by the India for doing so? Well, over-enthusiastic vigilante cricket, is shaped largely by their estimated to be $3 billion. He has him to resign as India's of Muslim women vote for right of polygamy and the answer lies in their groups targeting minorities upbringing in India. degrees from the Indian Institute of law minister in anguish. the BJP to support the concubinage, which the being Muslim majority over beef or 'love jihad,' Middle-class Indians, in India and the US, Technology and Carnegie-Mellon The demand to abolish the 'fight' against triple talaq. Muslim Law gives to the countries. As Dr Ambedkar against whom the generously donate both money and time. University. He funds programs in practice of triple talaq is Regarding the arguments husband.' writes, 'It seems to me that government does little As Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, India's richest entrepreneurship, skills education and not limited to the Hindu given in defence of such At this point, one must the reason for the absence apart from meek self-made woman puts it on the Giving policy research in the US, India and right. Muslim women have practices as triple talaq, Dr take note, especially those of the spirit of change in condemnation. Pledge website, "Having grown up in a elsewhere. filed petitions in the Ambedkar writes: who attach so much the Indian Musalman is to Who then will trust them middle class family in India, I was brought Between January and April 2017, there Supreme Court against the 'It is held out that marriage importance to this issue, be sought in the peculiar with reforming their up by my parents to believe that wealth have been at least two other physical practice, it has been among the Musalmans is a that only because such position he occupies in society? creation is about making a difference to attacks on Indian immigrants in the US. criticised by women contract. Being a contract, practices have religious India. He is placed in a And do they actually want It is in the self-interest of Indian society." politicians across party the husband has a right to sanction, '...one must not social environment which reform, or is it just their billionaires and chief executives in the Very few Indian billionaires are major divorce his wife, and the suppose they are indulged is predominantly Hindu. holier-than-thou attitude? US to become major philanthropists, lines, and most recently by philanthropists. The most notable is the funding human rights, civil liberties, Salma Ansari, Vice- Muslim Law has provided in by the generality of That Hindu environment is The torchbearers of the Tata family whose foundations fund social and political groups. President Mohammed ample safeguards for the Muslims.' always silently but surely 'fight' against triple talaq hospitals, research centers, arts and Such work will enhance the Americans Hamid Ansari's wife -- she wife which, if availed of, ...Still the fact remains that encroaching upon him. He must be the Muslim women education using the bulk of the profits from perception of Indians as well as influence said the practice does not would place the Muslim they are privileges which feels that it is de- affected by it and the the Tata Companies. elected officials to try to prevent racial have Quranic sanction. wife on the same footing are easy for a Muslim to musalmanising him.' youth. Even if it is not There are 101 Indians on Forbes list of attacks on Indians. On one hand, there are as the husband in the abuse to the misery and 'As a protection against struck down by a court of global billionaires, with estimated net As Grillot told the Indians who honoured Muslim women who are matter of divorce. For it is unhappiness of his wife.' this gradual weaning away, law, they should launch a worth ranging from $1 billion to $23 him in Houston: "I now have a very genuinely the victims of claimed that the wife So why do Muslims he is led to insist on campaign to urge their billion. There are also five Indian powerful message and if I can help this practice, and on the under the Muslim Law oppose the abolition of preserving everything that brethren to stop practising immigrants on the Forbes 400 list of richest empower people and spread hope and other, there are those who can, at the time of the such a practice? Dr is Islamic without caring it. Only they can do it. people in America, with estimated net love, then why not?" ask that if Pakistan and marriage, or even Ambedkar says the usual to examine whether it is Only if, as social media worth of $2 billion to $3 billion. He is the author of Six Degrees of several other Muslim thereafter in some cases, reasons given is that the helpful or harmful to his suggests, the youth hasn't Only Mazumdar-Shaw and six other Education and runs Banyan Tree Capital majority countries can do enter into a contract by Muslims all over the world society.' become more communal Indian billionaires, in India and the US, in New York. away with this practice, which she may under are an unprogressive 'Secondly, the Muslims in than previous generations. When will India decide to strike at Pakistan's weakest spot? Gernail Saheb Therefore, despite genuine grievances and repression, the Pakistan, and establishing a Pakistan "friendly" government in masterfully created irreparable divisions between the two Baloch are unlikely to succeed in their quest for independence, Kabul. communities. he legend of Achilles has it that his mother Thetis even with assistance from India. Against this backdrop, even prior to arrival of the Soviets and It is estimated that the violence has left over 2,000 dead and dipped him into the river Styx in order to make him What then has PM Modi achieved by making a public initiation of US-funded Afghan jihad, Pakistan had principally 3,500 wounded. But more importantly, giving Haqqani the invincible. The water, however, didn't cover his heel and T statement on Balochistan, apart from ruffling a few feathers in and individually supported Islamists in its quest for elusive leverage to mediate in peace talks between the communities an arrow wound to his heel later killed him. Rawalpindi and Islamabad, and in fact giving the Pakistani fauj strategic depth. has resulted in Shias agreeing to provide safe house/passage for Pakistan, in comparison, has multitude vulnerabilities, legitimate ground to continue its ruthless suppression of Over the years, Pakistan, led by its Punjab-dominated fauj has the Haqqanis to operate inside Kurram. primarily as a result of Pakistan fauj's "strategic culture Baloch right activists? treated and exploited Pashtuns as cannon fodder, including its In pursuit of the elusive strategic depth, Pakistan has alienated stemming from pathological geopolitics infused with a Salafi In my opinion, India has calculated the benefit of using the own citizens on this side of the Durand Line. Pashtuns on either side of the Durand Line, which is now open jihadist ideology, suffused by paranoia and neurosis" as Baloch card, and would possibly continue to use it at various The Pakistan fauj believes that Pashtuns are living on a geo- to manipulations by foreign powers, including India. recently observed by Col Robert Cassidy, PhD, US Army. national and international forums, with the limited objective to strategic fault-line and therefore takes a binary approach, Modi gave an example of this possibility and potency very And while the vulnerabilities extend to include socio-ethno- embarrass Pakistan and remove the potency of the Kashmir which makes them insensible to the concerns of Pashtuns, recently, when Pakistan witnessed its worst terrorist attacks of religious spheres of public life, and wreak havoc to its national card used by Pakistan. something reflected in Human Development Index and literacy this year, starting from Parachinar (Kurram) to Lahore to fabric - the Pakistan fauj with its control over governance, And though using the Baloch card directly challenges Pakistan, rates, where Pashtuns rank poorly compared to Punjabis. Sehwan (Sindh). foreign-security policy, infusion of political Islam and and perhaps also delegitimises the Baloch struggle; the subtext What you pursue, will pursue you While the attacks have been claimed by various factions and NGO/media-bullying has skillfully managed the national of PM Modi's Baloch card is unmistakable: get serious about Pakistan, fuelled by fear of being sandwiched between offshoots of the Taliban project, from a geo-politics narrative to its favour. terrorism; or expect a strike at Pakistan's Achilles' heel - the archrival India and an independent Afghanistan, has pursued observational standpoint, it is obvious the attacks were in Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address to the Pashtuns. the policy of injecting toxic political Islam in Pashtun society, response to General Raheel Sharif's authorised rail network nation on the 70th Independence Day, for the first time in the Pashtuns are the second largest ethnic group after Punjabis, at the cost of national anarchy. And despite the price that attacks in India. history of India spoke about suppression and persecution of constituting approximately 16 per cent of the population (30 Pakistan continues to bear, there are no signs in let-down in the What followed the attacks was along expected lines, especially people in Balochistan by Pakistan. million) in Pakistan, and have a fraternal relationship with the policy. for India - as the Pakistani state, sensing loss of control for the And while there is great truth that the Pakistani government Pashtuns of Afghanistan, who account for another (about) 12 Viewing everything through the prism of security, Pakistan's Haqqanis in Shia-dominated (Parachinar) Kurram, responded and its various agencies have treated ethnic Balochs unfairly million. fauj led by former army chief General Raheel Sharif missed the with a witch-hunt and stereotyping of Pashtuns, who and repressively, since the forceful annexation of Kalat by The rulers of Pakistan have been always wary about the opportunity to mend ties with Afghanistan and scuttled essentially are both victims and pawns in this rivalry. Pakistan in 1947, it continues to exploit the mineral rich region Pashtuns, since prior to independence the Pashtuns led by President Ashraf Ghani's peace overtures - possibly making it Pakistan's unimaginative and repressive approach to dealing for the benefit of the rest of Pakistan and primarily Punjab - for Abdul Ghaffar Khan aligned with the Congress as they their costliest mistake of the present decade. example, in Saindak copper mine, the Pakistani and Chinese with terrorism as well as continued pursuit of the Taliban considered the Muslim League pro-colonialists. The Pakistan fauj continues to believe and invest in Taliban central governments will take 50 per cent and 48 per cent of the project has ruptured and widened the Pashtun vs Punjabi Further, right after the formation of Pakistan, Afghan-Pakistan projects, and uses the population bordering Afghanistan to proceeds, leaving 2 per cent for the province. divide. relations rapidly nosedived, after a military aircraft from the bring in a regime change in Kabul, in turn wreaking havoc Similarly, Balochistan is also gas-rich but only 17 per cent of Pakistan faces an existential crisis, internally, specifically Pakistan air force bombed a village on the Afghan side of the within Pashtun society. the gas produced is consumed in the region while the rest is because of its own policies and relatively because India is both Durand Line. Since 2009, the Pakistan fauj has diligently orchestrated the consumed in other parts of Pakistan, feeding into the alienation able and now with Modi at helm, willing to pay back Pakistan In response, the Afghan government declared that it recognised expansion of the Haqqani network - the main actor of its belief of ethnic Baloch (Reference: International Crisis Group, in the same coin. "neither the imaginary Durand nor any similar line" and that all Taliban project - in tribal Kurram Agency. 2006) - but it is equally true that both Pakistan and India previous Durand Line agreements were void. Kurram is a region of special strategic importance to the And with no visible change in Pakistan's policy towards understand the limitation of the Baloch card. Kabul on its part until the late 1960s extended support to Taliban. In the past, it served as a launchpad for Afghan jihad. terrorism, the question therefore is not who and how, it is rather Unlike Bangladesh, which had the advantage of a border with Pashtun nationalists inside Pakistan and flirted with the idea of This expansion of the Haqqani network and like-minded when - will India irrevocably decide to strike at Pakistan's India and population, the Baloch on the other hand are merely "Pashtunistan". After the loss of East Pakistan, the Punjabi terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and LeT is having troubling Achilles' heel. 3.5 per cent of overall Pakistani ethnicities (about 6 million) dominated polity remaining in Pakistan, grappling with consequences for security and stability, not just in eastern and limited by their lack of border with India. insecurities, resorted to use of political Islam against Sardar Afghanistan but also in Pashtun-dominated Kurram. (Disclaimer: The views expressed here are personal Even assuming the entire Baloch rise up in Balochistan against Daud's government to pre-empt repeat of another Bangladesh. Kurram has a mix of Shia-Sunni Pashtun population, with the opinions of the writers. The information, facts or opinions Pakistan, they are still only 55 per cent of the population share, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's government created the "Afghan Cell" upper Kurram, bordering Afghanistan, dominated by Shias. appearing in the articles do not reflect the views of The and have been consistently decreasing with the influx of and assigned it a policy to empower Islamists in exile in Backed by Pakistan's fauj, the Haqqanis, using violence, have Northlines and it does not assume any responsibility or Afghans and migration from other provinces of Pakistan. liability for the same) the northlines 7 KASHMIR Jammu | Saturday | April 15 | 2017 LS Bye-Elections Shaheen concerned over losses Bhim Singh calls on CEO reviews counting arrangements caused due to recent rains SRINAGAR, APRIL 14: Banihal, Apr14: to the sufferers. The District CEC to cancel by-polls Chief Electoral Officer National Conference President also sought (CEO), J&K, Shantmanu District President, Sajjad immediate restoration of Srinagar, April 14: Panthers Party had strongly constituency were postponed today visited SKICC Shaheen on Friday expressed infrastructure, especially the Prof. Bhim Singh, Chief protested against the decision by the CEC on the suggestion Srinagar to review the concern over losses caused to road-network, saying the Patron of National Panthers of the Election Commission of the PDP candidate, brother arrangements made for the infrastructure, private property mobility of the people Party Friday urged Dr. Nasim of India to hold bye-election of the ruling Chief Minister. counting of votes being held and the crops due to recent belonging to peripheral areas Zaidi, the Chief Election at a time when the entire There could be no on April 15, 2017 for bye- incessant rains and sought has got hugely affected. He Commissioner of India to Valley was under the grip of justification to hold election polls of Srinagar immediate survey of the also sought restoration of cancel the farcical and rough weather and snow. in Srinagar constituency and Parliamentary seat. damages so that the affected essential services like power fraudulent electoral election Election in the part of the deffer/postpone bye-election The CEO inspected strong people are compensated. "The and drinking water besides held recently for the Srinagar constituency were managed in the adjoining constituency room and counting centers entire district of Ramban in stocking adequate rations at Lok Sabha constituency. NPP on 9th April, 2017 whereas in of Anantnag. Prof. Bhim and received a detailed general and Banihal assembly the CAPD depots. He Supremo questioned the 38 polling stations election Singh has demanded to briefing of the arrangements. simultaneously take place in counting. He also inspected constituency in particular was urgent the administration to Election Commission of was planned on 13th April, cancel the fraudulent He was accompanied by Jammu, Udhampur and at the counting halls established hit by the rains, causing ensure restoration of the India about the justification 2017. Prof. Bhim Singh elections in Srinagar Returning Officer and New Delhi. He said that for each of the assembly enormous sufferings to the vegetable market that has in holding so-called election maintained his stand while constituency as well as in District Electoral Officer besides presence of segments where he was people", Shaheen according to suffered hugely due to flash in Srinagar Parliamentary appealing the Election Anantnag constituency Srinagar, Observers and observers, the entire briefed about the security the statement issued to KNS floods. Shaheen said that constituency whereas Commission of India that the where election was other concerned officers. counting will be video- arrangements inside and said while interacting with the the rain and flood hit areas postponing Parliamentary election in Srinagar postponed. He said that the counting graphed. outside the venue. vendors at Banihal Vegetable of the constituency like, election in Anantnag parliamentary constituency Prof. Bhim Singh has of votes will start at 8 am The CEO inspected strong While visiting the media Market this evening. Shaheen Khari, Trigam, Sarachi, constituency when the was rigged and fraudulently demanded the cancellation of and all arrangements have room inside the SKICC that centre, the CEO directed the expressed solidarity with the Mahu-Mangit, Pogal- Election Commission had 7% of the total number of the parliamentary elections in been completed in this was locked as per the ECI concerned to provide full vegetable vendors, who have Maligam, Paristan,Neel , issued the simultaneous votes were shown to have the both the constituencies in regard. He said that counting guidelines and will be assistance to media fraternity suffered huge losses and Sumar, Hinjhaal, Thachi, notifications to hold bye- been cast in the Srinagar the interest of democracy and of migrant votes will opened on the day of in disseminating the news. emphasized on the concerned Sarbagni, Chaka, Ramsoo elections in both the parliamentary election. rule of law which has been governmental agencies to were without electricity for constituencies which fall in The election to the hijacked by the PDP-BJP Woman sets Digi Dhan Mela inaugurated provide financial assistance last many days. the Valley of Kashmir. The Anantnag parliamentary government in J&K. self on fire KULGAM, APRIL 14: transitions a mass movement. Time ripe for dialogue as delay could 2 boys drown Srinagar, April 14: A District Development Speaking on the occasion, in nallah woman from Kashmir Commissioner, Kulgam the DDC said the focus of this married in Srinagar set Showkat Aijaz Bhat today programme is to spread digital further increase alienation: Hakim Baramulla, April 14: Two herself on fire in Kangan inaugurated a Digi Dhan Mela awareness among students to Srinagar, Apr 14: In a statement issued to turnout goes to the Kashmiris into confidence young boys drowned to death forest of Ganderbal district. at Government Girls Higher facilitate them to use cashless Stating that people of KNS, Hakim Yasin said, Parliament or not. It is upto and settle the issue according in Alpathri village of Baba Police shifted the woman to Secondary School Kulgam. payments options in their day Kashmir have proven amply Terming the current situation his conscience." to their aspirations once for Reshi in Tangmarg area of hospital where she breathed The mela is aimed to today life. He directed LDM that they are the real masters in Kashmir as alarming, he He said that the dialogue all," Hakim Yasin said. Baramulla district on Friday. her last. promote the digital to take necessary steps for of the destiny of the state, said, "After the recent was the only way forward to He said it is Kashmiris The deceased were Zamrooda Bano (33), a payments/cash less further expansion of this Peoples Democratic Front violence on by-poll day in settle issues on both internal who is the worst sufferer identified as eight-year-old resident of Srigufwara transitions, in the district. intervention for ensuing (PDF) president and MLA Budgam and Ganderbal and external fronts, because of hostilities student Firdous Ahmad Reshi Anantang according to On the occasion, J&K digital transitions to occur in Khansahib Hakim districts in which eight "Kashmir issue is the root between the two countries. son of Muhammad Yousuf reports was married to Shabir Bank, CSC, and other banks the district. Mohammad Yasin today said civilian lives were lost, the cause of problem between "Violence is no answer to and 10-year-old Abdul Rouf Ahmed Khan of Rajouri were asked to install their Earlier, the students of Girls that it was the right time for situation in Kashmir Valley India and Pakistan and any issue. Non-seriousness Shiekh son of Muhammad Kadal Srinagar. According to stalls and distribute publicity Higher Secondary School New Delhi to initiate a has become alarming. It is to without its solution the peace of Indo-Pak to resolve the Ramzan. police, after a tiff off with her material promoting digital spoke on the importance of dialogue with all the be seen whether the in south Asia will remain a Kashmir is the main reason Locals said that the boys husband, she fled to Kangan payment system particularly digital transitions in modern stakeholders in the state so candidate who wins the distant dream. It is duty of for the present mess Kashmir slipped into Nallah Tilkaen and set herself on fire at among student community in times, besides a quiz that more alienation and Srinagar Parliament seat the leadership of both the is in," the MLA Khansahib while chasing a cricket ball in Hilpati Haknor area where order to make cashless competition was also held. destruction is avoided. despite abysmal voter countries to take the added. Alpathri village, three some locals saved her and kilometers from Baba Reshi. informed the police station The boys were taken to Gund Kangan. Talk on "Reconceptualising Tarigami asks Central, State govts to introspect Kreeri hospital where doctors SDPO Kangan Srinagar, Apr 14: unfortunately, that instead of polls are held. declared them dead on Muhammad Umar Shah told B.R. Ambedkar" organized Asking the Central and initiating dialogue and CBMs The government should arrival, they said. CNS that woman, who is State governments to the response of the stop the arrest spree in the A police official while mother of two children with introspect as what went wrong Government has been to use Valley especially in Kashmir. confirming the death of these 95% burn injuries had been from 2014 to 2017 that youth more and more force. "Such suppressive measures two boys said that a case has shifted to SKIMS where she gets irritated and violent with Government must understand to contain dissent adds to the been registered in this regard. succumbed to her injuries. the name of elections, senior that more it used the force, already existing levels of "Before her death, the woman CPI (M) leader and MLA more it will aggravate the alienation among the people. Clashes erupt in her statement exonerated Kulgam M Y Tarigami Friday situation. It is the high time Instead of putting the youth in Sopore after her husband and asked us said they are the same people that the Government shuns its behind the bars, there is need not to file any case against who were in long queues in ego and initiates a dialogue to understand their anger. Friday prayers her husband. Apparently, 2014 elections. "After without any further delay," the Government must take such her immolation bid was due turbulent 2016, both Central CPI (M) leader said. steps which can heal the Srinagar: to some personal reasons," and State governments must There is no logic of wounds of the people, As soon as Friday prayers Shah said adding that family Kargil: of the policy of reservation freedom of expression is have initiated some deferring Anantnag by-polls to especially youth. Using force were culminated, protests members of the woman have To pay tribute on 128 in India, said that Dr being snatched and now the confidence building measures May 25, instead the and arrest as tool to silence the between youth and been informed about the anniversary of Baba Saheb Ambedkar never intended it government is mute (CBMs) to instil the authorities should have protests but will only prove government forces were incident. Ambedkar , a talk on to be a permanent feature of spectator over the ongoing confidence among the people postponed it till the ground detrimental and reported from various places "Reconceptualising B.R. Indian Polity. He asked the assault on minorities, and especially youth. But situation improves before the counterproductive. in Kashmir. An eye witness Drug peddler Ambedkar" was organized students to take inspiration Students and other backward from Sopore told, that soon by Students' Educational from the life of Dr classes. Meanwhile s after congregational arrested Movement Kargil (SEMOK) Ambedkar, his hard work telephonic speech of Kacho KEG condemns intimidation of prayers, scores of youth Ladakh today at Cultural and the height's which he Fayaz Yabgo a Phd. Scholar came out on roads and Srinagar, April 14: Academy Hall Kargil. attained just because of his from Kargil studying in reporter by a political worker started shouting pro Continuing its drive against Various speakers on this hard work. Prominent Poet Scotalnd was played during freedom slogans and tried to drug menace, Anantnag Srinagar: Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) has phone, Khan collapsed and was hospitalised. occasion spoken on the and Writer Nasiruddin Khafi the program. Others who march from historic Jamia police arrested a drug peddler condemned the intimidation of a reporter by a Qayoom being carried to hospital The editor's contributions of Dr said that the teachings of have spoken on the occasion Masjid to main Chowk and recovered contraband political worker in Pulwama district. Abdul body while expressing sympathies with the Ambedkar ,his life and Ambedkar are very much were Gulzar Hussain, Sopore. However, men in substance from his Qayoom Khan, working for various news reporter emphasized that such actions should struggle. During the inspirational for the people. Mohammad Yasin Ansari, uniform deployed in huge possession. organisations, was threatened and abused by a not go unpunished and those responsible for program, His ideas on Sajjad Kargili Kargil based Mustafa Kamal, Syed Mehdi numbers swung into action Acting on a specific constitutionalism, social and journalist has expressed his Agha, Gulzar Hussain, political worker belonging to the ruling People's intimidating and threatening reporters must be information, a police party of and used PAVA and tear gas economic justice were resentment and accused Amina Banoo , Nasir Democratic Party, KEG said in a statement. He dealt with according to the law of the land. KEG Police Post General Bus shells to disperse the thoroughly discussed. While government that our Hussain and Mohammad was accused of things he had no connection said the political worker should have sent his Stand Anantnag headed by SI protesters. Meanwhile, discussing the development fundamental right to Hanifa. with. Soon after the verbal abuse and threats on version of things rather than issuing a threat. Gowher Malla under the people of the Dadwun pora supervision of SHO 22 Sheep die after of district Budgam also held Functions on a protest after Anantnag Shri Ayaz Geelani cowshed collapses laid a naka near SK Colony Ambedkar Jayanti congregational prayers, KP Road Anantnag. organized Kulgam, April 14: At least while moving towards the During naka checking, one 22 sheep died when a cowshed house of the slain Amir BANDIPORA, APRIL, 14: collapsed in Areah village of Manzoor Resray, a civilian person identified as Javaid In connection with Dr B R Ahmad Bhat son of Kulgam district on Friday. who was killed by the Ambedker's birthday, a function Sheep owner, Muhammad Mohammad Ibrahim Bhat government forces on April was organized by School Yousuf Bhat son of Ghulam resident of Aanchidoora was 09 when Kashmir was going Education Department in Muhammad told CNS that intercepted. On checking 17 under polls for the Lok collaboration with Ali Sports cowshed had developed cracks bottles of codeine phosphate Sabha seat of Srinagar Academy at High School Bagh due to incessant rainfall last constituency. Clashes also was recovered from his Bandipora today. On the week. "I was planning to erupted from Natipora near possession. occasion, Deputy Chief repair it, little knowing tragedy old RTO in Srinagar. Intense 3 injured in Education officer Bandipora, will befall upon me. I am clashes were going on when scholars and educationists, finshed," he said. reports last came in. road accident besides students from various Srinagar: Three persons educational institutions attended Plantation drive were injured in two separate the function. The speakers highlighted Dr B R Ambedker's road accidents in Srinagar and concludes at APC Zewan contributions to the Indian Budgam. According to police society. A painting competition Srinagar: spokesman, a Scorpio vehicle and debate was also held during The plantation drive launched at APC Zewan by DIG AP/IRP bearing registration number the function. Meanwhile similar Kashmir Shri Rafiq-ul-Hassan concluded today. ADGP JK05D-0541 hit and injured a function was also held at DC Armed/IRP J&K Shri L. Mohanti attended the closing ceremony.Many officers and jawans of JKAP 9th Bn pedestrian Shahid Shamim Office complex Bandipora participated in the drive. Small gardens of almonds, pears, resident of Rambialgarh, organized jointly by district Administration and Lead Bank apricots were raised to bring an aesthetic appeal, besides Panzinara near Syed Kirmani Office which was participated by conifers and deodars were planted.The ADGP Armed/IRP J&K Lawaypora. The injured was Lead District Manager, Bankers Shri L. Mohanti while speaking on the occasion appreciated the shifted to SKIMS Soura, and representatives of various efforts of JKAP 9th Bn in promoting the plantation and care, Srinagar for treatment. Trade Associations of the district. besides stressed upon the role of trees in our daily lives. 8 HOME & GARDEN the northlines Jammu | Saturday | April| 15 | 2017

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As for items made from wicker tiles are porous and can easily and rattan, they won't have any be discolored by spills from splinters or loose ends, while the food, sitting pots, metal weaves will be uniform. furniture legs, oil, ink, water damage, etc. Cooking oils or Mind the cushions any other type of greasy The perfect cushion is neat, has well- products can stain marble like defined corners if angular or curves if floor. Hence, you should clean rounded, comes with buttons and it up immediately with some detailing that are rock solid, and soap and water.-Regular inconspicuous seams. Other key cleaning of a marble surface elements of quality cushions are plump and dusting of marble furniture contours; a squashed cushion is a sign helps to retain its natural shine Nation the northlines 9 Jammu | Saturday | April 15 | 2017

PM Modi launches Aadhaar-linked BHIM App on Ambedkar’s birth anniversary New Delhi, Apr 14 coming days. It’s a unique is based on the Unified transactions. Prime Minister Narendra concept in the field of Payment Interface (UPI). In December 2016, Modi Modi on Friday launched an launched the BHIM app for Aadhaar-based money facilitating electronic transfer mobile platform for payments by consumers. In traders along with two March, the government incentive schemes, in a push launched Aadhaar Pay, a to make the economy “less- new Android-based cash” and curb black money smartphone app. generation. The BHIM-Aadhaar app Addressing a gathering at will pave the way for local sport complex in making digital payments Nagpur on the 126th birth using the Aadhaar platform. anniversary of Babasaheb financial sector across the After the November 8 This will enable every Ambedkar, PM Modi said world where such app will announcement to scrap Rs Indian citizen to pay that the country is reaching a neutralise black money and 15.44 lakh crore of high digitally using their time when the mobiles corruption,” he pointed out. value notes, the Modi biometric data like a thumb phones will be where Developed by National government has rolled out imprint on a merchants’ financial transactions will Payments Corporation of scheme after scheme to biometric enabled device take place. India (NPCI), the Aadhaar- dissuade Indians from which could be smartphone BRENDAN PAUL, CENTER, PLAYS THE PART OF JESUS AS PARISHIONERS FROM THE WESLEY “BHIM-App’s success will linked Bharat Interface for dealing in cash and connected with a biometric be a global case study in Money (BHIM) mobile app switching to digital reader. MISSION RE-ENACT JOURNEY OF THE CROSS PROCESSION ON GOOD FRIDAY IN SYDNEY.. Mission 2019: Upbeat BJP Mayawati indicates BSP open to forming to discuss strategy in two-day Odisha meet anti-BJP alliance to defeat Modi in 2019 polls Lucknow, Apr 14 would be the vice-president “To keep democracy alive, I Bhubaneswar, Apr 14 their eyes on unconquered BJP in states such as West crucial in that regard.” The resolution adopted at Having faced humiliating of the party. am ready to be part of anti- The capital city has never territories, Odisha being Bengal, Kerala, Andhra BJP held its last national Allahabad meeting in June defeat in Uttar Pradesh During the run up to UP BJP front. We have to cut been so decked up for a one of them, to win the Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and council meeting in Kerala, last year. Of all the new election earlier this year, the party conclave. Prime a Left bastion where it won territories that Shah is Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Minister Narendra Modi an assembly seat for the aiming to win, Odisha is chief Mayawati indicated dots the skyline. Next to first time in the 2016 crucial for many reasons. that she was willing to be him in every second poster assembly election. The BJP emerged as a part of a larger anti-BJP is his trusted lieutenant At its executive meeting in serious challenge to the Biju front. and BJP chief Amit Shah. Allahabad last June, the BJP Janata Dal in the just Maya made the The politician duo from said despite enthusiastic concluded panchayat announcement while Gujarat and more than 300 support from voters in the election, pushing the addressing the cadre during other senior BJP leaders 2014 Lok Sabha elections, it Congress to a distant third BR Ambedkar’s birth from different parts are could win very few seats position. “In these anniversary function at meeting in Odisha’s capital along the coast from West panchayat elections, we Lucknow’s Ambedkar for a two-day Bengal to Tamil Nadu and demonstrated that BJP’s Memorial on Friday. Her assembly election, poison with poison. Due to brainstorming session on 2019 Lok Sabha election. Kerala. “We want to Kerala. “The National influence is not limited to announcement assumes Mayawati had scoffed at tampering of EVMs, the the party’s “Mission India’s eastern coast increase our numbers from Executive calls upon the the tribal dominated western significance as it indicates suggestions to be a part of a voters won’t be able to elect 2019”. Past victories will disappointed the BJP in the these states,” says karyakartas in these states to Odisha. We won in such formation of a larger front to larger anti-BJP front of their favourite leaders.The be hailed and future last election, despite a petroleum minister work with single-minded coastal constituencies where stop the BJP in the 2019 Lok which Congress and the anti-BJP front is necessary electoral challenges phenomenal jump in its Dharmendra Pradhan, who devotion in a mission mode nobody expected BJD to Sabha elections when Prime Samajwadi Party could be a to make sure that popular discussed at this BJP vote share. bears much of the for the next three years and lose,” said Pradhan, who is Minister Narendra Modi is part on the lines of the candidate who has mass national executive meeting Shah wants this growth in responsibility for prepare the party for big widely seen as a potential likely to seek a second term. ‘Mahagathban’ or grand support wins elections,” she beginning Saturday. popular support to organising this mega show. gains in the 2019 Lok Sabha CM face for the BJP in Mayawati announced that alliance in Bihar where BJP said, amid applause from Modi and Shah have set translate into seats for the “The venue for BJP meet is elections,” reads a Odisha. her brother Anand Kumar was defeated. party workers. Hema Malini drinks daily, she hasn’t Tamil Nadu: Dinakaran dismisses revolt committed suicide: MLA on farmer suicides Nanded, Apr 14 suicide?” and Marathwada, with 5.7 against him by ministers as ‘rumours’ Taking a bizarre stand on Maharashtra has been million farmers, accounted farmers’ suicide, grappling with severe farm for 83% of all farmer Chennai, Apr 14 the state. in connection with the Rs 66 crore central government interference. independent MLA from AIADMK (Amma) deputy general Subsequently, AIADMK suffered a disproportionate assets case in Because the issue (of Two Leaves Maharashtra Bacchu Kadu secretary TTV Dinakaran denied on symbol) was raised by those against sparked controversy by Friday speculations that some state us (the Panneerselvam faction) dragging Bharatiya Janata ministers had revolted against him. Election Commission is looking into Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP “There is no such information, it it,” he told reporters. Hema Malini into the row. could be a rumour,” he told reporters On his faction’s Tirupur (South) Dismissing claims that in Chennai. MLA S Gunasekaran staging a fast alcoholism was responsible He was responding to a query on yesterday alleging that some for farmers’ suicide, Kadu speculations that some of the officials were not cooperating for said, “Hema Malini drinks AIADMK ministers had revolted implementation of welfare schemes, everyday, but does she against him and wanted him to be he said “it shows the kind of freedom commit suicide?” . removed as the party’s deputy in our party and the government.” Speaking at a press general secretary. “He voluntarily withdrew the fast,” conference in Nanded, crisis and reports farmer suicides in Maharashtra in The ruling party had suffered a Dhinakaran said. Maharashtra, Kadu said suicides almost every other 2015 vertical split after the death of the Dhinakaran also denied reports that even the notion that farmers day. Nearly 90 lakh farmers The real cause, Kadu said, late chief minister and former some Ministers had sought for the commit suicide due to have been impacted by the was the is lack of money. AIADMK general secretary J sacking of their colleague C burden of excess drought , official data “Professor Swamninathan Jayalalithaa in December last, Vijayabaskar, who is under the expenditure on marriages is shows. always said that farmers’ following which her close aide VK Income Tax scanner with searches incorrect. Detailing the As many as 3,228 farmers produce is increasing but Sasikala was appointed as the party split, with some MPs and MLAs Bengaluru. being conducted at his premises. argument he said, “ All committed suicide in not their income,” he said. chief. joining the Panneerselvam camp To a question, Dhinakaran said he He said he held discussions with these reasons are Maharashtra in 2015 , RJD leader Lalu Prasad had However, in February this year, even as chief minister K did not see any central government senior ministers at his residence nonsensical. Gadkari spent according to data tabled in earlier courted controversy former chief minister Panneerselvam Palaniswami, a Sasikala loyalist, interference on the issue of freezing today and the subjects included the Rs. four crore on his son’s the Rajya Sabha on March by ‘promising to make the had revolted against Sasikala, survived a confidence vote in the of AIADMK’s two leaves symbol by Panneerselvam faction challenging wedding. So should we now 4, 2016–that is almost nine roads in Bihar ‘as smooth as alleging he was forced to make way state assembly. the Election Commission. Sasikala’s appointment as general wait for him to commit farmers every day. Vidarbha Hema Malini’s cheeks.’ for her to become Chief Minister of Sasikala is since serving a jail term “As far as I am aware, there is no secretary in the EC. Lucknow: Muslim Personal Law Board to discuss 6,400 people arrested in Rajasthan for Ayodhya dispute, triple talaq on Saturday cow smuggling from 2009-2016

Lucknow, Apr 14 out-of-court settlement and functioning and activities provision of triple talaq and The Centre had on October 7 40 persons were convicted The Ayodhya dispute and the issue of triple talaq. through social media and nikah halala, terming them last year opposed in the and 59 were acquitted in the triple talaq will dominate the “The matter of Babri mosque strengthen its women wing. “regressive”. Supreme Court the practice cow smuggling cases agenda of the two-day The Board, however, of triple talaq, nikah halala disposed by the court till meeting of All India Muslim opposed the PILs and filed a and polygamy among February 2016, it said. Every Personal Law Board counter affidavit in the apex Muslims, and favoured a year, nearly 500 cases of cow (AIMPLB) beginning here court defending the Muslim relook on grounds like smuggling or murder are on Saturday. Personal laws and triple gender equality and registered across the state, “The executive meeting of talaq. It had recently told the secularism. the report said. The BJP-led the All India Muslim court that the pleas The Ministry of Law and state government, however, Personal Law Board is challenging such practices Justice, in its affidavit, had Jaipur, Apr 14 the lynching of 55-year-old added that the number of scheduled to be held at among Muslims were not referred to constitutional cases of cow smuggling Nadwatul Ulama in maintainable as the issues principles like gender Around 6,000 persons have Pehlu Khan in Alwar district reduced after setting up of Lucknow on April 15-16,” fell outside the realm of equality, secularism, been arrested in over 3,000 earlier this month, more than police check posts in Alwar AIMPLB secretary Zafaryab judiciary. international covenants, registered cases of cow 6,400 persons were arrested and Bharatpur areas. “Swift Jilani told PTI. The Board had also said that religious practices and smuggling in the desert state in over 3,000 registered cases AIMPLB member Maulana is crucial and discussions AIMPLB has been the validity of Mohammedan marital law prevalent in in the last seven years, the of cow smuggling from action against cow Khalid Rashid Farangi will be held on whether there witnessing resentment Law, founded essentially on various Islamic countries to Rajasthan government has January 2009 to February smuggling increased after Mahali had earlier said that could be a way out,” he had among Muslim women, the Holy Quran and sources drive home the point that the said. 2016 in the state. 2012 as police registered 463 the meeting will discuss the said. especially the victims of based on it, could not be practice of triple talaq and According to the report sent Out of the 3,000 registered cases across the state. A total Ayodhya dispute against the The meet will also hold triple talaq. Many of such tested on the particular polygamy needed to be by the state Home cases, police presented of 526, 582 and 481 cases of backdrop of the Supreme discussions on ways to women have filed PILs in the provisions of the adjudicated upon afresh by department to the Union challans in over 2,500 cases cow smuggling were Court’s suggestion for an highlight the Board’s apex court challenging the Constitution. the apex court. government in the wake of in the court. However, only registered in 2013, 2014. 10 SPORTS the northlines Jammu | Saturday | April 15 | 2017 Rural T20 Tourney by J&K Police India to pull out of Sultan of Johor Cup Singh Akhnoor, Chinore Club enter semis *India seeks apology from Pakistan for unprofessional behaviour NEW DELHI, April 14: January, HI announced it's Federation (FIH) that it had Sudan and Stateless persons they submit an unconditional Hockey India (HI) today decision to not play any not submitted travel must submit their Visa apology for what happened in announced its decision to not tournaments against Pakistan documents for its players by applications already 60 days 2014. Since the Sultan of send the Indian Junior men's until they submit an official deadline, which FIH prior to the tournament to Johor Cup is not a mandatory team for the Sultan of Johor unconditional written said resulted in its exclusion avoid rejection. tournament, Hockey India has Cup in Malaysia. The apology for lewd and from the Junior World Cup. Though Hockey India and decided that it will withdraw tournament to be played unprofessional behaviour of PHF alleged that Hockey it's players had let go of the from the tournament. We had between October 22 and the Pakistan team during the India did not want the hurtful incident in 2014, it not brought up the bad October 29 in Johor Bahru FIH Champions Trophy 2014. Pakistan team to participate was the recent allegations by behaviour on part of Pakistan features Pakistan apart from The HI had strongly in the coveted tournament. PHF that has resulted in India during the FIH Champions hosts Malaysia. condemned Pakistan Hockey However, it was in fact pulling out of the tournament. Trophy in 2014 for a very This will be the second Federation (PHF) for the PHF who had failed to adhere Hockey India spokesperson long time. It is actually PHF successive year where India baseless allegations levied to the deadlines for the Mr. RP Singh, Hockey India who bring it up again and will not be taking part in the against them ahead of the submission of their visas spokesperson in his statement levy baseless allegations tournament. The Junior men's 2016 Junior World Cup in within the stipulated time said, "By not fielding the against Hockey India to hide team had won the tournament Lucknow. On December 01, frame given by the Indian Indian team at the Sultan of their own incompetency. It is in 2015, an official handout 2016, PHF had issued a Ministry of Home Affairs Johor Cup, we have stood our about time PHF takes The SP Rural poses with winning team of Singh Cricket Club Akhnoor issued by the HI told. statement rejecting claims by which states that citizens on ground to not take part in any responsibility for it's at Nagbani in Jammu on Friday. Earlier this year, in International Hockey Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, series against Pakistan until incapability." JAMMU, April 14: Club bowled out cheaply for Meanwhile, in another Singh Cricket Club 49 in 10.4 overs. Rahul (11) quarterfinal of the day, YAC holds cricket Akhnoor and Chinore Club and Pankaj (10) were only Chinore Club outplayed Flora DFA Baramulla elects today sailed into the batsmen to touch the double Club by eight wickets. tourney at Kargil semifinals of the ongoing figure mark. From Singh Roshan was named man of the Rural Twenty20 Cricket Club, Suresh Malhotra took match for his all round Noor Mohd as president JAMMU, April 14: have been advised to submit their Tournament, organized by four wickets while Sham performance of 48 runs and Youth Action Committee entries with the organizers latest JAMMU, April 14: J&K Police under Civic Singh Langeh claimed two. four wickets for winning District Football (YAC) Kargil in Ladakh is going by April 18, a handout issued Action Programme at MHAC In reply, Singh Club Chinore Club. Association (DFA) to organize first of its kind district here today informed. Club can Nagbani grounds, here. Akhnoor chased the 50 runs This tournament is being Baramulla elected level cricket tournment at Khree also reach president of Youth In the quarterfinals, Singh target in mere 3.3 overs held under the supervision of unopposed the office bearers Sultan Cho Sports Stadium Action Committee at Mobile No. Club defeated Krishan without any loss. For his four SP Rural, Arun Gupta for for the district body for a Kargil in the last week week of 9622854731 or meet personally Cricket Club by 10 wicket. wickets haul, Suresh was cricket clubs belonged to rural term of four years in an April. Intrested clubs and teams at J&K Bank Baroo Kargil. Earlier, batting first, Krishan declared man of the match. belts of Jammu district. election meeting held under the chairmanship of senior vice president of Jammu and Sprawling Buds sponsors Climbing camp Kashmir Football Association (JKFA) at Newly elected office bearers of DFA Baramulla. JAMMU, April 14: grand showing of the state Ram Khajuria while Sports Stadium, Baramulla Renewing its team in the North Zone as expressing his gratitude to The members present DFA Baramulla respectively, senior members, Fayaz commitment to promote well as National the management of elected Noor Mohammad a handout issued by the Ahmad Sofi, Mohamad sport climbing in J&K and to Championship at Bangalore, Sprawling Buds School for Hajjam as president while JKFA here today informed. Shafi Nari and Tariq Madni. support Mountaineering Arti Sharma had a special the timely sponsorship Khursheed Tariq and Shabir Also present in the In all, 65 voters of DFA Association of J&K (MAJK) word of praise for Shivani assured them that with their Ahmad Halwai were made election meeting were Baramulla attended the to win the National Charak who has brought continued liberal support to secretary and treasurer of president DFA Srinagar and meeting. Championship, the , laurels to the state by getting the Association would management of Sprawling selected in the Indian team definitely achieve the aim of Buds School, Bantalab, here for the World Cup in winning national Lahiri cards 67 to lie tied 11th at Hilton Head sponsored a 15 days long Bouldering. The school championship this year. coaching camp at Tenzing management would provide The camp is being HILTON HEAD Thursday and Friday. But Norgay Sport Climbing wall State climbers pose with Principal and Director of all possible training facilities conducted under the ISLAND: everybody shuts down on the in the school premises. Sprawling Buds School, Bantalab Jammu. and infrastructure to the state supervision of Shashi Kant Playing his first tournament weekend so I watched some The camp in which about climbers, she assured while Sharma, the trainer of the since the Arnold Palmer golf. And I was very happy 25 children including 13 Sharma in the presence of Khajuria. Director, presenting an imported state team, in cooperation Invitational three weeks ago, for Sergio winning it. It was girls are participating was Association general Sprawling Buds Schoo, climbing rope worth Rs with senior climbers Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri fantastic." inaugurated today by secretary, Ram Khajuria and Rahul Sharma was also 12,000 to the Association. Mrityunjay Sharma, Ambreen opened his campaign at the As for the recent rest and Principal of the School, Arti joint secretary, Shawetica present. While lauding the General secretary of MAJK, Fatima and Shilpa Charak. RBC Heritage in style with a coming, he added, "I've been four-under 67 that gave him a working on my game, IPL 2017, RCB v MI share of 11th place. seventh to finish at four- particularly on my putting and highlights: Pollard fifty Indian hockey team to skip Sultan of It was yet another good under. my short game. I think those guides Mumbai Indians start for the Indian ace, who is He said, "You want to get two areas have been my weak to thrilling win seeking to improve his place off to a solid start. I think I links, at least in the last two or Johor Cup due to Pakistan presence played well to start, still some on the World Rankings, which three months. Today I hit the NEW DELHI: Keiron NEW DELHI: Cup, we have stood our work to do in some areas. I've has now fallen to 80th and he ball really good. Pollard scored a match- The Indian men's hockey ground to not take part in been off for three weeks. needs to get back to Top-50 to "And I've just not done winning half-century as team will not take part in the any series against Pakistan Also, just getting my rhythm make the Majors. justice to my scoring. So I Mumbai Indians overcame a Sultan of Johor Cup in until they submit an back on the golf course. So, Despite the fine start, Lahiri worked on that. Happy to top-order explosion to post a Malaysia for the second year unconditional apology for is still four behind leader Bud that feels good," have made a few putts coming in a row, citing the presence what happened in 2014," He added, "It's the kind of thrilling four-wicket win Cauley, who charged ahead in, even though most of the against Royal Challengers of Pakistan in the event to be said Hockey India golf course where you have to held in October. spokesperson RP Singh. with eight-under 63 with eight time I was scrambling. I Bangalore in an Indian take advantage where you Hockey India said since "Since the Sultan of Johor birdies and no bogeys. worked on that, took some Premier League contest on can. You're going to get tough Sultan of Johor Cup is an Cup is not a mandatory Three players, including time off. Got back to work on Friday. Chasing a low 143 at days. It's probably going to invitational tournament it tournament, Hockey India Luke Donald, who has a my fitness. I had a very the M Chinnaswamy remarkable six Top-3 finishes, really firm up. It's not going gruelling travel schedule to would continue its stand of has decided that it will Stadium, MI received body including four seconds, was to rain it's going to bake. And start the year, so I needed to not taking part in any series tournament against Pakistan tournament. India had withdraw from the blows at the start that saw two shots behind alongside it was a little wet in the take some time off and put my against Pakistan until it until they submit an outrightly rejected the claim. tournament. We had not Samuel Badree picking a Graham DeLaet and Sam morning with the dew, made it feet up and just recover from tenders an unconditional unconditional written Eventually, Pakistan did not brought up the bad hat-trick in his first match of Saunders in tied second place. a little softer. You could that, as well." apology for the 2014 apology for lewd and take part in the Junior World behaviour on part of the season reducing them to Donald was second even last almost feel it beginning to Lahiri will play this week Champions Trophy unprofessional behaviour of Cup. Pakistan during the FIH the Pakistan team during the "Though Hockey India year when Branden Grace firm up underfoot as we were and the next at Texas, before a sorry 7/4. controversy. Champions Trophy in 2014 FIH Champions Trophy in and its players had let go of won the title. finishing up. I'd expect more taking two weeks off and then Sultan of Johor Cup is an for a very long time. Kolkata Knight Riders India in 2014. the hurtful incident in 2014, Lahiri started from the 10th of that by Sunday." go to the PLAYERS and all Under-21 tournament and "It is actually PHF who The matter did not end it was the recent allegations and had three birdies on 10th, On missing the Masters last the way through to the Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad India won the title in 2015. bring it up again and levy there. Ahead of the 2016 by PHF (during the Junior 15th and 17th and when he week, he said, "I didn't watch Memorial. It is not a global event held baseless allegations against under the aegis of world Junior World Cup in World Cup) that has resulted Hockey India to hide their birdied the first he was four- Thursday and Friday. It was After an early tee off on April 15 16:00 IST governing body FIH or any Lucknow, Pakistan Hockey in India pulling out of this own incompetency. It is under through 10. A bogey on very hard for me to watch, Thursday, Lahiri will go at continental body. Federation (PHF) alleged tournament. about time PHF takes third was compensated by a honestly. I played the last two noon from the first tee in the Eden Gardens In January, HI announced that India did not want "By not fielding the Indian responsibility for it's birdie on fourth. He again years. And it was difficult. I second round alongside Luke its decision not to play any Pakistan to take part in the team at the Sultan of Johor incapability," he added. bogeyed sixth and birdied tried to drown myself in work List and Wesley Bryan. Sharapova blames ITF for failing Singapore Open: Sindhu loses to Marin; Praneeth, Srikanth in semis to warn her on banned substance NEW DELHI: Sindhu scored a few points to 21-16 on Thursday. Praneeth been taking within the rules but which was PV Sindhu lost to arch- show some life, but by then began his Singapore Open then reclassified as a banned drug. rival Carolina Marin in the the scoreline was already in campaign with a 64-minute Meldonium was added to the World Anti- quarter-final of the Singapore Marin's favour at 19-13. victory over Denmark's Emil Doping Agency list of banned substances at Open Super Series on Friday. Sindhu could take two more Holst 17-21, 21-7, 21-19 a the start of 2016 after mounting evidence The Spaniard exacted points before Marin sealed day earlier. that it boosted blood flow and enhanced revenge for her loss at the the game and sailed through Srikanth smashed past performance. final of the India Open earlier to the semi-final. Chinese fifth seed Shi Yuqi "Why didn't someone come up to me and this month by a Meanwhile, Kidambi 21-14, 21-16 in 36 minutes to have a private conversation, just an official comprehensive 21-11, 21-15 Srikanth and B Sai Praneeth, set-up a last four clash against to an athlete, which would have taken care win. runner-up at this year's Syed Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria of the confidentiality problem they talked Marin's swift movement Modi Grand Prix, advanced Ginting, who got the better of Sharapova has criticised the International about later?" the 29-year-old said in an across court and powerful to the semi-finals with Hong Kong's Wong Wing Ki trot. Otherwise, it was a Marin raced to an 8-2 Tennis Federation (ITF) for not doing interview with The Times. smashes caught Sindhu off contrasting victories. Vincent 21-19, 21-14. clinical performance by advantage before stretching it enough to make her aware that meldonium Sharapova did, however, say that she had guard as the Indian looked Praneeth, ranked 30 in the The mixed doubles pairing Marin, who took a to 13-6 with some amazing had been added to the list of banned become "complacent" and was responsible out of her elements. The only men's singles, emerged of Ashwini Ponnappa and B dominating lead of 16-9. A court coverage and smashes substances last year. for failing the drug test. period where Sindhu looked victorious over Tanongsak Sumeeth Reddy exited in the few unlucky points, when the targetted at Sindhu's body. Sharapova's initial two-year suspension "Ultimately the fault was mine," she like mustering some offence 15-21, 21-14, 21-19 on quarters with defeat to the was reduced to 15 months after she tested added. "I had been getting clearance on was during the closing stage shuttle deflected off the net, The Indian succeeded with Friday. He had entered the third seed Chinese pair of Lu positive at the 2016 Australian Open for everything I was taking for seven years and of the first game where she didn't help Sindhu either. her challenge in Game 1 but quarters after being World No Kai and Huang Yaqiong 11- meldonium, a medication the Russian had I became complacent." bagged four points on the Game two was no different. couldn't quite in the second. 23 Qiao Bin 21-15, 21-23, 21, 8-21. 11 BUSINESS the northlines Jammu | Saturday | April 15 | 2017 WEDP successfully graduates Infosys' Vishal Sikka gets only 46% of variable pay 32 women-owned businesses BENGALURU: eternal credit, said This might please those since he has who felt Vishal Sikka has articulated the target Jammu, Apr 14 been given an unduly high ($20 billion by As many as 32 women salary — the Infosys CEO 2020-21), he would entrepreneurs graduated from has received only 46% of like to hold himself the Walmart Women his target variable accountable to this Entrepreneurship compensation for 2016-17. vision. It is not Development Program It's a reflection of the often that people (WEDP), which trained these modest performance of the would have that entrepreneurs in professional company in the year. But it kind of courage." and soft skills to help build might also be, partially, in Infosys' The company board and robust businesses. The deference to co-founder N performance in 2016-17 has Sikka have consistently graduation event was attended R Narayana Murthy and been disappointing, after maintained that the increase by women entrepreneurs, other promoters who have three downward revisions in in compensation granted retail industry experts, NGOs been vigorously and its revenue guidance over was primarily in the and government officials. publicly opposing the steep the year. The performance variable portion, and that WEDP was supported by Entrepreneurship with awe their total and Speaking about the making it sustainable." compensation+ increases makes it extremely difficult the variable compensation Walmart and implemented by Development Program in complete commitment and program, Babita Gupta, Jenny Grieser, Senior given to top executives, for the company to meet WEConnect International and April 2016 to support WOBs perseverance. Director of Nirmal Designs Director, Women's Economic including Sikka and chief was tied to steep Sikka's aspiration to hit $20 Vrutti. The program was achieve higher levels of As the women Pvt,Ltd.,one of the program Empowerment, Walmart, said, operating officer U B performance goals. What billion in revenue by 2020- launched in April 2016 and business growth and help entrepreneurs graduate today, graduates, said, ``It was a ``I am delighted to see the Pravin Rao, over the past those goals are have not 21. consisted of several training make them more resilient in I feel a sense of pride that this beautiful program. From life WEDP successfully complete year or so. Sikka has been publicly disclosed. Sikka's variable modules to help develop the today's dynamic socio- program has created a skills, Social Media the pilot in India. It is a received $3.68 million of Asked about Sikka's compensation is divided into pipeline of women-owned economic environment. pipeline of strong WOBs for Marketing, Operations, significant milestone for us as his target variable compensation for the last three parts — variable pay, businesses for the industry. At During several assessments, it the industry's supply chain, in Replenishment, Logistics, we continue to strengthen our compensation of $8 million fiscal, chairman R restricted stock units the graduation event, Walmart was heartening to note that the line with our efforts to be Supply Chain, Product focus on increasing diversity for 2016-17. He has a fixed Seshasayee said the variable (RSUs), and stock options. announced the project's program did bring about the 'partners in progress' with the Marketing, Financial in the global supply chain. compensation of $3 million. compensation was linked to For 2016-17, he will receive continuation into its second desired outcome and impact. I Government in the country. Planning and Resource The success in India is a result So his total take home for performance. "I have not $0.82 million of the $3 year. On the occasion, Krish am glad that I have had the Congratulations to all the Management, Negotiation of the efforts of several the year is $6.68 million of come across any other million of target variable Iyer, President & CEO, opportunity to interact with all graduates, and we are excited Skills, among others, we stakeholders to help build the total $11 million. This is company where pay, and $2.86 million of the Walmart India, said, of them, witness their for the second year of learnt a number of aspects of capacity and success for these lower than the $7.45 million compensation is linked to targeted $5 million in RSUs "Walmartfunded the Women entrepreneurial spirit and hear WEDP." running a business and women entrepreneurs." that he drew in 2015-16. targets. And Vishal, to his and stock options. Gold firms up to near 30K; silver regains 43K-level Crop insurance drives non-life biz NEW DELHI: each to Rs 29,950 and Rs Mumbai: 32% growth, nearly 16% came from crop Gold prices rose for the 29,800 per 10 grams, Crop insurance has helped the non-life insurance," said G Srinivasan, chairman, fourth straight session on respectively. It had gained Rs industry record 32% growth the last fiscal New India Assurance, the country's Friday by Rs 100 to Rs 560 in the previous three and cross the Rs 1-lakh-crore mark for the largest insurer. He added that business 29,950 per 10 grams at the days. Sovereign, however, first time. From nowhere, crop insurance would be good for the topline as well as bullion market on account of remained flat at Rs 24,500 has emerged the third largest line of crop loss claims were expected to be continued buying by local per piece of eight grams. business after motor insurance and health around 75% of the premium. While the jewellers and a firm trend Silver ready also moved up insurance following the launch of the year has been good for farmers, overseas. Silver also by Rs 100 to Rs 43,000 per Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana Karnataka and Tamil Nadu saw crop reclaimed the Rs 43,000- kg and weekly-based (PMFBY) last year . damage due to drought. Bhargav non-life segment reflects the growth in mark per kg by gaining Rs delivery by Rs 120 to Rs Business figures for non-life insurance Dasgupta, MD & CEO, ICICI Lombard companies released by the Insurance the real economy, new investments and General Insurance, the largest private 100 on the back of increased buying by local jewellers to by 0.33 per cent to USD 42,570 per kg. Regulatory and Development Authority sale of automobiles. This year, the insurer, said, "For us, crop insurance is offtake by industrial units meet wedding season 18.52 an ounce in New York Silver coins, however, of India (IRDAI) for the year 2016-17 industry has managed to record its highest almost 10% of the total premium and it's and coin makers. Traders said demand at domestic spot in yesterday's trade. In the continued to be traded at show that total premium income jumped growth since liberalisation, despite the third biggest line of business." This is sentiment remained firm market. Globally, gold rose national capital, gold of 99.9 previous level of Rs 72,000 to Rs 1.27 lakh crore from Rs 96,376 absence of any new projects, due to the the first year that there is a completely largely in line with positive by 0.09 per cent to USD per cent and 99.5 per cent for buying and Rs 73,000 for crore in FY16. Usually, the growth in the opening up of crop insurance. "Of the market-driven crop insurance scheme. global cues and continued 1,287.80 an ounce and silver purity rose further by Rs 100 selling of 100 pieces. Indian startups to Electric scooter: Next big focus for Hero Electric scale analytics Demonetisation, GST to widen tax base & Chennai: set to double from 24,000 and all of them will be high- opportunity in China After the 'limited launch' units to 45,000 units this tech and some of them will help meet fiscal targets: Shaktikanta Das of its mass market e-scooter year thanks to the be smart vehicles which are Chennai: Upto 30 Indian NEW DELHI: the last Budget amid clamour and revenue deficit target(s). Flash, electric vehicle major government's FAME 2 mobile/wireless connected startups stand the chance to Demonetisation and for a more flexible framework Now it is anchored on debt-to- Hero Electric is planning to initiative and the GST roll- so that remote diagnostics offer solutions to complex implementation of GST will to give the Centre room to GDP target of 60% by 2023. launch a series of electric out, will see new can be done on them sitting issues identified by the widen the tax base leading to stimulate economy in times of And on that they have built the scooters to carve out a piece opportunities where e- at home," he added. Guizhou province in China. improvement in the tax-to-GDP stress. fiscal deficit road map. To that of the currently rapidly scooters can pitch Hero's new strategy Considered to be the data ratio, and together with higher The committee has provided an extent, it is far more focussed growing petrol scooter themselves against their involves higher tech analytics hub of the country, growth over next two-three escape clause of up to 0.5 because the ultimate goal is market for itself. The traditional petrol versions products with better battery the province intends to have 2 years allow the government to percentage point relaxation in debt-to-GDP." company is all set to roll out said company CEO power and more million servers by 2020 and is maintain fiscal prudence while fiscal deficit targets under He said it is dealing with a at least two new products Sohinder Gill."For the time performance. "The products going all out to invite startups setting aside funds for public targets) is definitely strong. certain specified circumstances, larger problem of the economy every year for the next being we will focus only on we will launch will offer across the world. The investments, economic affairs Now post demonetisation and including in situations of sharp by premising debt-to-GDP ratio couple of years including scooters because petrol higher speed so as to make program is being facilitated secretary Shaktikanta Das said. post implementation of GST, fall in growth. as the principal anchor and 2017 and has just tied up a scooters are growing really them similar in performance as part of an memorandum of Commenting on the Fiscal tax base will widen and "It (the report) has been made from that as a derivative you powertrain partnership with well and we want to get a to petrol scooters," said understanding entered into by Responsibility and Budget hopefully tax-to-GDP will also public and time has been given have fiscal deficit. The Bosch to offer better piece of that market for our Gill. "We will also offer industry lobby Nasscom, Management (FRBM) improve," said Das. to the stakeholders till May 5 to committee has proposed a technology and higher speed e-scooters," said Gill. "We comprehensive warranty for Guizhou International committee report, Das told ET "And with the economy give their comments. fiscal deficit of 3% of GDP for in its product lineup. India's will roll out at least two three years including the Investment Corporation in an interview that the panel expected to show higher Thereafter, it will be examined the current fiscal against the e-two wheeler market, all products a year if not more battery." (GIIC) and HTI, both has made the goals more growth in next 2-3 years, tax- and a decision will be taken. 3.2% budgeted by the Chinese companies. focussed and the government to-GDP will improve, so They have talked about a new government. NO IMPACT "For the past two years, we will take a call on the report overall it should be possible for legislation. The government ON ROAD MAP Pak exports to India grow have been building a roadmap well before the next Budget. the government to meet the will take a decision this way or Das said this would not impact to facilitate close cooperation The NK Singh-headed requirements of public that way well before the the road map laid out by the between Indian and Chinese committee has suggested a new investment and maintain fiscal Budget," Das said. committee. "It was analysed despite border tensions startups. Projects have been fiscal framework anchored on deficit," Das told ET, While refusing to be drawn into and we felt that even with 3.2% identified in the area of sustainable government debt explaining how the targets are a comparison between the fiscal deficit the government ISLAMABAD: Internet of Things and pegged at 60% of GDP and achievable. existing fiscal framework and would be able reach the debt- Despite mounting tension analytics which Indian prescribes appropriate fiscal The committee sees fiscal the one recommended by the to-GDP target for general along the border, the trade startups can choose from," deficits to achieve the same by deficit declining to 2.5% of committee, he said the panel government by 2023. So, a between Pakistan and India has said Gagan Sabharwal, FY23. GDP by FY23. The has made the goals more minor adjustment was done remained intact since the director, global trade "In the recent years, government had announced the focussed. "(Under) Earlier within the overall road map beginning of the current fiscal development, Nasscom. compliance (to the fiscal deficit review of fiscal framework in formulation there were fiscal given by the committee." year, a media report said on Friday. A report by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) revealed that RBI may wind up, merge banks short of capital Pakistan grew its exports to India during the first eight MUMBAI: minimum requirement of wind up banks or merge them months of 2016-17 while Banks with unsound common equity tier I capital is is an extreme measure and a One reason for Pakistan's This partially offset the financials face the prospects of 6.75%. discretionary one. However, curtailing imports by 23 per improved exports to India is declines witnessed in the two cent, Dawn online reported. a merger or winding up, or Under the new trigger there are other mandatory high cement demand in the other major markets," the SBP even risk their board and points, banks with net non- restrictions that automatically The trade balance, however, neighbouring country. report said. Meanwhile in the remained in favour of India. management being sacked by performing assets between 6% come into effect when banks This has offset the negative first eight months of the the Reserve Bank of India and 9% (risk threshold 1) will breach the trigger points in The two countries have long impact of a decline in Pakistan's current fiscal year, Pakistan been locked in a bitter rivalry. (RBI). These are some of the face restrictions on dividend terms of capital or bad loans. cement exports to Afghanistan recorded a trade deficit of extreme measures that the payments with promoters The mandatory action includes But worsening political and South Africa, reports $672 million with India. The relations seem to have little central bank has in mind for being asked to bring in more restrictions on dividends, Dawn online. The SBP said deficit was $993 million in banks that badly breach the capital. Those with net NPAs bonus payments and opening impact on bilateral trade cement exports continued their the same period of the last relations, according to trade threshold for bad loans and between 9% and 12% would of new offices. downward trend, with the fiscal year. Imports from India on Thursday was to reset the The central bank has analysts. After growing by 14 minimum capital requirements. not be allowed to expand According to the PCA largest share in the year-on- in 2015-16 were worth over trigger points. said that a shortfall of the per cent, exports from Pakistan The RBI on Thursday came branches. This is in further to framework, the bank is year decline in the first half of four times the exports from According to norms, the RBI common equity tier I capital by to India amounted to $286 out with a revised set of earlier restrictions. Banks that required to undertake a special 2016-17 originating from two Pakistan, a five-year high. gets into action when the 3.625% from prescribed limits million in the July-February 'prompt corrective action' breach the third level of NPAs drive to reduce NPAs and markets - South Africa and Pakistan imported goods capital adequacy falls below a "would identify a bank as a period. Imports from India fell (PCA) — steps that it will take will face restrictions on contain generation of fresh Afghanistan. worth $1.8 billion in 2015-16 certain level or when bad loans likely candidate for resolution 23 per cent to $958.3 million to get failed banks back on management compensation as NPAs, review loan policy and "A slight consolation was compared to the exports of rise beyond a certain point. through tools like from $1,244 million recorded a track. While the PCA well. take steps to strengthen credit continued strong demand for just $400 million, the SBP There are different corrective amalgamation, reconstruction, year ago, the SBP report said. guidelines have been around The move to change bank appraisal skills, and follow up Pakistani cement from India. report added. since 2002, what the RBI did actions for each milestone. or winding up". The current boards or their management, advances. 12 JAMMU || SATURDAY | APRIL | 15 || 2017 The NORTHLINES Jadhav case: India demands Donald Trump hails military after bomb dropped in Afghanistan in Achin district of I authorise our military. We if this sends a message. It and Afghan forces in the Afghanistan’s Nanagarh have the greatest military in doesn’t make any difference area,” Spicer said. chargesheet, judgment copies province, close to the border the world, they’ve done a if it does or not. North Korea “The United States takes the with Pakistan. job, as usual, so we have is a problem. The problem fight against ISIS very seri- fully asked for consular cumstances of the case, Pentagon spokesman Adam given them total authorisa- will be taken care of. I will ously and in order to defeat access on the basis of inter- absence of any credible evi- Stump said on Thursday that tion and that’s what they’re say this; I think China has the group, we must deny national law and on humani- dence to substantiates the it was the first-ever combat doing, and frankly, that’s really been working very them operational space, tarian grounds as he is an concocted charges against WASHINGTON, APR 14 use of the bomb. A MOAB is why they’ve been so suc- hard,” he said. which we did. The US took Indian national.” Apart from Jadhav, farcical nature of the a 21,600- pound, GPS-guid- cessful lately,” he said. The bomb was dropped by all precautions necessary to diplomatic options, India is proceedings against him and President Donald Trump has ed munition that is “If you look at what’s hap- an MC-130 aircraft, operat- prevent civilian casualties also exploring legal reme- denial of consular access to said the US military has America’s most powerful pened over the last eight ed by the Air Force Special and collateral damage as a ISLAMABAD, APR 14 dies permitted under him, the people and the gov- been “successful” lately non-nuclear bomb. weeks and you compare that Operations Command. result of the operation,” he Pakistan’s legal system. ernment of India will con- because his administration Trump said he authorised the to what’s happened over the At his daily news confer- said. India said on Friday it would Bambawale also said that he sider carrying out of the has given them “total author- use of the bomb in last eight years, you’ll see ence, White House Press The strike is part of the appeal against the death sen- has no information about army court verdict as a “pre- ization”, as he hailed the Afghanistan and called the there’s a tremendous differ- Secretary Sean Spicer said ongoing efforts to defeat tence to its national former Pakistani army offi- meditated murder”. forces for dropping the mission “very, very success- ence. So we have incredible the bomb was dropped at ISIS-K in Afghanistan, the Kulbhushan Jadhav and cer Mohammad Habib who Pakistan today rejected largest non-nuclear bomb ful”. leaders of the military and around 7 pm local time in US Central Command demanded from Pakistan a reportedly went missing India’s accusation that there targeting an Islamic State “It was really another suc- incredible military, and we Afghanistan on Thursday. (USCENTCOM) said. certified copy of the from Nepal. Pakistani offi- was no credible evidence complex in Afghanistan. cessful job, we are very are very proud of them, and “The GBU-43 is a large, Nangarhar, which borders chargesheet as well as the cials suspect that Indian spy against Jadhav, and warned A GBU-43/B Massive proud of our military. We are this was another very very powerful and accurately Pakistan, is a hotbed of IS army court order in the case, agencies were behind his that “inflammatory” state- Ordnance Air Blast Bomb so proud of our military, it successful mission,” Trump delivered weapon. We tar- militancy. According to the besides seeking consular disappearance. ments over his death sen- (MOAB), nicknamed was another successful said. geted a system of tunnels Department of Defence, access to the retired Indian The death sentence to tence would only result in ‘Mother of All Bombs’, was event,” Trump told reporters The US President, however, and caves that ISIS fighters there are about 600-800 Navy officer. Jadhav, 46, was confirmed escalation of tension in the dropped on a tunnel complex at the White House. said he did not know if this used to move around freely, ISIS-K fighters in the region This was conveyed by by Army Chief General bilateral ties. of ISIS-Khorasan, a regional “Everybody knows exactly would send a message to making it easier for them to where the bomb was Indian High Commissioner Bajwa after the Field Pakistan Prime Minister’s affiliate of the terror group, what happened, what I do is North Korea. “I don't know target US military advisers dropped. PTI in Islamabad Gautam General Court Martial found Adviser on Foreign Affairs Bambawale to Pakistan him guilty of “espionage Sartaj Aziz said that due Income Tax dept launches ‘Op Clean Foreign Secretary Tehmina and sabotage activities” in process of law was followed Three men wearing head- Janjua during a meeting Pakistan. Pakistan claims its in Jadhav’s trial. Money’-II; to probe 60,000 people sought by him. security forces had arrested India had on Thursday criti- phones hit by train, killed “We would definitely go to Jadhav from the restive cised the Pakistan govern- NEW DELHI, APR 14 The note ban was announced response is received shall ment for not sharing appeal against the judgment Balochistan province on by Prime Minister Narendra also be subjected to detailed SAMASTIPUR (BIHAR), were walking along the Jadhav’s location and details but we cannot do it unless March 3 last year after he The Income Tax department Modi on November 8 last enquiries,” the CBDT said. APR 14 railway track wearing ear- of his condition and said that we have the details of reportedly entered from will investigate over 60,000 year. A senior officer said phones when they were the international norm to charges and the copy of ver- Iran. It also claimed that he individuals under the second “More than 60,000 people, advanced data analytics had Walking on the railway run over by a train, provide consular access was dict. So, my first demand was “a serving officer in the phase of the ‘Operation Clean including 1,300 high-risk been used to identify suspect tracks with earphones on Hasanpur police station not followed. India and Money’ which was launched ones, have been identified for cash deposits before launch- was to provide us the details Indian Navy.” The Pakistan proved fatal for three men in-charge Rajnish Kumar of the chargesheet and copy Army had also released a Pakistan have a bilateral on Friday with a view to investigation into claims of ing the latest edition of the agreement on consular as they were run over by a said. of the verdict,” he said. “confessional video” of detecting black money gener- excessive cash sales during operation. access. speeding train near While two of them died on Expressing disappointment Jadhav after his arrest. ation post demonetisation. the demonetisation period. As part of the first phase of Meanwhile, there was no Nayanagar railway station the spot, the third suc- over Pakistan turning down However, India denied The Central Board of Direct More than 6,000 transactions the ‘Operation Clean official confirmation on here. cumbed to his injuries India’s request for consular Pakistan’s contention and Taxes (CBDT), policy-mak- of high value property pur- Money’, launched on January reports of India asking its ing body of the department, chase and 6,600 cases of out- 31 this year, the department Raja Kumar, later. Their bodies have access to Jadhav, the Indian maintained that Jadhav was High Commission in said it had detected undis- ward remittances shall be had sent online queries and Chandrashekhar Kumar been sent for post-mortem, envoy said, “They have kidnapped by the Pakistan Pakistan to go slow on visas closed income of over Rs subjected to detailed investi- investigated 17.92 lakh peo- and Mohammad Karim Kumar said. PTI denied our request for con- authorities. to Pakistan nationals in 9,334 crore between gations (under Operation ple out of which 9.46 lakh sular access 13 times (in the India had made it clear to wake of the development. — November 9, 2016 and Clean Money II). people had responded to the last one year). I have force- Pakistan that given the cir- PTI February 28 this year. “All the cases where no department. PTI US must accept importance of Pak’s ties with China: Musharraf Dubai gurdwara serves to 101

said the US must review its articulate its relationships tion. nationalities, enters Guinness Book relationship with Pakistan with China, Russia and the “With the US, we had long DUBAI, APR 14 the Milan Expo in Italy in and give his country the United States,” said the for- term relationship not only September 2015. importance it deserves. mer general, who overthrew militarily, but also in social A gurdwara in Dubai has Entry for the breakfast event He said that in a changing a democratically elected economic sector. We cannot found a place in the was through prior registra- world, the US must adjust its government to become the undo them and we must Guinness Book of World tion and included school- strategic interests with those dictator of the country. carry on this relationship,” Records by serving free children, diplomats, govern- of the other emerging pow- Responding to a question, Musharraf observed. breakfast to hundreds of peo- ment officials among others. ers, which he identified as Musharraf said Pakistan has Musharraf expressed opti- ple from over 100 countries The gurdwara, which is Russia and China. to balance its relationship mism about US-Pak rela- in an hour-long event. known for serving free “Those emerging powers, with the US and China. This tionship under the Trump Gurunanak Darbar meals to all visitors through China and Russia have their needs to be done bilaterally, Administration. Gurdwara served continental its community kitchen, own interests in our region,” he noted. “I see that President Donald WASHINGTON, APR 14 breakfast titled ‘Breakfast caters to over 50,000 Sikh he said in his keynote “The US has relationship Trump starts with a clean for Diversity’ to 600 people devotees in the UAE. address at a conference on with India, as it thinks it is in slate,” Musharraf said, Pakistan’s former dictator from 101 countries, the max- “Sikhism has always General Pervez Musharraf Pakistan organised by the its national interest. So, the adding that Trump needs to imum number of people embraced diversity as it has has equated the China- School of Advanced US has to accept that understands the complexi- from diverse nationalities, been part of our faith and Pakistan relationship with International Studies of the Pakistan’s relationship with ties of Pakistan-India rela- entering the Guinness World belief, that we are all human the Indo-US ties and asked Johns Hopkins University. China is in its interest,” he tions and the complexities of Record. beings to be treated with America to accept this fact Musharraf said that the US said. Afghanistan, Taliban and the The people enjoyed the hour- respect. The gurdwara has and adjust its strategic inter- needs to watch that and then “On bilateral basis, we must al-Qaeda. long breakfast wearing tradi- been spearheading charity ests in the region. decide what is in its best carry out our relationship He also accused the US of tional outfits on the premises and volunteer work not only Musharraf, who ruled over interest. with the US and China,” he committing “one of the of the gurdwara in Jebel Ali for the Indian community Pakistan from 1999 to 2008, “Pakistan needs to carefully said in response to a ques- greatest blunders” in Afghanistan by not convert- area yesterday, Khaleej but for the entire UAE com- ing its military victory over Times reported. munity as well,” said the Taliban and al-Qaeda The chief guest at the Surender Kandhari, chair- post-9/11 into a political marathon breakfast even was man of the gurdwara. one. Indian Ambassador to the The event was aimed at pro- “After 9/11 Taliban and Al- UAE Navdeep Singh Suri. moting the idea of peace, Qaeda were defeated in The officials from the tolerance and communal Afghanistan. This was mili- Guinness Book of World harmony. tary victory. This military Records confirmed that the People danced on Punjabi victory was to be converted gurdwara broke the previous songs after the Guinness into a political one,” record of 55 nationalities World Record officials Musharraf said. having a continental break- made the historic announce- fast, organised by Nutella at ment.