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'Congress in touch J&K govt formation: BJP holding consultation Did PDP seek a letter of support from BJP? - NC with PDP to keep BJP at bay in J&K' Offer conveyed to PDP through trusted intermediary formally - NC Spokesman GY NewS SeRViCe with all imp stakeholders, says Ram Madhav JaMMU, DeC. 26: 'It is for PDP to take the next step' Amid reports that the BJP Governor calls PDP, BJP for GY NewS SeRViCe offer and stands as it is. leader and MP Muzaffar want our support, they can leadership has been hold - SRiNaGaR, DeC. Now it is for PDP to Beig to enter into talks ask for it formally. ing talks with PDP to parleys on govt formation 26: National Conference approach National with the BJP? Why ask NC Bringing up ridiculous explore the possibilities of GY NewS SeRViCe Friday said that its offer of Conference for our support for a letter then? They are objections to the medium government formation in JaMMU, DeC. 26: Amid continuing suspense over for - support to PDP stands if they choose to seek it. the single largest party and of such an offer of support Jammu and Kashmir, mation of new government in Jammu and Kashmir, Governor intact as has been The ball lies in their court, have various options to cannot be PDP's alibi for Congress today said it "is N N Vohra today invited PDP and BJP, the first and second expressed by the Party not ours", NC Spokesman cobble together a govern - not coming up with a clear, in touch" with PDP to keep largest parties in the elections, which threw up a highly-frac - Working President Omar Junaid Mattu said in a ment. They can choose unambiguous response. the saffron outfit at bay. GY NewS SeRViCe tured verdict with no clear winner.Amid continuing suspense Abdullah. "Our offer has statement issued from what they want to do. Our The ball continues to lie in "The Congress party is SRiNaGaR, DeC. 26: over formation of new government in Jammu and Kashmir, been conveyed first by the Srinagar. offer is one of the options their court. Our offer has in touch with PDP and six BJP General Secretary Ram Governor N N Vohra today invited PDP and BJP, the first and Party Working President Refuting reports of an they have. If they want it, been formally conveyed other Independent legisla - Madhav today said his party second largest parties in the elections, which threw up a high - through the public domain, alleged "letter" written by they should reciprocate. No through an appropriate tors to prevent the saffron was holding consultations ly-fractured verdict with no clear winner.Vohra has sent sepa - then we have issued a NC to PDP, NC letters will be written from channel and no further party from forming gov - with all important stakehold - rately to PDP Patron Mufti Mohd Sayeed and state BJP chief statement offering such a Spokesman Junaid Mattu NC" the NC Spokesman efforts need to be made ernment in Jammu and ers in Jammu and Kashmir Jugal Kishore "for holding discussions on the proposal for gov - support and the support said "We are not begging said. from our side. We continue Kashmir through ill for providing a stable gov - ernment formation," a Raj Bhavan official said.BJP, which offer has also been con - PDP to accept our support "It is PDP that needs to hope that PDP will means," state Congress ernment. ended up with a tally of 25 in the 87-strong Assembly, and PDP, veyed verbally directly to that we would write letters numbers as it has emerged respond in a clear, unam - spokesman Salman Nizami The BJP leader, who has which secured 28 seats, have held discussions in the last two PDP through a trusted to them. Did PDP seek a as the single largest party biguous manner", NC said. held a series of meetings days to explore the possibility of coming together. There was no intermediary formally. It is letter of support from BJP short of the mark of major - Spokesman Junaid Mattu Nizami said the with leaders of Valley-based indication as to how the discussions have gone. Parallel, two on record. It is a serious before authorizing their ity in the Assembly. If they said. Congress, with 12 MLAs political parties including other key players, the National Conference (NC) which got 15 in its kitty, was ready to PDP's Muzaffar Hussain seats and the Congress (12 seats), continued to make efforts to forge an alliance with other Baig, said the Prime keep BJP out of power by offering support to PDP, whose Minister had a grand vision response remained a matter of speculation. J&K govt formation: Congress offers support to PDP secular parties "to keep at for development of the state. stakeholder and has got a the BJP is insisting on get - New Delhi, DeC. 26: they are ready to form the govern - BJP asking "with whom are you bay the communal forces "To realise this dream, we major mandate. Mufti ting a shot at Chief Congress Friday offered support to ment," Congress spokesperson going to align between the two - the that are hell bent to divide have to provide a govern - (Mohammad Sayeed) has a Ministership, Madhav said PDP in government formation in Abhishek Singhvi told reporters party of father-son or the party of the state of Jammu and ment that will put the state five-decade long political the issue was not discussed Jammu and Kashmir, saying its erst - here. His statement came as ques - father-daughter as you had con - Kashmir on communal on development track," he career and is respected not with either PDP or any other while ally has the "legal, moral and tions prevailed as to which parties demned both of them during the lines." said. only in the state but across stakeholder. Constitutional' right to do so. The will come together to form a govern - election campaign". "We are ready to join "We are meeting with all the country. "National "Talks have not reached party also took a jibe at Prime ment in the state where the recent The thinking in Congress is that hands with PDP. Our aim important stakeholders and Conference also has got that stage yet.We are still at Minister Narendra Modi, wondering Assembly polls have thrown up a PDP and BJP cannot come together is to keep the communal our aim is to provide a stable substantial number of seats. the initial stages," he insist - whether he will enter into alliance fractured verdict. as it cannot last long due to contra - BJP at bay and work in and credible government," It was part of the NDA dur - ed. In response to a ques - with "Baap-Beti or Baap Beta PDP, with 28 seats, has emerged dictions between the idelogical posi - coordination with PDP for he told reporters here. While ing (Atal Bihari) Vajpayee's tion, Madhav said a meeting (father-daughter or father-son)", a as the single largest party in the 87- tions between the parties. There is the betterment of the PDP has secured 28 seats, tenure (as Prime Minister)," between the Prime Minister reference to PDP's Mufti Sayeed- member house. Congress has bagged also a view in Congress that BJP and state," Nizami said, adding BJP bagged 25 in the elec - he noted. and PDP patron, Sayeed, Mehbooba Mufti and NC's Farooq 12 seats and the minimum number NC could find it much easier to that BJP was leaving no tions to the 87-member state Asked which of the two was not on the cards yet. Abdullah-Omar Abdullah whom he required for forming government is come together rather than BJP and stone unturned to grab Assembly. On his talks with parties would BJP prefer to "No such this is on the chose as targets of attack during 44. PDP and Congress ran a coalition PDP. However, a Congress leader power in Jammu and PDP since his arrival here ally with, Madhav said it cards right now," he said. election campaigning. government for nearly six years from said the fact that Abdullah has com - Kashmir. yesterday, Madhav said the was not about the party but Asked how long the govern - "PDP has the legal, moral and 2002 before they had a bitter break- mitted himself much more to "If media reports are talks were still at initial a choice of providing a sta - ment formation is going to Constitutional right to form a gov - up. The term of Jammu and Kashmir Congress and has a personal rapport true, a desperate BJP stages. ble and credible govern - take, Madhav said no time - ernment (in Jammu and Kashmir). Assembly is six years. with Rahul Gandhi, it may prevent seems to be on one side "PDP is an important ment. As the Jammu unit of line can be set. We are prepared to support them if Singhvi took a dig at Modi and such an eventuality. holding secret talks with National Conference, and on the other is trying to Mohd. Ashraf Mir shoots an AK-47 after Engineer Rashid offers Un- lure PDP towards it. No body can't stop any leader conditional support to NC-PDP from holding talks, but winning over Omar in Sonawar, video gone viral While ruling out any PDP has to take a final call GY NewS SeRViCe support to Bhartiya Janta because they have sought SRiNaGaR, DeC. 26: Party lead government votes from the people on Ashraf MirPDP MLA Engineer Rashid made it the promise of keeping Mohammad Ashraf Mir, clear that in backdrop of BJP at bay," Nizami said. who scored a victory over anti-Kashmir stand of BJP Omar Abdullah from we cannot afford to have a Daylong Counselling Sonawar Assembly seat, has BJP lead government in the stoked a controversy state. Engineer Rashid Session to be held on Srinagar: PDP MLA added - "NC, PDP should Dec 29 at Kup Mohammad Ashraf Mir, remember that it is the cru - GY NewS SeRViCe who scored a victory over cial juncture in the politi - KUPwaRa, DeC. Omar Abdullah from GY NewS SeRViCe the interests of people of cal history of Kashmir and 26: The Deputy Director, Sonawar Assembly seat, has JaMMU, DeC. 26: Kashmir. Both parties are their every step would be District Employment and stoked a controversy after a While addressing a crowd - afraid to enter into alliance keenly watched and ana - Counselling Centre video surfaced purportedly ed press conference at as they will then have to in lyzed and for restoring Kupwara is going to con - showing him firing several Srinagar, Awami Ittihaad pragmatic terms imple - honour of people of duct a daylong counselling rounds from an automatic Party (AIP) President and ment their Autonomy and Kashmir these two parties session with Voluntary rifle on the day of Assembly MLA Langate Engineer Self- Rule slogans and can - should form government Service Allowance (VSA) poll results. Rashid offered uncondi - not hoodwink further the and I assure them complete candidates of district The video, which has tional support to National masses of Kashmir as pre - support of my party. If Kupwara on the topic gone viral shows the Conference - Peoples viously excusing the lack PDP leader Muzafer Baig "Employment Scenario in People's Democratic Party accused his political rivals of sonal security officer) fell on by a margin of over 4,700 Democratic Party (PDP) of majority they used it as can meet BJP leader Ram J&K and the way forward'' leader purportedly firing producing a doctored video. ground which I retrieved and votes, becoming the first lead coalition government. alibi not to implement Madhav why can't he meet on December 29, 2014 at several rounds in air from an "I did not fire any rounds handed it back to him," Mir politician in Jammu and Engineer Rashid stated autonomy and self-rule. NC leadership. PDP should Auditorium Hall of AK-47 rifle at his residence. … there was a commotion said. Kashmir to register a victory - "NC and PDP should join NC and PDP are also not seriously respond positive - Government Degree However, Mir denied following my victory and the Mir defeated Omar from over an incumbent Chief hands for the betterment of entering into alliance as ly to offer of support from Collage Kupwara at 11.30 having fired any rounds and rifle of one of my PSOs (per - Sonawar assembly segment Minister. Kashmir and safeguarding they are afraid of Delhi.” Omar Abdullah." a.m. The interested VAC candidates have been asked to attend the pro - Valley freezes, Jammu shivers Don't bulldoze regional parties gramme at the venue. GY NewS SeRViCe SRiNaGaR, DeC. 26: Training prog on value Cold wave continued across in J&K: Azad to BJP addition in horticulture Jammu and Kashmir on New Delhi, DeC. sion at right time," he said. entire world, and rather step commences Friday as night tempera - 26: Congress leader Ghulam He reminded that in aside and focus on better GY NewS SeRViCe tures remained several Nabi Azad Friday asked BJP 2002, government formation government in the country UDhaMPUR, DeC. notches below the freezing not to indulge in "arm-twist - had taken 22 days. "There is than pursuing its perceived 26: A One month training pro - point in the Valley. Also, ing" tactics and be "insensi - still time left for the present goal of saffronisation of the gramme on Value Addition in Jammu city recorded the tive" while "bulldozing" its Assembly to expire so there country," he said. fruits and vegetables started at season's lowest tempera - way on government forma - is no need to hurry," he said. Asked about talks taking village Sail Jattan Panchayat ture. tion in Jammu and Kashmir. Azad also asked BJP to place between BJP and PDP, Ghar. Chief Horticulture "The minimum temper - "The way BJP is bulldozing refrain from polarisation of Azad said he would not like Officer Udhampur, C. L. ature was minus 4.2 degrees itself on regional parties in states like Jammu and to comment on media reports Sharma inaugurated the camp Celsius in Srinagar, it was Jammu and Kashmir and Kashmir, Punjab and in the but reiterated his statement and enlisted the various other minus 5.6 degrees Celsius that's just being insensitive northeast. "These states are that if National Conference activities taken by Deptt. of in Gulmarg and minus 7 towards the mandate and sensitive -- religious as well or PDP joins BJP, they will Horticulture Udhampur for the degrees Celsius in people of Jammu and gle MLA of that party," he as geographical wise. It took be "obliterated from the betterment of farming com - Pahalgam today (Friday). Kashmir," Azad, who is said. The senior Congress 67 years for people in political scene of the munity in general and women Night temperature dropped leader of Opposition in Rajya leader said that his party had Kashmir to digest Congress Kashmir Valley". To a ques - folk in particular. Incharge to minus 14.2 in Leh town degrees," the official said. ing the Dal Lake in Srinagar Sabha, told reporters here. made an offer to the PDP for policies. Does BJP think that tion about the dilemma on MCC/ DLSMS while Kargil recorded The official also said city, were partially frozen "The tall claims made by its support and the ball was it will be acceptable to part of the PDP that if it does - minus 13.6 degrees," an cold wave conditions would Friday morning. the BJP about the popular in its court. "We have not Kashmiris overnight? That's n't tie up with BJP, it may end (Entomology), S.K. Gupta official of Met department continue across the state till Water taps in the city vote is negated by the fact asked anything in return what I call being insensi - up facing acute fund crunch, along with Canning told a news agency here. Saturday as the weather is were also frozen as people that it has been rejected by from PDP. Mufti tive," he said. Azad laughed and said "We Instructor, Nirjal Dass briefed "The night temperature in expected to remain dry dur - were seen burning small two divisions of the state -- (Mohammed Sayeed) is a BJP should refrain from live in a democracy and such the farm women about the Jammu city dropped to sea - ing this period. Most water fires around water pipes to Kashmir and Ladakh -- seasoned politician and I becoming like "Alexander, things are only figment of importance of such training son's lowest so far at 3.8 bodies in the Valley, includ - de-freeze them. which has not returned a sin - hope he will take a right deci - who wanted to conquer the imagination." programme. 2 JAMMU | SATURDAY | DECEMBER 27 | 2014 Golden YuG Chiang Kai-shek`s great-grandson Jordan denies Islamic State China man seeking $2.4mn for gets jail term in Taiwan jihadists shot down its warplane TaiPei, DeC. 26: A Taipei court on Friday sentenced wrongful death sentence a great-grandson of former Taiwanese leader Chiang Kai- beiJiNG, DeC. 26: A Party is attempting to shek to six months in prison for making threats against staff Chinese man who was freed reduce public anger over at his former school. Andrew Chiang You-ching, 24, was after six years on death row injustices by lessening the convicted at the Shilin district court of intimidation charges following a wrongful mur - influence of local officials for posting threats against the Taipei American School on der conviction is seeking over some court cases, and Facebook as well as emailing them to its staff last year. He $2.4 million in compensa - reversing verdicts in some can appeal the ruling or pay a fine of Tw$180,000 ($5,800) tion, state-media said high-profile cases. in exchange for not serving the sentence, the court said. Friday, amid public anger A Chinese man who Chiang was arrested and indicted in November 2013 over the country`s flawed was acquitted after being after the school alerted the police of his actions in a case aMMaN, DeC. 26: Jordan`s military Friday denied legal system. Nian Bin, a imprisoned for 16 years on claims by the Islamic State group to have shot down one of former food-stall owner a murder charge received that was much-publicised in Taiwan. Local media said he its warplanes which crashed in Syria, after the pilot was who was convicted of poi - state compensation of 1.57 used the words "slaughter" and "bomb" in his Facebook captured by the jihadists. "First indications show that the soning two children and million yuan ($256,000) messages and he was also reported to have shouted and crash of the Jordanian military plane in the area of the condemned to death in this week, the China Daily made offensive gestures outside the school. Syrian city of Raqa was not caused by Daesh fire," a mili - 2008, was finally freed after court make a public apology rare -- 99.93 percent of said in a separate report. Chiang is a scion of Taiwan`s most prominent political tary official said using another name for IS. a court quashed his convic - through the media, it added. defendants in criminal cases Xu Hui was arrested in families as the youngest of the three children of Chiang "But since the wreckage of the plane cannot be reached tion in August. "Eight years of life cannot were found guilty last year, 1998 and convicted of Hsiao-yung, the grandson of the late nationalist and since its pilot is not present, we cannot at this moment His case went through be bought back with according to official statis - murdering a 19-year-old Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek fled determine the exact cause of the crash," the official said in multiple appeals, with money," the sister, Nian tics. The use of force to woman in 2001 but a court to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war in China to the remarks published on the army`s website. lawyers arguing that the Jianlan said, referring to the extract confessions remains in the Southern province Maaz al-Kassasbeh, a 26-year-old first lieutenant in the evidence against him was entirety of her brother`s widespread in the country of Guangdong ruled in communists, and was president of the island until his death Jordanian air force, was captured by IS on Wednesday after insufficient and saying ordeal since his 2006 arrest. and defendants often do not September that there had in 1975. His son Chiang Ching-kuo ruled Taiwan from his F-16 jet crashed while on a mission against the jihadists police had tortured him to "We hope that by asking have effective defence in been insufficient evidence, 1978 until he died in 1988. over northern Syria. obtain a confession. Nian on for compensation and an criminal trials, leading to it said. Andrew Chiang was born in Canada and spent a long The US military has also dismissed the jihadists` claim Thursday applied for 15 apology, the culprit judges regular miscarriages of Earlier this month, a time in the United States. He was reportedly expelled by the to have hit the jet with an anti-aircraft missile, saying "evi - million yuan ($2.4 million) can have more respect for justice. court in the northern Taipei American School eight years ago for missing too dence clearly suggests that ISIL (IS) did not down the air - in compensation from the life and the law," she added. China has occasionally region of Inner Mongolia many classes. craft". The crash was the first warplane from the US-led government at a court in Nian, 38, told a previous exonerated wrongfully declared innocent coalition lost since air strikes on IS began in Syria in east China`s Fujian court hearing that police executed convicts after Hugjiltu, who had been September, and marks a major propaganda victory for the province which had upheld had hung him from a hook others came forward to executed at age 18 in 1996 Sunni extremist group. Jordan is among a number of coun - his death sentence three and beaten him until he con - confess their crimes, or in for murder and rape. Life of Armenians tries that have joined the air raids against IS. Coalition war - times, the China Daily fessed, reports said. some cases because the Doubt was cast on the planes have carried out regular strikes around Raqa, which reported citing his elder sis - Acquittals in China`s supposed murder victim original verdict when seen through lens IS has used as its de facto capital since declaring a ter. Communist-controlled was later found alive. another man confessed to KolKaTa, DeC. 26: Festivals of the city's tiny and "caliphate" in June straddling large parts of Iraq and Syria. He also requested the court system are extremely China`s ruling Communist the crime in 2005. reclusive Armenian community, who celebrate Christmas on January 6, have now been captured on camera. Travel writer and photographer Rangan Datta has come Barack Obama praises US troops as China praises Hong Kong for up with a photo exhibition comprising 18 images shot over a period of five years. Afghanistan mission winds down not giving in to protesters The photographs reveal the little-known life and cus - month as the US-led NATO remarks shown on Hong toms of Armenians in the city whose population has dwin - force in Afghanistan Kong television. dled down to around 150 now. Armenians follow the marked the closure of its "The central govern - Orthodox calendar, which marks the birth of Jesus Christ as combat command center. ment holds your work, January 6 and not December 25. There are concerns however and the work of the Hong Accordingly, they celebrate Christmas in the New year about Afghanistan`s ability Kong government, in each time at Kolkata's Armenian Holy Church of Nazareth. to maintain security as the high regard," he told The exhibition also covers other festivals like Pilgrimage to Afghan Taliban steps up Leung. attacks. Leung, who arrived in Chinsurah, when members of the community go on an A follow-up mission of Beijing on Thursday for annual pilgrimage to St John, the Baptist, Armenian Church about 12,500 US-led NATO his first visit since the in the erstwhile Dutch settlement of Chinsurah. troops will stay on to train sit-ins were cleared, Celebrated every year on the Sunday after the and support Afghan security thanked Li for the central Armenian Christmas, the pilgrims carry the golden hand of forces. Even as the main government`s support. St John who is said to have baptised Jesus Christ in the hawaii, DeC. 26: responsibility for security to military mission in beiJiNG, DeC. 26: clashing with angry Beijing has refused to waters of the Jordan river. President Barack Obama in Afghan forces. Afghanistan winds down, Chinese Premier Li crowds on Friday for a back down on its insis - The golden hand contains the relic, a piece of bone a Christmas Day speech to "We`ve been in continu - "we still have some very Keqiang on Friday second night running. tence that candidates for from the right hand of St John. US troops stationed in ous war now for over 13 difficult missions around heaped praise on Hong Police said they had Hong Kong`s next leader - Held on the Sunday closest to August 15, the Blessing Hawaii hailed their "extra - years. Next week we will be the world, including in Kong`s authorities as he made 37 arrests overnight ship election in 2017 ordinary dedication and sac - ending our combat mission Iraq," the president told the met with the city`s for illegal assembly and must be vetted by a loyal - of the Grapes ceremony is another important festivals of the rifices," as NATO prepares in Afghanistan," Obama marines. leader, commending them criminal damage, a night ist committee. Armenian calender. Moments from occasions of mourning to wrap up its combat mis - told the crowd, to cheers The US military will for maintaining "stabili - after they used pepper Protesters say this like the Armenian Good Friday and Armenian Genocide sion in Afghanistan. and applause. still play a key role stanch - ty" in 2014, a year spray and batons to dis - will result in the election Remembrance Day also find place in the exhibit which After a morning of "Because of the extraor - ing crises around the world, marked by massive pro- perse hundreds of pro - of a pro-Beijing stooge. depicts how most of their community activities are centred exchanging gifts with fami - dinary service of the men he said. democracy street testers, with a dozen Their protest camps have around their churches - three in Kolkata and one in ly members during their and women in the armed "We still have folks in protests. arrested. been cleared from the Chinsurah (Hooghly district). annual year-end vacation in forces, Afghanistan has a Afghanistan helping the Beijing refused to "The central govern - major road junctions they his birth state, the president chance to rebuild its own Afghan security forces. We give concessions to ment`s basic policy for occupied for more than and First Lady Michelle country. We are safer. It`s have people helping to deal demonstrators who held Hong Kong has not and two months, but they Jordan denies Islamic State Obama paid a visit late not going to be a source of with Ebola in Africa and rallies in Hong Kong for will not change," Li said have continued to make Thursday to a Marine Corps terrorist attacks again," he obviously we have folks more than two months as he met in Beijing with their voices heard, hold - jihadists shot down its warplane base in Hawaii. As service said. NATO`s combat mis - stationed all around the demanding free leader - the city`s chief executive ing nightly rallies they aMMaN, DeC. 26: Jordan`s military Friday denied members and their families sion ends on December 31, world," said Obama. "But ship elections for the Leung Chun-ying. colloquially refer to as claims by the Islamic State group to have shot down one of tucked into a dinner of lob - although some troops will the world is better, it`s safer, semi-autonomous city, "During this year, I "going shopping". Large its warplanes which crashed in Syria, after the pilot was ster, turkey, green beans, remain to support the it`s more peaceful, it`s more and police cleared the said the Hong Kong gov - banners have appeared on captured by the jihadists. yams and other traditional Afghan army and police prosperous and our home - last of their sprawling ernment was unafraid of landmarks, pop-up mar - Christmas Day fare, the who have taken on respon - land is protected because of protest camps on difficulties and was unit - kets have sprung up sell - "First indications show that the crash of the Jordanian president took the micro - sibility for suppressing you and the sacrifices each December 15. ed in struggle and steadi - ing memorabilia of the military plane in the area of the Syrian city of Raqa was not phone to thank them for worsening Islamist violence and every day," he told the Protesters have ly pushed on in their movement, and there is caused by Daesh fire," a military official said using anoth - "extraordinary service" that nationwide. troops, praising "the extra - nonetheless continued to work and preserved over - even an "Occupy hotel" er name for IS. "But since the wreckage of the plane cannot he said has allowed the Flags were lowered at ordinary dedication and sac - hold nightly gatherings all stability in Hong where guests can pay to be reached and since its pilot is not present, we cannot at United States to hand Kabul airport earlier this rifices you all make." on the streets, with police Kong," Li added in spend the night in a tent. this moment determine the exact cause of the crash," the official said in remarks published on the army`s website. Maaz al-Kassasbeh, a 26-year-old first lieutenant in the Struggling Croatia US, allies agree trilateral accord Jordanian air force, was captured by IS on Wednesday after elects new President his F-16 jet crashed while on a mission against the jihadists ZaGReb, DeC. 26: Croatia`s piano playing president on North Korea intelligence over northern Syria. The US military has also dismissed the Ivo Josipovic is tipped to lead the field when voters in the SeoUl, DeC. 26: The jihadists` claim to have hit the jet with an anti-aircraft mis - European Union`s newest member vote on Sunday, as the United States, Japan and sile, saying "evidence clearly suggests that ISIL (IS) did not country struggles with severe economic crisis. South Korea have agreed a down the aircraft". Josipovic, a popular politician and former law professor rare trilateral military The crash was the first warplane from the US-led coali - who won office on an anti-corruption ticket, famously played arrangement on intelligence tion lost since air strikes on IS began in Syria in September, Beethoven`s "Ode to Joy" when Croatia joined the EU in sharing about North and marks a major propaganda victory for the Sunni 2013 hoping membership would revive its flagging economy. Korea`s nuclear and missile extremist group. A poll released days before Sunday`s vote showed the centre- programmes, officials said Jordan is among a number of countries that have joined left incumbent backed by 46.5 percent support, followed by Friday. The deal, which is to conservative candidate Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, with 34.9 be signed on Monday the air raids against IS. Coalition warplanes have carried percent. according to South Korea`s out regular strikes around Raqa, which IS has used as its de Though the president has limited powers -- running the defence ministry, comes at a facto capital since declaring a "caliphate" in June straddling country is primarily left to the government -- the election is time of heightened concern large parts of Iraq and Syria. seen as a key test for Croatia`s political parties ahead of par - about North Korea`s liamentary contests in late 2015. nuclear and missile pro - With the centre-left government blamed for failing to grammes, which are seen as South Korea, US and Japan revive the economy, Grabar-Kitarovic`s opposition HDZ a major security concern in party is likely to gain considerable backing. But with neither the Pacific region and of the two top candidates expected to win more than 50 per - beyond. share intel on North Korea cent, a run-off round on January 11 is likely. Josipovic -- the But in a sign of the nations respond swiftly to US. two countries are currently SeoUl, DeC. 26: South Korea says it'll sign a trilat - third president of the former Yugoslav republic since indepen - long-held distrust between the North`s nuclear and The United States, at their lowest ebb for eral intelligence-sharing pact with the US and Japan next dence in 1991 -- is a member of Croatia`s Social Democrats Seoul and Tokyo, South missile threats," a South which maintains separate years due to various other week to better cope with North Korea's increasing nuclear (SDP), the main partner in the ruling coalition. Korea will not pass military Korean defence ministry bilateral military accords disputes linked to Japan`s and missile threats. The US has separate, bilateral intelli - Critics say the soft-spoken 57-year-old intellectual information directly to spokesman tol d AFP. with both South Korea and 1910-45 rule over the gence-sharing agreements with South Korea and Japan, doesn`t clearly articulate his stance on major issues and failed Japan, and will instead use The scope of informa - Japan, has pushed for bet - Korean peninsula. both American allies which are hosts to tens of thousands of to push the government to seriously battle economic decline. the US as an intermediary. tion to be shared between ter defence cooperation South Korea and American troops. But Josipovic has taken firmer stances on issues in the months The nuclear-armed North the three countries will be between its allies in the China, also mired in terri - But Seoul and Japan don't have such bilateral pacts ahead of the election, pledging in particular to initiate press - has threatened the US and confined to intelligence on face of China`s growing torial disputes with Japan, ing constitutional changes. "Constitutional changes .... are the South Korea with nuclear threats related to North influence in the region. view a highly contentious amid long-running history disputes stemming from Japan's condition for implementation of economic reforms. Without strikes, most recently over a Korea, reflecting negative But negotiations on change in Japan`s pacifist colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945. reforming the state, administration and judiciary there will be UN resolution on its human public sentiment in South forging a bilateral military stance with deep suspicion. In 2012, the two almost forged their first-ever intelli - no economic recovery," he said.Though still personally popu - rights abuses and Sony Korea towards greater deal between Seoul and Seoul, which seeks to gence-sharing pact but its signing was scrapped at the last lar, Josipovic`s standing has dropped as the now widely Pictures` madcap comedy cooperation with Japan. As Tokyo fell apart two years expand strategic ties with minute due to backlash in South Korea. unpopular SDP-led government of Prime Minister Zoran "The Interview". a result, rather than sharing ago when a territorial row Beijing, has also been Seoul's Defense Ministry said today that South Korea Milanovic has struggled to revive the economy. "The main "This will be effective military information intensified over disputed reluctant to join a US-led and Japan would share intelligence on the North's nuclear burden for Josipovic is an extremely poor economic situation in deterring provocations directly with Japan, South islands in the Sea of Japan missile defence system and missile programs via the US under the agreement. in the country, for which the SDP is responsible," political from North Korea, and we Korea will provide its (East Sea). intended to keep China in analyst Zarko Puhovski told AFP. hope it will help the three intelligence through the Relations between the check. 3 JAMMU | SATURDAY | DECEMBER 27 | 2014 Golden YuG ADGP inaugurates Suqoon Centre in Jammu Fertility Camp under NPCB held at Ramban GY NewS SeRViCe JaMMU, DeC. 26: The first counseling centre in the Jammu Region under Suqoon Project at Calliope College of Education, Akhnoor, Jammu was today inaugurated by S. M. Sahai, Additional Director General of Police, J&K (Armed). Suqoon is a flagship project of The Inner Call, Forum for Evolution, Development and Awareness, which was launched in November, 2013 by the then Union overall health of a person the facility to the public, ing counseling and guid - effected districts. Health and Family Welfare and that is the reason that CEO, The Inner Call, Affan ance services whenever Er. Manish Suri, Minister. Under the Suqoon mental health care activities Yesvi said that Inner Call required. On the occasion, Chairman, Calliope College project mental health ser - are now in focus. He said endeavours to contribute he appealed the masses not of Education thanked The vices, individual case work, that the Police Department towards establishing a soci - to hesitate in approaching Inner Call for selecting his group counseling and psy - is also an important stake - ety where individuals are the facility for professional institution to establish the cho-educational sessions holder in promoting mental not merely free from physi - help and fight the stigma first Mental Health facility in GY NewS SeRViCe mals/cows have been adopted and treatment are being conducted across health in the State through cal diseases but are also associated with mental the Jammu region. He assured RaMbaN, DeC. 26: A Fertility Camp for such cows has been started with proper the State. its drug de-addiction centres mentally capable to deal health problems. He also full support to The Inner Call under NPCB under the aegis of Livestock nutrition/mineral balance, treating uterine Speaking on the occa - and described the role of with the various challenges informed in detail the con - in their noble mission of cre - Development Board, Jammu of District infection etc. Later an interactive session was sion Sahai appreciated the non-state agencies as para - that life poses. He described tribution of The Inner Call ating a healthy and peaceful Ramban was held at village Gandhari. held with the prominent farmers/ cattle rear - endeavour of The Inner Call mount in the area of mental the counseling centre at during the post-flood period society. He hoped the facility A team of technical staff of Animal ers of the area. On this occasion the depart - in the area of health care heatlh as there is a large gap Calliope College of in terms of material as well will go a long way in fulfilling Husbandry Department, Ramban registered ment issued 07 ltrs of Cryocane and related particularly mental health. between needs and services Education as a new begin - as counseling assistance to the guidance and counseling good number of infertile and other gynae equipments for initiation of A.I. facility/work He said that mental health is available. ning for students, parents the victims by setting up needs of the students, parents related cases of livestock of the area. in the village alongwith an Ice/Igloo box for the essential component of While commissioning and staff members for avail - counseling points in all the and college staff. It was informed that around 21 such ani - proper carriage of vaccine vials. Kashmiri Food Festival begins at Mint Leaf PK demands resettlement of displaced KPs, PoK refugees restaurant was started about GY NewS SeRViCe ating job avenues for them in two years from now and we JaMMU, DeC 26: The the state itself. This will also are providing our customers Executive council of Panun help stop dispersal of the with best quality fast food Kashmir (PK) held a meeting indigenous societies living in items," he added. On today to take stock of the lat - the state for the last several Kahmiri food festival, est post election political sce - generations. Narider Singh Jamwal, nario of the state. The meet - Virender Raina, National Manager, Mint Leaf, said," ing was held under the chair - Spokesperson while address - We have been maintaining manship of Ashwani Kumar ing the meeting said that the the standards, which gives Chrungoo, President, Panun recommendations of the us a distinction in the indus - Kashmir and was among oth - Parliamentary Standing try and the same would be ers attended by Prof. Kashmir in his address said which include the resettle - Committee should form the maintained."Asked about M.L.Raina, Chairman, that the nationalist forces ment of the displaced basis of the welfare measures coming up with the new Political Affairs Committee, have been emboldened by Kashmiri Pandit community for the displaced community. taste, Jamwal said the Virender Raina, National the historic verdict of the and the rehabilitation of the The new government in the Kashmiri food catered a Spokesperson, J.L. Kaul, people. This will initiate a refugees of 1947, 1965 and state will have to take up the huge class of people and the Vice President, Upinder process that would ultimate - 1971. All these issues need special employment package stuff had gained significant Kaul, General Secretary, ly empower the people of urgent attention of the new for the displaced community popularity over the years. Kamal Bagati, Organising Jammu region who faced government. The displaced on a war footing but without GY NewS SeRViCe they are specialist in claimed. Sanjay Mahajan, He also said that free home Secretary, Vijay Qazi, N.M. neglect and apathy by the Kashmir Pandit community the inhuman conditionalities JaMMU, DeC. 26: Kashmiri Food and serve Owner of the restaurant said delivery was also available Gadroo, Ravi Punjabi and politico-administrative appa - of Kashmir, which faced attached to it. The majority Kashmiri Food Festival Jhatka. We also provide that the idea behind this fes - in the adjoining areas Sameer Bhat. The Executive ratus of the state all along. political marginalization and of the community youth have began today at 'Mint Leaf', a home delivery around four tival is to provide an oppor - including Trikuta Nagar, council congratulated the The discrimination in terms economic squeeze in the val - become overage in the hope family restaurant, here at kilometers besides making tunity to Jammuites to enjoy Channi Himmat, Greater Bharatiya Janata Party for an of employment opportuni - ley of Kashmir, has great of getting government Channi Himmat. Giving arrangements for kitty par - special Kashmiri food Kailash, Marbel Market, excellent result in the just ties, development of infra - expectations from the new employment. For such youth details about the festival, ties and marriage functions, besides to Kashmiris who Sainik Colony etc. Mint concluded Assembly elec - structure and the faulty con - political dispensation that is of the community, the gov - the Managing Director he added. We got a very are now settled in Jammu to Leaf is one among the best tions and felt satisfaction that stituency delimitation has about to take effect in the ernment needs to come up (MD) of the 'Mint Leaf', good response on the very refresh their memories with family restaurants in the the voters responded posi - pushed the Jammu region to state in which BJP would be with a substantial one time Sanjay Mahajan said first day today as not only tasty and their home food. temple city, its prominent tively in an unprecedented a second grade status. The a big component. In order to package as also recommend - "During the week-long the people from the Adding further he said that location and accessibility manner. This historic verdict opportunity to change all this stop the exodus of the edu - ed by the Parliamentary Festival, we will be serving Kashmiri Community, but we have been getting a very makes it a most favoured has the potential to change is now and here. cated and talented youth of Committee in its latest all Kashmiri dishes includ - also other communities good response from the cus - spot for the people. The the political discourse in the There are also very the region to the other parts report. The enhancement of ing vegetarian and non-veg - thronged the restaurant and tomers and all our regular restaurant is also available state. important political issues that of the country, in search of relief as already approved by etarian that too at very rea - enjoyed eating delicious customers have appreciated for the parties and functions Ashwani Kumar have remained pending for employment opportunities, the government needs to be sonable rates."He claimed Kashmiri dishes, the MD Kashmiri food festival. The for a gathering of about 100. Chrungoo, President, Panun the last a number of decades needs to be addressed by cre - implemented immediately. Jaitley threatens of veto power in formation Govt. in J&K GY NewS SeRViCe J&K is concern. Not first time PDP MLAs have misused security, their guns - NC JaMMU, DeC. 26: "Where is the con - The State-Centre relationship whether on cept of 'veto power' in the Constitution which a financial side or political are based on the con - Has J&K Police officially allowed PDP leaders to brandish, fire guns? - NC Spokesman Senior Advocate and Union Minister has kept stitutional relationship as they do not exist on GY NewS SeRViCe sonal security officer of the law by firing the service that they have allowed PDP on this issue, to render an apol - in store to be used in the formation of a govern - the mercy of the Union government. SRiNaGaR, DeC. 26: J&K Police. This behavior is weapon of a policeman and leaders to misuse their security ogy on behalf of the party and ment in J&K? This is a dangerous trend which He said that threatening to use veto power National Conference Friday shocking and violates a slew has also put the lives of dozens and brandish and fire AK-47s to take disciplinary action BJP-led government at the Centre has evolved would mean that Jaitley is trying to convey that condemned in the strongest of of laws - most of which are of people in serious risk. It at will or it steps up and takes against the erring PDP leader", to mull a democratic system in J&K." Reacted they can make or unmake any government in terms the incident of newly non-bailable offences. remains to be seen if the J&K legal action without any dilly- NC Spokesman Junaid Azim Bhim Singh. Chief Patron of National Panthers J&K no matter where is the mandate and with elected PDP MLA from However, this is not the first Police will at least try to act or dallying. There was concrete Mattu said. The NC Party this morning from New Delhi. He whom. Such a statement is threat to democracy. Sonawar, Mohammad Ashraf time Ashraf Mir has misused will yet again turn a blind eye evidence on every occasion Spokesman demanded that the reminded Arun Jaitley that Modi had asked This is out of sheer frustration of Modi as he Mir resorting to firing an AK- his personal security. More towards Mir's unlawful behav - but all such evidence was Police takes appropriate action vote for himself for development whereas each failed to reach his Mission 44+. It was not the 47 amid a crowd and said that recently, Mir used his PSOs to ior", NC Spokesman Junaid ignored by the Police. The under law against Mir and state in the Union has its share in financial sup - mission of BJP as Modi had asked vote for such reckless, unlawful behav - conduct illegal search opera - Azim Mattu said. tragic part is that there wasn't immediately registers an FIR port for development. Gujarat could not have himself not for the BJP. Prof. Bhim Singh ior from an elected lawmaker tions and beat up innocent The NC Spokesman said even a semblance of an based on the video evidence developed as Modi claimed that Gujarat is most asked Prime Minister Modi how shall he justi - was unfortunate and unaccept - people in Shalimar the night that this incident comes in the inquiry", the NC Spokesman under various relevant statutes developed state, in Central government of that fy forming a coalition government with NC or able, especially in a State that before the elections in backdrop of another PDP added "It is only proper that of law. "In case Mir repeats time when he was the Chief Minister have not with PDP when he had asked the voters to had just recovered from a pro - Srinagar. However, tragically leader and MLA, Javed PDP comes up with an official this behavior and such reckless released funds to the state for the purpose of throw out (jar se ukhar do) father and son as longed phase of armed, violent Mir was allowed to go scot- Mustafa Mir brandishing an stand on this incident and tells and unlawful misuse of development. He was the opposition Chief well as father and daughter from power in the turmoil. free that time due to the AK-47 and dressing up in mil - the people of the State what weapons of the J&K Police Minister for 15 years in the state. He said interest of democracy. Claiming that Centre has "How can an MLA resort unabashed bias of a certain itary fatigue to intimidate and action it is planning to take results in any loss of life, the whether it is Gujarat or Madhya Pradesh or veto power over states and can intervene in for - to firing a gun in broad day - police officer towards PDP. harass civilians in broad day - against its leader. We expect J&K Police would be directly Punjab, all states share Central funds in their mation of a government is a direct attack on light? Apparently the gun was Now once again there is video light. "Either the J&K Police the PDP Patron Mufti responsible" NC Spokesman own right so there is nothing special so far as democracy and free of WILL of Indian people. handed over to Mir by a per - evidence of Mir violating the officially issues a statement Mohammad Sayeed to speak Junaid Mattu further added. Parkash Purab celebration of Guru Gobind NSS Annual Winter Camp organized Singh Ji at Digiana Ashram on Dec 28 at G.G.M. Science College GY NewS SeRViCe birth anniversary (Parkash GY NewS SeRViCe JaMMU, DeC 26: The Purab) of Guru Gobind JaMMU, DeC 26: Parkash Purab of 10th Guru Singh Ji who sacrificed his Seven days NSS Annual Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj is and his family's life for the Winter Camp 2014-15 by being celebrated at the sake of the humanity and the NSS units of G.G.M. premises of Digiana the country. Science College, Jammu Ashram Jammu on 28th Others present in the was organized under the December Sunday from 10 press conference were S. supervision of Dr. Rajinder AM to 4 PM under the Mohinder Singh Chief Singh, NSS Programme ment and their experiences inmates of Bal Ashram , chairmanship of Shriman Organisor Bhai Kanhiya officer of the College. The working as NSS volunteers Vridh Ashram , Ved 108 Mahant Manjit Singh Ji Nishkam Sewa Society, S. camp was inaugurated by during last few years. Mandir, Jammu and do of Shiromani Dera Nangali Parmajit Singh president Dr. Satinder Singh, Nodal Principal in his presi - some philanthropic activi - Sahib Poonch. A.I.S.S.F, S. Surinder Principal, Jammu Division dential address applauded ties there, every year which While addressing the Singh Kala, S. Gajan Singh Colleges. A large number of the role of NSS units of the gives the feeling among the media persons S. Avtar Gen. Secy. Sikh Welfare NSS volunteers alongwith College for organizing this children of Bal Ashram that Singh Khalsa General Society, S. Kulwant Singh faculty members were pre - event as these activities they are being loved by the Secretary J&K Sikh United Chief Advisor Sikh sent on the occasion. The inculcate moral values society. Every year the Front said that the Parkash Sikh Community including Dhadies including Bibi Ragi and Bhai Ranjit Singh Noujawan Sabha, S. guests were welcomed by amongst the students and NSS volunteer of the Purab of Guru Gobind J&K Sikh United Front, Sri Ashitoshpreet of Jallandhar, UP and Jammu are also Rajinder Singh, S. Gurdev NSS Programme officer their role towards the soci - College celebrate Singh Ji is being celebrated Guru Ramdass Sewa Bhai Manpreet Singh participating. Guru Ka Singh, S. Manmohan who also gave the details of ety. He said that the energy December 31, with the by the Sikh Sangat of Charitable Trust, All Sikh Hazoori Ragi of Langer shall also be served Singh, S. Harbans Singh, the activities which are of youth should be chan - children of Ved Mandir. Jammu & Kashmir accord - Noujawan Sabha and the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib among the devotees. S. Aya Singh, S. Harpal going to be undertaken by nelized in a positive direc - Among others Dr. Vinod ing to the Sikh Nanak Shahi local Guruwaras Delhi, Dhachijatha Bhai S. Avtar Singh Singh Prince, S. Tejpal the NSS volunteers during tion for the welfare of Bakshi , Physical Director Calendar with the coopera - Management Committees. Amrik Singh of Pathankot appealed the Sikh Sangat Singh, S. Surjeet Singh this camp. nation. Besides, cleanliness and Prof. Mohinder Singh tion of Sikh United Front S. Avtar Sigh said that and Bhai Parvinder Singh and people of Jammu to Kuku, S. Balbir Singh Some senior students drive in the College cam - were also present. The vote and many other religious many famous and popular Ragi, Bhai Bachan Singh attend the religion congre - Pinka S. Kultar Singh and spoke about the aims and pus, the volunteers spend a of thanks was proposed by and social organization of Ragies Preachers and Ragi, Bhai Gian Singh gation and celebrated the S. Charanvir Singh Lad. objectives of NSS move - couple of days with the Dr. Rajinder Singh. 4 JAMMU | SATURDAY | DECEMBER 27 | 2014 Golden YuG What’s in a kiss? Apparently, a lot Golden Yug object shall be deemed to be necking and petting in an over - Whether PDA (public display of obscene if it is lascivious or crowded country as ours where EDITORIAL appeals to the prurient interest as it is people are breathing affection) is a reaffirmation of love or if its effect, ….is…to tend to down each other’s necks. If the deprave and corrupt persons self-styled vigilantes like the Honouring or a veneer for insecurity or simply who are likely… to read, see or Shiv Sena saniks or Ram Sene a spectacle lovers put up to bear the matter contained or activists have no business to tell complex legacies embodied in it. But the ticklish others to behave, if love is a pri - impress others and perhaps each part of the law is “whoever, to vate and personal affair should - the annoyance of other… does n’t its expression be for person - By conferring the highest civilian honour, the other…clearly there are limits to any obscene act in any public al consumption too? Clearly, if Bharat Ratna, on former Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee place” shall be punished with fringe elements do not have the and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, who was presi - which it can go imprisonment extending up to prerogative to lock out love three years or with a fine or from our lives, can we claim dent of the Indian National Congress more than once NoNiKa SiNGh tactics and the not-so-discreet dition each time, such an issue giving the kiss a miss. It was both. the privilege of unlocking all before Independence but was better known as the ones often face the wrath of real erupts in the public domain, the only in the 1990s that the kiss What about the West? our desires for public viewing? founder of the Banaras Hindu University, the country Kiss and make up... yes, in police as well as the moral one liberal club on the other side resurfaced rather diffidently. While laws in India leave The answer even at the risk has recognised the contributions made by these leaders another land, another culture. In with or without suitable provo - bring in the beaten-to-death The Censor Board till today has the PDA wide open to interpre - of sounding regressive is a India, kiss — a normal expres - cation. More recently, a video plea and harp on “we-are-the- not given it a complete green tation even in western societies “no”. And yes the line between to public life and India’s political evolution. The deci - sion of love between two con - shows Shiv Sena worker land-of Kamasutra” logic. To signal. Only a few months ago where a kiss does not even raise appropriate and inappropriate sion of the Bharatiya Janata Party government is also senting partners — not only Naresh Pakhle taking matters this, Dr Alka Pande, eminent it even decided to bring kissing so much as an eyebrow there behaviour exists and is in most indicative of a certain resoluteness to emphasise its raises hackles, but also invari - into his hand and bashing up author and curator, rebuts, scenes in Hollywood at par are limits to which one can go. cases not fuzzy. Both lovers own political tradition — Mr. Vajpayee was the first ably creates a stir. And we are kiss-struck couples at a shop - “Modern India is not as enlight - with Indian cinema meaning In the Indian context those and the so-called custodians of not just talking about the fracas ping mall in Mumbai. While ened as India of yore. So, to Hollywood films too would be championing the PDA rights Indian values need to see it in BJP Prime Minister of India, for 13 days in 1996, and that followed the kissfest titled incidents such as these are not bring in the Kamasutra argu - certified accordingly. And it’s need to look into whether it the right perspective. The key - again, from 1998 to 2004; Malaviya was among the Kiss of Love that threatened to uncommon, a few years ago ment, which most people don’t not only Censor authorities really is a freedom to be pro - word in PDA is affection, as founding leaders of the Hindu Mahasabha in the early become an epidemic across even a much-married man and even know is a compendium who are fidgety. Superstar tected at all costs and in all long as it remains just that and 20th century. Mr. Vajpayee, now ailing, still retains urban India, yet ended as spo - woman were booked for kiss - and not a book with a whole Salman Khan has gone on forms? And what exactly are does not turn into a demonstra - radic slugfests. ing in public. Indeed, the Delhi chapter on courtesans who in record to call it a private the benefits of this open display tion of anything else, no remon - appeal that cuts across political divisions because he Triggered by an incident in High Court judge acted in a today’s parlance are known as moment that doesn’t look good of affection? According to the stration will or rather should was particularly mindful of seeking a larger consensus Kochi, a group called the ‘Free refreshingly progressive fash - prostitutes is rather fallacious.” on screen. And when lips actu - 2010 findings of the University follow. on national issues. As Prime Minister his tenure was Thinkers’ organised the ‘Kiss ion and dismissed obscenity Modern India, she adds, is ally come together in movies, of Virginia National Marriage Restrictions even abroad eventful, marked by a war with Pakistan, a series of of Love’ as a protest against charges against them. Justice S. rather private about the expres - the discomfort level of the Project, people who define The western world might increasing moral policing. The Muralidhar observed, “It is sion of emotions and then there viewers too invariably mani - marriage mostly as romance be comfortable with overt terror attacks including the hijacking of IC-814 and the back story goes like this: inconceivable how, even if one is this whole thing about patri - fests in hooting and catcalls, the are more likely to put their own expressions of love in public Parliament attack, and India’s decision to go publicly Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha were to take what is stated in archy too. Is PDA about standard knee-jerk response to needs over the needs of the spaces, it’s not a free-for-all and nuclear. Through all this, Mr. Vajpayee’s statesmanship volunteers vandalised a cafe in the FIR to be true, the expres - women’s rights? Yes and no. kissing scenes. Expectedly, in partnership and 1-1/2 times there are boundaries which and his ability to demonstrate strength and large-heart - Kozhikode claiming that sion of love by a young married Yes, for if accosted by moral real life it can’t be taken lying more like to divorce. On the can’t be transgressed. Italy “immoral activities” were couple, in the manner indicated police its women who are more down. And it rarely is. other extreme many experts banned making out in public edness simultaneously, only got better. Freedom-fight - going on in the cafe. By in the FIR, would attract the vulnerable and susceptible to Even a peck offends feel that PDA is a reaffirmation with fines of 500 Euros to pro - er, journalist, educationist and social activist, Malaviya immoral, of course, they meant offence of obscenity and trigger harassment. But otherwise, What to talk of a proper of “all is well” and not indica - tect public decency and deco - belonged to the Hindu nationalist stream within the kissing, the footage of which the coercive process of the insists Dr Pande, it concerns kiss even a peck on the cheek is tive of a rupture within the rela - rum. PDA for those under 16 is Indian National Congress. He was fiercely opposed to was allegedly shown on a local law.” humanity and is a reflection of seen as an affront to sensibili - tionship as some believe. banned in South Africa. Austria TV channel. Surprisingly, Overstepping the boundary how far it has developed. ties. Remember the hullabaloo Researchers in the West opine implemented a fine of 50 Euros Congress participation in the Khilafat movement and while the judiciary did not Yet, men like Pakhle — Not a land of prudes that followed when Richard that it can produce health bene - for PDA on public transit, disfavoured separate electorates for different commu - intervene and did not stop the and they are not few in num - No doubt, India was never Gere planted an innocent kiss fits similar to those arising from though small kisses are over - nities proposed by the British government. An impor - fest, the police did and rounded bers — think otherwise. nor would ever be a land of on Shilpa Shetty’s cheek. Of intimacy behind closed doors. looked. Surprisingly, a railway up 50 odd protestors when Labelling such acts as ashleel, prudes. A country that has tradi - course, those offended were But even they agree that cultur - station in north England too put tant figure in the Non-Cooperation Movement, he was lovers took to streets and began he remains unrepentant and tionally eulogised shingaar ras once again the Hindu national - al context and who is looking up “no-kissing zone” signs. Of a delegate in the First Round Table Conference in kissing as a token of protest. morally indignant about the in all its sublime art forms ists of the BJP who were as does matter. course, their reasons were dif - 1930. But Malaviya’s living legacy is the BHU that he Criminalising affection manner in which he intimidated knows too well the beauty of usual outraged by what was by Nods Reicha Tanwar direc - ferent and did not stem out of founded in 1916 in the city of Varanasi with the help The ‘Kiss of Love’ cam - hapless lovers. While he cer - love and erotica. Yet family-ori - all means a simple sweet ges - tor, Women's Studies, Research prudery. Since departing pas - paign was a call given by group tainly overstepped the line, for a ented Indians in contemporary ture. In a classic case of over - Centre Kurukshetra University sengers were holding up traffic and support of Annie Besant. of “Free Thinkers” led by short large majority of Indians kiss world have never been com - reach, a judge in Jaipur issued “There is a time and place for with their long and passionate Previous ‘Bharat Ratna’ awards have had their film maker Rahul Pasupalan. may not be an obscene act but fortable with open displays of an arrest warrant for the two everything; while it’s perfectly kisses at a crowded drop-off share of controversies, and accusations that many dis - On the one hand they wanted to if indulged in full public glare it affection either. Unlike the stars for violating obscenity natural for lovers to show some point, the authorities deemed it pensations have used it to further their own political impress upon how kiss is a most certainly qualifies as out - West, where a sacred relation - laws. affection say in a club or at a fit to put up these signs which symbol of love but the more rageous behaviour. Like most ship is sealed with a kiss, kiss - While over the years beach or party but putting up later read “kiss me quick.” The interests and negate those of opponents are not important point they wanted to things a little out of the ordi - ing is not something Indians innocuous gestures such as the act for an audience and just rationale was to protect the civil unfounded. The fact that Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was con - make was that no one has the nary, PDA evokes strong, often have grown up seeing. Some holding hands have become for the heck of it is a big no no.” liberties of others who were ferred the Bharat Ratna only in 1990 when a govern - right to criminalise love and bizarre, reactions. Arguments argue within the close doors too passé, few of us are ok with In fact, she dismisses the kiss - being inconvenienced by the ment in which his followers had influence was in affection. Point taken…. but for and against vary from aping few Indian couples actually overt expressions of love. fest too as much ado about passionate kissers. not by all and certainly not by the West to “if men can relieve kiss. Any wonder it has taken While many fret and fume a nothing that ultimately didn’t Schools across the US do power is a telling example. Historical figures often the custodians of Bharatiya sab - themselves on the streets, decades for lips to actually meet few find the dare to vent out prove a thing. Indeed, in the not look too kindly at students leave mixed and complex legacies, and Mr. Vajpayee hayata. Expectedly, the unusu - what’s wrong with a little dis - on the silver screen. their annoyance. Interestingly, Indian milieu those who go hugging or even holding hands. and Malaviya are no exceptions. Honouring a person - al, rather explicit way of protest play of pyaar shyaar?” Those Of course, the first kiss in the operative word legally too is breathless in their defence of The student handbook of an ality is not necessarily an endorsement of all of his pol - against moral policing had both for the PDA also argue that if cinema was seen as far back as annoyance. The legal position PDA must realise that they Illinois school declares: takers and baiters. Anyway, the we can abuse openly, why take in 1929 in the film A Throw of is rather ambiguous and gov - can’t compare oranges with “Displays of affection should itics, or being blind to his failures and shortcomings. It kiss virus spread to the nation’s the high ground for a little lov - Dice. Four years later in erned under obscenity laws. apples. The logic in their argu - not occur on the school campus is also not about jettisoning disagreements in our pub - capital and to some other cities ing feeling. Karma, actress Devika Rani The Sections 292-294 of the ments that we look the other at any time. It is in poor taste, lic space. It would be unfortunate if the highest civilian as well. And wherever it went, Bogey of threat to culture locked lips with actor IPC primarily prohibit and pun - way to horrendous incidents of reflects poor judgment, and award of the country becomes a matter of political dis - the law and order enforcing Yet, delve deep and our Himanshu Rai, who incidental - ish the sale of obscene books domestic violence and heinous brings discredit to the school machinery acted as it has been stock responses on either side ly was her husband in real life. and other published material. crimes as rape yet cry foul and to the persons involved.” agreement rather than of collective celebration and habituated to reacting to young boil down to the same rhetoric Post 1950s, however, the kiss Section 292, which was when PDA happens is inherent - Islamic nations have stiff penal - endorsement of those who have contributed in signifi - lovers in public spaces. and, like always, are on the pre - all but vanished from cinema. amended in 1969, stipulates ly flawed. No one is suggesting ties and in Dubai there have cant measure to the making of India as a diverse and Violent reaction dictable lines. While the right- Though there were no hard- that “a book, pamphlet, paper, that crimes against women been instances where even for - multifaceted nation. Lovebirds across India are wingers raise the bogey of and-fast rules against it but writing, drawing, painting, rep - often do not go unchecked. But eigners have been sent packing not new to their arm-twisting threat to Indian culture and tra - makers fearing cuts preferred resentation, figure or any other is that reason enough to allow home for violating the rules. Rebels without a cause SaNJoY haZaRiKa It recently told the local No rationale raises two fundamental ques - deal with the challenges it media that it would show that It is not just a sense of tions: Has the State govern - faces: its numbers and fire - The massacre of inno - it is capable of tough retalia - tragedy that embraces us, but ment failed to fulfill its first power need to be increased cent men, women and chil - tion if the pressure contin - of despair too, when we look responsibility of providing as they are spread too far, too dren in Sonitpur and ued. But the use of weapons at these murders in our own security to ordinary people? thin, otherwise. Also, the Kokrajar districts of Assam against women and children land by rebels without a And are its forces, especially state becomes dependent on is a familiar, cynical, bloody in the northeastern region is cause. These murders are the police and civil adminis - central paramilitary forces cycle of violence that is not new or limited; such without rationale in many tration in the districts, capa - and the Army, which cannot never far away; it is a testa - abuse and brutality has been ways — but in some perhaps ble of launching the strikes be sustained but for brief ment to the simmering caul - extensive not just in Assam, there is a morbid design: for and counter-strikes which periods of time. dron of suspicion, fear and but also its neighbouring one, to destabilise the state must defang the killers? We saw such acts a few hate stalking the Assam val - States. In Meghalaya for by creating a backlash by the Clearly, the State govern - days ago in Peshawar, ley and hills. Can there be instance, earlier this year, a targeted community against ment has not done enough. Pakistan, where over 100 any ‘reason’ that can even Garo armed group shot dead Bodos. Thus the armed The reasons for this are var - children were gunned down begin to justify such murders a young woman in front of group would be in fact harm - ied: a lack of sustained polit - by extremists. These are of children, some of them her children. There are alle - ing their own people if not ical pressure to tackle the crimes against humanity barely a few months old? gations of abuse against their cause, but this does not challenge, as well as the which can neither be con - The butchery indicates a armed groups in Nagaland seem to bother the killers or diversion of focus as a result doned nor justified. Not only set of well-planned and coor - and Manipur as well. their leaders or organisers. of the fierce challenge to the are they barbaric but they dinated operations that clear - What has also made such The Ranjan Daimary group, Chief Minister’s rule by his deserve the strongest possi - ly caught law enforcement groups difficult to tackle is whose leader was handed one-time lieutenant, former ble response from the state. agencies and the State gov - the fact that they camp on the over to Indian authorities by Health Minister Himanta This must be accompanied ernment by surprise. The forested and lightly patrolled the Bangladesh government extensive violence and intim - But the Songbijit faction substantial repercussions, Biswa Sarma — a crisis that by the continuing deter - marauders had been under border tracts of Arunachal under Sheik Hasina Wajed in idation as well as extortion, has rebuffed efforts to reach despite the extensive vio - had crippled the State admin - mined effort by civil society pressure for some time, with Pradesh and Bhutan, accord - 2009, as were the ULFA and like all other militant groups out to it and never clearly lence of the summer of 2012 istration for the best part of and moderates at all levels police forces inflicting recent ing to officials. The latter Manipuri leaders of seces - there. declared its aims and objec - when over four lakh people this year. In addition, effec - to maintain peace and not losses on them in Sonitpur was the camping ground, sionist movements, has indi - Yet, despite public oppo - tives. This could lead to were displaced and nearly tive measures were not taken fall into the trap of the district. A breakaway group until 2003, of three major cated a willingness to talk. sition to the BPP from non- major law and order prob - 100 killed in attacks targeting against the organised vio - killers. of the National Democratic armed groups — NDFB, Daimary is out on bail and Bodo groups, the Tarun lems in the State and its Muslims of Bengali origin. lence in the Bodo districts Today, the Bodo politi - Front of Boroland (NDFB) United Liberation Front of there is a ceasefire. Gogoi government had kept many diverse and divided A Member of Legislative over several years; a climate cal leadership cannot watch named after its elusive Asom (ULFA) and An earlier armed group, it as a coalition partner. The ethnic and linguistic groups Assembly of the ruling of laxity and impunity had in silence any more, espe - leader, I.K. Songbijit, is the Kamtapur Liberation the Bodo Security Force, public anger against the BPP which both the State govern - Bodoland People’s Front was crept in, only to be shaken by cially the former armed group responsible for the Organisation — which were gave up the struggle and peaked during the 2014 gen - ment and the Centre could arrested for alleged involve - occasional bursts of acute groups and their leaders: killings, State police and using it to organise attacks entered the peace process eral election which propelled find difficult to tackle. The ment in those attacks. In violence and a deep sense of they are on trial here as is administrators say. The fac - and recruit members in and participative democracy Narendra Modi and the Bodos have often been seen early May 2014, women and insecurity, fear and suspi - everyone else. The issues tion is opposed to talks Assam. That year, they were under the banner Bodoland Bharatiya Janata Party to as a privileged ethnic group. children from the minority cion. are not just of land or politi - between the larger NDFB attacked, devastated and dri - People’s Party (BPP). power at the Centre, and in One should note that in the community were again vic - As far as the State’s cal or economic power, but group and the Indian govern - ven out by the Royal Although it holds political ‘Bodoland’, a non-Bodo can - Bodo-run districts of Assam tims of murderous assaults police machinery is con - of simple survival and learn - ment but does not seem to Bhutanese Army. There have power in the Bodoland didate who was once a in a chunk of the Western by the same Songbijit group. cerned, it has numerous ing to live with one another have any clear and tangible been reports that some Territorial Council districts prominent former leader of parts of the State, Bodo mili - Poor government effective, thoughtful and effi - in a complex State with its goal apart from that of groups have relocated to of western Assam, the BPP the ULFA, crushed all candi - tant groups have wielded the response cient officers, including at 20-odd ethnic groups, many spreading mayhem and ter - these thickly forested and has been accused by its dates, including the official stick against other communi - The impunity with which the field level. But the size of minorities, few majorities ror. sparsely populated areas. opponents of involvement in BPP nominee. ties and have not faced any the killings have taken place the force is inadequate to and over 50 languages. 5 JAMMU | SATURDAY | DECEMBER 27 | 2014 Golden YuG Sun Network COO arrested on Assam ethnic violence toll rises to 81, Army Swine flu death reported in Delhi New Delhi, DeC. 26: To add to the woes of charges of sexual harassment Delhiites, the deadly H1N1 influenza virus has returned to CheNNai, DeC. 26: A senior employee of a pri - intensifies operations against NDFB militants the capital city, with one death recorded so far, reports vate television channel was GUwahaTi, DeC. 26: arrested here on Friday fol - Operations were on Friday said. A 51-year-old woman has succumbed to swine flu in lowing a complaint of sexu - intensified against NDFB(S) the Indian capital, hospital sources said Friday. The al harassment against him by militants along the border with woman passed away two days ago at the Sir Ganga Ram a former woman staffer, Arunachal Pradesh even as the Hospital, the sources told a news agency. police said. A team of death toll in the massacre rose Cases of swine flu were reported from Hyderabad, Central crime branch police to 81. Pune and Indore earlier this month. officials arrested C Praveen, Normal life was, mean - Swine flu carrier, the H1N1 influenza virus, is prone to Chief Operating officer of while, disrupted by a bandh appear in winter months. It is characterised by throat prob - Sun TV Network, from his called by several organisations lems, body ache and respiratory complications. home. in Assam. Two persons, one Common precautions are washing hands properly, "We have booked him each in Sonitpur and Chirang, avoiding crowded places and wearing masks. The medi - under Tamil Nadu injured in Tuesday's attack by cine generally prescribed for the disease is Tamiflu, which Prohibition of Sexual NDFB(S) militants succumbed Harassment of Women Act. to their injuries last night, while must be taken only after doctor’s prescription. He has allegedly been harassing the woman for past a charred body was recovered two years," a senior Central crime branch official said. from Gossaigaon in Kokrajhar The woman, who quit her job five months ago, held district this morning, a police bore the brunt of NDFB's area was also carried out by Students Association (ATTSA) Rajasthan ministers get a senior position in the programming section of Surya spokespersons said today. attack. Army Aviation Helicopter sor - and Asom Yuva Parishad TV, the Malayalam Channel of Sun Network. "Both A day after Home Minister A defence spokesperson ties, he said. Army was also (AYP) disrupted normal life Indian Mujahideen threats Praveen and the victim hail from Kerala," the official Rajnath Singh made it clear said troops along with the extending full support to the across the state. The bandh was JaiPUR, DeC. 26: Some Rajasthan ministers, added. that there will be no talks with police and paramilitary forces civil administration to instill total in the affected districts of including the state home minister, have received threat e- "The victim had furnished evidence including terrorists and "zero-tolerance had intensified counter-insur - confidence among the affected Sonitpur, Kokrajhar, Chirang, mails allegedly from Indian Mujahideen (IM), warning voice and data recordings of conversations," he said, policy towards acts of terror", gency operations along the bor - people and restore peace. Udalguri and Baksa along with them about bomb blasts in the state, police said on Friday. adding, the probe is on. operations by security forces der with the neighbouring state Meanwhile, a 12-hour bandh tea garden dominated districts "The e-mails have been received by some cabinet and state The channel is tight-lipped about the development. have been intensified along to flush out militants and smash called by the All Assam Adivasi of Jorhat, Golaghat, Sibsagar, ministers, threatening them that there will be bomb blasts Sun TV Network is owned by the Maran brothers-- Assam-Arunachal Pradesh bor - their hideouts. Students' Association Dibrugarh and Tinsukia in in Rajasthan on January 26," Rajasthan Director General Kalanidhi and Dayanidhi. der in Sonitpur district, which Aerial surveillance of the (AAASA), Assam Tea Tribes Upper Assam. of Police Omendra Bhardwaj, told a news agency. These e-mails were received on December 22 at around 5.45 pm. Key Taliban facilitator of Raghubar Das, set to be Jharkhand's first "We got information about it Thursday. We are trying to investigate and verify the credibility of the mails," a police Peshawar school attack killed non-tribal chief minister, vows good governance officer said. "We have tightened security at major spots RaNChi, DeC. 26: across the state as we do not want to take any chance," he Jharkhand is all set to get its said. According to police, the e-mails are being sent by IM first non-tribal chief minis - and they said that the ministers should be careful as the ter with Raghubar Das group is going to give them a "big bang surprise". The being elected as the BJP mails said the ministers can now understand the goal of the state legislature party leader group and do whatever they can. This should be taken as a on Friday. warning and IM will conduct the blasts in various parts of Das, a five-time legisla - tor from East Jamshedpur, Rajasthan on January 26. will be the 10th chief minis - ter of Jharkhand. The party Sushma Swaraj invites Indian Diaspora to will make an official attend 'Pravasi Bhartiya Divas' announcement in this regard New Delhi, DeC. 26: External Affairs Minister soon. Jharkhand, which has seen around 11 am today. Apart After the party took chief ministers only from from the two observers - Sushma Swaraj on Friday invited all Indian Diaspora to decision, Das thanked the tribal community. The BJP observers JP Nadda and attend the 'Pravasi Bhartiya Divas' to mark the completion everyone for giving him this BJP itself had two tribal Vinay Sahastrabuddhe - of 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India from opportunity and told chief ministers in the past--- BJP's in-charge for South Africa. "Pravasi Bhartiya Divas in Gandhinagar reporters that he would Babulal Marandi (once) and Jharkhand Trivendra Singh from 7th to 9th Jan 2015. I invite brothers and sisters of PeShwaR, DeC. Jamrud by the security Saddam had facilitated the bring development and Arjun Munda (thrice). Rawat, state unit president Indian diaspora to attend.Pl RT #PBD," Swaraj tweeted. 26: A senior Taliban com - forces in an operation yes - seven attackers who had good governance to JMM leaders Shibu Ravindra Rai and former "Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa on mander, believed to be a terday. One of his accom - attacked the Army Public Jharkhand. Soren (thrice), Hemant chief minister Arjun Munda 9th Jan1915. We are commemorating 100 years of key planner in the plices has been captured School in Peshawar on The BJP will stake Soren (once) and Madhu attended the meeting. Gandhiji's return to India.#PBD," she added. 'Pravasi Peshawar school mas - alive," Peshawar Political December 16 and killed claim to form the govern - Koda (once) are the other Another frontrunner for Bharatiya Divas' is celebrated on January 09 every year to sacre, has been killed by Agent of Khyber Agency 150 people, mostly chil - ment after meeting tribal leaders who had been the post of chief minister mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community to the security forces in Shahab Ali Shah told dren. Saddam was also Governor Syed Ahmed later the chief ministers since the was Saryu Roy. The Pakistan's troubled reporters. planner of killing of 11 Friday. state's creation 14 years BJP/AJSU alliance got a the development of India. The day commemorates the Khyber Agency. A member of the Tariq security personnel and It is the first time that a ago. majority, winning 42 out of return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa on January "Saddam had been Gedar group of Tehreek-i- eight scouts in Khyber non-tribal has been chosen The BJP's legislature 81 MLAs in the just con - 9, 1915. killed in the Gundi area of Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Pakhtunkhwa last year. for the top post in party meeting began at cluded Assembly Elections. Grievance Redressal Committee Punjab minister BS Majithia appears before ED Have `chai` with `aam aadmi` formed to address complaints of JalaNDhaR, government with the Arvind Kejriwal for Rs 20,000 1984 riot victims: Rajnath Singh DeC. 26: Enforcement Akali Dal in Punjab since New Delhi, DeC. Delhi law minister New Delhi, DeC. 26: Union Home Minister Directorate (ED) offi - 2007, has also left the 26: Defending Aam Somnath Bharti, is Rajnath Singh on Friday said that a Grievance Redressal cials on Friday ques - Badal government and Aadmi Party party's scheduled to take place Committee has been formed to address the complaints of tioned Punjab Minister the Akali Dal embar - move to organise a "Tea this Saturday. the relatives of 1984 riot victims and added that justice Bikram Singh Majithia rassed after it sought with Kejriwal" to collect "This High Tea is a will prevail against those guilty. with regard to a multi- Majithia's resignation funds for upcoming fund-raising event to col - million rupee interna - this week. The ED sum - Delhi Assembly polls, lect donations ahead of "A Grievance Redressal Committee has been formed tional synthetic drugs mons to Majithia was an party leader Somnath elections where atten - (to help relatives of 1984 riot victims). A retired High racket busted last year. embarrassment for the Bharti on Friday said that dees will be charged Rs Court Justice has been made the chairman and the commit - Majithia, who is the Badal government as the it is a part of their initia - 20,000 each," Bharti said tee will soon start its work. You can go and lodge your younger brother of Union central government is tive of playing clean pol - who also shared a video complaints there. I assure you that the Home Ministry will Minister for Food BJP-led and Harsimrat itics. on social media appeal - work on the recommendations of the Committee," Singh Processing Harsimrat The Punjab police and Shiromani Akali Dal Badal is the Akali Dal Justifying the event, ing people to donate for said while distributing compensation cheques to 1984 riot Kaur Badal, faces allega - had busted the Rs 6,000- president Sukhbir Singh representative in it. Bharti asserted that AAP AAP. In the past, the victims . tions of having links with crore international syn - Badal (Harsimrat's hus - Though Majithia's name believes in clean politics, AAP raised funds by "I am sure that an effective justice system which we certain non-resident thetic drugs racket in the band). had started figuring in unlike other parties inviting people to have have will punish those who are guilty. I know that until Indians (NRIs) who have state in 2013. The ED He is considered very racket last year itself, which take money from lunch and dinner with they (the guilty) get punished, the people (affected fami - been accused of interna - conducted separate powerful in Punjab's rul - when the Congress-led capitalists and organise Kejriwal. AAP chief lies) will not be at peace," he added. Expressing his sym - tional money laundering investigations in the drug ing circles due to his UPA government was in massive election cam - Arvind Kejriwal has related to the drugs rack - racket case after serious proximity to Sukhbir power at the Centre, the paigns. Ridiculing the already attended fund- pathies with the families of the victims, Singh said: "The et. allegations of money Badal. There have been summons were finally major political parties raising dinners at Delhi, moment I was distributing the cheques it was very senti - Majithia arrived at laundering emerged. demands from various sent by the ED only now. for taking money from Mumbai and Bengalur. mental, I saw many mothers and sisters with tears on their the regional office of the ED sources said that quarters for Majithia's The Badal's are con - industrialists, Bharti said Last week, AAP leader eyes." "The incident took place thirty years back...... I saw ED in Jalandhar city, 150 Majithia is likely to be resignation on moral sidered close to Union that soon such political Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the pain is still very much intact. Lakhs or crores can - km from Chandigarh. asked over 50 questions grounds after he was Finance Minister Arun outfits will be giving that the `lunch event` not compensate their pain and I understand that," he The ED, a wing under the by the officials regarding recently summoned by Jaitley, who had unsuc - mega advertisements in with Kejriwal to collect added. Union Finance Ministry, his links to three NRIs the ED. cessfully contested the the media. The AAP funds for Assembly The Home Minister further described the 1984 riots as had sent summons to and the money launder - Chief Minister Badal, Amritsar Lok Sabha poll leader demanded the par - Elections fetched more a blot in the nations' history. "I consider those massacres a Majithia, who is the rev - ing racket associated however, ruled out in April-May this year ties to reveal the source than Rs 20 lakhs. blot on the history and culture of this country. I know the enue minister in the with the drugs case. Majithia's resignation. from the Amritsar Lok of funds which come for The party has set a history of the Sikhs...... whenever there has been any Parkash Singh Badal-led Majithia is also the The Bharatiya Janata Sabha seat at the behest the ads. target to collect Rs 30 threats that posed before the ethos of our country, the government in Punjab, to brother-in-law of Punjab Party (BJP), which has of the Badal-Majithia The `tea` event, crore in funds ahead of appear on December 26. Deputy Chief Minister been running an alliance combine. organised by former Delhi polls. Sikhs always stood up to face the challenges to protect the country," Singh said. Ten years on, world remembers Indian Ocean tsunami Fog, cold wave unabated aCeh, DeC. 26: late Thursday thronged the province is said to have suf - in Punjab, Haryana Exactly on this day, ten years premises of black-domed fered the heaviest tsunami ChaNDiGaRh, DeC. 26: Foggy conditions and a ago, an annihilative tsunami Baiturrahman Grand Mosque blow, as with 168,000 people cold wave continued to affect normal life in Punjab, triggered by a strong earth - to attend memorial prayers. dead, it accounted for three- Haryana and Chandigarh on Friday. Most parts of both quake ripped through more The mosque was one of the fourth of the total death toll. than a dozen nations, claim - rare structures to have weath - Memorials will also be held states and Chandigarh witnessed moderate to dense fog ing a sea of lives and ered the tsunami and stayed across Thailand and Sri Friday, weather officials said here. unleashed a shocking specta - intact. Using the occasion to Lanka. Visibility was down to 100-200 metres at many places cle of death and destruction. inculcate brotherhood and The terrible tsunami was (at 8.30 am), affecting road and railway traffic. The world, on Friday, is peace in the region, the triggered as an underwater Amritsar was the coldest place in the region with a marking the tenth anniver - mosque's imam said that the earthquake measuring 9.1 minimum temperature of three degrees. Ludhiana and sary of the disastrous Indian tsunami had taught a "valu - spawned giant waves as high Patiala had lows of seven degrees each. Chandigarh Ocean tsunami that affected able lesson" to Aceh, which as 35 meters that struck recorded a minimum temperature of seven degrees Friday 14 nations from Indonesia to had been the scene of an coastlines across the nations. while Hisar and Karnal in Haryana recorded lows of six India to Africa's east coast armed conflict for nearly 30 The disaster which caused degrees each. Chandigarh had recorded a maximum tem - and swept around 230,000 years, the BBC reported. damages costing $10bn, perature of 11 degrees on Thursday, 10 degrees below nor - people to death on December "After the tsunami, no-one prompted the authorities mal. Maximum temperatures in other places in Punjab and 26, 2004. Memorials and fights against each other, across the world to revamp Haryana hovered between 11.5 and 13.5 degrees. Met offi - events are being held across people live in harmony and the disaster warning system. the tsunami-struck nations peace till this day," he added. However, many loopholes cials said that the cold wave and foggy conditions will today to mark a decade since the tragedy. Thousands of people in Indonesia's Aceh province on Indonesia's Aceh still remain, say experts. continue for the next few days. 6 JAMMU | SATURDAY | DECEMBER 27 | 2014 Golden YuG 14 people stand trial over Why Opec deserves a holiday card from India arsenic pollution in China bY bhaSKaR ty, and mostly not even with at the end of this year? Opec and the shale producers beiJiNG: Fourteen people from six mining compa - ChaKRaVoRTi their own citizenry. Opec’s is, Making predictions about may be playing an elaborate nies have pleaded guilty to causing arsenic pollution in indeed, a thankless task. longer-term directions of oil chess game around the break- central China which poisoned 49 villagers and incurred a What’s not to love about (Illustration: C prices is hazardous for three even price, it is clear that the loss of over USD 1.3 million. Opec? There has rarely been a Rsasikumar) (Illustration: C principal reasons. One is that shale industry was propelled The defendants, who were accused of discharging 680 better model of an internation - Rsasikumar) Opec has a rather miserable by an abundance of spunk and tonnes of pollutants containing arsenic from 2008 to 2013 al body banding together with Despite all its challenges, record at coordinating among innovative spirit. The drive to which seriously contaminated environment, yesterday a mission to stabilise a stub - thanks to the extraordinary its members, an essential ele - innovate and improve produc - bornly unstable market. As leadership of the Saudi ment of the tradecraft of run - tivity is likely to continue and appeared before the People's Court of Xialu, Huangshi city, steward of 75 per cent of the Arabians, Opec recently stood ning a respectable cartel. Opec keep pressure on that break- prosecutors said. They confessed to causing the pollution planet’s crude oil reserves, up to the upstart unconven - has repeatedly failed to even number, which will keep during the trial, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Opec can give the US Federal tional North American pro - respond on a timely basis in the rivals on both sides guess - today. Forty-nine villagers suffered arsenic poisoning Reserve, the United Nations ducers scouring shale and tar twisting by the Saudis. those leaders of liberal the past when prices fell — in ing. Yes, at the end of a dra - while urine samples of 118 others were found to contain and Al Gore a run for their sands for “tight oil”. Opec’s Today, it is time for some Western democracies who fret the mid-1980s or in 2008. matic year for Opec, it is time excessive level of the element. The pollution led to losses money in its power to simulta - solidarity in not cutting sup - of us to show a bit of love for about autocratic governments Members have recently had so for the world community to of more than 8 million yuan (USD 1.3 million). neously influence the world’s plies has launched a price war Opec for giving us cheap oil. ought to be showing some much on their plates to make come together and recognise a economy, its politics and its — sheikhs vs shale, as The This is especially true for the love for Opec. The discipline them somewhat distracted, unique institution. Opec’s sol - climate. Economist puts it. Arcane average Indian, who must pay brought about by the Saudis and less-than-reliable, com - idarity might hold the key to For all its efforts, Opec price benchmarks, from West 110 per cent of her daily has kept countries such as Iran rades in price-fixing over the unlocking higher growth rates Novel trap to kill bedbugs forever has rarely had much affection Texas Intermediate to Brent income to purchase a gallon of and Venezuela in check. long haul. Saudi Arabia and across the global economy. ToRoNTo: Biologists from Simon Fraser University directed its way from the rest crude, plunged — exactly petrol, the second-highest Without sufficient oil rev - Iran are running a proxy war, Any agency with a mission to in British Columbia have developed the first effective and of the planet in its 54 years of what the Saudis were hoping among 61 countries, analysed enues, they have less wiggle pitting Sunni against Shia. “ensure the stabilisation of oil affordable bait and trap for detecting and monitoring bed - existence. Granted, few have for, to slow US shale produc - by Bloomberg. Opec deserves room to cause trouble, and Iraq is being devastated by the markets in order to secure an bug infestations. gone to the extremes of Carlos tion by making it uneconomi - some love at the very least may even be forced to consid - Isis. Libya has been a victim efficient, economic and regu - the Jackal, who took it upon cal. Economics professors from Messrs Narendra Modi er political reforms someday. of protests and political insta - lar supply of petroleum to The biggest challenge in dealing with bedbugs is to himself to kidnap several oil used to love to use Opec as an and Arun Jaitley, hoping to The Chinese should love bility, while Nigeria has to consumers, a steady income to detect the infestation at an early stage. “This trap will help ministers of Opec member example of a solution to one pare back fuel subsidies and Opec, too. They must like deal with oil theft, corruption producers and a fair return on landlords, tenants and pest-control professionals determine countries back in 1975. But of the enduring problems of trimming one of Asia’s largest their oil at prices below $70 a and terrorism organised by an capital for those investing in whether premises have a bedbug problem so that they can the organisation forever game theory — the prisoner’s fiscal deficits. Putting aside barrel, given their status as the emboldened Boko Haram. No the petroleum industry” is the treat it quickly. It will also be useful for monitoring the remains a prisoner of that pari - dilemma. In its November the grief of American shale world’s largest net importer of one seems to give a hoot about ultimate in all-round win-win. treatment's effectiveness,” said chemist Gerhard Gries. ah of a label: cartel. Further, meeting in Vienna, Opec pro - upstarts, at least US President petroleum and liquid fuels. As Venezuela, beset by a litany of Such high-mindedness ought Working with chemist Robert Britton and a team of Opec’s price-fixing — a must duced a brand new game-the - Barack Obama ought to show you can see, much of the rest problems, with no charismatic to be an inspiration to the rest for all cartels — unfortunately oretic lesson — keep prices some love for Opec. Cheap oil of the world owes Opec some Hugo Chavez at the helm. A of us. In an undisciplined students, Gerhard and his wife Regine Gries finally found contributes disproportionately lower than a “break-even should help American con - gratitude. It has been a tough second reason why it is hard to world, we must be thankful the solution - a set of chemical attractants or pheromones to inflation and economic price”, enough to deter those sumers and businesses feel year for Opec. It has had to accurately forecast oil price for the few exceptions that that lure the bedbugs into traps and keep them there. downturns worldwide. Its rascally entrants. Indeed, the richer; Obama badly needs grit its collective teeth and fix movements year to year stems stand firm, despite the odds. After two years of frustrating false leads, the team stock in trade, fossil fuels, is strategy appears to be working some good news on the home prices — and keep them low, from the increasingly wide Show your love for Opec. finally discovered that histamine, a molecule with unusual blamed for making oceans in the near term. Already, new front. Internationally, collaps - rather than where member variations in weather patterns. Send a holiday card before properties that eluded identification through traditional rise, environmental degrada - well permits for North ing world oil prices will con - countries would like to fix The extremes of climate year-end, expressing apprecia - methods, signals “safe shelter" to bedbugs. tion of cities and profoundly American shale oil and gas tinue to put pressure on his them: as high as they possibly change make it harder for pro - tion for all it has done for the distorted weather patterns. Its fell 40 per cent in November. nemesis, Vladimir Putin, who can. This could not have been ducers to ratchet production world this year to their cheer - Importantly, once in contact with the histamine, the member governments are By all accounts, behind an relies on oil and gas revenues easy. Will the situation get any up or down to meet sudden less headquarters at bedbugs stay put whether or not they have recently fed on generally not terribly popular agreement on this price cut for his swagger and cross-bor - better next year? Will oil unplanned spikes or troughs in Helferstorfer St 17, 1010 a human host. The researchers expect the trap to be com - in the international communi - was a painful process of arm- der adventures. Indeed, all prices be higher or lower than the need for oil. Third, while Vienna, Austria. mercially available next year. The paper was published in Angewandte Chemie, a leading general chemistry journal.

Humans cannot match No fixed identity bY MaDhaVi MeNoN “bringing back” implies my point of view. And I moth's sex tactics that there is a fixed point should be able to change loNDoN: A small brown moth has one of the most Is this law that the of authenticity that all these multiple times. BJP wants to pass against attaches to every person Put in this manner, it complex sex lives in the insect world, showing human conversion or “forcible at her or his truth. If we becomes easy to see why courtship behaviour at times, a new research has found. conversion”? It would believe that authenticity conversion is synonymous "The love life of the gold swift moth (Phymatopus like us to believe there is derives from one’s birth with what we call democ - hecta) is a veritable Kama Sutra of mating patterns and a difference between — that is, if one is “born racy. But this cornerstone positions," said professor John Turner, professor emeritus these two concepts. And a Hindu” — then a cou - of democracy is also what at the University of Leeds' school of biology. Turner iden - while threatening some - ple of key points emerge most threatens religious tified an array of different courtship "dances," with some one with physical harm is quite clearly. First, that fundamentalists. certainly not to be con - we have no control over Conversion is potentially individuals able to switch to alternative methods if their doned, such a threat has the course of our lives. neverending, which is first gambits were frustrated. The female hangs from the historically not been the This would be a legalised what makes it threatening foliage, emits a scent and mates with one of the males that primary reason for con - version of the strangle - to any political order that arrive. This is a classic moth mating pattern. version in India. The hold of caste — your believes in singularity. The male also hangs from the foliage, the female flies biggest reason for which religion is something into And because it is nev - to him and they mate. Hindus have converted to which you are born and erending, it makes it A group of males form a hovering swarm. Females fly Islam, Christianity and that you cannot change. impossible for us to con - Buddhism has been The question of choice vert and then pretend that past and males fly out of the swarm to follow them. When Hinduism itself, with its over one’s profession, there is an endpoint to the female lands by hanging under a leaf, a male lands next violent and asphyxiating gious conversions are only in one direction, it Those who want to ban and religion, simply does conversion. Our identities to her and mates. The team also saw a mutual courtship emphasis on the purity of premised on the fact that must also be allowed to conversions want to do not arise in such a world - are not fixed and never dance where a female flies up to a hovering male and they caste. one can be a Hindu today turn around. So far so so because it takes one view. Second, it implies can be. If they were, that "dance" in the air together. But let us for a and a Muslim tomorrow. good. But where things away from “the truth”. that seniority is the mode would make us very bor - The male hangs from foliage and a female flies in and moment leave aside the But, and here’s the rub, it become sticky is when But the only way to by which to adjudicate ing people indeed. This is hangs some distance away, fanning her wings to propel particularities of any one also means that one can this fluidity is recognised return to such truth is by between the authentic why an “anti-conversion” religion and focus instead stop being a Muslim only till the point at converting (again). So and inauthentic. If law is an exercise in the scent toward him. The male tends to show no interest until on the idea of conversion tomorrow and become a which people can be the law against conver - Hinduism came first to logic of fascism. It does the female flies over to "nudge" him. itself. Deriving, as it Buddhist or Hindu the made Hindus (again). sion cannot be against an individual, then that is not believe in any change He then flies off and returns to mate with her. Turner does, from the Latin con - day after, and a Muslim After that, all conversion conversion per se. It can the person’s truth. One that questions the status also found frequent "fighting dances" between males and vertere, to turn around, again the day after that. has to stop. only be against the first cannot examine or quo. And it believes in occasional "homoerotic" courtships where males embarked conversion implies, as its Conversion as an activity The irony of this instance of conversion — reorder one’s truth. By change only when change on mating procedures with members of their own sex. basic, fundamental prin - implies fluidity rather position seems complete - deemed untrue or violent this logic, we can not cleaves to a particular "I intervened on some occasions to stop the mating. ciple, the idea that identi - than fixity. ly lost on the RSS and its — not the second or third change anything about agenda. Any other conver - ty is not fixed. The very Hindu fundamental - affiliates. If I convert or fourth. Otherwise, the ourselves from the time of sion is deemed to be “vio - The insects would pause and then resume using a different concept of conversion ists want to exploit this once, then I can convert law would have to act our birth. But conversion lent”. But the violence is pattern. It started to look a bit like a human courtship, with suggests that one can fluidity in order to bring again. And again. One against the re-conver - means change. I should be in the proposed anti-con - the moths doing it every which way and having a whole change, that a person, converted Hindus “back” cannot ban conversion sions being carried out able to change my name, version law itself and it is range of tactics for attracting a mate," Turner pointed out. idea or thing can be into the fold of but condone reconver - by Hindu fundamental - my religion, my gender, the violence of pretending The study was published in the Biological Journal of the moved from one position Hinduism. After all, con - sion, and then expect ists, too. my sexuality, my political that conver sions can, Linnean Society. to another. Thus, reli - version should not work conversions to stop. Indeed, the logic of affiliation, my clothes and should or will stop. How species shapeshift to tackle climate change New YoRK: Some species can quickly shapeshift to cope with climate change without having to migrate or evolve, shows a research. A mustard plant in the Rocky Mountains alters its physical appearance and flowering time in response to different environmental conditions, the findings showed. The shifts in organisms' physical traits due to changing conditions is called phenotypic plasticity, which allows for different looking organisms without changing their genetic code. "Because climate change affects some environmental factors like precipitation and temperature but not others like day length, phenotypic plasticity could allow some species to persist in a habitat despite changing conditions and provide more time for them to evolve and migrate," said co-author Zachariah Gezon from Dartmouth College in the US. In the new study, researchers looked at the life history, leaf shape, flowering time and other characteristics of a native wild mustard plant at different elevations in the Rocky mountains, where warming winters are reducing snowpack and warming springs are causing an earlier snow melt. They found that the plants have great phenotypic plas - ticity and the forb's traits consistently vary over a temper - ature and moisture gradient from low elevations with a hot, dry climate to high elevations with wet, cold conditions. The study appeared in the journal Global Change Biology. 7 JAMMU | SATURDAY | DECEMBER 27 | 2014 Golden YuG

presence, Ghalib immediately retorted: “How can Sahbai be a poet? He has never tasted Biography of Mirza GhaliB wine, nor has he ever gambled; he has not been beaten with slippers by lovers, nor has he ever seen the inside irza Asadullah Baig Khan was a classical lover/beloved freed the poet-protagonist-lover from the of a jail." Urdu and Persian poet from India during demands of realism. Love poetry in Urdu from the last He died in Delhi on February 15, 1869. The house MBritish colonial rule. His also known as 'Mirza quarter of the seventeenth century onwards consists mostly where he lived in Gali Qasim Jaan, Ballimaran, Chandni Asadullah Khan Galib', 'Mirza Galib', 'Dabir-ul-Mulk' and of "poems about love" and not "love poems" in the Western Chowk, in Old Delhi has now been turned into 'Ghalib sense of the term. Memorial' and houses a permanent Ghalib exhibition. The first complete English translation of Ghalib's ghaz - Religious Views als was written by Sarfaraz K. Niazi and published by Rupa Ghalib was a very liberal mystic who believed that & Co in India and Ferozsons in Pakistan. The title of this the search for God within liberated the seeker from the book is Love Sonnets of Ghalib and it contains complete narrowly Orthodox Islam, encouraging the devotee to Roman transliteration, explication and an extensive lexicon. look beyond the letter of the law to its narrow essence. His Letters His Sufi views and mysticism is greatly reflected in his Mirza Ghalib was a gifted letter writer. Not only Urdu poems and ghazals. As he once stated: poetry but the prose is also indebted to Mirza Ghalib. His “The object of my worship lies beyond perception's letters gave foundation to easy and popular Urdu. Before reach; Har ek baat pe kehte ho tum ke 'too kya hai' ? For men who see, the Ka'aba is a compass, nothing Tumheen kaho ke yeh andaaz-e-guftgoo kya hai ? more." Like many other Urdu poets, Ghalib was capable of Ragon mein daudte firne ke ham naheen qaayal writing profoundly religious poetry, yet was skeptical Jab aaNkh hee se na Tapka to fir lahoo kya hai ? about the literalist interpretation of the Islamic scrip - tures. On the Islamic view and claims of paradise, he Chipak raha hai badan par lahoo se pairaahan once wrote in a letter to a friend: 'Najm-ud-Daula'. His pen-names was Ghaliband Asad or Hamaaree jeb ko ab haajat-e-rafoo kya hai ? “In paradise it is true that I shall drink at dawn the Asad or Galib. During his lifetime the Mughals were pure wine mentioned in the Qu'ran, but where in par - eclipsed and displaced by the British and finally deposed sumptuous, literate and learned Mughal culture of which Jalaa hai jicm jahaaN dil bhee jal gaya hoga adise are the long walks with intoxicated friends in the following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857, events it was a product. The least that could be said against it Kuredate ho jo ab raakh, justjoo kya hai ? night, or the drunken crowds shouting merrily? Where that he wrote of. Most notably, he wrote several ghazals was that the book had little value even as an antique shall I find there the intoxication of Monsoon clouds? during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung document. Ghalib practically reprimanded Syed Ahmad Rahee na taaqat-e-guftaar, aur agar ho bhee Where there is no autumn, how can spring exist? If the in many different ways by different people. He is consid - Khan for wasting his talents and time on dead things. To kis ummeed pe kahiye ke aarzoo kya hai ? beautiful houris are always there, where will be the sad - ered, in South Asia, to be one of the most popular and influ - Worse, he praised sky-high the “Sahibs of England” ness of separation and the joy of union? Where shall we ential poets of the Urdu language. Ghalib today remains find there a girl who flees away when we would kiss popular not only in India and Pakistan but also amongst Ghalib, letter writing in Urdu was highly ornamental. He Hazaaron Khwahishain 'eisee ke har Khwahish pe dam nikle her?” diaspora communities around the world. made his letters "talk" by using words and sentences as if he Bohot nikle mere armaaN lekin fir bhee kam nikle He staunchly disdained the Orthodox Muslim Family and Early Life were conversing with the reader. According to him Sau kos Sheikhs of the Ulema, who in his poems always repre - Mirza Ghalib was born in Agra into a family descended se ba-zaban-e-qalam baatein kiya karo aur hijr mein visaal Nikalna Khuld se aadam ka sunte aayain haiN lekin sent narrow-mindedness and hypocrisy: from Aibak Turks who moved to Samarkand after the ke maze liya karo (from hundred of miles talk with the Bohot be aabru hokar tere kooche se ham nikle “The Sheikh hovers by the tavern door, downfall of the Seljuk kings. His paternal grandfather, tongue of the pen and enjoy the joy of meeting even when but believe me, Ghalib, Mirza Qoqan Baig Khan was a Saljuq Turk who had immi - you are separated). His letters were very informal, some Mohabbat mein naheen hai farq jeene aur marne kaa I am sure I saw him slip in grated to India from Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan) during times he would just write the name of the person and start Usee ko dekh kar jeete hain jis kaafir pe dam nikle As I departed." the reign of Ahmad Shah (1748–54). He worked at Lahore, the letter. He himself was very humorous and also made his In another verse directed towards the Muslim Delhi and Jaipur, was awarded the subdistrict of Pahasu letter very interesting. He said Main koshish karta hoon keh Khuda ke waste parda na kaabe se uthaa zaalim maulavis (clerics), he criticized them for their ignorance (Bulandshahr, UP) and finally settled in Agra, UP, India. He koi aesi baat likhoon jo parhay khoosh ho jaaye (I want to Kaheen 'eisa na ho yaan bhee wohee kaafir sanam nikle and arrogant certitude: "Look deeper, it is you alone had 4 sons and 3 daughters. Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan and write the lines that whoever reads those should enjoy it). who cannot hear the music of his secrets". In his letters, Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan were two of his sons. Mirza When the third wife of one of his friends died, he wrote. Kahaan maikhaane ka darwaaza 'GHalib' aur kahaan waaiz Ghalib frequently contrasted the narrow legalism of the Abdullah Baig Khan (Ghalib's father) got married to Izzat- Some scholar says that Ghalib would have the same place Par itana jaante hain kal wo jaata tha ke ham nikle Ulema with "it's pre-occupation with teaching the ut-Nisa Begum, and then lived at the house of his father in in Urdu literature if only on the basis of his letters. They baniyas and the brats, and wallowing in the problems of law. He was employed first by the Nawab of Lucknow and have been translated into English by Ralph Russell, The who at that time held all the keys to all the a’ins in this menstruation and menstrual bleeding" and real spiritual - then the Nizam of Hyderabad, Deccan. He died in a battle Oxford Ghalib. world. ity for which you had to "study the works of the mystics in 1803 in Alwar and was buried at Rajgarh (Alwar, Ghalib was a chronicler of this turbulent period. One by This poem is often referred to but has never translat - Rajasthan). Then Ghalib was a little over 5 years of age. He one, Ghalib saw the bazaars – Khas Bazaar, Urdu Bazaar, ed in English. Shamsur Rahman Faruqi wrote an English was raised first by his Uncle Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan. Kharam-ka Bazaar, disappear, whole mohallas (localities) translation. Dil-e-naadaan tujhe huaa kya hai? Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan (Ghalib's uncle) started taking and katras (lanes) vanish. The havelis (mansions) of his The poem was unexpected, but it came at the time Aakhir is dard kee dawa kya hai care of the three orphaned children. He was the governor of friends were razed to the ground. Ghalib wrote that Delhi when Syed Ahmad Khan’s thought and feelings them - Agra under the Marathas. The British appointed him an had become a desert. Water was scarce. Delhi was now “ a selves were inclining toward change. Ghalib seemed to Hamko unse wafa ki hai ummeed officer of 400 cavalrymen, fixed his salary at Rs.1700.00 military camp”. It was the end of the feudal elite to which be acutely aware of a European[English]-sponsored Jo naheeN jaante wafa kya hai month, and awarded him 2 parganas in Mathura (UP, India). Ghalib had belonged. He wrote: change in world polity, especially Indian polity. Syed When he died in 1806, the British took away the parganas Ahmad might well have been piqued at Ghalib’s admo - Dil-e-naadaan tujhe huaa kya hai? and fixed his pension as Rs. 10,000 per year, linked to the nitions, but he would also have realized that Ghalib’s Aakhir is Dard kee dawa kya hai state of Firozepur Jhirka (Mewat, Haryana). The Nawab of reading of the situation, though not nuanced enough, Ferozepur Jhirka reduced the pension to Rs. 3000 per year. was basically accurate. Syed Ahmad Khan may also Ghalib's share was Rs. 62.50 / month. Ghalib was married have felt that he, being better informed about the Ham hain mushtaaq aur woh bezaar at age 13 to Umrao Begum, daughter of Nawab Ilahi English and the outside world, should have himself seen Ya ilaahee! yeh maajra kya hai ? Bakhsh (brother of the Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka). He the change that now seemed to be just round the corner. soon moved to Delhi, along with his younger brother, Mirza Jab ki tujh bin naheen koee maujood Yousuf Khan, who had developed schizophrenia at a young Fir ye hangaama, 'ei Khuda! kya hai age and later died in Delhi during the chaos of 1857. In accordance with upper class Muslim tradition, he had Jaan tum par Nisaar karta hoon an arranged marriage at the age of 13, but none of his seven Main naheen jaanata duaa kya hai children survived beyond infancy. After his marriage he set - tled in Delhi. In one of his letters he describes his marriage and take into one's heart the essential truth of God's as the second imprisonment after the initial confinement reality and his expression in all things". that was life itself. The idea that life is one continuous Ghalib believed that if God laid within and could be painful struggle which can end only when life itself ends, is reached less by ritual than by love, then he was as acces - a recurring theme in his poetry. One of his couplets puts it sible to Hindus as to Muslims. As a testament to this, he in a nutshell: would later playfully write in a letter that during a trip "The prison of life and the bondage of grief are one and to Benares, he was half tempted to settle down there for the same good and that he wished he had renounced Islam, put a Before the onset of death, how can man expect to be Hindu sectarian mark on his forehead, tied a sectarian free of grief?" thread around his waist and seated himself on the banks Royal Titles Sir Syed Ahmad Khan never again wrote a word in of the Ganges so that he could wash the contamination In 1850, Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II revived upon praise of the Ai’n-e Akbari and in fact gave up taking of his existence away from himself and like a drop be Mirza Ghalib the title of "Dabeer-ul-Mulk". The Emperor active interest in history and archaeology, and became a one with the river. also added to it the additional title of Najm-ud-daulah.The social reformer. During the anti-British Rebellion in Delhi on 5 conferment of these titles was symbolic of Mirza Ghalib’s Personal Life October 1857, three weeks after the British troops had incorporation into the nobility of Delhi. He also received Mirza was born in Kala Mahal in Agra. In the end of entered through Kashmiri Gate, some soldiers climbed the title of 'Mirza Nosha' by the emperor, thus adding Mirza 18th century, his birthplace was converted into into Ghalib's neighbourhood and hauled him off to as his first name. He was also an important courtier of the Indrabhan Girls' Inter College. The birth room of Mirza Colonel Burn for questioning. He appeared in front of royal court of the Emperor. As the Emperor was himself a Ghalib is preserved within the school. Around 1810, he the colonel wearing a Turkish style headdress. The poet, Mirza Ghalib was appointed as his poet tutor in 1854. “An ocean of blood churns around me- was married to Umrao Begum, daughter of Nawab Ilahi colonel, bemused at his appearance, inquired in broken He was also appointed as tutor of Prince Fakhr-ud Din Alas! Were these all! Bakhsh Khan of Loharu (younger brother of the first Urdu, "Well? You Muslim?", to which Ghalib replied, Mirza, eldest son of Bahadur Shah II,(d. 10 July 1856). He The future will show Nawab of Loharu, Nawab Mirza Ahmad Baksh Khan, at "Half?" The colonel asked, "What does that mean?" In was also appointed by the Emperor as the royal historian of What more remains for me to see”. the age of thirteen. He had seven children, none of response, Ghalib said, "I drink wine, but I don't eat Mughal Court. His Pen Name pork." Being a member of declining Mughal nobility and old His original Takhallus (pen-name) was Asad, drawn Views on Hindustan landed aristocracy, he never worked for a livelihood, lived from his given name, Asadullah Khan. At some point early In his poem "Chirag-i-Dair" (Temple lamps) which on either royal patronage of Mughal Emperors, credit or the in his poetic career he also decided to adopt the Takhallus was composed during his trip to Benaras during the generosity of his friends. His fame came to him posthu - Ghalib (meaning all conquering, superior, most excellent). spring of 1827, Ghalib mused about the land of mously. He had himself remarked during his lifetime that Popular legend has it that he changed his pen name to Hindustan (the Indian subcontinent) and how Qiyamah although his age had ignored his greatness, it would be rec - 'Ghalib' when he came across this sher (couplet) by another (Doomsday) has failed to arrive, in spite of the numer - ognized by later generations. After the decline of Mughal poet who used the takhallus (pen name) 'Asad': ous conflicts plaguing it. Empire and rise of British Raj, despite his many attempts, The legend says that upon hearing this couplet, Ghalib “Said I one night to a pristine seer Ghalib could never get the full pension restored. ruefully exclaimed, "whoever authored this couplet does (Who knew the secrets of whirling time) Poetry Career indeed deserve the Lord's rahmat (mercy) (for having com - "Sir, you well perceive Ghalib started composing poetry at the age of 11. His posed such a deplorable specimen of Urdu poetry). If I use That goodness and faith, first language was Urdu, but Persian and Turkish were also the takhallus Asad, then surely (people will mistake this Fidelity and love spoken at home. He got his education in Persian and Arabic couplet to be mine and) there will be much la'anat (curse) Have all departed from this sorry land at a young age. When Ghalib was in his early teens, a newly on me!" And, saying so, he changed his takhallus to Father and son are at each other's throat; converted Muslim tourist from Iran (Abdus Samad, origi - 'Ghalib'. Brother fights brother, Unity and federation are nally named Hormuzd, a Zoroastrian) came to Agra. He However, this legend is little more than a figment of the undermined stayed at Ghalibs home for 2 years. He was a highly educat - legend-creator's imagination. Extensive research performed Despite all these ominous signs, Why has not ed individual and Ghalib learned Persian, Arabic, philoso - by commentators and scholars of Ghalib's works, notably Doomsday come? phy, and logic from him. Imtiyaz Ali Arshi and Kalidas Gupta Raza, has succeeded in Who holds the reins of the Final Catastrophe? Although Ghalib himself was far prouder of his poetic identifying the chronology of Ghalib's published work The hoary old man of lucent ken achievements in Persian, he is today more famous for his (sometimes down to the exact calendar day!). Although the Pointed towards Kashi and gently smiled Urdu ghazals. Numerous elucidations of Ghalib's ghazal takhallus 'Asad' appears more infrequently in Ghalib's work "The Architect", he said, "is fond of this edifice compilations have been written by Urdu scholars. The first than 'Ghalib', it appears that he did use both his noms de Because of which there is color in life; He such elucidation or Sharh was written by Ali Haider Nazm plume interchangeably throughout his career and did not Would not like it to perish and fall." Tabatabai of Hyderabad during the rule of the last Nizam of seem to prefer either one over the other. Contemporaries and Disciples Hyderabad. Before Ghalib, the ghazal was primarily an Mirza Ghalib and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Ghalib's closest rival was poet Zauq, tutor of Bahadur expression of anguished love; but Ghalib expressed philos - 1855, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan finished his highly schol - Shah Zafar II, the then emperor of India with his seat in ophy, the travails and mysteries of life and wrote ghazals on arly, very well researched and illustrated edition of Abul whom survived (this pain has found its echo in some of Delhi. There are some amusing anecdotes of the competition many other subjects, vastly expanding the scope of the Fazl’s Ai’n-e Akbari, itself an extraordinarily difficult book. Ghalib's ghazals). There are conflicting reports regard - between Ghalib and Zauq and exchange of jibes between ghazal. This work is considered his paramount contribution Having finished the work to his satisfaction, and believing ing his relationship with his wife. She was considered to them. However, there was mutual respect for each other's tal - to Urdu poetry and literature. that Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was a person wh o would be pious, conservative and God-fearing. Ghalib was ent. Both also admired and acknowledged the suprema cy of In keeping with the conventions of the classical ghazal, appreciate his labours, Syed Ahmad approached the proud of his reputation as a rake. He was once impris - Meer Taqi Meer, a towering figure of 18th century Urdu Poetry. in most of Ghalib's verses, the identity and the gender of the great Ghalib to write a taqriz (in the convention of the oned for gambling and subsequently relished the affair Another poet Momin, whose ghazals had a distinctly lyrical beloved is indeterminate. The critic/poet/writer Shamsur times, a laudatory foreword) for it. Ghalib obliged, but with pride. In the Mughal court circles, he even acquired flavour, was also a famous contemporary of Ghalib. Ghalib was Rahman Faruqui explains that the convention of having the what he did produce was a short Persian poem castigat - a reputation as a "ladies man". Once, when someone not only a poet, he was also a prolific prose writer. His letters are "idea" of a lover or beloved instead of an actual ing the Ai’n-e Akbari, and by implication, the imperial, praised the poetry of the pious Sheikh Sahbai in his a reflection of the political and social climate of the time. They 8 JAMMU | SATURDAY | DECEMBER 27 | 2014 Golden YuG APHQ donates clothing and Two days workshop on review of MCH medicines to JRC Home & Bal Niketan Guidelines Commences at Jammu and Joginder GY NewS SeRViCe the State. Shetrapal JaMMU, DeC. 26: The Inaugural Session (Secretary) who Two days review cum orien - was followed by technical were present on the tation workshop organised by session for two days in which occasion thanked National Health Mission, detailed presentations on the police depart - J&K on Maternal & Child review of Maternal & Child ment for their con - Health Health Guidelines are being cern for these Guidelinescommenced at made by Dr Harjeet Rai, needy children . Nagrota Jammu today. The Divisional Nodal Officer The officers assured inaugural session was attend - Jammu, Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad all possible help to ed by Dr Yashpal Sharma, Dar, Divisional Nodal Officer management for Mission Director, NHM, Kashmir, Dr Arun Sharma, such noble activity. J&K, Dr Baljeet Pathainia, Programme Manager, State Similarly, cloth - Director Health Services, from time to time. with the support of pro - BMOs to work with dedica - Health Society, Dr. Younis ing items and medi - Jammu. & Dr. Baldev He stressed upon the offi - gramme management unit tion and asked programme Mushtaq, Associate GY NewS SeRViCe including trousers and med - cines were also handed over Sharma, Director Family cers to upload the mandatory staff in time bound manner management units to support Programme Manager, SRiNaGaR, DeC. 26: icines to management of to Satish Pal Gupta Welfare, J&K. disclosures on the website of for incorporating same in the Chief Medical Officers Dr.Arshid Nazir, Assistant Armed Police Headquarters Jammu Red Cross Home for Secretary and other mem - Speaking on the occa - State Health Society on vari - State Programme and Block Medical Officers Program Manager & Junaid J&K donated clothing items 60 handicapped children bers of the Ved Mandir Bal sion, Dr Yashpal Sharma ous parameters like human Implementation Plan of for providing better service Zaroo, Assistant Programme and medicines to Jammu from across the State study - Niketan Sanstha for 56 boys while giving brief introduc - resource under regular & NHM for the FY 2015-16. delivery in coordinated man - Manager State Health Red Cross (JRC) Home for ing in class 1st to 5th prima - and 53 girls(orphans & des - tion of various schemes NHM side, performance of Dr Baljeet Pathania, ner. Dr. Baldev Sharma, Society. The workshop is Handicapped children at ry. These children are being titute) belonging to Hindu, under National Health health institutions, supportive Director Health Services, Director Family Welfare being attended by Chief Udhawala and Ved Mandir provided free facilities of Muslim and Buddhist reli - Mission impressed upon the supervision plan of officers at Jammu in his address appre - MCH & Immunization, Medical Officers, Medical Bal Niketan, Amphalla, boarding, lodging and edu - gion from across the State. participants to keep them - all the levels and progress on ciated the support provided asked the stakeholders to fol - Superintendents, Dy. Chief Jammu on Thursday. cation by JRC. These orphan and destitute selves updated on the latest 102 ambulance & MMU's for by National Health Mission low the latest guidelines on Medical Officers, Block Mukesh Singh IPS IGP The management of boys and girls are being guidelines issued by Union bringing transparency & in creating better health infra - Maternal & Child Health for Medical Officers, Medical Armed accompanied by JRC comprising Ms Neena looked after by the manage - Ministry of Health & Family accountability within the structure and service delivery providing better patient care Officers, and District & Zahid Naseem Manhas SSP Rishi(warden), PC Kapoor ment of Ved Mandir Bal welfare & State Health department. He also asked through various programme services in the State which Block Programme So to ADGP Armed J&K (President), Satish Niketan Sanstha Amphalla Society, J&K which are being the CMOs to update their & schemes from time to time. would help in reducing Management Units of district handed over clothing items Sharma(Joint Secretary) in all respect. circulated to the districts District Health Action Plans He emphasized CMOs/ maternal & child mortality in Ramban, Kishtwar and Doda. Protest held by the shortlisted candidates of DLRC meeting held at Jammu jail warder post in prison department in Jammu GY NewS SeRViCe advances and CD ratio. Lead nized by the rural branches Chairman emphasized functionaries of agriculture GY NewS SeRViCe from over JaMMU, DeC. 26: A District Manager Jawahar of banks in Jammu district that awareness Camps Department for monitoring JaMMU, DeC. 26: the last meeting of District Level Koul informed the meeting upto June 2014. The chair - regarding banking facilities of sponsorship of KCC appli - Despite the continuous four years Review Committee/District that deposits of the district man stressed on the fact that for Education loans should cations, so that 100% cover - protests held by the candi - and Consultative Committee were Rs.22624.80 crores and PMJDY camps should also be conducted regularly. DDC age of all eligible farmers can dates of the Jail Warder post protests (DLRC/DCC) for the advances was Rs.7103.75 be held along with the FLC held a detailed review of all be achieved under KCC. in prison department have been Quarter ending September Crores, as on 30.09.2014. camps in order to ensure the Govt. sponsored schemes Among others, G. N. Balwan, Jammu, their demands have held 2014 of Jammu district was The C.D. Ratio of the district 100% coverage under with special focus on KCC's Additional District not been attended. demanding held under the chairmanship was 31.98%. Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan and PMEGP Schemes. He Development Commissioner, The short listed candi - the release. of Ajit Kumar Sahu, District Under ACP-2014-15, the Yojana scheme. also advised the sponsoring Suram Sharma, Assistant dates said that they will It was Development achievement of banks was The Chairman also agencies to conduct aware - Commissioner continue their struggle till informed Commissioner, Jammu. 18.03% against the annual instructed the banks to ness camps in the panchayats (Development), G.L. their goal is achieved. The that about The meeting was con - target of Rs.5650.07 Crores ensure 100% survey of in coordination with banks in Sharma, Chief Planning government has turned deaf 41182 unemployed youth in the month of September vened to review the perfor - and the achievement was unbanked villages and urban this year, so that more and Officer, R K Sharma, AGM ears to their demands, had applied for the post 2010. Even after more than mance of banks regarding Rs.1018.66 Crores. Lead wards so that accounts under more people are educated, RBI, Madan Gupta, State despite the support of many advertised in local dailies in four years since the inter - achievement under Annual District Manager told the PMJDY are opened in motivated and facilitated. Project Manager, JKSRLM political and non-political 2005 and 1247 candidates views, the final selection Credit Plan of 2014-15 and house that 176 Financial respect of all eligible per - Chairman stressed on (Umeed) were also present organizations. The final were shortlisted for the list has not yet been the position of deposits, Literacy Camps were orga - sons. giving targets to various in the meeting. selection list is pending interview, which was held released. Meeting regarding Modernization of Land Ghulam Raza thanks his voters PAHAL scheme held for their vote and support GY NewS SeRViCe account with their respec - Records to begin soon in J&K GY NewS SeR - KaThUa, DeC. 26: tive LPG distributors. GY NewS SeRViCe providers have been invited complete this entire project receiving complete propos - ViCe Assistant Director CAPD On joining the scheme JaMMU, DeC. 26: An by January 24th, 2015. in a time bound manner. als. The revised schedule KaRGil, T.P. Singh convened a consumer will get the ambitious project to provide In J&K, an empowered Accordingly, the has also been uploaded on (laDaKh), DeC 26: meeting With Gas subsidy in their account. digital land titling guarantee Agency viz; Jammu & Agency has formulated a the official web-site. Accepting the peoples Distribution agencies of They can also check their to the people of Jammu and Kashmir Land Records request for proposal (RFP) The dream is to enable verdict gracefully, Kathua district regarding CTC status on Kashmir has been launched Management ( for inviting IT solution all land holders in J&K to Ghulam Raza, Indian the PAHAL scheme www.mylpg.in. All cus - with the first step of putting JaKLaRMA), headed by providers for outsourcing get a copy of their land National Congress Party scheduled to be launched tomers who have joined out a Request For Proposal Financial Commissioner the activities involved in the holdings from the internet, Candidate from Zanaskar across the country from the scheme till (RFP) in the public domain. (Revenue) as its Chief implementation of the without the intervention of assembly segmant, has 1st Januarty'2015. 01/01/2015 will start get - The project includes Data Executive Officer in an Ex- National Land Records any revenue official. The thanked the people of the Singh detailed the ting LPG cylinder at mar - Entry, Digitization officio capacity, is handling Modernization Project in software will also allow all constituency for their agencies that the new ket price and cash sub - (Vectorization) of Cadastral this project. Set up in 2013, the State. The RFP after updations on account of active and peaceful participation in just concluded elec - scheme called PAHAL sidy in their bank Maps, (Musavis), Survey/ JaKLaRMA with a series of approval from the sale, inheritance; mortgages tions. (DBTL) is scheduled to accounts. Re-Survey for up-dation of hectic meetings with the Executive Body of the etc. online and bring much He also thanked the residents of the area who had be launched from 1st Assistant Director land records, Integration Union Ministry of Rural Agency has been floated on needed transparency to this reposed their faith in him through their vote and support. January 2015 under informed that the con - with Record of Rights Development, Department the official web-site of the sector. "I have complete faith in Almighty Allah and in my which subsidy of the sumer can also register (RORs), Management of of Land Resources, has suc - F.C. (Revenue) viz; The survey-resurvey people and I am confident that they have not rejected me as domestic L.P.G cylinder their mobile numbers with old Revenue Documents, ceeded in getting approval www.JKfcr.nic.in. Five per - involved, if any, in this a candidate", Raza said in a statement conveyed to Scoop will be directly deposited LPG distributors, so that Development of Web-based of an Annual Action Plan spective bidders have exercise shall also be out - News over telephone from Kargil on Friday. in bank account of the they can avail the booking GIS for running various for Rs. 60.00 crore of 12 already submitted some sourced with the existing He said he would continue to serve the people with ded - LPG consumer. facility through SMS. He applications together with districts of J&K for Phase-I. queries which were revenue officials only ication and sincerity. My people, Raza said, believed in my LPG Gas Agencies also said that consumer training and capacity build - To begin with, the responded to. A pre-bid con - authenticating the record so sincerity towards them and they were in know of the factors were directed to educate can avail help from web ing. For ensuring that the Agency has planned to take ference was thereafter held prepared by the selected that impacted the outcome of the elections. all LPG consumers, so site www.my.lpg.in and project is completed in a two districts viz; Jammu on 23-12-2014 wherein on service provider. This will "In a democratic system people are the best judges and that they can join the for any further queries time bound manner, propos - and Srinagar in phase-I, 10 the request of perspective ensure that settlement oper - they are the ones who could lead and represent them", Raza modified DBTL scheme can directly contact with als for outsourcing this more districts in phase-II bidders; the Agency has ations too are carried out added. Ghulam Raza emerged as runner up in the recent - by providing Aadhaar the concerned Tehsil entire work to competent and the remaining 10 dis - extended the bid submission side-by-side with these ly held elections after he secured 6,197 votes and lost to Number or 17 digit bank Supply Officer. and experienced IT service tricts in phase-III so as to date to 20th Jan. 2015 for modernization efforts. Syed Mohammed Baqir Rizvi with a margin of 566 votes. The well kept secret: Is NC in talks with BJP PCB launches on-line consent management & monitoring system in Jammu or is PDP romancing the National Party? GY NewS SeRViCe that shortly this system shall manner, for which the intro - online mechanism and it GY NewS SeRViCe Mohammed Sayeed, Arun become the pedestal on leader has immense clarity JaMMU, DeC. 26: In be extended to other districts duction of online consent was made operational for all JaMMU, DeC. 26: Jaitley, Omar Abdullah, which the BJP can climb to and is bound to take deci - order to bring in transparen - of the State as well. On the management is a step for - the applications of the Anxiety and suspense have Muzaffar Hussain Beig form the next government sions that don't hurt the cy and accountability in the occasion, Chairman ward in this direction. Jammu district. Unit holders kept all in the political and THE WELL KEPT in the state. NC MLA from party or the local senti - working of the J&K State informed that this will bring The Chairman PCB of Jammu District can now non-political circles over - SECRET Budgam and former ment. Muzaffar Hussain pollution Control Board, on- transparency, accountability lauded the efforts of the Er. file online application and wrought. With only the Going by present float - Minister Aga Syed Beig, a senior leader in line consent management and simplification of proce - J.N.Sharma, EE, Head e- board can process these major political honchos ing word, there are two Ruhullah has gone on PDP said three days ago system and monitoring sys - dure and paperless working Governance and his team applications internally being privy to all the opposed factions in both record while speaking to a that BJP was not politically tem has been launched in for the e-consent. He added for developing and cus - through a paperless work - Government formation dis - PDP and NC. One, which is New Delhi based news untouchable but these Jammu by J&K State that gradually all the ser - tomizing the web based ing. cussions, it has been diffi - not opposed to the idea of a channel that he is strongly comments have not gone Pollution Control Board. vices of the board shall be Consent management sys - On the occasion a power cult for all to gauge the situ - coalition with the BJP and opposed to the idea of BJP down well with those in Board also organized one made online for the benefit tem with the support of Anil point presentation was also ation on the inside. If one is the other which opines that coalition. "People in the party who are opposed day workshop on the of the industry and the peo - Kumar Technical Director made by J.N Sharma, high - to simply adhere to the joining hands with the saf - Kashmir have voted in to join hands with the per - launching of e-consent ple at large. Chairman said NIC, Ministry of lighting the salient features news reports, sources in NC fron party may create the record numbers to keep the ceived Hindu outfit. mechanism starting from since the Public Service Environment and Forest, and usage of the OCMMS maintained that there was a impression of being oppor - BJP at bay. We can't give With so many twists 26th December 2014. Guarantee Act has been New Delhi. module and training was meeting between the tunistic. them (BJP) an opening to and turns, it would be The workshop was inau - adopted by the State The Member secretary also imparted to the users Abdullah scion and the BJP Omar Abdullah has held give the state a BJP Chief interesting to see how an gurated by the new Government for the service PCB Iqbal Panjoo also and officers of the board top brass around possible the 'Rumours' very close to Minister." ideologically different Chairman of the State provider departments, and briefed about the various during the workshop. coalition scenarios yester - his chest. National The joke doing its PDP forms a coalition with Pollution Control Board, PCB is one such organiza - features of the online system The Regional Director day. On the other hand Arun Conference has increased rounds in the political cir - the BJP. BJP has claimed Suresh Chugh who launched tion, so it has become neces - and apprised that the system PCB, Shaukat Choudhary Jaitley and others in Jammu its voter base even as it lost cles is that the PDP chief, over the last few days that and introduced the e-con - sary to improve the efficien - shall be useful for prompt presented vote of thanks on today rubbished the news as 13 seats. These elections Mufti Mohammed Sayeed it has the veto powers for sent management and moni - cy in working of the board, disposal of the cases besides the occasion. The pro - baseless rumours. saw record voting and there is spending a lot of time government formation in toring system (OCMMS) in so as to dispose of the con - being transparent. First gramme was attended by all Coalition, PDP, BJP, are many in the NC who watching Urdu soaps on the state. What trump card, the working of the board, sent cases in a stipulated application of the Consent the officers, Engineers and NC, NC-BJP, BJP-PDP, have openly criticized the television. It goes without Omar Abdullah has up his initially from the Jammu time period that too in a case of the Jammu (South) Scientists of the State Mehbooba Mufti, Mufti NC top brass' inclination to saying that the veteran sleeve, remains to be seen. district. Chairman informed transparent and simplified was processed through the Pollution Control Board.

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