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rs 1 cr for uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh Srinagar, June 21: Expressing solidarity with the victims of the natural calamity that has hit Uttrakhand and Himachal Pradesh, the Cabinet which met here under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah pledged an amount of Rs. 1 crore to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund for providing relief and rehabilitation to the affected people. The Cabinet also accorded approval for the Return and Rehabilitation Package in favour of Jammu migrants amounting to Rs. 91.56 crore and its submission to the Government of India for sanctioning of the package and allotment of funds.
1 dies, 6 injured in road mishaps Srinagar, June 21: One person died and six others were injured in different road accidents across the valley, said an official police spokesman. A Tipper bearing registration number JK01A/5552 hit a seven years old boy Aleem Altaf Malla son of Altaf Ahmed Malla resident of Khanpora at Khanpora, Baramulla, resulting in his on spot death. Baramulla Police has registered a case in this regard. Meanwhile, an Auto load carrier bearing registration number JK04/7023 hit and injured a pedestrian Ali Mohammad Bangroo son of Abdul Rehman resident of Tengbagh Eidgah at Eidgah, Safakadal, Srinagar. The injured was shifted to SKIMS Soura for treatment. Safakadal Police has registered a case in this regard. In another accident, a Sumo bearing registration number JK10/1768 on way from Srinagar to Magam hit and injured 75 years old Fazia Begum wife of Ghulam Mohammad Kaloo resident of Narbal at main market Narbal, Magam. The injured was shifted to SKIMS Soura, Srinagar for treatment. Magam Police has registered a case in this regard. In an another accident, a 12th class student, Shabir Ahmad Khan son of Ghulam Mohi-udDin resident of Bazipora, Ajas of Higher Secondary School Ajas was injured when he fell from a bus at Bazipora Ajas. The injured was shifted to SKIMS Soura for treatment. Police has registered a case in this regard. In another accident, two pedestrians, 17 years old Insha daughter of Abdul Rashid resident of Bemina and 16 years old Anam daughter of Farooq Ahmad Mir resident of Safa Kadal were injured when a motorcycle bearing registration Number JK01/0573 hit them See Mishaps on Pg. 11
Police arrests three smugglers Srinagar, June 21: In a bid to curb the smuggling of medicinal herbs in Frontier district Kupwara, police in its drive arrested three smugglers and recovered nearly 103 kilograms of a rare medicinal plant, Pitrees (Aconitum roots). The consignment is estimated to fetch more than one crore in the international market. Giving details Sub Divisional Police Officer Kupwara Sajad Ahmed said that police in two different raids at Khumriyal and Kalaroos arrested three persons and recovered nearly 103 kilograms of rare medicinal herbs. “We have also seized the vehicle (JK09-6677) in which these medicinal plants were being smuggled,” he said. The police official identified the three smugglers as Nazir Ahmed Lone, Nazir Ahmed Shiekh and Sajad Ahmed Ganaie. “The accused have been booked under section 379, 6 Forest Act and they are being questioned,” he said. Meanwhile District Forest Officer Kupwara, Shiekh Ayub said that it has become very difficult for the checking squad to nab the culprits as the smugglers See Smugglers on Pg. 11
Ahead of Kashmir trip, PM reviews JK projects Zabarwan News Desk Srinagar/New Delhi, June 21: Ahead of his visit to Jammu and Kashmir early next week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today reviewed the status of the Rs 37,000-crore reconstruction package for the state which is currently being implemented. The Prime Minister's Reconstruction Plan involves 67 projects and schemes covering 11 sectors of the economy including expansion of infrastructure and basic services and employment generation. The review was undertaken by the Prime Minister with officials involved in the implementation of these projects, sources said. The Prime Minister is undertaking two-day visit to the state from June 25. At the meeting, it was noted that 34 projects and schemes have been completed and work in 28 is in progress, the sources said.
Among the projects completed are setting up of 1,000 micro hydro-electric projects, electrification of all villages, expansion of total literacy campaign to remaining three districts of Kargil, Poonch, and Doda and training to enhance skills of youth for IT/BPO sector at Jammu and Srinagar. PM may not visit Uri project The Uri Hydel project, whose second phase (240 MW) was scheduled to have been inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir beginning June 25, is now not expected to be on his itinerary. The power project being built by the state-run National Hydel Power Corporation (NHPC), which was to have been opera-
Minor reshuffle in Administration Srinagar, June 21: The Cabinet which met here today under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah ordered several transfers and postings in the Administration. Shaleen Kabra, Commissioner Secretary Youth Service and Sports and Technical education, holding additional charge of the Post of the Commissioner Secretary to the Government, Health and Medical Education Department has been transferred and posted as Commissioner/ Secretary to the Gov-
ernment, Health and Medical Education Department. B. A. Runyal, Chairman, J&K Special Tribunal has been transferred and posted as Commissioner Secretary to the Government, Labour and Employment Department, relieving Farooq Ahmad Peer, Commissioner Secretary to the Government, Rural Development Department, of the additional charge of the post. Sarita Chouhan, has been posted as Chairman, J&K Special Tribunal, Vice B.A. See reshuffle on Pg. 11
tionalised after being inaugurated by the Prime Minister, is believed to have hit a last minute snag in its functioning during trial runs. The NHPC, during the trial runs, found a lot of slit near head as well as at the rear tunnel during the mandatory pre-testing on June 18 ahead of a VVIP visit, according to sources today. The project, second on river Jhelum in Uri town, is located downstream of 480MW Uri-I. Uri-II would have helped NHPC to increase its hydropower generation capacity to 1,920 MW in J and K from five projects in the state. The other four projects are 690-MW Salal, 480-MW UriI, 390-MW Dulhasti and 120-MW Sewa-II. NHPC officials when contacted
about the reported snag refused to comment. However, some NHPC officials claimed that since the local population in the border town of Uri, located in North Kashmir, wanted job opportunities they would have attempted to disrupt the VVIP visit. The Prime Minister, who is scheduled to arrive in Udhampur on June 25, would be visiting Kishtwar where he will lay the foundation stone of the 850 MW Ratle Hydel power project on river Chenab at Drabshala. Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi will address a public rally at Kishtwar before flying to Srinagar where the Prime Minister will be meeting a host of political and business delegations. Security beefed up in Kashmir Security has been beefed up in Kashmir Valley in view of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit on June 25. See PM on Pg. 11
Srinagar, June 21: Dispelling notion that Amarnath Yatra in Kashmir is under threat, patron Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Mufti Muhammad Syed said the apprehensions about the safety of upcoming Amarnath Yatra are misplaced and could damage the image of the state at a time when there is need to work wholeheartedly for removal of trust deficit between J&K and rest of the country. Mufti was addressing party workers convention in Shahdra Sharief Friday. Expressing dismay at the
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According to Joint Director School Education, Kashmir, in view of the ensuing Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra, the heads of Government and Private Educational Institutions are put to strict instructions that they should desist from sending the students on excursion and picnic to Pahalgam and Sonamarg. See Excursion on Pg. 11
Panic gripped commercial hub Lal Chowk today when police launched a sudden search operation in the area in the wake of threats to disrupt the upcoming Amarnath yatra commencing from June 28. Eye witness said that Police assisted by paramilitary CRPF troops cordoned off the City centre area around 3.15pm and asked the civilians to make queues for frisking and I-Card checking. The police operation also led to massive traffic jam as commuters had to find ways to cross the roads. This is for the first time after 2010 that police
Protest March Foiled, Several arrested
Employees’ pen down strike affects work Srinagar, June 21: On the first day of the two day strike called by employees’ Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) in support of their demands including the two year increase in their retirement age, normal work in government offices was affected on Friday as employees observed pen down strike. However authorities foiled their protest march in Srinagar and put nearly a dozen of them under custody. The JCC though managed to hold the protests at district headquarters
across the state where the protesting employees presented memoranda to the respective deputy commissioners. Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) had called for protest marches at district headquarters today to press for their demands. According to eye witnesses scores of employees assembled near Press enclave at Srinagar and raised antigovernment slogans. They were demanding the implementation of the agreement which they say Government See Protest on Pg. 11
Jammu, June 21: Amid intelligence inputs of terror threat to Amarnathyatra, the Army today reviewed security measures for the smooth conduct of the annual pilgrimage to the 3,880 mt high cave shrine, scheduled to start on June 28. "A security conference was organised today by Counter Insurgency Force (Delta) to co-ordinate security issues with various agencies involved in providing security and other administrative arrangements for smooth conduct of the Amarnath Yatra," a defence spokesman said here. The conference was chaired by Officiating General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Counter Insurgency Force (Delta), Brig H S Faujdar. Brig Faujdar assured the civil administration of all Army support for the
Yatra security goof up damaged Kashmir image: Mufti alarm raised over the security of upcoming Yatra, Mufti said, “the pilgrimage has historically been a part of our culture and it is not just its security but the entire hospitality effort that comes from the Kashmir society.” He said security bandobast is part of governance but it is the Kashmir society that has sustained and promoted the yatra for decades. Mufti said the help rendered by the locals to the
Govt bans Police crackdown in Lal Chowk excursion to Traffic jams lead to chaos as pedestrians face tough time Pahalgam, Sonamarg Srinagar, June 21:
Army reviews security arrangements for Amarnath Yatra
launched an operation in the area, which remains highly busy with the people, traffic, street vendors and tourists. Official said the crackdown was in line with the directives from the higher ups to step up vigil in view of the increasing militant strikes and Amarnath yatra which starts from 24 of June. “This is being done as preventive and precautionary measures after the spurt in the recent attacks by militant’s,” higher official of Police said. Meanwhile Inspector General of Police Kashmir zone A.G Mir talking to KNS said, “Security forces have been See Crackdown on Pg. 11
Yates in times of natural calamities is part of our heritage and we are genuinely proud of that. “Such voluntary help at the risk of one’s life emanates from the basic goodness of a society and it is that sentiment which is the guarantee for the security of Yatris” he added. The alarm on security concerns undermines this great tradition and could strengthen the stereotype image some hawkish ele-
ments try to create about the residents of the state, he said. Meanwhile he expressed deep grief at the heavy loss of life and property in Uttarakhand. Mufti said the disaster should serve as a wakeup call for all environmentally sensitive states like Jammu and Kashmir to avert such tragedies. Mufti said the people of the state are deeply sad at the widespread destruction caused in Uttarakhand which has resulted in collapse of infrastructure apart from huge loss of life that included many See Mufti on Pg. 11
smooth conduct of Amarnath Yatra, the spokesman said. Additional Deputy Commissioner Ramban, representatives of Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF, apart from other officers of the Army were also present on the occasion. "The important issues discussed during the conference were deployment of additional resources by the Civil Administration in terms of temporary accommodation, health facilities, recovery elements in case of accidents, langars and toilet facilities," the spokesman said. "Issues related to traffic management including placement of heavy recovery vehicles, additional Police Check Posts, catering for jams at Choke Points, treatment of casualties and their evacuation to nearest hospitals, security arrangements by the See army on Pg. 11
No clue about missing girl Srinagar, June 21: Police is clueless about the 2 years old girl child who went missing on Thursday outside her home in North Kashmir’s Pattan town. Reports said that Zeenat Ashraf daughter of Mohammad Ashraf Rather from Buchoo Pattan visited her neighbourhood as usual. “She left for home and we thought she had reached there but we shocked to learn from her parents that she was missing,” her neighbor said. Parents registered a complaint in police station Pattan and soon after Station House Officer Pattan Mehboob Bandey dispatched See No Clue on Pg. 11
J&K Bank donates 1000 tents to earthquake victims Srinagar, June 21: While exhibiting its responsible corporate citizen character, J&K Bank handed over 389 water proof tents to the district administration of Doda and Kishtwar in Jammu region. The tents are to be donated among the earthquake affected families in the Chenab valley. A team of J&K Bank officials headed by its President Abdul Rauf Bhat handed over 250 tents to Doda district development commissioner, Mubarak Singh and 139 tents were handed
over to Kishtwar district development commissioner, Saleem Mohammad. Bank’s Zonal Head, Jammu (West), Mohammad Ibrahim, Cluster Head, Kishtwar, Mohammad Amin, other senior officers of the bank and the district ad-
ministration were present on the occasion. District Development Commissioner, Doda, Mubarak Singh, commended responsible corporate citizen role of the bank. He said, “J&K Bank is not only playing a See Bank on Pg. 11
Does America really want a solution to vexed Kashmir issue? Or the solution lies in Indo-Pak friendship itself
Shahana Srinagar, June 21: The six decade long Kashmir issue which kept the hope of total peace in subcontinent at a bay has on one side polarized the international opinion and on the other side kept the two neighbours once a single country fighting the wars and also continue a cold war now for over sixty six years. During this long period history has seen many upheavals while the animosity between the two countries increased
with every passing day making the people of subcontinent to suffer mentally, economically and above all socially. The general masses who always wanted cordial relations between India and Pakistan got only thorns of enmity in their laps and lost thousands of people in the course of time. The super power like USA followed its policy of divide and rule, sold enough of its weaponry to both the countries, continued inflaming and inciting them against each other
and made good of their resources. The political leadership of the two neighbours which should have understood the policy much before always got misled and plundered their rightful resources, spending them on purchasing the lethal arms and ammunition from USA and its European allies. The two countries fought many wars and a sustained proxy war let loose in Jammu & Kashmir cost heavily on the total economy which ultimately deprived the
poor population of the two countries of their basic necessities in this modern world. The recent statement of USA that there is no change in its Kashmir policy is indicative of the fact that this country wants to continue its unsteady misleading and confusing policies viz a viz Kashmir issue so that it can rob the subcontinent of its resources and keep the problem boiling as it has been since for over six decades. The USA had never adopted any clear policy for address-
ing the basic Kashmir issue, nor does it want so because that goes against its very basic interests. Now the time has come when the people of the subcontinent have started realizing the motives and game plan. India and Pakistan are both nuclear powers, they cannot afford to take cudgels with each other and both realize that their progress and welfare depends on their cordial and friendly relations. The Kashmir problem is a political issue and can See Kashmir Issue on Pg. 11
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Development initiatives launched to upgrade border infra: Dy CM
health, environment or any other socially relevant cause, the bank puts its best foot forward. In the hour of need like the catastrophe we met here in Chenab valley, our first and dependable choice for seeking support has been the bank.” Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed at Mubarak Singh thanked the Chairman and CEO, sensitive places in the Srinagar City and other venues Mushtaq Ahmad for this generous support. where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with UPA While commenting on this gesture of J&K Bank, the Jammu, June 21: Underscoring on government sector for employment, awareness camps for Kissan Credit Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to visit, official district development commissioner, Kishtwar, Saleem the measures taken by the govern- adding that present time is era of Cards, Labor welfare schemes and sources said. Mohammad said, “J&K Bank is indeed a friend in need. ment to take development revolution entrepreneurship and by availing other welfare schemes have been Adequate deployment of security has also been made en My sincere thanks go to the Chairman of J&K Bank, to every nook and corner of the state, benefits extended under these organised in areas of the constituency route from Banihal- Qazigund where Singh is scheduled to Mushtaq Ahmad, who was proactive in coming to our Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand schemes youth of the state can and now it is duty of the Sarpanchs flag off rail services on Wednesday (June 26), the sources rescue for supporting the affected families in shortest today said priority is being given to become role models for society by and Panchs to ensure that more and address infrastructure needs of starting own ventures and giving more people get themselves said. possible time.” The prime minister is later scheduled to stay Tuesday night Notably, J&K Bank acted promptly following the border and far-off belts of the state employment to others also.He said to registered for availing benefits of at Raj Bhavan where he will interact with legislators and damage caused by the earthquake in Chenab valley on and exemplary initiatives have been address the special needs of people these initiatives,” he added. leaders of different parties, sources said adding that he May 1, 2013 to support the affected families. The bank taken for all round development of living in backward and near the Stressing on women empowerment, Actual Line of Control the govern- the Deputy Chief Minister said that would be returning to Delhi on next day after flagging off has placed orders for procuring 1000 water proof tents these areas. He said better infrastructure is vital ment has approved special dispensa- by occupying highest posts of rail services in Banihal. costing over Rs. One crore. Remaining quota of tents is for holistic development of back- tion for employment of teachers on President, Prime Minister and other Prime Minister and UPA chairperson are likely to chair a being supplied to the affected districts very shortly. high level meeting with State Chief Omar Abdullah and It’s pertinent to mention that the Chenab valley is still in ward areas and goes a long way in the pattern of ReT. This would not higher chairs in government as well socio-economic upliftment of the only address much needed staff as private sector, women have other senior officers on June 25 here at SKICC, official grip of aftershocks of the May 1, earthquake. area.“Government is steadfast on its requirement of the schools of these proved their mettle. He said Mrs. sources said, adding that the revocation of AFSPA will be resolve for equitable development of areas but would also absorb educated Indira Gandhi by becoming first the prime motive of the meeting. all regions of the state and with active young force, he added.Tara Chand women Prime Minister and heading Sources added that the deployment of security and was deliberately backtracking from. However they diversion of vehicular traffic in the city has been done in a were intercepted by Police when they began marching support from the central government said with transfer of functions of various international bodies have manner that it does not cause any problem for the common towards Deputy Commissioner’s office to present a major projects have been started to fourteen departments to the PRIs proved that women of our country meet the present day infrastructure their direct involvement in the have tremendous potential.“Now it is people. Pertinently, on June 19, the Jammu and Kashmir memorandum to deputy commissioner. requirements,” he added. development has increased many our turn to ensure cent percent Chief Minister Omar Abdullah chaired a Unified “Police did not allow us to march towards the deputy Command Meeting here at SKICC Srinagar. Besides, commissioner’s office and arrested at least a dozen of He was addressing a public meeting folds and empowered pachayats coverage of women empowerment Chief Minister also discussed the prevailing security and employees including Muntazir Mohiuddin, Fayaz at Pargwal.Underlining measures would be a boost for over all schemes launched by the governlaw and order situation in the State. During the meeting, the Ahmad Shabnam , Nusrat Beigh and myself”, JCC taken to address growing unemploy- development. PRI have to play a ment and PRIs have a greater role to ment, the Deputy Chief Minister said major role in making people aware of ensure this coverage,” he added. intelligence agencies put forth their inputs regarding spokesman Farooq Ahmad Trali said. militant activities in the State while as the Amarnath Yatra Meanwhile employees took out protest marches at flagship SKEWPY, UDAAN and various schemes and programs Various officers from revenue, civil issue and security concerns related to it was thoroughly district headquarters across the state and presented HIMAYAT have been launched to launched by the government from administration and engineers discussed. The cross border infiltration, AFSPA and memoranda to the respective deputy commissioners. encourage youth to look beyond the time to time, he added. “Major attended the meeting. educated youth joining militancy also remained the prime JCC took out protest march from mini secretariat led by concern during the meeting while as the decision related to Rafiq Ahmad Rather and Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat which AFSPA remained inconclusive. later dispersed near Deputy Commissioner’s office, where they presented memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. In Kupwara the march was led by Mir Srinagar, June 21: On the Army, CRPF and Police, deployment of additional Fayaz and S Gh Rasool Geelani where as Pirzada assurance of Minister of State Srinagar, June 21: Peoples’ and skepticism by a lot of simmering discontent manpower, if any, and reaction of the security forces in case Shareefuddin led the march in Bandipora. According to for Agriculture, Horticulture Conference Chairman, educated people, espeamongst the youth of this of contingency were also discussed," he said. General JCC spokesman, similar marchs were taken out from all Sajad Lone Friday said cially in urban areas. S t a t e d u e t o r i s i n g and Floriculture Mr. Nazir Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, Lt the district headquarters of the state. General K T Parnaik has said the Army has received inputs He added that as per the programme employees would that the key to pulling However, politics is an corruption, nepotism, and A h m a d G u r e z i , t h e Floriculture Employees and that terrorists might try to disrupt the yatra. "Intelligence take out a march towards Governor’s house on Kashmir out of the current i n d i s p e n s a b l e a n d selective governance. Workers Association today mess of favoritism, misunparalleled tool to Sajad Lone said that when inputs which we are receiving suggest that they (terrorists) Saturday. “We are expecting thousands of employees to have intentions to disrupt the yatra," he had said on assemble at Municipal Park in Srinagar tomorrow, governance and corruption Change what we find the youth of a nation comes called off their 35-day old Monday. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar wherefrom they will take out a march which would be lies in young, educated and unacceptable in our out to exercise its sacred strike today. Interacting with Abdullah, however, said there was no increased threat led by Abdul Qayoom Wani, Muntazir Mohi ud din, Ab. w e l l - m e a n i n g y o u t h society or State. Since r i g h t t o c h o o s e i t s the workers, the Minister m a k i n g p e a c e w i t h representatives, destinies assured them that their all perception to this year's Amarnath yatra compared to Gafoor Dar and other JCC leaders towards the joining politics. previous years and fears of attack as reported in the media Governor house”, Farooq Trali told KNS, adding that “The State has been lackluster governance, of nations are changed genuine demands will be were "gross exaggeration". "While we will take all the government was forcing them to take to roads.“They suffocated both politically corruption, and economic overnight. “The youth of examined on priority and regular precautions with a multi layer security grid, 'yatra are not listening to us and have forced us to take and economically by persecution is out of the Kashmir can no longer necessary steps would be taken attack feared' headlines are a gross exaggeration," Omar extreme steps”, he said. The spokesman also said that traditional politicians who question, the educated afford to sit on the political to address them on priority. He are heavily invested in the youth who are concerned sidelines and allow a said that the Government has wrote yesterday on the microblogging site twitter.com. the JCC leadership would sit together on Saturday status quo when it comes to about the future of minority to foist traditional already taken several important afternoon at 4 PM to discuss the future course of action. the question of making Kashmir should realize politicians on the silent decisions to address the issues “We may intensify the strike if government fails to drastic, systemic changes. that politics is the biggest majority. The conse- of the employees like impleRuniyal. deliver”, Trali added. We strongly believe that a opportunity to serve their quences of such continued mentation of the recommendaPaarvez Ahmad Malik, Director, Command Area change of guard between people selflessly and d i s e m p o w e r m e n t o f t i o n s o f t h e 6 t h P a y Development, Jammu has been transferred and posted as e d u c a t e d y o u t h a r e Commission, regularization of Secretary, Youth Services and Sports and Technical be addressed politically as put by the Prime Minister of traditional politicians in unconditionally,” he said. t h e S t a t e A s s e m b l y Stating that Peoples’ catastrophic and will lead daily wagers, promotion of Education Department vice Shaleen Kabra. India Dr. Manmohan Singh in very clear terms when he Nirmal Sharma has been posted as Managing Director, said that this vexed issue cannot be settled within no wouldn’t amount to much Conference is a party that to growing unemploy- various categories of employJ&K Handloom Development Corporation vice Ms. Sarita time and will need a political approach to get a solution unless the goal is to change has reposed faith in ment, economic rust, and ees and other reformative the system as a whole,” he educated young leaders, hopelessness. The youth of measures for the welfare of the Chouhan. acceptable to all stake holders. The recent statement of Sajad Lone added that the Kashmir cannot bear such employees. The Minister asked Hemant Kumar Sharma, Special Secretary, Higher Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief threads have to said. Sajad Lone said that the party respects not just the consequences any longer the Dir. Floriculture, Kashmir Education Department, has been transferred and posted as be picked where they were left in 1990 is a clear proof youth of Kashmir are passion of Kashmir’s and Peoples’ Conference to submit proposal regarding Director, Command Area Development Jammu vice Mr. that the days of animosity, the days of getting exploited, confident and passionate youth but also its disgrun- will continue to empower regular disbursement of wages Parvez Ahmad Malik. the days of spending the vital resources on the purchase about bringing about a tlement with the political the educated youth to to casual labours with weekly of lethal arms and the days of depriving the general Change in their State and system. We are foraying a commandeer this nation break, treating of strike period masses of their rightful development and progress are this passion is best served path towards Change out out of the existing mess as on duty and regularization of pilgrims to holy sites located in the Himalayas. over and a new era of peace and tranquility is in sight. in sincere, pro-people of the same disgruntlement and towards a better and the daily wagers to the “We share the grief of the state and all those who lost their politics. “Politics is no with traditional politics brighter tomorrow,” he administrative department for loved ones in terrible circumstances. However we will doubt seen with cynicism and can relate to the said. further action. have to work hard to avert the tragedy that struck near Baghat. The motorcyclist also received injuries in Uttarakhand in other areas,” said Mufti. the accident. All the injured were shifted to Bones and Urging the party cadres to strengthen their contact with the joint Hospital Srinagar where from Insha and Mutaib people Mufti said the PDP does not have to prove its ability was referred to SKIMS Soura for further treatment. to govern with distinction as its brief stint in government Srinagar Police has registered a case in this regard. has become a positive reference point in the political In another accident, a motorcycle bearing registration Srinagar, June 21: Minister Firdous, Commissioner/ discourse of the state. number Jk09/711 met with an accident at Janbazpora, for Urban Development and Secretary, Housing and He said if the present government had been able only to Baramulla, resulting in injuries to motorcyclist and a Urban Local Bodies, Mr. Urban Development, Mr. Bandipora, June 21: The sheets, mats and other basic carry forward our programs the state would have pro- pillion. Both the injured were shifted to Hospital for gressed beyond recognition. However the next elections treatment. Baramulla Police has registered a case in this volunteers of J&K Red items for day to day use. Nawang Rigzin Jora today Jeet Lal Gupta, Vice Cross Branch, Srinagar The Red Cross activists, on reiterated the commitment Chairman, LAWDA, Mr. would provide an opportunity to the people to make a regard. today distributed relief the directions of the Hony of the Government to Irfan Yasin and other senior difference between good and bad governance and a correct among fire victims of General Secretary, Indian properly rehabilitate all officers and engineer of the decision by them could lay the foundations for a long term B e l n i p o r a a r e a o f Red Cross Society, J&K affected dal dwellers at concerned departments change in the system and through that in the destiny of the take the help of women and nomads for the collection of Bandipora district whose Branch Srinagar Ms. Roma newly developed Colony at were also present on the state, said Mufti. herbs. houses and belongings Wani reached to the Bemina with all the latest occasion. Interacting with Pertinently, precious medicinal herbs worth lakhs of were gutted into fire effected families and facilities. the dal dwellers, the rupees are being collected and smuggled from forests in incident yesterday. distributed relief material He said this while inaugu- Minister said that the different police teams to trace the girl child, however all this frontier district. The smuggling of medicinal herbs The victim families were among them. The victim rating 180-meter pedestrian government was aware their efforts proved futile. like “Pitrees” (aconitum roots), “Trepati”, and seeds of provided three blankets families expressed their mall from Khon Khan Dal about their problems and all “Our police parties searched for the missing girl in orchads, Coniferous “Deodar” and “Kail” (Pine) are thriving in each along with kitchen gratitude to the Red Cross Gate to Dal Lock Gate. The possible steps are being forests and we went from pillar to post but she could not be different parts of the frontier district of Kupwara and sets, ladies and gents for extending helping hand pedestrian path has been taken to mitigate them in traced,” SHO Pattan said adding that so far police is smugglers are earning with open hands. garments, torches, bed at the hour of crisis. constructed at a cost of Rs phased manner. He said the clueless. 7.50 lakh by the LAWDA. interests of all the affected He further said that there is a quite possibility the girl child Chairperson State Women d a l d w e l l e r s w i l l b e might have slipped to death in a nearby nallah which flows Commission and MLA, safeguarded and they will adjacent to their house. “We are looking for the child and Lauds efforts of women entrepreneurs for promoting state products Habbakadal, Mtr Shamima be rehabilitated properly. hopefully we will trace her,” he said.
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He said that in respect of other picnic spots, prior permission needs to be obtained from concerned Zonal Education Officer and Chief Education Officer in case of the Elementary schools and in respect of High and Higher Secondary Schools. This should be ensured by the head of the Institutions both Government and Private that the excursion and picnics are conducted carefully, leaving no room for any misdemeanour and safe pick-up and return of students. He further said that violation of instruction shall be viewed seriously.
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put on alert, we want to prevent people from any untoward incident that is why the area was cordoned but no one was arrested,” he said.
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yeomen’s role in the economic development of the state, but has been a social crusader as well. Be it education,
Srinagar, June 21: Minister ( S H G s ) o f w o m e n response received by the C e n t r a l a n d S t a t e for Social Welfare, ARI & entrepreneurs from all exhibition and said that Governments have already Trainings, Ms. Sakina Itoo districts have put up their this will give boost to the launched a number of on Friday inspected the 10- stalls on the venue to beneficiaries and help welfare schemes for the day Exhibition-cum-Sale promote their products. them to flourish their upliftment of the women at Sports Ground near Highlighting the aim for business. This is also a step folk for making them Tourist Reception Centre holding such Exhibitions, t o w a r d s t h e w o m e n economically sound. She here. The exhibition has the Minister said that such e m p o w e r m e n t . S h e appealed the women folk been organised by the J&K events provide a platform stressed the need for to come forward and avail S t a t e W o m e n to manufacturers and org anizing more such the benefits of such Development Corporation beneficiaries to sell and events at the block level to s c h e m e s w h i c h a r e (WDC). promote their products create awareness amongst exclusively tailored for The Minister went round directly to the consumers the women folk to attract them. all the stalls set up by the without the help of them to come forward for She also appreciated the women entrepreneurs middlemen. These events establishing their income hard work, dedication and from different parts of the prove so useful and help generating ventures and c o m m i t m e n t o f t h e State and inspected the the beneficiaries to gain availing the benefits of beneficiaries to promote material put on exhibi- confidence for the self- va rious Government their activities and making tion and sale. More than sustenance. She expressed schemes, said the Minister. special place in the society fifty Self Help Groups h a p p i n e s s o v e r t h e The Minister said that for dignified living.
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Governor reviews Yatra arrangements mediately. He said that ration and all other essential commodities be stocked at all the Camps expeditiously. To review the arrangements put in The Governor emphasized the place for Shri Amarnathji Yatra commencneed for greater coordination among all ing on 28th June, N. N. Vohra, Governor, the concerned departments and agencies who is Chairman of the Shri Amarnathji for the smooth conduct of the Yatra and Shrine Board, today visited Sheshnag, ensuring that the Yatris are provided best Chandanwari and Nunwan Camps on the possible facilities. He directed all ofPahalgam route. ficers to ensure that every pilgrim is The Governor, accompatreated with courtesy and provided nied by Navin K. Choudhary, Chief the required guidance and assistance Executive Officer of the Shrine for completing his Yatra without facBoard, inspected the arrangements ing any inconvenience. He reiterated at the Sheshnag and Chandanwari that no Yatri without valid RegistraCamps and held meetings with the tion should be allowed to cross the concerned officers at both these Access Control Gates. Camps. Later, he inspected the arThe Governor stressed on the rangements at the Nunwan Base Camp Directors and Additional Camp Camp and held a high level review Directors to maintain security, cleanmeeting here. liness and effective sanitation within Among those present in their Camp areas and asked them to the review meeting at the Nunmaintain round the clock contact with wan Base Camp included Navin K. the Shrine Board Control Room and Choudhary, Principal Secretary to with the other Camps to ensure that the Governor and CEO, SASB; Viany arising problem is resolved withjay Kumar, DIG Anantnag; Farooq out any delay whatsoever. Ahmad Lone, Deputy CommissionWhile reviewing track status, the er, Anantnag; Ramesh Kumar Jalla, SSP, arrangements and logistics are positioned Governor asked the CEO, Pahalgam DevelAnantnag; Nissar Wani, CEO, Pahalgam well in time before the commencement of opment Authority, to particularly focus on Yatra. He stressed that if Khan required, ad- Agency Development Authority;Lone R. K. News Pandita,Agency GM the Kangan News Ganderbal the difficult stretches on the Chandanwariditional into service (Works), SASB; senior officers the Police GulzarofNews Agency Souramanpower be pressed Zahid Book Depot Chadoora Sheshnag-Panjtarni-Sangam-Holy Cave to complete all tasks immediately. and Security Forces and concerned District Tariq Agency Hawal The Governor directed Bashirthat News Nowhatta axis and gave directions regarding the all Agency and Divisional officers of PDD,News PHE, CAPD, Muzaffar Ali News the Agency Alamgari Newspositioning Agency Lal Chowk Rescue Teams to of Mountain Medical CentresBazar at the Budshah Base Camps PWD (R&B), Health, Forests and Environthe Yatris. and enroute must be made functional ment, Labour, Animal Husbandry theAgency Abdullah and News Lal Chowk SikendarimNewshelp Agency Lal Chowk SRINAGAR, JUNE 21
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lice (Jammu Zone), Rajesh Kumar. During the visit, Prasad convened separate meetings with senior police officers of the respective districts and sought reports about the security scenario in these areas. The concerned officers informed the meeting about the prevailing situation and efforts made by them to keep law and order. They also informed about the deployment made in these areas for surveillance of criminals and anti-national elements to check their activities.
Ban on excursion on students to Pahalgam, Sonamarg SRINAGAR, JUNE 21: According to Joint Director School Education, Kashmir, in view of the ensuing Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra, the heads of Government and Private Educational Institutions are put to strict instructions that they should desist from sending the students on excursion and picnic to Pahalgam and Sonamarg.He said that in respect of other picnic spots, prior permission needs to be obtained from concerned Zonal Education Officer and Chief Education Officer in case of the Elementary schools and in respect of High and Higher Secondary Schools. This should be ensured by the head of the Institutions both Government and Private that the excursion and picnics are conducted carefully, leaving no room for any misdemeanour and safe pick-up and return of students. He further said that violation of instruction shall be viewed seriously.
to achieve good results, coordination among all agencies involved in maintaining law and order is imperative. Urging for better policing, he said that police has to remain vigilant at all times on the activities of anti-social elements, who are bent upon to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere of the state. The DGP reiterated that to achieve good results, co-ordination among all agencies involved in maintaining law and order is imperative. Urging for better policing, he said that police has to remain vigilant
formed that all required arrangements have been made for deployment of man power along the yatra route for the security of pilgrims. The DGP asked for augmenting the security of vital installations and extensive patrolling especially during night hours. The IGP (Jammu Zone), Rajesh Kumar gave a detailed briefing about the security situation in twin districts and the arrangements made for smooth conduct of yatra and inaugural ceremony.
Minister of State for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Mr. Ajaz Ahmed Khan today announced a sports field and a community hall for the benefit of people of village Dharam
today. For this he announced a release of Rs. 10 lacs out of his Constituency Development Fund(CDF). Addressing a public meeting, the Minister also announced Rs. Five lacs each for the panchayats of Kali Masta
and Bhim Dassa. He also assured the people that he would take up recruitment of local youth in Railways with the Railway authorities. Mr. Ajaz said more revenue villages would be added to Gool area making the final
tally from current 18 to 33 villages. He also assured setting up of food store in the area for which he said he would contribute from his CDF. Responding to other local demands, the Minister directed the officers of execut-
North Zone Badminton Championship concludes, Taj distributes prizes BARAMULLA, JUNE 21: The North Zone Badminton Championship concluded today with victory title going to Baramulla Badminton team. 26 teams from all across the State participated in the
tournament. Minister for Medical Education, Youth Services & Sports, Taj Mohi ud Din was
the chief guest on the occasion who distributed prizes among the players. Addressing the gathering on the occasion, the Minister said Government is contemplating construction of indoor stadia in all major towns of
the State to facilitate players who face difficulties in carrying out sports activities during winter months. He said
for the purpose an ambitious plan has been drawn up by the Government. Taj said additionally, the existing sports infrastructure in the State would be further strengthened and many more facilities would be added. He said every Panchayat in the State would have a playfield and every High School has been asked to constitute three teams among students in the disciplines of cricket, hockey and football.The Minister said Baramulla would soon have a Sports Academy to give sports talent in the district a boost. He said an astro turf would also be laid in Baramulla which would upgrade and improve the quality and standards of sports in the district.
Speaker inaugurates Employment Fair 2013 SRINAGAR JUNE 21: The Speaker, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Mubarak Gul today stressed upon the Government functionaries to ensure that benefits of the Centrally Sponsored schemes percolate to the targeted populace.The Speaker was speaking after inaugurating an Employment Fair 2013-14 organized by the District Employment and Counselling Centre, Srinagar at Noorbah in Eidgah Constituency.He asked the concerned authorities to organize more such awareness campaigns in other parts of the State especially in hilly and remote areas, so that benefits of Centrally Sponsored Schemes reach the maximum people. He directed the concerned to organize Mega Employment Fair camp in Eidgah also and Agriculture Awareness camp in the Sangam area of Eidgah Constituency before Eid-ul Fitre. He said that Agriculture Mandi will also be established in Noorbagh area soon.The Speaker said that under Animal, Sheep, Agriculture and Horticulture sectors several schemes have been introduced besides sufficient funds earmarked under these sectors during commencing financial year 2013-14 with an aim to create employment opportunities for the youth of the State. He appealed the people especially youth to come forward and avail benefits under various flagship programmes launched by the Centre and State Government for the upliftment of the weaker sections. Gul said that the government was committed to provide basic amenities to the people of all three regions of State. He said in this regard numerous initiatives have been taken by the Government.The Speaker directed the concerned to gear up their field functionaries and ensure preparation of Kissan Cards and its issuance among the Farmers so that the farmers can get relief of financial assistance. Earlier, the Speaker inspected stalls setup by different departments which include District Employment and Counselling Centre, Srinagar, Sericulture, Khadi and Village Industry Board, sheep, horticulture, floriculture, fisheries, agriculture and other departments.
Teacher training programme held at GMS, Saida Kadal Among others, ZRP, CRP, ZGC and teachers were present on the occasion. District Gender Co-ordinator, Dr. Tabasum
tion of Girls at Elementary Level(NPEGEL) intervention for upliftment of girl education. At the end Head-
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HOROSCOPE Aries
March 21-April 19 Today is an excellent day to say exactly how you feel, Aries. Your thinking is sharp and clear. Once you start talking, you may never stop. People will listen extra carefully to your words. You have a great deal of influence, so realize how much impact you have on the environment. You will be able to accomplish a lot.
Taurus April 20-May 20
You might find that your brain is moving in the slow lane today, Taurus. It may even be creeping over to the breakdown lane. You might find that it’s a bit harder to make your witty rebuttals in conversation. Take your time and make sure you choose your words carefully. Communicating with others might be a bit like pulling teeth.
Gemini May 21-June 21
Words may not be the best way to communicate things today, Gemini. Body language, touch, and taste will be much more effective. You will find that your senses are heightened. Let your feet follow your nose and go enjoy a good meal with someone special tonight
Cancer June 22-July 22
Things may get quite intense today, Cancer. There will be a great deal of information coming your way, but it might not all be that good. It seems that someone is putting a roadblock in your path, making it difficult for you to pass. Don’t let this stop you. Use your creativity to find ways around any obstacles. Experiences like these only make you stronger.
Leo
July 23-August 22 Your head may buzz with activity today, Leo. Suddenly it seems like the spotlight has been turned on. You’re on stage and your brainpower is being tested. Are you up to the challenge? Ready or not, it’s here. Remember the importance of individuality. Don’t be another cookie-cutter replica. Be your own person and think for yourself.
Virgo
August 23-September 22
Middle School (GMS), Saida Kadal Zone Rainawari. Zonal Education Officer, Mohammad Ayub was the chief guest on the occasion.
Ajaz announces community hall, sports field at Dharam, Gool; releases Rs. 20 lac out of CDF GOOL JUNE 21:
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ing agencies like PWD, Railways, BRO to pay the pending compensation pertaining to land/structures to the affected families/land owners without further delay. He also directed that the construction of roads under PMGSY shall be completed within stipulated time period. Later, various deputations met the Minister and brought into his notice several of their demands including Nayabat at Dharam, a high school and upgradation of a local health centre. He issued on the spot directions to the concerned officers for redressal of their demands. Senior officers of district administration were present on the occasion.
highlighted the importance of girl education and threw light on various steps undertaken under National Programme for Educa-
master of the School, Afroza Jan thanked all guests, participants and staff members who made the programme a success.
Ramzan reviews stock position of essential commodities SRINAGAR, JUNE 21:Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution(CA&PD) and Transport, Ch. Mohammad Ramzan Friday reviewed the stock position of essential commodities in the state and its further distribution to the Government ration Ghats and Fair Price Shops at a high level meeting here this morning. The Meeting was attended by Secretary CA&PD, Mohammad Abass, Director CA&PD, Srinagar and Jammu.The Minster directed both the directors of CA&PD to ensure that all the ration card holders shall get ration as per quota every month regularly. He asked them to also ensure that Atta would also be supplied to the card holders as per quota as the
people are complaining of non- availability. Referring the allotment of wheat for grinding to mills, The Minister directed for uniform allotment as per the procedure and stressed that it should be mandatory to all the floor mills that they shall cater their local areas first otherwise a stern action would be taken place against them.Later a deputation of Food and Supplies and Fair Price Shop Dealers Association led by Ajaz Ahmad Khan today called on the Minister for CA&PD. They put forth the charter of demands which includes re-organization of CA&PD department, absorption of Fair Price Shop Owners, regularization daily wagers and redressing of pay anomalies of the employees of the department..
S&T dept organizes Science Teacher Award ceremony at S. P College SRINAGAR JUNE 21: The Minister for Science Technology and Information Technology Feroz Ahmad Khan, presented “J&K Innovative Science and Technology Awards-2012” to 8 Science Teachers belonging to various colleges and schools of the State besides distributing cheques worth Rs 4. 50 lakh as scholarship and certificates among 75 meritorious students of Kashmir Division pursuing science subjects under the scheme for “Development of Human Resources” at an impressive function organized by State Council for Science and Technology here at S. P. College Auditorium today.Speaking on the occasion the Minister said that the objective of the “Development of human resources” being implemented by the Science
and Technology Department aims to provide incentives in the form of scholarships to the students during their academics at post-matric, graduation and post-graduation level, so that they may pursue and continue science subjects. Feroz said that the incentives being provided to the budding students in cash will encourage the students to fully exploit their scientific talent in a more organized manner, adding that this will help the state to produce better scientists and researchers in future.Stressing on the students to concentrate on their education, the Minister said that human resource potential constitutes the main wealth of any nation along with other natural resources. Quoting the example of Japan, the Minister said that
its physical resources are very little and the second world war had shattered the economy of the country to such an extent that no one could have imagined that Country would survive the greatest calamity and today we see Japan as one of the highest per capita income generating country in the world because of competent scientific man power with highly advanced technological and intellectual competence.Giving details of the programmes Joint Director Science and Technology, Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad said that under the scheme 55 meritorious students including 25 each from Jammu and Kashmir provinces besides 5 from Ladakh region who secure 60% and above marks are being provided scholarships of Rs. 300, Rs. 500 and Rs. 700 per month at Post matric.
Focus on the simple pleasures today, Virgo. Don’t feel like you have to go to distant lands or engage in expensive recreational activities to find happiness and peace. Realize that everything you need is inside. Delight in nature. Smile at the Sun, Moon, and stars. Realize that there is beauty all around and not just in expensive objects you can buy.
Libra
September 23-October 23 Focus on your creative mind today, Libra. This is a fertile time to plant seeds that will surely grow up healthy and strong. You have the ability to be prosperous now, but it won’t come easily. The key for you now is to stay cool. Don’t overreact to the little annoyances that come your way. You’re beyond petty squabbles. Don’t waste your time with them.
Scorpio
October 24-November 21 Motivation must come from within today, Scorpio. The only thing that can pull you out of bed is your inner drive. Too much partying may leave you spent to the point where you don’t want to move. Remember to keep things in moderation. Be good to your body. Get outside and let your mind radiate outward like sunshine. Feel the grounding of the Earth beneath your feet.
Sagittarius November 22-December 21
Your mind should be clear today and communications should go extremely well for you, Sagittarius. Very few words will be needed to get your point across. You will connect to people on many levels. Realize that you have important information to share with those around you. Your critical, practical, grounded opinion plays a key role in the activities of the day.
Capricorn December 22-January 19
Strong forces may act up today and ask you to stand up a little straighter than usual, Capricorn. Keep your shoulders back and be proud. Don’t think any less of yourself just because there is disagreement between you and others. Maintain respect for your opinions. Say things with confidence and don’t back down, but be prepared to defend your views.
Aquarius January 20-February 18
Feel free to take the lazy route today, Aquarius. Don’t lift a finger if you don’t have to. It may be hard to get others moving, too. You can prod all you want, but if people don’t want to go, they aren’t going to go. Your flexible nature might be tested. You may find that you need to adapt to the whims of others rather than the other way around.
Pisces
February 19-March 20 Your thinking is steady and reserved today, Pisces. Your mind is right in line with your ego, and you will be able to accurately verbalize what is going on inside. You might be a bit reserved in how much you tell people. It could be that others are holding back information from you. Proceed with caution and be honest in all your dealings.
Editorial/Opinion The Daily
Zabarwan Times Saturday, 22 June 2013
WHY SMS BAN?
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ome Ministry has not till date revoked the ban on SMS service on pre-paid mobile phones in Jammu and Kashmir. The ban was imposed after proper deliberations by the Home ministry with various security agencies when Kashmir was on boil in 2010. While the ban on prepaid SMS services in Jammu and Kashmir evoked agitated reactions from the prepaid distribution network, mobile operators and the people in general, the union home ministry remained firm on its stand on the ban directive. Prepaid services have traditionally been very popular in the Indian market with almost 90% of the subscribers choosing to go prepaid. J&K is no exception to this trend and is estimated to have more than 2 million prepaid cellular subscribers. The government’s apparent raison d’être for this ban was to prevent misuse of prepaid mobile service for carrying out anti-national activities in the J&K region. The general reaction to this seeming tyrannical directive questions the effectiveness of such a ban. Though prepaid is a convenient means to obtain access to communication networks and does have its lacunae in the subscriber verification process, there are numerous other communications means available which can be used as an alternative to prepaid. Take for instance Satellite phones; the 2008 Mumbai attacks were orchestrated and elaborately directed through such satellite phones on which the government does not yet have any ‘lawful interception’ mechanism leave alone a system for jamming/blocking such phones. Now satellite phones can still prove to be an expensive mode of communications, so here is another alternative solution; all one needs to do is buy the prepaid service in another circle say for example in Gujarat or West Bengal and use the service from J&K on national roaming. What if the ban was enforced in JK, the rest of the country can easily source a prepaid connection and roam into JK. And how about this alternative – Just rob a phone from an authenticated consumer of postpaid services and use it for communications. It takes at least 3 to 6 hours before the SIM can be blocked by the service provider owing to the sheer time lag of discovering that your phone is stolen, Hunting for the customer service number, Placing the request for blocking with the customer service and the mobile operator actually blocking the SIM card. Having established that the ban is completely ineffective in serving the purpose of limiting antinational activities, such attempts are alienating the people of J&K and hurting the so called national interest. Not only the residents, but also think about the security forces deployed in J&K. The great emotional stress that troops endure while being stationed thousands of miles away from their family and loved ones will only get multiplied by non-availability of such communication facilities. What we have at hand is a clear case of cause and effect being mixed up by the union home ministry. The real cause of the problem at hand is way away from prepaid mobile services. The root cause is the porous border with Pakistan, socio-economic disparity and flawed politics which leads to alienation of the people. Nationalism cannot be forced upon the people of a democratic republic; only effective governance and economic alleviation supported by quality infrastructure can create a sense belongingness and national pride. Home Ministry in the garb of security check has only added to the misery of the people of Kashmir. Long queues of people can be seen waiting outside the mobile phone outlets. In the process their time is being wasted for no rhyme or reason. This is a torture inflicted on the innocent people of Jammu and Kashmir.
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ICE Core and Lakes in Antarctica T
he Antarctic Continent is the fluctuations in temperature. The of India (GSI), drilling program in sea shore. The lakes thus do not have rich coldest region on the earth. Most Processing facility has been setup in - Antarctica has progressed well. Cores of flora and fauna, but their study helps to of the land here is buried 15˚C room fitted with specialized 65 m, 75m and 55 m have been retrieved unravel marine influence at some point of underneath masses of ice and snow. pinewood and SS work tables. For sub- from the continental ice and ice shelf time. Indian scientists are studying the ice core sampling and slicing the ice cores for respectively. Additionally, in order to Antarctic continent along with its to unravel history of geographical various analytical measurements, obtain information on the modern surrounding ocean influences the climate features of the continent and to learn custom-made precision band-saw- environmental signatures in the Antarctic not just in the high latitudes but across various aspects of climate change due to machines have been fitted on top of the snow, large number of surface snow the entire planet. The Polar Regions are environmental variations, volcanic work tables. In order to remove the samples are collected and studied. The the first to be affected by changes in activity, signs of life etc. Two main contaminants from the ice core surface, major ion analysis of the ice core from climate, both in terms of rapidity and studies being done are Ice Core Study and microtome blades are used to remove the DML region in Antarctica has revealed intensity. Among the various proxies that Lake’s Study. outer layers. Further processing and clean the existence of several volcanic events. archive the information on palaeoclimate, Ice Core Studies chemistry analyses are done in a dedi- Few are known such as Krakatau (1883), the Antarctic lake sediments play a Locked up in its ice sheet at Antarctic is a cated Class 100 Clean room facility. Tambora (1815), and Huaynaputina pivotal role in palaeoclimate investigarecord of the history of life and environ- Some of the analytical instrumentation (1600) eruptions but the eruption of tions. The sediment cores retrieved from ment for the last several hundreds to facilities available at the Ice Core (1809) is unknown. Agung (1963) and t h e l a k e s h a v e b e e n u s e d f o r thousands of years. Ice cores recovered Laboratory include are - A Quadrupole Krakatau (1883) eruptions have har- sedimentological, mineralogical, from polar ice sheets in general offers the geochemical and biological studies to best possibility of reconstructing the past decipher the climatic changes that have Antarctic continent along with its atmospheric composition. Several ice occurred in the immediate past in cores have been drilled from the ice sheets Antarctica at different timescale. surrounding ocean influences the climate covering Greenland and Antarctica over A preliminary bathymetric map, estimathe years. Records of past volcanic tion of the distribution, thickness and eruptions and accumulation rates of ice, stratigraphy of the sediments underlying not just in the high latitudes but across climatic and environmental changes, the lake etc., were obtained to aid in atmospheric and nuclear fallout, and solar the suitable coring sites and the entire planet. The Polar Regions are the locating and terrestrial variability for several conducting the overall basin analysis. thousands of years have been derived Acoustic techniques such as echo from ice cores. Considering potential of sounding for the depth variation in first to be affected by changes in climate, ice core for environmental and the lack of Priyadarshini Lake have revealed a data from the DML, India has made its maximum depth of 5.9m in the northboth in terms of rapidity and intensity. foray into Antarctic ice core research by eastern part of surveyed area of lake. Lake carrying out shallow drilling. sediment studies on the samples collected Ice Core Laboratory Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass boured microbial cells, which suggests from marginal Antarctic lake in the The Ice Core Laboratory set up at Spectrometer (ICP-MS) facility equipped that volcanic ash particles could provide a Vestfold Hills of eastern Antarctic region National Centre for Antarctic and with an XII Series Thermo ICP-MS with significant micro-niche for microbes and have shown that both agglutinated and Oceanography Research (NCAOR) for collision cell technology (CCT) facility nanobes in the accreted ice. High- calcareous types of foraminifera tests are the exclusive archival, processing and for high-sensitivity, ultra-trace elemental resolution (sampling resolution: 9 present in the 24 cm long sediment core. analysis of ice cores, is the first of its kind studies; Ion Chromatograph facility samples in year) studies on the stable The presence of the foraminifera and grain in the whole country and was dedicated to equipped with a modular, reagent-free isotopes of Oxygen and Hydrogen from size variation in low shelf water body the Nation in January 2005. The major Ion Chromatograph integrated with an ice core (IND-25/B5) recovered from clearly reflect marine influence in the form facilities established at the Ice Core electrochemical suppressors for analyz- the DML were used to understand of periodic marine incursions that must Laboratory include: Archival facilities, ing trace level impurities of major ions in environmental variations in this region. have acted to change faunal composition in Processing facilities and Analytical the ice cores; Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Results from the study have been the past. As a part of multidisciplinary facilities. The Archival facility consists of Spectrometer (IRMS) facility equipped published in national and international collaborative work on palaeoclimate, five two large freezer rooms with tempera- with a GV Isoprime system for high journals and presented at various sediment cores have been subjected to tures of -20˚C for scientific archival of ice sensitivity analysis of the stable isotopes conferences. various investigations. Core logging, grain cores obtained from Antarctica. In these in dual inlet and continuous mode. In Antarctic Lake Studies size analyses, mineral magnetic observarooms, high grade Stainless Steel storage addition to the above, the laboratory also The chilling temperature, lack of tions, geochemistry, sedimentological and racks have been fabricated for properly has various analytical facilities like sunlight, little rainfall, inferior soil AMS dates (32,655 years BP) of the cores stacking ice core storage cases. Ice cores Electrical Conductivity Measurement quality and lack of moisture account for have yielded significant results. are stored in custom-made highly (ECM) facility, ultra-pure water purifica- scanty flora and fauna in lakes of Multiproxy biological data (pollen, insulative storage cases made of tion system, acid purification system, to Antarctica. But fur seals, blue whales, diatom, other alga) generated from Expanded Poly Propylene (EPP) to name a few. Under a collaborative project orcas and penguins are found on the sediments has been used for paleoclimatic protect the ice cores from transient between NCAOR and Geological Survey periphery of the so called land mass near reconstruction over polar region.
Tagore-The Poet, Songwriter, Philosopher, Artist and Educator R
abindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj. Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta into a wealthy and prominent family. His grandfather had established a huge financial empire for himself. Tagore received his early education first from tutors and then at a variety of schools. Among them were Bengal Academy where he studied history and culture. and then University College, London, where he studied law but left a year later for unlikeness of the weather. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with people and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage, and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]. The English renderings of his poetry, include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921), Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), became the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake. Tagore’s reputation as a writer was established in the United States and in England after the publication
of Gitanjali: Song Offerings, about divine and human love. The poems were translated into English by the author himself. Tagore’s major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar (1912) [ The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders]. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents]. Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in
1900 he wrote seven volumes of poetry, Indian Literature. ‘Punishment’, a much including Sonar TarI (The Golden Boat), anthologized work, was set in a rural 1894 and Khanika, 1900 and Nashtanir, village. It describes the oppression of (The Broken Nest) 1901, published first women through the tragedy of the lowserially. This was a highly productive caste Rui family. His major theme was period in Tagore’s life, and earned him the humanity’s search for God and truth. rather misleading epitaph ‘The Bengali Between 1916 and 1941, Tagore published Shelley.’ The Greatest writer in modern 21 collections of songs and poems and held Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist and lecture tours across Europe, America, an early advocate of Independence for China, Japan and Indonesia. In 1924, he India, Tagaore won the Nobel Prize for inaugurated the Viswa Bharati University Literature in 1913 for his collection of at Santiniketan, an All India Centre for well-known poems Gitanjali (Song culture. Tagore was keenly aware of Offerings). Two years later he was awarded India’s socio-political condition under the knighthood, but he surrendered it in British rule. He supported the Swadeshi 1919 as a protest against the massacre in movement and had been deeply influenced Amritsar. Tagore’s influence over Gandhi by the religious renaissance of 19th century and the founders of modern India was India. Tragically, between 1902 and 1907, Tagore lost his wife, son and daughter. But out of his pain emerged some of his most Tagore had early success as a writer in his tender work, including Gitanjali, published in 1910. Tagore remained a true patriot, native Bengal. With translations of some of supporting the national movement and writing the lyrics of the “Jana Gana Mana”, his poems he became rapidly known in the which is India’s national anthem. Tagore’s works are classics, renowned for their West. In fact his fame attained luminous lyrical beauty and spiritual poignancy. He is remembered for his literary genius and height, taking him across continents on Santiniketan remains a flourishing institute. In Tagore’s own words, “The lecture tours and tours of friendship. world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music”. His profound symbol1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings enormous, but his reputation in the West as ism, abetted by the free-flowing nature of and paintings, and songs for which he a mystic has perhaps mislead his Western his verse, creates a universe of haunting wrote the music himself. readers to ignore his role as a reformer and beauty that expresses God’s infinite love A dedicated educator, Tagore established a critic of colonialism. At the age of 70 and humanity’s deep compassion for all school (1901) in his estate, Santiniketan, in Tagore took up painting. He was also a things beautiful. Known as “Gurudev,” poet Bengal, to teach a blend of Eastern and composer, settings hundreds of poems to Rabindranath Tagore was a proud inheritor Western philosophies. In 1921 his school music. Many of his poems are actually of India’s spiritual heritage, to which he gave was expanded into an international songs, and inseparable from their music. voice in his inimitable language. He was one university, Visva-Bharati. He also traveled Tagore’s ‘Our Golden Bengal’ became the of our noblest patriots and was always keen and lectured throughout the world. Visva- national anthem of Bangladesh. His to promote the welfare of his countrymen, Bharati, which was dedicated to emerging written production, still not completely educationally, economically and politically. Western and Indian philosophy and collected, fills nearly 30 substantial He was a colossus who made an outstanding education became a university in 1921. volumes. Tagore remained a well-known contribution to the development of painting, In 1890 Tagore moved to East Bengal (now and popular author in the West until the end music, dance and drama. He triumphantly toured many countries of the world carrying Bangladesh), where he collected local of the 1920s. legends and folklore. Between 1893 and Tagore’s short stories influenced deeply the message of renascent India.
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Hookah smoking as bad as cigarettes
Hookah smoking as bad as cigarettes for lungs (Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images) Water pipe smoking, such as hookah or bong smoking, affects lung function and respiratory symptoms as much as cigarette smoking, a new study has revealed. Most users of water pipes and many physicians believe that smoking through a water pipe filters out the toxic components of tobacco and is considerably less harmful than smoking cigarettes. Led by Mohammad Hossein Boskabady, MD, PhD, of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, researchers set out to compare lung function and respiratory symptoms among water pipe smokers, deep or normal inhalation cigarette smokers, and non-smokers. Three groups of smokers, including 57 water pipe smokers, 30 deep inhalation cigarette smokers (S-DI), and 51 normal inhalation cigarette smokers (S-NI) were identified and studied. In addition, 44 non-smokers were studied as a control group. A questionnaire was administered to as-
sess the prevalence and severity of respiratory symptoms and lung function tests performed on smokers and control subjects using a spirometer. Results showed an increased prevalence and severity of respiratory symptoms among water pipe smokers and cigarette smokers. Similar effects of water pipe smoking and deep inhalation cigarette smoking on respiratory status were found. "Our study is the first report regarding the importance of the method of cigarette smoke inhalation with respect to effects on the respiratory system," Boskabady said. "Our findings reveal that there were profound effects of water pipe smoking on lung function values, which were similar to the effects observed in deep inhalation cigarette smokers," he concluded.
Excessive water in your system can dilute your body fluids so much that the sodium levels become life-threateningly low. Water may be the elixir of life, but it sure can send your health into a tailspin, even endanger your life, if you drink too much of it. While packaged water, juice and cola companies hardsell their thirst-quenchers to you through TV and print advertisements, the truth is that drinking too much water can do you more harm than good. Due to excessive water consumption, people have died of over-hydration, which goes by the name of ExerciseAssociated Hyponatraemia (EAH). In simple terms, it means that you have drank too much water and the excess has diluted your body fluids so much that the sodium levels have become life-threateningly low, causing cells to swell. That includes brain cells leading to loss of consciousness, seizures and even coma and death. For long-distance runners, this can be a particular hazard. With half-marathons and marathons being all the rage, runners while practicing must resist the temptation to tank themselves up with too much water.Water intoxication is always on the cards if you believe you have to 'stay ahead of thirst' by drinking excessive quantities of fluids.
Alcohol addiction:
Are you an alcohol addict? Countless families, no matter their social status, suffer immensely when their husbands, sons, daughters or wives binge on alcohol. These families suffer silently as booze rules the lives of their loved ones, but let's not confuse alcohol with occasional drinking. In 2009, as per government statistics, approximately 14 million Indians were addicted to alcohol, by which we mean 14 million Indians were dependent on alcohol. But there are ways to spot if your loved one is going to turn into an alcohol addict; it is time to nip it in the bud and save the family.
What is alcohol addiction?
With a spurt of bars and nightclubs offering alcohol, youngsters are more prone to alcohol addiction... or so common perception goes. But does this mean that addiction to alcohol is only a phenomenon of the 21st century? We think not. The importance to be socially accepted, or the need to alter reality are not new emotions in this world. So what is alcohol addiction? 'Alcohol dependence is a psychiatric diagnosis (a substance related disorder DSM-IV) describing an entity in which an individual is addicted to alcohol either physically or mentally, and continues to use alcohol despite significant areas of dysfunction, evidence of physical dependence, and/or related hardship.' Essentially, if you break the official description down, alcohol addiction can be read as the feeling that your life revolves around alcohol, you consume it in large amounts - often in settings that aren't alcohol related, like breakfast, work or your child's play date - and you are not worried about it affecting your life adversely. Often alcohol addicts experience extreme weight gain or weight loss, and several other health issues.
What are the signs of alcohol addiction?
The major reason why we start drinking is to de-stress. When we are tired and worked up, we have a drink to calm our nerves and relax. But this could turn into an addic-
tion before you know it, especially if you don't find any other outlet for your stress or emotional mood swings. The feeling of being drunk is momentarily priceless but the effects on health and your system are dire. Some more signs include, getting into trouble due to alcohol like getting arrested for drunk driving, your performance at work suffers and your relationship with loved ones is drastically altered. If you wake up and crave for a drink, you're abusing alcohol. When you have alcohol to get over a hangover, you're abusing alcohol. If you are trying to quit, but can't, you're abusing alcohol. If moderate drinking isn't working for you, and if two drinks always lead to 20, then it's time to seek professional help, or an intervention.
So how does one quit alcohol?
Weigh the pros and cons of drinking; are you happy to be an alcoholic? Do you receive enough love? Are people around you happy? Do you have any savings in the bank? Next step, if moderation isn't working, then make a commitment to completely give up alcohol. Prepare realistic aims to follow and be ready for the withdrawal symptoms. If all efforts fail, India has several rehab centers for substance abuse victims. Anonymity is the essence at these centers, there are regular checks and the plan seems foolproof, but the onus is on you. A lot of effort has to come from the alcoholic's part. Withdrawal symptoms of alcohol addiction
Just like other addictions, when you stop drinking, you will experience certain symptoms. The common signs are:
- Trembling hands - Restlessness - Anxiety - Headaches and trouble concentrating - Blood pressure increases - Heart beats faster - Disorientation - Vomiting Several studies suggest that physical engagement in sports, exercise, and he althy e ating purs uits he lp fight alcohol addiction. The he althie r your m e als are , the le s s like ly is it that your blood s ugar le ve ls w ill fluc tuate and s e t in alcohol crav ings . S o, e xam ine your life s tyle and re ctify harm ful patte rns like late nights , lack of e xe rcis e and unhe althy binge e ating. Enlis t s upport from fam ily and frie nds , and re place the tim e s pe nt w ith alcohol w ith hap pie r and he althie r activities. However, if you suffer from a serious over-use addiction, then you must consult a healthcare provider immediately.
To do so is entirely un-physiological. Drinking more water than you need increases your total blood volume and also pressures you kidneys into working overtime so as to filter excess water out of your circulatory system. It is, however, incredibly rare for someone to die of dehydration in a temperate climate, not even sportsmen who sweat a great deal. The right way to drink water is on your TV screen. When Tennis legends Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal play five gruelling sets of tennis in the baking sun, sweating profusely, how do they drink? They sip. They may sip at every end change, but they certainly don't gulp. While exercising, you should balance how much water you drink to how much you are sweating out. All runners should know that over-consumption of fluids, whether it's water or sports drinks, can be fatal. EAH due to excessive hydration has caused at least a dozen deaths worldwide and there have been more than 1,600 documented cases of it around the globe. The International Marathon Medical Directors Association advocates 'drinking to thirst' and no more. That means 0.03 litres per kilogram. So, for a 100 kg person that's a maximum of three litres. The average man is around 70 kgs. Work out the math. Five rea-
sons to kick the cola 1. You will flash a prettier smile. The sugar and acid in soft drinks dissolves tooth enamel while the colouring in darker fizzy drinks leaves dark stains on teeth. 2. You will reduce your risk of heart disease. The high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in many soft drinks increases the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes. 3. You will reduce your risk of osteoporosis. The phosphoric acid found in soft drinks can
loosen a tight bolt, eat away metal, and leach calcium from the bones. 4. You will reduce your risk of diabetes. The connection between excess sugar consumption and type 2 diabetes is well-known. 5. You will stabilise blood sugar and energy levels. Simple sugars, the most harmful of which are HFCS, are carbs that cause a rapid energy spike followed by a sudden plummet. Adding caffeine, a cola essential, intensifies this rollercoaster effect.
Fitness facts all women must know Not finding the time for fitness due to household chores and grocery shopping? To ward away hazardous ailments and keep yourself toned, it is important to adhere to a set fitness regime. Many Indian women, particularly after reaching a certain age, feel that good looks do not matter much. However, the discussion here is not about good looks but of health. A fitness routine is as important for older women as it is for a teenager or a young girl. Regular physical activity will not only help you tackle weightrelated issues but will also enable you to prevent conditions associated with weight gain, like rheumatoid arthritis and varicose veins. Still not motivated enough? Here's a list of some important fitness facts for women that will help you to get moving. Avoid obesity: With the dangerous bulging obesity ratios in India, recent statistics revealed that almost one in six women in the country are overweight and are in dire need to trim for avoiding health hazards associated with obesity. This is due to the increased adoption of sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy eating habits. 30 minutes a day: Your fitness level can be improved by merely adding a few minutes of movement into your daily routine. According to fitness experts; just 30 minute workout for 5 days a week is sufficient to overcome the adverse effects of inactivity and sedentary lifestyle. You can also incorporate minor changes in your daily lifestyle like taking the stairs instead of the lift, parking the car in the last row of the parking lot and walking briskly for a few minutes between your parked car and your office. The importance of de-stressing:
Women are more prone to stress and pressure as compared to men and this, in turn, leads to various health issues. Work on basic relaxation and breathing techniques whenever you can - even while performing your regular chores. Muscle and joint pain: Be careful not to neglect any kind of muscle tightness or joint pains as everything in your body are interlinked with each other. Overlooking such fitness factors may affect the proper functioning of other body joints and muscles as well. Hence, ensure that you address such issues at the earliest. Cardio and weight training: The ideal fitness program for women should include exercises that increase their muscle tone and elevate their heart rate. A continuous, repetitive aerobic workout plan that affects all the large muscle groups in their body is the best option, when coupled with adequate strength training to retain
and develop bone density. Consistency: To see any form of measurable changes in your fitness levels, you should continue your workout and fitness program for a minimum of 12-13 weeks. Health expert consultation: Adding small amounts of physical activity to one's daily routine is sufficient to improve daily function in women suffering from heart ailments or arthritic conditions. However, it is advisable to consult a doctor before embarking any exercise program. This is particularly important if you have been physically inactive for a long period, if you are pregnant or if you have health problems. Frequently monitor your body weight to ensure that you do not cross the limit for your height and age. Also, have a monthly health-check done and refer to your doctor or physician in case of any major deviations.
Green coffee beans can make you thin Scientists today reported striking new evidence that green, or unroasted, coffee beans can produce a substantial decrease in body weight in a relatively short period of time. In the study Joe Vinson's team described how a group of overweight or obese people who consumed a few milligrams of ground green coffee beans each day lost about 10 per cent of their weight. "Based on our results, taking multiple capsules of green coffee extract a day - while eating a low-fat, healthful diet and exercising regularly - appears to be a safe, effective, inexpensive way to lose weight," said Vinson, who is with the University of Scranton. The study involved 16 overweight or obese people aged 22-26 years who took capsules of the extract or capsules containing a placebo, an inactive powder, for a total of 22 weeks. The subjects alternated between a low dose and a higher dose of the extract. The low dose consisted of 700mg of the coffee extract, and the high dose was 1,050mg. It was a
so-called "crossover" study in which people cycled through the two doses and the placebo, each for six weeks. Such studies have advantages because each person serves as his or her own "control," improving the chances of getting an accurate result. All of the participants were monitored for their overall diet (calories, food eaten, etc.) and exercise over the study period. "Their calories, carbohydrates, fats and protein intake did not change during the study, nor did their exercise regimen change," Vinson said. Participants lost an average of 7 kilos during the 22 weeks of the study. It included an average of a 10.5 per cent decrease in overall body weight and a 16 per cent decrease in body fat. Vinson noted that weight loss might have been significantly faster, except that participants received the placebo and the lower dose of green coffee extract for part of the study period.
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Flood fury: Sushilkumar Shinde to visit Uttarakhand tomorrow
Dehradun: As massive rescue operations are underway in Uttarakhand, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde will visit the flood-hit state on Saturday. Speaking to reporters today, Shinde confirmed that 207 people have died and the toll could rise further. “We have evacuated more than 34,000 people, some 49,000-50,000 people are still stranded there,” Shinde told reporters here after a meeting with members of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). The Home Minister also assured that all efforts are being made to rescue stranded people in Uttarakhand. A total of 33,192 people, stranded due to floods in Uttarakhand, were rescued in the ongoing mammoth multi-agency rescue and relief operation even as thousands are still trapped or missing in the hills. Almost everyone from the worst hit Kedarnath town has been rescued. Today, the focus of the rescue efforts will be on Gaurikund and Rambara - more than 5,000 people are believed to be trapped in this narrow valley. The NDRF team reached Rambada today morning.
According to the Home Ministry statement, a total of 50,422 pilgrims were still stranded at various places. Also, over 13,000 people are said to be missing. The search, rescue and relief operations are being carried out with the help of helicopters and personnel from Army, Air Force, NDRF, the Sashastra Sena Bal and Uttarakhand government. The Defence Ministry said that
the Army had deployed 8,100 soldiers, including medical teams, engineer task forces and signal detachment. Ten specialised mountaineering teams of the Army were also pressed into service in the Kedarnath-Soumang area. The official death toll still stood at 207 but Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said the casualties could run into several hundreds which will be known only when
Uttarakhand floods: Sonia asks all Cong MPs, MLAs to donate 1 month salary
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday directed all party MPs and MLAs to donate their one month salary for relief work in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand as the magnitude of the flash flood tragedy continued to unfold taking the death toll in the rain fury to 207.Gandhi also directed all party MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to give Rs 10 lakh each from their MPLAD fund for carrying out relief work there,” party’s communication department incharge Ajay Maken told PTI. Congress has currently 203 members in the Lok Sabha and 72 in Rajya Sabha. The party has also set up a PCC control room at Dehradun
to accelerate the relief work. AICC Secretary Sanjay Kapoor and the party’s wing Seva Dal’s chief Mahendra Joshi have been sent to Dehradun to monitor the work. Uttarakhand floods: Sonia asks all Cong MPs, MLAs to donate 1 month salary “All PCC chiefs are being asked to send all the relief materials from their states to Uttarakhand immediately,”
DU admission: St. Stephen’s sets steep 98 per cent cutoff
Maken said. Terming it as the “worst tragedy of the millennium”, Agriculture Minister of Uttarakhand government Harak Singh Rawat said, “It will take us at least five years to recover from the extensive damages caused to the entire infrastructure network in the Kedarnath area which is the worst affected.”Rawat, who had visited the Kedarnath area, said that he spent five hours there and was shocked to see the extent of the damage caused to the buildings and area adjoining the shrine. Operations to rescue over 9000 stranded in Kedarnath and Badrinath were stepped up with deployment of 40 helicopters.
BJP should not project leaders who can’t expand alliance: Nitish Kumar
areas become accessible and water recedes. ITBP chief Ajay Chadha, whose 1,000 men are involved in relief work in Uttarakhand, told reporters in Delhi that the worst affected Kedarnath temple area has been evacuated of people and there could still be about 400-500 people in the upper reaches. He said Army will launch operations today to bring these people down.
The Tamil Nadu chief minister said in order to provide safe drinking water at cheap rates on behalf of state transport corporations, Amma Mineral Water plants will be set up state wide. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday announced that state transport corporations will set up mineral water plants and sell bottled water at Rs10 per litre. In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa said: “In order to provide safe drinking water at cheap rates on behalf of state transport corporations, Amma Mineral Water plants will be set up state wide.” She said the first plant will be set up at Gummundipoondi on the outskirts of the state capital with a capacity of three lakh litres per day. This plant is expected to start operations September 15. According to Jayalalithaa the bottled water will be sold in long-distance buses and at bus stands. She said the transport corporations will sell a bottle of water at Rs10 while the Railways and private players have priced their water
Dismissing charges of being an opportunist and of betraying the BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said JD(U) quit NDA as the saffron party did not keep its word about putting on hold contentious issues and not projecting leaders who cannot expand the coalition. “We did not betray the BJP. Charges that I am an opportunist are baseless. We joined NDA only after assurance that contentious issues like Ram temple, non-imposition of Article 370 and Uniform Civil Code will be put on hold,” Kumar said in an interview to a TV channel. Kumar maintained that JD(U) had made it clear to BJP that it should not project leaders “who cannot expand the alliance”. “In Bihar, we had asked BJP to keep external factors out,” he added. Without naming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, whose appointment as head of BJP’s Election Campaign Committee had triggered JD(U)’s move to walk out of the NDA, Kumar said the “atmospherics” created around elevation raises several questions. “We had conveyed our appre-
In an embarrassment to SP government in Uttar Pradesh, a ruling party MLA on Friday alleged that corruption during Akhilesh Yadav regime has surpassed the record set during Mayawati’s tenure. Attacking the government for the second time this week, Mohammad Rizvi, MLA from Sikandarpur in Ballia district, said, “Officers posted at fifth floor (of CM’s secretariat) are not listening to MLAs’ grievances and are misleading the chief minister. “Akhilesh has failed to keep a check on them and they are even not paying heed to his directions,” Rizvi told the reporters. Rizvi said corruption was rampant in the present government “and it has broken all records...even corruption during Mayawati’s regime. “ He alleged that the chief minister lacked “will power and sternness” to run his government, saying this can
spread corruption”. “In the past too you have used language unbecoming of an educated man against your political rivals. Here we are talking of a lady who has neither responded to your abusive campaign nor has herself indulged in any such malicious campaign. “While you are free to take a political stand against individuals and policies, kindly refrain from such personal attacks which reduce politics to a cheap gimmick,” the letter said. In his letter, Khera mentioned about the “campaign on the auto-rickshaw” against the government and said it did not reflect a “dignified” political culture. A section of the autorickshaw drivers have been putting advertisements and posters against the government on their auto rickshaws. “I do not wish to question the cultural background of those behind these posters but since it carries your picture and your party’s logo, I think you should intervene to stop such
Kumar said, taking a dig at Modi under whose chief ministership some big business houses have prospered in Gujarat. He praised Vajpayee for carrying all allies together. Kumar firmly said JD(U) has always been opposed to Hindutva. He ruled out having any ambitions of becoming the Prime Minister.Kumar further said that tie-ups are likely before the Lok Sabha polls as this is the era of coalitions. He also maintained that elections are still a long way off.
botch political prospects of party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav in becoming the Prime Minister. The MLA also advised two ministers - Ambika Chowdhury and Ram Govind Chowdhury - from the district to hold a review meeting with party leaders to know the ground reality. Corruption at its peak during Akhilesh govt, says SP MLA “If workers are not heard, how will they work for the party,” he asked. Revenue Minister Ambika Chowdhury, when asked about the MLA’s charge, said he had always heard whatever matter Rizvi had brought to his notice and added that charges of rise in corruption in the present regime were “baseless”. Earlier this week, the MLA had claimed that corruption was rampant in the Ballia district and BSP workers were getting their work done by paying bribe to the government officials.
bottles at Rs15 and Rs20 per litre respectively. According to Jayalalithaa, her government has opened Amma Canteens at several places in the state which sell food items at cheap rates. Recently the government opened vegetable shops supplying produce cheaper than at other places. There are 31 such shops in the state capital and its suburbs, she said.
Disproportionate assets case: Jagan Reddy’s judicial custody ends toda
Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s judicial custody ends on Friday and he will be produced before a Hyderabad court. Jagan was lodged in Chanchalguda jail since his arrest by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on corruption charges in May last year. All the other accused in that case will also be produced before the court. The ED had on May 31 frozen fixed deposits worth more than Rs 34 crore of a media firm owned by Reddy in connection with the money laundering probe against him and others. With this fourth attachment order, the agency has attached more than Rs 300 crore worth of assets and properties belonging to Jagan and others in the disproportionate assets case being probed jointly by the ED and CBI.The fixed deposits with a total value of Rs 34.66 crore, which had been termed in the order as “proceeds of crime”, are in the Jubilee Hill branch of Oriental Bank of Commerce in Hyderabad in the name of Jagati Publications Limited, a firm owned by the Member of Parliament (MP) from Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh.
Stop personal attacks on CM: Sheila Dikshit’s adviser to Kejriwal
With Arvind Kejriwal starting an aggressive campaign against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on a host of issues, her political adviser has asked the Aam Admi Party leader to refrain from making personal attacks which reduce politics to a “cheap gimmick”. In a strongly worded letter to Kejriwal, Pawan Khera asked him not to use language “unbecoming of an educated man” while stating that the AAP leader was free to take a political stand against individuals and policies. Kejriwal has already announced that he will contest against Dikshit in her New Delhi constituency in the Assembly polls slated for November this year. The AAP leader had also said that if she decides to contest from another seat, then he will also contest from there. The AAP leader has been attacking Dikshit for steep rise in power tariff in the last two years and had accused her of siding with the private power distribution companies, besides targeting the Delhi government for “wide-
hensions to the BJP. We had told BJP not to name a leader without consulting allies. The new BJP model cannot carry everyone along. BJP has deviated and taken a different position,” Kumar said. Debunking the Gujarat model, the Bihar Chief Minister said one model cannot work for entire India. “There are different growth models for different states. We developed Bihar which was underdeveloped. Growth should not be of corporates but of underprivileged,”
Corruption at its peak during Akhilesh govt says SP MLA Ballia
Soon, drink Amma Mineral Water in Tamil Nadu buses, courtesy Jayalalithaa
The cutoff for the four-year undergraduate economics (with commerce background) programme in Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College this year is a staggering 98 per cent, according to the figures college released here on Friday. On an average, there is a minimum one per cent rise in the cutoff percentage to 95 per cent for almost all the courses offered by the college. “The cutoff is determined on the basis of the marks of the applicants. This time, the board results have been good. Thus, the cutoff is also high,” St. Stephen’s spokesperson Karen Gabriel told IANS. At 94 per cent, the cutoff for the four-year undergraduate mathematics course for general category students is almost three per cent higher than last year. For undergraduate programmes in English and History, the rise in the cutoff is 0.5-1 per cent higher than last year at 95.25 per cent and 94.5 per cent. Similarly, the cutoff for subjects like physics and chemistry is at 96 per cent for general category students. The only subject for which there has been no change in the cutoff is Sanskrit, which remains at 65 per cent. The college gives 85 per cent weightage to the marks scored by aspirants in their Class 12 exams. Those who make it to the cutoff list are then called for an interview, which carries 15 per cent weightage in the admission process.
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campaign, since you have all along claimed to be a representative of civil society,” Khera wrote in the letter. “I understand you are new to Delhi and you still stay outside the city. I do not blame you for a lack of understanding of either the issues or the culture of the city. It becomes my duty to educate you about the political culture of Delhi. Not abusing each other does not make us friends. We can continue to be rivals even with grace,” it said.
The Delhi High Court had yesterday stayed the city government’s recent move prohibiting auto drivers from putting advertisements and posters on their auto rickshaws.Accusing Kejriwal of disrespecting Dikshit, Khera said her contribution towards the development of the city cannot be undermined by “novices”.“We have been fighting to ensure respect for women in society. But if a political party - which you claim you are - stoops so low as to show disrespect to a lady leader, what can be expected of its conduct towards women in society at large?” he asked.“I am sure such campaigns are not your brain child as I have dealt with other IIT graduates and IRS officers and found their conduct extremely civilised. In case you have been ill advised by some of your new friends, please ensure that your group refrains from indulging in such an undignified campaign. Kindly ensure immediate removal of these posters to help maintain a clean political culture,” he said.
Jagan was lodged in Chanchalguda jail since his arrest by CBI on corruption charges in May last year. An ED attachment, under the criminal provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), is an action meant to deprive the accused of properties sourced out of illegal means or through proceeds of crime. The order, slapped by the investigating officer of the case, can be challenged at the Appellate authority of PMLA within 180 days of issuance. As per the May 31 order, the ED
had identified the attached FDs as “proceeds of crime”. A few other similar attachment orders, under money laundering laws and based on the CBI FIR registered in this case, will also be issued soon, sources had said. The agency had earlier issued three separate attachment orders of Rs 51 crore, Rs 71 crore and Rs 143.74 crore in this case. Jagan had been in jail for a year now and the Supreme Court recently rejected his bail plea in the disproportionate assets case being probed by the two agencies.
10 crushed to death after three-storey building collapses in Thane
At least 10 people, including two children, were killed after a threestorey building collapsed in Mumbra in Thane district early on Friday-- the second such accident in the town in two months.The incident occurred around 2 a.m. when the 35-year-old Shakuntala building came crashing down, catching the sleeping occupants unawares, an official of Police Control Room in Thane said. A three-month-old infant and a seven-year-old boy were among the seven people crushed to death, while 22 people were rescued till daybreak, the official added. At least seven people, including members of a family, are still believed to be trapped under the rubble. The rescue operations are underway in full swing. According to some reports, the
residents of the building had been served an eviction notice some time ago by the civic authorities but they did not pay any heed to it. The injured have been rushed to hospitals in Kalwa town and Thane city for treatment. Mumbra is about 40 km from Mumbai. Mumbra Mayor Harishchandra Patil said the civic body would soon make arrangements to shift people living in dilapidated and dangerous buildings to new rental houses which have been made available. “We are finalising the rent, which may be around Rs.1,500, to be charged from the occupants so that they can be shifted there from dangerous structures,” Patil told media persons from the scene of the tragedy.
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