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Anil Goswami appointed home secretary New Delhi, June 29: Anil Goswami, a 1978 batch IAS officer of the Jammu and Kashmir cadre, will Sunday take over as the new home secretary, officials said. Goswami will take charge from R.K. Singh, who is retiring. Goswami was appointed Officer on Special Duty in the Ministry of Home Affairs in April after his name was cleared by the appointments committee of cabinet as the new home secretary. His tenure will be for two years. Goswami was posted as secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, before his appointment as home secretary. Officials said he had served in the home ministry earlier in the foreigners cell. They said Goswami had also served in the home department in Jammu and Kashmir and had experience of dealing with militancy.
Man sets son on fire, attempts suicide Srinagar, June 29: A fatherson duo suffered severe burn injuries after the man allegedly set himself and the child on fire in Baramulla district of north Kashmir. Parvez Ahmad Dar set himself and his five-year-old son, Sahil, ablaze after sprinkling kerosene at their house in Dooru village of Tangmarg, 45 kms from here, last evening, a police spokesman said. They suffered severe burn injuries and were shifted to SMHS hospital here for treatment, he said. "It was not immediately known what prompted Dar to take such an extreme step," the spokesman said, adding police has registered a case and started investigations. Meanwhile, a 35-year-old woman attempted suicide by setting herself ablaze in Kupwara district of north Kashmir last night. The woman used kerosene oil in the self-immolation bid at her Haji Node residence in Karnah sector of Kupwara district, the spokesman said adding she was hospitalised. In another incident, the spokesman said a couple suffered burn injuries after their house caught fire in Anantnag district of south Kashmir. Abdul Rashid Bhat and his wife Famida Akhter were injured in a fire incident at their house at Krangsoo village of Anantnag district last night, he said, adding the house caught fire due to leak in domestic gas cylinder. The house was damaged in the incident, the spokesman added.
J&K Bank Donates Van For Special Children Srinagar, June 29: Under its Platinum Jubilee initiative J&K Bank Saturday donated a school-van to J&K Voluntary Medicare Society – a medicosocial non-governmental organisation pursuing the cause of special children that runs Shafqat School in Bemina area of the city for such children. Mushtaq Ahmad, Chairman & CEO, J&K Bank handed over the keys of the Omni Van to Dr Mir Mohammad Maqbool, President of the Society, at a simple but impressive function held at Bank’s Corporate Headquarters. Others present on the occasion included Abdul Hamid Banday, Bank’s Executive President and Abdul Rauf Bhat, President. Speaking on the occasion, Chairman described the initiative as part of Bank’s endeavour to contribute towards education and rehabilitation of the special-abled children. “Education continues to be the priority of our Corporate Social Responsibility. To ensure that such children do not become a burden on their parents and society, we are laying special emphasis on their See Bank on Pg. 11
Hope Pakistan air space is opened for flights from Srinagar To tackle unregistered pilgrims, more counters established
Omar for rediscovering silk-route for trade
Srinagar, June 29:
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today expressed hope that the new government in Pakistan will allow international flights originating from Srinagar to fly over its air space owing to the close proximity of Jammu and Kashmir with the Central Asian countries,. "One hopes with a new dispensation in Pakistan, one hopes with encouraging voices emerging from new Prime Minister of Pakistan about normalising the relations to some extent between our two countries, perhaps this (use of airspace) is one aspect that can also be normalised," Omar said. Giving detailed account of socio-cultural and religious affinity between the Central Asian Omar said that the Indian Policy regarding the connect of Central Asia could be most suited and
beneficial for the State and its people provided the neighbours in the west would allow flights from Srinagar to the Capitals of these States over their lands. The Chief Minister was addressing a 3-day International Conference on Cooperation, Development, Peace and Security
in Central Asia at University of Kashmir here. He said that relations between India particularly Jammu and Kashmir and the Central Asia has been historic. “There is perhaps no field of life where we do not possess similarities. Our culture, heritage, languages, architecture, eating
BJP hits back at Omar over comments on LK Advani Jammu, June 29:
vote some Twitter space to explain Sheikh Abdullah's silence on autonomy between 1975 and 1983 when he was the chief minister of J&K with absolute majority and full Congress support in the state legislative assembly," BJP national executive member and state chief spokesperson, Jitendra Singh, said. Clarifying the stand adopted by the then NDA government over autonomy, Singh said, "The answer is very simple that Advani was a part of a multi-party coalition NDA government of which Omar Abdullah was also a part and
BJP on Saturday hit back at Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah over his comments on senior party leader LK Advani and asked why Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah remained silent over the issue of autonomy during his tenure at the helm. Omar while replying to Advani's blog had written on micro-blogging website Twitter that the senior BJP leader should devote some blog space to explain his silence over Article 370 between 1998 and 2004. "It is Omar's turn to de-
1 dies, 4 injured in road mishaps Srinagar, June 29: One person died and four others were injured in different road accidents across the Valley. A Sumo bearing registration number JK01K/8481 hit and injured a pedestrian Fazil Bashir son of late Bashir Ahmad Darzi resident of Wuyan, Mahmood Abad near Wuyan, Awantipora, resulting in his on spot death. A case has been registered in this regard. See Mishaps on Pg. 11
A class twelve student of Kashmir has developed a three dimensional Android shooter game called “Kill Genre.” The android game is currently being offered by prominent websites, including Google, Amazon App Store, Get Jar and Slideme and has also been featured on YouTube. Owais Ahmad, 18, the student who developed the 3-D game said he was working on the project for past two
Srinagar, June 29: Police has claimed to have solved the murder mystery of a Rafiabad girl by arresting her father. Police said that the father had killed the girl by choking her mouth and nose. Addressing a press conference at Dangiwacha on Saturday, Deputy Inspector General of Police, North Kashmir, J. P Singh said that on 14-06-2013 at about 1930 hrs one Altaf Ahmad Rather son of Late Ghulam Muhammad Rather resident of Laiser Rafiabad along with his elder brother Muhammad Maqbool Rather reported
Srinagar, June 29: The Jammu and Kashmir High court Saturday pulled up Special Investigation Team, probing the killing of 12th class student Tufail Matoo of Saidakadal here, for remaining consistently absent during the proceedings of the case. The Court expressed utmost displeasure that the SIT has not mentioned about the recorded statements of two important witnesses in their closure report. Tufail was killed while returning home from tuitions on June 11, 2010 after a police teargas shell hit him near Ghani Memorial Stadium in Srinagar. A bench of Justice Virender Singh while hearing the case pulled up the investigating agency for not
years and used the information available on Internet. "It requires the basic concept of physics as well as Maths. Vector algebra was our chapter in 12th class. It's fully integrating with the game. Like the 3-dimensional game I just built, it requires all the components of that chapter basically, and I would like to thank my Maths and Physics teacher," said Ahmad. 'Kill Genre', is a vengeful story of a boy in the form of a 3-Dimensional game, in which See Android on Pg. 11
In view of the significant number of unregistered pilgrims and pilgrims who have arrived ahead of their scheduled date of Yatra, the Divisional Administration Kashmir, in coordination with the Shrine Board, J&K Bank, and Directorate of Tourism, Kashmir, have established seven counters each at Pantha Chowk, Srinagar, and Tourist Reception Centre (TRC), Nowgam, Srinagar, to facilitate such Yatris to obtain registration before they can proceed to the Yatra Base Camps. This facility is in addition to the Current Registration arrangement available to Yatris at various locations in Jammu i.e. Vaishnavi Dham, Saraswati Dham, Jammu Haat and Ram Mandir. This was informed today by Navin K. Choudhary, CEO, SASB. All the Yatris are advised to obtain registration for the
date on which they wish to undertake the Yatra beforehand to avoid unnecessary difficulties and inconvenience to themselves as well as the Administration. The CEO further reiterated that the Yatris, in their own best interest, should cooperate with the Yatra Administration and should not reach Base Camps without first obtaining registration. In addition, they should reach the Base Camps only a day before they are scheduled to undertake the Yatra. If they have arrived without registration or ahead of their date of registration, they should obtain Current Registration from the counters established at Jammu and Srinagar. Today, 6132 Yatris left Baltal and 4409 Yatris left Pahalgam for the Holy Shrine. Today, the final darshan figure was 11530. The weather in the morning was cloudy and there were few spells See Counters on Pg. 11
Suspicious Father Who Killed 4-year-old Girl Arrested
in Police Station Dangiwacha, Sopore that his 7/8 yrs old daughter Muskan Altaf has been missing from her home since morning and they have been searching for her in the village and
Court pulls up SIT in Tufail Matoo case
Kashmiri student develops 3D Android game Srinagar, June 29:
the BJP did not have sufficient numbers to do anything about Article 370." The BJP leader reiterated that his party has been consistent over the demand of abrogation of Article 370. "Abrogation of Article 370 is BJP's consistent stand unlike National Conference which rakes up autonomy only when out of power or when fearing loss of power," he said. Meanwhile Provincial President of National Conferene, Devender Singh Rana assailed the assertions of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal See BJP on Pg. 11
habits and religion have similarity”, he said and stressed on the need of re-discovering silk-route to re-link Jammu and Kashmir with Central Asia and open a new chapter of socio-economic development. Identifying the challenges to See Omar on Pg. 11
Srinagar, June 29:
taking the case seriously. The Court was aghast over the absence of the Investigating Officer and snubbed the police constable
who had come along with the records in place of the Investigating Officer. The Court directed the Counsel appearing on behalf of the State to make the presence of Investigating Officer sure on the next hearing fixed on July 2. The Court also admonished the present police officer for attending the court in civvies and not in police uniform. The Counsel for the Tufail, Advocate Main Abdul Qayoom said that in April 2012, nine witnesses had recorded their statements. “Surprisingly the SIT has not mentioned the statements made by two important witnesses Rameez Ahmed Dar and Manzoor Ahmed in their closure report. Our plea is that the SIT should See Court on Pg. 11
around and also enquired from relatives but failed to trace her. On this a missing report was entered in Police Station Dangiwacha and search was started.
In the process of search, on the next day throat slit body of the missing girl child was found in the apple orchard of one Abdul Aziz Rather son of Muhammad Ramzan in the outskirts of the village Laisar, Rafiabad. On the recovery of the dead body of the missing girl child aged 4 years only, case FIR number 40/2013 under section 302 RPC was registered in police station Dangiwacha as it was apparent that she had been murdered. Singh said that at the place of recovery of the dead body a sharp edged knife, a ten rupee currency note and an empty jute bag used See Arrested on Pg. 11
Soz thanks Rahul for funding JK Panchayats Srinagar, June 29: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee President, Prof Saifuddin Soz has thanked AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi for showing keen interest in providing grant of Rs 10 lakh each for panchayats in the state. “It is very widely known in J&K State that Shri. Rahul Gandhi has contributed quite a lot to empower Panchayats at the grass-roots
level. He has put in strenuous efforts to convince Government of India that the proposal from the Union Ministry of Rural Development to this effect should be accepted. It is expected that a grant of Rs. 10.00 Lakhs to each Panchayat in J&K State would be released, in foreseeable future i.e, very soon”, Soz said in a statement said. In a written communication Prof Soz has also thanked See Soz on Pg. 11
Kashmir, northeast worst affected by food pipe cancer New Delhi, June 29: Cancer of the oesophagus - or what is commonly called food pipe - has been detected as the third most common cancer in India, with people from the northeast and Jammu and Kashmir found to be the highest affected by the disease, said experts Tuesday. Cancer of the oesophagus the tube in the throat that carries food and liquid to the stomach - is known to be a very morbid condition which affects the upper digestive tract of the human body.
As per the Indian Council of Medical Research, every 8-10 people per 1 lakh population suffer from the cancer of oesophagus. The figures are even higher for northeast India, Bhushan Bhole of the Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute said. Jammu and Kashmir and the northeastern states of India also fall under the Asian belt of oesophagus cancer together with China, primarily due to the cold weather conditions and increased consumption of smoked meat. There is a place in Mizoram, where 25-26
people per one lakh population suffer from the can-
cer of oesophagus, added Bhole, and added that for
easier treatment and faster recovery, the doctors at PSRI have been conducting the surgery with minimal incisions - and creating awareness about the growing disease. The new surgery with minimal incisions is better than the open surgery, as it entails less blood loss, lesser hospital stay for the patients who are especially elderly in the age of 55-60 years, said Sanjay Chaurey, a laparoscopy consultant at PSRI. The open surgery undertaken earlier would involve the opening of the See Cancer on Pg. 11
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