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KATHUA, Mar 9: Kathuapolice has rescued 12 bovine ani-mals during two nakas laid attwo different places in the areaduring late last night. The nakaswere laid in continuation to drivelaunched by the District PoliceKathua to check the bovinesmuggling.

According to police duringlate last night Police Party of P/SKathua headed by SHO PSKathua, Sarabjeet Singh underthe supervision of Dy SPHeadquarters. Kathua, S.S.Sambyal, Additional SP Kathua,Khalil Ahmed and overall super-vision of Pawan Parihar, SSPKathua, laid down a naka atBhagthali and intercepted oneMahindra load carrier bearingregistration No. JK21-8825loaded with four Oxen whichwas on its way from Punjab toJammu.

On noticing the naka party,driver of the vehicle and hisassociate managed to escapeleaving behind the vehicle atsome distance from the naka tak-ing the advantage of darkness.During checking of the vehicle,Police rescued four bovine ani-mals which were being trans-ported in the vehicle illegally.Police has launched a man huntto nab the accused persons and inthis regard a case FIR No.69/2017 U/S 188 RPC, 3/5 PCAct stands registered at P/SKathua against the accused per-sons.

At another naka which wasalso laid at Maggar Khad,Kathua by Police Post Hatliheaded by IC PP Hatli, SIVarinder Singh, it interceptedone truck bearing registrationnumber JK02AB-8179 loaded

with bovine animals which wasalso on way from Punjab toJammu. During checking, eightoxen were rescued and driver ofthe vehicle and his associatemanaged to escape from the spottaking the advantage of dark-ness. In this regard, a Case FIRNo. 70/2017 U/S 188 RPC, 3/5PC Act stands registered at P/SKathua against the accused per-sons. Investigation of both thecases is set into motion to ascer-tain the persons involved inbovine smuggling.

It is a major achievement ofDistrict Police Kathua to foil the2nd bovine smuggling bid withintwo days in the district. Aspokesman of the Kathua Policesaid such type of drive will con-tinue in future also to expose thenexus of bovine smuggler andput the culprits behind the bars.

Meanwhile reports comingfrom Samba said that Sambapolice also rescued six bovineanimals from a Mahindra vehiclebearing registration numberJK02BJ/0865 which was comingfrom Kathua towards Samba latelast night.

According to Police a partyfrom Police Station Ghagwalwhile signaling the vehicle com-ing from Kathua to Samba askedits driver to stop but instead ofstopping he accelerated thespeed and tried to escape. But thepolice chased the vehicle andintercepted it near Nonath.

During the checking thevehicle was found loaded withsix bovine animals. However thedriver of the vehicle managed toescape. Police seized both vehi-cle and bovine animals and reg-istered a case under FIR Number20/2017 U/S 188 RPC 2/3 PCAct 179, 183 and 184 MV Act inPolice Station Ghagwal.

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JAMMU, Mar 9: Snapdealtoday announced a major benefitfor its sellers by reducing its sellerpayment cycle by 40%, therebybecoming the e-commerce plat-form that offers the fastest pay-ment schedule in the country.

Snapdeal's announcement is awelcome move for the 3,00,000sellers on its platform. Faster pay-ments will enable them to usetheir working capital more effi-ciently and generate additionalbusiness without needing to investadditional funds. For sellers whoare working on the SD+ model,today's announcement will mean awhopping 40% faster payment,which is also the best in class inIndian e-commerce industry.

Appreciating the announce-ment by Snapdeal, Sanjay Thakur,President of e-Seller Suraksha, aleading online seller forum, said,"We welcome Snapdeal's initia-tive to make seller paymentsfaster. This will go a long way inhelping us plan better and do morebusiness. Snapdeal has alwaysworked with sellers in a true part-nership mode and this is one more

example of the same."Other sellers also expressed

their approval of the announce-ment. ArvindVerma, VP,Marketing & Sales - Red Tape,said, "Snapdeal has been a greatplatform for our business, helpingus reach a much wider set of buy-ers across the country. Today'sannouncement will further helpenhance our overall businessexperience on the platform."

Vivek Bhalla - Director -NSDS Consultants Pvt Ltd, said,"We have enjoyed a seamlessworking relationship withSnapdeal. Faster payments are awelcome step which will help usgrow our business throughSnapdeal's marketplace."

In recent announcements,Snapdeal has highlighted its com-mitment towards bringing in busi-ness efficiencies across its entireecosystem - seller stakeholdersbeing a critical part of the same.Today's announcement is anotherstep in this direction, and buildsupon Snapdeal's continuingefforts to help India's small andmedium businesses derive maxi-mum growth and gains out of itsplatform.

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JAMMU, Mar 9 : The Prov-incial Electrical EmployeesUnion (PEEU) held a protestdemonstration in front ofEM&RE Division Gandhi Nagartoday demanding implementationof SRO 59 which has been imple-mented in all the divisions ofPDD except Gandhi Nagar.

The protest was led by PCSharma, Chairman of the Union.The protesters raising slogans insupport of their demands warnedto intensify agitation in case theauthorities failed to implementthe SRO.

P C Sharma said that the SROmeant for Non ITI employees togive them technical grade was notimplemented in PDD though thesame was implemented in WorksDepartment in 1990. Later it wasimplemented in PDD in Kashmir

province in 1995 and not inJammu, he added.

However, after the struggle ofthe employees the ChiefEngineers after getting order copyof SRO implemented the same inJammu but the Gandhi NagarM&RE Division is the onlyexception where the order wasnot implemented till date.

He said the Union has givenan ultimatum to the Departmentthat in case the SRO was notimplemented by today it will beforced to protest. He warned tolaunch agitation in case theimplementation of SRO was fur-ther delayed.

The other leaders of the Unionwho participated in the demon-stration included Darshan SinghVerma senior vice president,Bishan Singh district presidentJammu, Rajan Singh and JanakSing etc.

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JAMMU, Mar 9: The agitat-ing Contractual Lecturer onfast unto death since February14, was today rushed to hospi-tal on the intervention of for-mer minister and PanthersParty chairman HarshDev Singh as condi-tion of the aggrievedwas fast deteriorat-ing.

Shocked to see thecondition of VinodKumar, who hadbeen observing fastsince last four weeks,Harsh Dev Singhimmediately calledup CMO Jammu forprompt medical assis-tance who pressedambulance to service at thesite. The accompanying doctorphysically checked VinodKumar whose BP plummetedto 80/55 and pulse rate droppedto 40. The waning protesterwas lifted from the site andrushed to the hospital for treat-ment.

Till last reports came in,condition of Vinod Kumar wasstated to be stable at GMCHospital Jammu.

Earlier, admonishing theapathy shown by the StateGovernment towards the

protesting Plus TwoContractual Lecturers, whohad been sitting on chainhunger strike for the last 24days, a team of Panthers Partypaid a visit at the protest venueto seek health update of theaggrieved teachers.

Expressing anguish over theplight of the lecturers, HarshDev Singh lambasted the StateGovernment for not respondingto the call of the highly educat-ed teaching community whowere languishing in open forthe last 24 days. He lampoonedBJP’s claims of “Achey Din”as mirage for the educatedyouth as the ruffians, vandals,hooligans and illiterates wereglorified in Kashmir while thenationalist underemployedyouth were exploited, harassedand quelled.

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JAMMU, Mar 9: AdditionalSpecial Mobile Magistrate RSPura Slahuddin Ahmed rejectedthe bail application of VikasBharti and Yog Raj, who wereinvolved in attempt to murdercase registered with MiranSahib Police Station.

After hearing AdvocateKesar Parveen appearing for theapplicants and ProsecutingOfficer Pawanpreet Singh forthe State, the Additional SpecialMobile Magistrate observed“where the offence is of seriousnature, the question of grant ofbail has to be decided keepingin view the nature and serious-ness of the offence, character ofthe evidence and amongst oth-ers the larger interest of thepublic. The crime in the instant

case is a crime committedagainst the society”.

The possibility of the appli-cant influencing the witnessesand tampering with the evi-dence and committing similaroffence and thereby jeopardiz-ing the investigation andthwarting the course of justicecannot be ruled out”, the courtsaid.

With these observations, thecourt rejected the bail applica-tion of Vikas Bharti and YogRaj, who are also involved in asimilar attempt to murder caseregistered with Police StationBus Stand Jammu.

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JAMMU, Mar 9: FormerMinister and senior Congressleader R S Chib, has stronglycriticized the Ministry ofHealth and Medical Education,Government of India, forenhancing the intake of PG stu-dents for GMC Srinagar by 28students over and above theintake capacity, alreadyapproved by the MedicalCouncil of India (MCI), witheffect from 2017-18 AcademicSession.

Chib while talking to somesenior ex-faculty members ofGMC Jammu, expressed sur-prise that, not even a single PGseat has been increased in anyof the disciplines in GMCJammu. He described thisaction of the GoI, as a total neg-

lect and humiliation for thepeople of Jammu region in gen-eral and the medical fraternityand students in particular.

Chib described it a highlymotivated move by the Kashmircentric policies of the coalitionpartners and said that Jammu isbeing neglected at every step bythe State Government. He fur-ther added that the onus of thisAnti-Jammu decision lies withthe PDP-BJP Government andespecially the BJP, which hasshown total disrespect to themandate given by the people ofJammu.

Chib urged upon Ministry ofHealth and Medical Educationto take up this matter with theUnion Government so that ourmedical students get equalopportunities at par with Kas-hmir.

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JAMMU, Mar 9: The StateHuman Rights Commission(SHRC) has asked the StateGovernment to submit a reportabout the adhoc promotions ofemployees and delay in the reg-ularization of the same foryears.

“The Government is notexpected to deal with itsemployees, particularly theemployees who have retiredfrom service in this fashion.Government cannot wait for aperson to die after his retire-ment and expect his children tofight for the benefits theemployee had earned", theSHRC maintained while hear-ing a case titled Dharam PaulSharma (Retired) Principal ofHira Nagar Kathua.

The case with regard tostreamlining the cadre manage-

ment of Gazetted and Non-Gazetted service in the Statewas listed before the DivisionBench comprising Justice BilalNazki, Chairperson of theCommission and Jang BahadurSingh Jamwal, Member of theCommission.

The order passed by theDivision Bench maintained that"prima-facie it appears, to be avery serious violation of humanrights of lot of people.Therefore, the report is soughtfrom the Chief Secretary infour weeks. The matter shall betaken up on the next date andthe Commission expects thatthose who are aggrieved andwhose benefits have been with-held and all those similarly sit-uated shall be taken care ofbefore next date. Similarlyplaced persons can approachthis Commission for redressalof their grievances.”

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Contractual Lecturer on fast unto deathbeing shifted to hospital.

DDC inaugurates new premises of Grameen BankExcelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, Mar 9: ShabirAhmed Bhat, DistrictDevelopment Commissioner,Rajouri, today inaugurated thenew Branch premises of J&K

Grameen Bank, Rajouri Main,amid thunderous applause inpresence of R K Chhibber,Chairman JKGB, Des Raj,DDM Nabard, R.K. Narang,Area manager, Rajouri/PoonchRegion, officials of the Bankand valuable customers.

While speaking on the occa-sion, Shabir Ahmed Bhatapplauded the role played byJ&K Grameen Bank in provid-ing various Financial Services to

the people of J&K. He also inter-acted with the staff members andcustomers of Branch. ChairmanR K Chhibber also spoke on theoccasion and informed that J&KGrameen Bank has 217 branchesin J&K State. He added that the

interest rates on Loans& Advances in JKGBare lowest amongstother Banks. The Bankis also providing onlinefacilities to its cus-tomers like NEFT/RTGS/ IMPS/ DBTfacilities/ SMS Alertsetc. Technology appli-cation has remained thethrust area of JKGBwith the objective tooffer state of the artworld class bankingfacilities to its business

partners, Bank has continued toleverage information technolo-gy as a strategic tool for itsbusiness growth. The bank'sfocus is on harnessing technol-ogy for integrating diverseproducts at very competitiverates. All the branches are onlatest technology and ourRajouri Main branch is fullyequipped with all types of latesttechnology and product, headded.

Grameen Bank holds D-FLAP in Kathua

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KATHUA, Mar 9: J&KGrameen Bank, area office,Kathua, in collaboration withNABARD and assistance ofbranches of district Kathua (B.O.Mahanpur, Mandli, Marta Nagrotaand Phinter) organized various D-FLAP i.e. Financial Literacy andAwareness Programme inDemonetisation period on thetheme of Public participation inpromoting cashless economy.

More than 200 RuPay DebitCards and Kisan Credit Cardsworth Rs 200.00 lakh were issuedon spot among participants. About50 persons including Panch,

Sarpanch, Numberdar, men,women and youth participated ineach camp.

The main focus of the campwas to aware people about devel-opments in banking sector and lat-est schemes.

Ramdev Sharma, AreaManager, Kathua, emphasised thethrust on enabling an impactfulmindset changes towards cash tocashless economy.

Representatives from RelianceInsurance and Bajaj life alsoaddressed the gathering the impor-tance of their schemes. BranchManagers of concerned branchespresented vote of thanks to theguest and participants.

Snapdeal reduces payment time to sellers by 40%

PEEU activists protesting in front of EM&RE DivisionGandhi Nagar on Thursday.

PEEU holds demonstration

Speaker Legislative Assembly, Kavinder Gupta inauguratingJK Automatins in Jammu on Thursday.

Kavinder inaugurates Daikin'sAir-Condition Plaza

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JAMMU, Mar 9: Daikin,world No.1 Air-ConditioningCompany has been creating wavesin Indian Air-Condition segmentsince 2010.

Daikin is headed by thedynamic visionary and foresightedManaging Director Kamal JeetBawa, who has not only estab-lished Daikin as a brand synony-mous with trust but put Daikin ona trajectory of high growth.

Daikin which has set up thestate of the art manufacturingfacility at Nimrana Rajasthan withthrust on R&D and strict qualitycontrol is headed by a strong teamof Japanese engineers.

Daikin after consolidatingtheir presence in Metropolises andmajor towns across India has now

started to concentrate in Tire 2 andTire 3 cities too. In the process arehaving Jammu and Kashmir's firstSolotion Plaza at Marbel Marketin the city of Jammu through theirchannel partners and associatesM/s J K Automations.

Daikin Plaza was inauguratedby Speaker J&K AssemblyKavinder Gupta. Ajit Wangnoofrom M/s J KAutomation andNaveen Sharma along with histeam from Daikin welcomedKavinder Gupta.

Daikin long time associate M/sJK Automations who have beenproviding premium air conditionsolutions in both the capital citiesof Jammu and Srinagar are nowpresenting one stop air-conditionsolution to residential, commercialand institutional requirements.

JU non-teaching, non-gazetted employees holding protestdemonstration on campus on Thursday.

Agitating JU employees suspend work, hold protest demonstration

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JAMMU, Mar 9: A day afterobserving Mass Casual Leave, allthe employees of non teachingand non gazetted cadre in JammuUniversity continued their tokenstrike by suspending work forfour hours and holding strongprotest demonstration in front ofVice Chancellor’s Secretariat onthe campus, here today.

The joint protest was heldunder the banner of Executivebody of the Non-TeachingEmployees Union and NonGazetted Employees Union,University of Jammu.

During the demonstration, theemployees raised slogans for ful-fillment of their genuinedemands. They alleged that theUniversity authorities wereadopting a callous attitude

towards their genuine demandsthus forcing them to continuetheir struggle.

President of GujjarBhakerwal Federation ofStudents, Rashid ud din Mir,president Kashmir UniversityMinisterial Secretarial Associ-ation joined the protest andappealed the JU authorities toresolve the genuine issues ofemployees.

The demonstration wasaddressed by Pawan Singh Bhau,Vijay Kumar, Ashwani Bakshi,Sham Sharma, Vikas Langer,Banarasi Lal, Vidhya Lal,Padam Shri Padamani, AbhinavSharma, Sanjeev Chadha,Niranjan Singh Charak, JoginderSingh Chib, Kewal Kumar,Sunita Amla, Jarnail Singh,Jasjeet Singh and RaghubirSingh Bandral.

Bail plea in attempt tomurder case rejected

Promotion of officials: SHRCasks Govt to file report

18 bovine animals rescued by Kathua, Samba police

Chib alleges neglect of GMC Jammu

BJP Minority Morcha delegation meets RRCExcelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 9: In view ofthe Government's decision toopen registration of the peoplefrom Kashmir has virtuallyopened flood gates resulting inmass exodus of the people partic-ularly the Sikh minority people toget themselves registered asmigrants with the ReliefCommissioner Jammu, a team ofBJP Minority Morcha officebearers of district Jammu led byits Jammu district presidentRandhir Singh Bali met theRelief and RehabilitationCommissioner Jammu, Y PSuman to unravel the truthregarding the registration.

Relief Commissionerinformed the delegation that theregistration had been openedonly for the three category peo-ple. One who have real threatswith FIRs registered. Secondwho have militant related killingsin the family and third who arethe surrendered militants.R.S.Bali president requested theRelief Commissioner Jammu tostop the petition writers and oth-ers who have opened their shopsin the precincts of the ReliefCommissioner Office and areselling the registration docu-ments to the gullible people atexorbitant rates.

He also lodged complaintwith the Relief Commissionerregarding the difficulties beingfaced by the already registeredSikhs in getting cards bifurcated,issuance of State SubjectCertificate, Backward Certificateand other related issues to whichRelief Commissioner assured thedelegation that he will issue strictinstructions to the staff that nomigrant is harassed by his staff.After meeting with the ReliefCommissioner Jammu a largecrowd of the Sikhs assembledoutside his office seeking regis-tration. While addressing thegathering Minority MorchaDistrict President R.S.Bali urgedthem not to fall prey to unscrupu-lous elements. He appealed toall the Sikhs living in Kashmir to

stay back at their places and notto think of migration as thiswould be against the policy of theState BJP who is inclined to reha-bilitate the already migrated peo-ple to Kashmir with honour anddignity.

He further said that Sikhs areliving in Kashmir with theirMuslim brothers in peaceful andcordial atmosphere since cen-turies and are equally sufferersalong with Muslims during thepresent Kashmir turmoil. Theyshould not think of migration.Among others who met theRelief Commissioner wereCharan Singh, Vice PresidentMinority Morcha, ChananSingh, Baljit Singh, KulvirSingh.

Agitating Lecturer on fast unto death rushed to hospital

PDD daily wagers' 'Kaam ChhorHartal' enters 102nd day

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JAMMU, Mar 9: The PDDDaily Wagers continued their'Kaam Chhor Hartal' and protestdharna outside the office prem-ises of SE, EM&RE Circle,Jammu on the 102nd consecu-tive day, today.

The workers led by SurjeetKhajuria, president, All J&KPDD Daily Wagers Union,Jammu province started their`Kaam Chhor Hartal' onNovember 28. Today was the102nd day of the strike andprotest dharna.

The protesting workers wereshouting slogans in support oftheir demand of regularizationand enhancement of their wagesbesides clearance of all thepending wages. They were alsodemanding the release of theirwages in time, conduct of DPCof all cadre. They furtherdemanded that discriminationwith the daily wagers fromJammu region be stopped andthey should be treated at parwith those from Kashmir region.

While speaking on the occa-sion, Surjeet Khajuria said thatDPC for regularization of serv-

ices of the daily wagers in vari-ous districts like Kathua,Udhampur, etc has been con-ducted and employees have beengiven the benefits of regulariza-tion of services, but till date theJammu district has been totallyignored by the higher authoritiesof the department.

He said, "In the year 2013vide cabinet decision, theGovernment has announced that1500 daily wager employeesfrom Jammu province and 1500employees from KashmirProvince will be regularized.Till today more than 2000 dailywager employees have been reg-ularized in the department butonly 873 of them belong toJammu province, which clearlyshows that Jammu province isstill facing injustice on the handsof the superiors of the depart-ment."

Khajuria appealed DeputyChief Minister, who also holdsthe charge of the PDD, to issuenecessary direction to SE Circle-I M&RE PDD, Panama Chowk,Jammu for holding DPC in orderto provide regularization bene-fits to daily wagers as early aspossible.

Police, SDRF rescue 2 from drowning Excelsior Correspondent

SAMBA, Mar 9: A joint team of Samba Police and SDRF rescuedtwo persons from drowning who were trapped in Basantar river whichwas in spate due to heavy rains today.

They included Rashpal Singh S/o Amir Singh, 16 R/o Shah Balodeand Suram S/o Satal Viraj R/o Bengal A/P SIDCO, Samba. The duo

was loading sand in a tractor trolleyin Basanter river. In the meantime,due to bad weather the level of

water increased all of a sudden and both the persons were trapped inthe river.

On receiving the information at Police Station Samba from reliablesources, Samba Police acted swiftly mobilized the SDRF team andrescued both the trapped persons from drowning after reaching thespot in time.

Mohalla WelfareCommittee elects

office bearersExcelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 9: MohallaWelfare Committee, MandlikNagar, Paloura today elected itsoffice bearers in a meeting heldhere today under the chairman-ship of Dilbagh Raj Sharma.

The newly elected officebearers are Ragirat Manhas aspresident, Dilbagh Raj Sharmaas chairman, BR Sharma as sen-ior vice president, Inder Singh,Rajan Babu and Padam Dev asvice presidents, Suraj Singh asgeneral secretary, Mohan Lal assecretary, Vidya Sagar as jointsecretary, Suram Singh asorganizer, Kaka Singh asdeputy organizer and KuldipPal Gupta as cashier.

3 bovines rescued, 2 arrested

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DODA, Mar 9: Khellanipolice rescued three bovine ani-mals and arrested two persons.

As per police sources, on spe-cific information, a team fromKhellani police post laid a nakaat Gazan nallah and arrested twopersons and rescued 3 bovineanimals from their possession.

The accused have been iden-tified as at Ashiq Hussain, son ofGhulam Shah of AkramabadDistrict Doda and FarooqAhmed, son of Habibullah Shahof Beoli District Doda.

A case under FIR Number41/17 under Section 188 RPCand 3 PC Act has been registeredat Doda police station and inves-tigation started.

Police team led by InchargeKhellani police post SI SandeepChouhan made the arrest underthe supervision of DySPHeadquarters Doda IftkharAhmed and SSP DodaMohammad Shabir.

New premises of Grameen Bankbeing inaugurated at Rajouri onThursday.

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