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THURSDAY
29 January
2015
Jammu-India
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2 Israeli soldiers, UN
peacekeeper killed
Jerusalem: Two Israeli soldiers
and a Spanish peacekeeper were killed
on Wednesday in an exchange of fire
between Hezbollah and Israel that has
raised the threat of a full-blown conflict
between the militant Islamist group and
Israel. In the biggest escalation since a
2006 war, the soldiers were killed when
Hezbollah fired a missile at a convoy of
Israeli military vehicles on the frontier
with Lebanon. The peacekeeper, serving
with a U.N. monitoring force in southern
Lebanon, was killed as Israel responded
with air strikes and artillery fire, a U.N.
spokesman and Spanish officials said.
Hezbollah said one of its brigades in the
area had carried out the attack, which
appeared to be in retaliation for a Jan 18
Israeli air strike in southern Syria.
Lanka reinstates
impeached
Chief Justice
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s new
president on Wednesday restored the
country’s former chief justice after
she was controversially impeached by
the previous administration. Lawyers
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bouquets of flowers when she went to
the Supreme Court in Colombo after
receiving the news. A government official who asked not to be named said
that President Maithripala Sirisena had
written to Bandaranayake to say her
2013 impeachment was unconstitutional and she should return to work.
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Jammu: All three members of
a family were today found dead under
mysterious circumstances inside a hotel
room in Katra town of Reasi district, police
said. The family checked into the hotel
last night, they said, adding, the incident
came to light when there was no response
from the room after repeated knockings by
the hotel staff this morning. A police team
reached the spot and found the three lying
dead under mysterious circumstances.
No injury marks were found on the
bodies, police said. The deceased have
been identified as Satish Verma, his wife
Monika, and 9-year-old son Dheeraj. The
bodies were sent to Katra Hospital for
post-mortem and investigation into the
case is underway, they said.
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Need to deliberate on two-three issues: Ram Madhav
BJP, PDP leaders inch
closer to govt formation
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, Jan 28|15: PDP and
BJP may be heading towards
forming a coalition government
in Jammu and Kashmir with
leaders of both the parties apprising Governor N N Vohra
separately about progress in
their talks even as they prepared for a tie-up in the coming
Rajya Sabha elections.
PDP MLA Haseeb Drabu, the
interlocutor with the BJP on
talks for government formation,
met the Governor who earlier
received a BJP delegation headed by party’s General Secretary
Ram Madhav, the party points-
man in the state.
Significantly after the meetings, Raj Bhavan issued a statement which said Drabu apprised
the Governor “about the realisations which have emerged from
the PDP-BJP parleys on government formation which have
been continuing for the past
about a month and the broad
contours of the matters being finalised in the coming days.”
In another release, the Raj
Bhavan said during the onehour long meeting Madhav
informed the Governor “about
the present status of the ongoing BJP-PDP discussions on the
Azad to face litmus
test in RS Polls
BJP-PDP confident of winning four seats
their papers. Azad who had arrived much earlier had to wait
in the absence of some papers.
NC candidates Nasir Aslam
Wani and Sajjad Ahmad Kitchloo reached civil secretariat
without much pomp and show.
Former Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah also didn’t turn up to
boost the morale of the party
candidates and Ghulam Nabi
Azad.
India to hard
sell Tejas
Bengaluru: India will showcase
and hard sell its indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas at an air show
here in February to prospective buyers
from overseas, a top official said on
Wednesday. “Tejas will be on flying and
static display at the Aero India Show
here from Feb 18-22 to solicit foreign
buyers, as we have started producing
them (fighters) for the Indian Air Force
(IAF),” state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd`s (HAL) outgoing chairman RK
Tyagi told reporters here. The defence
behemoth will also display military
and civil variants of its Advanced Light
Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv at the biennial
international event in which producers,
buyers, users and other stakeholders
from the world over would participate.
KASHMIR
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YASH KHAJURIA
Jammu, Jan 28|15: Senior
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi
Azad along with two former
ministers of Omar Abdullah’s
council of Ministers wednesday filed their nomination papers to prevent PDP-BJP combination from winning all four
Rajya Sabha seats.
Two BJP leaders Chander
Mohan Sharma, Shamsher
Singh Manhas, and PDP leaders Mir Mohammad Fayaz
(PDP), Nazir Ahmad Laway
(PDP) also field their nominations before the Returning Officer in the state legislature
complex here in Civil secretariat complex.
The BJP candidates were
escorted by large number of
party supporters inside the
civil secretariat complex and
garlanded them before they
went inside the chambers of
the Returning officers to file
BJP rushes
Dr Jitendra
to Jammu
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, Jan 28|15: On the
directions of the BJP National
President, Amit
Shah,
Union
Minister
Dr.
Jitendra Singh
will be arriving in Jammu
Thursday morning
to hold
one-to-one consultations in the
run-up to the Rajya Sabha elections from the State. The Party’s
Central High Command has deputed Dr. Jitendra Singh to gather
an on-the-spot assessment of the
ground situation and evolve appropriate strategy to ensure positive results for BJP in the Polls for
Rajya Sabha seats.
formation of an elected Government.” He was accompanied
by state BJP President Jugal
Kishore and party MLA Nirmal
Singh.
In the highly-fractured verdict,
PDP emerged as the single largest party with 28 MLAs followed
closely by BJP with 25. National
Conference ended up with a
tally of 15 while Congress got 12
seats. In the 87-member House,
two seats each went to People’s
Conference and Jammu And
Kashmir People Democratic
Front (Secular), three independents and one to CPM.
While Drabu declined to speak
Miscreant held
with revolver
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, Jan 28|15: Police
today arrested a miscreant and
recovered a revolver from his
possession at Kunjwani area
falling under the jurisdiction of
Gangyal police station. Police
identified the arrested person as
Talwinder Singh alias Tannu of
Sector -2 Model Town Gangyal.
Sources said that on specific
information police raised team
raised a naka at Kunjwani and
intercepted Tannu. Police said
that they recovered a revolver
from his possession during
frisking. Police arrested him
and seized the revolver a case in
this connection has been registered and further investigation
is on.
to the media, Madhav told reporters that “a structured dialogue would be started soon. We
are working for ground work
in that direction. After that is
completed, structured dialogue
would be started. It takes some
more time to complete the process”.
“Our talks are going on with
PDP. There is progress in the
talks. There is need to deliberate
on two-three issues between the
parties, which need a clearance
on ideological front. After that
we will come to a conclusion,”
he said.
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7 file nominations
for 4 RS seats
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, Jan 28|15: Seven
candidates today filed nominations for the elections to the upper house of the Parliament, an
official said Wednesday. The
election for the four Rajya Sabah seats is scheduled to be held
on February 7.
As per the Returning Officer
for Biennial Election to the
Council of States, seven candidates filed their nomination
today. Those who filed nominations are Mir Mohammad Fayaz
and Nazir Ahmad Laway from
PDP, Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo and
Nasir Aslam Wani from NC,
Shamsher Singh and Chander
Mohan Sharma from BJP and
Ghulam Nabi Azad from Congress. The scrutiny of nomina-
tion papers will be held at the
office of the Returning Officer
(Secretary, J&K Legislative
Assembly) or to the Assistant
Returning Officer (Deputy Secretary, J&K Legislative Assembly) in the Jammu and Kashmir
Legislative Assembly Secretariat, Jammu on Thursday.
The elections have been necessitated as four seats from
the state are going to fall vacant with the expiry of terms of
Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi
Azad and Saif-ud-Din Soz on
February 10 and National Conference (NC) leaders G N Ratanpuri and Mohammad Shafi on
February 15. BJP has 25 MLAs
in the 87-member Jammu and
Kashmir Assembly while PDP
28 MLAs.
Mercury dips across Valley; Leh
coldest at minus 16.4 deg C
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Srinagar, Jan 28|15: The fa-
mous ski-resort of Gulmarg in
north Kashmir experienced the
coldest night of this winter as
the minimum temperature in
the Valley and Ladakh region
slipped further below the freezing point.
Gulmarg, the star attraction
for tourists visiting the Valley
during winter, recorded the
minimum temperature of minus
10.6 degrees Celsius, down by
nearly two degrees from minus
8.4 degrees the previous night, a
spokesperson of the MeT department here said.
The southern Pahalgam hill
resort, which serves as a base
camp during annual Amarnath
yatra, recorded a minimum of
minus 6.6 degrees Celsius, down
by over two degrees from the
yesterday’s minimum at minus
4.4 degrees Celsius.
Srinagar, the summer capital
of Jammu and Kashmir recorded a low of minus 2.3 degrees
Celsius, compared to the previous night’s 2.2 degrees Celsius,
he said. Kupwara town in north
Kashmir, which recorded a low
of minus 1.4 degrees Celsius yesterday, registered a dip as the
night temperature settled at a
low of minus 4.2 degrees Celsius.
Qaziund - the gateway town
to Kashmir - recorded the minimum of minus 0.9 degrees Celsius against 0.2 degree Celsius
the previous night, the spokesperson said. He said Kokernag
in south Kashmir registered a
low of minus 4.9 degrees Celsius,
down by nearly three degrees
from yesterday’s minus 2.1 degrees Celsius.
The night temperature fell by
over three degrees in Leh town
of the frontier region of Ladakh
to settle at minus 16.4 degrees
Celsius, he said, adding, Leh
was the coldest recorded place
in the state. In the nearby town
of Kargil, the minimum
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Huge cache of arms recovered
More Revenue officials Militants
hideout busted in Kishtwar
in Vigilance net
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, Jan 28|15: Vigilance Organisation has registered case against revenue officials of District Samba. The
complaint was received through
State Vigilance commission
from the Principal Accountant General (Audit) regarding
illegalities committed in the
transfer of state land under
Roshni Act by officers/officials
of Revenue Department District
Samba.
A verification was conducted
into the allegations and it has
emerged that while settling the
cases of illegal occupants for
vesting of ownership rights, the
officers/officials of Revenue Department District Samba have
committed illegalities by abus-
ing their official position, which
include improper recorded possession, insufficient and incomplete documents, and the rates
have not been fixed by Price Fixation Committee as per provision of the act and in many cases
money has not been remitted to
Govt. Treasury besides, violation of prevention of Ribbon Development Act, non-eviction of
illegal occupants from the state
land and not putting the state
land to auction.
The omission and commission
on the part of revenue officers/
officials of District Samba prima-facie disclose offences u/s
5(1)(c), 5(1)(d), r/w 5(2) of J&K
P.C.Act, Svt 2006 section 120-B
RPC and section 17 of State
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Jammu,
Jan
28|15: Army and Po-
lice, in a joint operation, today claimed
to have busted a big
hideout of Hizbul Mujahiddin in Kishtwar
district. Acting on
a tip off, a joint team
consisting of troops
of Delta Force and
Kishtwar police today
carried out a massive
search operation in
Sirthal area, an Army
officer said.
Sirthal has been a stronghold
of Hizbul Mujahiddin terrorist
outfit for the past many years
and hideouts of such nature are
often utilised by terrorists during winters. The continuous
efforts of two days by security
forces in adverse weather conditions resulted in the busting of a
natural cave hideout.
“The joint operation was carried out on a tip off from a local
source leading to the busting of
the hideout,” he said. Security
forces unearthed a huge cache
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Art 370, AFSPA and grant of citizenship rights to West Pak refugees bone of contention
Mufti’s Mumbai visit, administrative
reshuffle hints delay in govt formation
KSHITIJ SHARMA
Leaders belonging to a number of
mainstream political parties
apprehend delay in the formation of the government in State
despite the fact that the PDP and
the BJP were close to forging a
power sharing plan.
The plan for forming a coalition Government surfaced
when the BJP and the PDP gave
ample indication about joining
hands for giving to the state a
strong and stable Government.
This indication became available when the two decided to conJammu,
Jan
28|15:
test two Rajya Sabha seats each.
If inside reports are to be
believed the process of govt
formation would be delayed
further till second week of February 2015. According to reliable sources in PDP, party patron Mufti Mohd Sayeed would
be visiting Mumbai for a period
of seven days and expected to
return after February 6 to take
part in the Rajya Sabha polls on
February 7.
Mufti Mohd Sayeed is scheduled to visit Mumbai between
January 30 and February 6,
highly placed sources revealed.
Till then the government formation cannot take place in the
absence of Mufti Mohd Sayeed,
informed sources confirmed.
Further, those who believe
that the Government formation
may take more time argue that
had the Government formation
been round the corner the Governor, N.N.Vohra, would have
not ordered major reshuffle in
the civil and police administration.
The way the shake-up in the
civil and police administration
has been ordered does not show
any urgency in shifting people
from one post to the other. The
major shake-up seems to be of
normal routine indicating that
Vohra had some inklings on
delay in the Government formation. Even Omar Abdullah
has voiced views on the reshuffle saying that shake-up in the
administration indicated that
Governor’s rule was to stay for
some more time.
Though the BJP and the PDP
plan to join hands for fighting
the Rajya Sabha poll on four
seats, the two have yet to settle
on a common minimum programme. According to a senior
PDP leader, the issue of full
term for Mufti Sayeed as Chief
Minister, was no issue. Even
Naeem Akhtar, Chief spokesman of the PDP, has confirmed
that for the PDP full term for
the Chief Minister was not an
issue because the PDP believed
in providing a stable Government so that peoples’ problems
were resolved. Inside reports
said that the PDP leadership
wants the BJP to make its stand
clear on some controversial and
ticklish issues, including Article 370, AFSPA and citizenship
rights for the West Pakistan ref-
ugees settled in Jammu. These
reports said that the issue of resumption of talks with Pakistan
and Kashmir separatists could
be discussed even after the coalition Government was formed.
Reports said that a section of
the BJP and PDP leaders want
that the contentious issue related to Article 370, AFSPA and
grant of citizenship rights to refugees from West Pakistan could
be kept under the carpet. These
issues could be taken up for discussion after people realized the
impact of good governance from
the PDP-BJP coalition rule.