Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, June 22:  Thieves struck four shops at Dera Baba in Reasi on the intervening night of June 21-22 and decamped with cash, as well as other items.
Burglary took place in Sharma Kiryana Store, Surinder Stores, Mohd Alam Shop and M/s Pannalal Shop.
From Sharma Kiryana store, Rs 12000 cash, one TV set, juice bottles, Kaju and Rajma were stolen while stolen item from   Surinder stores, include Rs 6000 cash, soap, cold drinks and juice bottles.
Similarly, Rs 3000 cash and some items were stolen from Mohd Alam’s shop.
The thieves had broken locks of the shutters and also damaged lights outside these shops. Rods and master keys were used for the theft purpose.
Police has registered the case but no arrest was made. Suspected gang of scrap dealers has been detained for interrogation purpose, Police said.

Excelsior Correspondent

KATHUA, June 22: A factory worker was killed after his hand was stuck in a roller of Palli Paper Mill here today while he was working in the mill.
The worker was shifted to District Hospital Kathua where from doctors referred him to GMC Jammu but instead of taking him to GMC the management of the Mill shifted him to a Hospital in Pathankote where he succumbed to his injuries.
The deceased has been identified as Surinder Singh. The Kathua Police ahs registered a case under Section 174 but the same was objected by factory workers and they said the case should be registered under 304 RPC. Ram Paul president Workers Union Kathua said that this is a grave injustice with the working class and police is in league with the management.

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SRINAGAR, June 22: A first ever health check-up for beneficiaries of ESI Scheme was organized at AEGIS Complex, Rangreth, Srinagar today by a team of doctors and paramedical staff from ESI Dispensaries Rangreth and Khanmoh and ESIC Hospital, Jammu.
Dr Om Prakash, State Medical Commissioner, ESIC, Jammu & Kashmir and Dr Rehana Kausar, Administrative Medical Officer, ESI Scheme, J&K supervised the medical check up operations. Over 160 employees of institution were examined in the health camps. Needy among them were also given medicines on the spot.
Some cases of surgery, hyper tension, eye defects and burn contracture were identified for further treatment and follow up action during the check-up exercise who would be provided detailed cashless medical / surgical treatment through ESIC Model Hospital, Jammu or through any of the specialty tie- up hospitals in Jammu or elsewhere, as the case would require.
Later, discussing the issues relating to ESI Scheme, Labour Secretary Shahid Anayatullah advised the team of ESIC officers led by Arvind Kumar,  Regional Director,  to hold more such camps in hazardous units such as cement and chemical industries and flour mills. It was decided that such health check up camps would be regularly held in Srinagar, concentrating on hazardous industries.
Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC),  J&K region has been administering ESI Scheme for 1.18 lakh covered employees in the State and providing social security to them besides medical services and other benefits to 4.72 lakh beneficiaries.
Under the Scheme, full Medical treatment is provided to the beneficiaries, besides compensation for salary losses due to sickness, accidents, etc as well as pensionary benefits to the dependants of the employee who meet with fatal employment accident during the course of employment.

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JAMMU, June 22: National Students Union of India has lambasted the State Government for its callous attitude towards the Pahari students fraternity.
Addressing a press conference Raqeeq Khan, State vice-president, NSUI said that more than 5 crore rupees which were supposed to be distributed among the Pahari students post matric scholarship have lapsed. He demanded for  immediate enquiry. It is very unfortunate on the part of Government that Pahari Advisory Board is working without Vice-Chairman which is not tolerable.
Tanveer Malik, senior NSUI leader also said that it is first and last warning to the State Government to release the scholarship amount in favour of Pahari Students at an earliest and also initiate enquiry against the State Government officials who are responsible for this type of injustice.

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JAMMU, June 22: All the Government degree colleges in Jammu city, affiliated to Jammu University,  today released their first cut off merit list for admission to various Under Graduation courses.
With 90.2 percent, highest cut off was registered for Bio-Technology course at GCW Gandhi Nagar. For other courses in this college, cut off  percentage for Medical and Non-Medical,  was 85.4 and 74, respectively. Cut off percentage was 84.4 for Commerce, 80 for Computer Applications, 58.8 for Arts and 51.4 for Home Science.
Similarly in  GGM Science College, the cut off percentage for Computer Science, Bio Technology and Functional English was 85.7, 83.60 and 85.20, respectively. For Medical, the cut off percentage was 60.19 and for Non-Medical, it was 68.4 at GGM Science College.
In  SPMR College of Commerce, the cut off percentage for  B Com, BBA and BCA was 64.4, 82.8 and 74.4, respectively.
In MAM College, the cut off percentage for Arts, BCA and Non-Medical was 54.6, 70.8 and 63.4, respectively.
It may be recalled that the GCW Parade had released its first cut-off merit list on June 19.