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RAMBAN, Apr 16: A lady died due to alleged negligence by doctors at District Hospital here late tonight.
As per police sources, a lady identified as Shehnaz, wife of Riyaz Ahmed of Chabba was admitted in District Hospital Ramban today at around 4 pm after she complained of some dehydration problem.
The lady was undergoing treatment and at around 10:30 pm she breathed her last.
After hearing the news of death of the lady, family members held protest and alleged that the lady died due to doctors’ negligence. They demanded action against the doctors.
On getting information, police team from Ramban police station led by SHO Inspector Ajay Chib under the supervision of SSP Ramban Randeep Kumar rushed to the spot and pacified the agitators.
The body has been shifted to mortuary of District Hospital and postmortem will be conducted tomorrow.
Police has also taken cognizance in this regard.

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NAGROTA, Apr 16: Provincial President National Conference Devender Singh Rana today objurgated PDP-BJP Government for turning blind eye towards Jammu’s legitimate aspirations, saying the coalition was deliberately ignoring simmering resentment among people over denial of All India Institute of Medical Sciences for this region.
He said the BJP is so much intoxicated by power that it has shelved the lofty promises made during elections by selling dreams and inciting passions over, what they used to say, regional discrimination.
“Now that they were supposed to deliver, they have surrendered even basic obligation of representing genuine aspiration as public representatives in a bid to remain glued to power”, Mr Rana said while addressing public meetings at Kishenpur, Upper Kathar, Lower Kathar and Nagola Panchayats in Nagrota Assembly Constituency and described BJP’s nonchalant response to a situation created by vision-less Government at the Centre in connivance with the State Government as sheer betrayal to the massive mandate they got in the Assembly elections.
While lauding the decision to setup AIIMS in Kashmir, the Provincial President said that Jammu equally deserves the facility, particularly in view of its peculiar needs, topography, remoteness of various areas and above all being the premier pilgrim destination of the country. He accused the PDP led Government of being callous and insensitive to Jammu’s cause and forcing people to come to streets.
He urged Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to rise to the occasion and lead an All Party Delegation to the Prime Minister for seeking AIIMS for Jammu. He said Mr Sayeed should understand that he is Chief Minister for all the regions and all sections of the society.
“The present Government must emulate the spirit with which the former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had agitated the issue of Central University at right quarters in New Delhi and got two varsities for the State as a special dispensation, one each in Kashmir and Jammu”, he said, adding that National Conference does not believe in facilities for one region at the cost of the other. This is unacceptable, he said and hoped that the present dispensation will understand this and not lose further time before the situation gets out of control.
Mr Rana said the people of Jammu were rightly feeling a sense of hurt and deprivation as the PDP-BJP coalition has miserably failed in taking cognizance of their legitimate demand. “Instead of appreciating the problem, the duo is taking sadistic pleasure in the unrest among people over the issue of AIIMS”, he added.
The Provincial President asked the PDP-BJP combine to appreciate paradigm shift in political discourse which has elevated from routine politicking to aspirational politics, where peoples’ yearnings remain supreme. He said good politics leads to good governance and those failing to feel public pulse end up in creating a mess, which a state like Jammu and Kashmir cannot afford. He said National Conference has never ever discriminated any region or section of society and it is in this context that the party has been endevarouring to seek justice for all the three regions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.

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JAMMU, Apr 16: The family members, relatives and neighbours of the youth, who was murdered last night by three to four unidentified youths over a petty issue, today blocked the Janipur-High Court Road for about four hours demanding arrest of all the accused persons.
According to reports, the deceased identified as Rakesh Kumar (27) son of Kalu Ram, a resident of Old Janipur, had an altercation with four bike-borne unidentified youths when their bikes collided late night in Old Janipur area, following which the accused badly thrashed Rakesh Kumar, who succumbed to his injuries on way to Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu.
Today afternoon, hundreds of people including family members, relatives and neighbours of the deceased youth along with his dead body blocked Janipur-Bantalab road at Patoli Morh in Old Janipur area demanding the police to arrest all the four accused, who were absconding since the time of murder.
The protestors disrupted the traffic movement on busy High Court road for about four hours and demanded immediate arrest of all the accused. Due to huge gathering of the people and resultant blockage of the road, the police had to divert traffic from Paloura and Tali Morh.
On getting information, SSP Jammu, Uttam Chand, SP City, Shiv Kumar Chauhan, and other concerned police officers reached the spot and assured aggrieved family members that all the accused would be in police net soon, as they have been identified and their bike seized.
Besides, senior police officers, MLA Jammu West, Sat Sharma also reached the spot and extended his sympathy with the family members, who also sought cash compensation from the MLA.
On assurance of senior police officers and the MLA that all the four accused would be arrested soon, the protestors dispersed with the dead body at about 6 in the evening.
When contacted, SP City, Shiv Kumar Chouhan said that that a murder case has been registered against four accused and all of them have been identified. He said that police is making all efforts to nab them and soon all of them will be in police custody.
Later in the night, police claimed to have arrested one of the accused namely Anmol Sharma, son of Vijay Kumar Sharma, a resident of Paloura.

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JAMMU, Apr 16: Department of Students Welfare, University of Jammu is organizing “Lok Rang Mahotsava”, a festival of folk songs and folk dances.
Director College Development Council, Prof Deshbandhu Gupta, formally inaugurated the festival in the presence of Dean Students Welfare Prof Pankaj Srivastava, Chairperson Campus Cultural Committee Prof Parmeshwari Sharma, Station Director, Radio Kashmir Jammu V K Sambyal and Co-Chairman Campus Cultural Committee, Prof Samir Gupta.
Lok Rang Mahotsav is a newly introduced annual programme, organized especially for B Ed colleges. It is a festival of folk dances and folk music, which comprises of three main events “Folk Song (Group), Folk Song (Solo) and Folk Dance.
The need to organize such festival was the regular request by some B Ed Colleges to participate in some cultural festivals as they are not able to participate in “Display Your Talent” due to their different admission schedule. A running trophy was also introduced in “Lok Rang Mahotsava” which is donated by CDC and hence named as CDC Overall champions Trophy.
Almost 300 students from different B Ed colleges are participating in the said event. The day was marked with the melodious presentations of folk songs of different regions. Tomorrow a competition of folk dances will be conducted at the same venue starting at 10 a m.
Others, who were present at the occasion, included Dr Anupama Vohra, Dr Jitender Khajuria, Neeraj Sharma, Ifra Kak, Sumeet Sharma and members of Campus Cultural Committee. The show was compeered by Anam Khan and Mridhu.

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SRINAGAR, Apr 16: Minister for Public Works, Floriculture and Gardens & Parks Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari today toured different areas of the Srinagar city connecting Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover project to take stock of construction work and requisite traffic diversion plan.
Bukhari was accompanied by senior officers including District Development Commissioner Farooq Ahmed Lone, Chief Engineer S K Razdan and officers of traffic and police departments. The Minister inspected various spots wherefrom the traffic is to be diverted.
After reviewing the pace of construction and the traffic movement in the area, the Minister said the Government would evolve a comprehensive traffic plan at a high level meeting of officers that has been scheduled for tomorrow evening at the Banquet Hall.
He said after assessment need for traffic diversion plan was felt in order to alleviate the sufferings faced by the commuters on the given route. The Minister assured that a plan will be formulated to ensure that people don’t face any inconvenience in view of the construction and macadamization of Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh road.
He said Jehangir Chowk Rambagh road may be required to be closed for traffic for a day to facilitate construction work and the normal traffic will be routed through an alternative loop connecting the adjacent areas. He appealed people to cooperate and understand the seriousness of the requisite construction work on this important road.
The Minister asked the PDD officers to repair all street lights across the city without any delay and assured the release of maintenance grants accordingly.
“There is no doubt that Kashmir has witnessed worst disaster during the September 2014 deluge but that phase is now over. The construction material dumped by the people on roadside is not only hampering the free flow of traffic but is bound to give a bad impression to the tourists who come from outside state and the country,” Bukhari said.
During his visit the Minister visited Jehangir Chowk, Sarai Bala, Tulsi Bagh, Naaz Crossing and others adjoining areas.
Several deputations met the Minister and put forth various issues pertaining to day today problems confronting them.
The Minister assured the deputations that their genuine demands would be addressed on priority.

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JAMMU, Apr 16: In order to cope up with the basic necessities of the public, BJP MLA Jammu West Sat Sharma (CA) laid foundation stone of Municipal Toilet Complex-cum-Sanitation Office at Devi Chand Municipal Park in Rehari Colony area of Jammu West.
He was accompanied by JMC Commissioner, Soujanya Sharma. While speaking on the occasion, the MLA termed the step as an initiative to endorse Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’.
After the program, the MLA and Commissioner along with JMC officials toured the area and saw the requirements of maintenance of lanes and drains in the area.
In a press statement issued, Sat Sharma (CA) said that it was a long pending demand of the residents of the area as there was no proper Toilet complex and a sanitation office which should have been made available to public a long time ago.
He said that everyone should adopt cleanliness level and it is imperative that people should contribute collectively in making the country clean of solid waste beside many ills of the society.
Lauding the role of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), the MLA said that the Corporation was making best possible efforts to maintain cleanliness in the city of temples. He called upon the people to protect public property in their respective areas, adding that these assets are meant for their convenience and need to be protected.
Soujanya Sharma stressed upon using these services in a manner so that these could be used for a longer duration of time. He stated that making judicious use of such things in the area will not only keep the vicinity clean but will also help in keeping away filth and unhygienic things from the surroundings.
Sanitation Inspector, Dr Jaffer and Mandal presidents, BJP, Praduman Singh and Ayodhya Gupta, were also present.

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JAMMU, Apr 16: Channi Himmat police recovered a kidnapped minor girl from Amritsar and arrested the accused.
As per police sources, Tilak Raj lodged a complaint with police station Channi that her daughter aged around 16 years has been kidnapped by Arun Singh, son of Kartar Singh of Ramkot, district Kathua.
Acting on the complaint, a case under FIR number 27/15 under Section 363 and 109 RPC was registered at Channi Himmat police station and investigation started.
On specific information, police team conducted a raid and recovered the kidnapped girl from Amritsar and arrested the accused.
Further investigation into the case is going on.
Police team led by Incharge police post Sainik Colony SI Susheel Chowdhary made the arrest under the supervision of SHO Channi Himmat police station Inspector Aejaz Wani, SDPO East Mohammad Rafiq Manhas and SSP Jammu Uttam Chand.

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JAMMU, Apr 16: The Government has promoted Gowhar Hussain Mir, Deputy Director, Prosecution as in charge Joint Director Prosecution in his own pay and grade with charge allowance and other benefits as admissible under rules for a period of six months or till post is filled on regular basis on recommendation of DPC of PSC which ever is earlier.
An order to this effect was issued by Home Department here today.