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JAMMU, Apr 8: Inspector Sanjeev Singh Chib was today posted as new SHO of Samba police station.
Inspector Chib, who was presently posted as SHO Ghagwal police station and served maximum tenure in Samba district in police and CID wing, will take over as SHO Samba from Inspector Ravinder Parihar, who has proceeded to Chandigarh on departmental training.
Sub Inspector Bansi Lal has been posted as Incharge SHO of police station Ghagwal.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: A deputation of J&K United School Teachers Association (USTA) met Commissioner/ Secretary School Education, Shaleen Kabra, in his office chamber here at Civil Secretariat under the leadership of USTA president, Hari Singh, and demanded high level inquiry in transfers and postings made in education department in last two years.
USTA put forth the charter of demands which included early release of long pending salary of teachers under various schemes, early transfers of those who have completed their tenure in far flung areas by adopting transparent transfer norms, adjustment of promoted masters and lecturers, senior teacher grade in favour of under-graduate teachers, early clearance of ReT regularization files and early free distribution of books.
Other demands of the association were removal of pay anomalies in respect of teachers and masters, DPC of all cadres including fourth class after every six months, release of annual academic calendar, debar teachers from non-academic duties, fill vacant posts in schools, enhance salary of ReT teachers from Rs 3000 to 15000, clearance of pendency under mid day meal, leave encashment at retirement to teachers, regularization of all cadres and mufiasil/dislocation allowance to teachers.
The Commissioner Secretary gave patient hearing and assured early redressal of most of the problems being faced by teaching community.
The deputation comprised of Rajeev Kumar, Pardeep Singh, Shanti Saroop, Kishori Lal, Roop Chand, Ashok Kumar and others.

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LEH, Apr 8: President, Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Kargil Ladakh Mohammad Hassan Pasha met Deputy Commissioner Kargil S Prassana Sawami.
Accompanied by unemployment youths of Kargil, Pasha discussed about the posts lying vacant in various departments.
Pasha also apprised DC about the problems being faced by unemployed youths, who are at the verge of getting over-aged.
DC assured that within 15 days the posts for filling up all the posts lying vacant in various departments will be advertised and filled accordingly.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: Dogra Front and Shiv Sena (DF&SS) held protest against the security provided to the pro-Pakistan individuals.
The activists of Dogra Front and Shiv Sena led by its president Ashok Gupta assembled outside Press Club and raised slogans against the Government for providing security to the pro-Pakistan individuals and burned their effigies. The protestors demanded immediate withdrawal of security and re-opening of cases against these people involved in the death of various people.
Addressing the protestors, Ashok Gupta said huge amounts worth crores were being spent on the security of the pro Pakistan people. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, when took over as CM gave credit to the Hurriyat and the terrorists for the peaceful elections which showed his intentions towards this country although the Election Commission and the security forces were the main contributors for peaceful elections, he added.
Gupta demanded that the security of these pro-Pakistan people should be removed and the money used for their security should be utilized for improving the condition of police and security forces so that the lives of the people of J&K can be saved and the security forces can fight with anti-national elements with full arsenal.
Among others present were Sukhdev Singh, Tony, Vijay, Geeta, Santosh, Kailash, Darshna, Rani, Shakuntla, etc.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Samba held a membership drive outside District Hospital Samba. BJP team members interacted with people and informed them regarding the policies and good governance of the Party.
The BJP members also celebrated its membership drive on becoming the first party of world having largest members. They informed the people about the membership and asked them to give a miss call on the party membership number 18002662020. The party deligates who were present on the occasion were Kashmir Singh district president BJP, Omkar Padha spokesman, Sanjeev Padha Mandal President, Sanjay Gupta district vice president, Madhu Sudhan Khajuria Mandal secretary, Sanju Kumar general secretary, Vikas Mahajan City president, Sandeep Sharma, Mohinder Pal Sharma, Amit Sharma, Sahil Chandel, Lucky Singh, Sunil Kumar, Rewa Sambyal, Rama Khajuria, Sanjeev Kumar & others.

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KATRA, Apr 8: Senior Citizen Welfare Forum Katra organized ‘Bhoomi Poojan’ for establishment of Gho-shalla at village Kadmal about one kilometer away from the base camp of holy shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi.
The prominent citizens including president, Senior Citizens’ Welfare Forum, Katra, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Santosh Sharma, Sarpanch Romesh Chander, Rakesh Dubey (general secretary, Keshav Ashram) and Romesh Chander Sharma (treasurer) were present on the occasion.
The land (5 kanals) for the Gho-shalla was donated by Santosh Kumar Sharma.
While speaking on the occasion, president, of the Forum, Shiv Kumar Sharma disclosed that a separate 11-member trust will be constituted for smooth functioning of the Gho-shalla and land donor, Santosh Kumar Sharma, will be the life-long chairman of the said trust.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: The owners of mini-buses, plying on Shastri Nagar route held a meeting and framed Mini-Bus Owners Union.
During the meeting, the participants also elected committee members including Vimal Sharma, Jagdish Choudhary, Surat Singh, Ajay Kumar, Tony, Vinay Gupta and Sohan Singh.
The committee will take up the issues being faced by the Union with the concerned authorities for redressal.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: Principal Sessions Judge Jammu, R S Jain today rejected the bail application of one Suresh Kumar, who was arrested by the police under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
“In the present case, accused was in possession of 6098 capsules. The question arises, should the accused be keeping such a large quantity of capsules in his possession and if he was keeping the illicit drug in such a large quantity while on the street, it cannot be obviously for his personal use but rather to deal in illicit trade of selling the same to the drug addicts”, the court said.
“Keeping in view the nature and seriousness of accusation against the applicant, the character of evidence, circumstances which are peculiar to the accused, the larger interest of the society and State, this court is of the view that no good ground is made out by the petitioner for enlarging him on bail”, Principal Sessions Judge said.
“Any observation made in this bail application will not prejudice the merits of the challan as and when filed”, the court said while rejecting the bail application.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: The officers of Legal Metrology today conducted extensive checking at Air Plaza Retail Holdings Pvt Ltd with the brand name Vishal Mega Mart at Bahu Plaza and booked different suppliers.
As many as 12 suppliers, dealing with sale of rice, stationary items, biscuits, kitchen utensils and dry fruits were booked by Pooja Kumari, Inspector Legal Metrology for different violations under Packaged Commodity Rules and Enforcement Act for not declaring mandatory declarations like MRP, PKD, Net Weight and not adhering to the prescribed manners of providing information to the consumers.
One such Manufacturer was booked for unfair selling as LPG Stove with inferior metal as the weight declared was 3.5 Kg against the actual Weight, which on inspection came to be only 1.5Kg.
All the deceptive packages were seized and seizure memo was issued to the management of all the companies by the concerned Inspector through Air Plaza to show cause why legal proceedings may not be initiated for the omissions.