DODA, Mar 14: Deputy Commissioner, Doda, Farooq Ahmed Khan, today inaugurated Jammu Premier League T20 Cricket Tournament at Sports Stadium here.
The tournament is being organised by 10 RR in collaboration with J&K Youth Services and Sports Office, Doda, to tap the cricketing talent among the youth of the region.
Speaking on the occasion, DDC said the district has immense sporting talent and these kinds of tournaments have become instrumental to boost the potential of youth so that they could compete at higher levels.
Deputy Commander, 4 Sector, Col D S Sankhyan, CO 10 RR, Major Tanay Kotyal, DySP (DAR), Surjeet Kumar and DYSSO Doda, S R Kotwal were also present.
JAMMU, Mar 14: Director General of Police (DGP), Kuldeep Khoda, today inaugurated the 2nd Police Martyrs T20 Cricket Tournament at M A Stadium here.
Speaking on the occasion, the DGP said the objective of conducting the tournament was to channelise the energy of youth to promote sports in the State and enhance police-public relations.
He also declared that a women cricket tri-series between Queen Blues, Queen Reds and Queen Greens will also be held from March 21 at the same venue.
A total of 12 teams drawn from various districts of the State are competing in the tournament being organised by J&K Police under the supervision of IGP Jammu, Dilbagh Singh.
Prominent among others present on the occasion included Additional DGPs Dr S P Vaid and Ram Lubaya, IGPs Dilbagb Singh and Gulzar Singh Slathia, DIGs Farooq Khan, A K Atri, Sulaiman Salaria, Garib Dass and Surinder Gupta, SSPs Parbhat Singh, Vijay Kumar, Bhupinder Singh, Nisar Ahmed Khan, Mujtaba, Joginder Singh, Rupender Kumar Chalotra, Mohammad Amin Khan, Shalender Singh, J S Jowhar, Rajesh Kumar, Ramesh Angral and R K Bhat, Kiran Wattal, Secretary, State Sports Council, Jameel, Sunil Gupta, Atul Sharma, Ravi Singh, Randhir Singh, Naveen Sharma, Dhruv Mahajan, Rakesh Koul and Sameer Khajuria.
Former Ranji player, Rajesh Gill is the organising secretary of the tournament.
In the matches played today, Engineers XI dispatched Aircel XI by 30 runs in a one sided affair.
Batting first, Engineers XI piled up 164 runs in the allotted overs which in reply, Aircel XI could manage 134 runs for the loss of nine wickets in their allotted quota of overs.
JAMMU, Mar 14: Nightingale pre-school today celebrated its Annual Day in its both branches at Channi and Rehari respectively.
DIG Jammu-Kathua Range, Farooq Khan, was the chief guest while BJP State Secretary and managing director of the school, Yudhvir Sethi was the guest of honour.
The function commenced with the lighting of lamp by the chief guest and other dignitaries.
Addressing the gathering, DIG, Farooq Khan, said when most of the educational institutions have been converted into an industry, the schools like Nightingale provides a ray of hope for the parents who want their kids to start their basic schooling with quality education and limited resources.
He also appreciated the presentations based on various themes like save girl child, save earth, plant trees, make environment clean and pollution free, make judicious use of water and other natural resources.
Managing director of the school, Yudhvir Sethi said the motive of the institution was to impart good education coupled with inducing patriotic feelings and preparing young kids for future challenges.
Chairman of the school, Priya Sethi presented the annual report and highlighted the achievements.
Earlier, Principal of the school, Priyanaka Kapoor delivered the welcome address.
The students of the school presented various colourful cultural items to mark the occasion.
JAMMU, Mar 14:J&K Bank produced a flawless performance to topple Young Heros Club by whopping 7-0 goals in the ongoing 2nd Rajiv Gandhi Football Gold Cup being played at GGM Science College Ground here today.
Rohit Kumar drew first blood in the 2nd minute to dominate the proceedings from the onset.
Bilal Ahmed them made it 2-0 in the 10th minute while Khalid scored a beauty in the 20th minute to put his team in a commanding position.
Young Heros forwards were clueless against the impeccable defense of formidable J&K Bank team.
In the 28th minute, it was the turn of Rohit to showcase his skills as he put the ball in the goal post to make things more difficult for rival team.
At half time, J&K Bank was comfortably placed with 4-0 lead. The second half was no different from the first as J&K Bank continued to dominate their opponents.
Bilal slammed fifth goal of the team in the 42nd minute followed it with another in the 51st minute to make it 6-0.
Jonny struck the seventh goal of the team in the 53rd minute to virtually seal the fate of the match.
Meanwhile, Wasim Feroze and Pankaj Kumar of J&K Bank and Young Heros respectively were shown the yellow cards.
The match was officiated by Rakesh Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Sohan Kumar, Gagan Kumar and Anil Kumar.
Earlier, PAP Jallahdhar got the better of Power Development Corporation by 2-0 goals. The goals were scored by Pawandeep Singh and Jatinder Singh in the 42nd and 65th minute respectively.
Tomorrow, J&K Forest will take on Sainik Colony in the first quarterfinal while J&K Police is to square off with J&K Bank Academy in the second quarterfinal.
JAMMU, Mar 14: Socialistic Democratic Party (SDP) has expressed concern over plight of poor people of hilly areas of Ramban and Banihal and alleged funds for various schemes in these areas have been misappropriated and all such cases should be probed.
Addresssing a press conference, SDP president, Dr Darakhan Andrabi, said mis-information and deception is what has been ruling these backward areas of Ramban district and held responsible the politicians for all this.
She said, “solar lights meant for poor people were allotted to influential ones and BPL ration given wholesome to the rich, which has been an old practice and continued as a ritual”.
A large number of people of Backward area of Ramban and Banihal joined Socialistic Democratic Party (SDP) on the occasion. While welcoming new political activities of other political parties, she said that new enterents will strengthen party base in these constituencies for which a mega membership drive is going on.
The prominent political activists who were present on the occassion and joined the SDP included Mehboob Ali, Mohammad Ismail, Tariq Hussain, Khalil Ahmad, Abdur Rashid, Mohammad Maroof, Mohammad Aasim, Rafiq Ahmad and Ghulam Qadir.
JAMMU, Mar 14: Kandam Welfare Association Bus Owners Association (KWBOA) today put on service seven newly purchased buses in the presence of Minister for Transport, Qamar Ali Akhoon, in a function jointly organised by Tata Motors India Ltd in collaboration with Fair Deal Motors here.
The new 32 seater semi-deluxe buses will replace the condemned 52 seater old buses from the roads in compliance to the court orders.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said the new buses will ensure safe and comfortable journey to the commuters on the routes where they would ply.
Akhoon also assured every possible help to the association in its endeavours to introduce new buses to replace old ones in the issuance of road permits.
He added that Government was keen to make the journey safe. The Minister also advised the association to engage experienced and well trained drivers for plying these buses to avoid accidents and early wear and tear of the vehicles.
Transport Commissioner, Mehraj Ahmed Kakroo, Joint Transport Commissioner, Sheikh Fyaz, Vinod Dogra, Territory Sales Manager, Tata Motors Limited, Mandal, Area Manager, Saleem Bakshi and Bhagwan Dass were also present.
Jammu, Mar 14: The Chief Executive Councilor, LAHDC, Leh today convened a meeting of Executive Concillers Dr. Sonam Wangchuk, Abbas Abadi, Gyurmet Dorjey, Deputy Commissioner, Leh Tsering Angchuk, district officer and representatives of All Changthang Pashmina Grower Society regarding development of Pashmina in Leh.
The CEC informed the meeting that Punjab Wool Combers United (PWC), Ludhiana was interested to join hands with the LAHDC, Leh for joint development and enhancement of cashmere output from Ladakh though a commercial joint venture and on Public Private Partnership (PPP) establishment with a comprehensive Social Welfare Programme for the Nomadic peoples.
He said that though their proposal is good for development of pashmina in Ladakh and will boost the economy of nomadic people in short time but LAHDC, Leh will join hands with the Punjab Wool Combers United (PWC), Ludhiana only if they will establish the plant at Leh itself.
It was decided in the meeting that if the PWCL will agree to establish the plant in Ladakh by ensuring the utmost benefit to the sheep and goat breeders of Ladakh and economic boost to the local people, the LAHDC will extend full support.
JAMMU, Mar 14: The Forum of Recognised Colleges (FORCE) in collaboration with Indian Colleges Forum, New Delhi, is going to organise a national level summit titled Higher Education Summit-2012 at General Zorawar Singh Auditorium, University of Jammu from March 16 to 17.
Harbans Singh, former Minister and President, FORCE, while briefing the media said the theme of the summit will be “Higher Education for Innovation and Change” wherein over 100 intellectuals from across the country are likely to participate.
He further said the objective of this summit was to highlight the problems and issues faced by higher education and to devise ways to make education socially relevant and employment oriented.
The summit would comprise of various technical sessions like Policy; Practice and Resource Constraint Hindering Innovation and Change; Making Higher Education responsive to innovations and change: Academic initiatives and use of ICT; Role of Private Sector in promoting Higher Education; Best Practices of Innovation and Change in Higher Education; Leadership role in Enabling Higher Education and Change etc.
Harbans Singh added that the report of the summit will be compiled and sent to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, UGC, Department of Higher Education for further necessary action in this regard.
The valedictory function will be held on March 17 at the same venue.
SRINAGAR, Mar 14: The State Information Commission (SIC) is mulling to impose penalty on Assistant Director (Planning) Department of Education who is the Public Information Officer (PIO) of the department as he has failed to provide information about the mid-day meal scheme within the stipulated time frame.
Chief Information Commissioner, G. R Sufi said that the PIO of the Education Department has failed to provide details about the mid-day meal scheme as sought by Haji Ahsan Ali Gonkhapa through a Right to Information (RTI) application within 30 days of the date of RTI application.
Sufi said that since information has been delayed to the RTI applicant by the Education department, the PIO of the department is liable for penalty from April 24, 2010. He said the Education Department should not have any hesitation in providing the information as it was a Government Department and relates to very important aspect of the Government expenditure.
On March 25, 2010 Ahsan had moved the RTI application seeking information about the details of mid-day meal scheme provided to the school children in the state with district wise details for the last three years. He also wanted to know the details about the meals provided to the school children and the expenditure incurred on the scheme in the whole state during the last three years.
Ahsan also wanted to know details about the mid-day meal scheme in Kargil district for the three years and how much money was spent in this district from 2007 to the date of application. He further wanted to know the menu of the mid-day meals being provided to the school children of the state.
The RTI applicant had sought information about the school buildings constructed under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in the state since the inception of the scheme. He wanted details about the money spent on the construction purposes under the SSA scheme in the state along with the criteria set out for the allotment of work in this regard.
Under provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act, 2009, the School Education Department was supposed to provide the information within a maximum period of 30 days to the information seeker, but nothing of that sort happened. The information sought by the RTI applicant was provided after one and a half year.
After not receiving the details, Ahsan approached the State Information Commission and filed a complaint on August 29, 2011. As the complaint was un-signed it was returned to Ahsan and following this he submitted a signed copy on September 19, 2011.
In his decision, the Information Commissioner said that as per section 7 of the State RTI Act 2009 order was to be passed as expeditiously as possible but no later than 30 days from the receipt of the RTI application.
JAMMU, Mar 14: State High Court today stayed investigation in the FIR No.6/2012 under Section 420 RPC registered at City Police Station against Madan Aggarwal.
After hearing Senior Advocate Sunil Sethi assisted by Advocate Sumit Singh, Justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir issued notice to State through Principal Secretary Home, SSP Jammu, SHO Police Station City Jammu and IGP Jammu, Dilbagh Singh for filling objections within three weeks.
In the meantime, the High Court stayed the investigation in the case till next date of hearing.
