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DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015 (PAGE 13)

Excelsior CorrespondentJAMMU, Oct 26: A drug

peddler was arrested along withlarge quantity of intoxicantinjections and tablets.

As per police sources, onspecific information, police teamfrom Pacca Danga police stationconducted a raid in Patel Bazararea and nabbed a drug peddler.

On his disclosure, policerecovered 472 intoxicant injec-tions and 350 tablets from the area,where he kept the consignment.

The accused has been identi-fied as Deepak alias Deepu, sonof Raman Kumar, a resident ofPatel Bazaar.

He is a drug addict and alsouse to sell the narcotics amongthe masses especially youths to

make them drug addict. With thearrest of the accused, policeachieved a major success.

A case under Narcotic drugsand Psychotropic Substances(NDPS) Act has been registeredagainst the accused at PaccaDanga police station and investi-gation started.

Police team led by SHOPacca Danga police stationInspector Kuldeep Khajuria andIncharge Chowk Chabutra policepost SI Sunil Manhas made thearrest under the supervision ofSDPO City Perbeet SinghParihar, SP City Shiv KumarSingh Chouhan and SSP JammuUttam Chand.

Manohar flays Govt for slowresponse on Pak- shelling

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JAMMU, Oct 26: FormerMinister and PCC general secre-tary, Dr Manohar Lal Sharmahas criticized the StateGovernment and Administrationfor its `slow response ' inreaching out to the affected peo-ple after unprovoked firing byPakistani troops on the villagescloser to the international bor-der in Samba and Kathua areas.

In a press statement issuedhere today the former MoS,who also paid visit to certainaffected areas today, said thatdue to the Pakistani shelling,massive damage has beencaused to the property of the vil-lagers on this side.

While appreciating thecourage of the border villagers,the PCC leader assured all pos-sible help to the affected peoplefrom Congress party. He alsosaid that Congress would takeup the matter at higher level in

the administration for takingmore effective and immediatemeasures at the earliest.

Dr Sharma strongly demand-ed to shift the people from theaffected areas immediately inorder to prevent the further lossof life, proper arrangement oftheir food, transportation andgrant of adequate compensationto the affected families for theloss of property and live stockperished in shelling. He allegedthat the slackness on the part ofGovernment and local adminis-tration has caused much damageto the people residing in borderareas.

The Congress leaderexpressed deep anguish over theattitude of administration andcriticized the attitude of the BJPleadership at the Centre andCoalition regime in the State fornot shifting people to the saferplaces in time and provide themproper shelter, food and medi-cines.

Azad asks Govt to reachout in quake-hit areasExcelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 26: FormerJ&K Chief Minister and Leaderof Opposition in Rajya Sabha,Ghulam Nabi Azad has urgedupon the Central and StateGovernments to gear up theadministrative machinery forreaching out to the panic-struckpeople in the earth-quake affect-ed areas.

In a press statement issued

here today, Mr Azad expressedconcern and anxiety over themassive earthquake that strucklarge parts of Northern Indiaincluding J&K State this after-noon.. While praying for thesafety and well being of all thecitizens of the country in thistough-hour, Mr Azad calledupon the people to maintaincalm stating that natural calami-ties can be overcome with thefortitude and patience only.

MoS Educationhonours Vipin

Excelsior CorrespondentJAMMU, Oct 26: Minister

of State for Education,Information and Culture, PriyaSethi and senior BJP leader,Yudhvir Sethi, honoured son ofthe soil, Vipin Khajuria, for get-ting nominated in HindiAdvisory Board, Government ofIndia.

The Government of Indianominates members from eachState and Vipin has been nomi-

nated from Jammu and Kashmir.Expressing happiness on the

nomination of Vipin, Priya Sethisaid that it is a proud momentfor the State as State's talent isgetting recognized at Nationalforums.

While felicitating Vipin,Yudhvir Sethi said Hindi hasbeen accepted as a National lan-guage and nomination of amember from the State is aproud moment for the State.

Shaloo Gupta (Master) of GHSS Sarwal (boys) got first prizein Divisional Level Seminar on "Drug Addiction: Role ofTeachers in dealing with menace" organized by the StateInstitute of Education at SIE Muthi, Jammu.

Roller Shaukeens Club, which won silver medal in 3rd AllIndia Open Roller Skating Championship held in Mussorie,Uttrakhand, recently. In league matches, the Club defeated Delhiteam by 7-2, host Mussorie team by huge margin of 14-1, andMeerut team by 6-0 and in the final match Aligarh MuslimUniversity got better of the Club in a close contest by 3-2. RahilGupta scored 2 goals while Shubham scored 1 goal in the finalmatch. The team comprised of Rohit Charak (Captain), RahilGupta, Shiv Pratap Singh, Shubham, Ankush Choudhary (Gk),Aakash, Pratap, Amay, Shivam and Mrigank.

MCA Deptt of BhaderwahCampus organizes Tech Quiz

Excelsior CorrespondentBHADERWAH, Oct 26:

MCA Department of BhaderwahCampus, University of Jammuorganized Tech Quiz competi-tion "Sanganana-2k15" for thestudents of MCA I, III & VSemesters.

35 students of the depart-ment participated in the compe-tition.

The tech quiz was conductedin two stages. The stage I wasthe elimination round in which aWritten Quiz of 30 questions in30 minutes were asked and con-ducted at the morning session.The performance was evaluatedon the number of correctanswers.

The more challenging stageII was conducted at the eveningsession in which only top 15 stu-dents were selected in fivegroups to determine the topteam. The quiz covered ques-tions on current trends in IT,Programming languages,Databases, Operating systemsand the topics related to IT.Majid Anjum, Harpreet Kourand Arjun Singh were the quizmasters. There was a tiebetween two teams. RitavProach, Abrar Ahmed andDeepali Kotwal secured second

position and Tanniya Jamwal,Mohd. Sarfraz and UpmaSharma also secured the secondposition.

Prof. G. M. Bhat, Rector ofthe Campus inspired the stu-dents and suggested them totake part in co-curricular activi-ties in addition to their academ-ics. Earlier, Sourabh Shastri, I/CHead MCA Department andOrganizing Secretary of theQuiz presented welcome adder-ess.

Dr Kuljit Singh, AcademicCoordinator said that in the eraof competitions, it is importantto organize such programmes toprepare the students for biggercompetitions.

The Quiz was anchored byKaramjeet Kour and AaqibHassan Ganai. Arqum Hamid,Sunil Singh, Tanniya Jamwal,Summeta Gupta, MonikaRajput, Majid Anjum, RitavProach and Randeep Raina,coordinated the programme.

At the end, Dr. Kuljit Singhpresented a formal vote ofthanks. Dr. Umesh Choudhary,Dr. Subash Chander, BabluSharma, Muzaffar Hamid, NitinKotwal, Haris Riaz, AbrarSheikh and Arun Singh werealso present on the occasion.

Winners of Quiz Competition being felicitated at BhaderwahCampus of Jammu University on Monday.

Six test positive for Dengue Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 26: With sixmore people today testing positivefor Dengue virus the total numberof patients affected with this vec-tor-borne disease in Jammuregion has reached to 108.

According Dr BS Pathania,Director, Health ServicesJammu, a total of 72 tests wereconducted today for Dengue outof which six turned out to bepositive. He said that all the sixinfected persons are adults (5males and 1 female).

Giving more details, DrPathania, said that out of six

Dengue infected persons threebelong to Jammu district, two toKathua and one belongs toUdhampur district.

He further disclosed that tilltoday the department conducted652 tests for Dengue out ofwhich 108 were found to be pos-itive for Dengue virus.

Dr Pathania advised the peo-ple not to store water in openutensils and allow stagnation ofwater in their surroundings, asstagnant water is a breedingground for Dengue mosquitoes.He also advised the people toprevent themselves from mos-quito bites. Power shut down

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 26: To carryout the works of PCC pole erec-tion and installation of HT/LTcable laying as requested by M/sIRCON International Ltd. underRAPDRP project, the shutdownof D-5, WZ-1, D-4, J-15,Sidhra-2, C-18, C-22 and DG-2feeders has been allowed fromOctober 27 to November 10(excluding holiday) from 9 amto 12 noon and 2 pm to 5 pm.

During the shutdown period,the power supply to Peerkho,Paccki Dhaki, Jullaka Mohalla,Hari Mahal, Lower GujjarNagar, DC Office, Ambphalla,Karan Nagar, Tawi Vihar,Krishana Nagar, ScienceCollege, Lane No. 1, 2, 4, 10,Canal Road area, Gujjar Nagar,Lower Gummat and Danis Gate

will remain affected.Meanwhile, the power sup-

ply to Krishna Nagar, CanalRoad, Rajinder Nagar, IIIM,Dogra Mohalla, Shakti Nagarareas fed from C-19 feeder willremain affected on October 27to November 10 (excluding hol-iday) from 1 pm to 5 pm.

Workshop for mobileschool teachers begins

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JAMMU, Oct 26: The sec-ond phase of the workshop on"Popularization of Scienceactivities under ST Plan(Project), Govt. of India" for theteachers of mobile schools ofJ&K began today atGovernment Women College,Parade, Jammu.

The inaugural function waspresided over by Prof RenuGoswami, Principal GCWParade Jammu whereas H RPakhroo, Joint DirectorTraining/Principal State Instituteof Education and ZafferullahKhan, Founder SecretaryNCURDS, were the guests ofhonour.

The workshop is the jointventure of Vigyan Prasar,Department of Science &Technology, Government of

India, Noida and NationalCouncil for Urban and RuralDevelopment Society(NCURDS), Jammu. The mainpurpose of the programme is tofoster scientific temperamentamong the teachers with mainstress on "Learning by Doing" indischarging effective teachinglearning process that ultimatelywill benefit student communi-ties.

About 50 participants fromdifferent districts of Jammuprovince (Jammu, Kathua,Samba & Ramban) are partici-pating in this four-day work-shop.

Dr Ashaq Hussain, chairmanOrganizing Committee, said thatthe program is an extension ofalready initiated programs bythe organization and here in thisprogram leftover teachers ofmobile schools across JammuDivision will be oriented.

Kuldeep Gupta, ProgrammeCoordinator, briefed about theactivities of NCURDS.

The Resource persons, whowill be interacting with the par-ticipants during this four dayprogram, include Jawaid Alamfrom Patna (Bihar), Zia AhmedKhan, District Science Officer,Aligarh, DST, (UP), Dr AshaqHussain of Govt Degree CollegeKishtwar, Kuldeep GuptaMaster Resource person Jammu.

In the technical session onfirst day of the workshop,Jawaid Alam and Zia AhmedKhan performed several experi-ments related to nature study. DrSunil Wanchoo of SMVDUKatra discussed about Enquirybased learning with the help of aPower Point Presentation. DrSmantha Vaishnavi of Deptt ofBiotechnology SMVDU Katra,threw light on the basic unit oflife.

Drug peddler held withintoxicant injections, tablets

Elderly pilgrimdies after fall

from ponyExcelsior Correspondent

KATRA, Oct 26: An elderlyfemale pilgrim from Delhi, diedhere today after she fell whileriding a pony near HathiMatha.

She sustained a serious headinjury and was rushed to theSagarsuri dispensary atSanjhichat where doctorsdeclared her as brought dead.

The deceased was identifiedas Anguri Devi (80), wife of LtPhool Chand of Pachim Vihar,Delhi. On the pilgrimage, shewas accompanied by her sonRoop Ram.

Meanwhile, Police StationBhawan returned threeunclaimed bags, containingmobile phones, cash and somedocuments, to their owner, whohad lost the same at Bhawanarea.

The bags, containing 2Nokia and one Samsung Mobilephone sets, Rs.1200 cash andsome important documents,were returned to pilgrimDheeraj Pandey, son of O PPandey of C-34 NITTI CampusBhopal, after a proper verifica-tion was conducted by Police.

Mahajan KangalBiradri electsoffice bearers

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JAMMU, Oct 26: A meetingof the executive committee ofAll India Mahajan KangalBiradri was held under thechairmanship of Ganesh DassGupta, chairman of Biradri, toform a new adhoc committee.

The new committeeannounced by the chairmancomprised of Vijay KumarGupta, Sat Paul Gupta, AjitParkash Gupta, Trilochan DuttGupta, Bal Krishan Gupta,Romesh Kumar Ghangal, AnilKumar Gupta, Narinder KumarGupta, Atul Gupta, NaveenGupta and Bharat Gupta.

Devinder Singh headsPunjabi Lekhak Sabha

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JAMMU, Oct 26: DevinderSingh Vishavnagrik has beenelected as president of Punjabi

Lekhak Sabha,Jammu.

Mr Singh hasbeen electedunopposed for thesecond term, inthe elections ofthe Sabha held

under the supervision of DrBaljeet Raina. The elected pres-ident assured the Sabha mem-bers that he would work hardfor development and promotionof Punjabi language in the Sate.Dr Baljeet Raina was appointedas secretary of the PunjabiLekhak Sabha, Dr Manojot astreasurer while Jang S Vermanas press secretary.

Girl killed afterhit by bike

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JAMMU, Oct 26: A minorgirl was killed today after beinghit by a speeding bike atBathindi area of city outskirts.

According to a policespokesperson, the girl identifiedas Asia Bukhari (6) daughter ofRashid Ali Shah, a resident ofGovernment Quarter No 26 atGulshan Ground, Jammu, wason her way back to her maternaluncle's home along with hermother when a rashly drive bikeregistration No- JK02AQ-3208hit and left her seriously injurednear Mecca Masjid, Bathindi,this evening.

The blood ridden girl wasimmediately rushed toGovernment Medical Collegeand Hospital, Jammu, whereshe was declared as broughtdead by the doctors. The bodyof the deceased girl was shiftedto mortuary room of the hospi-tal, where post mortem will beconducted tomorrow.

A case in this connection hasbeen registered at concernedpolice station and further inves-tigations are underway.

Army jawan killedin road mishap

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JAMMU, Oct 26: An armyjawan was killed after the motorbike bearing number JK0AE-7117 on which he was travelingwas hit by a car bearing num-ber UK 14 A 543 while he wascrossing the Highway nearDayala Chak to Rajpora thisevening.

He has been identified asSham Lal, 28, S/o Dila Ram ofRajpora in Kathua district. Hefell down in a pool of blood,police said. He was rushed toHiranagar District Hospital bythe people where doctorsdeclared him as brought dead.

The three car borne youthfled from the spot in a privatebus leaving the car behind.Hiranagar Police has registereda case under relevant Sectionsof the Law and seized the carsaid Investigating OfficerGangu Ram.

He said the dead body hasbeen kept in D H Hiranagarand it will be handed over tofamily tomorrow after post-mortem and completion ofother formalities.

Boy missingExcelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 26: A 15-yearold boy, namely Ali Mohd, son

of Jamat Ali ofBandhi Dwara,Bahu FortJammu, has beenmissing sinceyesterday.

He was last seen yesterdaymorning around 8.30 a.m nearMohmaya Mandir Link Road.At that time, he was wearing ablack jacket and blue jean pent.

The family members havelodged a report in this regard atPolice Station Bahu Fort. A per-son, having any clue about themissing boy, may approach thePolice or contact the familymembers on phone number7298474390 or 9906094137.

JWAM holds anti-Pak protest

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 26: Theactivists of Jammu WestAssembly Movement (JWAM)burnt Pakistan flag and heldprotest for the violation of theceasefire by Pakistan resultingin to injuries to scores of people.

Addressing the protesters,JWAM president Sunil Dimplewarned Pakistan for ceasefireviolation and urged the PrimeMinister Narendra Modi to givebefitting reply to Pakistan forshelling of mortars on the resi-dential areas and the violationsof ceasefire on the LoC.

He extended full support tothe border migrants anddemanded immediate allotmentof the land on the safer places toborder migrants and acceleratethe pace of the construction ofthe bunkers for the villagersalong the LoC.

Man’s body recovered from Kalidhar forest

Excelsior Correspondent

AKHNOOR, Oct 26: Thedead body of a middle-agedman was recovered from forestarea of Chowki Chora, inKalidhar Ranges of districtJammu today.

A police spokesman said thata nomad informed police atChowki Chora in the morningthat dead body of a male waslying in the jungle near TurgalaDevsthan. The police party led bySI Kuldeep Khajuria, in-chargePolice Post, Chowki Chorareached the spot. The policefound that a dog was also roam-ing around the body and someportion of the face had been eatenby the animals. The deceased wasclad in black Jeans pants and blueT-shirt. The police shifted thebody to the mortuary of GMCHospital, Jammu and startedinvestigation. He appeared to bein the age group of 32-35 years.

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KP representativescall on RC, submit

memorandumExcelsior CorrespondentJAMMU, Oct 26: A delega-

tion of Kashmiri Pandits repre-senting various organizationsled by M K Yogi submitted amemorandum to Relief andRehabilitation Commissioner, RK Pandita and demanded imme-diate revocation of orderregarding issuance of rationcoupons on monthly basis.

The delegation also submitted amemrandum to ReliefCommissioner and sought immedi-ate cancellation of the order in thisregard as it has led a lot of resent-ment among the relief holders.

The delegation warned thatthe displaced people will cometo streets in case the order wasnot revoked by the Government.

The delegation alsodemanded bifurcation of rationcards, inclusion of left overmembers in the ration cards,issuance of RBA certificatesand other related problems ofdisplaced people. The delega-tion also sought immediateintervention of Chief MinisterMufti Mohammad Sayeed andRelief and RehabilitationMinister, Basharat Bukhari.

The other members of dele-gation included KundanKashmiri, T N Bhat, RoshanLal Raina, A K Sadhu, KashyapTickoo, B K Bhat, Amit Kaul,Ravinder Raina, S L Dhar,Sham Lal Tickoo etc.

Meanwhile BJP DispalcedUnit general secretary VirenderKuchroo has urged the Reliefand Rehabilitation Minister tolook into the issue and see theproblem from human angle. Acommunity living in exile for26 years was expecting a bettertreatment from present dispen-sation, he added.