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STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: In a programmeheld at Raipur-Domana BJPOffice on Tuesday for payingfloral tributes to formerPrime Minister Atal BehariVajpayee, over three dozenworkers of different politicalparties joined BJP in pres-ence of former Minister BaliBhagat.

They were welcomed intothe party-fold by formerMinister Bali Bhagat andother senior leaders of BJPwhich includes Ex. District

President BJP (Rural) SukhDev Singh Jamwal, PrabhariState BJP Kisan MorchaKaran Singh, Ved Prakash,Kuldeep Singh Chib andMohinder Bhagat.

While paying tribute to for-mer Prime Minister AtalBehari Vajpayee, Bhagat saidVajpayee was the first non-Congress Prime Minister tocomplete full term of fiveyears. During his tenure asPrime Minister; the economywas in a great shape-the GDPrate was above eight per cent,

inflation was below four percent and foreign exchangereserves were overflowing, headded. He further elaboratedthe ambitious roads projectshe launched-the GoldenQuadrilateral and thePradhan Mantri GraminSadak Yojana.

Bali Bhagat, while welcom-ing the people who joinedBJP, said that we have 65 percent population of youth andthey have a very importantrole in making the mission ofNarendra Modi to make Indialead the world in 21st century.

Those who joined BJPincluded Darshan Singh,Bhagwan Singh, AshokSingh, Karan Singh,Narender Kumar, BrijMohan, Mohit Langeh, PolaSingh, Ashok Singh, SheetalSingh, Faqir Singh,Bishamber Singh, HoshiarSingh, Rohit Singh,Dharminder Singh, BuaDitta, Raj Kumar and SanjayKumar.

Vajpayee's doctrine is acknowledged world over: Bali

Former Minister Bali Bhagat along with newly joined members during the programme at Jammu.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Ramesh Kumar,Deputy CommissionerJammu inauguratedChristmas Mela by cuttingChristmas Cake at ChristianColony Vir Marg Jammu.

Chander Mohan SharmaMayor of Jammu, FrKuriakose PresidentChristian Fellowship Trust,Pastor Vinod, S.M Gill Ex-MLC, Nicodemus PresidentChristian FederationJammu, Rajesh Gill ChiefProsecuting Officer, DyLazar Kandayara GeneralSecretary ChristianFellowship Trust, FestusSotra, Asif Gill, DavidMattoo Executive membersof the Christian FellowshipTrust Jammu, Nasir Masih,Rohit George and Thomaswere also presents.

The Christmas Mela wasconducted in a very colourfulmanner under the banner ofChristian Fellowship TrustJammu in which all thechurches of the Jammu city

participated and spread themessages of Jesus, his birthand His working by singingChristmas carols.

The people of differentchurches participated in theChristmas Mela includes

Representatives of St.Peters Catholic ChurchJammu, St. Paul ChurchResidency Jammu,Pentecostal Church Jammuand other churches ofJammu and its surroundingareas also participated.

Ramesh Kumar, whilespeaking on the occasion,

wished that this Christmasmay bring peace and happi-ness in the State and all peo-ple may live in peace andshare joy and happiness witheach other. He furtherassured the Christian fellow-ship Trust Jammu for allsupport from the governmentfor the welfare of the youthsso that they may not involvein drugs or other alliedthings.

Mayor Chander MohanSharma announced thatdrug de addiction centre willbe opened in the Christian

Colony for the youths of theChristian community.

Earlier, Fr. KuriakosePresident of the ChristianFellowship Trust Jammusaid that love, joy and peaceare the main ingredients of awonderful Christmas so weshould share love and joywith each other.

Earlier Rajesh Gill gavebrief objective for the con-duct of Christmas Mela. Healso highlighted the problemsof youths involving in drugsand required more intentionand programmes for theyouths. Festus SotraExecutive Member of theChristian Fellowship Trustconducted the proceedings ofthe programme. Others whospoke on the occasion includeS.M Gill Ex MLC, PastorVinod, Nasir Masih, Asif Gilland Rohit George.

Band of St. Peter's CatholicChurch Orchestra enthralledthe general public of the cityby singing of lovelyChristmas Carols.

DC Jammu inaugurates Christmas Mela

Deputy Commissioner, Ramesh Kumar inauguratingChristmas Mela at Jammu.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: "In the way, ourpackage and demands arebeing destroyed under pre-planned conspiracy by theGovernment of India and theGovernor's administration;PoK DPs have decided tolaunch indefinite ChainDharna that will begin fromThursday i.e, December 27,2018 until and unless ourmain key issues related toPoK DPs are fulfilled," SOSInternational ChairmanRajiv Chuni said.

Briefing media personshere on Tuesday, Chuni saidthat PoK DPs are fed up ofthe brutal approach of gov-ernment to resolve the issuesof the community who havebeen starving for the last 70years and living under inhu-mane conditions as govern-ment has failed to providemuch needed justice for theforemost victims of Statewho took first ever bullet inorder to save the existence ofthis erstwhile princely State.

"The Chain Dharna marksmain key issues related toPoK DPs in which imple-mentation of PoK DPs pack-age passed by NC-CongressCabinet in 2014 in toto,implementation of uniformpolicy for all themigrants/displaced commu-nities including PoK DPs,establishment of corridorsfor PoK DPs to visit theirreligious places and shrineslocated in PoK, restorationof 1/3rd i.e. eight seats lyingvacant for PoK areas in

Legislative Assembly, inclu-sion of 5,300 DPs familiesliving outside the J&K Statein the ambit of package forPoK DPs and return of cashdeposits of PoK DPs layingin the J&K Bank, MirpurBranch", Chuni revealed.

Chuni further said thatSOS International has beenwriting for seeking timefrom Governor for the lastthree months but noresponse has been receivedso far. SOS International inits last press conference has

warned the government ofplaying dirty gimmicksagainst PoK DPs but thespree did not end therefore,we have launched this ChainDharna. SOS InternationalChairman further said thatgovernment always worksfor the cause of ValleyMigrants as Government hasenough time, enough moneyand liberal policies for themall the time but it doesn'thave such things for PoKDPs.

Chuni said that PoK DPsfrom all over the State andoutside the State will partic-ipate in this Chain Dharnaprotest to express their griefand aggression against thegovernment, the Dharna willstart at 11:00 AM and willend at 3:00 PM daily.

Among others who werepresent includes Prof. N.NSharma, V.K Datta, Ved RajBali, Tilak Raj Sethi,Pramod Ghai, Harpal SinghSudan (Rajasthan) and BhaiRam Singh.

SOS Intl to begin Indefinite Chain Dharna: Chuni

Chairman SOS International, Rajiv Chuni speaking tomedia persons at Jammu.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: To mark the BirthAnniversary of former PrimeMinister Atal BihariVajpayee, State unit ofBharatiya Janta Party (BJP)led by Its General SecretaryYudhvir Sethi on Tuesdayheld a number of public meet-ings in different wards ofJammu East AssemblyConstituency where scores ofpeople joined BJP andpledged to work for bringingin reformative measures. Theday was also observed as goodgovernance day. BJP General Secretary said

that Party Chief RavinderRaina has resolved that on allgood governance days maxi-mum people should be madeto join BJP on booth levelsand in that continuationscores of people today joinedBJP from Ward No1,2,3,6,7,10,11,15 and 19 ofJammu East in presence ofYudhvir Sethi.

Speaking on the occasion,Yudhvir Sethi said GoodGovernance Day was estab-lished in 2014 to PrimeMinister Vajpayee by foster-ing awareness among theIndian people of accountabili-

ty in government. He said thepresent dispensation at theCentre led by Narendra Modihas also good governance canbe done by ensuring account-ability and bringing andtransparency in the system.

Among others who werepresent included AnilMasoom and NarottamSharma (Corporators),Gulshan Mahajan, Pt Viney,Rajesh Dogra, Vijay Shastri,Brij Mohan, Ramesh Gupta,Girdari Lal, Ram PrasadMahajan, Govind Sareen,Vishal Kohli, PradeepSharma, Anil Mahajan, RaviSingh, Kartar Mahajan,Sardar Gurcharan Singh, RajKumar Mahajan, ParveenKarni, Vijay Mahajan, Satish,Sunil Sethi, Vindod Gupta,Gurdas Sharma, VishuPratap Singh, Trilochan NathDutta, Harvinder SinghSonu, Rajesh Bali, SanjeevSahni, Kaka Sharma andSidhu Sharma.

Meantime, those who joinedBJP resolved to work forstrengthening party at all lev-els and ensuring that all peo-ple of all wards of JammuEast are made aware of allschemes and at developingstate and is people.

Good governance is a way of life: Yudhvir Sethi

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Arun Gupta fromArun Art Printers andPankaj Sethi from Sethi ArtPrinters have been con-ferred National Awards forExcellence in Printing at13th NAEP edition, 2018by Thiru Sellur K. RajuMinister of Co-Operation,Tamilnadu Government atHotel Courtyard byMarriott, Madurai.

Having maintained excel-lence in the field of printing,Arun Gupta has been yetagain conferred anotherGold National Award andPankaj Sethi Gold and threeSilvers.

It is pertinent to mentionhere that both have clinchedthe National Award forExcellence in Printing formaintaining proficiency andquality excellence in the fieldof printing consistently overa period of past fourdecades. The awards werepresented at Madurai dur-ing a function organised byAll India Federation ofMaster Printers (AIFMP).

Ravi Gupta, PresidentJ&K Offset Printers'

Association (JKOPA),Jammu congratulated mem-ber of JKOPA for receivingNational Award.

In this award functionAIFMP received entries indifferent categories includ-ing newspapers, book print-ing, posters, calendars, cata-logue, diaries, packagingmaterial, digital printingetc. which were divided intosmall, medium and big cate-gories. This time the neweditions of the award werekept for Small Printers also.

The main categoriesincluded offset, screen print-ing, flexography, gravure,small offset and digitalprinting. During the func-tion attended by stalwarts ofprinting media 350 entries

were awarded. The highestnumber of entries wasreceived from Mumbai, fol-lowed by Nagpur and NewDelhi.

This is one of the mostprestigious awards in theprint industry recognised byGovt. of India, which washosted by The MaduraiDistrict Offset PrintersAssociation, Madurai. This13th Edition of NationalAwards for Excellence inPrinting witnessed a Pan-Indian participation asentries poured in fromJammu in the North toCochin in the South, fromSurat in the West to Imphalin the East as also fromplaces like Dimapur andViradhu.

Jammu Printers conferred NationalAwards for Excellence

Arun Gupta from Arun Art Printers and Pankaj Sethi fromSethi Art Printers receiving National Awards.

BJP leaders paying tributes to Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: The youth brigade of All India Kashmiri Samaj(AIKS), an apex body representing Kashmiri Pandit organisa-tions, held a meeting of stalwarts and experienced professionalsfrom the KP community here the other day.

The delegates discussed a few critical aspects of community.The discussion was first of its kind interacting with our veryown who shared their insights, learning and thought leadership.The event was aimed to jointly create a vision to address a com-mon issue of Kashmiri Pandit youth brigade via a lens of youth.

The event was attended by professional prominent leaders,journalists, youth activists and social workers of Jammu andKashmir. The discussions revolved around status and position-ing of Kashmiri Pandit youths, currents situations in Jammuand Kashmir. Ajay Bharti, VP, BJP Chapter congratulated theorganisers for initiating this very pertinent initiative of connect-ing the youth. He apprised the audiences of the key initiativestaken by the community to survive with dignity and pride. Hesaid that the KP are made of a very special DNA, he said timeand again we have faced atrocities but even then we have comeup like a phoenix. He requested team AIKS to enrol more youthand bring all KPs organisations under AIKS banner so that thevoice is strong and clear.

While sharing his views, Anil Bhat, Head PTI Jammu chap-ter apprised the audience of strengthening the four pillars ofdemocracy.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Mulkh Raj AshokKumar Jewellers (MRAK) isauthorised distributor ofIndia Bullion and JewellersAssociation (IBJA) in wholeJammu and Kashmir andalso in Himachal Pradesh.The Gold coin/Bar is avail-able in all the weights start-ing from 1 to 100 grams withpurity 999.9.

On the eve of festivals,Mulkh Raj Ashok Kumar(MRAK) Jewelersannounced 30 per cent dis-

count on IGI certified dia-mond for their esteemed andvaluable customers tillDecember 31, 2018.

"Don't miss festival specialgold rate which is less fromthe entire market.

Our entire gold jewellerycollection is BIS approvedwith 5 Stamps," said AnkurSuri, Managing Director,MRAK Jewelers.

"Mulkh Raj AshokKumarJewellers are the onlyjewellers in Jammu who offergold on low price in the com-petitive market," he added.

Suri said "Every brandbecomes great with greatproduct.

Our unflinching aim is tocontinuously surprise ourcustomers with the quality,endurance and superlativefinish of our products."

Founded in 1947 by thevisionary entrepreneur (late)Lala Mulk Raj Saraf, MRAKJewellers at present has twoshowrooms in Jammu atGandhi Nagar, LakhdattaBazaar.

"The jewellery house alsopresents new collection ofKundan diamond edition andKundan Gold edition stud-ded with Polki within itsbridal jewellery range char-acterized by a perfect blendof elegance and grace, espe-cially for its loyal clientele,"he said, adding that MRAKJewellers is one of the few tooffer BIS certified gold anddiamond studded jewellery inthe State.

MRAK becomes authorised distributor of IBJA for J&K, HP

AIKS Youth Brigade -Confluence2018 meeting held

AIKS members during the programme at Jammu.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: A week-long health awareness pro-gramme was commenced here on Tuesday byIndian Red Cross Society, J&K State Branchand the Samba District Branch with the kindsupport of Reena Chaudhary, Sarpanch atPanchayat Ghar, Pangdour, Samba.

The camp on health related matters is beingheld under the supervision of SeniorOrthopedician, Dr. Bias Dev and Dr Anuradha,Senior Gynecologist (GMCH, Jammu). On thefirst day of camp, around 100 people were pro-vided free medical consultation and medicinesby the team of Red Cross. On the sidelines,

Health and Hygiene Awareness Camp wasorganised in two schools of the Pangdour,Samba in which around 200 students partici-pated. Programme Manager, IRCS-J&K,Imran Muzaffar said that the team of RedCross have been deputed by General Secretary,Shafi Rather with a motive to provide freehealthcare to people of the Pangdour, Samba.

"We aim to pursue our goal of awareness aboutHealth and Hygiene among the student com-munity of the area," he said adding that the pro-gramme will be carried out till December 31,2018 among the rural and border areas of dis-trict Samba.

STATE TIMES NEWSLEH: As Doordarshan Leh programmers can be watched onDD Kashir, Prasar Bharti has announced to close terrestrialLPTs in Leh District from December 29.

According to the Assistant Director (ENGG) DoordarshanKendra Leh, Terrestrials LPTs will be closed as par DG, DD'sletter No 3(2)1 ATT rationalization/2018/E-II/5/6/5.22 datedNovember 30, 2018. "It is hereby informed to the generalpublic/viewers that Doordarshan channels are available on DTHplatform at 'DD FREE DISH", DD Leh notifies.

It is pertinent to mention here daily 30-minute DD Leh pro-gramme including 15-minute Ladakhi news has been on satelliteon DD Kashir channel since 10th September this year. BeforeSeptember this year DD Leh programmes was telecast only onterrestrials LPTs only, restricting to a few viewers within LehDistrict itself for almost two decades.

Range of Gold coin and Bars at Mulkh Raj Ashok Kumar Jewellers in Jammu.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee

(JKPCC) mourned demise of Haji Abdul Kabir, brother of

Jahangir Mir (Ex-Minister) who expired on Tuesday morning at

his native town Poonch. He was 85. President JKPCC, Ghulam

Ahmed Mir expressed deep shock and grief over the sad demise

of Haji Abdul Kabir. In his condolence message, Mir described

him as a great social worker who remained associated with the

Congress Party and devoted his entire life in the service of people.

PCC Chief on behalf of rank and file of the party has conveyed

heartfelt condolences and deep sympathy to the bereaved family

and prayed for peace to the departed soul in heaven.

PCC mourns demise of Haji Abdul Kabir

DD terrestrial LPTs of Leh tobe closed from Dec 29

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Shri KailakhJyotish Avim VedicSansthan Trust organisedTulsi Pujan Diwas in thepremises of Ram MandirBantalab.

On the occasion, formerYuva Rajput SabhaPresident, Surinder Singhwas the Chief Guest andhighlighted the impor-tance of Tulsi.

Trust President MahantRohit Shastri said "In ourHindu religion Tulsi getsimportant place in ourdaily life."

Sarpanch PanchayatKeran Dharminder Singh,Komal Singh, VickySingh, Kaaku Singh,Vishal Khajuria, SkeetGoswami, Pt Shiv DuttSharma and Rahul Sethwere also present.

Tulsi Pujan Diwas celebratedat Ram Mandir Bantalab

Members of Shri Kailakh Jyotish Avim Vedic Sansthan Trust during the Tulsi Pujan Diwas at Jammu.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: MLC Ch. VikramRandhawa on Tuesday conduct-ed an extensive tour to the neg-lected areas of Gandhi NagarAssembly segment and tookstock of the problems beingfaced by the people.

Randhawa visited ShantiNagar and New Shanti Nagarwhere he assessed the problemsbeing faced by the people. Thelocals of the area apprised theMLC about the lack of basicamenities like supply of drink-ing water, poor sanitation anddeteriorated condition of lanes

and drains of the area.Randhawa, while addressing

the people, expressed resent-ment that the area being part ofthe major constituency of theJammu has been neglected bythe previous Congress MLAwho remained minister twiceduring his two consecutiveterms. He said that BhartiyaJanta Party (BJP) is commit-ted to the all-round develop-ment of every nook and cornerirrespective of caste, colour andcreed. Randhawa assured themthat the development will bedelivered at the doorsteps of the

people and all the developmen-tal works of the area would becarried out in phased manner.The locals appreciated the visitof the MLC.

Meanwhile, Randhawa duringhis visit to the Azad Nagar nearChatha kick-started the work ofthe lane and drain which wouldbe constructed at an estimatedcost of Rs 7 lakh. The funds forthe construction of lane anddrain have been provided byhim out of his CDF.

Randhawa said that the con-struction of lane and drainwould connect Govindpura andAzad Nagar and it would reducethe distance of around five kilo-meters. He said that it was thelong pending demand of the peo-ple of the area and has been ful-filled. Those who accompaniedCh. Vikram include Paras Ram,Ch. Harbans Singh, ParamjitSingh, Sub Sukhbir Singh,Avtar Singh, Apinder Singh,Amrik Singh, Amardeep Kour,Gurjeet Kour and VijaySharma.

All round development my priority: Randhawa

MLC Vikram Randhawa inaugurating development work.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Neha Lahotra- therenowned actor anddirector of the State,has once againstaged her mostfamous play 'MainDamini Bol RahiHun'.

'Main Damini BolRahi Hun'- written,directed and per-formed by Neha Lahotra,Junior fellow member of

Centre for Cultural Resourcesand Training (CCRT),

expressed the pain ofthe dead girl, risingout of her half-burntfuneral pyre. ActressNeha Lahotra re-livedDamini as she por-trayed her harrowingexperience and madethe audience wipingtheir tears throughout

her performance. "I just triedto open the eyes of the society,

who have shown their sympa-thy for her after she was rapedand brutally murdered. But noone came to help her, when shewas in trouble and being rapedon the roads of the nationalcapital," said Neha Lahotra.

The play was staged duringRang Tarang Festival-2018,organised by AnuroopPathania under the banner ofNutan Prayas Manch atGovernment PolytechnicCollege Jammu.

‘Main Damini Bol Rahi Hun’ staged

Red Cross organises free promotional health camps