ASI arrested after videoshowing him acceptingbribe goes viral in J&K

Jammu, Mar 7:An assistant sub-inspector of

Jammu and Kashmir police was ar-rested on Saturday after a videopurportedly showing him demand-ing and accepting bribe inside a po-lice station in Kishtwar districtwent viral on social media. ASI Ab-dul Subhan, posted at Kishtwar po-lice station, has also been placed un-der suspension and a department

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New Delhi, Mar 7:Prime Minister Naren-

dra Modi on Saturdayasked people to stay awayfrom rumours regardingcoronavirus and empha-sised on the need to followthe advice of doctors inthis regard. He also askedpeople to avoid hand-shakes and start greetingothers with 'namaste' onceagain. In such times ru-mours circulate veryrapidly. Some say don'teat this, don't do that.Some people will bring in

new things such as eatthis to keep coronavirusaway. It is my request toall my fellow countrymen,kindly keep away from

these kinds of rumours,"he said. Whatever you do,kindly do it on the adviceof your doctor. Let's not

Appeal to people to stay away from rumoursregarding coronavirus: PM Modi

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Class 10 paper mentions‘Azad Kashmir';

2 officials suspendedBhopal, Mar 7:

The opposition BJP on Saturdayhit out at the Congress governmentin Madhya Pradesh after a class 10question paper of the state board re-ferred to Pakistan-Occupied-Kash-mir (POK) as "Azad Kashmir.Theterm appeared in the class 10 socialscience paper of the Madhya PradeshBoard of Secondary Education(MPBSE), the exam for which wasconducted on Saturday morning.

As Uddhav visitsAyodhya,Sena says no changein party ideology

Shraddha's Baaghi 3 marksa hattrick of double-digitopeners for the actress

SBI c onferenc e ke y takeaways : Chairman clears doubt ov erdep o sitors mone y, employe e s to future inv e stment in Ye s Bank

Govt directs foravailability of masks at

fair pricesJammu, Mar 7:

The government today directedthe Pharma dealers and traders fra-ternity to ensure availability ofmasks & sanitizers to the public atfair prices. The directions in this re-gard were given by the State DrugsController, Drugs & Food ControlOrganisation, J&K Lotika Kha-juria, ADC (Jammu) Mohd Iqbal

NEWS BRIEF

Class work of Primaryclasses suspended in

Jammu, Samba districtstill March 31, 2020

Jammu, Mar 7:The Government today sus-

pended the class work of Primaryclasses in both Government and pri-vate schools of twin districts ofJammu and Samba, till March 31,2020. An order issued by DirectorSchool Education, Jammu reads, “Itis hereby ordered that there shall be

Banihal/Jammu, Mar 7:One person was killed

and another injured onSaturday when rollingboulders from a hillockhit a private car alongJammu-Srinagar na-tional highway, policesaid. The 270-km high-way, the only all-weatherroad linking Kashmirwith the rest of the coun-try, was cleared for Kash-mir-bound stranded vehi-

cles in the morning butthe traffic witnessed fre-quent disruptions due toshooting of stones fromthe hillocks overlookingthe arterial road. A carcame under boulderssliding down from a hillnear Maroog on the high-way in Ramban district,killing Waseem Azad ofSrinagar and injuring hiscousin Manzoor Azad,

Jammu, Mar 7:A woman and her son were ar-

rested on Saturday for allegedlyduping a businessman of Rs 6.5crore, while a search is on to ap-prehend two of their accom-plices, a spokesman of theJammu and Kashmir Police'sCrime Branch said. Touseef Ah-mad Bhat and Shakeela Begumwere arrested on a complaint byRaees Ahmad, who owns a firmcalled Wals Walnut Industries,he said. Ahmad has alleged thathe was tricked into supplying dryfruits worth Rs 6.5 crore by Reyaz

Ahmed Matoo, a resident of Sri-nagar, with whom he had donebusiness for sometime, thespokesman said. In his com-plaint, lodged with the CrimeBranch in Jammu, Ahmad saidMatoo started taking consign-ments of dry fruits from him afterintroducing himself as a dry fruitbusinessman, owning a firmcalled Sadaf Dry Fruit, he said.Matoo continued making pay-ments against the consignmentsto build a trust and one day hetold Ahmad that he had received

Woman, son arrested for dupingJ-K dry fruit businessman of Rs 6.5 crore

New Delhi, Mar 7:The family of Hilal Rather, booked in

a Rs 177-crore bank loan fraud case bythe CBI, has rebutted the charges madeby the Jammu and Kashmir Anti Cor-ruption Bureau, including funds beingtransferred to subversive elements. Astatement issued by the legal counsel ofHilal Rather, the son of former Jammuand Kashmir Finance Minister AbdulRahim Rather, on Saturday said thathaving failed in its primary task of hold-ing public officials accountable, theACB was trying to give a differentcolour to the case by resorting to

Loan fraud case: Hilal Ratherrebuts charges made by J-K ACB

Jammu, March 07:Jammu and Kashmir

Government has decidedto advance the target ofachieving 100% Func-tional Household TapConnections (FHTC) un-der ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’(JJM) by December 2021instead the nation-widetarget of year 2024. TheMission aims to achieveevery rural household ofJ&K to have drinking wa-ter supply in prescribedquantity and quality on

regular and long-term ba-sis at affordable servicedelivery charges leadingto improvement in livingstandards of rural com-munities. In this regardJammu and Kashmir JalShakti Department willdevelop in-village pipedwater supply infrastruc-ture to provide tap waterconnection to every ruralhousehold. Besides ensur-ing development of reli-able drinking watersources and to undertake

augmentation of existingsources to provide long-term sustainability of wa-ter supply system. Wher-ever necessary, thedepartment would ensurebulk water transfer, treat-ment plants and distribu-tion network to cater toevery rural household. Toensure potable drinkingwater to rural house-holds, technological inter-ventions would be imple-mented for removal

Mission Development; Govt to provide 100% FunctionalHousehold Tap Connections by Dec 2021Advances target date from 2024 to 2021

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Jammu, Mar 7:A Kashmiri pandit, whose father was

killed by terrorists in 1997, on Saturdaymoved the Jammu and Kashmir HighCourt, seeking a CBI probe into a slewof terror cases against outlawed terroroutfit JKLF' former leader FarooqAhmed Dar alias "Bitta Karate". Karate,who was arrested last year by the Na-tional Investigation Agency in a terrorfunding case, had earlier been in jail fornearly 16 years between November 1990and 2006 on various charges rangingfrom murders to other heinous acts ter-rorism. He was was granted bail by aTADA court in 2006 on ground of

Son of slain Kashmiri panditmoves HC for CBI probe into cases

against ex-JKLF leader

Jammu, Mar 7:The Pakistan army on

Saturday shelled andfired on forward postsand villages along theLine of Control (LoC) inJammu and Kashmir's

Poonch district, a de-fence spokesman said.The firing from smallarms and mortar shellingfrom across the LoC be-gan at 1:30 pm. In

Pak violates ceasefire alongLoC in Poonch

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Jammu, Mar 7:Shri Mata Vaishno

Devi Narayana Superspe-ciality Hospital claimedto have achieved a newmilestone by successfullyconducting an or-thopaedic surgery on a119-year-old man. Hospi-tal spokesman here saidthat the rare feat was con-ducted by Dr Vikas-Padha, Senior ConsultantOrthopaedics and JointReplacement along withan Orthopedic surgery

team at Shri MataVaishno Devi NarayanaSuperspeciality Hospitalat Katra. Narayana Hos-pital’s latest feat sur-passes the earlier heldrecord of pace maker im-plant surgery conductedlast year on 118-year-oldwoman, said thespokesman. He said thatthe patient Gopal Singh,who hails from Darapnear Satwari area ofJammu, was born onJune 5, 1900, according to

his voter identity cardand was exactly 119 years262 days old at the time ofsurgery. Singh had a fallat his home and sustainedfracture in the legbone(tibia). The operating sur-geon Dr Vikas Padha ex-plained how surgery hasrelieved the pain of thepatient "The configura-tion of fracture requiredinternal fixation for theunion of fracture. Afterthorough discussion with

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New Delhi, Mar 7:The National Commis-

sion for Protection ofChild Rights on Saturdaysought explanation fromthe Madhya PradeshBoard of Secondary Edu-cation (MPBSE) on 'Pak-istan Occupied Kashmir'being mentioned as 'AzadKashmir' in a Class 10question paper. In a letterto MPBSE secretary, theCommission's chairman,Priyank Kanoongo, saidprima facie this seems to

be a criminal offence. Youare requested to urgentlyinvestigate into this mat-ter. The Commission mayalso be informed of the ac-tion taken against the per-son responsible in thismatter," the letter said.One of the questions inthe Social Science exami-nation of Class 10 askedcandidates to identify'Azad Kashmir' on themap. The term also oc-curred in a match-a-pairquestion. Such kinds of

questions are potentiallymisleading which cannegatively influence theminds of children, sinceAzad Kashmir is not aconstitutionally ap-proved phrase or term,"Kanoongo said. Also, us-age of such terms in ex-amination paper by theMadhya Pradesh StateBoard is viewed as en-dorsement of suchphrases which is not inconsonance with the

NCPCR seeks explanation from MP Board for mentioningPoK as Azad Kashmir in Class 10 paper

New Delhi, Mar 7:Prime Minister Narendra

Modi has contributed morethan half of the WHO's globaltarget to give healthcare cover-age by bringing 55 crore peopleunder the Ayushman BharatScheme, BJP president J PNadda said on Saturday.Nadda, a former Union healthminister, also said the govern-ment aims to open 1.5 lakhhealth and wellness centresacross the country. The WorldHealth Organisation (WHO)says it will bring 100 crore peo-ple under healthcare coverage.Prime Minister NarendraModi has already given that to55 crore people through theAyushman Bharat Scheme," he

said. It means Modi ji has con-tributed to over 50 per cent ofthe world's agenda single-hand-edly here in India," Nadda saidon the occasion of JanAushadhi Diwas. The BJPchief said 55 crore people havebeen given health coverage ofRs 5 lakh each under thescheme. On the occasion, theprime minister interacted with

some Jan Aushadhi Kendraowners and Pradhan MantriBhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyo-jna (PMBJP) beneficiariesthrough a video conferencingsession, which was attended byNadda at Krishna Nagar. Innearly 700 districts, through6,700 Jan Aushadhi outlets ,medicines worth around Rs2,200 crore were provided topeople at a cost of just Rs 390crore, in 2019-20," Nadda saidThe prime minister has tried tohelp the common man withgood quality and affordablemedicines through these out-lets, he said. In 472 districts, 825dialysis centres have beenopened through which 5.80

PM Modi contributed more than half of WHO's globaltarget to give healthcare coverage: Nadda

Srinagar, Mar 7:Jammu and Kashmir

police arrested fivedrug peddlers and re-covered contraband inthe valley, a policespokesman said on Sat-urday evening. He said,in Awantipora in southKashmir district of Pul-wama, police estab-lished a checkpoint atShar Shali in the juris-diction of Police StationKhrew intercepted a ve-hicle with four persons

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Doctors perform surgery on 119-yr-old man at Katra'sNarayana Hospital, creates record

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One dead, another injuredas car comes under rolling boulders

on Jammu-Srinagar NH

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Police arrest 5 drugpeddlers in Kashmir

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Jammu, Mar 7:One person died and

another was injuredwhen a landslide hittheir car on Saturday atthe Jammu-SrinagarNational Highway atMarog area in Rambandistrict, police said. Thedeceased was identifiedas Waseem Azad. Ac-cording to police, theywere on their way to Sri-nagar from Jammuwhen the incident oc-curred. The injured,Manzoor Azad, residentof Munawarabad wasshifted to district hospi-tal Ramban for futhertreatment, police added.

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Jammu, Mar 7:In continuation to ex-

pansion of digital initia-tives in the UTs of J&Kand Ladakh, eCourts Pro-ject continues to add newservices for the litigantsand lawyers in the HighCourt and DistrictCourts. In a new initia-tive taken by the HighCourt, the cause listavailable on the websitehas been customized andmade searchable. Withmultiple search options,the cause list can now besearched case numberwise, lawyer wise andparty name wise. Very

soon cause list of thecases prepared by theHigh Court will be for-warded to the lawyers au-tomatically on their reg-istered mail IDs. Thiswill greatly benefit thelawyers as the cause listwill be available to themwithin no time of its gen-eration and they have notto come to the High Courtfor collection of theircopies of the cause list inhard form. The HighCourt has started to col-lect email IDs from thelawyers for this purposeand has requested the

eCourts Project: HC adds moreservices to its website

Cause list customized with multiple search options

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One deadas landslide hits

car in Ramban

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A women sort onions on the eve of International Women Day in Jammu.Shadow/Raman

Jammu, Mar 7:Two suspected coron-

avirus patients undergo-ing treatment at a hospi-tal here were "highviral-load cases", theJammu and Kashmir ad-ministration said on Sat-urday, while announc-ing an immediatesuspension of all biomet-ric attendance in the

Union territory. The ad-ministration also an-nounced the closure ofall primary schools inJammu and Samba dis-tricts till March 31, an of-ficial spokesperson said.The test reports of thetwo suspected coron-avirus patients were re-ceived, which spoke of

Two suspected coronavirus patientssuffering from 'high viral load'

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