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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

SP-Cong alliance will shatter your dreams: PM

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Army pays homage to soldiers killed in counter-insurgency ops

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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Welcome ‘calm’ on LoC, wish for good relations with Pak: Parrikar

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Case against Shah Rukh Khan for rioting, damaging rly property

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CEO reviews preparations for Lok Sabha bypolls

SRINAGAR: Chief Electoral Officer Shantmanu today directed officials to expedite necessary arrangements for smooth conduct of by-elections to two Parliamentary constituencies in the State.

The CEO chaired a meeting to review preparations for the by-elections of Anantnag and Srinagar constituencies, an official spokesman said here.

He said Kashmir Divisional Commissioner Baseer Ahmad Khan, District Development Commissioners of Srinagar and Pulwama and other concerned officials were present on the occasion, while Deputy Commissioners of other Valley districts participated in the meeting through video conferencing.

The meeting held threadbare deliberations on various aspects regarding smooth conduct of the upcoming by-elections, the spokesman said.

On the occasion, preparedness for panchayat elections was also discussed in detail.

The spokesman said the CEO directed the concerned officials to expedite arrangements necessary for smooth and peaceful conduct of the elections. (AGENCIES)

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Kashmir encounters: Major among 4 soldiers killed, 4 militants also gunned down

SRINAGAR: Four army men, including a Major, and an equal number of militants were today killed while 8 other security personnel and a civilian were injured in two separate encounters in Kashmir, officials said.

In an encounter in Kralgund area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district this evening, security forces gunned down three militants hiding in a residential house, a police official said.

Major S Dahiya was injured in the encounter and later succumbed to his injuries, the official said.

Earlier, an encounter took place in Parray Mohalla of Hajin area of Bandipora district this morning.

The gunbattle erupted after security forces cordoned off the area following information about presence of militants there, the police official said.

As the security forces were closing in, they came under fire from the hiding militants, the official said, adding 10 security personnel, including an officer, were injured in this.

Of them, three personnel succumbed to their injuries later, the official said.

One militant, whose identity has not been ascertained yet, was also killed in the operation, he added. (AGENCIES)

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India reports max premature deaths due to air pollution, surpasses China: Report

NEW DELHI: Surpassing China, India now accounts for the maximum number of premature deaths from ozone air pollution in the world, a new study today said.

India’s lives lost to the tiny particulate matter is “approaching” China’s numbers, the study said noting that both the countries together accounted for 52 per cent of the total global deaths attributable to PM2.5 and recorded some 1.1 million early deaths due to it in 2015.

India has witnessed a 150 per cent rise in lives lost over the past two decades from ozone pollutants, according to the ‘State of Global Air 2017’ report.

“As the most populous countries, India and China account for most of the ozone-attributable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) deaths across all years, but India accounts for much (about 67 per cent) of the global increase since 1990.

“Over the last 25 years, India experienced a nearly 150 per cent increase in ozone-attributable deaths, while China’s number remained about the same,” the report said.

It suggested that India outpaced China in 2015, with 8.6 ozone-related deaths for every 100,000 people, compared to China’s 5.3.

According to the report, while 11,08,100 deaths were attributed to PM2.5 exposure in China in 2015, in India, it was 10,90,400. Around 92 per cent of the world’s population lives in areas with “unhealthy” air. (AGENCIES)

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Admissions in Kendriya Vidyalayas to be online from this year

NEW DELHI: All the admissions to the HRD ministry-run Kendriya Vidyalayas will be made online from the upcoming academic session.

“All KVs student admission is going to be online in 2017,” HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said in a tweet today.

The HRD ministry is planning a series of reforms in the Kendriya Vidyalayas which range from creating a suitable transfer policy for their employees to boost academic standards.

The ministry is also learnt to have been mulling creating a criteria according to which the students from poorer sections have a greater chance of getting admissions in these schools.

There are around 1,000 Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country. (AGENCIES)

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Rahul Gandhi, Harish Rawat booked for model code violation

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ISIS ‘supporter’ had mobilised funds from India, China: Police

JAIPUR: Suspected ISIS supporter Mohammad Iqbal, who is in the custody of Rajasthan police, had allegedly mobilised funds from India and China for the terror organisation, police said today.

Iqbal alias Travel Haq had alleged transferred money from China and through hawala from India to Dubai, Additional Director General of Anti-Terrorist Squad Umesh Mishra told reporters here.

Iqbal allegedly used to transfer funds to IS operative Jameel Ahmed who was arrested by the ATS from Sikar in November last year, Mishra said.

His name cropped up during the interrogation of Jameel following which he was arrested by Tamil Nadu police earlier this month.

“Jameel and Iqbal were in touch on social networking sites. Iqbal used to transfer funds to Jameel who was based in Dubai. From Dubai, he further transferred the money to the IS in countries like Turkey, Lebanon,” Mishra claimed. (AGENCIES)

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CRPF CO grievously injured in J-K encounter airlifted to AIIMS

NEW DELHI: CRPF Commanding Officer Chetan Kumar Cheetah, who was grievously injured in today’s encounter with militants in North Kashmir, was airlifted to AIIMS after his condition deteriorated.

Hailing from Rajasthan, Cheetah bore the initial brunt of the attack in Hajjan area where a joint team of army, CRPF and State police had laid a seize following an intelligence input that two foreign terrorists were hiding in the area.

He was shifted to Army Base hospital in Srinagar but upon seeing his condition, which required expertise from various fields of medicine including neurology, a decision was taken to shift him to Delhi, officials said.

Special Director General of CRPF S N Shrivastava, who looks after Jammu and Kashmir, immediately requestioned an air ambulance to shift him to the national capital, they said. (AGENCIES)

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Not worried if cos are torn between “America First, “Make in India” slogans: Parrikar

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Coal scam: ED attaches assets worth Rs 78.25 cr of Nagpur firm

NEW DELHI: ED today attached assets worth Rs 78.25 crore of a Nagpur-based firm in connection with its money laundering probe into the coal scam case.

The agency said it issued the provisional attachment orders in this regard against the firm — Ms B S Ispat Limited — and a few others.

Enforcement Directorate had registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against them based on a CBI FIR and charge sheet.

“Ms B S Ispat Limited had obtained Marki Mangli-I coal block through misrepresentation and after the allocation of the coal block, the original promoters of the company sold their shares and were benefited on a large scale. (AGENCIES)

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Four militants, three soldiers killed in two encounters

SRINAGAR: Four militants and three soldiers were killed while 9 other security personnel and a civilian were injured in two separate encounters in Kashmir, officials said.

An encounter took place in Parray Mohalla of Hajin area of Bandipora district this morning after security forces cordoned it off following information about presence of militants there, a police official said.

As the security forces were closing in, they came under fire from the hiding militants, the official said.

Ten security personnel, including an officer, were injured in the exchange of fire with the militants.

Of them, three personnel succumbed to their injuries later, the official said.

One militant, whose identity has not been ascertained yet, was also killed in the operation, he added.

Another encounter took place in Kralgund area of Kupwara district later in the day.

Three militants hiding in a residential house were killed by security forces during this gunbattle, the official said.

One soldier was also injured in the encounter, he added. (AGENCIES)

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Govt plays cupid, allows IAS, IPS couples to work in one state

NEW DELHI: In a Valentine’s Day gift to All India Services officers, the Government today amended rules to mandatorily allow married couples from the IAS and IPS get the same cadre state.

However, they will not get a cadre which is the home state of either of them.

The amendment was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The rules will be applicable to officers of the three All India Services–Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFoS). (AGENCIES)

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3 Militants killed in Handwara enocunter

SRINAGAR: Three militants were killed in an encounter in Handwara area of Kupwara district. (AGENCIES)

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