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STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: The Jammu andKashmir Freedom FightersAssociation (JKFFA) onFriday paid floral tributes tothe former Prime Minister,Lal Bahadur Shastri on his53rd Death Anniversary at afunction held at DograShourya Samarak, Amphalla.The function was organisedby Chairman of theAssociation, Ved Gandotraand Vice Chairman RajivMahajan.

Rajiv Mahajan said that LalBahadur Shastri epitomisedstrength and simplicity."Shastri ji led India at a cru-cial time and worked hard tomake our nation more pros-perous. He understood thesignificance of farmers andsoldiers and shares his Birth

Anniversary with the Fatherof the Nation MahatmaGandhi. Drawing inspirationfrom Mahatma Gandhi,Shastri coined the term 'JaiJawan Jai Kisan'. He

plunged into the freedomstruggle while he was in histeens," Mahajan added.

"Let us rededicate ourselvesto the values espoused byShastri Ji - peace, fraternity,harmony and inclusivenational development.Shastriji's message remainsrelevant for all and he contin-ues to be our guiding light,"Mahajan maintained. Amongothers who were presentincluded R.C Puri President,

Th Karnail Chand GeneralSecretary, Tej Ram DograSenior Vice President, PritamSharma, Rajinder Singh,Gajan Singh Khalsa, J.JSingh, Brij Mehra, KamalSharma Vice Presidents andSukhminder Singh MainiFinance Secretary.

Meanwhile, Prof BhimSingh, Chief Patron ofNational Panthers Party andSenior Executive Member,Supreme Court BarAssociation (SCBA) joinedmillions of Indians this day topay tributes to former PrimeMinister, Lal BahadurShastri, on his most tragicdeath on January 11, 1966,which has remained a sus-pense till date, in Tashkent,the then USSR.

Bhim Singh and several col-leagues observed silence inmemory of Shastri ji describinghim as one of the greatest pro-letariat leaders and the tallestleaders in the world who grewas a pauper and remained apauper even when he wasPrime Minister of India.

JKFFA members paying tributes to former Prime Minister,Lal Bahadur Shastri on his death anniversary.

Glowing tributes paid to Lal BahadurShastri on his 53rd Death Anniversary

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: 92.7 BIG FMJammu, the leading FMStation of Jammu celebratedtheir much awaited, muchloved and unique concept of'Kudiyan Di Lohri' for its lis-teners.

In its seventh edition of thesuccessful campaign, BIGFM held a special celebrationwith the families that havebeen blessed with a baby girlin the last one year by visitingtheir houses with traditionalChhajja, dry fruits Haar andDhol. RJ Juhie, RJ Rahuland RJ Roohi Singh fromBIG FM along with a specialteam of little 'Gang of Girls'visited seven houses from dif-ferent parts of Jammu thathad witnessed the birth of agirl child this year.

Families were asked to reg-ister through whatsapp andfinally a lucky draw was heldin the office of BIG FM andseven families were chosen forthe visit.

The youngest ones beingtwins Mishri and Makhanfrom Rehari are just 14 days,

Adhviti of Channi Himmat isjust 21 days, Myra andMisha- another twins fromSatwari are 2 months old,Adhira Gupta of SainikColony is four months,Channi Himmat's Sara is fivemonths, nine months oldAdriti is the love of her familyin Hazuri Bagh Bohri whileAmayra Kotwal of RoopNagar has become the lifelineof her parents in 10 months.All these little angels werewelcomed with gifts by 'SabseBada Kalakaar' fame andchild celebrity of JammuVrinda Gujral and buddingtheatre artist Saanvi Anand.

Going by its tradition, Big

FM is releasing a special songthis year also dedicated togirls which is so inspiring thatthe Sethi Family of Noidaheard this song last year whenMrs Sethi was expecting herfirst baby and the would befather decided that if they areblessed with a daughter, theywill celebrate her first Lohrilike nobody else has done andtwo days back BIG FM Teamreceived an invitation fromthe family for a grand partyat Noida's one of the biggestbanquets which read as-

"hi BIG FM Team .... Kudosto your team for the KudiyanDi Lohri Campaign..... we area middle class family and

were lucky to be blessed with agirl child last year .... Even infamilies like ours nobody cele-brates their daughter's 1stLohri but we have decided tocelebrate Lohri on a big scalein a banquet and this movehas surely surprised a lot ofour relatives .... I am sure itwill certainly knock a few bells..... I invite you to come andbe a part of our celebration on13th Jan .... Together thesebits and pieces will surely helpus change the mentality ofpeople towards Girl child ....signing off - a girl's father &a girl's husband & a girl'sbrother & a girl's son",Gurpreet Sethi.

The excitement and happi-ness on the faces of these fam-ilies was a delightful sight andVikrant Sharma, ClusterProgramming Head 92.7BIG FM J&K appreciatedthe families for inviting BIGFM team to make theirdaughters' first Lohri reallyspecial. Also present with theteam was Nitish Sharma,Producer 92.7 BIG FMJammu.

92.7 BIG FM officials along with others celebrating'Kudiyan Di Lohri' at Jammu.

92.7 BIG FM comes back with unique idea of celebrating'Kudiyan Di Lohri' for 7th consecutive year

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: SwamiVivekananda's BirthAnniversary was celebratedby Swami VivekanandaChair, Central University ofJammu (CUJ) on its maincampus at Rahya-Suchani(Bagla).

Eminent educationistsand thinkers participated inthe event as guests anddelivered their views andopinions about the rele-vance of the thoughts ofSwami Vivekanad in thepresent global context.

The programme startedwith lamp lighting followedby Saraswati Vandana. Theguests and key-speakerswere introduced and wel-comed by Prof DeepakPathania, Dean, StudentsWelfare, CUJ.

In the beginning, a dramawas played by the artists ofthe Kalakaar Academy ofJammu which was highlyappreciated and awardedwith a cash prize of Rs5,000 by the ChairpersonProf Vivek Kumar.

The key-speaker of theevent, Prof Kuldeep Chand

Agnihotri, Vice-Chancellor,Central University ofHimachal Pradesh, referredthe relevance of SwamiVivekananda's thoughts inthe present global context.He commented that west-ern ideas are based on intel-lect whereas Indiansbelieves in self-realisation.He further referred thebook in which Dr. B.RAmbedkar vividly praisedthe ideas of SwamiVivekanad for re-establish-ing equity as well as equali-ty in the diversified Indiansociety.

The Chief Guest of theevent Prof Ashok Aima,Vice-Chancellor, CUJ,

highlighted the social chal-lenges of Indian societywhich can only be encoun-tered through spirituality.He said that self-realizationis the guiding principle tolife.

The Special Guest of theprogramme ProfHarmohinder Singh Bedi,Chancellor, CentralUniversity of HimachalPradesh, in his presidentialaddress, emphasised theinfluence and acceptance ofSwami Vivekanad's ideasthroughout the world.

At the end, Prof VivekKumar, Chairperson,Swami Vivekanand Chair,proposed vote of thanks.

Vice-Chancellor, CUJ Prof Ashok Aima speaking at the programme.

Central University of Jammu celebratesSwami Vivekananda Jayanti

STATE TIMES NEWSLEH: In a crucial meetingof Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP) Leh held onThursday under the chair-manship of MLC LehChering Dorjey Lakrook,Dorjey Angchok wasunanimously elected dis-trict President of theparty in Leh.

The meeting was alsoattended by Dy ChairmanLAHDC, Leh Gyal P.Wangyal, ExecutiveCouncilor TseringSangdup, Councilors,Mandal Presidents,District ExecutiveMembers, Mahila Morchamembers, Yuva Morcha

Executives and many ofactive workers.

Mandal PresidentPhyang Tashi Gurmet pro-posed the name of DorjeyAngchok and it was sup-ported by Tsering MorupC o u n c i l l o r s Te m i s g a mConstituency.

Dorhey Angchok waselected unopposed afterthat.

MLC Leh CheringDorjey led a processionfrom Leh Phudho commu-nity hall to the BJP officefrom Leh and everyoneoffered Khataks aftermaking Dorjey Angchoksit on the chair of Districtpresident.

Dorjey Angchok elected asBJP Leh President

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Five-day work-shop for in-service teachersorganised by State Instituteof Education (SIE),Jammu concluded here onFriday.

The workshop was organ-ised for in-service teachersat higher secondary level inthe subjects of English,Hindi, Urdu, PoliticalScience and Education. Itwas organised in collabora-tion with the Directorate ofSamagra Shiksha J&K.

The workshop was con-ducted under the overallsupervision of JointDirector (Trainings) SIEJammu, J.K Sudan inwhich all the field advisorsand faculty of SIE werepresent.

Mohinder Singh, FA,while speaking on the occa-sion, exhorted upon all par-ticipants to adopt the best

pedagogical techniques toimprove the quality of edu-cation and achieve the aca-demic excellence.

A total of 100lecturers/senior lecturersfrom across the 10 districtsof Jammu Province partici-pated in the training.Twenty participants in eachsubject attended the work-shop to hone their skills.

The resource personsfrom colleges, schools,University of Jammu andCentral University enlight-ened the participants withthe sessions in each subject.

The resource personsinclude Sewa Singh,Krishan Gopal, Dr.

Jamsheed, Dr. PromilaKoul, Dr Tanvir Habib,Darshan Sharma, DrNadeem, Haroon Rathore,Dr. Seema Sudan, Dr.Parshotam, Dr Sanjeevani,Dr Ashok, Dr Karan Maini,Dr. Sandeep Singh, Dr.Piyush Kant, Dr. HarmeetSingh, Paawan Vivek, Dr.Ritu Bakshi, Dr. RonikaSharma, Komal Sharma,Dr. O.P Sharma, Dr. RenuNanda and Dr. J.N Baliya.

They had interactive ses-sions with participantshighlighting the methodolo-gy of teaching, innovationsand trends in emerging ped-agogies besides subject spe-cific skills.

The participants hailedthe initiative of the authori-ties to organise the subjectspecific training for keyresource persons at highersecondary level for the firsttime.

Nahida Anjum, MonicaSharma, Anwar Khan, AlkaSharma, Tapasaya Sharma,Arti Lalla and Rakhi Attricoordinated the workshop.

In the valedictory,Surinder Kumar, FAemphasised that thetrainees should make thetraining inputs more effec-tive, relevant and fruitfulby ensuring the dissemina-tion among the field func-tionaries.

SIE organises five-day workshop

'Embark on best pedagogical techniques for academic excellence'

SPORTS REPORTERJAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Amateur FencingAssociation shall be holding two-day selection trialsfrom January 14 at MA Stadium, here for picking thestate team.

The selected team shall take part in the in theNational Fencing Championship to be held at Guwahatiin Assam from February two February five.

Those fencers interested in taking part in the selectiontrials have been advised to bring along their equipmenton the given date at 3 pm, a handout issued here todayinformed.

Fencing trials on Jan 14

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Bhartiya JanataParty 'leader' Aditi Sharmawas booked over charge ofbarging into a temple here onFriday.

"An FIR 3/19 underSections 448, 382, 147 and427 RPC was lodged againstAditi who is also President ofAditi Welfare India CharitableTrust and others, at PoliceStation Nowabad Jammu ona complaint of Radhey Sham,son of Chandi Parshad, resi-dent of Uttarakhand at pres-ent Pujari Shiv Mandir,Tirath Nagar, Talab TilloJammu", police said addingthat Radhey Sham has allegedthat Aditi along with TirthKumar, son of Des Raj, resi-dent of Tirath Nagar TalabTillo Jammu, NeelChoudhary, Mulkh Raj andDilip Singh barged in the tem-ple premises with vested inter-est.

"On this, the Police Post

Talab Tillo Jammu has lodgeda FIR against all the accusedunder the relevant sections oflaw", police added.

Meanwhile, Aditi Sharma, ina statement issued here, said"There is a malicious andpolitically motivated allega-tion leveled against me by anoutsider functioning as priestwho had been asked to vacatethe Shiv Temple premises atTirath Nagar, Talab Tillo,Jammu by the Shiv ShaktiSarvdharam Welfare Trustwith its Head Office at TirathNagar, Talab Tillo, Jammuwhich had duly passed a reso-lution to this effect inSeptember 2018."

"I also appeal to higherpolice authorities to expedi-tiously probe the role of SHOand Chowki Officer and initi-ate suitable proceedingsagainst them as documentaryevidence has already been sub-mitted to them," stated AditiSharma in a press release.

Four gamblers arrested in SrinagarSTATE TIMES NEWS

SRINAGAR: Police arrested four gamblers and recov-ered Rs 4,230 stake money from the gambling site.

Acting on a tip-off, a party of Police Station Kralkhudraided a gambling den in Basant Bagh Gowkadal areaand arrested four gamblers namely Zahoor AhmadNajar, son of Habibullah Najar, resident of Mandirbagh,Shahnawaz Ahmad Tramboo, son of late Ali MohdTramboo, Jamsheed Ali Malla, son of Ali Mohd Mallaand Abdul Majid Kant, son of Mohd Sultan Kant, all res-idents of Basantbagh. Stake money of Rs 4,230 andplaying cards were recovered from the gambling site.

In this regard, a case FIR No 1/19 under relevant sec-tions of law has been registered and further investigationtaken up.

Drug peddler arrestedSTATE TIMES NEWS

SRINAGAR: Police arrested a drug peddler in Khanyararea of district Srinagar and recovered codeine bottlesfrom his possession.

A police party of Police Station Khanyar arrested a drugpeddler during Naka checking at Naid Kadal area ofKhanyar in Srinagar. The drug peddler namely ZahidManzoor Mir, son of Manzoor Ahmad Mir, resident ofDaulat Abad Khanyar was arrested and a large quantity ofbanned codeine phosphate bottles were recovered from hispossession. In this regard, a case FIR No 2/19 under rel-evant sections of law has been registered in Police StationKhanyar and investigation taken up.

Motorcyclist killed in accident STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: A man was killed after the motorcycle (JK02BD-9759) he was riding hit by a car near Muthi area resulting inhis on the spot death. The deceased have been identified asRajiv Kumar son of Roop Chand resident of Kailsah Vihar.Poloce has taken cognizance of the matter and started inves-tigation.

STATE TIMES NEWSSRINAGAR: Former IAS officer Shah Faesal, who quit theservice recently, Friday shared his future plans, saying hewould not join any mainstream political parties "as of now", orseparatist Hurriyat Conference, but would be happy to con-test the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The 2010-batch officer said he was deeply inspired by thestyle of politics of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan andDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, but the "situation" inJammu and Kashmir would not allow him to pursue politicstheir style.

"As of now, I do not have any plans to join any existing main-stream political party. I plan to go to the field, listen to theground, to the youngsters and important stakeholders andthen take a decision," he told reporters here.

"I am deeply inspired by Imran Khan and Arvind Kejriwal.But, we know we are operating in a conflict zone and it is notvery easy for us to work in that space, a space which has lostlegitimacy in last few years.

"I wish if the youngsters of the state give me that kind ofopportunity, I will be happy to do a retake of Imran Khan andKejriwal," Faesal added.

He said he would be holding consultations with allstaekholders including political parties before taking the nextstep. "In Kashmir, we need to come together. We are in a cri-sis situation. It is not time to do politics on the graves of thepeople."

Asked if he would be contesting the elections, Faesal said, "Iwill be happy to contest the upcoming elections. In fact, Ibelieve parliament and legislature are important space and weneed well-meaning and right people there."

He said that in the recent years, due to the "delegitimising"of the electoral politics because of the way it has been conduct-ed, youths are not attracted to it. "We need to change that. Iwish to use Parliament for engagement, for bringing solutionsto our problems."

BJP 'leader' booked for barging into temple;claims charge politically motivated

STATE TIMES NEWSRAJOURI: LegalAwareness Camp was organ-ised under the directions ofPrincipal and Sessions JudgeShahzad Azeem, who is alsoChairman of District LegalServices Authority (DLSA)at Manjakote on Friday.

The titles of camp were "NoVoter To Be Left Behind" and'Social Welfare Schemes.

The camp was lead bySecretary DLSA, RajouriMuzaffar Iqbal Khan alongwith Staff of DLSA Rajourl,

Para Legal Volunteers(PLVs), sarpanches, panchesand large number of peopleparticipated. While speakingon the occasion, MuzaffarIqbal Khan awared the gath-ering to caste their electoralvote in true and meaningfulmanner.

He also highlighted the var-ious government welfareschemes and programmes forthe benefit of downtroddenclass of society being initiat-ed/ organized byNALSA/SLSA.

DLSA organises legalawareness camp

Secretary DLSA, Rajouri Muzaffar Iqbal Khan addressing a gathering at Manjakote in Rajouri.

Govt seeks nominations forappointment of

Vigilance Comm STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: The StateGovernment on Friday soughtnominations for the appoint-ment of VigilanceCommissioner upto January20, 2019.

According to order issuedhere, all the administrativesecretaries are requested tosubmit fresh nominations forconsideration against thevacant position of VigilanceCommissioner in the Jammuand Kashmir State VigilanceCommission. The nomina-tions should reach theGeneral AdministrationDepartment by or beforeJanuary 20, 2019, beyondwhich no nomination shall beentertained, the order in thisregard reads.

It was also clarified that thepersons nominated by thedepartments in response toOM dated May 18, 2018 neednot be recommended again.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Residents of NaiBasti near Satwari here onFriday staged protests againsta sex racket being run in thevicinity.

Jammu MunicipalCorporation CorporatorPawan Singh said that the

racket was allegedly opera-tional for several years withpolice looking to the other side.Whenever the mastermind ofthe racket was picked up bypolice on the face of resent-ment of the people, within dayshe used to be set free.

"We have approached the

police and lodged complaintsbut no action has been taken"said the Corporator. He alsoshowed a diary seized from thehouse and the restaurant onthe ground floor having namesof some of the girls (age 10 to15 years) with phone numbers.

"The Nai Basti residentsassembled in the vicinity thisevening and lodged a com-plaint with the police," he saidadding that the pimp andsome other persons have beentaken into custody. Amid slo-gan shouting, the localsdemanded strict action againstthem.

Meanwhile, police said thatinquiry has been initiated andif the allegations are estab-lished, law will take its owncourse.

Alleged sex racket in NaiBasti, locals protest

Locals staging protest at Jammu.

Ruckus at oath-taking ceremony of village heads

of Jammu division

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Some elected vil-lage heads Friday created aruckus during their oath-taking ceremony in Jammucity, demanding they beallowed to take the oath inDogri language.

Sarpanch Shiv Dev Singhof Barnoti block of Kathuadistrict led the group todemand that they be allowedto take oath in Dogri,instead of Urdu, and raisedslogans in support of the lan-guage. Their demand waslater accepted.

Shortly after anothergroup of village heads start-ed demanding that they beallowed to take in oath inKashmiri, leading to tensionduring the function attendedby Governor Satya PalMalik.

Policemen and other offi-cials present there pacifiedthe situation.

Governor Malik later con-gratulated the village headsand government functionar-ies for the successful conductof the panchayat electionunder "very trying circum-stances".Rakeshwar elected Divisional

President of NGFOA STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: Rakeshwar Singh on Friday was elected asDivisional President of Non-Gazetted Forest OfficerAssociation.

The elections of provincial body were elected under thechairmanship of Returning Officer, R.D Singh and Observer,Varinder Singh Manhas.

Others elected were Abdul Hamid Kohli as Senior VicePresident, Anwar Mohd as General Secretary; OmeshKhajuria as Secretary; Raj Kumar Parihar as JointSecretary; Chander Shekhar Singh as Cashier; Sunil Singhas Publicity Secretary, Fazal Hussain as Organiser (Event);Mohd Rafiq as Organiser (Invitation) and Tarun Mehra asOrganiser (Executive).

Among others who were present include Ravi Kumar,Provincial President Jammu Province, Rajinder SinghJasrotia, Senior Vice President, Gurcharan Singh VicePresident, Ajit Raj Joint Secretary and R.D Singh JointSecretary Jammu province.

Shah Faesal won’t join mainstreamparties ‘as of now’