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| Let CBI find out how my daughter died: Father of teenage girl found dead in Katra hotel urges LG Sinha | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 5: Basant Lal, father of a teenage girl, who was found hanging in a hotel in Katra last month, on Friday urged the Lieutenant Governor LG Sinha to hand over his daughter’s case to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Lal, who is a resident of a remote village of Ramnagar area of Udhampur, while talking to Early Times said, “Police haven’t even registered a FIR in the case. Nor have they collected her postmortem report. We don’t even know her cause of death. She died on April 9, 2023 and till date I don’t know what led to my daughter’s death.”
He said, “Police are trying to pass on the murder of my daughter as a suicide and I have lost hope to get justice. My hand folded appeal to LG Sinha is to handover my daughter’s case to CBI and order an enquiry ... | |
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| Postmortem report comes in few days, why police haven’t collected it, asks Advocate Sawhney | | Seeks SP Katra’s intervention, action against SHO and doctor | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 4: Prominent lawyer, advocate A K Sawhney on Friday castigated Katra Police for failing to discharge its duties in case of a teenage girl’s death who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a hotel in Katra town on April 9, 2023.
Talking to Early Times advocate Sawhney said, “Nearly one month has passed since the day the body of the victim was found hanging with a ceiling fan in the hotel in which she was working. Till date Police haven’t collected th... | |
| | | | Sexual harassment case in SMVDU: 7 months on, ‘cosmetic’ action fails to restore faith of students | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 5: Over seven months have passed after higher-ups of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University had announced a time-bound inquiry into allegation of sexual harassment again a teacher of the varsity but no concrete action has been taken to restore shattered confidence of the students.
Instead of taking an exemplary action to avoid reoccurrence of such incidents in future authorities have just taken some cosmetic actions to pacify the enraged students who were on agitational mood after allegation of sexual harrasment was labelled against a teacher.
Highly placed sources said that the teacher, who faced allegation of sexual harrasment, is a blue-eyed boy of higher-... | |
| | | | Five soldiers martyred in ongoing Rajouri gunfight | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 5: The death toll in the ongoing Rajouri encounter swelled to five as three injured soldiers undergoing treatment succumbed at Command Hospital Udhampur on Friday.
Earlier, two soldiers got martyred while four others including an officer suffered injuries in a gunfight on Friday in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
"Three of injured soldiers succumbed during the treatment," he added.
Army in a statement in the morning said that Indian Army columns have been conducting relentless intelligence-based operations to flush out a group of terrorists involved in ambush on an army truck in Tota Gali area of Bhata Dhurian in Jammu region.
"On specific infor... | |
| | | | COVID-19 no longer a global emergency, says WHO | | | |
Agencies
Geneva [Switzerland], May 5: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Covid-19 pandemic is over as a global health emergency.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, made the announcement while addressing a media briefing on Covid-19 and global health issues.
“It is therefore with great hope that I declare #Covid19 over as a global health emergency. However, that does not mean Covid-19 is over as a global health threat. Last week, Covid-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about,” he said.
“As we speak, thousands of people around the world are fighting for their lives in intensive care units. And millions m... | |
| | | | 2 JeM terrorist associates arrested in Awantipora | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 5: Security forces have arrested two militant associates of Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM) in Jammu and Kashmir's Awantipora sub district, police said on Friday. They said arms and ammunition was also recovered on their disclosure.
The arrests were made by joint parties of Police, Army and CRPF on Thursday following a specific input.
"Based on a specific input, an operation was carried out on Thursday by joint parties of J&K police, 42 RR, 3 RR & 180 Bn CRPF leading to arrest of two terrorist associates namely Bashir Ahmad and Gulzar Ahmad residents of Tral Awantipora," a police statement said.
It said on their disclosure, an AK-56 with a magazine and 56 live... | |
| | | | Can't see my countrymen in pain: PM Modi on operation Kaveri | | | |
Agencies
Ballari, Karnataka, May 5: Highlighting "Operation Kaveri" to evacuate stranded Indians in conflict-ridden Sudan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that even big countries refused to evacuate their citizens but, India carried on the operations for the safety of its citizens.
"The situation of civil war in Sudan is such that even big countries refused to evacuate their citizens from there, but the Government of India was engaged in its efforts. We conducted Operation Kaveri and brought back our people from such places where it was difficult to reach by plane and Congress did not support the country in such difficult times," said PM Narendra Modi in Ballari, Karnatak... | |
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