Tuesday, 30 June 2015
ISIS beheads two women in Syria
BEIRUT: The Islamic State (IS) group has beheaded two women in Syria on accusations of “sorcery,” the first such execution of women in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Tuesday.
“The Islamic State group executed two women by beheading them in Deir Ezzor province, and this is the first time the Observatory has documented women being killed by the group in this manner,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
The Britain-based monitor said the executions took place on Monday and Sunday and involved two couples. In both cases, the women were executed with their husbands, with each pair accused of “witchcraft and sorcery”.
The Islamic State group has become infamous for gruesome executions and is reported to have stoned women to death on allegations of adultery. But the Observatory said this was the first time it was aware of the group beheading women.
According to the monitor, IS has executed more than 3,000 people in Syria in the year since it declared its Islamic “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq. Nearly 1,800 of them were civilians, including 74 children.
The group claimed an attack on two Houthi rebel leaders in Sanaa on Monday night that medics said had killed at least 28 people, including eight women.
The car bomb targeted Houthi rebel chief brothers Faysal and Hamid Jayache during a gathering to mourn the death of a family member, a security source said.
The jihadist group, which marked the first anniversary of the declaration of its “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria on Monday, has been ramping up its deadly campaign in Yemen since March.
Monday, 29 June 2015
Ravinder Kaushik, The Indian RAW Agent Who Served As A Major In The Pakistan Army
Ravinder Kaushik was born in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan in 1952 to a Punjabi family. He was just a teenager who loved performing theater when he was spotted by India’s external intelligence agency, RAW. Nothing much is clear as to what happened in between his first contact with the RAW personnel during the national drama presentation and his graduation in 1975. Ravinder Kaushik joined the intelligence agency after graduating and little did he know that it would turn out to be a life-altering decision.
Fast forward to November 2001 in Pakistan where a certain Nabi Ahmed suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and heart disease takes his final breath on his deathbed while ensuring a secret passage for the last of the letters he would write to his mother. This was not a hassle for him; passing on secret texts and document across the border, it is what he had been trained for thirty years ago when he first started training as an undercover agent for India.
Ravinder Kaushik or Nabi Ahmed was India’s best spy to ever penetrate the rank and profile of the Pakistan army. He went undercover at an age of 23 after being recruited by RAW. During his training in Delhi he learned Urdu, got acquainted with the muslim religious texts, the topography in Pakistan and underwent circumcision. When he was sent to Pakistan in 1975, all his records in India were destroyed and he was given a new identity of Nabi Ahmed Shakir. Nabi Ahmed now started his LLB in Karachi University to create a perfect back story and join the Pakistan army.
He was commissioned in the Pakistan Army and soon promoted to the rank of Major. During that time he converted to Islam and married a local girl Amanat, fathering a son with her. From 1979 to 1983 he passes on critical information to the Indian defense forces which were of great help. Because of the valuable information being sent by Nabi Ahmed he became famous as ‘The Black Tiger’ in Indian defense circles, a name conferred by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi herself.
In 1983, Inyat Masiha was sent by RAW to get in touch with Nabi Ahmed. He was caught by Pakistani intelligence agencies and tortured to reveal Nabi Ahmed’s true identity. The cover now blown by the Pakistani intelligence agencies, Ravinder Kaushik was tortured for two years before being sentenced to death in 1985. His death sentence was later changed to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court.
Kaushik spent the last 16 years of his glorious life in various jails including Mianwali and Sialkot. Due to the poor facilities in the Pakistani jails, he contracted Asthma and TB which turned fatal. After enduring extreme trauma he finally succumbed to a heart disease in the New Central Multan Jail. The finest Indian spy is still buried today behind that jail.
His life still inspires a lot of young RAW officers and he is still remembered as India’s finest intelligence agent who never gave up serving his country in his death. Ravinder Kaushik will always be a true Indian soldier who gave his life without ever asking for any acknowledgement. We salute the great Indian warrior – The Black Tiger!
J&K Civil Secretariat Recruitment 2015: JaKeGA Jobs for various posts : Latest Jobs in Jammu and Kashmir
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Posted: 27 Jun 2015 04:12 AM PDT
 If you are looking for Government Jobs in J&K Civil Secretariat, then this is a lifetime, opportunity for you, as the JaKeGA, an e-agency, under the Department of Information and Technology had announced the Bumper Recruitment for various posts.JaKeGA is a specialised agency, that looks after the Implementation of various E-Services and IT Services in J&K. The Recruitment Notification, regarding the Jobs in JaKeGA is published in the Local Newspapers of J&K Dated 25th and 27th June, 2015. However, the Detailed Advt, along with Prescribed application form is also available on the Official Website of Information Technology. In this post, we are going to share the Complete Details of Job advertised by JaKeGA. Applicants willing to apply for these posts, must read this post till end and apply if you full fill the Eligibility Criteria. It is worth mentioning here that these are Contractual posts and the Duration of contract is 2 years, that may likely be extended, based on your performance. Remember the last Date for Receipt of application is 15th July, 2015. JaKeGA Recruitment 2015 : Vacancy Details |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2015 10:05 AM PDT
 There have been openings for various posts in Govt. Dental College Srinagar and JKSSB Recruitment 2015 for 378 Posts and today in this post, we are going to share the Details of vacancies advertised in Judicial Academy Jammu. The Notification regrading the various jobs in J&K Judicial Academy have been advertised via Notification No. 1 of 2015. In this post, we are going to share the various vacancies as advertised in the Judicial Academy of J&K. The vacancies have been advertised for the Graduates, who are the permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir and looking for various posts. J&K Judicial Academy Recruitment 2015 : Various posts |
Friday, 26 June 2015
FIRST MARUTI CAR OWNER IN INDIA & WORLD
The first Maruti car Owners was a SIKH FAMILY from DELHI named Harpal Singh and Gulshanbeer Kaur
Harpal Singh and Gulshanbeer Kaur of Delhi became the first proud owners of the first Maruti 800 car in 1983. The couple bought the car for Rs 47,500 and its keys were handed to them by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The Maruti 800 fuelled a car revolution in the country and became a symbol of status for the Indian middle class in the 1980s.
The Maruti 800 which was a symbol for the Indian middle class for decades is ready to roll into the sunset. But you have a chance to drive some history into your garage. Harpal Singh and Gulshanbeer Kaur - proud owners of the country's first Maruti 800 - might put the vehicle up for sale. -
A little white car covered with garlands came out from a factory in Gurgaon on December 14, 1983, and at the wheel of India’s first Maruti 800 was Indian Airline employee Harpal Singh heading towards his Green Park residence.
The next day Harpal planned the first trip in his car to Meerut along his wife Gulshanbeer Kaur, elder daughter Govinder Pal Kaur, her husband Tejinder Ahluwalia and younger daughter Sunita Walia.
Source: GOOGLE , INTERNET
16 Things You Should Know About India’s Soldiers Defending Siachen
The highest combat zone on planet earth, Siachen glacier is one place where fewer soldiers have died on the line duty due to enemy fire than because of the harsh weather conditions.
For Indian forces deployed in Siachen, it is less of a challenge to watch out for the frail Pakistani forces but to just stay atop this 76 kilometers long glacier at 5, 400 meters altitude (nearly twice the altitude of Ladakh and Kargil) in itself means you have to defy all of your physical, mental and spiritual limits.
You have to be a super soldier, a hero.
And that’s what each one of our soldiers out there at Siachen glacier and on posts at even greater heights really is!
1. In Siachen, you are at the risk of getting a deadly frostbite if your bare skin touches steel (gun trigger, for example) for just over fifteen seconds.
Merely touching the trigger or gun barrel with bare hands can be a mistake big enough to result in loss of toes or fingers.
For those who don’t know about frostbite – it’s a condition resulting from abrupt exposure to extreme cold that can leave amputation of fingers or toes as the only alternative. In extreme cases, these organs may just fall off.
2. Mountain climbers climb when the weather is at its best; soldiers serve in these treacherous terrains all year round.
Minus 60 degrees temperature and over 5,000 meters altitude; low atmospheric pressure and oxygen, well, you keep asking for more of it. There’s 10% of the amount of oxygen available in Siachen than it is in plains.
It’s the weather of the kind that us mortals aren’t simply designed to bear. Not for long and not without the great risk of losing eyes, hands or legs. But these men – they do it, every day.
Because every inch of this land belongs to India and they shall not cede it to some untrustworthy neighbors who no longer have a higher ground in Siachen.
3. The human body just cannot acclimatize over 5,400 meters
When you stay at that altitude for long, you lose your weight, don’t feel like eating, sleep disorders come around in no time and memory loss – that’s a common occurrence. Put simply, the body begins to deteriorate. That’s what happens at Siachen.
Yes, it is tough. But we cannot climb down because we cannot let the Pakistani Army climb up and take high ground.
4. Speech blurring is as obvious as toothpaste freezing in the tube
It’s fiercer than heaviest of gunfire any day. But our soldiers have taken up the challenge nonetheless.
5. Snowstorms in Siachen can last 3 weeks.
Winds here can cross the 100 mph limit in no time. The temperature can drop well below minus 60 degrees.
6. Yearly snowfall in Siachen can be well over 3 dozen feet
When snow storms come around, at least two to three soldiers have to keep using shovels (in snow storm). Else, the military post would become a history; in no time.
7. The 7th Pay commission may consider the unique challenges faced by the army jawans who man the territory all through the year.
They should.
The forward areas in Jammu and Kashmir including Siachen were visited by the 7th Pay Commission in October, 2014.
8. Soldiers find ways to entertain themselves when they can.
We are, after all, a cricket crazy nation.
9. Fresh food – that’s rare. Very rare. At Siachen, an orange or an apple can freeze to the hardness of a cricket ball in no time.
Rations come out of tin cans.
10. Army pilots literally push their helicopters well beyond their optimal performance, every day!
They drop supplies at forward posts located at an altitude of more than 20 thousand feet.
Army pilots usually have less than a minute for dropping off the supplies at forward posts.
Pakistani army is merely few hundred meters away and so the choppers must fly off before the enemy guns open up.
11. In the last 30 years, 846 soldiers have sacrificed their lives at Siachen.
In case of Siachen, deaths due to extreme climate and beyond-imagination terrain conditions are treated as battle causalities and rightly so.
In last three years alone, 50 Indian soldiers have died in Siachen. These causalities as per the information made available by Defense Minister in Lok Sabha, were due to the very nature of the place our forces are serving. These soldiers sacrificed their lives on the line of duty while combating the floods, avalanches and floods in Siachen.
The Body of Havaldar Gaya Prasad from 15 Rajput Battalion serving in Siachen was found after 18 long years.
12. A War Memorial at the Bank of Nubra River has the names of Indian soldiers who laid their lives in Siachen.
13. Local saying: “The land is so barren and the passes so high that only the best of friends and fiercest of enemies come by.’
14. In Siachen, the Indian Army spends as much as 80% of its time preparing soldiers of deployment.
15. “We do the difficult as a routine. The impossible may take a little longer”
— So reads a plaque at the headquarters of the Indian Army formation responsible for security of the Siachen sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
16. When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave our today.
Author : Suranjan Gupta
Satnam Singh becomes first Indian to make it to NBA
Satnam Singh becomes first Indian to make it to NBA
NEW DELHI: India's Satnam Singh Bhamara is hoping his historic selection in the NBA will kickstart a basketball boom in his cricket-obsessed home country.
The 19-year-old centre admitted he was incredibly nervous in the run up to the NBA Draft, which saw him become the first India-born selection when he was chosen by the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday.
“Forget about sleep, I haven't eaten even a morsel. I was certainly hopeful after coming this far but there is always a big if,” said Bhamara, who hails from a family of farmers.
The 7-foot-2-inch (2.18m) Bhamara, originally from a village in northern Punjab state, is hoping he can generate enthusiasm for the sport in India -- in much the same way that superstar Yao Ming sparked a basketball frenzy in China.
“I feel that my entry will certainly open the doors for many aspiring basketballers in India to dream big,” Bhamara speaking from the US during a conference call with a handful of Indian journalists.
“At least there is now someone with whom the youngsters back home can identify. A new road has opened up for them,” he said during the call, a recording of which was released to the wider media.
Bhamara, who moved to the US in 2010 to train in Florida, became the first player in a decade taken by an NBA team after not playing for a US college or overseas pro team. He instead played for the IMG Academy squad.
The NBA has been forging ahead with plans to promote the game globally, hoping that India will be the next Asian power seduced by the sport after already captivating China.
The NBA opened an office in Mumbai in 2011, part of an international operation that has spread around the world.
In April, Canada's Indian-origin player Sim Bhullar turned out for the Sacramento Kings, becoming the first player of Indian descent to score in the NBA.
Bhamara's drafting was trending on Twitter in India on Friday with Bollywood celebrities among the first to congratulate him.
“Keep on shining. Had met him last year, what an inspiration,” actor Akshay Kumar said.
source: http://www.dawn.com/news/1190582/satnam-singh-becomes-first-indian-to-make-it-to-nba
source: http://www.dawn.com/news/1190582/satnam-singh-becomes-first-indian-to-make-it-to-nba
Thursday, 25 June 2015
SALMAN KHAN DISTRIBUTED TV SETS AMONG KASHMIRI FAMILIES : BEING HUMAN
We all know about Salman Khan‘s charitable works and his helping nature. The star has helped a lot of people in the past, and now yet again, Salman Khan went out of his way to help families of a small town, where the actor is busy shooting for a song from his upcoming film Bajrangi Bhaijaan.
It was during the shooting of a very special song from his film at the Ashmugam dargah near Pahalgam, Kashmir, where the actor gifted Television sets to residents of the town. While shooting the song, massive local crowd gathered around to have a glimpse of the actor. Looking at the gathered crowd and their enthusiasm, Salman Khan felt loved. After finishing the day’s shooting, the Dabangg Khan interacted with the locals. After talking to them, Salman Khan realized that most of the families don’t have a television set at their home and neither do they have any other means to watch films.
The locals are big Bollywood buffs but they don’t have television sets at their home, and there are no theatres around, so it becomes difficult for them to watch Bollywood films. After knowing the fact that the people want television sets but can’t afford to buy one, Salman Khan instantly called his team and asked them to get every house in the small town a television set. After this, Salman Khan’s team installed television sets in few houses and is currently working on bringing TV sets for the remaining houses.
Apart from the charitable work that Salman Khan’s organization Being Human does, the actor often goes out of his way to help the people in need. Earlier in Kashmir only, while shooting for his film Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Salman Khan helped a poor old lady who asked for his help. Salman Khan repaired her house and gave his son a job on the sets of his film Bajrangi Bhaijaan.
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Karnataka government ad deletes Jammu and Kashmir from map of India
Karnataka government clarified it was not responsible since the ads were released by agencies contracted for the event in Malaysia.
An advertisement released by Government of Karnataka in a Malaysian newspaper where JAMMU AND KASHMIR and NORTH-EAST was missing. Its a major Faux pas as newspaper showed a distorted map of INDIA.
This mistake was pointed out by the OPPOSITION PARTY BJP, and called it a major lapse by the CONGRESS GOVERNMENT and asked the tourism department of Karnataka to shred light over it and explain.
The government, however, washed its hands off the controversy, saying it was not responsible since the ads were released by agencies contracted for the event in Malaysia.
Jawaharlal Nehru Lied To Stop Rajendra Prasad From Becoming President, Alleges Book
Patel, who was in Bombay, was surprised to learn of the contents of Nehru's letter because Nehru and him had never discussed whether Rajaji or Rajendra Prasad should be the president.
A new book has claimed that Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, lied, to stop Rajendra Prasad from becoming the President, after India’s independence. The book is written by former intelligence officer, RNP Singh.
The book says “Nehru had resorted to desperate measures to prevent Prasad from occupying the position of President and these measures included blatant lying.” The book, titled Nehru: A Troubled Legacy, includes letters written by the Father of the nation, Mahatama Gandhi, Nehru and other famous Indian personalities.
Singh quotes official records to reveal that Nehru, on September 10, 1949, wrote to Rajendra Prasad, saying that, he(Nehru) and Sardar Patel had decided that “the safest and best course” would be to have C Rajagopalachari, as the first President of India.
Since this ran contrary to his understanding of the situation, including the opinion of Sardar Patel and most members of the Constituent Assembly, Rajendra Prasad expressed the next day his deep disappointment and hurt at the way Nehru had dealt with him. Rajendra Prasad marked a copy of this letter to Sardar Patel.
Patel, who was in Bombay, was surprised to learn of the contents of Nehru’s letter, because Nehru and him had never discussed whether Rajaji or Rajendra Prasad, should be the president. Nor had he and Nehru concurred that Rajaji would be their choice.
Source: http://www.tehelka.com/jawaharlal-nehru-lied-to-stop-rajendra-prasad-as-president-alleges-book/
