J&K government to support slain police officials kin

SRINAGAR: The J&K government will support the family of Feroz Ahmed Dar – the police officer killed in an ambush by militants along with five other cops - and also provide free education to his children.

Deputy CM Nirmal Singh visited Dar’s home at Sangam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag and offered condolences to the bereaved family.

Expressing sympathies with the bereaved family, Singh assured the slain station house officer’s father Abdul Rasheed Dar that the government will take care of the family and provide free education to the children.

The deputy CM directed the officials to dedicate a landmark like a public health centre in the name of the police officer.

Singh also met with the children of the officer who laid down his life in the attack on Friday.

He directed director general of police SP Vaid to expedite the case of jobs for the next of kin, the spokesman said.

The deputy CM said the nation will always remain indebted to Dar, who was the SHO Achabal, for his sacrifice and devotion to duty.

COPS TO DONATE

A DAY’S SALARY

J&K police personnel will donate a day’s salary for the families of the cops who were killed in the line of duty in the state this year.

Fourteen police personnel and two special police officers (SPOs) have sacrificed their lives in various militancy-related incidents, according to a police spokesman.

“To show solidarity and their concern for the bereaved families of these martyrs, J&K police personnel will donate one day salary of the current month,” he added. NEW DELHI Every now and then, one of India’s most prestigious engineering colleges cuts off power to its hostels for an hour in the evening.

The practice, at IIT Kharagpur, is not to save electricity or cut costs. It is instead part of efforts to get students to mingle — contact that officials hope will help cut stress after three of its students killed themselves between January and April 2017.

IIT Kharagpur is part of the country’s marquee Indian Institutes of Technology colleges that lakhs vie for each year. Only a few thousands make it, entering a college of intense competition with some of the best minds to vie for top jobs at the end of the course.

“Students are meeting increasingly less. This naturally creates a lot of problems as they end up being alone. This step will help them connect when they take a ten minutes coffee or tea break,” said Man-

THE DEPUTY CM DIRECTED THE OFFICIALS TO DEDICATE A LANDMARK LIKE A PUBLIC HEALTH CENTRE IN THE NAME OF THE POLICE OFFICE