Jammu attack toll rises to 6
before dawn on Saturday and managed to sneak into the camp from the rear end of the base after a brief exchange of fire with the sentry guarding the periphery.
“The terrorists entered the family accommodation complex after which quick response teams cordoned off the area and isolated the terrorists, who are holed up in a few houses (inside the camp),” an official said.
While there was no action around the main entrance and vehicles were moving along the Jammu-Lakhanpur bypass in front of the camp, Army personnel in bullet-proof vehicles were engaged in the operation to rescue people from the family
quarters in the rear side of the base.
Contingents of CRPF and police were posted outside the boundary wall and were keeping curious onlookers at bay to prevent civilian casualties.
A high alert has been sounded in Jammu and security beefed up in and around the city.
Intelligence inputs had warned of an attack on an Army or security establishment by Jaish-e-Mohammed in view of the death anniversary of Afzal Guru, who was hanged on February 9, 2013, for the 2001 attack on Parliament House. mankind as a whole.
In the last 25 years, maternal mortality went down by onethird in India and by half across the world, he said.
Hailing India’s satellite programme, Modi said the cost of the Mars orbital programme is Rs 7 per kilometre.
“If you take a cab in India, you may pay Rs 10. But the cost of India’s access to Mars is just Rs 7 per kilometre,” he told the gathering, amid big applause.
Modi said that 65% of India’s population is under 35 and the dream of a new India will be achieved by empowering the youth with technology.
“We have built a technology system, so that India has become a major innovation country in business ventures,” he said, adding that by 2022, the income of farmers will be doubled.
Highlighting the importance of technology, Modi said the scientific achievements like stem cells and regeneration techniques have helped in treatment of disease and repair system for the body.
He said one aspect of the development is also that it took thousands of years from stone age to industrial revolution but after that, it took only 200 years to reach the information technology age and from there, the journey to the digital revolution was travelled in just a few years.
Modi said the ease of using technology and its spread has empowered the common man and this empowerment has been furthered by the minimum government and maximum governance.
“Technology is changing at the speed of thought. Technology has become a big medium of global change. It has empowered the common man via minimum government, maximum governance. In E-governance, the E stands for effective, efficient, easy, empower, and equity,” Modi said.
The Prime Minister said that sometimes it looks like the mankind is not only making technology an instrument to conquer the nature but also making a mistake of fighting with it.
“Its cost is very high. For the future of mankind, we should not fight with the nature but find a way to co-exist,” he said.
“We need to follow the six Rs that stand for reduce, reuse, recycle, recover, redesign and remanufacture, this will lead us to point where we can rejoice,” he said.
The Prime Minister said he assesses the ongoing infrastructure and developmental projects in the country through videoconferencing every month. In this, all relevant ministries of the states and the Centre come together. This assess is named as ‘Pragati’ meaning progress.
Modi arrived here on Saturday on the second leg of his three-nation tour.