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CORONA Jammu: Alert soldiers Steel city bus service to
thwart another attack by resume from Monday
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Updated Covid
-19 figures on
Friday
drones on Army station
Confirmed
cases : 30456544
Active cases : Mousumi Das
506324 A fresh attempt to target a
military installation here with
Overnight ad- drones was foiled by alert sol-
dition : 46636 diers even as a preliminary
probe into the attack by two
Total deaths : unmanned aerial vehicles on
400340 the nearby IAF station by ter-
rorists hours earlier on Sunday
Recovered : indicated the possible use of
29540464 a cocktail of chemicals in-
cluding RDX in the first of its
kind incident in the country.
Investigators were yet to de-
termine the flight path of the
drones that dropped two bombs
at the Indian Air Force(IAF)
station in the early hours of
Sunday, causing minor injuries
to two IAF personnel, sourc-
es said on Monday, as they
scanned the CCTV footage,
including from cameras in-
stalled on the boundary walls
of the airport. However, all the
CCTV cameras focused on the
roadside, the sources added.
Officials said the drones that
dropped the explosive ma-
terial at the technical area of
Jammu airport in the outskirts
of the city were either flown
back across the border or to
some other destination during
the night. The aerial distance
from the Jammu airport to the
international border is 14 km.
The IAF attack is the first
Army personnel on high alert after two drones were noticed. PTI
instance of suspected Paki-
stan-based terrorists deploy-
ing drones to strike at the
country’s vital installations.
Punjab Director General of
Police Dinkar Gupta also
held a meeting with senior
officials of Border Security
Force (BSF) and the state po-
lice to chalk out a strategy to
deal with the national security
challenges posed by drones.
According to central security
agencies, over 300 drones and
unidentified flying objects have
been sighted along the sensitive
border with Pakistan post the
August 5, 2019 abrogation of
Article 370 that granted spe-
cial status to Jammu and Kash-
mir, even as they grappled to
find a suitable technology to
check these lethal sky-floaters.
Army sentries at the Rat-
nuchak-Kaluchak military
station in Jammu fired at the
two drones that later disap-
peared, an incident that came
hours after the nearby IAF
station witnessed the first ter-
ror attack using quadcopters.
The first drone was spotted
at around 11.45 pm on Sun-
day followed by another at
2.40 am the next day over
the military station, which
was targeted by terrorists in
2002 in which 31 people were
killed including 10 children.
Officials said on Monday that
alert Army troops fired nearly
two dozen rounds in a bid to
bring down the drones hov-
ering over the Brigade head-
quarters of the military station.
“...two separate drone activ-
ities were spotted over Rat-
nuchak-Kaluchak military area
by alert troops,” Jammu-based
Army PRO Lt Col Devender
Anand said in a statement here.
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Pinaki Majumder
The steel city bus service will
resume from Monday after
two-and-half months providing
relief to daily commuters.
The bus service was stopped on
April 22 due to a spike in cases
of Covid-19 during the second
wave.
The Shikshit Berojgar Mini
Bus Association which runs the
bus service (popularly known
as mini bus service) within
the city has decided to operate
buses from Monday following
relaxations in lockdown rules.
Buses at the Sakchi bus stand. Bhola Prasad
“The buses will resume ticket fares. various destinations daily. But,
operation from Monday with “All bus operators are passing because of the pandemic, the
the prevailing old fare. Buses through a difficult phase number of buses have been
will run on all the scheduled because of Covid-19 induced reduced to
routes,” said Sanjay Pandey, lockdown coupled with diesel around 40 which run in places
president of the association. price hike which has risen by like Telco, Govindpur, Tatana-
about Rs 39 in the last three gar station, Baridih, Sunderna-
He went on to say that the bus- months. Therefore, it will be gar, Adityapur and Kandra.
es will run with full capacity difficult for us to survive if we
and that it will be mandatory continue with the old fare, “he Several bus operators demand-
for all passengers to wear pointed out. ed the district administration
masks. to clear their outstanding dues
The current diesel price in Jam- for the service which they had
The senior functionary of shedpur has crossed Rs 94 per provided during the lockdown
the association said they will litre while it was around Rs 65 last year for ferrying migrant
convene a meeting of the bus in March.On an average around workers from Tatanagar rail-
operators later this month to 90 buses used to ply from the way station to their respective
discuss the issue of hike in Sakchi-based bus stand for home districts.

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