SALIL RAINA Poonch, May 17: Union Home Secretary R.K Singh today ruled out any compromise on national security. Singh was accorded a warm welcome at Chakan Da Bagh to get first hand information about LoC trade and the problems being faced by the traders. Ahead of Indo-Pak Home Secretary level talks on May 24-25, his visit to Chakan Da Bagh assumes much importance as the cross LoC Trade will remain on top priority during the Home Secretary level talks. Singh issued directions for smooth trade across the LoC. The concerned DDC A.K Sahu ap Read More...

early times report Jammu, May 17 : Senior National Conference leader and MLC Ajay Sadhotra has accused Mufti Sayeed of failure to raise revenue to the tune of Rs. 50,000 crores from natural resources. He also accused Mufti of failure to implement his healing touch policy. Without advocating Mufti's cause here, it may be mentioned that National Conference has ruled the state for decades together. The NC governments never raised revenue from the natural resources sufficient to cater to the needs of the state. And, if NC could not do it Read More...

NEHA JAMMU, May 17: The people of Jammu Pradesh have been crying for justice, particularly since 1952, when under the banner of Praja Parishad they not only demanded their due in the state's polity, but also arrest of Sheikh Abdullah, the then Prime Minister of J&K. In 1967, they launched an organized struggle against what they called the "Kashmiri domination". The two organizations which were in the forefront were Jammu Autonomy Forum and Dogra Mandal. While the former demanded autonomy for Jammu within the state, the latter advocated the ne Read More...

early times report JAMMU, May 17: Undeterred by Government's threat to foil the VHP bid to start the Amarnath pilgrimage on June 4, the VHP today reiterated that the first jatha of yatra will elave from Jammu on June 3 to have darshan at holy cave on Jesht Purnima. The VHP is committed to start the yatra on June 3 and run it for complete two months as per Puranic tradition, its state general secretary, Dr Sham Lal along with city president, Dr V K Gupta and city secretary S R Sharma told reporters here today. Ridiculing the Government's Read More...

early times report Srinagar, May17: Politics is the art of possibility and former chairman of Hurriyat Conference professor Abdul Gani Bhat seems to know it all. The man whom other separatists projected as an alien and "a man from nowhere" is calling the shots leaving his companions with no option other than to react to his off and on assertions. Though Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has been the most known and highly mobile face of the conglomerate but professor Bhat's innocuous assertion that UN resolutions cannot be implemented for resolving Kashmi Read More...

early times report Jammu, May 17: Come summers and Jammu is all made to face it in severest and harshest manner- the power curtailments , that too in unscheduled pattern. It is May, just the beginning of summer and Jammu is experiencing the cuts in electricity supply arbitrarily , perhaps in severest intensity, with no control over the number of hours different localities plunge in darkness in the evening or sweat and fret in the peak of heat during day time. Visit any locality of Jammu, the roaring generator sets on business establishment Read More...

SUMIT SHARMA Jammu, May 17: The recent communication from Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Armed Jony William who reportedly wrote to Director General of Police (DGP) Kuldeep Khoda apprising him that the defunct X-Ray scanning machine installed at Jammu Railway Station, has made it apparent that all is not well at the one of most visited railway station in Northern india which is facing sheer neglect of concerned authorities. If the sources are be believed, DGP sought report of the security check up at Jammu Railway Station after rep Read More...

early times report JAMMU, May 17: Even after 13 days of the death of two persons, including a pregnant woman, in the May 5 Gurgaon BMW hit-and-run case, Gurgaon police are yet to nail the real culprit. Agitated over this slow pace of investigation, close relatives and family friends of Sanjay Gulati, who was one of the victims, took out a candle march here Thursday, seeking justice for the victims and severe punishment to the guilty. Gulati, running a transport company, was himself driving an Indigo car when an overspeeding BMW rammed into Read More...

RUSTAM JAMMU, May 17: The Kashmiri Hindu organizations like Panun Kashmir (PK) have been reiterating again and again since 1991 their demand that "four per cent of the area of Kashmir, north-east of the Jhelum, be earmarked for the establishment of a homeland for the over 3,00,000 internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus" and that "this area be given the status of Union Territory". The upshot of the arguments advanced by the PK leaders in favour of their demand all along has been that the Kashmiri Hindus will under no condition make common cause Read More...