Sudershan Sharma EARLY TIMES REPORT THATHRI (Doda), Sep 2: Humiliated over the alleged police torture, a Tata sumo driver today committed suicide by jumping into Chenab river from Thathri bridge here, an hour, or so before iftar with his family for which he had brought famous sweets from Kud. Angered by the alleged incident, locals stoned the Thathri police station, besides setting ablaze two police vehicles. To disperse them, police fired several teargas shells and resorted to firing in the air. In the ding-dong battles, at least a dozen p Read More...

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sep 2: Love stories from ancient times have often met with tragic ends and the affair between Jameel and Sunita (name changed for valid reasons) was no exception either as love hit former was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a nullah at Arnia today. Jameel Ahmed of Parade, Jammu a 12th class student and Sunita of Sangrampur were having an affair but their parents had strong objections to their relationship, said police sources On August 31 last, Jameel went missing mysteriously from his house in Parade a Read More...

Syed Junaid Hashmi EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sep 2: National Conference's principled political plank "Full Autonomy" is as good as dead going by the congress led UPA government's officially declared stand on the issue. Significantly, it in consonance with the stand of BJP led NDA, of which NC was a part even after it had contemptuously rejected the autonomy proposal. Moreso, the leadership of National Conference which is sharing power in the state with congress has almost shut the talk on its favourite pre-election autonomy slogan. The fac Read More...

BHARAT BHUSHAN EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sep 2: Because of the wrong selection procedure adopted by the authorities concerned and for overlooking the set guidelines, high court judge, justice Sunil Hali has quashed the impugned selection list of medical officers (MOs) appointed in Doda district under the Centre's national rural health mission (NRHM). NRHM was launched by the Centre to carry out necessary architectural correction in the basic health care delivery system with the aim to provide effective health care to poor, vulnerable and th Read More...

Ashwani Bhat EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sep 2: Though the common man in Kashmir is fed up with the constant strikes and bandhs but the separatist and jehadi forces have come up with new dictates to those who will try to defy the strike and bandh calls in the Valley will have to face serious consequences. According to sources seeing the growing public resentment against the constant strike and shutdown in Valley the Jehadi forces have pasted the warning notices on the trees and walls in different places of Kashmir asking people not to defy th Read More...

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sep 2: Who says Swami Agnivesh and his cohorts like Dr Mohini Giri (daughter of former President of India VV Giri), former Indian Navy Chief Admiral Ram Doss, "Father" Dominique Emmanuel, former Chairman of J&K Public Service Commission Mohammad Shafi Pandit and journalists like Mazhar Hussain from Hyderabad and Sujat Bukhari and Yousuf Jameel from Kashmir, to mention only a few, are peaceniks? Those who say so are either mercenaries or supporters of those who want to wreck the Indian State and give legitimacy to the Read More...

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sep 2: The on-going Kashmir agitation has not only affected business and education. It has adversely affected the work of the human rights defenders as well. This year they forgot the International Day of the Disappeared. The government ignored the day. Or, to put it plainly, the government did not react because the human rights defenders and the sufferers forgot to observe the day which fell on August 30. Every year, at least two functions are held by different groups to mark the occasion. And every year the gove Read More...

RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sep 2: The custodians of the Indian State have not only consistently appeased the Kashmiri leaders and their supporters overlooking the national sentiment, but they have also all through given the Kashmiri leadership extraordinary power to maltreat the people of Jammu province and discriminate against them at all levels and in all spheres. It's no wonder then that the people of Jammu province are crying for justice. The complaints of the people of Jammu are innumerable. Their age-old complaint is that they d Read More...

EARLY TIMES REPORT RAJOURI, Sep 2: A female body was recovered from Agly Tawi river here today. According to sources, inhabitants of Malik market in the heart of Rajouri town saw the body of a young girl floating near Jhoola bridge. According to SHO at about 1.30 pm people saw the girl in the flood water. Seeing the body, some youth jumped in the river near Jhoola bridge. The female had injury marks on her head. The girl about 22 years old immediately rushed to the district hospital where the doctors declared her brought dead. The deceas Read More...

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sep 2: Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) chairperson Syeda Aasiya Andrabi and her close aide Sofi Fahmeeda were today booked under public safety Act (PSA). Both had been sfifted to the central Kot-Bhalwal jail in Jammu. "Asiya and Fahmeeda have been booked under PSA and shifted to the Kot-Bhalwal jail in Jammu," acting DeM chairperson Rifat Fatima said in a statement. She condemned invoking of PSA against the duo as "frustration" of the government. "We also condemn their shifting to Kot-Bhalwal despite directions by the Hi Read More...

EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Sep 2: Station Manager Air India, Jammu Sanjiv Misri has informed that Air India will not be operating on Jammu-Srinagar-Jammu sectors on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th and 15th September in view of closure of Srinagar Airport. Meanwhile IC821 will Departure from Delhi at 1215 hrs and arrival Jammu at 1330 hrs and IC822 will Departure from Jammu at 1515 hrs and arrival Delhi at 1630 hrs. On 6th, 9th and 12th September, IC821 will departure from Delhi at 1130 and arrival Jammu at 1240, departu Read More...

EARLY TIMES REPORT BEIJING, Sep 2: China today said it had no intention to interfere in the Kashmir issue as it dismissed reports of presence of up to 11,000 PLA troops in Gilgit in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, but made it clear that it was not reviewing its stance on stapled visas to Kashmiris. "As a neighbour and friend of both countries, China believes that the (Kashmir) issue should be left to the two countries so that it could be properly handled through dialogue and consultation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu told a med Read More...