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SP’s PSO, civilian killed in militant attack in Sopore First broad daylight fidayeen-type strike on a Police Station in 7 years 1/15/2010 11:55:21 PM AHMED ALI FAYYAZ SRINAGAR, Jan 15: In their first ever broad daylight attack on a Police Station in Jammu& Kashmir in more than last seven years, militants today left the Personal Security Officer (PSO) of Additional Superintendent of Police and a 20-year-old youth dead and four more injured. One of the critically wounded Police personnel was battling for life at a hospital late tonight. Militants’ audacious offensive against Police, in which the prime target and SP of Sopore had a narrow escape, has come after a series of attacks on CRPF and soft targets in the last two months in the apple-rich belt of North Kashmir. Informed sources in North Kashmir told Early Times that unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade towards Police Station at Sopore at 10.10 a.m. It exploded in the air, causing minor injuries to one Abdul Lateef Mirchal. Resident of Sopore, Mirchal had contested Assembly elections of 2008 but had lost to the National Conference candidate, Haji Mohammad Ashraf Ganai. Even as the grenade attack caused panic and a high alert was sounded in the tow...   READ MORE

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Pak will try to scuttle peace process: Army 1/15/2010 11:46:33 PM Early Times Report Udhampur,Jan 15 Asserting that forces inimical to peace and stability in J&K were desperate to create disturbance here, GOC-in-C Northern Command, Lt Gen B S Jaswal today said "we apprehend militant attacks on the pattern of Lal Chowk in other parts of the state too". Talking to media persons on the sidelines of Investiture Ceremony-2010 at Udhampur, about 65 km from here on the Jammu-Srinagar road, he said the year 2010 was crucial as Pakistan was making all out effors to push militants into the state to foment trouble and keep the pot boiling. "I don't think Pakistan will be very happy with the situation in Jammu and Kashmir returning to normalcy," Lt Gen...   READ MORE   CRPF take over highway security 1/15/2010 11:43:23 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Jan 15: After twenty years, the security of the Srinagar-Jammu highway was entrusted to the central reserve police force (CRPF) Friday. According to reports, a meeting of Unified Command was held at Jammu on January 12 with the Defense Minister, AK Antony in chair. The meeting, reports said, relieved army of the task of highway security after 20 years. The decision of entrusting the security of the highway to CRPF was also taken in the meeting. . The Highway security was entrusted to the Army in 1989 when militancy commenced in the state. However, ever since the “situation took a favourable turn”, New Delhi decided to replace army with para military ...   READ MORE   Five killed, 50 injured in Bhaderwah accident ASI among three traffic cops suspended for dereliction of duty 1/15/2010 11:34:23 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 15: In a tragic road accident, second in less than a week at Pranu in Bhaderwah, five persons were killed and 50 others wounded, 13 of them critically, when an overloaded minibus plunged into Neeru nullah this morning. The injured included women and children. The ill-fated minibus (JK06/0793) was on its way from Bhaderwah to Doda city. Police sources said the overloaded minibus was crammed with commuters and carried people thrice its capacity. It left the Bhaderwah minibus stand at about 9 am. However, when it reached Pranu at about 10.10 am, the driver lost control over its steering wheel as a result of which it skidded off the road and fell into Neeru ...   READ MORE   Anchal missing, mysteriously 1/15/2010 11:33:54 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 15: Amina -- a Muslim girl -- who had converted to Hinduism and whose husband Rajneesh Sharma was allegedly tortured to death by police in a Srinagar police station over two months back, fled her in-laws' house at New Plots here under mysterious circumstances early this morning. When she left home at about 3 am, she was bare-footed and did not wear any woolen garment, according to in-laws. After she married Rajneesh over four months or so back, she changed her name from Amina to Anchal Sharma. More than a month after their marriage, a Srinagar police party had arrested Rajneesh from their New Plots-residence and taken him to Srinagar. Few days after his ...   READ MORE   Kashmiri leadership creating problems for Kashmiris outside Kashmir 1/15/2010 11:33:29 PM RUSTAM JAMMU, JAN 15: According to a report in a section of the print media, “Kashmiri traders were given marching orders at the Kumbh mela that started at Prayag, Allahabad, in Uttar Pradesh” on January 14. They were given the marching orders as they were considered as “security threat”. What actually happened was that Director of exhibition Dinesh Chand Pasi asked Kashmiri traders, who had set up their stalls, to “pack off”. This led to arguments and counter arguments between the Director and the Kashmiri traders selling shawls, artifacts and clothes etc. The situation turned so ugly that the Director, according to a report, “broke into the stalls and threw away their stuff” and...   READ MORE   Slathia offers ‘golden handshake’ to employees of sick units of JKI 1/15/2010 11:33:05 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 15: Instead of adopting dillydallying on loss making enterprises the Minister for Industries and Commerce Surjeet Singh Slathia has come clean on the fate of sick units –employees may walk out with golden handshake or voluntary retirement. At a Board meeting of Jammu and Kashmir Industries chaired by its chairman of and Industries Minister Surjeet Singh Slathia here this evening, it was decided to offer Golden Handshake (GHS) and Voluntarily Retirement Service (VRS) to the staff and workers of closed and non-functional units of the company. Minister of State for Industries and Commerce, Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma was present on the occasion. Meanwhile, the Bo...   READ MORE   Govt regularizes 24 CD blocks 1/15/2010 11:32:40 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 15: Government has regularized 24 CD Blocks, carved out from the already existing Blocks in the State, from time to time, since 2002. According to an order issued by the Rural Development Department, the Blocks, which have been regularized, are:- Duggan (Kathua), Bufliaz, (Poonch), Dachan, (Kishtwar), Drabshala (Kishtwar), Magasamo (Kishtwar), Gundana (Doda), Marmat (Doda), Kunzar (Baramulla), Singhpora (Baramulla), Teetwal (Kupwara), Wavora (Kupwara), Kalaros (Kupwara), Devsar (Kulgam),Pahloo (Kulgam), Kharu (Leh), Saspol (Leh),Panamik (Leh), Chuchot (Leh), Thanamandi (Rajouri), Wakoora (Ganderbal), Zanskar (Kargil), Rahamthnag/Murpurbang (Kargil),Tulail (B...   READ MORE   Fire burns army officer 25 days before marriage His tentmate also charred to death 1/15/2010 11:31:34 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 15: An army Lieutenant, who was to go home Sunday on a month's leave in connection with his nuptial ceremony next month, was charred to death in a fire at Kishanpur-Manwal near here early this morning. A Sepoy, who was sleeping beside him, was also burnt to death. Lt Girish Tiwari (26) and Sepoy Vinod Yoo (27) of 3 Madras Regiment were burnt beyond recognition, according to police sources. While Tiwari hailed from Jabalpur, Vinod was resident of Tripura. Tiwari's marriage was to be solemnised on February 8 at his residence in Jabalpur. The tragedy struck exactly 25 days before the marriage took place. The 3 Madras Regiment had moved from Bandipora in Kas...   READ MORE

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