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| Hearing in Rubiya Syed kidnapping case adjourned | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 3
The Rubiya Syed kidnapping case, which was listed for today for hearing, was adjourned due to the strike by the Advocates.
The alleged accused in the kidnapping case namely Mohd Yaseen Malik Supremo JKLF, Showkat Ahmed Bakshi, Ali Mohd Mir, Javid Mir alias Nalka, Mehraj-ud-Din Sheikh, Mohd Iqbal Gandroo, Mohd Zaman Mir and Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta-Karate were present in the court whereas Mohd Yaqoob Pandit, Wajahat Bashir Qureshi, Manzoor Ahmed Sofi and Mohd Rafiq alias Nanaji was absent and on their behalf application for exemption was filed in the Court of TADA/POTA which was granted by the Court.
Today all the cases including one lakh US Dolla... | |
| | | | Kashmir's multi-crore Institute of Traumatoloty taking shape | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 3
Kashmir will soon have its first Institute of Traumatology to be set up at a cost of Rs. 120 crore. The design of the prestigious project was presented to the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at a high level meeting here today who asked for certain changes to protect the old Chinars in the upcoming complex site at Shireen Bagh in the summer capital and allow greater space for visitors to the hospital.
The proposed 200-bed Institute is a part of up-gradation programme for the two medical college hospitals at Srinagar and Jammu to the AIIMS level.
The Chief Minister asked the consultants and project execution agency to make suitable changes in the design... | |
| | | | Charak flags off’ Parkash Utsav’ | | City witnesses impressive 'Nagar Kirtan' | | | Munish Gupta
Jammu | Jan 3
Religious fervour gripped the city as an impressive and unprecedented ‘Nagar Kirtan’ procession was taken out this morning on the eve of the birthday of tenth Guru Shri Guru Gobind Singhji. Braving severe cold and hostile weather, thousands of devotees participated in the ‘Nagar Kirtan’ procession, considered as an unprecedented, by the people of city keeping in view the number of participants.
Thousands of Sikh devotees today participated in the annual Nagar Kirtan congregation here in Jammu to mark the 342 birth anniversary of Sikh Guru Sri Guru Gobind Singhji Maharaj.
It was heartening to see kids dressed as ‘Panj Payaras’ with swords in their hands lead... | |
| | | | Pak-trained ultra gets 18 years in jail | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 3
A local court today sentenced a Pakistan-trained militant to 18 years in prison, seven years after he was arrested along with an accomplice for infiltrating into Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Principal sessions judge J R Kotwal convicted and sentenced Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) trained militant Raja Muzaffar Ahmed to undergo 18 years of imprisonment under diffderent Acts after hearing the arguments of public prosecutor E A Tak appearing for the state and the defence counsel Dinesh Verma.
The offence committed by the accused was 'serious' as well as 'heinous' and he did not deserve 'leniency', the court observed before convicting him.
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| | | | Cabinet expansion a road show : Bhim | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 3
‘‘Describing the recent cabinet expansion as a ‘road show’ for the ensuing Assembly election’’, Prof Bhim Singh Chairman Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party has expressed his grave concern for not giving any representation to the Sikhs and the Kashmiri Pandits in the Council of Ministers.
In a statement issued here today, Prof Singh has sought justification of allotting Higher Education portfolio to Charak and Roads and Buildings to a tainted Minister. ‘While Sonia Gandhi has been pleading for 30 per cent reservation for the women in the legislatures, Bhim regretted that ‘her most faithful Chief Minister’ could not induct even a single women in... | |
| | | | Taking cue from politicians, Kashmir industrialists crying wolf about funds diversion to Jammu | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Jan 3
Intriguingly enough, after some Kashmiri politicians crying wolf over discrimination against the valley and preferential treatment being meted out to Jammu in development activities, leaders of some trade organizations in Kashmir have joined the chorus. Believing in the dictum, "offense is the best defense", the Kashmiri politicians, who for last 60 years have remained exploiting the Jammu region, treating it as their colony and subjecting the people in the region to second class citizens treatment, with their neglect and discrimination against in all the fields, pocketing lion's shares of funds spending both from the state's own resources a... | |
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