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| Both fidayeen killed in Srinagar gunbattle | | IGP orders probe into ‘firing’ on photojournalist; hotel building gutted | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Jan 7: Militants’ twenty-four-hour-long suicidal gunbattle with Police and CRPF at the business nerve centre of Lalchowk in this capital city today ended with the death of both the fidayeen as the hotel building occupied by them suffered extensive damage in a blaze and one of the three critically injured civilians died at a hospital. In all, two militants, one driver of J&K Police and one civilian have got killed in the strike that has deflated different political parties’ claim of normality and demand of demilitarization in Jammu & Kashmir.
Inspector General of Police Kashmir, Farooq Ahmed, told Early Times that after evacuating nearly 600 civilians from different buildings in the congested business centre of Lalchowk and maintaining a tight cordon overnight, Srinagar District Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) stormed the 4-storeyed Hotel Punjab at 0900 hours. Conducting room-to-room searches, commandoes of Special Operations Group and CRPF forced both the hiding militants to come out of rooms they had occupied. Both were gunned do... | |
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| Coalition’s achievement list is bundle of lies: Mehbooba | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 7: In his first public observation to one year performance of National Conference-Congress regime, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti today said that the much publicized list of achievements is just a bundle of lies.
Terming much publicized one year achievements of National Conference led coalition regime as bundle of lies, PDP chief cautioned the people against gimmicks of the ruling party. “National Conference has once against raked up the issue of autonomy to divert peoples’ attention towards its failure”, she observed, adding, “during the last one year government’s pronouncements remained confined only to press statements... | |
| | | | 19 top officers transferred | | Parvez malik posted as Deputy Commissioner available | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 7: In first ever major administrative reshuffle of the year, the government has recalled on of the top bureaucratic Mohammad Iqbal Khandey back to the civil secretariat. Khandey is among 19 officers whose fresh transfers and postings were approved in a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah here this morning.
Khandey was pulled out of the civil secretariat in the first ever administrative reshuffle carried out by the Omar Abdullah government in February last year. Until then Principal Secretary in Forest Department, he was posted as Director General of Institute of Management and Public Administration, a relatively insignifi... | |
| | | | ‘Govt to oppose WB disclaimer on J&K’ | | | |
Early Times Report
New Delhi Jan 7: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has assured a delegation of Jammu and Kashmir members of parliament that the government will oppose a disclaimer clause inserted by the by World Bank in return for a US$160 million loan it has approved for a development project in the state.
The World Bank has asked state government to give an undertaking that the loan would not be treated as a certificate that the “disputed territory” was an integral part of India reports The Economic Times of India. India had similarly encountered problems over the territory when China blocked an Asian Development Bank loan for Arunachal Pradesh seeking to defer the loan as it was... | |
| | | | One-year of NC-Cong rule | | `Era of broken promises and shattered hopes’ | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Jan 7: Omar led coalition has completed one year in office. Apart from giving a new look to roads in Jammu and Srinagar cities, the coalition government has failed on all other fronts notwithstanding full page advertisements in most of the local dailies to the contrary. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mahbooba Mufti holds similar views.
The much hyped employment package was unveiled by the Chief Minister on the 104 birth anniversary of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah. The Chief Minister intends to address what he called a gigantic unemployment problem in a principled manner. However, the package, Sher-i-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for ... | |
| | | | Police tighten belts to thwart militant designs | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 7: Apparently trying to take advantage of the foggy weather conditions, the incursion bids by the militants from across the border have suddenly increased for the past few days.
This swift upsurge in infiltration bids has alerted the Jammu district police and compelled it to enhance the security ring in and around city so as to avoid any untoward incident ahead of Republic Day.
Militants, who are desperately trying to show their presence in the state after receiving some major jolts during last year, have again up their ante. They have demonstrated their intent by executing the first Fidayeen (suicide) attack on January 6 after more than two years... | |
| | | | Neither of Soz nor of Azad’s lobby, some Congress leaders are with whom? | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, JAN 7:
Pradesh Congress used to hit headlines soon after the divide based on lobbyism surfaced. During his Chief Ministeship, Ghulam Nabi Azad accommodated few Congressmen to assist him to reach out all the assignments by him. These few Congress men took advantage of this opportunity to become loyalists of Azad and not of the party and people. Similarly, after Prof. saif-u-Din Soz took the reigns of president ship several Congressmen in greed to become ministers in cabinet showcased loyalty to Soz, thus JKPCC got divided into two factions. Congre... | |
| | | | Fidayeen gunshots mute Pak move | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, JAN 7: Over two-year-long pause in Fidayeen attacks that was shattered by 22-hour-long gun battle in Srinagar has somehow put breaks on Pakistan’s move to harp on Kashmir issue.
This has upset Pakistan’s Delhi diplomatic mission’s plans to unfurl the Hurriyat agenda during a Commonwealth Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of member countries’ legislatures that has been going on in the Capital with a delegation from Islamabad taking part in the deliberations.
The Hurriyat invitees of the Pakistan High Commission to meet their National Assembly Speaker Fahmida Mirza and Senate Deputy Chairman Farooq Naik were politely told by the mission that the last nigh... | |
| | | | Delimitation: BJP has no moral right to denounce government | | | |
BY RUSTAM
JAMMU, JAN 7: BJP state president Ashok Khajuria is not happy with the performance of the National Conference coalition government. He has several grievances against it. One of them is that the government did not amend the Representation of People’s Act during its 12-month-long rule in order to pave way for the fresh delimitation of the Assembly constituencies. In other words, his grievance is that the ruling coalition has denied the people of Jammu province of their right to due representation in the Assembly in accordance of the laid down criteria – land area and nature of its terrain, accessibility and population/voters strength.
One should agree with Ashok ... | |
| | | | Pickpocket targets JU professor; nabbed | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 07:
A pickpocket, who stole money from the pocket of a Jammu University (JU) professor at the railway station here this evening, was arrested by police while he was trying to leave the station.JU Professor, Dr Purshotam lodged a complaint with police that someone
had stolen Rs 4,500 from his pocket at the railway station. Cops soon swung into action and caught hold of the pickpocket while he was trying to leave the station and melt into the nearby lanes. Police sources identified him as Vijay Verma of Agra. He was at present putting up at Railway Colony, which adjoins the railway station. The
stolen cash was recovered from him and handed over to the pr... | |
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