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Tral shuts over arrest of Hizb District Commander's sister Police says she collected Rs 5 Lakh for militants from a man in Dadsar 1/8/2011 11:00:40 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Jan 7: For the first time in the last many months, Police have arrested a woman on charges of working as a financial conduit for militants of Hizbul Mujahideen. Tral township in the south Kashmir district of Pulwama today observed shutdown even as demonstrators clashed with Police, described the detainee as innocent and demanded her release. Authoritative sources revealed to Early Times that a 24-year-old unmarried woman, namely Surraya D/o Ghulam Mohiuddin Dar of Tral was under the Police surveillance ever since she had figured as an "overground activist" of the militants of Hizbul Mujahideen militants last year. The other day only, Police received specific information according to which she had collected a sum of Rs 5 Lakh from a militant financial conduit at Dadsar village on January 5th. On January 6th, men from Police Station Tral conducted a raid on her house and got her arrested. Surraya happens to be the sister of Hizbul Mujahideen's "District Commander" for Tral, Sajjad Ahmed Dar, who, according to official sources, has been operating ...   READ MORE

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State congress leaders want Omar not to ignore them 1/8/2011 10:59:49 AM Early Times Report Jammu,January 7 :- Several leaders belonging to the state unit of the Congress are said to have conveyed to the party high command that they were not opposed to the continuation of the present political arrangement,Congress-National Conference alliance,in Jammu and Kashmir but the way the NC leadership was trying to ignore the partner in power could cause major erosion to the Congress,especially in the Jammu region which is the main region of its influence. Party sources said that if a number of congress leadaers,including former Deputy Chief Minister,Mangat Ram Sharma,had demanded rotational chief ministership it was the result of their worries over grad...   READ MORE   Separatists provoking the already angry Jammu 1/8/2011 10:52:14 AM neha EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Jan 7: Things in Jammu may assume dangerous proportions if the Kashmiri separatists continue to air provocative views. For, their views seek to create an impression that they represent the general will of the people of the state and that what they are saying is what the people of the state vouch for. Take, for example, the views of APHC (M) chairman. He has said that (Those who talk about) "the regional and sub-regional aspirations within Jammu and Kashmir" (are the ones who simply) "conspire to undermine the dominant and mainstream opinion for right to self-determination"…(The regional and sub-regional aspirations are no more than) "bogeys" (raised by...   READ MORE   I ask Kashmiri Pandits to forgive us: Farooq 1/8/2011 10:51:36 AM New Delhi, Jan 7 : As Chief Minister of the state way back in 1990, he might not have 'prevented' the exodus of Kashmiri Pandit community from their own homeland but years after he is not only regretful but apologetic too. Terming the displacement of Pandits from the Valley as ''one of the darkest chapters'' in the history of Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah today asked the displaced people for ''forgiveness.'' "One of the major tragedies that we had to go through was the ethnic cleansing that took place in the state of Jammu and Kashmir," said the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir at a book launch in the capital. "I think it was one of the darkest chapters i...   READ MORE   Scorpio burnt after its two occupants try to kidnap two school girls l One accused held late Friday night, another absconds 1/8/2011 10:50:50 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT UDHAMPUR, Jan 7: Tension gripped the town today after people burnt Scorpio jeep of two youth who allegedly tried to abduct two school girls from the main bazar of the town. One of them, whom police sources identified as Rajan Dogra alias Ishu of Shakti Nagar, Jammu, was apprehended by police from the town suburbs late tonight while his accomplice, Vicky, who too hailed from Shakti Nagar, was absconding. Sources said the duo stopped their Scorpio (JK02AE/2021) in the main bazar of the town in the evening and attempted to kidnap two school girls who were returning homes after taking their tution classes in Lambi Gali. The abduction bid was, however, foiled by some vig...   READ MORE   Flag hoisting row turns murkier with war of words Using 'tamasha' word disrespect for tiranga : BJP 1/8/2011 10:49:02 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 7 : At the local level in J&K, the ongoing war of words between the BJP and its political opponents including some opposition parties as well, over the issue of hoisting a flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar is getting murkier with each passing day. A day after a senior Congress leader termed BJP 's attempt to hoist flag as a 'tamasha' senior BJP leader and party spokesman Ramesh Arora said that the inference drawn from what state he was trying to say that when Prime Minister of India, Chief of the State, Ministers and other senior leaders of the Congress unfurl national flag they also celebrate 'Tamasha'. He said all those people who are opposed to the flag hoi...   READ MORE   Says BJP trying to hide 'failures' in garb of nationalism Farooq keeps alive tricolour hoisting row 1/8/2011 10:47:58 AM New Delhi, Jan 7 : Even as Union Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah chose to remain silent while his Chief Minister son spoke vehemently against BJP plans of hoisting flag at Lal Chowk, the ruling National Conference leadership apparently wants to keep issue alive by making unrelenting remarks and comments over proposed programme of the BJP on January 26. Dr Abdullah spoke out and out against the party and also alleged that party was up to destroying peace in the entire country. While he uttered no word while his two day stay in J&K, on reaching the Union capital today Dr Abdullah lashed out at BJP for its plan to hoist the national flag in Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Republic Day and said the main...   READ MORE   SPO-turned-thief cuts old man's leg, held 1/8/2011 10:47:12 AM JAMMU, Jan 07:A special police officer-turned-burglar, who last night cut an old man's leg at Dassal in Rajouri while trying to flee, was caught by locals and handed over to police. SPO-turned-burglar, whom police sources identified as Nisar Mohammad, son of Ghulam Hussain of Dassal, last night entered the village mosque. When he tried to steal a transformer and a mike, some people got up. Before they could catch hold of him, he fled, the sources added.However, while trying to escape, he cut the leg of Mohammad Din who was hospitalised. Nisar was later caught by some village youth and handed over to police. ...   READ MORE   PDC Mechanical Wing flouts official norms, promotes JEs by surpassing senior engineers 1/8/2011 10:46:41 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Jan7: Flouting all standing service rules and norms the authorities in Power Development Corporation Kashmir have made diploma holder junior engineers as officiating Assistant Executive Engineers while ignoring the degree holder Assistant Executive Engineers. According to sources Chief Engineer Mechanical Wing of PDC Kashmir had made some diploma holder JEs as officiating AEEs way back in 1993 and since then they have been continuing on the said post while the degree holder as well as diploma holder AEs who are senior in cadre grade than the diploma holder JEs are working under them. Sources said some of these JEs working as officiating AEEs in the organisa...   READ MORE   Abducted girl found, accused held 1/8/2011 10:45:55 AM JAMMU : A minor girl, who was on December 30 abducted by a youth from Kaintha in Ramnagar area of Udhampur, was today recovered by police from Ramnagar railway station. Police sources said the youth was trying to take her to some unknown place when cops apprehended him. The girl was also recovered from his possession. The girl was restored to her parents after her medical examination. The accused, against whom police had registered a case, was cooling his feet in the lockup....   READ MORE   EX-BSF cop dupes unemployed youth of lakhs 1/8/2011 10:45:20 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 07: A retired BSF cop has duped the unemployed youth of some Rajouri villages of lakhs of rupees in the name of managing jobs for them.In a complant lodged with Rajouri deputy commissioner Ghulam Ahmad Khawaja, Krishan Lal and Pritam Dass of Dharamsal, Kalakote, said ex-BSF cop Amarnath of Manjidhara had allegedly taken Rs 1.5 lakh from them for providing them jobs in BSF. They alleged that he had taken money from 16 unemployed youth of Dharamsal, Channi and Mela villages of Kalakote.They said after allegedly taking money from them, he gave them appointment letters and asked them to join in Madras. However, when they reached Assam, they were told by BS...   READ MORE   Under-construction bar collapses, 2 die 1/8/2011 10:44:37 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 07: Two labourers were today killed after the wall of an under-construction bar collapsed at Khanpur near Jagti in Nagrota, about 15 km from here. Police sources said labourers -- Vijay Kumar (20) of Bihar and Kera Lal (50) of Madhya Pradesh -- were working in the under-construction Rajan Bar at Khanpur when its wall collapsed on them at about 6.30 pm. Both of them were killed on the spot, the sources added.Their bodies had been kept in the GMC hospital mortuary. Police had registered a case in this connection. ...   READ MORE   SPO-turned-thief cuts old man's leg, held 1/8/2011 10:43:56 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 07: A special police officer-turned-burglar, who last night cut an old man's leg at Dassal in Rajouri while trying to flee, was caught by locals and handed over to police. SPO-turned-burglar, whom police sources identified as Nisar Mohammad, son of Ghulam Hussain of Dassal, last night entered the village mosque. When he tried to steal a transformer and a mike, some people got up. Before they could catch hold of him, he fled, the sources added.However, while trying to escape, he cut the leg of Mohammad Din who was hospitalised. Nisar was later caught by some village youth and handed over to police. ...   READ MORE

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