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| Jammu and Kashmir striving for top position in tourist destinations | | | |
Srinagar, Oct 11 : Encouraged by the massive response to Ladakh Festival last month, Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Department has decided to organise 15-day 'Kashmir Tourism Festival' every year to make the Kashmir valley number one tourist destination.
The department is also spending Rs 25 crore for the preservation of heritage sites in Srinagar city and taking other measures to make the state round the year tourist destination for global tourists.
Minister for Tourism Nawang Rigzin Jora said holding of Ladakh Festival was a good experience and encouraging. He said the Tourism Department organised 15-day Ladakh Festival in the month of September. But getting good response, the tourist trav... | |
| | | | J&K an integral part, India tells Pak | | | |
New York: Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue at a UN committee saying the "decolonisation agenda" of the world body would be incomplete without resolution of the problem, drawing a strong reaction from India which asserted that the state is its integral part.
Speaking at a special committee of the General Assembly that addresses the issue of decolonisation, Amjad Hussain B Sial, Pakistan's deputy permanent representative to the UN, asked the international community to support the Kashmiri people's "right to self-determination".
"The decolonisation agenda of the United Nations would be incomplete without resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir issue," he said.
"Negation of the right... | |
| | | | Pakistan, not India, exporting terrorism: PM | | | |
Mumbai, Oct 11 Denying that India was to blame for terror in Balochistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said it was Pakistan that was patronizing terrorism and causing “great harm” to South Asia.
Visiting Mumbai on the last day of campaigning for the Maharashtra assembly elections Tuesday, Manmohan Singh also asked Maoist guerrillas to shed violence and initiate a dialogue with the government.
“The government and people of Pakistan should realise the great harm that patronization of terrorist groups has done to South Asia,” the prime minister told reporters here.
He said the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan “is not what it should be. The rising role of terrorist groups... | |
| | | | PM postpones visit to Kashmir | | | | New Delhi, Oct 11: The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has postponed his two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, which was to commence on October 18. He is likely to undertake the visit in the last week of October.
The visit will be Singh's first visit to the state during his second tenure. He will inaugurate a 12-km railway line between Anantnag and Qazigund.
The Prime Minister's visit to the state was postponed after Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee opted to stay away from the event.
The Anantnag and Qazigund railway line is part of the prestigious Rs. 11,270 crores, Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link project, which will connect the Kashmir Valley to the rest of the countr... | |
| | | | BrahMos to be deployed in Ladakh | | | | Early Times Report
Leh oct 11
In a bid to deter China and bolster India’s defence along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), India has plans to have BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir. These missiles have a range of 300 km and in case of a Chinese offensive, would be able to hit tactical and strategic targets in Tibet. They would be able to fly over the mountains and hit targets and are very fast and almost impossible to counter. BrahMos is a two-stage missile. It is nine metres tall and weighs 3.9 tonnes with the canister. It can be launched from ships, silos and road and rail mobile launchers.
It has a strike range of 290 km and can carry a conventional war... | |
| | | | De-link Kashmir issue from terrorism: Mufti | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 11- Asserting that the resolution of vexed Kashmir issue was must for bringing peace in the sub-continent, chief patron Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mufti Muhammad Sayeed has said that the peace process between India and Pakistan must not be held hostage to developments within the country or at the international level.
Addressing a seminar on `Self Rule’ organized by the party at Anantnag, Sayed said despite stress and strain and nature of hostility and acrimony existing between the two countries since partition the peace process witnessed a considerable progress in the recent past giving a ray of hope to the people of the region. However, the recent dev... | |
| | | | Darbar Move pressurises J&K govt to bail out SRTC | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu | Oct 11
With the date of Darbar Move from Srinagar to Jammu nearing, the Jammu and Kashmir government has come under intense pressure to bail out the dying State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC).
The SRTC, with a fleet of over 800 vehicles providing inter as well as intra-state transport services, single-handedly manages movement of Darbar Move offices between the winter and the summer Capitals of the state.
Allegedly, mismanagement by the authorities and corruption at all levels had brought SRTC financially down to an extent that it failed to disperse monthly dues of its employees. Regretting apathetic attitude of the state government, the SRTC employees s... | |
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