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A date with the moon Play around with bindi, henna and bangles 10/25/2007 11:29:08 PM MUNISH GUPTA Jammu | Oct 25 Its busy time for mehndi artists in the city as the festival of Indian women, ‘Karva Chauth’ is near. Persons mastering the art of tattooing and mehndi are booking hundreds of orders daily in the city. Be it the leading beauticians of the city or the roadside mehndiwalas, city women are approaching them to get the best of mehndi design on their hands on the eve of Karva Chauth. Ram Sarain, a mehndi artist from Rajasthan, comes to the city every year during these days. He says, “My other relatives stay here and work in various industries. But they call me from Rajasthan to give them support and latest tips on this art. I get henna from Rajasthan which is not only pure but the colour is also long lasting”. Sarain and more than 30 members of his group will put up their stalls at Patel Bazar, Purani Mandi, Pacca Danga and Moti Bazar area. One of the artist said, “We even go to houses but the rates are slightly higher”. The rates of these artists vary from Rs 21 to Rs 101 per hand depending on the labour. For small girls, the rates vary from Rs 5 to Rs...   READ MORE

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Blast hits Pakistan army convoy, 18 soldiers dead 10/25/2007 11:23:58 PM Pakistan | Oct 25 A suspected roadside bomb attack killed 18 soldiers and wounded 25 on Thursday in a northwest Pakistan region where a Taliban-style movement has taken root and the military has boosted its presence, officials said. The blast in the Swat valley set fire to a truck loaded with ammunition and came a day after the military sent around 2,000 troops to the district in response to growing militant activity. "There are 18 dead. The bodies are badly burnt," said a security official. State television reported a firefight broke out after the blast, the latest in a series of attacks on security forces in recent months which have killed hundreds of people. "When we reached near t...   READ MORE   Blast hits Pakistan army convoy, 18 soldiers dead 10/25/2007 11:23:17 PM Pakistan | Oct 25 A suspected roadside bomb attack killed 18 soldiers and wounded 25 on Thursday in a northwest Pakistan region where a Taliban-style movement has taken root and the military has boosted its presence, officials said. The blast in the Swat valley set fire to a truck loaded with ammunition and came a day after the military sent around 2,000 troops to the district in response to growing militant activity. "There are 18 dead. The bodies are badly burnt," said a security official. State television reported a firefight broke out after the blast, the latest in a series of attacks on security forces in recent months which have killed hundreds of people. "When we reached near t...   READ MORE   He rushes back to Magri to locate daughter Only thing he could lay hand was a blanket but it was too pockmark 10/25/2007 11:03:56 PM Early Times Reporter Margi (Kishtwar) | Oct 25 In the pitch dark night when the entire village had become a pool of fire amidst shrills and screams of poverty-stricken villagers, his heart came into his mouth after he realized that his minor daughter was missing. Amidst chaos Ghulam Ali hurriedly rushed back to the village in a hope to trace his only daughter Haneefa. Caring little about his life Ghulam rushed back jumping few fires to reach to his house and desperately searched Haneefa, his only daughter. However, he could not trace Haneefa in his house and realizing that blaze has started assuming dangerous form, he unwillingly moved to a safer place watching haplessly the nightma...   READ MORE   Antony to review J-K security situation On a day’s visit to valley on saturday 10/25/2007 11:03:04 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 25 The Defence Minister Shri AK Antony will review the security situation in Jammu & Kashmir during a day’s visit to the valley on 27 October 2007. He will hold meetings with Senior Army and State Government Officials. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence today increased the ex-gratia relief and assistance amount to the affected people inhabiting the areas adjacent to the ammunition depot at Khundroo to Rs. 26.75 crores to be disbursed by the Jammu & Kashmir State Government. It may be recalled that concerned by the loss of means of livelihood and property due to a major fire at the Army’s biggest ammunition depot at Khundroo in Anantnag district on 11 Au...   READ MORE   Fake currency seized 10/25/2007 10:40:02 PM Early Times Reporter Srinagar | Oct 25 The Jammu and Kashmir police today claimed to have seized fake currency in newly created Shopian district. Acting on specific information regarding transferring of fake currency, police raided a Jammu and Kashmir Bank branch at Imam Sahib in Shopian district. While the culprits managed to escape, they left behind a polythene bag in which fake Indian currency worth Rs 1,90,000, a bullet of 7.62 mm and a computer scanned hand written letter of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen militant outfit were seized. Police has registered a case and launched manhunt to nab the culprits....   READ MORE

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