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Militancy in J-K turning into lucrative business: EU group

10/2/2007 11:09:27 PM

New Delhi | Oct 2 A European group monitoring Jammu and Kashmir has said militancy had turned into a lucrative business in the state with criminals taking advantage of the troubled situation were indulging in extortion and abduction in the name of the so-called movement. The Belgian Association for Solidarity with Jammu and Kashmir, in its recent report, has said criminals were taking advantage of the troubled situation in the state. "They are abducting people for money, raping, murdering, extorting money from businessperson, using mafia practices under the movement. Militancy is a lucrative industry," the report, submitted to the European Union and the United Nations during the recent...

Chopra murder case has links in Rajasthan

10/2/2007 11:08:28 PM

ET Exclusive Jammu | Oct 2 Much infamous R B Chopra murder case seems to have taken a new turn with name of a criminal from Rajasthan coming to fore and a police team from here leaving for the desert state to lay a hand on the newly discovered link. To investigate links of the murder of Chopra, the cement tycoon who was killed a year ago, with this Rajasthan based criminal, a police team led by an officer of inspector rank has left for Rajasthan last evening. The officer who is leading the team is known for showing his capabilities in anti-gunda squad where he had remained posted for a large number of years, sources in police department said. According to the sources, it was for the fir...

BSF stops unemployed engineers while trying to cross RS Pura border

10/2/2007 11:07:51 PM

Early Times Reporter Jammu|Oct 2 Shouting “we want justice” a group of unemployed engineers, led by Rajiv Sharma and Avinash Gupta, today made an abortive bid to cross the border for, what they said, receiving arms training in camps in Pakistan. The slogan shouting unemployed engineers were stopped by the BSF jawans, guarding the Octroi post in R.S.Pura sector and pushed them back. The agitated unemployed engineers traveled to the border belt in R.S.Pura sector in a matador but were stopped a furlong away from the zero line and pushed back. Later talking to mediamen Rajiv Sharma and Avinash Gupta said that they resorted to the extreme step of crossing the border after the Government faile...

With Hari Om back, BJP begins mobilizing voters

10/2/2007 11:06:37 PM

Early Times Reporter Jammu|Oct 2 After the estranged vice president,Prof. Hari Om,has started attending work in the BJP headers the party leadership has decided to hold a convention of party workers from the entire province in Jammu on October 24 where the guidelines for preparing for the ensuing Assembly poll will be finalized. Senior party leaders today confirmed that Prof. Hari Om,who had announced his Sanyas from active politics in protest against sidelining him while he was functioning as the party spokesman,had resumed his duties in the office after he was persuaded by Mr Shanta Kumar,a former Himachal Chief Minister and incharge of party affairs in Jammu and Kashmir,to restart...

Gandhi Jayanti celebrations in Jammu mark with confusion

10/2/2007 11:05:43 PM

Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 2 There was confusion worst confounded in the educational institutions in Jammu about holding of programs on Gandhi Jayanti, today and particularly whether as usual it was an off day in the schools and colleges as was the case in government offices and banks etc. With no explicit instructions from the higher authorities that October 2 this year will not be holiday in schools and colleges and that students and teachers will attend their institutions, where live telecast of the program being held at SKICC Srinagar, to mark the conclusion of month long celebrations in schools and colleges, with distribution of prizes to the winners of elocution contests, wi...

Holiday today

10/2/2007 10:57:49 PM

Early Times Reporter Srinagar | Oct 2 State government has announced holiday for schools and colleges on Wednesday. Making this announcement, Secretary School Education, K M Wani said that schools and colleges including Private educational institutions in the State would observe holiday on Wednesday....

Gandhi Jayanti celebrations trigger sharp reaction from Kashmiri separatists

10/2/2007 10:15:59 PM

Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 2 A month long celebrations of Gandhi Jayanti in Jammu and Kashmir, with the educational institutions holding debates and seminars on Gandhi ji's life and philosophy, which concluded on October 2, the birth centenary of the Father of Nation by holding a grand function at SKICC Srinagar where about 50,000 students are reported to have participated, has sparked off sharp reaction from the secessionist and anti India elements in Kashmir valley. While the state government, particularly Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad described the unprecedented exercise of putting a big show at the function, where the winners of the elocution contests were distributed prizes, ...