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| 30 dead in Assam clashes, Pak flags hoisted | | PAK FLAGS HOISTED IN 5 INJURED | | | AGENCIES
GUWAHATI, Oct 5: The toll in three days of clashes between two communities in Assam has mounted to 30, more than 100 have been injured, and about 30,000 people have been displaced, officials said on Sunday.
According to updated figures, 30 people were killed so far, 14 of them in separate incidents of police firing, including four on Sunday, an Assam home department statement said.
A government spokesman said the police and paramilitary troopers Sunday opened fire at three locations to disperse armed mobs trying to set ablaze villages of a rival community in the northern district of Udalguri, about 120 km from Assam's main city of Guwahati.
At least four people were killed when the police opened fire on armed miscreants trying to set ablaze a village, a senior police official said requesting not to be named.
All the four victims belonged to a minority community.
Miscreants Sunday also managed to set ablaze a cluster of homes in the violence-torn district of Udalguri. The violence has spread to the adjoining districts of Darrang and Baksa, the official said.
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| Curfew in Valley, Lal Chowk sealed | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 5: After a lull of few days, the Governor’s administration once again appeared to be on the tenterhooks as an apprehensive tension prevailed across the Valley a day ahead of separatist call of “Lal Chowk March”. Enhanced security measures had been put in place by the day and curfew imposed across entire Kashmir Valley to prevent the scheduled march to Srinagar City’s central square.
Separatist leaders, including JKLF chief Mohammad Yasin Malik and other second rung leaders, were taken into preventive custody during a day-long swoop yesterday which continued till midnight last night, official sources said.
Chairman of Moderate faction of Hurriyat Conferenc... | |
| | | | Valley: Not paradise for tax man | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 5: As from separatists to mainstreamers and from traders to clerics all gang up against shelling out a part of their earning for services they enjoy, Kashmir Valley against becomes a place in India when Income Tax men hesitate work.
In run up to the twice extended deadline, when Income Tax department issued notices to the traders and top defaulting businessmen in Kashmir, all lines blurred and voices unites to say –“government of India, by a careful design is intimidating the Kashmir businessmen”. Some have even gone to the extent of saying that IT men have no business in Valley in season of Azadi slogans. Despite notices, this year the tax collection in Val... | |
| | | | Punish ‘Jaichands’ of Jammu: Samiti | | • Samiti asks people to vote carefully • Families of martyrs honoured, paid Rs 4 lakh each • VHP’s Parveen Togadia wants POTA back | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 5: Formally launching second phase of campaign for assertion of Jammu in political process, the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti (SAYSS) today called upon the people to make a careful choice of vote in forthcoming assembly elections.
“Candidates voted to in the previous elections failed to come upto expectations of the people of Jammu…they proved to be Jaichands…elections are again round the corner and this is the time to make right choices and right decisions”, said SAYSS convener Leela Karan Sharma while addressing a function to honour the families of those died or otherwise suffered during the recent agitation on Amarnath land row. Leader of Vishva Hi... | |
| | | | Al Qaeda calls for Jehad in Kashmir | | | | ET DESK
JAMMU, Oct 5: American al-Qaida member Adam Gadahn, in a video posted on the internet on Saturday, called Pakistan's new leaders US puppets in a war against Islamic militants. He also called for liberation of the "jihad" in Kashmir from the clutches of the Pakistani leaders.
"The Pakistan army ... and the professional spreaders of lies at their service are trying to make us believe that the state of Pakistan has turned a new leaf (after US-allied former President Pervez Musharraf left power)," Gadahn said in the video posted on Islamist websites.
"These are not the leaders Pakistan wants and deserves. They are the leaders America wants and preserves in order to reach its polic... | |
| | | | Ex-Ministers still Ministers | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 6: Nearly two months after they lost not only the room in Civil Secretariat but also the chair in Legislative Assembly, over a dozen and half former Ministers are in no mood to vacate their government bungalows despite being repeatedly requested by the government.
Barring two from Peoples Democratic Party and three others who never moved into the official houses, all former Ministers are still flaunting the status of Ministers and enjoying facilities at public expense as they used to before July 7.
A fortnight after July 7 when Ghulam Nabi Azad resigned as Chief Minister, the Ministers of his council were required to vacate the official bungalows unless no... | |
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