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| 9 killed on Gen Kapoor's first visit | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 6
On the occasion of first Jammu and Kashmir visit of new Army Chief Gen Deepak Kapoor, at least seven militants were killed in different operations even as the new commander categorically ruled out in troop reduction in the state.
Insisting that there is a rise in militancy-related violence in Jammu and Kashmir , new General Kapoor said there will be no troop reduction till the state returns to normalcy. "The attempts by militants to infiltrate into the (Kashmir) valley for increasing the level of violence are still continuing. The killing of nine militants here on Wednesday and three in Tangdhar yesterday is a proof of it," he told reporters after bei... | |
| | | | Mild shocks in north Kashmir | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 6
In a grim reminder of October 2005 devastating earthquake, a mild tremor rocked the northern parts of the Kashmir Valley Saturday morning.
Indian Meteorological department's N.P. Bhatnagar said, "it was a minor one and it was not felt in Srinagar though reports from neighbouring areas like Ganderbal, Sumbal, Kangan and Sonamarg also felt the shock. No further details were immediately known.
In 2005, a massive earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale rocked both sides of Kashmir. More than 80,000 people were killed and thousands were left homeless. Most destruction occurred in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan.... | |
| | | | Left alone, Qazi fires salvo | | Through fresh letter CM asked to accept resignation | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 6
Feeling alone in the recent bout of controversy revolving around him and the coalition relations, the embittered Minister Qazi Mohammad Afzal today "yet again resigned" resigned from the government through a fresh letter to the Chief Minister.
"Qazi had to write this fresh letter to the Chief Minister as he found his party leaving in the isolation", said a source close to the Minister who tendered his resignation. This development came hours after PDP president Mehbooba Mufti indicated that her party will have to work on close relations with the Congress.
In his letter to the Chief Minister, a copy of which was made available to the EARLY TIMES, Qazi... | |
| | | | Gandhigiri lands CM in soup | | Fatwa against Azad for equating Gandhism with Islam | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 6
Gandhigiri does not work in Kashmir –the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has been told this in explicit terms as he has come under a Fatwa of the head priest of Kashmir.
Close to the heels of criticism unleashed against the Chief Minister by separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani for preaching Ghandhian philosophy in Kashmir, the head priest of the Valley, "Mufti-e-Aazam Kashmir", Mufti Bashiruddin issued a 'fatwa' against him for alleged blasphemy. Seeking to put the Chief Minister in the league of the people of the ilk of Salman Rushdie, Azad has been accused of eulogising Gandhian philosophy of non-violence.
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad dur... | |
| | | | Antony calls for new strategies to reduce stress in army | | | | Early Times Reporter
New Delhi | Oct 6
Defence Minister A K Antony today called for devising effective strategies to reduce stress among the defence forces, and said that equal and adequate attention must be paid to human resource to keep them motivated and contented. "All our investment in equipment and machinery will not yield the desired results, till the human resource is looked after well," Antony said after he inaugurated the state-of-the-art Molecular Imaging Research Centre in the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) here today, which will now have a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) facility. He also said that the defence forces of the country must reorien... | |
| | | | No reduction in troops in J-K, says new Army Chief | | | | Early Times Reporter
Budgam | Oct 6
Insisting that there is a rise in militancy-related violence in Jammu and Kashmir, new Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor today said there will be no troop reduction till the state returns to normalcy.
"The attempts by militants to infiltrate into the (Kashmir) valley for increasing the level of violence are still continuing. The killing of nine militants here on Wednesday and three in Tangdhar yesterday is a proof of it," he told reporters after being briefed by the officers of 34 Rashtriya Rifles here.... | |
| | | | Mild tremor rocks Kashmir Valley | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Oct 6
A mild tremor rocked the northern parts of the Kashmir Valley Saturday morning, officials said.
"It was a minor one and it was not felt in Srinagar though reports from neighboring areas like Ganderbal, Sumbal, Kangan and Sonamarg said residents felt the shock," N.P. Bhatnagar of the meteorological office told . Bhatnagar provided no further details. In 2005, a massive earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale rocked both sides of Kashmir. More than 80,000 people were killed and thousands were left homeless. Most destruction occurred in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan.... | |
| | | | Mingling religion with politics is alien to Hindus, but… | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 6
Describing the situation in Kashmir highly volatile and grim, with no break through over settlement of Kashmir dispute in sight, the Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Mirwaiz umer Farooq, announced at a Friday prayer meeting from Hazratbal mosque in Srinagar that the last Friday of Ramzan month, falling on October 12 will be observed as Kashmir Day. It is characteristic of separatist politician in Kashmir as well as other sectarian Muslim politicians in the country and so with sectarian Sikh leaders to mingle politics with religion by making political announcements from the mosques and gurudwaras respectively.
Still another case of taking recourse to reli... | |
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