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| Autumn Ambassadors put Kashmir in international spotlight | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu/Srinagar, Nov 1: When 22 Ambassadors and High Commissioners drawn from the countries like Philippines, Ecuador, Peru and Vietnam today gathered along the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar, it was not a diplomatic conclave to discuss the Kashmir issue in international parlance. It was a biggest shot in arm for the state Tourism Department that, at the end of a two-day golf tournament, the diplomats carried home a message of goodwill from Kashmir. Indeed, a massive publicity without any extra cost.
An overwhelmed Minister for Tourism and Culture Nawang Rigzin Jora that it is a message for billions of peoples in 22 countries that Kashmir is a safe destination for tourism and sports. "I have requested the ambassadors to tell their countries' tourism boards that they had been to Kashmir and everything is fine there and to nullify the advisories against visiting Kashmir," said Nawang. The tournament in which several diplomats participated was teed off Saturday at Royal Springs Golf Course.
"From the fact that we are here, we feel that we are safe to come here. ... | |
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| Two cops gunned down in Srinagar | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 1: Unidentifiedgunmen, widely believed to be militants today gunned down two more personnel of Jammu & Kashmir on duty at busy Qamarwari Chowk in the capital city.
Official sources told Early Times that Head Constable Manzoor Ahmed and Constable Abdul Kabir of Police Division Qamarwari were on duty at the crowded Qamarwari Chown in the capital city outskirts when two unidentified persons fired pistol shots into their heads in point blank range from behind at 1315 hours. While Manzoor died on spot, Kabir was evacuated by his colleagues and rushed to SKIMS for medical treatment. Having sustained grievous injuries, he too succumbed in the evening.
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| | | | LeT commander killed in Reasi | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 1: A senior commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Mohammad Farooq alias Abu Talla, was killed Sunday in a gun battle in Reasi district, police said.
According to an official, a team of Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir police launched an offensive in Gulabgarh area, about 180 km from here.
The militant, responsible for several terror attacks in Reasi, Mahore, Gool Gulabgarh area, was killed after nearly half-an-hour of gun fight, a police spokesman said.
An AK-47 rifle, three magazines and grenades were recovered from him.
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| | | | ‘Will hit back at attacks from Pak’ | | | |
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Madurai: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday night has warned Pakistan against meddling with India and said any more attack from the country will be retaliated “very strongly”.
He said he has been warning Pakistan not to play with India and that the Mumbai attacks should be the “last game”.
“We have been gaining strength day by day to counter terrorism from across the border. I have been warning Pakistan not to play games with us. (I have told them that) the last game should be Mumbai attacks. Stop it there,” he said at a public meeting in Madurai.
“If terrorists and militants from Pakistan try to carry out any attacks in India, they will not only be defeated but ... | |
| | | | Manmohan’s new Kashmir initiative may be tougher than Shimla parleys | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 1: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's, bid to resume dialogue with the Kashmiri separatists for the resolution of problems may not be as easy an affair as it was during 1972-74 when the centre initiated talks with the Plebiscite Front leadership which later culminated in the Sheikh-Indira Accord, which was hammered out on November 13,1974. At that stage the slogans of the Plebiscite Front were no longer different from the one raised by the separatists, especially by the hawks among the separatists, during the last over two decades.
In fact the move for involving the Plebiscite Front leadership in the dialogue process was started around 1972 when the head of the ... | |
| | | | J&K Bank’s social concern pays: | | Rs 252 Cr net profit in 6 months | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 1: When bankers, everywhere, were running away from their social responsibilities in days of global recession, the Jammu and Kashmir Bank stood up as one example of not only staying back with its consumers but also reaching out to entire state with initiatives to hedge the local economy from adverse impact of global meltdown. The results are inspiring -despite adverse market conditions following global recession, J&K Bank has posted a net profit of Rs 134.27 crores for the quarter ended September 2009, which is up by 16% compared to Rs 115.92 crores earned during the corresponding quarter of previous financial year.
With this the profits for the half-year... | |
| | | | Unsafe in Rajouri, Rukhsana being officially shifted to Delhi | | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri, Nov 1: From the terrains of Shahdara Sharief to a protected quarter at Rajouri’s District Police Lines, the security concerns are mounting for 21-year old Gujjar girl Rukhsana who killed a top militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba on September 27. Following an attack at her village house, officials say it is unsafe to keep Rukhsana and her family anymore in Rajouri and therefore she is being shifted to Delhi.
Official sources confirmed that Rukhsana will be shifted to Delhi by Monday, where she would be lodged at a safe place, as the threat to her life has grown manifold. The police had intercepted a conversation between militants where they spoke of eliminating Rukhsa... | |
| | | | Search continues for missing IAF men | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu: The search operation to locate the bodies of rest of IAF personnel on board the chopper which crashed on Friday in river Chenab is still on, officials said in Jammu on Sunday.
Seventeen Navy divers, who have been called from New Delhi to locate the drowned chopper and fish out the rest of the three bodies, launched a massive search along with Army jawans and civil defence personnel in river Chenab yesterday, they said, adding the search operation resumed this morning as well.
Bodies of Flight Lieutenant YS Tomar, Warrant Officer K Singh and Sargent Deepak have not been located so far, they said.
The MI-17 chopper, which had taken off from Jammu on a routine... | |
| | | | Four kids injured in explosion in Poonch | | | |
Early Times Report
Poonch, Nov 1: Four children were seriously injured in a sudden explosion in their house, close to the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district Sunday evening, police said.
A big explosion took place in a house in Lortan Mandi, a mountainous area in Poonch district, around 5 PM. Two of the injured kids have been shifted to Government Medical College Jammu for advanced treatment in view of their critical condition.
Four children - two girls and two boys - were critically injured in the explosion and have been shifted to Poonch district hospital, about 40 km from the site of the blast.
There were conflicting versions about the device.
According to one report, it was... | |
| | | | MCC recalls Goni from JKCA | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 21: Mohammad Aslam Goni, who was nominated to the working committee of the Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association from the Modern Cricket Club ( MCC) and was elected as chairman on the basis of that nomination, has been withdrawn and removed from the nomination of the working committee with immediate effect in a decision taken by the Modern Cricket Club, Jammu affiliated to the Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association. He ceases to be a member working committee JKCA from the Modern Cricket Club Jammu which leaves his position as Chairman JKCA under serious question. President JKCA, Dr. Farooq Abdullah has been apprised of the development by a letter dated Oct 31, 2... | |
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