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| Pak a "state in decline exporting terrorism: Kapoor | | | | PUNE : Terming Pakistan as a "state in decline exporting terrorism", Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor has said the Mumbai terror strikes has exposed the neighbouring country’s complicity."Mumbai terror attacks has exposed Pakistan’s complicity. The hatred for India is so deeply ingrained in the Pakistani psyche that it fails to see the benefits of cooperation with India," Kapoor said, delivering the Gen B C Joshi memorial lecture at the Department of Defence Studies at Pune University yesterday.
He also pointed at the increased infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir from across the border this year.Expressing concern over proliferation of nuclear technology from China to Pakistan, Gen Kapoor ... | |
| | | | Orders reserved on Choudhary brother’s custody to SIT | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, NOV 19: Principal Sessions Judge Jammu today reserved the order for handing over the custody of Choudhary brothers to Special Investigating Team (SIT).
After hearing arguments on an application filed by SIT seeking police custody of Choudhary brothers by senior Advocate MA Goni with Advocates MA Bhat, Asthsham, Butt and Ajay Singh Kotwal appearing for accused and senior Advocate Sunil Sethi, who was appointed Special Public Prosecutor in the murder of Amandeep Singh, the Judge reserved the order for handing over the custody of Choudhary Nagar Singh, Choudhary Jagar Singh and Rakesh Singh to SIT. Presently these accused are in jail.
The SIT in its application so... | |
| | | | National Solar Mission approved by cabinet | | | nal Solar Mission approved by cabinet | 11/20/2009 12:06:20 AM |
| | New Delhi: The union cabinet on Thursday approved the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission that aims to add 20,000 megawatt of power in India by 2022.
"The cabinet has sanctioned Rs 4337 crore ($900 million) for the initial activities in this regard," Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni told reporters after the meeting of the cabinet presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
In his Independence Day speech this year, Manmohan Singh had said the solar energy mission would be launched Nov 14. But the launch date was put off as the government was not ready with its implementation.
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| | | | PCC pays glowing tributes to Indira Gandhi | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, NOV 19 – Like other parts of the country, the National Integration Week coinciding with the 92nd birth anniversary of Former Prime Minister of India, late Mrs. Indira Gandhi, also took off in the state. In this connection, a state level function, to pay homage to late Indira Gandhi was organised at R. S. Pura, Jammu which was presided over by PCC President Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr. Saif-ud-Din Soz.
A large number of the people attended the function, which was organized by the Minister for Medical Education, Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports, Mr. R.S. Chib.
The Deputy Chairman, J&K Legislative Council, S. Arvinder Singh Mi... | |
| | | | JKEDA official sent packing | | | SANT KUMAR SHARMA | 11/20/2009 12:03:30 AM |
| | Jammu, November 19, 2009:
Senior Jammu & Kashmir Energy Development Agency (JKEDA) official Shafat Sultan has been transferred to Integrated Rural Energy Programme (IREP) after some complaints were filed against him. An inquiry has also been ordered into the alleged defalcation of funds in purchases of electrical equipment worth crores of rupees. The inquiry will be conducted by the Commissioner of Enquiries, Mr Syed Fazullalah.Fazullalah has been asked to submit the inquiry report within 15 days. He has been asked to find out whether any irregularities have been committed by JKEDA officials in the purchase worth crores of rupees.The Minister for Science & Technology, Mr Agha Ruhullah, ha... | |
| | | | No factionalism in JKPCC: Soz | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, NOV 19: Denying that there was any factionalism in its Jammu and
Kashmir unit, the Congress today said that it stood united.
The JKPCC is united and carrying forward the policies and programmes of its high command, President of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh CongressCommittee, Professor Saif-ud-Din Soz told reporters at a function organised to celebrate 92nd birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at village Satrayan, about 18-kms from here, in R S Pura tehsil in Jammu district.
When his attention was drawn that two similar such functions were organised by ministers and senior congress leaders at Pargwal and Langriyali areas of the district, he sa... | |
| | | | Suicide attack on Peshawar court premises kills 16 | | | | Peshawar, Nov 19: A suicide bomber struck a court complex in this northwestern Pakistani city on Thursday, killing 16 people and injuring nearly 30 others in the latest wave of terrorist attacks that has rocked the country since the military launched a major offensive against the Taliban.
The bomber, described by witnesses as a youth in his twenties with a slight beard, blew himself up when he was stopped by policemen guarding the gate of the Judicial Complex on Khyber Road within Peshawar cantonment.
The cantonment is a high-security area as the residence of the local Army Corps Commander, the provincial assembly and offices of provincial ministers are located nearby.
Sixteen bodies an... | |
| | | | Jammu’s braveheart for joining Army | | | | AHMEDABAD, NOV 19: Braveheart Rukhsana Kausar, who fought armed terrorists and killed one of them at her house in Jammu region, today said she wants to join the
armed forces to serve the country.
"I do not want anything from the government. Yet all we desire is that me and my brother should be allowed to join the armed forces so that we are able to fight for our country," the 22-year old said when asked what she wanted from the government.
Rukhsana, along with her brother Ijaz and father Noor Hussain, was here to attend a felicitation programme. Rukhsana, who will take part in a peace march in Mumbai to commemorate the memory of those killed in the 26/11 terror attacks last year, said yo... | |
| | | | Few ride Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus | | | | Early times Report
SRINAGAR, NOV 19: The cross border travel by residents living on both sides of the
Line of Control (LoC) continues to be at a low scale affair as only six guests from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) arrived here against eight residents of Kashmir valley who travelled to other side today.
Official sources told UNI that six residents of PoK, including three women, arrived here in the Karvan-e-Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad.
They said four residents of this side, including one women and a child, who had earlier crossed over to PoK, also returned in the same bus after meeting their relatives there.
Eight residents of this side, including two women,... | |
| | | | Shopian case: Witnesses sing a different tune | | | | Early Times Report
SHOPIAN, NOV 19: Two key witnesses in the Shopian rape and murder case, Ghulam Mohiuddin Lone and Abdul Rashid Pampori, have turned hostile, retracting their earlier statements which implicated the security forces.
Both witnesses now say they had been forced to make the false statements by lawyers of the district bar association.Meanwhile, reacting to the allegations made by the witnesses, the Shopian District Bar Association, that played a major role in protests
earlier this year, dismissed the allegations, saying that the witnesses were tutored by the CBI, which is now investigating the case.
President of the Shopian Bar association, M.Y. Bhat, said the witnesses’ ... | |
| | | | Chill sets over Valley as mercury dips to minus 2.1 | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, NOV 19: It was the coldest night of the season so far in the summer capital, Srinagar, where the minimum temperature dipped to minus 2.1 degrees Celsius this morning.
Moreover, people in the still higher reaches of Ladakh region continue to shiver as the minimum temperature remains between minus 7 degree to minus 15 degrees.
Due to clear sky, the night temperature in the Kashmir valley was
below normal, resulting in severe cold.
However, world famous tourist resort of Pahalgam, in south Kashmir and
base camp for travel to holy Amarnath cave was coldest after the minimum temperature dipped to minus 5.8 degree followed by Kupwara minus 4.6 degrees, Qazigun... | |
| | | | Health Minister’s unhealthy pace of providing toilets | | | | NEW DELHI, NOV 19: Union Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's constituency in
Jammu will reach 100 percent sanitation and toilet coverage only by the
year 2266 -- taking the longest time amongst all other constituencies. This is according to the findings of a report released here on the occasion of World Toilet Day Thursday.
The government has been running the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)since 1999-2000 and has set a deadline of March 31, 2012 for makingtoilets available in rural areas and have a 100 percent sanitation
coverage.However a study by WaterAid India, a UK based charity, of the
constituencies of Indian leaders revealed that the target will not bereached by many of them."Onl... | |
| | | | Bitter battle over sugar prices spoils Lok Sabha’s first day | | | | NEW DELHI, NOV 19: The winter session of parliament got off to a chaotic start today as the Lok Sabha had to be adjourned for the day as the entire opposition united to stage noisy protests against the new sugarcane pricing policy of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government.
The house was first adjourned till 12 noon when opposition members, led by Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, gathered near Speaker Meira Kumar's podium protesting against government's policy to keep sugarcane prices low.
As soon as the House resumed at 12, the same noisy and acrimonious scenes were staged again with opposition MPs creating a ruckus and shouting slogans like "kisanon ki loot band ... | |
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