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| PM: terror strike planned overseas | | Advani says attack more ferocious since independence | | | WAR ON MUMBAI
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MUMBAI, Nov 27: As many as 125 people, including 14 police personnel, have been killed in the Mumbai terror attacks, the Union Home Ministry confirmed tonight.
Quoting latest figures received from Mumbai, the Ministry said the dead also included six foreigners and one homeguard jawan. The remaining 104 were public. The Ministry said 327 persons were injured -- police 26, public 294 and foreigners seven
Terrorists who struck Mumbai had set up advance "Control Rooms" in the luxury Taj and Trident(Oberoi) hotels which was also targeted and did prior reconnaissance executing plans worked "over months", Union minister Kapil Sibal said tonight.
Sibal said the unprecedented terror attack in the country's financial capital was planned "over months" and the terrorists were not carrying AK-47 rifles but sophisticated weapons like MP-6.
"The terrorists have identified the targets earlier. Somebody had told them earlier. Enormous planning went into the incident. The terrorists were dropped by a mother ship and travelled in rubber boats which they docked (at Mumbai... | |
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| Rahul Gandhi arriving today | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 27: Congress General Secretary and scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family Rahul Gandhi is arriving in Jammu and Kashmir on his first visit to the state after donning political mettle.
Congress party is enthusiastic over visit of Rahul and its leaders believe that the young leader will be able to attract people with the charisma he has inherited from his father Rajiv Gandhi.
Rahul will address two public meetings –one in Kashmir and other in Jammu. On his arrival to the state he will go straight to Tanghdhar in Kupwara district and will address a public meeting in the morning. Tomorrow is the last day of campaign in Kupwara district which goes to polls on Novembe... | |
| | | | Kupwara to show whose writ runs | | | | ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
JAMMU, Nov 27: Up for a crucial battle in third phase on November 30, election in Kupwara district in North Kashmir is a unique challenge –as much for separatists as it is for individual fortunes of three major political parties.
An ideological bastion of Peoples Conference of slain Abdul Ghani Lone, in electoral terms Kupwara has overwhelmingly trusted the National Conference in election after election since 1983. Except for by-election in Langate in 1999 and jolt in Handwara in 2002, all five constituencies Kupwara have returned a National Conference nominee to the assembly in every election.
Decked with the Line of Control, the northern most district of Kashmir Val... | |
| | | | Poll vault: Mehbooba adamant at dragging Omar to Malegaon mud | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Nov 27: National Conference president Omar Abdullah may have tried to prove himself as a victim of mudslinging but the arch rival Mehbooba Mufti is adamant on dragging him to the Valley’s poll battle via Malegaon blast probe mud.
Omar had issued a legal notice to Mehbooba Mufti and anther senior Peoples Democratic Party leader Tariq Hameed Qarra for associating his name with the alleged Malegaon blast mastermind Dayanand Pande. This notice was issued after Mehbooba and Qarra circulated to the press an old photograph showing Omar and Pande in the same frame.
Reiterating her demand for a thorough probe into the reported association of alleged Malegaon blast a... | |
| | | | Pak violates ceasefire on LoC | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 27: Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian positions along the Indo-Pak border violating ceasefire in which an army jawan was injured here in Jammu and Kashmir, a senior army officer said.
Pakistani troops from opposite post fired with small arms weapons on Khour Border Out Post (BOP) along the Line of Control (LoC) of Jammu district late last night, he said.
In the brief firing, one havaldar Pratap Singh of 9 Raj Rifles, who was patrolling LoC at that time, was critically injured and airlifted to Military hospital in Udhampur.
Indian troops guarding the borderline with Pakistan did not reply to provocative shelling on Indian position.
This was another c... | |
| | | | Tarigami injured in car-truck collusion | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Nov 27: State Secretary of CPI (M) Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami was injured, along with three of his security guards in a road accident in south Kashmir's Pulwama district on Thursday.
Reports said, a truck (PB06-254) hit the Ambassador car (JK01K-0432) in which Targami was travelling, near Jablipora Awantipora on Srinagar-Jammu highway Thursday morning.
Targami, and his three security guards were injured in the accident and were removed to Shri Kashmir Institute of Medical Science Soura, Srinagar.
According to the hospital sources, Targami sustained injuries in his hand. "Test for fracture and CT scan report suggests nothing serious," officials in the premier ... | |
| | | | The man who ‘mandalised’ politics | | VP SINGH R.I.P. | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI, Nov 27: Former Prime Minister VP Singh, who dethroned late Rajiv Gandhi to form the first non-Congress coalition government at the Centre in 1989 and later did some social engineering through reservations that changed India's political course irreversibly, died on Thursday.
The 77-year-old leader, who has been battling blood cancer for over 17 years and renal failure, breathed his last in Apollo Hospital where he was admitted some six months ago.
The end came at 1445 hours, a hospital spokesperson said. He is survived by wife Sita Singh and two sons, Ajeya and Abhay.
Singh was the Finance Minister and later Defence Minister during Rajiv Gandhi's tenure and parted ... | |
| | | | Rare ‘Super Structure’ puts JU on fire | | Teachers, officers take protest march, meet Governor | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 27: An alleged ‘Super Structure’ has been a talk of the campus in Jammu University for quite some time. A little over a year back, the scene was like “all versus one” when a Professor questioned the phenomenal rise of a University official to an “administrative monster”.
Today, when the University is passing through an uncertainty and ‘certain’ unrest over appointment of the new Vice Chancellor, the same ‘Super Structure’ is back to a seething debate and the scene is again like “all versus one”. The only difference is that that “all” who had stood in support of the ‘Super Structure’ last year are again on their feet but to question the existence same ‘Supe... | |
| | | | MHA offers an essay | | | | ET special
RAMAN SHARMA
JAMMU, Nov 27: Whenever a major incident of terror strikes the country, there breaks out a debate on being “soft and hard on containing terrorism”. Policies of the government are questioning on dealing with the menace which is on an undeclared war against the country.
Incidentally, just a day ahead of the Mumbai terror strike, this reporter received a reply from the Ministry of Home Affairs, sought under Right to Information Act, on government’s policies of dealing with terrorism. Interesting but unfortunate, the Government handed over to this reporter a readymade essay which could have been of general appreciation for a fifth standard student.
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| | | | Doda gears up for intense battle | | Wani, Suhrawardy have a point to prove | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 27: Despite a chill sending down shivers, this mountainous constituency is hot with political activity and the enthusiasm is at its highest as Doda braces up for a tough battle between Congress and the National Conference.
Going to polls in sixth phase and second last phase of ongoing assembly elections, Doda is witness to an unprecedented political activity where Khalid Najib Suhrawardy of National Conference has the challenge of recapturing family bastion and the businessman-turned-politician Abdul Majid Wani of Congress has to prove that he is here to stay in politics.
"This is not the time to wait and watch. It's time to reach out to voters," observed ... | |
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