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| China forbidden for J&K citizens | | | | SANT KUMAR SHARMA
Jammu, Nov 2: Citizens of Jammu and Kashmir can no longer travel to the land of the dragon as the Indian authorities have refused to accept the new visa documents being issued by China.
The new visa policy being followed by China has thus started singing the would-be travellers from J&K to Beijing and beyond.
Dr Shakil A Romshoo, an Associate Professor at the University of Kashmir, has become the latest victim of the India-China spat on the new visa regime put into place by Beijing mandarins.
Dr Romshoo was scheduled to travel to China for receiving an award in connection with his research work on ``Pollution Modelling of Himalayan lakes’’.
The academician from Kashmir valley was the receive Kasumigaura International Award at a special award ceremony on November 2 at Wuhan in China.
He had been officially invited by the World Lake Organisation, and the Chinese and the Japanese governments, Dr Romshoo said in an email sent to several media houses and journalists.
This happened because the Chinese authorities had issued a different and new type of visa to Dr ... | |
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| Belated tribute to Baba Jitto, Tara Chand proposes board | | | | Early Times Report
Jhiri, Nov 2: On the doorsteps of Jammu City, the power center of the state and base camp for country’s two leading pilgrimages, lakhs of people drawn from several states throng every year to pay obeisance to the revolutionary farmer Baba Jitto. What disappoints to devotees is the fact that the annual fair in memory of Baba Jitto has been swelling in numbers year after year but authorities have never thought of constituting a managing committee to take care of the state of affairs.
It is a dingy road from Mishriwala to Jhiri that gives the devotees bumpy rides before they reach the Dev Sthan for the weeklong annual fair organized in the months of October-November. It d... | |
| | | | Center undecided on CIC, Wajahat’s oath in balance | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 2: With all decks having long been cleared and his orders of appointment formally issued, there is still not immediate possibility of Wajahat Habibullah talking oath of Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Information Commissioner.
Wajahat, who had last month resigned as Chief Information Commissioner of India to take up assignment in Jammu and Kashmir, has not been able to demit office till his successor is appointed.
The central government is yet to decide on a new chief information commissioner of India (CIC), almost two weeks after Wajahat Habibullah quit the post. A committee consisting of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani and Law M... | |
| | | | PC in Jammu tomorrow | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 2: The Union Home Minister P Chidambram is expected to visit Jammu on Wednesday, it is learnt.
Chidrambarm is reportedly visiting Jammu to review progress on rehabilitation plan for Kashmiri Pandits. He will also make an assessment of the security and political situation, it is understood.
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| | | | 34 dead in Pindi bombing | | | | AGENCIES
Rawalpindi, Nov 2: A suicide bomber struck a busy main road near a hotel in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday, killing at least 34 people, including military personnel.
The blast occurred within the Chaklala military cantonment area near Army General Headquarters. Notably, Army is responsible for the security in the area.
The explosion at around 10.40 am caused considerable damage to the facade of Shalimar Hotel on Mall Road, less than a kilometre from the Army's fortified General Headquarters that was besieged by a group of terrorists nearly a month ago.
Rescue service officials put the death toll at 34 while police said 45 injured were taken to nearby hospi... | |
| | | | Pak continues to pump in terrorists in J&K: Antony | | | | Agencies
Thiru, Nov 2: Defence Minister A.K. Antony Monday warned that relations with Pakistan can improve only if it takes serious steps against terrorists waging war against India.
'In relations with Pakistan, the main impediment is that there are still large number of terrorist camps operating across the border. There is a continuous effort to push terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan has to take serious efforts (to tackle terrorists), then only relations can improve,' Antony told reporters after giving out Trivandrum Press Club journalism awards here.
"Even now, not only the terrorist camps are operating there, (but) there are continuous efforts to push a large number of train... | |
| | | | Leopard mows down two HM commanders before troopers could catch them | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 2: In a bizarre incident, first reported case of its kind in 20 years of insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, the job of a joint hunt team of Police and Army looking for two top militant commanders in South Kashmir forests was made easy as their targets were already eliminated by ‘someone else’ before they could lay their hands on. The Army and Police have registered success in ‘killing’ two commanders of the Hizbul Mujahideen but the credit goes to an unexpected third party –the leopard.
Top Hizbul Mujahideen militants identified as Mohammad Amin alias Kaiser and Bashir Ahmed alias Saifullah have been active since 2003 and 2002 respectively. Both belonged to Re... | |
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