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| Drive to clean JKCA on, says Goni | | | | Munish Gupta
JAMMU, Nov 03: Mr Sudershan Mehta along with his seven other colleagues are now out of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA). Their resignations were accepted by the association, president, Dr Farooq Abdullah, in a meeting held here yesterday.
An inquiry has also been instituted to look into the financial irregularities allegedly committed by Mr Mehta who has thus far been joint secretary of the association looking after its Jammu wing.
According to the JKCA top brass, strict action against Mr Mehta would follow in case of his being found guilty. This would include recovery of “excess amount” spent from association funds on various pretexts.
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| | | | Men of votesman of courts | | Bhim rushes SC against prepaid cell phone ban | | |
EARLY TIMES
Jammu, Nov 3: Panthers Party leader Bhim Singh’s most popular refrain that his party ‘may lose in votes but not always in courts’ has really something cogent to offer –this time a hope to more than three million pre-paid cell phone users and at least three thousand youths making an earning out of it.
Even as all major political parties and leaders are flooding the newspapers with their statements of protest on cell phone ban, the unique among all, Bhim Singh has knocked the doors of Supreme Court seeking a direction against what he called draconian law of the Union Home Ministry.
The Panthers Party today moved a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India challenging the or... | |
| | | | AMANDEEP MURDER CASE | | Nago’s daughter-in-law Moves High Court for defreezing bank accounts | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 3: Dr. Panna Manhas Choudhary, wife of Jatinder Singh Choudhary alias Raja and daughter-in-law of Choudhary Nagar Singh, filed a petition in the state High Court seeking direction for quashing the letter of Branch Manager J&K Bank Branch Trikuta Nagar Jammu and quashing the letter of respondents Special Investigating Team and Deputy SP Swatantar Arora and commanding them to show their authority under which they have directed freezing the accounts of Choudhary Nagar Singh, the father-in-law of the petitioner and brothers of Choudhary Nagar Singh namely Rakesh Kumar and Jagar Singh.
The petitioner also pleaded for the issue of directions to the Branch Manage... | |
| | | | Ultra killed in fresh ceasefire breach | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 3: The security forces foiled yet another infiltration bid when they gunned down a militant near the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir early this morning, a Defence Ministry spokesman said.
He told media persons that troops guarding the LoC noticed a group of terrorists sneaking into this side from Tangdhar sector early this morning under the cover of darkness.
However, when challenged and asked to surrender, militants opened fire and tried to escape back into the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK). The security personnel immediately retaliated and in the encounter, which was going on, one militant was killed.
''One AK rifle and other arms and ammuni... | |
| | | | Bravery trivialized | | Rukhsana again in Delhi, says thanks to SPO rank | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 3: In new turn of events, the Rajouri girl shot in national limelight for killing a militant, has refused to accept the job of a Special Police Official in Jammu and Kashmir Police and said that she wants to be out of Rajouri for her own and family’s security.
Rukhsana Kausar, along with her family members –bother, father and mother, was today again at the prime time of national hookup with courtesy of Anti-Terrorist Front chief Maninderjeet Singh Bitta. She was addressing a Press Conference in Delhi, the second since she killed a militant on September 27. Both events were organized by Bitta.
Rukhsana, who has been appointed as a special police officer... | |
| | | | Pakistan rakes ‘K’ at UN, India protests | | | | Agencies
United Nations ,Nov 3: Pakistan raised the Kashmir issue at a meeting of the UN panel on humanitarian issues, prompting a strong response from the Indian side which said Islamabad has no right to raise the issue as Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India.
Pakistan's acting permanent representative to the UN Amjad Hussain claimed the people of Jammu and Kashmir had been denied the "right to exercise and the right of self-determination"
Speaking at a special session of the UN panel on Humanitarian issues, he said Pakistan remains committed to the Composite Dialogue process with India, and that a peaceful resolution of that dispute was imperative for durable peace, stabilit... | |
| | | | Army chief cautions against Af-Pak terror spillover | | | |
New Delhi, Nov 3: Army Chief Deepak Kapoor today warned that 26/11-type Mumbai terror attacks were a possibility and that India has to take all steps to counter such strikes.
"We have to take all steps to prevent any Mumbai-type attacks. We cannot rule out apprehensions of such possibilities," Kapoor told reporters here on the sidelines of an Army function.
To a question if there were any terror alerts in the recent times, he said the South Asian region is infested with terror groups. Be it India, Afghanistan or Pakistan, "we have to collectively battle such threats."
Noting that Pakistan too had come under terror attacks in recent times, he said both Defence Minister A K Antony and... | |
| | | | 54 swap sides at LoC | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 3: As many as 54 civilians swapped border in a weekly Poonch-Rawalkote bus service at Chakkan-da-Bagh on the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources here today said.
’Fiftyfour people yesterday crossed the LoC from Chakkan-da-Bagh to meet their divided families on either sides of the border,’’ official sources told.
Sources said 12 civilians including four first timers from this side visited Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) in a weekly bus service while eight returned to their homes after staying in Poonch.
From other side of the border, 42 civilians reached Poonch, which included 17 PoK residents and 25 Indian ci... | |
| | | | Jaswant welcomes PM’s idea of Kashmir dialogue | | | | Abid Shah
New Delhi,November 3
Former Union Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, has welcomed Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s offer of talks with all shades of political opinion, including the separatists led by All-Party Hurriyat Conference, to bring peace and stability to Jammu and Kashmir.
Talking to Early Times here today about Prime Minister’s peace initiative taken during his last week’s visit to the Kashmir Valley, Mr Jaswant Singh observed “reality of the situation should be in harmony with the efforts made.”
Asked whether Prime Minister was moving in the right direction, Mr Jaswant Singh, who held External Affairs and Finance portfolios in the National Democratic Alliance Government ... | |
| | | | Locating Central Universities: | | J&K awaits HRD team’s visit | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 3: The state Government is not ready to accept the blame for the delay in setting up the two central universities. Official sources today said that the state authorities have identified land at various places and it was for the team from the Human Resources Development Ministry that had to select the site.
Sources said that "we expected the Human Resources Development Ministry to send a team to Srinagar and Jammu soon after the ordinance on setting up two central universities was issued."However, the sources confirmed that the state Government had not settled on one sit e because it wants to keep the options open. Explaining it the sources said that "the ... | |
| | | | Training programme under SGSY organized | | | | Early Times Report
RAJOURI, NOVEMBER 03 - “Five day Training Programme of Tot-III on SGSY” for block and sub-block level functionaries of district Rajouri was organized by Regional Rural Extension Training Centre (RRETC) R. S. Pura, Jammu today.
The purpose of the training programme is to prepare all field functionaries of the district to launch “National Rural Livelihood Mission” (NRLM) restructured SGSY scheme with the objective to reduce poverty among Rural BPL through promotion of diversified and gainful self-employment and wage employment opportunities to provide appreciable increase in income on sustainable basis is being launched throughout the country.
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