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| PC tries to cheer KPs,lay a new cricket pitch,vouches for pre-safe phones | | Tara Chand leads Jammu to greet Chidambaram | | | Munish Gupta
JAMMU, Nov 4
Undaunted by Vande Mataram controversy raked after his Deoband visit yesterday, the Union Home Minister, Mr P Chidambaram, arrived here today for an on-the-spot assessment of the implementation of Central Government’s schemes and directives vis-à-vis rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandit migrants to the city, law and order, and governance and security situation in general not only in Jammu region but also throughout the State.
Yet the Harvard Business School trained Union Minister was greeted on his arrival here by controversies, like denial by the Services cricket team to play against the State side at Srinagar, citing security reasons and the disconnect that over three million mobile phone subscribers of the State are facing because of the ban on pre-paid service imposed by the Centre throughout Jammu and Kashmir as this is thought to be “risk-prone and abuse by unscrupulous elements in cahoots with militants”.
Finding time through his busy schedule while in Jammu Mr Chidambaram convened a high level meeting of Jammu Area Command and reviewed secu... | |
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| North India to get warmer: met office | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi Nov 04
Temperatures are expected to rise here as well as in other north Indian states in the coming few days, India Meteorological Department said today, adding that temperature fluctuations could go on till mid-November.
"Western Disturbances over the Jammu and Kashmir region are leading to the rise in temperature in Delhi and other northern states. The maximum temperature for today is expected to be 29 degrees Celsius and the minimum 15 degrees Celsius," an IMD official told media.
The minimum temperature recorded in the capital today was 15.6 degrees Celsius, two degrees above the average. The maximum temperature on Tuesday touched 31 degrees Celsius, a notch a... | |
| | | | For Omar Congress-NC alliance in 1986 was bad but in 2008 it is politically fit | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu,November 4:-Nothing definite can be said about political permutation and combination.If in politics there can hardly be any permanent friends there can equally be no room for permanent enemies.Instancs are many.And this phenomenon is not confined to any particular state in India.It is everywhere and Jammu and Kashmir has excelled in it.Those who doubt it need to refer to a TV interview from Omar Abdullah when he was union Minister of state for External Affairs.It was October 3,2001 that he was asked what were the reasons for the rise of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.Pat came his reply.He had stated that alliance between the Congress and the National Conferen... | |
| | | | Ambika’s DD humbles Farooq with vengeance | | Defeated candidates among backdoor allotees of DD Kashir programmes | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR/ JAMMU, Nov 4: Even as Doordarshan is continuously refusing to post the list of the allotee producers and their credentials on its website, current process of the commissioning of programmes for DD Kashir is assuming proportions of a major scandal in Prasar Bharti Broadcasting Corporation of India. With the skeletons tumbling out of DD’s cupboards, a number of political activists and defeated candidates of the Assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir have been found among the beneficiary ‘producers’ in brazen violation of DD’s own policies and guidelines.
Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah, has been publicly humiliated by DD by a... | |
| | | | J-K govt serious about unemployment problem: Farooq | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 4
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah today said the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir was serious about addressing the issue of unemployment.
"The NC-led government in the state is serious about addressing the unemployment problem and in this connection the government is doing its best to expand tourism, agriculture, horticulture and handicraft sectors," Abdullah said here.
Interacting with various delegations who called on him at his Gupkar residence, the Union minister for New and Renewable Energy said, "the state government is duty bound to mitigate the problems of the people."
"It is the moral duty of the government to look into ... | |
| | | | India has allowed people to get away after terror attacks’ | | | |
New Delhi: Outraged by repeated attacks on Indian targets by Pakistan-based terror groups, Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor on Wednesday said the time had come for the nation to say "no more" to any such incidents. "US has not allowed a second 9/11 to happen, Indonesia has not allowed a second Bali-bombing to happen. India has allowed people to get away after the Parliament attack, Delhi blasts and finally the 26/11 incident. The time for all of us has come to say no more," Kapoor said at a CII seminar on national security.
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and other Pakistan-based terror groups and that country's intelligence agency ISI have been accused of involvement in terror strike... | |
| | | | Geelani held in Kashmir | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 4 : Chairman of the breakaway Hurriyat Conference (HC) Syed Ali Shah Geelani was arrested by police this afternoon near his house.
He was later taken to police station Humhama on the Srinagar-Airport road, official sources said.
HC spokesman Aiyaz Akbar told UNI that Mr Geelani was scheduled to visit the Kashmir University this afternoon.
He said additional security forces were deployed outside the Hyderpora residence of Mr Geelani since early this morning.
Mr Aiyaz said as soon Mr Geelani left his house, he was stopped by security forces outside and put in a police jeep.
Besides visiting KU, Mr Geelani was also scheduled to leave for Kulgam this e... | |
| | | | Militants escape as Army units fight over jurisdiction | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar: A dispute over jurisdiction between two units of Army apparently helped terrorists of Pakistan -based Lashker-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed sneak out from Lolab area where they were reported to be present to other parts of the Kashmir Valley.
According to a report of the state Home Department, Jammu and Kashmir Police developed an intelligence input about presence of nearly two-dozen terrorists of Lashker and Jaish in the Doruswani forests of Lolab valley in North Kashmir.
Immediately, the Army authorities in the area were approached for launching a quiet and swift operation with the help of paratroopers, who are trained for such tactical warfare.
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