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| Officers question NDA Govt not allowing LoC crossing in Kargil | | | | NEW DELHI, Two former officers who had commanded forces during the Kargil conflict have questioned the then NDA Government’s decision not to allow armed forces to cross the Line of Control (LoC) and said it had resulted in considerable losses and operational problems.
Lt Gen (retd) Mohinder Puri, then General Officer Commanding of 8th Mountain Division, and Air Marshal (retd) Narayan Menon, then Air Officer Commanding of Jammu and Kashmir, said the decision led to "strategic and tactical losses" for the Army and "considerable problems" for the IAF.
In separate articles on the 1999 conflict in the forthcoming issue of Indian Defence Review, the two officers said while the Army lost the option of conflict termination in an earlier timeframe and taking large number of prisoners of war by encircling them, the caveat of not crossing the LoC under any circumstances restricted the attack profiles of fighter aircraft.
Asking whether it was correct to politically lay down stringent restrictions of not crossing the LoC, Puri said "While we may have earned some brownie points, but strategic... | |
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| Four of family killed after refusal of marriage proposal | | | | JAMMU, Four members, including three women, of a family were killed by Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Udhampur today after their refusal to marry off two daughters to the ultras.
Father, mother and two daughters were killed early this morning in Dalwa village after they turned down a marriage proposal of Hizb militants, Senior Superintendent of Police (Udhampur) Ramban Basant Kumar Rath said.
The two militants last night went to the house of one Ahad Bhat and asked him to marry off his two daughters to them but the father refused to do so, Rath said.
The duo who left the house returned back in the wee hours today with a group of militants and showered bullets on the family killing fou... | |
| | | | Pakistani infiltration into Kashmir has doubled: Azad | | I dont think he (Musharraf) himself is very sure about it.We really have self-rule. We have our own Constitution, flag and elected representatives. What else is self rule? | | |
NEW DELHI, Pakistani infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir has doubled this year, according to the state Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who has, consequently, ruled out reduction of troops.
An estimated 500 Pakistani infiltrators have crossed into the state in the first 10 months of this year, he informed, recalling that in the corresponding period last year the figure was less than 200.
Firmly rejecting a Pakistani suggestion for reduction of troops in the state, the Chief Minister made it clear that innocent people could not be left at the mercy of terrorists.
Azad, who has just completed one year in office, dismissed President Pervez Musharraf’s proposal for self-rule for both parts ... | |
| | | | Siachen issue remains unresolved | | Another back channel Indo-Pak meeting fails | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV. 5: Secret talks on the Siachen dispute between India and Pakistan have failed. Also, there is no agreement so far between New Delhi on a date for the visit by Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, to Pakistan. Pakistan's National Security Council Secretary, Tariq Aziz, who held parleys with his Indian counterpart, SK Lamba, in a Gulf country, has returned to Islamabad with no settlement forumla.
In plain language, the secret talks, according to diplomatic sources, did not yield any deal on Siachen, apparently because of stiff resistance within the security establishment in India. These sources told EARLY TIMES that Pakistani Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mehm... | |
| | | | Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles for IAF | | IAF's endeavour to reduce 'Sensor-to-Shooter' time | | | DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, NOV. 5: Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi has disclosed that while Air Headquarters has one objective in mind--that is, air dominace-- the Indian Air Force (IAF) will go in for Unmanned Combat ASerial Vehicles (UCAVs)
The Chief of Air Staff has said that whatever the type of war or hostilities, the IAF's endeavour would be to reduce the 'Sensor-to-Shooter' time, and that is where the UCAV capability would play a big role. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) carry only cameras and sensors to detect movement of aircraft, vehicles and men. An air force, he observed, is the first to engage a threat. Whether it is aircraft, sensors, missiles or UAVs/UCAs being i... | |
| | | | Eunuchs declared as 'males', officially! | | Substantial rise in sex workers, homosexuals | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV. 5: India's national capital has, over the years, witnessed a substantial rise in sex workers and homosexuals. Delhi State AIDS Control Society's startling revelation: Commercial sex workers in the city is well over 30,000. The number of 'male homosexuals' has also registered a substantial increase.
Delhi AIDS Control Society has got a survey conducted through an organisation, which reveals that the total number of commercial sex workers in the Union capital is 35,062, up from the earlier known figure 5,000. The number of 'male homosexuals' has been placed at 7,532. And the number of eunuchs is estimated to be over 7,320.
The organisation, which was engaged by t... | |
| | | | Two Police battalions for state unemployed youth | | | |
Jammu, November 5 : The recruitment board constituted by the state government will soon begin screening of more than 20,000 application forms of unemployed youth for raising two more battalions of state police.
The aim behind raising two more battalions of state police force is to augment shortfall of foot soldiers required for routine duties.
After several companies of the BSF were withdrawnfrom the state adequate number of companies of CRPF were not sent to the state.This also called for raising additional police battalions.
In addition, the state government is toying with the idea of involving police in counter insurgency operations for better coordiantion with the paramilita... | |
| | | | Saddam sentenced to hang | | | | Nov 5
BAGHDAD | Nov 5
Saddam Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity on Sunday and sentenced to hang by the U.S.-sponsored court that has been trying him in Baghdad for the past year.
Two other senior aides, including his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti, will also hang if automatic appeals fail in the coming months. His vice-president was jailed for life and three minor officials of his Baath party were sentenced to 15 years.
Shortly after the verdict was read out at noon (0900 GMT) in a heavily fortified Baghdad courtroom that was once a Baath party office, clashes broke out between gunmen and U.S. and Iraqi troops in two Sunni Muslim neighborhoods of the capital.
Mortar r... | |
| | | | 4 persons die mysteriously | | | |
Jammu, Nov 05 : Police has recovered bodies of four persons, including a twenty-six year old youth, found dead in mysterious circumstances in Jammu city and its suburbs during the last 24 hours.
Sources informed that inhabitants of Prem Nagar area informed the police about two bodies lying near the Church in mysterious circumstances. The police team from Residency Police Post immediately rushed to the spot and shifted the bodies to Government Medical College Hospital.
Police later identified them as Vishal (26 years) S/o Vijay Mehra resident of House No 60 Prem Nagar and Gurbachan Singh (30) R/o Ahadpora, Chatisgarh. Their bodies were reportedly recovered from two different places near ... | |
| | | | Civil Secretariat re-opens today amid Jammu bandh | | | | Jammu, Nov 05 : As the Civil Secretariat is re-opening, in view of the annual Darbar Move, here tomorrow after a gap of six months, normal life in the winter capital of the state is all set to get paralyzed in the wake of a call for bandh by various police parties.
Call for bandh, given by Pradesh Bhartiya Janta Party and United Refugee Front on separate issues, has been supported by various organizations.
Police administration has made elaborate security arrangements in this connection and deployed thick concentration around the civil secretariat and the areas where the Darbar Move employees are putting up.
According to Deputy Inspector General of Police, Jammu-Kathua Range, Niaz Mehm... | |
| | | | Who will suspend Kirtan Singh? | | CM ordered his termiantion on Oct 9: ‘Babus’ not listening | | |
Jammu, November 5
More than two weeks after Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad issued verbal termination orders of horticulture development officer, Dooru, Kirtan Singh, who was jailed and later released on bail on October 23 after a ninth class student, Jeetendra Singh allegedly comitted suicide after he was beaten and humiliated by Singh, the state government has failed to issue a government order terminating his services. Kirtan was arrested by Jammu police after a student of Harminder Public school, run by his wife allegedly commiited suicide following thrashing by Kirtan Singh for failing to deposit their tuition fees in time. Police has regsitered a FIR against Kirtan Singh fra... | |
| | | | Heroine worth crores recovered, two arrested | | Border Police Unearths Yet Another Interstate Narcotics Racket | | |
Police District Border has made yet another achievement while smashing another interstate contraband racket in Supwal area of Police Sub-Division Samba. This is the second big achievement of Samba Police in this week, after the recovery of 10 quintals of Poppy Straw recently.
In a press conference held by Sub-Divisional Police Officer Samba, Dy SP Abrar Chowdhary, at Samba it was briefed that a group of Jammu based narcotic smugglers was trying to smuggle a consignment of heroine to outside the state and sell it in Bombay. Since the receiving party was insisting them to physically come to Bombay, however the clever gang of smugglers was avoiding moving outside the state alongwi... | |
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