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| Mufti’s khul ja SIM SIM and Geelani’s ghar kab jaoge? | | Why both slogans are failing to generate Ragda-III in Kashmir | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Nov 8: Apparently taking advantage of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s limited access to understanding of ground realities in Valley and the level of confidence he has exuded over the last 10 months of his maiden regime, mainstream as well as the separatist opposition have been floating assortments of issues and non-issues in Jammu & Kashmir. Creation of a new theatre of regional and communal divide has been, however, elusive for both after the resolution of Amarnath Shrine Board land allotment crisis last year.
Alleged rape-cum-murder of two young women in Shopian shook the Valley for a couple of months in the middle of current year but revelation of a lady doct... | |
| | | | Pak threatens to move WB over Kishenganga | | | |
ISLAMABAD, Nov 08: Pakistan plans to approach the World Bank (WB) seeking appointment of a neutral expert to settle differences with India on the Kishanganga hydro-power project instead of moving the court of arbitration, a media report said today.
A neutral expert appointed by the World Bank is a "top most priority" for Pakistan after it received a "discouraging response while exercising bilateral channels" to address differences over the project being built in Jammu and Kashmir, 'The News' daily quoted its sources as saying.
The sources claimed the project would divert the river Jhelum's waters.
The process of the Permanent Indus Waters Commission appointing two negotiators from eac... | |
| | | | Double tragedy: husband dies while protesting wife’s killing | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Kishtwar, Nov 8: Tragedy struck a family twice and double as hard when a villager lost life a bridge collapse while protesting against the mysterious killing of his wife.
Flimsy situation gripped the Bojwan area of Kishtwar when a husband while protesting his wife’s killing lost life in collapse of bridge upon which he was shouting slogans, demanding justice for his wife. Woman identified as Barfi Begum was allegedly killed by Special Task Force cops and while protesting against authorities, her husband identified as Noor Hussain died when wooden bridge upon which he was standing collapsed.
The poor husband of deceased woman died on spot and eighteen others including... | |
| | | | Militants kill, BSF trooper, wife in Rajouri | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 8: Leaving the militant ranks to join mainstream cost a youth and his wife dearly in Rajouri as his former colleagues eliminated the couple as a revenge killing. The incident comes ten years after the deceased has joined the Border Security Forces after deserting militant ranks in 1995.
A group of militants early Sunday shot dead their former colleague who had joined the Border Security Force (BSF) as well as his wife in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
The militants barged into the house of Mohammad Arif, a trooper in BSF, in Kandi Bakori village in Rajouri, about 200 km north-west of Jammu.
They fired indiscriminately killing 38-year... | |
| | | | Snowfall lashes Valley Ladakh | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 8: Icy winds swept Kashmir as the high altitude areas including the famous ski resort of Gulmarg experienced snowfall today.
Reports of snowfall were received from higher reaches, mostly in North-west of Kashmir and parts of frontier Ladakh region.
Gulmarg, 55 kms from here in North Kashmir, witnessed a mild snowfall but its peripherial areas including Aferwath and Sunshine peak received two to three inches of snow during the day.
Farkian Gali, Sadna Top, Razdan pass, Tulail and Gurez along the Line of Control also experienced mild to heavy snowfall, MET office said, adding, snowfall was also reported in the mountains surroundng Uri sector.
Gumri and Ma... | |
| | | | Breads may soon go off breakfast table in Jammu | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 8: Close to the heels of bread vanishing from breakfast tables in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir Valley, people in Jammu may soon have to switch over to homemade paranth or roti as bakers here have warned to go on strike if prices were not reviewed.
The representatives of association of bakers in Jammu have said that they will join strike with their counterparts in Kashmir if prices of bakery items were not reviewed immediately. Bakers in Kashmir have already gone on strike from today saying that prices of raw material, services and labour have almost doubled in last three years but there has not been any corresponding hike in the prices of bakery items ... | |
| | | | Wajahat’s resignation opens debate on CIC appointments | | | |
ET DESK
Jammu, Nov 8: While ace bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah’s oath taking as Chief Information of Jammu and Kashmir still remains an uncertain schedule, the vacancy created by his resignation at the top of country’s transparency watchdog has opened up a debate on the whole appointment procedure.
Wajahat had resigned as Chief Information Commissioner of India last month to take up a similar assignment in Jammu and Kashmir but he is yet to be relieved from the post as the central government has not been able to appoint his successor. Even as couple of names have been doing rounds but the procedure of appointments has come up serious debate.
The Delhi High Court is likely to hear Monday... | |
| | | | 4 held for ETT paper Leak, probe ordered | | | |
SUMIT SHARMA
Jammu, Nov 8: Four ETT students were arrested by bus stand police in connection with leakage of English paper of two years course of Elementary Teachers Training paper scam. Acting swiftly the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education has constituted a committee and had summoned secretary Sheikh Bashir from Kashmir who will lead the committee to inquire about the leakage of paper.
“We have called Secretary of JKBOSE Sheikh Bashir from Srinagar to inquire into the matter as we have standing committee for the purpose” Chairman JKBOSE Deshbandu told Early Times. However, he has not ruled out of the cancellation of the leaked paper. Meanwhile internal sources has... | |
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