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| Rs 100 million heroine smuggled through Akhnoor seized | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 1: A huge cache of drugs imported from Aghanistan worth crores of rupees making way into this side of border through Akhnoor has forced the Border Security Forces to change its deployment pattern.
Infamous for its established channels of trans-border drug trafficking, Akhnoor area in Jammu districts has once again come under limelight following seizure of fresh drugs worth Rs 100 millions from conduit in Chandigarh.
Knowledgeable sources told EARLY TIMES that sleuths of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) today arrested two people including a foreign national and recovered from them 10 kg of heroin, worth Rs.100 million in the international market, which... | |
| | | | CM writes to Mufti | | PDP asked to name nominee for induction | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 1: Brightening the hopes of much awaited cabinet expansion, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has written to the Peoples Democratic Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to nominate one representative of his party for inclusion into the council of ministers.
Sources said that the Chief Minister had written to Mufti on Thursday but a formal response from the Peoples Democratic Party is yet awaited. An informed source told EARLY TIMES that if Chief Minister does not hear anything from the PDP in due course of time he might go ahead with the expansion by inducting three Ministers of State from the Congress party.
A senior Congress leader told EARLY TIMES that the... | |
| | | | Woman cheater confesses involvement of several govt officials | | ‘More arrests likely in employment racket’ | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 1
Shafika Mir, who was arrested by Nowabad police last night in a hotel with large quantity of cash, on the complaint of some unemployed youths that the accused had exhorted money from them for arranging jobs, today made startling disclosures that she was in this illicit trade for last several years and duped many of the youth of lakhs of rupees on false promises. She is also reported to have disclosed that several government officials were also actively involved in the racket.
During the interrogation, Shafika Mir wife of Ali Mohammed Mir resident of Firdous Colony Bemina Srinagar, who is also running a NGO named Rural Development Relief Society, discl... | |
| | | | J&K war hero rues petty pension | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 1
Captain Bana Singh's house in the border town of R S Pura is a sort of a mini museum of trophies and awards.
The lone Param Veer Chakra of the Jammu and Kashmir played an important role in capturing a post in the Siachen Glacier in 1987. The post was named after him.
But the army's highest honour earns him a princely pension of just 166 rupees a month. Just a fraction of what war heroes like him get even in other states.
Last year, he took up the issue with chief minister Azad, who set up a committee, which ordered the formation of a committee to look into the grievances of Bana Singh and other retired army men who allege that they are not given a fai... | |
| | | | Heroin worth Rs.100 mn seized in Chandigarh | | Drug consignment had made way into India through the Akhnoor border | | | New Delhi | Dec 1
Sleuths of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Saturday nabbed two people including a foreign national and recovered from them 10 kg of heroin, worth Rs.100 million in the international market, which had been brought from Afghanistan via Pakistan.
Disclosing this here, NCB's north-western regional director Saji Mohar said Paramjit Singh of Attari village near the India-Pakistan border, 25 km from Amritsar, had come in his car to deliver the consignment to a Burundi national, Festus Benson.
As the delivery was being made near the grain market in Sector 39 here Saturday morning, NCB officials nabbed the two men.
Singh had been in prison earlier on charges of drug peddling... | |
| | | | Muzaffar Baig may return to JK Govt | | | | New Delhi | Dec 1
Former deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig is likely to return to the Jammu and Kashmir government, political sources said Saturday.
This follows reconciliation between two main partners of the ruling coalition - the Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) -- after months of acrimony.
The differences were sparked over various issues, including a PDP demand for troops cut in the Kashmir Valley.
The PDP accused Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad of not providing good governance and had even threatened to pull out of the government.
According to sources close to Azad and PDP, the parties have patched up.
As a first step, the chief minister sent a letter Thu... | |
| | | | Kingpin of 2006 Srinagar sex scam, Sabina intends to write biography, claims herself to be victim, resolves to rid society of sexual evils | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Dec 1
Whether it is a case of “Nau Sou Choohe Kha Kar Billi Haj Ko Chali” or a genuine transformation of mind, the notorious kinpin of much talked about sex scandal of Srinagar, which has rocked the political circles, civil society, bureaucracy and judiciary in the state, Sabina has expressed her resolve to work as a social reformer, to nip the evil of sexual exploitation of women including small girls, in Kashmir. In her this mission, Sabina would like to join hands with the hardcore secessionist and Islamic fundamentalist woman leader of Kashmir Aisya Andrabi, the Chief of Dukhtrane Mila.
In an interview given to a correspondent of a newspaper... | |
| | | | Cong, PDP come closer; thanks resolution | | Baig to make comeback, Dilawar likely to get Forest, Qazi PHE | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 1
Former deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig is likely to return to the Jammu and Kashmir government, political sources said Saturday.
This follows reconciliation between two main partners of the ruling coalition - the Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) -- after months of acrimony.
The differences were sparked over various issues, including a PDP demand for troops cut in the Kashmir Valley.
The PDP accused Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad of not providing good governance and had even threatened to pull out of the government.
According to sources close to Azad and PDP, the parties have patched up.
As a first step, the chief ministe... | |
| | | | 0ver 90 pc target achieved under School Health Programme during Phase-1 | | | | Vikas Sharma
Jammu | Dec 1
Health authorities in association with the other agencies have covered over 90% school children under the School Health Programme, according to the reliable sources. Sources further added that about 3.0 Lakh children in 2649 schools will be covered under this programme.
When contacted the Project Director, School Health Programme, Dinesh Gupta, told the Early Times that entire project comprised of three phases and in Phase-I, the children will be covered under a simple medical screening for various childhood and other genetic diseases.
Under the Phase-II, the all those screened against any disease will be provided state of the art medical treatments in the... | |
| | | | Buy some cracker to scare away the monkeys | | After Delhi, Jammuites becoming vulnerable to ‘Monkey menace’ | | | Sanjay Khajuria
Jammu | Dec 1
Forget the past when the people in City of temples woke up with tongs of temple bells and enchanting of the Vedic mantras but it has now replaced with ear deafening sounds of crackers fired to scare away the monkeys that have now become the a real menace and the ‘masters of some pockets in the walled city.’
Jammuites yet have to reconcile from the shocking news headlines about the tragic death of the Deputy Municipal Chairperson News Delhi who was critically injured when attacked by some monkeys and a similar ‘monkey menace’ has become a real headache for the people of city of temples.
Some even recall the pain and sufferings of the Cherai victims of ‘na... | |
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