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| School bus torched to enforce Geelani's shutdown | | 6 youth on 2 bikes set the bus on fire in Sagar's Khanyar area | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Dec 4: Even after spearheading the separatist movement for 21 years and claiming himself to be the most influential and the most popular leader of the Kashmiris, Syed Ali Shah Geelani today required burning of a school bus to enforce his shutdown in Kashmir valley. This, however, failed to work as most of the shops remained open and all the educational institutions functioned without taking any fear from the fire in Khanyar area. Geelani had called for total shutdown on Saturday as a mark of protest against the October 29th shootout in which Police claimed to have eliminated three militants after they gunned down a Constable in Qamarwari.
Authoritative sources, claiming to be quoting eyewitness accounts and preliminary investigation, told Early Times that half-a-dozen youth, three each on two motorcycles, appeared at Rangar Stop in Khanyar area of the capital city at 0815 hours. A bus of Tibetan Public School, Badamwari, was parked on the road and a number of the young students were boarding the vehicle. The youth on the motorcycles s... | |
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| DGP needs to do some damage control | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 4: Notwithstanding Director General's police-people contact programme, the relation between the civilians and the men in uniform is fast deteriorating. An incident at Batmaloo must serve as an eye opener to the DGP.
According to reports, a youth suspected a man in civvies of being a police man in New Colony Batmaloo this morning. Immediately he called his friends. The man in civvies was grabbed and frisked. An identity card recovered from his person confirmed the youth's suspicion. The police man was beaten to pulp. He was later rescued by the police. The incident triggered violent clashes in the area for quite some time. The youth pelted stones and raised sl... | |
| | | | CM angers Nagrota locals, tours without Ajatshatru | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 4: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's whirlwind tour of Nagrota constituency has not gone well with the royal family of Jammu whose son Ajatshatru Singh once represented this constituency and had also unsuccessfully contested last Assembly elections.
Locals here are angry over Omar's purported neglect of Ajatshatru while touring Nagrota constituency. They are against any move of National Conference to introduce new candidate in this high profile constituency. They want the Chief Minister to realize the mistake he made during the last assembly elections wherein he had angered the public by leaving an election rally in a fit of rage.
Though the constituency is b... | |
| | | | Parents claim Tunda is not supari killer as alleged by police | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 4: Parents of Tunda Fouji today claimed that he was not a supari killer as had been alleged by police. Showing prescription slips of doctors to media persons here today,
Tunda's father Milkhi Ram and mother Satya Devi said he was bed-ridden for the past two months as he suffered from piles.
They said when police picked him up from their residence at Akhnoor on November 25 last, they approached Member of Parliament (MP) Madan Lal Sharma to help them find out the reason behind his arrest.
The MP called up DSP, Akhnoor, Mushtaq Ahmad, who, in turn, told him that Tunda would be released after questioning, they said. They were, however, surprised to find r... | |
| | | | Factors that may have gone against granting visa to Musharraf | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 4: He had never hoped that India will not issue a visa in his favour. But his hopes have been "dashed to the ground" after he was informally conveyed that India was not going to give visa to him. This is the tale of former Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who had been invited to a seminar to be held in Delhi.
Musharraf had never imagined that he will not get an Indian visa. He does not agree that India has denied the visa because of "my being the architect of the Kargil conflict." He has stated that had Kargil been the reason for India to reject issuance of a visa he would not have been allowed to come in 1999,2005 and 2009.
The former military rul... | |
| | | | Ex-NC corporator beaten up, booked for damaging PDD transformer | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 4: Ex-NC corporator Rashida Begum, who was today attacked and beaten up by some people at Qasim Nagar on the city outskirts, was booked by police for allegedly causing damage to public property.
She went to Qasim Nagar in the afternoon to get an electric transformer removed from the land of his son-in-law Gulzar. Rashida told Early Times that when she reached the spot, she was attacked and beaten up by some women at the instance of a Congress minister.
She alleged that instead of taking any action against those who had beaten her up, the Bagh-e-Bahu police station SHO took her to the police station and made her sit there for over two hours. Police sources, h... | |
| | | | Hostile attitude of Rehman, Nissar towards Jammu and Ladakh not surprising | | BIASED FINANCE COMMISSION -- I | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 4: It was expected that the chairman of the State Finance Commission, Mehmood-ur-Rehman, and former Head of Kashmir University's Economic Department, Nissar Ali, would not come up with a report based on facts and it has really happened. It was also expected that they would see to it that those representing Jammu province and Ladakh region in the Finance Commission, Swami Raj Sharma and Sonam Dawa, would not be allowed to play their role designed to prepare a report indicating the extent to which Jammu and Ladakh have been discriminated against over the years by the Kashmiri-dominated and Valley-centric successive governments in the state and it has hap... | |
| | | | CM to handover orders to displaced youth today, some Apex members to boycott function | | | | Early Times REPORT
Jammu, Dec 4: Some members of Apex Committee on Kashmiri Pandits will boycott today's function being organized by Government at Chief Minister's residence to handover the appointment orders to displaced youth.
Though the Government has extended the invitations to all the Apex Committee members for attending the function to be held at CM residence here, some of them have declined the offer and refused to attend the function.
However the majority Apex Committee members affiliated to ruling alliance will take part in the function. According to sources the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will handover the appointment orders to the newly recruited displaced youth appointed und... | |
| | | | BJP to boycott CM's function | | Accession remarks | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 4: Continuing their tirade over the accession remarks of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, legislators of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have decided to boycott government function being organized to distribute appointment orders to migrant Kashmiri Pandit youth.
BJP sources said that the party leaders have unanimously decided to boycott every public function wherein Chief Minister would be involved. They said that the decision in this regard was taken a day after the Chief Minister made controversial remarks over the accession of Jammu and Kashmir with India. BJP sources disclosed that boycott would continue till the Chief Minister does not withdraw his remarks ... | |
| | | | Kashmir: Credentials of the self-styled track-II members | | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 4: Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Ram Vilas Paswan and others of his ilk like Shoaib Iqbal of LJP, Gopal Choudary of CPI-M, D Raja of CPI, Namo Nageshwar Rao of Telgu Desham Party, Danish Ali of Janata Dal (Secular), Maheshwar Hazari of Janata Dal (United), Shahid Siddiqui of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RJD), film maker Mahesh Bhatt, journalist Seema Mustafa and Prof Kamal Mitra Chenoy of Jawaharlal Nehru University are right now in Kashmir. They landed in Srinagar on Friday. They have come to Kashmir to meet Mirwaiz Umar Farooq of the APHC (M), Syed Ali Geelani of Tehrik-e-Hurriyat (the), Yasin Malik of JKLF, Shabir Ahmad Shah of Democratic Freedom Party (D... | |
| | | | 20 hurt in bus mishap | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, Dec 4: At least 20 persons were today wounded, some of them critically, when the bus in which they were travelling met with an accident at Muradpur on Nowshera-Rajouri road.
The ill-fated bus (JK02D/1271) was on its way from Nowshera to Rajouri. Police sources said the bus was overloaded and crammed with over 60 passengers. While majority of them survived with minor brusies, at least 20 sustained critical wounds, the sources added. The injured were hospitalised.
Overloading was stated to be the reason behind the incident. Two days back also, an overloaded vehicle had met with an accident near Kalakote, resulting in the death of six persons.... | |
| | | | Railways complete construction of crucial tunnel in Kashmir | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 4: Railways have successfully completed construction of a crucial tunnel between the Katra-Qazigund section of the prestigious Kashmir rail link project.
"The major breakthrough came yesterday with the completion of the tunnel, the second in the section at Sangaldam in Ramban district of the valley," said a Northern Railway spokesperson, adding that the work of the 1483-metre tunnel was completed in 28 months.
The Katra-Qazigund section involves 103 km of tunnels out of the total 129 km line. Almost 65 to 70 major and minor tunnels will be constructed on this section. Earlier breakthrough of the first tunnel of 1671-metre length at Sangaldhan was achieved on... | |
| | | | Man, son among three assaulted | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 4: Three persons, including a man and his son, were assaulted by unknown persons in a saw mill at Sunjawan near here today.
They were identified as Gulzar Ahmad, his son Saddam and nephew Salim.
Police sources said they were sitting in a saw mill at Sunjwan when some unknown men assaulted them with lathies. The attackers later fled the spot.
The injured were admitted to the GMC hospital. Police had registered a case in this connection.... | |
| | | | Body recovered from Muralian | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 4: The body of an unidentified man was today recovered by police from Muralian in Miran Sahib. Police said it had been kept in the GMC hospital mortuary for identification.A case in this connection stands registered at the concerned police station.... | |
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