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| Climate change: J&K’s Chief Forester carries agenda to Copenhagen | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 8: When leaders and activists, experts and environmentalists from across the globe are rushing to Copenhagen for world’s most keenly watched summit on climate change, Jammu and Kashmir too has an agenda and presence on the table. At home when Terra Noami performed on the issue in Srinagar, an internationally renowned expert on climate change and state’s Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Jagdish Kishwan is off to Denmark sharing an opportunity with national and international government leaders to discuss the future course of the Climate Change strategy for the world.
An estimated 15,000 people representing Governments, NGOs, IGOs, along with over 2,000... | |
| | | | PDP aims self rule victory at ‘quiet diplomacy’ table | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 8: Leaving little for the separatists to toe on and projecting its ideas within four walls of the constitution of India, the Peoples Democratic Party is pitching for victory of self-rule proposal on the table of quiet diplomacy that is going on between New Delhi and Kashmir.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is of the firm opinion that implementation of the self-rule concept alone could settle the ticklish Kashmir issue. To mellow down the opposition in Jammu, the PDP leaders say, “the self-rule concept should not to be misconstrued as something anti-national because we favour implementation of the idea within the framework of the constitution of India”.
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| | | | Leopard terror: tribal boy killed, teenage girl mauled | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 8: A three-year-old tribal boy was killed while a teenaged girl was mauled in separate incidents of leopard attack in Rajouri and Doda districts respectively, police sources today said.
A three-year-old, identified as Manzoor Hussain son of Hassan Bakerwal of Baba Kanna Top in Rajouri, was picked up by a leopard from his house near the forest area yesterday, the sources said.
Parents of the child chased the wild beast after hearing cries but all in vain. The leopard escaped leaving boy bleeding profusely.
Manzoor was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him ‘’brought dead’’.
In another incident, an 18-year-old girl was criticall... | |
| | | | Roads buried under avalanches, | | strike cripples life in Kargil, Drass | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 8 : Life remained crippled in shia dominated Kargil and nearby Drass, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia, where people are demanding reopening of Zojila pass, which connects the region with Srinagar.
''We continued our peaceful protest for the second day today against the government's decision to close the 434-km-long Srinagar- Leh national highway when the weather is dry,'' Imam Khomani Memorial Trust (IKMT) chairman Asgar Ali Karbalayee told over phone from Kargil.
He said all shops and business establishments are closed in Kargil and Drass besides other far flung areas in protest against the government decision.
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| | | | Rather pats CT guys’ backs as | | | |
FM asks: get more, go beyond targets
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 8: The sleuths and officials of the Commercial Taxes department today earned extols of the Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather who is otherwise conservative in going into raptures of eulogies on petty performances. Rather had a reason to go overboard in appreciating the efforts of Commercial Taxes department: the VAT collection in Jammu Division has gone 34.7% up over the corresponding period last year. Happy though, the Finance Minister does not want to leave a room for complacency as he asks the CT officials to “not only achieve targets but surpass them”.
At a meeting of various wings of the Commercial Taxes D... | |
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