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| Srinagar teenager killed in tearsmoke shelling | | ASI placed under suspension, downtown tense | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Jan 31: Capital city this evening turned tense as a 19-year-old boy, allegedly hit in his head during tearsmoke shelling on the stone pelting youths by Police, died at a hospital. Fearing considerable trouble and tension over the youth’s death in a downtown locality dominated by religious followers of senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, authorities have immediately placed an Assistant Sub Inspector of Police (ASI) under suspension.
Informed sources told Early Times that at the end of today’s dingdong clashes between stone pelting youths and Police in the lawless downtown, a group of youngsters began shouting anti-Police slogans and pelting stones o... | |
| | | | Handing over the baton to J&K Police our ultimate aim: Antony | | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi, Jan 31: The central government today said its long-term aim in Kashmir was to entrust the responsibility of law and order to local police and bring normalcy there.
"As far as policy is concerned, we are very clear. Our ultimate aim is to bring normalcy in Kashmir and entrust law and order to Kashmir police itself. The Army can safely safeguard the border. That is our long-term aim," Defence Minister A K Antony said.
Antony was replying to a question on whether the government will back out of its plan to move out troops from the Valley as there has been a rise in violence in the last two months and cross-border infiltration has increased.
The minister said t... | |
| | | | Sopore gun-battle off, Basharat Saleem ‘flees’ | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 31: A self-styled commander of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) outfit and his associate escaped after engaging security forces in a gunbattle in Sopore town of Baramulla district, a senior police officer said today.
Basharat Saleem was believed trapped in a house along with an associate at New Colony locality of Sopore, 55 kms from here, last evening but gave the slip to the search parties comprising police, Rashtriya Rifles and CRPF, Deputy Inspector General of Police(north Kashmir) Abdul Qayoom Manhas said.
An AK assault rifle, three magazines with 90 rounds, two hand grenades and a laptop were recovered from the scene of the gunbattle, he said.
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| | | | Running late, JU employees take pride in it | | ALL IS NOT WELL | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 29: The University of Jammu which repeatedly boasts of being country’s first ISO certified university with international quality standards, amazingly, is way behind in maintaining the punctuality among most of its employees comprising faculty members, non-teaching staff and Class-IV.
Though the office hours of the University begin at 9:30, there is hardly any wing or teaching department on campus which could claim that its staff members occupy their chairs at the scheduled time.
To get the first hand account of the poor punctuality record of Jammu University employees, this scribe visited several teaching departments as well as other... | |
| | | | 3 killed in a Ramnagar mishap | | | | Sarita Jamwal
Udhampur Jan 31: Three persons were killed in a road accident near Kuh nallah in Ramnager tehsil today .
According to reports Father , son among three were killed when a car bearing number JK14A-6653 they were travelling in, plunged into deep gorge near Kuh Nallah twenty kilometres from Ramnager today.
The car was on way from Ramnager to Udhampur when the accident occurred. Deceased has been identified as eight years old Brij Mohan son of Krishan Lal , his son Manoj Kumar resident of Ramnager and his friend Sanjay Dubey son of Dewan Chand resident of Dehari .Police rushed to the spot and shifted deceased to District hopsital and handed over bodies to family members ... | |
| | | | PDD draws Rs 130Cr plan to ‘plug in’ losses | | | | ARTEEV SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 31: Even as the State Government’s much-ambitious e-metering project has failed to check complete power theft, the Power Development Department (PDD) has drafted Rs 130 crore plan of “fencing” under Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (APDRP) to improve financial viability of state power utilities, besides stopping power pilferage.
According to official sources, the project would be given practical shape in next three months and be implemented in 30 towns of the State, viz 11 towns in Jammu province and 19 towns in Kashmir Province, in first phase. Sources said that the project may be extended to other towns after the assessm... | |
| | | | Pak building tunnels along IB, India worried | | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi, Jan 31: As the war of words between India and Pakistan reaches a crescendo, New Delhi has cause for fresh alarm, due to some of the activities being carried out across the border. Intelligence agencies in India have brought to the notice of the government that Pakistan has been frantically building up tunnels in areas not far from the border with India.
According to these inputs, the tunnels have been dug up in the Sargodha district of Pakistani Punjab and can even be noticed by, as a top intelligence officer put it, a discerning eye on Google satellite imagery. "An attempt is being made to establish the purpose of digging up such tunnels which are really big in si... | |
| | | | Youth dies in Srinagar violence | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 31: A youth was killed Sunday evening as protesters shouting anti-India slogans clashed with security forces in this Jammu and Kashmir capital, police said.
A senior police officer said the youth was hit by a tear smoke shell fired by police to disperse stone-pelting mobs near Rajouri Kadal in old city.
Mobs took to the streets in Gojiwara, Rajouri Kadal and Kawdara localities Sunday afternoon and clashed with police and the Central Reserve Police Force troopers.
They shouted anti-India and pro-independence slogans, the official said.
Police first charged at the mob with batons, but when the stone throwing intensified, police fired tear smoke shells... | |
| | | | Lady doc under house arrest, FIR registered | | New-born death case | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 31: In the shocking incident of the death of a new-born in the womb of his mother who was left unattended for hours in the Poonch district hospital Saturday, police have put the "absentee" gynaecologist under house arrest and registered an FIR against her.
In the absence of gynaecologist, Dr Shehnaz Bhatti, who had not come to the hospital yesterday, the woman kept crying in the hospital's emergency ward for about nine hours, but no doctor attended her.
Shehnaz Kousar (24) developed labour pain at her residence at Painch in Poonch early Saturday morning. She was admitted to the Poonch district hospital by her husband at about 7 am, but due to the ... | |
| | | | Absconder nabbed after 16 years | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 31: Evading arrest since 1994, an alleged kidnapper, who had escaped to Saudi Arbia giving the J&K police a slip in Mumbai 16 years back, was arrested at Mendhar in Poonch Saturday night.
Abdul Majid of Uchhad, Mendhar, had allegedly abducted a girl of his village in 1994 and taken her to Mumbai. Few days after the incident, the Mendhar police had raided his Mumbai hideout. Though the girl was recovered, Majid had managed to escape. He could not be arrested after that as he had fled to Saudi Arbia where he lived for 16 years.
He came home last evening to meet his parents. Sources said when police came to know about it, cops raided his residence ... | |
| | | | 1 kg RDX seized from 3 HM cadres | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 31:
Three persons, who allegedly raised funds for Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) outfit and arranged daily need items for militants, were today arrested by police from Mahore in Reasi district.
Police sources identified them as Mohammad Iqbal of Galkundi, Ghulam Mohammad and Zakir Hussain, both residents of Dabri. One kilogram of RDX and an improvised explosive device (IED) were recovered from them at the time of their arrest.
Sources said they were arrested on a specific information. They were allegedly involved in the incidents of raising funds for HM militants in Mahore, the sources added.
Sources said they had also been supplying ration and ... | |
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