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| Finally Vehicles roll on NH | | Central team arrives | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 10
Amidst caution, the weather situation across Jammu and Kashmir has started looking better and a team of central government has initiated damage assessment process in the state.
With significant improvement in weather and following clearance operations, one-way traffic was today resumed on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway which remained closed for around seven days due to seven foot snowfall and landslides triggered by rains. After one-way opening of the road, the traffic was allowed from Jammu to Srinagar on the highway. No vehicle was allowed from Srinagar to Jammu.
Altogether one hundred vehicles, including those carrying essential commodities and passengers, stranded on the highway for the past six days, arrived here late last night and early this morning.
The stranded vehicles were allowed to move towards Srinagar last evening after the Border Roads Organisations (BRO), responsible for the maintenance of the highway cleared snow and landslides from the road.
Meanwhile, a three member central team reached Srinagar this morning to ma... | |
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| HM: Change of mind or short of shooters | | Salahuddin's no violence declaration may be a compulsion | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 10
The Jammu and Kashmir Police today claimed to have eliminated Financial Chief of Hizbul Mujahideen. This is yet another major victory for the Police which in past few days have gunned down two top commanders of the Hizbul Majahideen besides around seven other cadres of the same outfit.
The Police and other security forces are quite jubilant over the success achieved by them one after the other in past few days. The combing operations are to the extent that Kashmir Inspector General of Police, SM Sahai says, "many areas, particularly in South Kashmir, have been completely cleared of militants".
This is a positive sign but there are also broad strategic... | |
| | | | CM files across Valley, catches bird's eye view | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 10
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today had an aerial survey of almost entire Kashmir Valley to make an assessment of the situation arising out of the huge snowfall. He was accompanied by some senior minister and top officers of administration and police.
The Chief Minister also had an aerial survey of the snow affected areas in districts of Kulgam, Pulwama, Shopian, Budgam and Bandipore.
The Chief Minister complimented the district administrations for their quick response to the situation and reaching out to the people in distress. He had a word of appreciation for the coordination between various wings of administration with which the situation was... | |
| | | | At Dogra Hall, parking reserved….! | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 10
The Dogra Sadar Sabha –an organization of historical importance representing the aspiration of Dogras –had become a monopoly of Gulchain Singh Charak long before he donned the political power, but now its property too has become his exclusive domain.
Dogra Sadar Sabha has its office at the famous Dogra Hall near civil secretariat. The regular meetings, conventions and other functions of Dogra Sadar Sabha are held there. The building the jointly managed by the managing committee and every member of the Dogra Sadar Sabha taking due pride also has sense of ownership and sense of belonging to the building.
However, for past couple of weeks there is a simm... | |
| | | | Velvet gloves: Police scripts history | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 10
The sun is back, the snow will soon be over, the Jammu and Kashmir Police will be remembered for ever for its courageous rescue operations and sympathetic approach to the people trapped in difficult situations.
Realizing its obligations as the custodians of the life and property of the people, the Jammu and Kashmir Police helped and rescued scores of the distressed people who were caught in the cruel hands of the snow and snow avalanches following a heavy snow fall in the valley a couple of days ago.
When it was snowing very heavily Police not only reached to the people who were trapped in different hamlets over different ridges in the Waltengo Nad... | |
| | | | With Kashmir buried under snow, the secessionist Neros playing politics | | Security forces once again came to the rescue of sufferers | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Feb 10
News Analysis
"When Rome was burning, Nero was playing on his flute". True to this popular anecdote the secessionist leaders of all hue in Kashmir are indulging in politics, furthering their secessionist and anti India agenda, even at a time when the entire Kashmir Valley and many hilly areas of Jammu region are buried under deep snow and inflicted by avalanches, taking a toll of about three dozen human lives and untold miseries to a very large number of people. Unmindful of the hardships and trauma suffered by the common kashmiris as well as Jammuites in the upper hilly reaches, cut off from the rest of the world, with roads blocked, due ... | |
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