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| Heat is on, LeT hitman done | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 15
Keeping the heat on, the Kashmir Police today claimed another major success as a top Lashkar-e-Toiba hitman involved in Uttar Pradesh court blasts has been killed along with an associate in Pulwama district.
This is considered as a big prized catch for the Police and to acknowledge the success the Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda went to Pulwama to encourage the cops involved in this operation. “Self-styled district commander Abdul Rahman alias Rehman Bhai, a Pakistani, and a local militant Moin Ahmed Mir were killed at Nikloora-Aglar village”, Khoda told reporters in Pulwama. The DGP further confirmed, “Rehman was involved in the November 23 blasts in Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow courts in which 13 people, including four lawyers, were killed”.
The Pulwama Police had launched a search operation in the village following a tip off. During the searches, the militants fired from the house of one Haji Mohd Ismail Mantoo on the security men. In the firefight, the two LET militants were killed, he said.
Investigations also revealed that... | |
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| On leave from Amar Singh’s duty, Farooq hits all spares none | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 15
Just being out of the company of Amar Singh and Amitabh Bachan, the National Conference patron Dr Farooq Abdullah is hitting out in all directions accusing every one of being villain of Kashmir issue.
Dr Abdullah is the town since Thursday and is hogging headlines. For last nearly month and a half when his party National Conference had pushed the coalition to corner, Dr Abdullah was seen almost daily on Television with Amar Singh of Samajwadi Party and mega star Amitabh Bachan in various functions held across UP, Delhi and Mumbai.
A day after, launching a frontal attack on New Delhi for all the mayhem in Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Abdullah today accused ... | |
| | | | Kidney scam has strings in Jammu | | CBI raids Amit’s father-in-law | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 15
The Kidney transplant racket’s Jammu connections were being probed Friday with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raiding the premises of alleged kingpin Amit Kumar’s father-in-law. Sham Lal Saini’s home in the slum area of Digiana on the outskirts of this Jammu and Kashmir winter capital was raided and he was questioned about Amit Kumar’s visits to the city, police sources said.
Saini’s daughter Poonam had joined Amit Kumar as a receptionist at his clinic in 1995 and later married him. She and her two sons had been living in an affluent Toronto suburb.
Amit Kumar, who is alleged to be behind 600 illegal kidney transplants, was arrested last w... | |
| | | | AIDS bomb ticking in backyard, Mangat sets out global agenda | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 14
Perhaps ignorant of the AIDS bomb ticking at home, the Health and Medical Education Minister Mangat Ram Sharma seems to have taken a larger agenda of eradicating the deadly disease from earth.
An official spokesman for the Health Minister quoted Mangat Ram as saying that “a sustainable campaign should be launched to eradicate AIDS from surface of earth”. The Health Minister was speaking at a function organized by a FM Radio Channel.
Mangat stressed that thrust of the campaign is to start a sustained fight against AIDS by involvement of more people from different walks of life including individuals, groups, trade unions, faith groups or member of any... | |
| | | | Pak situation derailed K-solution, says CM | | | | Early Times Reporter
Poonch | Feb 15
The Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said today that but for recent internal disturbance in Pakistan, the Kashmir issue was most close to the resolution.
Addressing a public meeting in here today, the Chief Minister pointed out that India and Pakistan had adopted a meaningful and result oriented course of dialogue but the internal disturbance in the neighbouring country derailed the process. However, he hoped that with improvement in situation in Pakistan things will look better in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Chief Minister said that the developments in Pakistan during the past about a year had slowed down the peace process before which the relations bet... | |
| | | | Cabinet meets today | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 15
After a relatively longer spell, the state cabinet is slated to meet here tomorrow with certain important policy matters on agenda.
The meeting under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will be held at 12 noon, sources said.
Besides routine issues, including some transfers and postings in the Civil Administration and Police, the major issue before the cabinet is reported to be the situation arising out of the recent weather calamity. The cabinet is expected to discuss relief measures and strategy for tacking such situations on future.
Another major issued reported to be on the cabinet agenda is the regulation and rationalization of... | |
| | | | HC restrained challan in Raju Chopra case | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 15
Asking the investigating agencies to continue with their probing, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court today restrained the state agency from presenting challan in the sensational murder case of cement tycoon Rajinder Bhushan Chopra alias Raju Chopra.
Objections on behalf of State of J&K and DGP have already been filed, the counsels for the petitioners stated that they received the copy of the same. However, Adv KN Bhat appearing for the CBI stated that he can file the objections only after going through the objections filed by the State for the reasons that a specific stand has been taken by the petitioner that the State agency had requested the Central ... | |
| | | | If winter comes, can spring be far behind? | | Severity of longer winter, heavy snowfall harbinger of good tourism, crops | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Feb 15
News Analysis
The unusual heavy snowfall for a period spread over hundred days and longer severe winter this year is not an unmixed bag. With the trauma and hardships suffered by the people in the valley and hilly areas of Jammu region to be over soon, Swill in the long run lead to healthy prospects of fillip to winter tourism in the valley as well as at Patnitop, Nathatop and Sanasur in Jammu region. The snowfall this year, which had its first shower in mid November did fall in abundance till the first weak of February, in the process leading to settling of thick layer of snow, giving boost to the prospects of snow skiing, sledging and ot... | |
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