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Closed Highway brings cheers for hoteliers, miseries for passengers Div Com asks hoteliers to reduce meal charges 2/6/2008 11:02:12 PM Munish Gupta Jammu | Feb 6 Jammu-Srinagar National Highway connecting Kashmir Valley with rest of the country remained closed for the third consecutive day on Wednesday causing miseries to hundreds of stranded passengers. The passengers - mostly Kashmiris - were huddled together trying to ward off the cold on the cemented floor of a bus stand in this winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, waiting anxiously for re-opening of the road. They have no money to rent out a room in a hotel. The only shelter over their heads is the leaking roof of the bus stand, the starting point for their journey to the Valley. And with the weather continuing to be inclement and the Highway closed due to heavy snowfall and landslides, there are no immediate hopes to bring them relief. These Kashmiris had come down to Jammu for various reasons - to get their work done in the government offices, meet ministers and bureaucrats while others on business trips and some for interviews. A large number of them had returned from Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkotta and other parts of India where they had gone to sell...   READ MORE

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Preity Zinta visits VaishnoDevi 2/6/2008 11:00:05 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Feb 6 Bollywood actress Preity Zinta on Wednesday visited Vaishnodevi shrine and performed puja there despite snowfall at several places in the area. Preity arrived in Katra on Tuesday and later went on a horse to Bhawan even as it was snowing en route to the cave shrine, official sources said. She had darshan on Wednesday morning and took part in the morning aarti, they said, adding she returned Mumbai later. The cave shrine has experienced heavy snowfall and cold conditions recently, leading to decline in number of pilgrims to the shrine. Snowfall was experienced in Adhkuwari, Lower Adhkuwari, Sanjji Chhat, Bhawan and Behro Ghati. The daily turn-out of v...   READ MORE   Mubarik Mandi Complex to have a new face 2/6/2008 10:59:00 PM New Delhi | Feb 6 With the launch of restoration work from the first week of March, The historical Mubarik Mandi complex will have a new face. Minister for Higher Education, Mr. Gulchain Singh Charak accompanied by Director Tourism Jammu met Union Minister for Tourism and Culture, Ms. Ambika Soni in New Delhi today. They discussed with the union minister for the speedy and time bound implementation of the restoration work of the Mubarik Mandi Complex by the archeological survey of India, for which Rs.4.37 Crores has already been released. Ambica Soni, union minister for tourism and culture, will be launching this programme funded by the ministry of culture in the first week of march. T...   READ MORE   Hakeemm Aslam likely to join PDF 2/6/2008 10:56:33 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Feb 6 Hakeem Mohammed Aslam - younger brother of transport minister Mohammad Hakeem Yaseen, is likely joining the Peoples Democratic Front (PDF) headed by Yaseen as it is believed that the brothers have resolved the controversies erupted after the younger one got dissent himself from the PDF one year ago. Sources told that the duo has come closer from past quite some time and resolved controversies erupted after Aslam quit the Peoples Democratic Front last year and joined Peoples Democratic Party as PDP zonal president Khansahab. It is pertinent to mention here that Transport minister and MLA Khansahab Hakeem Mohammed Yaseen was in bitter opposition from the...   READ MORE   Kandhar surrender to continue haunting BJP 2/6/2008 10:55:42 PM Early Times Special Correspondent Jammu | Feb 6 News Analysis The award of life sentence to three convicts on Tuesday, for their involvement in the conspiracy to hijack the IC---814 of Indian Airlines plane from Kathmandu in Nepal to Kandhar in Afghanistan, on December 24 1999, brings back the bitter memory of an act of national shame committed by the BJP led NDA government over 8 years ago, with the country's then Foreign Minister, Jaswant Singh escorting the three hardcore terrorists lodged in the Tihar Jail Delhi and Kot Bhalwal in Jammu and handing them over on silver platter to the hijackers, in exchange for the release of the 179 passengers and eleven crew members kept as hostage b...   READ MORE

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