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| Avalanche warning issued 5 dead, 5 injured in Kargil rock slide | | Edu Minister's escort gypsy hits JCB, 2 cops injured | | | sumit sharma
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 6: Five people, including three children were killed and an equal number injured when huge pieces of rock slid from a hillock and fell on two houses in Kargil district of Ladakh region today.
Officials said that the incident took place at Village Garkone situated on the Batalik Highway. And on the other side, Jammu and Kashmir disaster management cell today issued a medium-danger avalanche warning at Banihal on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway as gusty winds blew across the summer capital, uprooting trees and electricity poles at some places
Reports pouring in informed that rescue operations were launched immediately and police party along with medical team was deployed for rescue operations which were being monitored closely by Tehsildar Kargil. The rock slides were initially noticed by army personnel at around 1 am in the intervening night of February 5 and 6. Sources added that army informed the police immediately.
Reports added that finding the situation worrisome, civil administration sought the assistance of army. Accordingly... | |
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| Jama't likely to pull out from Hurriyat G | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Feb 6: The Jama't-e-Islami may pull out of Geelani's Hurriyat by April. This was disclosed by the Amir (Chief) of Jama't this evening while talking to a local news agency. The Chief also ruled out the possibility of joining the Mirwaiz led Hurriyat Conference.
The Jama't took strong exception to Geelani's biography by Dr Shafi Shariti which was released last year. The Jama't had accused the author of maligning the image of the organization. "The author has tried to project Jama't-e-Islami as a pro-Indian political party. He has further mentioned that Jama't was fed by Indian intelligence agencies. This is intolerable. The book has blown a particular person ou... | |
| | | | Two hospitalised after alleged police torture | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
KATHUA, Feb 06: Two persons were today admitted to the Hiranagar sub-district hospital here after they became unconscious due to the alleged police torture.
They were identified as Pawan, son of Joginder, and Neeraj, son of Bittoo, both residents of Kote Punnu.
Official sources said the trouble started over the alleged abduction of Rajni, daughter of Jagdish, by one Ashwani. Rajni's six family members today went to Ashwani's house to know about her whereabouts. In the house, they encountered cops -- Ashok Bhagat and MOhan Lal -- and had heated exchanges with them.
However, at the instance of the cops, who were related to Ashwani, Rajbagh police later lifted Rajni's... | |
| | | | Cabinet expansion, reshuffle likely | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Feb 6: The National Conference and Congress legislators have reached a consensus on filling the vacant ministerial berths in the state cabinet, a local news agency quoting `informed' sources said today.
According to the sources, hectic activity was going on in New Delhi with politicians lobbying for ministerial berths. The cabinet has presently 22 ministers. At least three berths are vacant. This includes the berth of former R&B minister, GM Saroori who was forced to quit last year.
In addition to filling of berths, the Chief Minister is likely to change portfolios of some of the ministers. The Chief Minister and Congress leaders interacted with Congress Chief,... | |
| | | | J&K gets CVC clearance for information commissioner | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 6: Jammu and Kashmir government has received the clearance from the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) for the appointment of an income tax officer as the state's first chief information commissioner (CIC), an official said on Sunday.
A panel headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had recommended G.R.Sufi's name for appointment as the CIC Jan 27, but Governor NN Vohra had sent back the file saying that the CVC clearance be attached with it. "Subsequently, the CVC's clearance was sought and it has been received," an official said. "The file would be sent back to the governor," he added.
With Sufi's appointment that may happen sometime next week, the process t... | |
| | | | Azad's statement irks Soz loyalists | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 6: Though Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad has refuted that there was any factionalism in Pradesh Congress Committee and maintained that two parallel rallies held on Martyr's day January 30 were organised on the instance of Party High Command but former Chief Minister himself contradicted his statement saying former R&B Minister G.M. Saroori was sacked under conspiracy and Party High Command is contemplating action against Health and Welfare Minister, Sham Lal Sharma a close member of rival faction headed by PCC president Prof. Saif-ud-din Soz.
The Statement has annoyed the congressmen owing allegiance to Soz group in congress and... | |
| | | | Vertical split percolates down at grass root level | | 8 'Number count' strategy of Cong factions affects workers | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Feb 6: The furore over 'number count' organized by the two factions of J&K Congress in terms of the show of strength blow out of proportions by a section of media may have calmed down but it has not yet settled at the organizational level, with leaders in both factions trying to 'identify' the sources of crowd that made it to two separate rather parallel rallies on Jan 30. The tug of war or the war of nerves that preceded the rally for days has had a telling impact on the worker and cadres at middle rung of Congress who faced dilemma and confusion which one to attend. The factionalism which started at the top hierarchy has percolated down and caused a vertical sp... | |
| | | | J&K: No alternative to trifurcation | | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 6: The Government of India-appointed interlocutors visited the state last month for the fourth time since October 2010. During their interactions with Kashmiri people, barring the separatists, the interlocutors were clearly told that they would not accept anything short of a system that is outside the Indian Constitution. In fact, some of them talked in terms of complete political emancipation from India, some talked about greater autonomy and some talked about self-rule. A few of them also talked in terms of right to self-determination.
In Jammu, the interlocutors were told by one and all that they were opposed to the idea of the state becoming indepen... | |
| | | | Indo-Pak Dialogue - I | | Nothing to emerge out of Thimpu talks | | | RUSTAM
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JAMMU, Feb 6: Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir today would meet at the Bhutanese capital Thimpu. The stated objective is to prepare ground for a meeting between Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmud Qureshi so that the stalled composite dialogue is resumed and all outstanding issues between India and Pakistan, including the so-called Kashmir issue, resolved in order to forge a lasting peace in South Asia. The dialogue process came to a standstill in the wake of the deadly Mumbai terrorist attacks in November 2008, notwithstanding the fact that attempts were made at Sharm-el-S... | |
| | | | Dhoni, Raina arrive to seek blessings of Vaishno Mata | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 06: Ahead of the 2011 ICC cricket world cup scheduled to begin from February 19, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni arrived here today to seek the blessings of Mata Vaishno Devi.
He was accompanied by his wife and southpaw Suresh Raina, official sources said.
Since there was no helicopter service to the holy cave shrine of the goddess due to bad weather conditions today, they stayed in an army
area in the winter capital, the sources added.
A police report, however, said they flew back to New Delhi in the aftenoon.
The 2011 ICC cricket world cup would be the 10th cricket world cup and would be hosted by three south Asian Test cricket playing countries ... | |
| | | | Omar raps Army for youth's death | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 6: In the aftermath of the killing of an innocent youth in North Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday pulled up the Army for violating the Standard operating Procedure which led to his death.
Chairing a meeting here today, Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain, Corps Commander of Srinagar-based 15 Corps, was conveyed in no uncertain terms that the incident involving innocent people were detrimental to the peace process and that the troops should strictly adhere to SoP agreed upon in various Unified Headquarters meetings, official sources said.
The meeting came after a specialised unit of the Army -- Four Para -- had laid a cordon in an area at Handwara in No... | |
| | | | Soz calls on Antony | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar Feb 6 : The state Congress President, Pro Saif-ud-Din Soz Saturday evening called on Defence Minister, A K Antony, in New Delhi.
Sources said Soz took up the issue of killing of a youth in Handwara by the Army with Antony.
Talking to Kashmir News Service from New Delhi, Soz said, "It is highly regrettable that an innocent youth has been killed. I'm at loss to understand why Army fired upon him."
"Now Army has regretted the killing they should try to compensate the victim's family," he added.... | |
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