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| 17 soldiers killed in avalanche at Gulmarg | | 17 injured among 53 rescued amid heavy snowfall, choppers fail to land | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Feb 8: Seventeen soldiers of different units of the Indian Army were buried alive under a massive avalanche on the alpine slopes of Khilanmarg, in the world famous winter sports hub of Gulmarg, even as the armed forces’ rescue helicopters and the state government’s ambulances failed to reach the spot due to heavy snowfall. As many as 53 soldiers have been rescued and 17 among them have sustained injuries of varying intensity.
Deputy Inspector General of Police, North Kashmir, Abdul Qayoom Manhas, told Early Times while returning to his Baramulla office from Gulmarg late this evening that Gulmarg-based High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) of Army had started a basic training course of nine weeks which was scheduled to run from December 26, 2009, to March 01, 2010, at Khilanmarg. Over 400 jawans associated with the HAWS training programme had left their base camp of Gulmarg at 0830 hours and had reached the Skiing course spot of Gujjar Huts in over an hour. They included 301 trainees (39 officers, 10 Junior Commissioned Officers and 252 jawans) and 100 tr... | |
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| Valley completes 8 days of shutdown over 2 killings | | Geelani, Mirwaiz ask Kashmiris to resume business, observe bandh on Feb 11 | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Feb 8: Reeling under 8th consecutive day of shutdown over killing of two young students allegedly at the hands of Police and security forces in Srinagar, Kashmir valley showed so signs of returning to normality even as heads of both factions of the separatist Hurriyat Conference today asked the Kashmiris to end the uncalled strike and resume business from Tuesday.
Valley today completed eight days of continuous shutdown that had begun with the death of a 15-year-old student, Wamiq Farooq Wani of Rainawari, allegedly in the teargas shelling of Police on a group of youngsters in downtown locality of Rajourikadal here on January 31st evening. While alleging tha... | |
| | | | 33 killed, 200 injured since January | | 9 civilians, 7 troopers among dead | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 8: Thirty-three persons have got killed since January 1till date. The deceased include 17 militants, 9 civilians and 7 troopers. Around 200 civilians and security personnel sustained injuries during the said period.
The militants fired at a BSF patrol at Soura on January 2. Two BSF men sustained injuries in the shoot out. Same day police allegedly killed a civilian, Abdul Rashid Waniat Kandi Baramulla. However, the police said the civilian died in an accident.
A police man, Mahesh Lal died in an IED explosion in high security zone JIC Baramulla on January 5.
Fidayeen appeared in heart of Srinagar, Lal Chowk on January 6and entered Punjab Hotel. The gun ... | |
| | | | Lobbies active for the post of administrator at Shadra Sharief shrine | | Two ex-revenue officers in race , religious bodies for honest man | | |
SHAFIQ MIR
Rajouri, Feb. 8
Hectic efforts have been started in the power corridors of state government to get the post of administrator at Shadra Sharief shrine which is lying vacant for the past more than two weeks after the death of Anayet Hussain Baba . Baba worked as administrator at this shrine for the period of more than twenty years till he died last month due to sudden cardiac arrest . Two retired revenue officers belonging to Poonch and Rajouri districts are reportedly among the first runners in the race for this post . However, various religious bodies closely attached with this shrine are not in favor of those having tainted previous record and they have also informed th... | |
| | | | Police resorts to lathi-charge as stranded passengers block B C Road | | | |
Munish Gupta
Jammu, February 8
With Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remaining closed for vehicular traffic for the third consecutive day today, large number of stranded passengers today staged a protest demonstration demanding immediate arrangements of their evacuation.
They also blocked busiest B C Road for about half an hour which forced Police to resort to mild lathi charge to disperse the demonstrations.
The stranded passengers raised anti government slogans and alleged that the government had failed to provide any relief to them and demanded that the government should make arrangements to airlift them to Srinagar.
Narrating their problems to the media persons, they complained... | |
| | | | DyCM smells fish, “raids” JDA | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 8:
Following serious complaints of large-scale bungling in Jammu Development Authority (JDA), Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand today conducted surprise visit at JDA office in Bahu Plaza Complex, and is learnt to have detected multi-crore scam pertaining to land allotments over the years.
Accompanied by Commissioner Secretary, Housing and Urban Development, Suresh Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand reached JDA office at about 1:00 pm and summoned all the record files of allotment of plots of lands to the people.
“However”, well placed sources revealed to Early Times, “not even a single was properly maintained. In certain cases, the files did not carry t... | |
| | | | NC membership drive in Jammu may turn out to be a futile exercise | | | |
RUSTAM
JAMMU, Feb 8: The Kashmir-based and what is being frequently termed as the “Valley-centric” National Conference launched membership drive in Jammu province from R. S. Pura on February 7 with great pomp and show in the sense that it was launched by none other than the party president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah and his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
The owners of the National Conference did commit a mistake by choosing R. S. Pura for launching the membership drive. The simple reason is that R. S. Pura is an integral part of the mainstream politics and it abhors and hates the kind of ideology the National Conference preaches and propagates.
Why to s... | |
| | | | From demilitarisation to rehabilitation of militants Omar toes Mufti's policy | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu,February 8:-Step by step Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,seems to follow the policies and plans,prepared by the PDP patron,Mufti Mohd.Sayeed.During the one-year old National Conference led Government in Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah imitated the Mufti when he started pleading for withdrawal of troops and the repeal of the Armed Forces(special powers)Act.This was what the Mufti had been demanding during the last three years and the only difference was that while the PDP leader termed it demilitarisation Omar talked of withdrawal of troops.
Though during the Mufti led Government some of the hospitals,school buildings,orchards and agricultural fields had b... | |
| | | | NH closed for third day, normal life paralysed | | | |
Arteev Sharma
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 8
With no improvement in inclement weather conditions across the State, the Kashmir Valley remained cut off from rest of the country on the third straight day today following heavy snowfall and landslides triggered by incessant rains on 300-km-long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
Incessant rains and snowfall in upper reaches of Jammu region also dipped the mercury with maximum temperature in Jammu recorded at 16.3 degree Celsius, about 5 degree below normal while the minimum temperature witnessed reverse trend with mercury recording temperature 4 degree Celsius above normal. The minimum temperature was recorded at 12.3 degree Celsius. So... | |
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