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Sandeep Bhat
Kashmir is a region of the north western Indian subcontinent and it is bounded to the northeast by the sinking and to the east by Tibet, to the south by Himachal Pradesh and to the west by Pakistan and to the northwest by Afghanistan.
Kashmir suddenly flashed into the world news when Pakistani marauders came over the mountains to annex Kashmir by force in 1947. Although repeated attempts to annex Kashmir on the flimsy ground of majority Muslim population, have been frustrated in the recent past, grim clouds of a more organized attempt, backed by modern arms and armoury, where as, India will again face such a situation with greater determination and united will and strength of our country. Right from the very ancient times, Kashmir had become a clearing house of spiritual knowledge, elaborating to nourish and to give shape to new thoughts and a place where scholars concourced, conversed and concurred to give ground rules for thinking processes, language, logic, religions, music, dance and sciences. Different religions were considered as complimentary aids to gr... | |
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| Highest 17 lakh voters for Jammu LS seat | | 2,210 polling stations for voting on April 16 | | | Early Times Report
Jammu Mar31- Jammu Parliamentary constituency, which is going to polls on April 16, has a total electorate of 17, 21, 696, which is the highest for any Parliamentary constituency. The total voters also include 23,674 service electors. Of these 8, 89, 562 are male and 8, 32,134 female voters for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. In comparison, there were 18, 49, 989 voters for the 2004 elections.
Madan Lal Sharma of INC won the Parliamentary seat in 2004 elections when he defeated his nearest rival Dr. Nirmal Singh of BJP by a margin of 17,568 votes.While Madan Lal Sharma polled 3,19,994 votes, Dr. Nirmal Singh polled 3,02,426 votes. The total poll percentage was recorded ... | |
| | | | Case registered against management in Baramulla | | 60 students hurt as school’s roof collapses | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar: At-least sixty girl students were injured, five of them seriously, when roof of a school building caved-in Tuesday in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Eyewitness said that the roof of Islamia High School English medium Bangla Bagh collapsed at around 1100 hours while students of 8th, 9th and 10th standard were offering morning assembly prayers on its fourth floor. Meanwhile, the district administration has ordered an inquiry into the incident and has filed a case against the school authorities.
Sixty students were hurt. Five of them seriously in the incident, the sources said.
Sources said that as soon as the incident occurred, pedestrian, school ... | |
| | | | Police conducts raid in Poonch on RDD officials | | BDO among 7 arrested while making fake bills | | | Early Times Report
POONCH: Police Tuesday thwarted a plan by some officials of Rural Development Department Balakote in Poonch district when it arrested seven officials who were allegedly preparing fraud bills to swindle state exchequer of rupees one million.
Sources said that Station House Officer Balakote, Farooq Hussein Shah, after specific information raided a residential house of a Village level worker, Haji Muhammad Hanief and arrested red-handed besides other Block Development Officer Balakote, Muhammad Sidiq, Accountant Muhammad Anwar Khan, store keeper, Muhammad Bashir, VLWs Muhammad Sharief and Haji Hafiz Khan. The officials, police said, were preparing fraud bills to the tune... | |
| | | | Militant surrenders in Jammu | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, March 31 A militant of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, identified as Abdul Qayoon Wani, surrendered to army troops in Ranbirsingh Pura, a border town about 30 km west of Jammu, Tuesday.
According to defence ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Biplab Nath, the militant, who also went by the alias of Saifullah Tirzay surrendered with an AK-56 rifle, two magazines, 96 rounds of ammunition and one Chinese grenade.
It is rare for a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant to be found in this belt, as the plains of Jammu are believed to be free of militants
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| | | | Harsh dev harsh on notification scheme | | HC issues notice in 2 petitions challenging RS polling | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar31- In two election petitions filed by JKNPP legislators Harsh Dev Singh and Balwant Singh Mankotia challenging the notifications issued by the Election Commission of India dated January 12, 2009 whereby it has been decided to hold three bi-annual elections for filling-up the vacancies for Rajya Sabha, Justice Nirmal Singh of Jammu and Kashmir High Court today issued notice to Election Commission of India through its Secretary New Delhi, Union of India through its Home Secretary, Saif-ud-Din Soz MP Union Minister for Water Resources, Ghulam Nabi Azad MP, Dr. Farooq Abdullah MP, Mohammed Shafi Uri MP, Ashok Vijay Gupta and Chairman Rajya Sabha New Delhi return... | |
| | | | Swindling of public money | | CB presents challan against Co-op officials | | | Early Times report
Jammu, Mar 31- Crime Branch Jammu today produced challan against the accused including the then Assistant Registrar and Deputy Registrar Cooperative Societies Rajouri for misappropriating lakhs of rupees and diverting the same for their personal use.
The challen was presented in the court of law in a FIR 03/2003 U/S 420/ 409 /467/ 468/471 of RPC r/w 5(2) P.C Act against Shafiq Ahmed Choudhary son of Mohd. Hussain of Ward No.I Rajouri the then Assistant Registrar Co-operative Societies cum General Manager Marketing Society Rajouri and Kuldeep Sharma son of Chuni Lal Sharma the then Deputy Registrar Co-operative Societies Rajouri .
The SSP Crime Branch said that acting ... | |
| | | | Azad calls for strengthening of secular forces | | | | Early Times report
Jammu, March 31: Hitting out at the BJP and PDP in the Kashmir valley, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday asked the people to strengthen secular forces and fight parties spreading communalism in the state and elsewhere in the country.
These parties had created an explosive situation in the state for their vested interest last year that resulted in polarisation on communal lines, Azad said, apparently referring to Amarnath Yatra agitation.
"BJP had drawn the advantage from it in Jammu and PDP in Kashmir in the assembly elections later," the AICC general secretary said, while addressing an election rally in support of party candidate... | |
| | | | LS polls 2009 | | Over all development, main concern for Kashmiris | | |
By Salman Nizami
The world looks at Kashmir as a source of dispute between India and Pakistan, a trouble spot but people who will vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections are more worried about local issues, then Kashmir problem.
“Our priority is local issues like unemployment, roads and development, my participation in the Lok Sabha elections is nothing to do with the resolution of the Kashmir dispute” Till that (resolution) happens, my children cannot sit idle around and waste their youth. Some thing has to be done to secure their future and unless we have to vote right person to represent us, such bringing issues cannot be allowed to waste” said Mushtaq Ahmed a daily wager of Sri... | |
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