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| Crisis deepens: Kar joins chorus | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, April 19: Crisis in the Congress party may deepen in the coming days as senior, aged and ailing leader, Ghulam Rasool Kar has decided to join the chorus. The Congress high command will find it extremely difficult to deal with a defiant Kar whose residence has become a hot spot for disgruntled Congress workers.
Kar is extremely busy these days. Scores of persons, believed to be Congress workers call on him. Kar also made his presence felt last week when he addressed a Congress function at Khanabal in Anantnag district to commemorate the 125th raising day of the party.
Significantly, political circles have assigned much importance to Kar’s activities. Two... | |
| | | | Red alert on Jammu-Pathankote highway after two infiltrators trapped near Kathua | | The duo entered J&K from the neighbouring Punjab | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 19: Breaching the barbed-wire border fencing with an IED blast, two Pak militants, who Monday infiltrated into India from the neighbouring
Punjab, were trapped by police at Rajbagh in Kathua after they sneaked into J&K.
At the time of going to the print at about 1 am, the two militants were trapped in a forest nursery which falls between the border Chhabbe Chak village of Rajbagh and the Ujh nullah.
From 6.55 pm to 1 am, they fired twice on police and army, but no harm was caused. In retaliatory fire, one of them was wounded in the leg, according to police sources.
The duo infiltrated into Indian territory from the Simble Spoll border area of Punjab by bl... | |
| | | | Surrendered ultra’s wife creates scene | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 19: Three days after she highlighted hereself in a dramatic way inside the Civil Secretariat premises, Shabnam, wife of a surrendered militant Ghulam Mohi-udin tried to create scene in front of the office of Relief Commissioner at Canal Road here today. The woman threatened to immolate herslef if her demands were not concededby the government.
She came to Relief Commissioner's office, a place which she has been frequenting earlier also many times to register her case with the concerned authorities.She came in the afternoon and soon managed to gather some crowd by echoeing her woes to draw the attention of the concerned authorities. The husband of the woman... | |
| | | | DM says Shabir Shah acquired houses, hotels worth Rs 10 Cr | | 7th PSA slapped on Kashmiri separatist leader, lodged in Jammu jail | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Apr 19: Known as ‘Prisoner of Conscience’ and ‘Kashmir’s Nelson Mandela’ in the Valley’s separatist camp, Peoples League (PL) founder and Chairman of Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), Shabir Ahmed Shah, has been lodged in Kot Bhalwal Jail of Jammu after his seventh detention under Public Safety Act (PSA) was confirmed by District Magistrate of Srinagar. In addition to the cliché charges of running a secessionist campaign and indulging in terrorist violence, 55-year-old Shah is now facing the never-before accusation of having acquired properties worth Rs 10 Cr from the money he allegedly got from Hawala channels.
Srinagar DM, Meraj Ahmed Kakru, confirmed ... | |
| | | | Conspiracy: Maharaja Gulab Singh Chair in JU on the verge of closure | | | | ET EXCLUSIVE
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 19: Reliable sources have told the Early Times that the prestigious “Majaraja Gulab Singh Chair in the University of Jammu is on the verge of closure”. According to the sources, “obstacles are being created by the University council with a view to making the Chair non-functional”. In this regard, the sources have pointed to two developments. One was that the “term of the fellows attached to the Chair has expired” and the “Chair Professor is not being able to get their term extended because there are elements in the University Council who do not want this Chair to function”. The other was that the “casual lobourer, who was attached to the Chair, h... | |
| | | | Schools may give students respite from scorching sun | | Advance summer vacations likely: School timings changed | | | ARTEEV SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 19: With the mercury hovering around 42 degrees Celsius in many parts of Jammu region for last one week, the School Education Department is all set to revisit its academic calendar, making changes to protect children from the harsh sun.
If sources are to be believed, the department may reduce school timings by an hour besides announcing summer vacations two to three weeks in advance.
Meanwhile, the Director School Education Jammu today ordered new timings for government as well as private schools in summer zone, Jammu.
As per a notification of the Director School Education Jammu, the school timing in the Government, as well as priva... | |
| | | | J&K cadre IAS officer to take charge of police modernisation at the Centre | | | | NEW DELHI: One of the most senior IAS officers from Jammu and Kashmir cadre Anil Goswami has been asked to look after the task of police modernisation in the Union Ministry for Home Affairs.
A 1978 batch IAS officer, Goswami has earlier been posted as an Additional Secretary in Union Home Ministry to mainly look after foreigners. But now sources say that among his other duties he would be handling the long pending task of modernising and making up-to-date the Indian police system.
Given UPA Government and also Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s focus on reforming and improving policing throughout the country, Goswami is thought to have got a prestigious as well as challenging assig... | |
| | | | RDD JE caught accepting bribe | | | | JAMMU: A junior engineer (JE) of rural development department (RDD) was caught red handed while accepting bribe by the sleuths of statevigilance organisation (SVO) at Surankote in Poonch today.
The JE -- Salim Malik -- was at present posted in RDD's Surankote block.
SVO sources said Mohammad Rashid, a contractor, of Sangla Surankote lodged a written complaint with SVO that JE Malik had been demanding from him Rs 10,000 as bribe for preparing bills to release payment against the construction of panchayat ghar at lower Sangla Surankote.
Acting on the complaint, the SVO sleuths laid a trap and arrested the JE red handed while accepting bribe from Rashid in the presence of independent witnes... | |
| | | | Leh-Sgr highway to re-open for heavy vehicles on Apr 22 | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 19: The Leh-Srinagar Highway, after remaining closed during winter months, would be reopened for heavy vehicular movement from April 22 this month whereas the light vehicles have already started plying on the road from April 17.
This will fulfill the demand of the people of twin districts of Leh and Kargil who were eager for opening of the road early this year.
Decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting held here today under the chairmanship of the Minister for Finance and Ladakh Affairs, Abdul Rahim Rather.
The meeting discussed and finalized the plan for movement of vehicles on Leh-Srinagar Highway particularly on Zojila Pass, convoy... | |
| | | | Army Chief's 3-day visit begins today | | | | JAMMU: The new army chief, General V K Singh was scheduled to come here Tuesday on a three-day visit to the state to review the security situation and assess the state of preparedness of army.
Singh, who took over March 31, would visit the three regions of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir, according to army sources. He would meet Northern Command chief Lt Gen B S Jaswal and corps commanders to assess preparedness on the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the state between India and Pakistan, particularly in the
light of infiltration from across the border.
Sources said Gen Singh would also review deployment along the border with China in Ladakh region. "Preparations are on for the visi... | |
| | | | CCI also for local VC of CU, Need for Governor, CM to intervene | | STARK REALITY | | |
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 19: Yet another significant development. The powerful Jammu Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI) has also jumped into the pro-Jammu arena and demanded a “local” Vice-chancellor for the Central University of Jammu. It means that almost all the Jammu-based organizations, including the Bar Association Jammu, student outfits and small social and political groups, are one as far as their demand regarding the appointment of a Jammu-academician as Vice-Chancellor of the Central University is concerned. But more than that, all this means that any failure on the part of the authorities to adopt a positive attitude towards this popular demand would prove qu... | |
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