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| Challan produced against CAPD official | | | | JAMMU: The Kashmir wing of the state vigilance organisation (SVO) today produced challan against incharge tehsil officer, Shopian, of consumer affairs and public distribution (CAPD) department in an alleged corruption case.
The challan was produced in the court of special judge anti-corruption, Srinagar.
According to SVO sources, Mohammad Mansoor Malik was incharge tehsil officer, Zainapora circle of Shopian, when he had allegedly demanded Rs 10,000 as bribe from CAPD fair price shop holder Sabzar Ahmad Dar for issuing reports in respect of various applications that had been endorsed to him by CAPD assistant director.
Acting on the complaint, SVO trapped Malik while allegedly accepting ... | |
| | | | IED found near Doda, tragedy averted | | | | JAMMU: A possible tragedy was averted at Trungal near Assar in Doda this morning with the timely detection of an improvised explosive device (IED).
The IED, planted by militants in the roadside bushes, was discovered by a road opening party (ROP) of army at about 8.30 am, police sources said.
Soon thereafter, the movement of vehicles on the road was stopped and the area was cordoned off by the troops.
Sources said the IED was defused at about 11.30 am. Locals were questioned by police and troops, but none of them could provide any clue to the identity of the militant or militant sympathiser who had placed the IED in the bushes, the sources added.
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| | | | Centre's massive road network for J&K | | | | NEW DELHI: Nearly 1,000 kilometre of modern, motorable road is being developed under the Prime Minister's package for highways and road development in the hilly and inhospitable terrain of Jammu and Kashmir. The estimated cost for this is Rs 2,628 crores.
Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways RPN Singh told the Lok Sabha today that 977-kilometre-long roads including National Highways and State Roads are being developed in J&K.
The roads being thus developed mainly are: 84-kilometre-long Mughal Road to provide connectivity to Poonch region; 14.4 kilometre-long Domel-Katra road, or NH-1C; 265 kilometre-long Batote-Kishtwar-Sinthanpass-Anantnag Road or NH-1B; 115.5-kilometr... | |
| | | | Pakistani visitors seek easier norms for visit | | | | POONCH: Even as some political parties in the state have been making a loud call and cry for easing travel restrictions for the visitors crossing borders, not much has changed on the ground. Lately, it is the visitors from Pakistan who have sought simplification of procedures to enable them to visit here frequently without hassels.
A group of 32 Pakistan visitors that recently arrived in India returned to their homeland on Monday by weekly bus service via Chakan-Da-Bagh crossing point of the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
However, they left on some disappointing note. Before leaving, they said that there were long delays in processing the applications, whi... | |
| | | | Land embezzlement: CB to scrutinise RS Pura revenue office record | | | | SUMIT SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 20: The crime branch (CB) of the state police has booked two persons for their alleged act of fraudulently preparing registration papers of a land at RS Pura which belonged to a farmer.
Sources said farmer Gyan Chand of Phinder, RS Pura, lodged a complaint with CB, alleging that Kuldeep Kumar and Joginder Pal, both residents of ward No 8, RS Pura, had, in connivance with some revenue officials, prepared fake registration papers of his land in their name.
He said he was the real allottee of the land and Nirmal Singh of Simbal Morh was its attorney holder.
After holding a probe into the matter, the CB lodged FIR against the two accused under sec... | |
| | | | BJP again hoodwinking people of Jammu province RUSTAM | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 20: The working committee of the state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met in Jammu for two days on April 17 and 18. It discussed various issues. Some of them were under-representation of Jammu province in the legislative assembly, unemployment problem, Article 370, 73rd and 74th amendments of the Indian Constitution or Panchayti Raj and issues concerning the refugees from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, displaced Kashmiri Pandits and backward classes. The working committee also adopted a couple of resolutions, which were released to the press by the party president Shamsher Singh Manhas on Monday (April 19). The focus of these resolutions was mainly on delimi... | |
| | | | Infiltrators escape from nursery, footprints lead towards IB | | Rucksack containing fresh-made roasted chicken, chapatis, other eatables and explosives recovered | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 20: Much to the surprise of security agencies, the two infiltrators, who were Monday night holed up in a forest nursery in the border Hariachak village of Rajbagh in Kathua, made good their escape without being seen by anyone.
Police and army personnel continued their cordon of the nursery whole Monday night, but when they combed the thickly-forested nursery this morning, there was no trace of the infiltrators.
Marks left by their feet on the wet village land led police and army ersonnel up to the nearby Ujh nullah and then disappeared, giving strength to speculations that they either followed the nullah route to exfiltrate or were still in the Indian t... | |
| | | | In shambles, Rajouri airport resembles a meadow | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, Apr 20: In shambles, the abandoned Rajouri airport is in its most wretched state. Its runway is broken and the sprawling ground resembles a large meadow as a thick blanket of grass has covered it everywhere. Abandoned more than a decade back, it is now a place for stray cattle.
The border district had air service when airbus "Wahidoot" operated between Rajouri-Jammu, Rajouri-Srinagar and Rajouri-Delhi till August 1990 when it was stopped due to security reasons.The airport lacked even X-ray machines to check belongings of passengers. As militancy was at its peak in the district that time, the flight was discontinued in 1990 to avoid the chances of hijacking... | |
| | | | Srinagar DD doesn't regard RTI | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 20: Director Doordarshan Kendra Srinagar, Dr Rafeeq Masoodi, has treated an application under RTI Act with contempt by declining to provide details of the in-house programmes purportedly produced by seven producers of DDK Srinagar in the last two years of his posting at the station.
Jammu-based veteran advocate Sheikh Shakil had filed the application under RTI on March 19th, 2010, seeking information regarding the in-house programmes produced by seven DDK Srinagar producers, namely Sudesh Bakshi, Kousar Parveen, Syed Zeeshan Fazil, Rashid Javed, Haleema Parveen, Shammi Shayir and Mufti Riyaz. Under RTI, Director DDK Srinagar was supposed to provide the infor... | |
| | | | Now easy 'darshan' for Vaishno Devi pilgrims | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
KATRA, Apr 20: The third tunnel, which is airy, well lit and with very convenient headway, which provides an excellent 'darshan' at the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine, was today thrown open for the pilgrims amidst chanting of Vedic mantras and performing special pooja and other religious ceremonies.
Dr. S.S. Bloeria, Member, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, Commissioner/ Secretary, Planning and Development, B.B. Vyas, Commissioner/Secretary, Finance, Sudhanshu Pandey, Principal Secretary to the Governor and the Chief Executive Officer of the Shrine Board, Raj Kumar Goyal, Additional Chief Executive Officer, Dr MK Bhandari, Technical Consultant, H.L. Maini and other... | |
| | | | Army chief praises soldiers for guarding frontiers with élan | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 20: Asserting that the nation was grateful to them for guarding the country's frontiers, army chief, Gen VK Singh today showered praises on soldiers for carrying out their task with élan while braving the hardships of weather and terrain in the most inhospitable area of the country.
The army chief, who is on a three-day visit to the state, reached Leh today. This is his first visit to the forward Leh area after taking over as the Chief of Army Staff on April 1 last. At Leh, he was received by GOC-in-C Northern Command, Lt Gen BS Jaswal, and Fire and Fury Corps GOC, Lt Gen SK Singh. The General also visited the War Memorial and paid homage to the martyr.... | |
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