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Pirates killed 2 auto drivers for Rs 1300 Yasin Malik’s kin was killed by teenage corsairs: Police 4/6/2009 12:47:09 AM ET Correspondent SRINAGAR, Apr 5: Srinagar Police today claimed that both the auto-drivers, whose death had led to massive demonstrations in the capital city and created pandemonium during the first ever session of Legislative Assembly, had been actually killed by ordinary teenage corsairs. All and sundry in the state from human rights activists to mainstream politicians had held security forces and counter-insurgents responsible for these ‘cold-blooded murders’. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Srinagar, Syed Afadul Hassan Mujtaba, revealed at a news conference today that Police had arrested both the culprits involved in the twin murder of two auto drivers and completed the investigation in less than two months. He produced both the accused before media and said that challan was being filed before a court in the sensational double-murder that had occurred in identical circumstances in Bemina outskirts of the capital city within a fortnight in the month of February. While sharing findings of the Police investigation with mediapersons, SSP said that an auto-driver, na...   READ MORE

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Omar plans to draw UK link to transform Kashmir British trainers to teach JKP how to tackle stone-pelting 4/6/2009 12:46:47 AM LONDON : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah plans to draw on his British links to transform the image of the State and reinvent it as a beautiful tourist destination. While urging the international community to support democracy in Pakistan and Washington to facilitate peace between Islamabad and New Delhi, Abdullah, the youngest Chief Minister in the country, sees his role in "keeping things on an even keel." By regenerating the region, Abdullah wants to create the political and economic conditions needed to eradicate terrorism and move towards peace deal between India and Pakistan. Born in England to a British mother, Abdullah spent his first five years in Essex. He has b...   READ MORE   EC issues notice to Chidambaram on R’sthan poll sops 4/6/2009 12:46:30 AM NEW DELHI : The Election Commission today issued notice to Home Minister P Chidambaram and sought his reply by tomorrow for allegedly offering poll sops during a visit to Rajasthan for a security review meeting. The notice was issued following a complaint filed by the BJP which alleged that Chidambaram, during his visit to the state in the last week of March, had taken up electoral issues. The complaint said the Home Minister talked about granting citizenship to displaced Hindus from Pakistan and additional facilities for passengers travelling by ‘Thar Express’. The three-member Commission, headed by N Gopalaswami, asked Chidambaram to reply to the notice by tomorrow by 5 pm. (PTI) ...   READ MORE   India asks Pak to keep word of wiping out terrorism 4/6/2009 12:45:18 AM NEW DELHI: India today asked Pakistan to honour its bilateral, regional and international commitments of wiping out terrorism from its soil and called upon international community to ensure that Pakistan fulfilled its obligations. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said at a press conference here that India had persistently demanded that Pakistan must fulfil all its obligations-bilateral, regional as well as international. Bilateral obligations included not allowing its territory to be used against any anti-India terrorist activity. The commitment was given by formeer President Perveez Musharraf to the theen Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and then again by President...   READ MORE   BR may become J&K’s Wajahat Habibullah 4/6/2009 12:44:53 AM Early Times Report Jammu, April 05 :Former chief minister and Patron National Conference Dr Farooq Abdullah, BR Singh, who retired as financial commissioner in 2008, is likely to be back with prize posting. The former IAS officer has been tipped for the post of Chief Information Commissioner, the post which has been created in the amended Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act (RTI). Well informed sources said that the chief minister Omar Abdullah has asked the chief secretary SS Kapoor to complete all requisite formalities for the establishment of State Information Commission, which will be set up soon after the Model Code of Conduct comes to an end. Sources, preferring anonymity, t...   READ MORE   Bar suspends work for 2 days Justice Gupta passes away 4/6/2009 12:44:17 AM Early Times Report Jammu, April 05 Just four months after his elevation as Additional Judge of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Justice Vinod Gupta died after prolong illness at PGI Chandigarh, this afternoon. His is survived by one son and a daughter. Body of the Justice Gupta was brought back to Jammu late this evening and will be cremated at Channi Himmat on Monday at 10:30 AM. Family sources told News Agency of Kashmir that Justice Gupta was admitted to PGI Chandigarh about three weeks back, where he breathed his last, this afternoon. LL.B Graduated in 1969 from Jammu and Kashmir University and Law from Delhi University in the year 1972, Justice Vinod Gupta had passed KCS (Judicial)...   READ MORE   No possibility of pre-programming for any candidate now EC introducing two-stage EVM randomization 4/6/2009 12:42:42 AM Agencies NEW DELHI : In a bid to prevent any tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the Election Commission has decided to use for the first time a two-stage randomisation of the machines to avoid pre-programming in favour of any particular candidate. Under the process, the machines will be selected randomly before being sent to the polling stations to make sure that nobody comes to know beforehand to which polling station a specific EVM will be used. "EVM Randomisation procedure is being introduced in this general elections. This is a precautionary measure to ensure that nobody can know beforehand about which constituency or polling station a specific EVM will be sent or u...   READ MORE   30 dead, over 200 injured in Pak suicide attack 4/6/2009 12:42:10 AM Early Times Report Islamabad, April 05: At least 30 people were killed and over 200 injured when a suicide bomber struck at a religious gathering in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Sunday. The blast took place in the Chakwal area, during an annual religious gathering of the minority Shia community. According to eyewitnesses, the blast was a suicide attack. The attacker entered an Imambargah or prayer hall at Chakwal, located about 90 km from Islamabad, where about 2,000 worshippers had gathered for a religious function, and blew himself up. A massive rescue operation was launched with dozens of ambulances being used to ferry the injured to hospitals in nearby cities like Rawal...   READ MORE   EC sets up Emergency Polling Stations along LOC in J&K 4/6/2009 12:41:38 AM Early Times Report Jammu, April 05: Amid intelligence inputs of heavily armed militants waiting to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir to disrupt Lok Sabha polls, Election Commision (EC) has put in place a contingency plan by setting up over 60 Emergency Polling Stations (EPS) along the Indo-Pak border in the state. "In view of apprehensions of infiltration, cross-border firing or any other threat from across the border, we have put in place a contingency plan to safeguard voters," Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) BR Sharma said. The emergency polling stations have been set up along the Line of Control (LOC) and International Border (IB) in Jammu Parliamentary constituency, which goes t...   READ MORE

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