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| Move offices opening amid shutdown, demonstrations | | Governor, CM, Ministers reach Srinagar; Sikhs planning demonstration | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, May 9: After functioning in the winter capital of Jammu for six months, Durbar Move offices are opening in the summer capital of Srinagar today amid separatists-sponsored shutdown and tight security arrangements even as Governor, Chief Minister and almost all Ministers and bureaucrats reached here today smoothly. While supporters of the separatist leaders are likely to clash with Police and paramilitary forces at several places in Kashmir valley on Monday, members of the minority Sikh community were planning to put up a demonstration in front of the Civil Secretariat with a big question: Why successive governments had failed to identify and punish the gunmen who had shot dead 35 Sikhs in a midnight massacre at Chittisinghpura village in Anantnag district on March 20, 2000?
While as Governor, a number of Ministers and legislators, besides senior bureaucrats and Heads of Departments (HoDs) reached here today from Jammu and other places in routine flights, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah drove all the way from Jammu to Srinagar. Authorit... | |
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| J&K people should shun Pak option: Mufti Ayoub | | India better place for Muslims' | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, May 9 : Terming India as better place for Muslims than Pakistan, a rewnowed Islamic scholar of India and head of Jamia Nayamia Muradabad Utter Pradesh, Mufti Mohammad Ayoub has said that the people of Kashmir should leave the idea of Kashmir's accession with Pakistan. He however said that the people of Kashmir are struggling for their right as they are living in democratic country and they are not doing sin by rasing "freedom" slogans.
Talking to Early Times at Rajouri, Mufti Mohammad Ayoub, who is here to attend one day Muslim Conference organized by Jamia Razvia Ashrafia in Rajouri said "India is better place for Muslims than Pakistan so Kashmiris should ... | |
| | | | None ever imagined Ex VC JU so unpopular among KPS | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 9: "Dr Ajay and Dr Agnishekhar are the heroes of Kashmiri Pandits who have sacrificed their life for the sake of their community. It is their relentless struggle that Kashmir is still with India. Had it been people like Mattoo (and) Jitinder Bakshi, country would have gone to dogs. These have the potential of trading (everything) for their own benefit. Kashmiri Pandits are nationalist and would not go back to Kashmir (to live) at the mercy of people like (Mohd Ishaq) Khan. If a Professor can write such hate mails, what can be the level of (others)/convert Hindu workers of Mattoo like Shohab Inyat Malik; Rajinder Singh Jogi, who was thrown out by Varun Sahni, V... | |
| | | | ‘Unpleasant encounter’ for Cong Ministers at Birpur | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 9: It was an 'unpleasant encounter' the political dignitaries would not have expected to face in the thick of an invited crowd of guests, many of them prominent people. Three Congress Ministers who inaugurated exhibition organised by the renowned sculptor Ravinder Jamwal in his native village of Birpur today faced few embarrassing moments at the end of the function as senior citizens stumped them all and showed them the mirror exposing hollow promises made by them from time to time.
Soon after the three Congress ministers inlcuding Higher Medical Education RS Chib, Health Minister Shyam Lal Sharma and Relief and Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla made thei... | |
| | | | CCTVs to be fitted inside Vaishno Devi shrine | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 9: Due to an increase in threat perception, close-circuit television (CCTV) cameras would soon be fitted inside the holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi and on the 13 km Katra-cave track. The cave shrine, one of the most revered places of worship visited
by over eight million people every year, is on the radar of militants.
Already a three-tier security set up of army, CRPF and police is in place around the cave shrine in the Trikuta Hills to keep militants away. CCTVs would be installed to ensure fool-proof security of the shrine, the Ban Ganga-cave route and the base camp of Katra town, police sources said.
The cameras would monitor suspicious ac... | |
| | | | NC also leader jumps on to bandwagon of protagonists of local VC of JCU | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 9: If what appeared in a section of print media the other day is correct, then it should not surprise anyone in the state. The case in point is the report that senior National Conference leader and former Cabinet Minister S Harbans Singh, who is also a very important member of Forum of Recognized Colleges (FORCE), has supported the demand in Jammu seeking appointment of a Jammu-based academician as Vice-Chancellor of the Jammu Central University. He supported the demand, according to insiders, while speaking at the FORCE meeting, held a couple of days ago in Jammu to discuss issues and problems facing private colleges, including B.Ed Colleges, located ... | |
| | | | On Mother's day grief overwhelmed Syeda | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 9: Even as the mothers across the globe received greetings on Mother's day, an old mother was overwhelmed by grief near a shrine in Batmaloo area of the summer capital Sunday after she visited a photo exhibition held by a separatist organization (ISL) in a lane adjacent to the shrine. She fainted and regained her consciousness after quite some time. The woeful tale she narrated depicts the pain and sufferings of thousands of Kashmir mothers who lost their sons during the past two decades of conflict.
Like all mothers, Syeda loved her son, Manzoor Ahmad very much. He (her son) was shot dead by militants in 1994 for visiting an army camp frequently. The camp w... | |
| | | | Spare parts dealer robbed off | | | | JAMMU: A spare parts dealer was last night robbed of Rs 1.4 lakh by three turbaned motorcycle-borne youth at pistol point at Transport Nagar here.
The dealer -- Pankaj Jain -- has a spare parts shop in yard No 6 of Transport Nagar. The spot, where the incident took place, is hardly 150 ft from the Narwal police post.
Though Jain brought the matter to the police notice within a minute or so of the incident, cops failed to find any clue to either the whereabouts or identity of the accused.
Jain told The Early Times that he closed his shop Saturday at about 8.50 pm. While coming home at Jain Bazar, his car was intercepted by three turbaned youth at a turn close to his shop.
They were on Pa... | |
| | | | Two live grenades recovered, diffused | | | | JAMMU: Panic gripped in Lower Chowadi when news of grenades found in the area spread. The grenades were later diffused by bomb disposable squad.
Two grenades were found in a garbage by a sweeper who informed ex sarpanch namely Ajmer Singh. The matter was brought to the notice of the police and accordingly a police team led by SP South Razak Khan reached on the spot. The service of the bomb disposable squad was also pressed to diffuse the grenade. However, police has registered a case and investigating the matter.
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| | | | Missing from Jammu, JCO found dead in Pathankote | | | | JAMMU: A junior commissioned officer (JCO), who went missing from his unit here Friday last, was today found hanging from a tree at Mamun Cantonment in Pathankote.
The dead was identified as Naib-Subedar Mangal Dass (42). He was found hanging with a telephone wire tied to a tree at Mamun Cantonment, about 110 km from here, police sources said. Mangal of 8 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry had gone missing Friday
morning under mysterious circumstances, the sources added. The reason behind the incident was not immediately known. Army had ordered a court of inquiry into the incident.
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