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US losing the battle in Afghanistan, India in J&K: Mirwaiz
Bilal Lone urges separatists to move beyond Friday speeches
5/23/2011 12:12:38 AM
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT srinagar, May 22: Leaders of so-called moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference today said in one voice that "freedom from India" was the writing on the wall in Kashmir and nobody could stop the Kashmiris from achieving their political goal. Much glorified Chairman of the conglomerate, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, said at a commemoration rally that United States of America (USA) was losing the battle against the Islamists in Afghanistan and India was meting the same fate in Jammu & Kashmir. Bilal Gani Lone's faction of Peoples Conference, which is an executive council constituent of Mirwaiz-led Hurriyat Conference, had for the first time in the last nine years organized a public rally at Kralpora in Kupwara district to remember the PC's founder Abdul Gani Lone on occasion of his death anniversary today. Mainstream-turned-separatist leader, Lone had been gunned down by suspected militants on occasion of Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq's death anniversary at Eidgah Grounds here on May 21, 2002. Hurriyat founder Mirwaiz Umar's father, Mirwaiz Farooq, ha...
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'Need to make Vigilance Commission working a 'mgmt function' for systemic change'
Call for 'correct mix of preventive, punitive vigilance' in place
5/23/2011 12:11:51 AM
Early Times Report Jammu, May 22: At a time when the NC led coalition government is looking forward to public opinions which can be incorportaed in the amendment draft of state Vigilance Act, renowned legal luminaries and retired bureaucrats of J&K have come forth with some concrete suggestions , the focus being on making the working of proposed Vigilance Commission more of 'management function rather than a punitive function. They underlined the need for such a Commission which is mandated and empowered to serve not only to monitor the working of VO but mainly as instrument of systemic changes in the functioning of the government to make it corruption free. In the panel discussion organ...
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HC rules for Habeas Corpus await implementation
5/23/2011 12:11:01 AM
Early Times Report JAMMU, May 22: The government evoked massive appreciation by approving rules framed by the state High Court in April last year. However, the problems of prisoners still remain unaddressed as the state government delayed implementation of the rules. Immediately after approving the rules, the Law Minister Ali Muhammad Sagar said: "The rules will go a long way in providing speedy justice in different nature of cases." According to the approved rules a notice has to be issued in respect of writ of habeas corpus by the court at the first listing. The notice has to be returned within 48 hours in a case where the person is in the custody under the order of state or governmen...
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BJP Parliamentary study group reaching Leh today on two days tour
5/23/2011 12:10:35 AM
Early Times Report JAMMU, May 22: The five member BJP Parliamentarian study group is visiting Ladakh region on a two days tour tomorrow to meet the cross section of people there and ascertain their opinion on prevailing situation in the state of J&K and its possible solution. The four member team headed by former president of the Party Raj Nath Singh will meet the people from different shades of opinion from the Ladakh region to elicit their opinion on Kashmir issue and seeks suggestions for the possible solutions under the frame work of Indian Constitution. According to party sources the team will also meet the leaders of Ladakh Buddhist Association, (LBA) Ladakh union Territory Front (...
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Mumbai sea link clone in J&K
5/23/2011 12:10:13 AM
EARLY TIMES Report JAMMU, May 22: For the people of Basohli it is nothing less than a dream coming true as the stage is all set for foundation laying ceremony of the first ever cable-stayed bridge coming up in the state over river Ravi. The proposed bridge would provide J&K an alternative link with the neighbouring states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. Work on the strategically important cable-stayed bridge over Ravi connecting Jammu & Kashmir with Himachal Pradesh and Punjab will finally take off in Basholi in Kathua district of Jammu from Monday. The bridge, similar to the second Hooghly Bridge in Kolkata, Naini Bridge in Allahabad, and Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link in Mumbai, will help the ...
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Can BJP help Dogra achieve what they want?
Dogra Certificate
5/23/2011 12:09:22 AM
Neha EARLY TIMERS REPORT JAMMU, May 22: State unit of BJP, which is passing through critical times and which is also on the verge of collapse, is making desperate attempts to win over the people of Jammu whom its legislators ditched only the other day allegedly for the sake of money and other benefits. It is hardly necessary to remind the esteemed readers of the Early Times that 7 of the 11 BJP legislators had voted for candidates belonging to the Congress, the NC and the PDP on April 13 and those whom the high command suspended thereafter under tremendous public pressure on the charge that they had violated the people's mandate and vitiated the whole election process have raised a banner...
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Massive participation in electoral exercise & Kashmir issue two different things, says interlocutor
Promoting Secessionism
5/23/2011 12:08:25 AM
Rustam EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 22: Who are giving legitimacy to the politics of secessionism and communalism being practiced by Kashmiri leaders, separatist or otherwise, and damaging the national cause in the Valley? Believe it or not, but it is a fact that it is New Delhi that is giving legitimacy to the politics of secessionism and communalism being indulged in by Kashmiri leaders of all hues? Take, for example, what the Prime Minister, the UPA chairperson and AICC president, the Union Home Minister and the Delhi-appointed interlocutors have been saying from time to time as far as Jammu and Kashmir State is concerned. The Prime Minister has on several occasions said that the unr...
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Two Vaishnodevi pilgrims die of heart attack
5/23/2011 12:06:59 AM
EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 22: Two pilgrims today died of cardiac arrest on their way to the holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishnodevi in Trikuta hills of Katra. Police sources said Chattar Singh (57) of New Delhi died of heart attack en route to the holy cave of Mata Vaishnodevi near Katra. Another devotee Bhanu Patel of Maharastra suffered heart attack near the bhavan and died. After post-mortem, the bodies were handed over to their families for last rites. The Katra police had, however, registered cases in this connection....
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Anti-tank mine defused near IB
5/23/2011 12:06:14 AM
EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 22: BSF troops today defused an anti-tank mine near the International Border (IB) at Malu Chak in Samba sub-sector nere here, averting a possible tragedy. Official sources said BSF personnel sighted an anti-tank mine at Malu Chak while carrying out a digging work. The jawans soon defused it and averted a possible tragedy, the sources added. ...
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JKNPP leader held for alleged rape
5/23/2011 12:05:29 AM
EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 22: A Jammu Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) leader was today arrested by police at Assote in Mahore, Reasi, in an alleged rape case. Police sources said Pushpinder Singh, who had unsuccessfully contested last assembly elections on JKNPP ticket from the area, allegedly raped a woman at Assote while she was on her way home. After the woman brought the matter to the notice of her husband, the latter lodged a report with police against the Pushpinder. The woman was got medically examined by police at government hospital. Police had registered a case under section 376 of RPC against the accused who was absconding....
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Nearly 40 terrorists have entered Kashmir Valley'
5/23/2011 12:04:39 AM
early times report SRINAGAR, May 22 : Notwithstanding repeated denials by the Army, security agencies in Jammu and Kashmir have reported that nearly 35 to 40 terrorists have entered the Kashmir Valley but were holed up in higher reaches only due to extra layer of security by police and para-military forces. Official reports comprising HUMINT (human intelligence) and TECHINT (technical intelligence) suggest that small groups of six to seven terrorists mainly belonging to Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba entered the Valley through Kupwara and Gurez sectors and have entrenched themselves in Lolab and Rajwar forests in extreme north Kashmir. While army's top brass in Srinagar-based 15 Corps at...
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