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| Minister, NC leaders on streets ask CM to rein in killers, stone pelters | | NC's theatre of the absurd in Srinagar after Omar's departure to overseas | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 2: For the first time in the last 16 months of the coalition government, ruling National Conference (NC) today organized a rally against the menace of stone pelting in Kashmir valley in which the party leaders, including a junior Minister, called upon Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to rein in the hooligans and bring to justice everybody involved in the killing a civilian in Batmaloo area on Friday last. Making frontal attacks on hardline separatists, particularly Syed Ali Shah Geelani, NC's leaders organized the rally at a time when Chief Minister was on a foreign tour but the party patron, Dr Farooq Abdullah, was present in the summer capital.
'Qatiloon kau pesh karau' (get the killers arrested) was the main slogan of the NC leaders who gathered at the party headquarters of Nawai-e-Subah and marched to Regal Chowk on the fashionable Residency Road at 1030 hours. Nearly 2,000 of the NC activists were led by Kashmir Province president, Ali Mohammad Dar, MLAs and former Ministers, Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal and Chowdhary Mohammad Ram... | |
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| Govt pays through nose on Darbar Move | | Distancing with practice 'impossible'? | | | Mishu Gupta
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2 : In the cash strapped state of J&K struggling with financial crisis on several fronts, even as the age old practice of annual Darbar Move is a costly affair. dispensing with the shifting of the offices during the summer and winter months involving huge expenditure is next to impossible. Reason: it carries with itself the tags of political, psychological and economic compulsions and defying the same is fraught with serious implications .Only a move under consideration years back invited widespread resentment and agitation in Jammu for apparent reasons.
Darbar Move offices closed in the winter capital on April 30. The cumbersome tradition whi... | |
| | | | Delhi terror operative Umar Zargar held in Srinagar | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 2: Resident of Nawab Bazar area of downtown Srinagar, Umar Zargar, has been arrested by Police and subjected to sustained interrogation for his alleged involvement in planning and executing terrorist strikes for Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba in different places of New Delhi. Having intercepted certain e-mail communications, in which Zargar had been assigned a key role, intelligence and security agencies of a number of foreign countries, particularly United States of America, had sounded a red alert and advised their citizens to stop movement in a number of the Indian cities last month.
Authoritative sources revealed to Early Times that Umar Zargar had b... | |
| | | | India protests intrusion bids in flag meets on IB, LoC | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU: In two flag meetings held today on the International Border (IB) and the Line of Control (LoC), Indian troops took up with their Pakistani counterparts the issues of yesterday's facilitation of infiltration bids and unprovoked firing by them in Jammu and Poonch sectors.
The meeting on the IB was held in the morning at Ballar in Ramgarh sub-sector near here between the company commanders of the two sides, according to official sources.
Sources said BSF lodged a strong protest against faclitating infiltration of armed militants from Pak side and cross-border firing at Ballar.
Though the meeting was held in a very congenial atmosphere, the Rangers denied th... | |
| | | | What if NC, PDP accept Geelani's invite? | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2: Hurriyat (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani has urged the National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to shun electoral politics and join the Hurriyat Conference to pursue a ‘common agenda’.
If the recent statements of National Conference and PDP are any indicator then both these organizations are only a statement away from the separatist conglomerate.
The National Conference leaders have went to the extent of saying that accession was temporary. Strong voices seeking resolution of the Kashmir dispute have been raised by the organization as well.
The National Conference has prepared a comprehensive document seeking restoration of auto... | |
| | | | Insensitive PHE: Electric boosters ‘Steal’ major chunk of water supply | | | | ARTEEV SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 2: With the mercury rising and the demand for water with it, the city residents have evolved a new modus-operandi to draw extra water from main supply lines. Nearly 25 to 30 per cent of the residents have installed electric boosters ((booster pumps) to augment their water supply and that too, in connivance with employees of Public Health Engineering (PHE) department.
Though construction of water tanks in the ground floor is permitted by the PHE and other agencies, use of electric boosters is a clear violation of the norms.
The practice is in vogue since the system has been either abandoned by the government for any consideration or is bein... | |
| | | | Two injured in militant attack in Doda | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU: Two persons were wounded critically in a grenade blast caused by militants inside the house of a village defence committee (VDC) member at Kangna Koti in Doda late last night. At least two militants threw a grenade inside the house of VDC
member Dev Raj at Kangna Koti at about 9.30 pm on Saturday. Police sources said the grenade fell and exploded near a room in which VDC member's son Rakesh Kumar (19) and brother Chuni Lal (65) were sleeping. Dev Raj was in another room.
In the blast, both Rakesh and Chuni sustained serious splinter injuries. The explosion was followed by heavy firing from the side of militants, the sources added.
Dev Raj retaliated the f... | |
| | | | Madhuri received a packet for Pak handler outside Raghunath temple | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 2: Madhuri Gupta, accused of being a Pak mole in India's mission office at Islamabad, was alleged to have received a packet for her Pak handler outside the famous Raghunathji Temple here on March 30.
Gupta, who was sent to 14-day judicial custody until May 15, had visited a doctor couple near the Line of Control (LoC) at Sunderbani in Rajouri on May 29 and 30.
During these two days, she had visited several LoC areas and Raghunathji Temple in Jammu, according to top intelligence sources here.
Sources said during her visit to the Raghunathji Temple, she was handed over a packet by someone for her handler in Pakistan. She had returned to Pakistan on May 30.... | |
| | | | Jeffery Archer's Jamwal may amuse Jammuites | | | |
ABID SHAH
early times report
NEW DELHI, May 2: Famed British writer Jeffery Archer's new book -- And thereby hangs a tale - may well turn out to be of some interest to Jammuites. This is mainly because one of the main characters in this collection of Archer's short stories is Jamwal, a familiar surname in Jammu region.
In the story love strikes Jamwal on a crowded road intersection in Delhi when his glance falls on Nisha before traffic light turns green. Such is the plot of the story that Macmillan, who are Archer's publishers, say that the readers are going to be spellbound by the master story teller's art of narration.
And so the book is being launched first in Mumbai on Tuesday - M... | |
| | | | Regionalism within Cabinet: It is better to divide Jammu and Kashmir | | | |
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 2: What happened during the Cabinet meeting on April 29 was not something new. Ever since January 5, 2009, when the National Conference-Congress duo formed coalition government, the Cabinet ministers belonging to Jammu province as well as those belonging to Kashmir province have been conducting themselves in a similar fashion. Each one of them has been trying to prove that he/she is concerned more with the regional sentiment or regional requirements than the requirements of the state. In other words, the Jammu-based and Kashmir-based Cabinet ministers are guided solely by the regional, as opposed to the state, interests.
When the issue of establishm... | |
| | | | Militant hideout busted in Poonch | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU: A large quantity of arms and ammunition, and items of daily use were recovered by security forces from a militant hideout busted by them at Kalai in Poonch today.
Security forces came across a militant hideout while making searches in the Kalai forests. Its search led them to the recovery of one AK rifle, its one magazine, 308 rounds, one pistol, its two magazines, three rounds and daily use items.The hideout was later busted by the troops, police sources said.
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