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| Maj, soldier killed in Bandipore | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 5: In weeks of suffering fatal casualties of four soldiers, including a Major, in a major operation at Chinkipora in Sopore, Army has lost two soldiers, including a Major, in an encounter with militants at Chiitibandi village in Bandipore.
Informed sources in north Kashmir told Early Times that troops of 7-Garhwal were on way to a particular residential house in Rather Mohalla of Chittibandi village when they were fiercely attacked by a group of heavily armed militants in an ambush at 2130 hours last night. Sources said that troops had launched the operation, carrying along some personnel of Police Post Argam, on the basis of a specific information that suggested presence of some militants at a hideout.
In close vicinity of the identified hideout, troops came under a fierce attack from the militants in ambush. Major Yogindra Rajbar and Rifleman Uttam Singh got critically hit. Even as both were evacuated, rushed to Srinagar and admitted to 92 Base Hospital of Army, they breathed their last while under treatment.
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| "Fake" railway employee held | | | |
JAMMU, May 05:
An alleged fake railway employee was apprehended here today while he
applied for a reduced-fare pass issued only to railway employees.
A youth approached a ticket window at the railway station here and
asked the clerk to issue him a reduced-fare pass.
He told the clerk that being a railway employee, he was entitled to
get such a pass, police sources said.
He was identified as Satpal of Bishnah.
The clerk, however, got suspicious of him and brought the matter to
the notice of some government railway police cops, who were in the
close vicinity of the ticket window.
The cops immediately took him into custody and after initial
questioning, whisked... | |
| | | | Gill asks Pak-based Khalistani ultras to surrender | | | | Agencies
AMRITSAR, May 05:
The Punjab DGP P S Gill today brushed aside the apprehensions as regards the revival of militancy in Punjab and asked the Pak-based Khalistani militants to return and surrender.
Several Khalistani militants, including Paramjit Singh Panjwar, Wadhawa Singh Babbar and Ranjit Singh Neeta, were hiding in Pakistan and some other countries.
The DGP asked all of them to return to India and surrender before authorities as per the existing policies of the Centre and the state. All of them had committed heinous crimes in Punjab during the height of militancy. Following police pressure on them, they had fled to Pakistan and some other countries to save their skin.
The ... | |
| | | | SPO arrested for molesting minor | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 5: The Handwara police Wednesday effected arrest of a SPO accused of sexually assaulting a minor. The SPO was immediately dismissed and charged under section 354 Ranbir Penal Code (RPC). The erring SPO had been evading arrest for the past two days.
Angry people from Kralgund, Handwara blocked Baramulla-Kupwara road Wednesday morning to protest failure of police to effect arrest of a SPO accused of sexually assaulting a minor. They were demanding arrest of an SPO accused of sexually assaulting a minor from Kralgund village.
The blockade continued for more than 3 hours. Later the authorities rushed to the spot and assured stern action against the erring... | |
| | | | Recovery of DR posters sends alarm bells ringing in Pb, J&K | | Confirms link between Khalistani, Kashmiri militants | | |
JAMMU, May 05:
The April 19 recovery of Dashmesh Regiment (DR) posters from Simble Spol, the last Punjab village on the International Border (IB) close to the J&K's Rajbagh in Kathua, has sent alarm bells ringing in the two neighbouring states.
DR -- a militant group which is part of Khalistan movement -- counts moderate Sikhs, Hindus and the government among its sworn enemies. Police had come across the DR posters while combing Simble Spol from where five-odd Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants had infiltrated after breaching barbed wire fencing on April 19.
While two of them, who had a brief gunbattle with J&K police at Hariachak in Rajbagh on the April 19 evening, were killed o... | |
| | | | JU postpones first paper of MBA-IV semester | | Students protest against causal approach, say no mind was applied before date sheet finalisation | | |
Mishu Gupta
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 5: After facing severe criticism from different quarters over its causal approach vis-à-vis issuing notification of MBA-IV Semester date sheet just two days short of start of examinations, University of Jammu (JU) today reviewed its decision and postponed first paper scheduled to be held on May 7.
Up in arms against the slapdash approach of The Business School (TBS) and Examination Wing, scores of students from different colleges also staged a noisy protest outside Examination Block accusing the university authorities of playing with their future.
The Early Times in today’s edition had highlighted the “lackadaisical” approach of Examinati... | |
| | | | Kashmir: India facing isolation at international level | | STARK REALITY | | |
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 5: All is not well with those managing the Indian foreign policy. There are instances and instances that show that those whose duty it is to protect and advance furthers the country’s geo-political interests have utterly failed to discharge their obligations towards the country. On the contrary, there are innumerable glaring examples that suggest that New Delhi is retreating and retreating at an alarming speed, that it has no foreign policy of its own, that foreign powers are dictating terms to New Delhi, that New Delhi has no friends who could defend Indian standpoints, that it is facing isolation at the international level and that slowly but... | |
| | | | Batmaloo stone pelters go underground after Police crackdown | | Shafeeq Sheikh’s killer hiding in Kupwara | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, May 5: Even as nearly twenty of the youth, widely known for their indulgence in incidents of stone pelting in Batmaloo area of this capital city, have gone underground after Police have launched a crackdown last week, killer of the middle aged civilian, Shafeeq Sheikh of Nattipora, is believed to be hiding somewhere in Kupwara township in north Kashmir. A junior employee of Jammu & Kashmir State Board of School Education, Sheikh had died here on Friday last when an unruly group of youngsters crushed his head with a weighty stone in his bus.
Highly placed authoritative sources revealed to Early Times that with the help of the residents of Batmaloo, P... | |
| | | | "Pregnant" girl commits suicide after lover refuses to marry | | | |
JAMMU, May 05:
Communal tension today gripped Badola in Udhampur after a 10th class
girl, who had become pregnant, ended her life by consuming poison
when her lover refused to marry her.
The girl, who belonged to another religion, allegedly had an affair
with Shabaz alias Anku of Badola.
Police sources said as the boy had developed physical relations with
her, the girl became pregnant.
When she asked Shabaz to marry her, he refused, the sources added.
Sources said as she was in depression following Shabaz's refusal to
marry her, she consumed poison at her residence today and ended her
life.
Communal tension prevailed in the village after the girl's death.
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| | | | Govt school, four houses suffer damages in storm | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 05:
While showers in the winter capital and its surrounding areas today
made the day pleasant and led to a dip in temperature providing much
needed relief to the people from scorching heat, the storm that
followed caused extensive damage to a government school building and
four houses in Bani area of Kathua.
The rains came here after a long wait and lashed almost all parts of
the region.
As it rained almost all day intermittently, there was a considerable
dip in temperature. The rising temperatures had made the lives hell
here.
The showers were, however, followed by high-velocity winds which
caused extensive damage to a go... | |
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