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Day one of strike: Prices of vegetable fruits sky rocketing 6/26/2007 12:25:45 AM Jammu | June 25 Jammuites started feeling the pinch of skyrocketing prices of vegetables and fruits on day one of the three day strike call given by the Fruit and vegetable traders association at Narwal Fruit and Vegetable Market. Since early morning the vegetable fruit market at Narwal wore a desereted look as over 7000 fruit and vegetable merchants suspended their business activity and took out a march and blcoked trqaffic on the Tawi bridge to register their protest. Later they moved across the city and closed down fruit shops and vegetable shops selling their left over stock at higher prices. Residents across the Jammu city were seen moving from one shop to another in search of fresh stock of vegeatbles but in vain.The shopkeepers and vegetbale vendors indulged in black marketing and sold vegetables at exorbitant prices much to the discomfiture of housewives.Street vendors and rehriwallha bore the maximum brunt as they return empty handed from the narwal market in the absence of any trading activity. Though the strike call was widely circulated but there were m...   READ MORE

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Fruits, vegetables sellers call off strike, hail government decision 6/26/2007 12:24:14 AM Jammu | June 25 Jammu Fruit Association and Jammu Fruit and Vegetable Association have hailed the decision of the Government to defer the implementation of Agriculture Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act for a period of two months. On the call of Jammu Fruit and Vegetable Associations the entire fraternity went on indefinite strike to protest the implementation of Agriculture Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act by the authorities which was likely to create hindrance, hardships and problems to the traders belonging to this trade and was also likely to make the products costlier for the consumers. On the personal intervention and the directions of the Chief Minister, a meeting of the as...   READ MORE   UNESCO isn't involved in pro-Taj Mahal drive 6/26/2007 12:13:23 AM BL KAK NEW DELHI, JUNE 25: The drive in support of Taj Mahal took a new turn on Monday, wityh the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) disxasxociating itself from the ongoing media campaign andf Internet voting to pick the 'Seven New Wonders of the World'. The UNESCO made it clear that the exercise is a "complete private undertaking". A press note issued by UNESCO said that it was not involved in the campaign and there "is no linkage" between its World Heritage protection programme and the ongoing campaign. The statement comes barely three weeks before the privately-funded Switzerland-based organisation, New Seven Wonder Foundation, comes ...   READ MORE   Chasing shadows in south India Liberating Hyderabad is Lashkar-e-Toiba's priority 6/26/2007 12:12:46 AM BL KAK NEW DELHI, JUNE 25: 'Classified' intelligence reports contain sensational account of how Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has deeply penetrated in parts of south India, particularly Andhra Pradesh. According to these reports, the ISI have, over the years, aided and abetted the dreaded terrorist organisation, Lashkar-e-Toiba, to increase the number of its cadres in Andhra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. And the ISI's mission: Make Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh, the hub of its activities in south India. Higher-ups in the Union Ministry say that the ISI has a "massive base" in Hyderabad. "Its thrust, subversive activities and secesionist plans are of g...   READ MORE   Infiltration causing concern: Antony 6/26/2007 12:10:21 AM NEW DELHI | June 25 Continuing infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir is a matter of 'concern', Defence Minister A.K. Antony said here Monday. 'The continuing infiltration is of concern to us. We are taking sufficient precautions to prevent it,' Antony told reporters on the sidelines of a defence accounts function. 'The army is alert. It is always prepared to meet any eventuality,' he added. Antony's remarks came a day after Indian Army soldiers, in two separate incidents, killed eight armed intruders who were trying to sneak across the LoC. It was the first time in recent memory that such a large number of infiltrators had been killed in a single day and...   READ MORE   Two killed, 13 injured in grenade attack 6/26/2007 12:09:59 AM DODA, June 25 Two civilians were killed while 13 others including four women were wounded one of them critically, when unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade near old Bus stand of Doda, on Monday afternoon. The two critically injured succumbed to their injuries while being shifted to Jammu Medical College this evening. Official sources said that suspected militants lobbed a hand grenade targeting civilians who had just reached to Bus-Stand from their respective villages for purchasing ration. Reports reaching here revealed that panic gripped the area after the blast as the people start running presuming it as a fidayeen attack. As the things calm down, the police and local ...   READ MORE

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