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| Valley rocked by shutdown, clashes, undeclared curfew | | POLITICIANS BEGIN TEARING OFF REMAINING CLOTHES OF THE SHOPIAN WOMEN | | | PDP, Hurriyat take “gang rape” refrain to high pitch
Mehbooba in ‘preventive detention’ with 12 MLAs
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Jun 2: With the hardline separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani rejecting Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s announcement of judicial inquiry into the alleged rape-cum-murder of two young women in Shopian as an eyewash and the mainstream Opposition outfit PDP outsmarting the Hurriyat in issuing the call of ‘Shopian Chalo’, Kashmir valley on the second consecutive day today observed near-total shutdown. While Police detained the PDP President, Mehbooba Mufti, alongwith 12 of her party’s MLAs, and called it “protective custody”, at least 20 people have reportedly sustained injuries in today’s clashes at over 25 places in the Valley.
Even as a detailed report of the post mortem conducted by a team of doctors and forensic science experts was still awaited, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti today claimed that the two young women, found dead in Shopian town outskirts last week, had been “not raped but actually gang raped”. Claiming to be making his assertion on the statement... | |
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| Self styled Baba, Scribe looted lakhs from Jammuites alone | | | | SUMIT SHARMA
Jammu, June 2: Two different self style robbers looted lakhs of rupees alone from Jammuites here today. Both scribe of a news channel and a self style sage have been arrested and their illegal trade is gradually stared erupting. Both robbers have same tails to loot people. In one hand where Sunil Khatri son of Mohan Lal Khatri scribe looted lakhs of rupees from people of both Jammu and rest of the country in lieu of providing suitable jobs and foreign settlement where in another hand Jadega a self style sage looted crores of rupees from people luring them that their money will be triple with in one months in his hand. Jammuites also looted lakhs of rupees from the hand of th... | |
| | | | Poor results in Govt schools: Ministers mulls no carrots, only stick policy | | Teachers of non-performing schools to face demotion or even termination, says taken aback Peerzada | | | MUNISH GUPTA
JAMMU, June 2: Perturbed over dismal show by its large number of schools in Senior Secondary and Secondary examinations, the Government has decided to take stern action against the non-performing teachers and set in motion an exercise to identify them.
Taking strong note of the poor performance of government run schools in the secondary school board examinations Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed on Tuesday send shivers down the spine of all those teachers who have failed to improve the pass percentage of students.
Interacting with media persons after taking a review meeting of the state education department Education Minister said that the state government has tak... | |
| | | | High Court dismisses delimitation petitions | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, June 2: Dismissing two Public Interest Litigations, filed by Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party and Sheikh Abdur Rehman State President Samajwadi Party, challenging the postponement of Delimitation of State Assembly seats till 2026 (meaning 2031), a Division Bench of J&K High Court comprising Chief Justice Barin Ghosh and Justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir, in its judgment observed that while delimitation for the purpose of diving the state into a single member territorial constituencies to the extent of number of the members of the legislative assembly is the mandate of the Constitution, but readjustment of the extent and boundaries of such territorial constitue... | |
| | | | India irked: 26/11 plotter walks free | | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi, June 02: India on Tuesday raised doubts over Pakistan’s seriousness in fighting terrorism, in the wake of a court there freeing Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who is believed to have masterminded the Mumbai terror attacks, from house arrest.
Hafiz Saeed, the chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah – a front of the Lashkar-e-Toiba – was placed under detention by the Pakistani authorities on December 11 last year after the UN Security Council designated the JuD as a terrorist organisation.
However, a full bench of the Lahore High Court today ordered Saeed’s release, saying there was insufficient evidence to keep the JuD chief under house arrest. Apart from Saeed, Colonel (retired) Nazir Ahme... | |
| | | | Pak links Kashmir to peace with India | | | | AGENCIES
Islamabad, June 02: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday raked up the Kashmir issue again by linking the resolution of the contagious issue with India to peace and stability in the South Asian region.
In a televised press conference, the Pakistan PM said, “Kashmir holds the key to durable peace in the region. Pak remains committed to finding a just resolution to the dispute in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.”
Gilani added that Pakistan wants to engage India in a constructive and purposeful dialogue to resolve Kashmir issue.
“It must be resolved through sincere dialogue for socio-economic development o... | |
| | | | Munda BJP for Dy Speaker's Post | | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi Jun 2: Karia Munda, BJP's tribal leader from Jharkhand, was today named by the party as its candidate for the post of Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha.
"The BJP's Central Parliamentary Board held a meeting today after the government's proposal that as per the convention that the Deputy Speaker's post be given to the main opposition party.
"The Parliamentary Board decided to name six-time party MP in the Lok Sabha Karia Munda as the candidate for the post," BJP General Secretary Arun Jaitley told reporters.
72-year-old Munda was a minister in the Morarji Desai government and later in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee ministry. He was earlier an MLA in Bihar and later in Jharkhand.
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| | | | Meira files papers for LS Speaker's post | | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi June 2: Senior Congress leader Meira Kumar filed her nomination for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker on Tuesday.
Kumar was nominated for the post by the UPA Government on Monday. On the same day, she resigned as the Union Minister for Water Resources.
If elected, Kumar will be the country's first woman Speaker.
Kumar hails from the Dalit community and is better known as the daughter of former Deputy Prime Minister Babu Jagjivan Ram.
Born in Patna in 1945, she is law graduate and holds a Masters in English literature. he joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1973 and served at the embassies in Spain, United Kingdom and Mauritius.
Kumar was elected from Bijnor in Uttar Pr... | |
| | | | Markets slip, Sensex down 100 points | | | | AGENCIES
Mumbai, June 2: Indian equity markets slipped into the red with a key index dipping 100 points by late Tuesday morning, after having risen more than a percent at the opening bell.
Around 11.30 a.m., the benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the Sensex, which opened at 14,892.93 points, gave up its morning's gains to rule at 14,730.34 points, 110.29 points or 0.74 percent lower than its previous close.
It had risen more than 133 points soon after trading opened Tuesday.
Similarly, the S&P CNX Nifty index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) stood at 4,489.9 points, 0.88 percent below its last close at 4,529.9.
Broader market indices slipped more, with the BSE midc... | |
| | | | Amarnath Pilgrimage schedule still uncertain 6 to 8 feet snow on track | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Jun 2: As the helicopter of the Chief Executive Officer(CEO), Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) B B Vyas could not land at Sheshnag, about 19 km short of the cave due to heavy snow, the commencement of this year's pilgrimage, scheduled to start from June 15, may get delayed further.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson of the SASB also informed that the personnel of Army, CRPF, BSF and J&K police have reached the holy cave.
The two-month-long annual pilgrimage was scheduled to start from June 7, but was postponed due to heavy snowfall on both the traditional Pahalgam and shortest Baltal tracks.
Official sources said Panchtarni, 6 km short of the cave at a height of 3... | |
| | | | Jammu heeds anti-tobacco calls, Kashmir high on smoking spree | | | | SALMAN NIZAMI
JAMMU, June 2: The ban on smoking in public places has had an effect on the sale of tobacco products in Jammu but not in Kashmir, if one goes by what retailers, who cover the last mile sales, say that due to stress and unemployment menace youngsters particularly and all people generally in Kashmir are getting inclined towards intoxication but at Jammu retailers found that people are inclined towards chewing of tobacco etc and less inclined towards cigarette smoking the main reason for its increase in mercy.
In a survey conducted by a J&K based NGO named “Khidmat” after the implementation of the ban last October among the retailers of tobacco products all over the country in... | |
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