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| Teenager rapes minor | | | |
ET REPORTER
Udhampur, July 10: In a gruesome incident, a beastly teenager outraged the modesty of a minor girl aged 18 years sending shock waves across the region.
The incident happened late last night in Ramnagar area of this district. Police have taken cognizance of the matter and hunt is on for the teenager criminal identified by the victim as one Ajay Kumar.
According to the local resident of village Badole in Ramnagar area of Udhampur district, the minor was allegedly raped by seventeen year old Ajay Kumar. The rapist has been further identified as son son of a laboratory technician working in Ramnagar hospital. He was absconding when the last report came in.
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| | | | 3 ultras dead, arms seized | | | |
ET REPORTER
Jammu, July 10: At least three top militants were killed and huge cache of arms seized by busting a hideout during a search operation during anti-insurgency operations since last night in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Reports said, two militants of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit were killed in a nearly three hour long operation at Padderpora village of Shopian district this afternoon, Pulwama Senior Superintendent of Police Nitish Kumar said.
The gunbattle erupted when police assisted by troops of Rashtriya Rifles launched a search operation in the village following specific information about presence of militants.
When security personnel asked two militants hidin... | |
| | | | Antony visiting J&K | | | |
ET REPORTER
Jammu, July 10: In the backdrop of surge in violence and review the prevailing ground situation, the Defence Minister AK Antony will be visiting Jammu and Kashmir toward the end of this month.
The Chief of Army Staff, Gen JJ Singh will also be accompanying the Defence Minister during his visit.
Sources said, Defence Minister. Antony will visit the Kashmir Valley later this month to study the ground situation against the backdrop of demands for reducing troop levels in the area.
"I will be going later this month," Antony told reporters in Delhi today on the sidelines of a function at which he flagged in an Indian Army expedition that last month successfully scaled Mo... | |
| | | | Smiles back in JU as PM arriving on 15 | | | |
ET REPORTER
Jammu, July 10: Smiles returned to the faces at Jammu University Campus, particularly restoring grin to Vioce Chancellor Prof Amitabh Mattoo as message of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's rescheduled visit poured in from the Prime Minister's Office this afternoon.
Dr Singh, who had to defer his visit to Jammu University today, due to national mourning on death of former Prime Minister Chander Shakher, has now fixed July 15 as the new date for his trip to the state's winter capital.
The Prime Minister is especially coming to receive an honorary an honorary degree of D.Litt being conferred upon him the University of Jammu. If his today's schedule was kept, the Prime Mi... | |
| | | | Lal Masjid standoff: Experts keenly watching Kashmir fallout | | | |
ET REPORTER
Jammu, July 10: With the Lal Masjid stand off refusing to end and Pakistan being caught in its own web, the security experts are watching with keenness the fallout of the present crisis and future trends of the import of terror into Jammu and Kashmir .
The events unfolding over the last few days have given the security experts here a better idea about the identity of the various militant organisations inside the sprawling complex which have obvious Kashmir connections for being a Jehad factory,
It is now generally held that some members are affiliated with the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, formerly known as Lashkar-i-Taiba. Few of the militants also belong to the now defunct Harkat... | |
| | | | Islamic militants' growing ambitions | | Terrorists planning to target vital highways in J&K | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JULY 10: Terrorists are planning to target crowded public places, civil and defence installations and places of worship, according to a set of intelligence inputs made available to the government of India. Possibility of terrorist strikes on the vital highways in Jammu and Kashmir is also not ruled out.
Security and intelligence agencies in Jammu and Kashmir have been cautioned by the government against the possible use of highly sophisticated ammunition by the terrorists to blow up bridges and render Jawahar Tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar highway unserviceable. This apart, the terrorists may also try to cause extensive damage to important highwa... | |
| | | | PM visit on July | | | |
Jammu, July 10
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who had earlier postponed his visit to Jammu on Tuesday will now arrive here in Jammu on July 15 to participate in the special convocation ceremony at Jammu University.
The new dates of Prime Ministers visit to Jammu university were finalised here today when Prime Ministers office informed the Jammu university authorities that his visit is still on and instead of July 10 Prime Minister will now visit Jammu on July 15.
It may be mentioned that PM's visit was postponed in view of the state mourning declared after the death of former Prime Minister Mr Chandershekhar.
Confirming the fresh date of arrival a senior university official ... | |
| | | | Carcasses everywhere: Witness | | | |
Islamabad, July 10: Bodies of the dead are "everywhere" inside a radical Pakistani mosque raided by troops today, a source inside the complex told a wire agency over telephone.
A man who picked up one of top mosque cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi's mobile phones said those inside were under "massive bombing and gunfire. This is indiscriminate killing".
"There is no contact with each other because no one can leave the rooms and basements. There are dead bodies everywere," the witness added, declining to give his name as explosions and gunfire echoed in the background.
One of those killed was Ghazi's elderly mother, who died of suffocation from smoke caused by blasts, while Ghazi was stil... | |
| | | | Lal Masjid stormed; 50 ultras, 8 commandos dead | | Operation ‘Silence’ was not exactly silent | | |
ISLAMABAD, JULY 10 In a pre-dawn operation, Pakistan army stormed the pro-Taliban Lal Masjid in central Islamabad to flush out militants holding a large number of women and children as hostages, triggering a fierce gunbattle which left 50 radicals and eight commandos dead.
Fifty militants were injured in the operation and an equal number of madrassa students and ultras surrendered. Twentysix women and three children were rescued from the besieged complex.
Deputy Administrator of the mosque Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who is using women and children as human shields, is holed up in the basement of the mosque and has been asked to surrender.
The army launched the Operation Silence at 040... | |
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