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Congress & 13/7 Mumbai terrorist attacks Rahul, Digvijay under attack 7/17/2011 11:48:48 PM Rustam EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 17: The terrorists once again struck and blasted Mumbai at three busy places. They liquidated at least 20 innocent civilians and left more than 130 others injured, some of them grievously. The attacks outraged the nation and virtually held the Congress-led UPA Government responsible for the attacks on the financial capital of India, which has been suffering at the hands of Pakistan-backed, motivated and indoctrinated terrorists at regular intervals since 1993, including the 26/11 terrorist attacks. (The 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai are described as 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.) The nation accused the Congress of pursuing "weak-kneed policy towards terrorism." The Congress was also charged with pursuing "soft approach towards them as the Congress is interested more in the vote-bank politics and appeasement than in the national security." The charges levelled against the Congress are indeed very serious. The Shiv Sena - Bal Thakre (SSB) even went to the extent of asking the authorities to book Congress general secretar...   READ MORE

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25,000 women are in prostitution in Srinagar alone: Justice Kirmani l 'Govt agencies pay cellphone bills of 8,000 women in Kashmir' 7/17/2011 11:47:54 PM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, July 17: In the statistics, which can be strongly disputed in absence of an empirical survey, a retired judge of Jammu & Kashmir High Court has claimed that as many as 25,000 women were currently in prostitution in Srinagar alone where the residents, according to him, had been consuming 25,000 bottles of liquor every day. He has claimed that the people in Valley were spending Rs 3 Crore every day on liquor and narcotics. Addressing a literary gathering on occasion of the death anniversary of Kashmiri poet, Ali Mohammad Shahbaz, at Town Hall in Handwara, Justice (retired) Bashir Ahmed Kirmani claimed that Kashmir valle...   READ MORE   'Change' in Press Note contents reflects puzzled face of BJP 7/17/2011 11:47:20 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 17 : The state unit of BJP had to cut a sorry figure changing the 'tone and tenor' of the press note it issued on Saturday at least three times that focussed on hitting out at Congress leadership at the central level in the wake of Mumbai serial blasts. The repetition of the same statement with corrections reflected either directionless affairs within or lack of knowledge on policy matters of the party while it lashes out at opponent Congress on key issues. It only brought embarrassment to the leadership at a time when the newly appointed incharge and co incharge came to Jammu for the first time to assume their assignments. The press note with hard hitting ...   READ MORE   Producers resent DD's patronage of tainted officials 7/17/2011 11:47:01 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, July 17: Massive resentment is growing among freelance television producers and artists against Prasar Bharti's policy of protecting tainted officials of Doordarshan in Jammu & Kashmir. DD's Directorate General, Prasar Bharti and Ministry of Information & Broadcasting are still groping in the dark with regard to appointment of a non-controversial and dedicated official as Director of Doordrashan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar. Even as Dr Rafeeq Masoodi has been relieved, finally with a note of urgency, DD has not appointed any official to head one of the oldest stations in Srinagar. Completing a formality as per the tradition, Masoodi has handed over his charge to the...   READ MORE   Duggar Pradesh appropriate name for Jammu province Historical Necessity - I 7/17/2011 11:46:24 PM Neha EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 17: The framers of the Jammu & Kashmir Constitution did not commit a mistake by incorporating in the constitution words "Jammu Province and Kashmir Province." The framers of the constitution only acknowledged that there existed in the state distinct geographically, ethnically, culturally, politically and historically entities. At the same time, however, they did not dispense justice to Ladakh. They merged Ladakh with Kashmir province. That's the reason the people of Ladakh consistently question the nomenclature of the state. Hitherto, Ladakh was an integral part of the nomenclature of the state. The demand in Ladakh for separation from Jammu and Kashmir...   READ MORE   PDP patron becomes a crowd puller 7/17/2011 11:45:53 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 17: Apart from having the distinction of heading an era of development and peace, the Peoples democratic Party (PDP) Patron, Mufti Muhammad Sayed has slowly but surely become a crowd puller. The largely attended pubic meeting in South Kashmir yesterday proves it beyond doubt. There is no denying the fact that the political strength of a politician cannot be measured by the number of people attending his rally as most of them are hired but Mufti's rally was...   READ MORE   BJP in a reconciliation mood with suspended MLAs 4 of them meet newly appointed prabharis 7/17/2011 11:45:07 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 17 : The Central BJP is in a reconciliation mood with seven suspended MLAs who participated in the cross voting against the Party candidate in April 14 elections to the Upper House. This became evident after two newly appointed prabharis of the Party Jagdish Mukhi (Prabhari) and Dr Jain Seh Prabhari today met four of the suspended MLAs separately at Circuit House here. The suspended MLAs whom the two prabharis met included Bladev Raj Sharma MLA, Reasi, Jagdish Raj Sapolia MLA, Basholi, Prof Garu Ram MLA, R S Pura and Durga Dass MLA Hiranagar. Earlier the two prahbaris while addressing a press conference said while replying to a question that they are not av...   READ MORE   Girl consumes poison, dies 7/17/2011 11:42:51 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 17: A girl allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison at her residence at Sai in R S Pura near here today. Police identified her as Shallu Choudhary, daughter of Babli Choudhary. A case in this connection was registered at the R S Pura police station. ...   READ MORE   Army jawan's house burgled 7/17/2011 11:42:21 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 17 : An army jawan's house was today burgled by unknown persons in ward No 7 of Vijaypur, about 30 km from here on Jammu-Samba road. Police said sepoy Anchal Singh's wife Sushma was not at home when burglars broke into their house in ward No 7 of Vijaypur and decamped with gold jewellery and Rs 10,000 in cash. The Vijaypur police had registered a case in this connection. Anchal is posted outside the state....   READ MORE   2 AKs, grenades recovered at Mahore 7/17/2011 11:41:38 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 17 : Arms and ammunition were today recovered by security forces from a hollow rock in the dense Copra Top forests of Mahore in Reasi. Official sources said acting on intelligence inputs, jawans of Uniform Force and police searched out a polythene bag hidden by militants in a hollow rock in Copra Top forests. The bag contained two AK rifles alongwith two magazines and 120 rounds, two Kenwood radio sets, two bayonets and two Chinese grenades, the sources added. Sources said the recovery had thwarted the militant plans to cause violence in the area....   READ MORE   1 killed, 4 hurt as vehicle falls into gorge 7/17/2011 11:41:04 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, July 17:-KISHTWAR : One person lost his life while four others, including a 12-year-old girl, sustained critical injuries after a Tata sumo in which they travelling last night skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge at Chingham near Chatroo, about 45 km from here on Kishtwar-Sinthan road. The ill-fated vehicle (JK02/1424) was on its way from Sinthan Top to Parna near Chatroo, police sources said. The incident occured after the driver could not negotiate a sharp curve and the vehicle rolled down into a 400-ft-deep gorge as a result of which one person was killed instantly while four others survived with serious injuries. The dead was identifieed as S...   READ MORE   7/17/2011 12:29:45 PM When the union Home Minis ter, P.Chidambaram, dissect ed the latest serial blasts in Mumbai his comment that "Pakistan-Afghanistan is the epicentre of terror forcing us to live in the most troubled neighbourhood in the world, "indicated that the Indians in India continued to be unsafe so long the terror breeding units were not closed in the neighbouring countries. And Chidambaram rightly believed that all he cities in India "were vulnerable to attack. "This way if the Indians believe that Mumbai is quite unsafe they are wrong as per the opinion of the Union Home Minister. But Mumbai is under some terror eclipse since 1993 and the carnage committed by Pakistan trained and guided terroris...   READ MORE

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