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Jammu refuses to forget Kuldip’s sacrifice Cops fight pitched battles, scores injured, 30 detained 7/26/2008 12:41:38 AM Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 25 On second day of the round two of Shri Amarnath Shrine land agitation, Jammu City and its adjoining areas witnessed worst protests and demonstrations as scores of people were injured in pitched battles with the Police while more than 30 youth have been taken into custody. Huge loss to the public property, including a Police vehicle, has been reported from the old city areas even as entire town and many peripheral areas witnessed a complete shut down in solidarity with the supreme sacrifice offered by Kuldip Kumar Varma. One of the busiest locations of the old city –the Parade Ground area –where Kuldip had offered his life on Wednesday was the fountainhead of main protests and demonstrations today. Even though the administration had lifted the curfew, people voluntarily stayed indoors. However, in the peripheral areas of Jammu, barring stray incidents of stone pelting, street demonstrations second day of the Jammu bandh relatively passed off peacefully as no major incident of violence was reported after the district administration lift...   READ MORE

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Essential guests on Kashmir talks tables: Hakeem Yaseen, Tarigami 7/26/2008 12:41:16 AM Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 25 Besides National Conference president Omar Abdullah, two Kashmiri leaders have emerged the globe trotter peaceniks for talking Kashmir at the all platforms across the world. The conventions and conferences on Kashmir whether organized by Nobel Prize winning NGOs like Pugwash, organizations of Kashmiri Diaspora or Pakistani groups never miss to have on board two prominent faces from Kashmir –Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen and Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami. Of course, they are in addition to Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti but surprisingly the duo has emerged as essential ingredients of any Kashmir Conference. Now when a Kashmir Leadership Conference is being o...   READ MORE   Essential guests on Kashmir talks tables: Hakeem Yaseen, Tarigami 7/26/2008 12:40:47 AM Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 25 Besides National Conference president Omar Abdullah, two Kashmiri leaders have emerged the globe trotter peaceniks for talking Kashmir at the all platforms across the world. The conventions and conferences on Kashmir whether organized by Nobel Prize winning NGOs like Pugwash, organizations of Kashmiri Diaspora or Pakistani groups never miss to have on board two prominent faces from Kashmir –Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen and Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami. Of course, they are in addition to Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti but surprisingly the duo has emerged as essential ingredients of any Kashmir Conference. Now when a Kashmir Leadership Conference is being org...   READ MORE   Rs 2 lakhs for Kuldip’s family 7/26/2008 12:40:22 AM Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 25 While an action against those who desecrated the body of martyr is yet to be initiated, the local administration today announced relief for the family of Kuldip Kumar Verma who offered his life for the cause of Shri Amarnath Shrine land. The administration announced Rs two lakh as monetary assistance to the next kin of Kuldip Kumar. "We have given Rs 2 lakh financial help to his (Dogra) kins on humanitarian grounds," Deputy Commissioner, Jammu, Mandeep Bandari said. Dogra, who was taking part in a hunger strike against revocation of forest land transferred to Amarnath Shrine Board, allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison after reading a r...   READ MORE   After meeting Governor, ‘Minister’ looses job 7/26/2008 12:39:43 AM Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 25 Barely a day after a Congress leader flaunted the ‘exceptional status’ being only Minister in Jammu and Kashmir when there was no popular government in place, he has been shown the door. The Governor has taken over as Chairman of the Pahari Advisory Board while the Chief Secretary has been made the Vice Chairman. In good old days when the popular government was in place, the Chief Minister would act as the Chairman of the Board while his nominee would be the Vice Chairman. Of late, Shabir Ahmed Khan of the Congress was Vice Chairman. Congress leader Shabir Ahmed Khan, who is also the Vice Chairman of the Pahari Advisory Board had on Thursday called...   READ MORE   Azad returns to people 7/26/2008 12:39:15 AM Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 25 After a week of political restructuring in New Delhi, the former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has returned to state with renewed energy and smashing of erstwhile untrustworthy ally Peoples Democratic Party at the top of his agenda. Addressing a series of public meetings in Banihal area, Azad said that People's Democratic Party had sabotaged the development process in Jammu and Kashmir, adding that the role of the PDP during the past two and a half years in coalition government, was worst than that of opposition. He said despite being a coalition partner in the government, the PDP created hindrances for him at every point of time which resulted in...   READ MORE   PDP playing politics of lowest kind: Fernandes 7/26/2008 12:38:48 AM Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 25 The controversy surrounding the transfer of forest land to the Amarnath Shrine Board speaks volumes about the incompetent handling of the issue by officials of the Jammu and Kashmir Government, feels former Defence Minister George Fernandes. In an article for the magazine -- The Other Side - Fernandes reiterates his appeal to all those connected with the state, to handle its affairs "sensitively". He squarely blames the "rabid reaction" of the hardline faction of the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) and the duplicitous behaviour of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) for the collapse of the Ghulam Nabi Azad-led Congress Government. "The Forest...   READ MORE   Need to stop fomenting turmoil in city of temples 7/26/2008 12:38:15 AM Gareeb Dass Jammu | July 25 Kuldeep Kumar Dogra has become a martyr.He has died for a cause and thereby has shown that people in Jammu can go to any extent while protesting against injustice.But if some political parties try to cash on the incident that rocked Jammu will be an insult to the martyrdom of Kuldeep.There is no doubt that whatever the state Government and later the Governor have done is a great injustice to the people of Jammu.It has further lent credence to the charge of regional discrimination because the Government succumbed to the violence that had been kicked up in Kashmir by groups of political activists and separatists clamouring over the diversion of 800 kanals of land...   READ MORE

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