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| Present IB chief likely to continue | | Lt Gen Deepak Kapur to be next Army Chief | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, JULY 30: Decks have begun to be cleared for India's next Army Chief. He will be Lt. Gen. Deepak Kapur.
Lt Gen. Kapur is, at present, based at Udhampur in Jammu region as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the country's most vital Northern Command. He will, if all goes well, take over from the present Chief of Army Staff, Gen. J.J. Singh, after the latter's retirement.
As there is still time left for Gen. J.J. Singh's retirement from active service, Lt. Gen. Deepak Kapur has, according to reliable sources, been informally sounded on his elevation as the next Chief of Army Staff. After Lt. Gen. Hari Prasad retired on August 31, 2005 as GOC-in-C of the Udhampur-based Northern Command, Lt Gen. Deepak Kapur was moved out from the Army Training Command to operate as Lt. Gen. Prasad's successor,
Officially, the move of shifting Lt. Gen. Kapur to Udhampur as the Northern Command chief was not without meaning. It was to give him an important field assignment before the Ministry of Defence (MoD) decides to call him back to New Delhi as the... | |
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| Lashkar-e-Toiba 'as dangerous as Al Qaeda' | | Its Kashmir leadership has six Pakistanis | | |
EARLY TIMES SPECIAL
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, JULY 30: Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) is, and will be, in the news. Jammu and Kashmir State is not the only region the LeT has prioritised for its operations. It has managed to create bases for its operatives and secret members and associates in a number of countries.
No wonder, it is under close surveillance by Western countries and Australia. According to a set of inputs available with India's premier external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), since the 2001 terrorist atacks on the USA, sleeper cells of Lashkar-e-Toiba have been detected in many countries.
They also include Australia, Singapore, the United St... | |
| | | | Azad welcomes Supreme Court CJ’s announcement for starting double-shift working system in judiciary for providing speedy justice | | CJ lays foundation of Srinagar district court complex | | | Srinagar, July 30 – While appreciating the advice given by Chief Justice of India Mr. Justice Y. K. Sabharwal to the courts for initiating double-shift system of working in the judiciary to provide speedy justice to the people, Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that it is in line with his vision of executing all major development works through double-shift system in Jammu and Kashmir state which has already started yielding good results.
The Chief Minister said he is personally monitoring the pace of progress on 550 works identified to be executed under double-shift system in the state to complete these within a fixed time frame. Similarly, he suggested that Srinagar distric... | |
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