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| Candidates call for cancellation of CET select list | | Kingpin goes into hiding | | | Bashir Assad
srinagar, July 7: The alleged mastermind of CET 2012 exam paper leak, Bashir Ahmad Ganai of Anantnag, in a vain attempt to suppress the facts and to escape the transparent and investigative reporting, has served a legal notice to a local news portal which published the news item, BOPEE held in suspicion" actually exposed by Early Times in its Jun 4th edition, seeking unconditional apology from him through local media. By extending the net of investigations, one Farooq Ahmad Ittu belonging to village Darigund Bijbehara is being projected another bog broker and tout instrumental in purchase and sale of question papers. Ittu having computer background is alleged to be close to ... | |
| | | | Foreign mercenaries trying to carve out hideouts in forest areas of J&K | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, July 7: Is the Rajwar forest belt in Handwara subdivision in North Kashmir regaining its grandeur of being a safe sanctuary for militants, especially foreign mercenaries? This question has surfaced following a prolonged gun battle between the militants, hiding in a couple of houses and the security forces in the foothills of the Rajwar forest belt. During the last 48 hours, more than four militants, all of them suspected to be foreign mercenaries, were killed in the encounter in which four security personnel also suffered injuries.
If the reports with the State Intelligence agencies are to be relied on groups of militants have sneaked into the forest and hilly a... | |
| | | | Police SIT blames its 'cousin' for mishandling Peer Dastgeer Shrine blaze | | | | ET Report
srinagar, July 7: In a major development the SIT formed by Jammu and Kashmir police has blamed its 'cousin' the State Fire Services Department for negligence in fighting the fire at Peer Dastgeer Sahib shrine in Khanyar.
In its report the SIT has claimed that the Fire Services Department was alerted at 6.30 am on the fateful day when fire broke out inside the shrine, but the Fire Services Department took up to 8.30 am to send its fire fighting team to the shrine. The report also claims that even the Bronto sky vehicles available with the Fire Services Department were not pressed into service.
The SIT has questioned 22 persons after it started the investigations ... | |
| | | | Govt reacts on 'defensive note', says it is only media hype | | JI dress code 'advisory' for tourists | | | Early Times Report
jammu, July 7: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has done it again. Notwithstanding his desire to have sustained peace in the State, he , instead of coming down heavily on elements hell bent on disrupting peace and economic boom through surge in tourism industry, is trying to be defensive and on appeasement path for such people. In what could be seen as Chief Minister downplaying the dress code diktat, Omar Abdullah today said the Jamaat-e-Islami had clarified that it had only appealed to tourists not to wear clothes which were not in line with the local ethos, and it had not threatened anyone. The CM also said it was only media hype which is playing up the issue.
Chief Mi... | |
| | | | Paralytic Govt surrenders Rs 268 crores in Mughal Road: Mufti | | `State unable to benefit from CSSs' | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, July 7: Expressing concern at the failure of the Government to carry forward the ambitious connectivity plan ushered in by previous coalition, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said all sectors of development had come to a standstill in the State. "It is worse than a paralysis" he told a public meeting in Shopian today that the governance in J&K suffers from. "The prestigious Mughal road too has been a victim of governance paralysis resulting in delay in its completion" he added.
Senior Leaders Muzaffar Hussain Baig, Tariq Hameed Karra, Ab Razaq Zawoora MLA, Mohammad Shafi Bandey District president, Bashir Ahmed M... | |
| | | | Army Jawan killed in firing by militants in Kashmir | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, July 7: A soldier was killed and another wounded when suspected militants fired upon an Army patrol in South Kashmir today. The attack comes days after the offensive by security forces in the forests of Kupwara, the frontier district of North Kashmir near line of control, killing five foreign militants during the past one week. Police and Army said that militants fired upon a road opening party of Army's Rashtriya Rifles at Kadalbal Chowk in Pampore, 10 km from city centre Srinagar.
"Militants were hiding somewhere when they fired upon our men. One Jawan was killed and another injured. The injured Army man is stable," said Army spokesman, JS Brar.
The attack ... | |
| | | | Fierce encounter in Harkani forests | | 5 LeT militants trapped | | | Early Times Report
kishtwar, July 7: An encounter that ensued in wee hours today in Harkani forest area of Kishtwar district continued till reports last came in. Reports said five militants owing allegiance to Lashkar-e-Toiba are trapped in the siege laid by soldiers of 11 RR following a tip off.
Both sides have been exchanging heavy firing, reports said. Three of the trapped militants have been identified as Abu Akasha of Pakistan, Saifullah and Babar Hussain of Kwath village. The identity of others could not be ascertained.
The Army while confirming the encounter at Kwath said that during search operation,2 AK magazines, 40 AK rounds, 6 packets of explosive, 3 detonators, one grenade... | |
| | | | Untold story of Pak ultras abducting Indian villager from home close to Jammu border | | | | Bharat Bhushan
jammu, July 7: A thorough look at the official "document", detailing Devi Singh's abduction by three militants from his residence at Pansar, situated close to the International Border (IB) in Kathua, reveals how easily the armed Pakistanis had sneaked into India and then taken him across the border without being seen by the "alert" guards.
The IB is about 200 yards from his house and a BSF post is also nearby. He was watching the one-day cricket match between India and Kenya on March 23, 2003, when, to attend the call of nature, he came out of his room at about 11.30 pm and went to the field outside.
However, before he could get back to his room and join his wife Sarishta ... | |
| | | | DGP displeased over SP's presence at Budgam inauguration | | Inauguration of Hurriyat leader's shopping mall ruffles some feathers in Omar Abdullah's Govt | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 7: Officiating Director General of Police, K Rajendra Kumar, is understood to have taken exception to the presence of an IPS officer at the inauguration of a Rs 10 Cr shopping mall of the senior separatist leader Aga Syed Hassan at Budgam on Friday.
If well-placed sources are to be believed, officiating DGP is taking up the matter of SP Budgam Uttam Chand's attendance at the inauguration of the separatist leader's shopping mall. According to reports, IGP Kashmir, S M Sahai, had been invited by Aga and he had also communicated his consent to inaugurate the shopping mall. However, for reasons not known to anybody, Mr Sahai changed his programme at... | |
| | | | Non-Muslims constitute 40 per cent of state's population | | Kashmir Not Mirwaiz's Fiefdom | | | Rustam
JAMMU, July 7: The discredited and highly opportunist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who heads the divided All-Party Hurriyat Conference-M (APHC-M), is, like his bitter critic Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani, not feeling comfortable these days. The reason is that the State Government has, according to him and Geelani, sent a high-level team to Tel Aviv (Israel) to encourage Israelis to visit Kashmir as tourists. His opposition to the Israelis is based on the fact that the Israelis are anti-Muslim and that maximum Israelis are linked with Mossad (Israeli spy agency). His opposition is also based on the fact that Tel Aviv is willfully changing the demography of Palestine by settli... | |
| | | | Jaitley did plain-speaking, advocated full integration | | Returning to pre-1998 Era | | | Neha
JAMMU, July 7: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has, it seems, decided to ignore the Atal Behari Vajpayee's Jammu & Kashmir doctrine and purse a line it used to purse before 1998, when it formed National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government after compromising its core ideology. Vajpayee had abandoned the party's age-old ideology and sought to cultivate Pakistani and Kashmiri separatists, besides the so-called mainstream Kashmiri leaders, by compromising the Indian position on Jammu & Kashmir. Besides, he had reassured the Kashmiri Muslim leadership that Article 370 shall remain a permanent feature of the Indian Constitution. He had not only started the so-called peace process with Pak... | |
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