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| Communal clashes mar Eid celebrations in Kishtwar | | Army called in, curfew imposed | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
KISHTWAR, Aug 9: Eid festivities turned sour at this mountainous town as communal clashes broke out causing extensive damages to the public and Government property and resulting into death of one person.
According to eye witness account, trouble erupted following an altercation between two youth when a religious procession, on its way to Eidgah was passing through Kuleed area of the town. The altercation soon flared up and resulted into stone pelting, following which the youths from majority community went on rampage and set shops and vehicles standing at Kuleed Chowk on fire. In retaliation, the youths from minority community set few houses and shops of majority community on fire.
In violent clashes, over 100 people from both sides including over two dozen police personals also got injured while one person identified as 24 year old Arvind Kumar son of Des Raj Bhagat was killed. Many shops and residential houses were gutted as miscreants indulged in indiscriminate arson and rioting.
Security forces fired in air and lobbed tear gas shell to control the mob, but... | |
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| Communal clashes mar Eid celebrations in Kishtwar | | Army called in, curfew imposed | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
KISHTWAR, Aug 9: Eid festivities turned sour at this mountainous town as communal clashes broke out causing extensive damages to the public and Government property and resulting into death of one person.
According to eye witness account, trouble erupted following an altercation between two youth when a religious procession, on its way to Eidgah was passing through Kuleed area of the town. The altercation soon flared up and resulted into stone pelting, following which the youths from majority community went on rampage and set shops and vehicles standing at Kuleed Chowk on fire. In retaliation, the youths from minority community set few houses and shops of majority communi... | |
| | | | Peanuts to jobless…........., fat salaries to re employed babus | | NC govt's way of tackling (un)employment: | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 9: It is expected and can happen only in a dispensation led by National Conference which has been promising skies to tackle unemployment problem in the state. The coalition Government led by NC is on one hand providing peanuts to educated unemployed youth by way of scholarships and limited wages to jobless youth trained and equipped with technical qualifications, and on the other hand it continues with its policy of re employment of retired bureaucrats in the state on whom lakhs of rupees are spent on salaries per month. A random survey reveals that during the last couple of years alone dozens of senior bureaucrats after reaching superannuation have managed t... | |
| | | | Army to probe if tactical lapses led to killing of 5 soldiers | | | | Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, Aug 9: The Army is expected to order a court of inquiry to investigate if tactical lapses allowed the ambush and killing of five Indian jawans near the Line of Control in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir this week. The statement of a sixth soldier, Sambhaji Kute, who survived, is expected to be critical to the investigation.
Havildar Kute who is from Maharashtra is being treated in a Poonch hospital.
At 2 am on Tuesday, an area domination patrol team of six Indian jawans was ambushed by heavily armed terrorists, backed by the Pakistan Army. Havildar Kute of the 14 Maratha Light Infantry was the only survivor. Four jawans of the 21 Bihar regiment and one from the 14... | |
| | | | Pro-freedom sloganeering leaves Omar, Farooq red faced at Hazratbal | | Protests in Eidgah dampen Eid spirit | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Aug 9: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his father Dr. Farooq Abdullah faced an embarrassing situation on Friday at Hazratbal shrine as a couple of persons raised 'pro-freedom' and anti-India slogans in their presence during the Eid congregation early in the morning.
Sources told Early Times that both Omar and Dr. Abdullah turned red faced as the duo raised slogans in favour of 'freedom'. Slogans were raised despite heavy deployment at Hazratbal shrine due to the presence of the state chief minister and the union minister.
The security personnel were caught clueless by the sloganeering and they whisked away two persons to some unknown destination. The sloganeer... | |
| | | | Congress to part ways with NC before Assembly elections | | | | Mustansir
srinagar, Aug 9: The ongoing war between the coalition partners, National Conference and Congress in Jammu and Kashmir may not have any effect on the Omar Abdullah Government, but there are indications that the two parties may part ways by or before the 2014 assembly elections.
If the sources in the AICC are to be believed, senior NC leader, Dr. Mustafa Kamaal's recent utterances against the Congress party and its leadership have been taken seriously by the Congress high command and the senior leaders are discussing the future course of action.
Reports emanating from Congress quarters suggest that the high command might take a call on the issue in the coming days.
Sources sa... | |
| | | | Temple Bill status: Consensus in Select committee, within Hindus | | Vested interests create hurdles to remain out of 'purview' of general body | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 9: Even as consensus is gradually building up in the Select Committee of the Assembly for Temple Bill on various aspects on which members had expressed reservations in the House, certain vested interests are out to play foul games in order to sabotage the outcome of the report of panel, marring early prospects of early passage of the Legislation. The KP community members and the entire Hindu community who have unanimity and are keen to the regulatory body and Act in place have cautioned the NC led coalition Government to fail the motives of these elements who are creating hurdles and hassles only to ensure their own interests intact.
Sources said there are ... | |
| | | | After damaging the nation, Defence Minister takes a U-turn | | Murder of brave hearts in Poonch | | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 9: National mood's effect: Sonia Gandhi's right hand man and Defence Minister AK Antony whose August 7 Parliament statement on the massacre of five Indian soldiers in Chakan-da-Bagh area of Poonch district last Monday night had angered the nation on August 8 under pressure from below took a complete U-turn and held Pakistan Army responsible for the attack. On August 7, Antony told the Parliament that terrorists, along with some other in Pakistan Army uniform ambushed the Indian patrol party and killed five soldiers and injured one.
Cornered by the opposition's relentless attack, Antony on Thursday made a fresh statement in Lok Sabha and blamed specialist troops of the Paki... | |
| | | | Kishtwar tense: Machail Yatra suspended for 3 days | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 9: Following communal clashes in Kishtwar where curfew had to be clamped to control the situation on Friday, district authorities decided to suspend ongoing Machail yatra for three days. Official sources said, the ongoing Machail yatra has been suspended for three days or till the normalcy returned to the district Kishtwar.
"About two thousand yatries today were directed to return to Jammu from Kishtwar where situation become tense following communal clashes, sources said, further adding, "The pilgrims were escorted by the police."
Meanwhile sources said that some yatries have camped in Udhampur hoping for normalcy to return soon so that they may proceed ... | |
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