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| Police unearth multi crore food scam in Doda | | | |
Kud, August 11: Doda police has unearthed a multi crore food scam with the arrests of seven dealers of Consumer Affairs and public distribution department
Addressing a press conference here today, Deputy Inspector general of police Doda-Udhampur range M K Mohanty today told reporters that the official-dealer nexus was unearthed, when some dealers and shopkeepers of thathri and Kishtwar were caught red handed by thathri and Kishtwar police while transporting the BPL ration to different small shopkeepers of the locality.
Giving details of the scam Mohanty informed the reporters that Doda Police has launched a drive against drug addiction and black-marketing and during the course of actio... | |
| | | | Pakistan orders Amitabh Bachchan off billboards | | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 11: New flash from Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital: Billboards showing Indian film icon, Amitabh Bachchan, have been ordered to be removed imediately. Authorites in Karachi issued the order on Friday.
Billboards were showing Amitabh Bachchan in front of Pakistan's national flag. These billboards, reports received inj Delhi this afternoon, were meant to promote a television quiz show opening on Pakistan's Independence Day, August 14.
Mirza Asif Baig, a Karachi-based government official was quoted as saying: “We are not enemies of Amitabh Bachchan. But his picture on our national flag was an objectionable act and we ordered them to remove his pictur... | |
| | | | Trained terrorists' trick of the trade | | Easily available chemicals make liquid bomb | | |
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, AUG. 11: The plot to bomb airliners bound for the US from the United Kingdom mid-air exposes how innocent and relatively easily available chemicals can be used to make a liquid bomb. One may involve nitroglycerine gel, a highly explosive substance which could be disguised in shaving or hair gel, and set off using a detonator which could be hidden inside electrical devices like an iPod/MP3 player or cell phone.
However, nitroglycerine is not easily available, and is very unstable. Another highly potent explosive is triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, which is usually found in the form of a crystalline powder. This powder can be dissolved into a innoce... | |
| | | | All isn't bleak on India-Pak front | | MEN & MATTERS | | |
B L KAK
Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, is keen on having a meeting with Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, next month. Gen. Musharraf cannot be expected to pick up his telephone to get into touch with Manmohan Singh in this connection. Instead, the Pak President has mandated his trusted Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, to clear doubts and misgivngs that have, following the recent Mumbai bomb blasts and subsequent expulsions of each country's diplomats, cast a thick shadow over the India-Pakistan dialogue process.
Employing 'here-I-am' choice of operations, Kasuri began the job by holding a meeting with Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Shiv Shan... | |
| | | | 'There are no militants in Kashmir' | | Every Kashmiri is a mujahid, says Lashkar founder | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 11: On the eve of his birthday, Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, sought to satisfy angry government of India by putting under house arrest the dreaded jihadi and founder of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. It is "a welcome development", was Indian government's reaction. Saeed figures in the list of wanted persons forwarded by India to Pakistan.
It was well before the development taking place in Lahore on August 10 that Saeed had said in a media interview that the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) did not acccept the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. LoC, he vehemently demanded, must be finished. And his standpoint on Kashmir... | |
| | | | Is China trustworthy? | | Most Japanese say 'no' | | |
EARLY TIMES DELHI BUREAU
NEW DELHI, AUG. 11: An event of much significance--indeed, political and strategic signifcance--was allowed in Tokyo. It was in the shape of a survey in Japan's largest daily newspaper, Yomiuri. It showed that almost two-thirds of Japanese say that China cannot be trusted. It was the highest level in almost two decades amid severe strains over a Tokyo war shrine that critics say glorifies militarism.
The survey published on Friday showed that 65.3 percent of the 1,867 respondents felt that China cannot be trusted. Another 29.5 percent thought China could be trusted, while the remaining 5.2 percent were undecided, the poll showed.
The percentage of... | |
| | | | Troops put on high alert along LoC | | | |
Jammu, August 11 :- The Indian troops, guarding the 750-km long LOC in Jammu and Kashmir,have been kept on a "high alert" following reports that agencies across the border planned to push into the state groups of militants, equipped with sophisticated weapons and explosives.
Official sources said on Friday that troops were put on an alert after reports indicated that a couple of groups of militants had sneaked into the Jammu region from across Balakot sector recently.
According to these sources,the soldiers have been asked to enforce the night curfew in the border belts of Poonch,Rajouri,Uri and Kupwara sectors strictly.The night curfew in the border belts was being enforced from 7... | |
| | | | MILITANTS KILL MOTHER,TWO CHILDREN IN GOOL | | | | Jammu, August 11, : Stepping up violence ahead of Independence day celebrations, militants killed three members from the minority community including two children in Village Hara falling under Gool tehsil in Udhampur district on late Thursday night.
Official sources said," a group of three militants of LeT attacked family members of Ram Singh in village Hara late in the evening killing his wife Sumitra and two children Neelam(10) and Meena (14) in cold blood.
According to reports, Ram Singh
was not present in the house at the time of the incident.The area has been cordoned off and massive manhunt has
been launched in the area to nab the militants. ... | |
| | | | US warning harmless: Govt | | | |
August 11,
Last Updated: August 11, 2006 15:57 IST
The government on Friday described as "very innocuous" the US Embassy advisory on possible Al-Qaeda attacks in the national capital and Mumbai but refrained from commenting on the presence of foreign terrorists in the country.
"It is normal for a mission to issue advisories whenever they have information. We too do the same thing. They do their security bandobast based on that. It is a very innocuous advisory," Union Home Secretary V K Duggal told a press conference in New Delhi.
He was commenting on a warning issued by the US Embassy here that Al Qaeda and other foreign terrorist groups may carry out attacks here and in Mumbai... | |
| | | | All appropriate steps to ensure security being taken: Home Secretary | | | |
New Delhi, Aug 11: Union Home Secretary V K Duggal on Friday called the US Embassy advisory warning terror attacks in India as “innocuous”, adding that citizens should rest assured that all necessary steps were being taken to ensure their safety.
The US Embassy on Friday morning said that terror attacks could possibly take place in Mumbai and Delhi from August 11-16 and the likely targets are major airports, vital government installations and crowded places. The warning came a day after a major terror plot was foiled in Britain.
"The Embassy has learnt that foreign terrorists, possibly including al Qaeda, allegedly intend to carry out a series of bombing attacks in and aroun... | |
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