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| Ammunition fire puts PDP on political blaze | | Mebooba: shift depot from civilian areasMebooba: shift depot from civilian areas | | |
Jammu, Aug 12: The devastating fire in the Army ammunition depot in South Kashmir has given yet another big issue to the Peoples Democratic Party to campaign against the presence of Army in the civilian areas.
PDP President, who arrived from New Delhi in Srinagar this morning to rush to the Kundroo explosion site has said presence of huge ammunition depots amidst the civilian areas is a looming risk for the people living there and yesterday's incident at Khundroo has only reiterated such dangers.
Mufti said this is the second time after 1965 that a massive fire broke out at Khundroo ammunition depot putting the lives and the property of the people in the surrounding ... | |
| | | | CAPD to venture into retailing | | | |
Jammu, Aug 12: Jammu and Kashmir government plans to allow selling of more items of daily use through fair price shops to provide a livelihood to educated youth and cover the areas devoid of public distribution system.
Government is thinking of bringing more items of daily use for sale through fair price shops to provide more commodities to customers and ensure dignified livelihood to the educated unemployed youth, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Minister Taj Mohiuddin said.
He said the matter of distribution of cooking gas through fair price shops has already been taken up with the Centre. As soon as they approve the proposal, dealers would be entitled for distr... | |
| | | | Army officer takes bull by horns | | Says, coercion can't achieve peace in Kashmir | | | Jammu, Aug 12: Taking the Army establishment as well as the political leadership by surprise, a top Army officer said that tough and coercive measures will not help achieve peace in Kashmir.
Speaking at a seminar on Human Right organized by an Army unit in Baramulla on Saturday, Brig K A Muthanna, a commander of a Rashtriya Rifles said that "Fake encounters, custodial deaths, illegal detentions and coercive investigation techniques are some of the gravest forms of human rights abuses". Observing that the Indian Army was the first in the world to establish its own human rights cell, a senior army official has said peace in Jammu and Kashmir cannot be achieved by resorting to coercive inv... | |
| | | | Woman crosses over to PoK, SPO killed | | | |
Jammu, Aug 12: A woman is reported to have exfiltrated to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) from Poonch district while militants shot dead a Special Police Official in a remore village of Kishtwar district.
Reports said, Naseema Akhtar daughter of Mohmmad Jamal crossed over to PoK via Line of Control from Digwar area of Poonch district last night. Her family reported the matter to the police.
Meanwhile, a Special Police Officer (SPO) was today shot dead by militants in Kishtwar district.
Reports said that SPO identified as Sher Mohammad was returning home, when militants intercepted him near his village Kotal in Kuntwara belt of the district this afternoon, they said.
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| | | | Blaze put off, 2 more dead | | CM makes aerial survey of South Kashmir | | | Jammu/Srinagar, Aug 12: With alteast two more people, including a women, having lost their lives in the devastating fire, the Kundroo ammunition depot blaze was putt off late this evening, reports said.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today made an aerial survey of the villages affected by yesterday's explosions even as the evacuated population has been advised against rushing back to their homes in the face of the possibility of unexploded ammunition that might have landed in the surrounding villages.
reports said that two more persons, including a woman, were killed on Sunday by shrapnel from explosions at the ordnance depot in Anantnag district even as firefighters "c... | |
| | | | PMO holds J&K, Gujarat judge's appointment to SC | | | |
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Jammu, Aug 12: Perhaps for the first time in the judicial history of the country, the Prime Minister's Office has returned a proposal for the appointment of High Court Judges to the Supreme Court.
It is reliably learnt that the Prime Minister has send the file to the Law Ministry with note to forward the same to the Supreme Court. One of the Judges whom the Prime Minister did not approve for appointment to the Supreme Court belongs to the Jammu and Kashmir High Court while the other Judge is from the Gujarat High Court.
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) for the first time has reacted in such a manner to the judiciary. It may be recalled here that earlier this year als... | |
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