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| Foiled infiltration bid: BSF | | Day after I-Day: Ultra killed in Pulwama enconter, another held in Doda ammunition recovered in Poonch, Reasi | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 16: A day after Pakistani troops offered sweets to their Indian counterparts on the eve of Independence Day, there was the turn of exchange of fire on the International Border near here. It could not be learnt till late this evening whether engaged in firing from other side were the Rangers or the militants planning to sneak in.
Meanwhile, after peaceful and incident-free Independence Day celebrations, Sunday was an unpleasant day across the state with reports of various militancy related incidents.
There was an exchange of fire between suspected infiltrators and Border Security Force (BSF) personnel on the border with Pakistan in Ramgarh sector near Jammu, officials said on Sunday.
According to BSF officials, there was some movement noticed by the guards late on Saturday night near the barbed wire fence erected to prevent intrusion inside the Indian territory. "The BSF troopers challenged and as result there was firing from a suspected group of intruders," an official said.
The firing continued for two to three hours, the official said. "We a... | |
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Early Times Special
JAMMU, August 16: For those who have to keep track of India-Pakistan relations, October 23, 2003, heralded a new era as the two neighbours decided to observe ceasefire on the international border (IB) and the Line of Control (LoC).
The news sounded too good to be true at that time and the mediapersons in Jammu were not too confident that the ceasefire will hold. For years, they had seen the soldiers of the two nations sniping at one another, constantly, without fail. Dozens of villages on both sides located near the borders had got uprooted and thousands of kanals of land lay fallow.
It was not only the men from the uniformed forces of the two sides who suffered. Th... | |
| | | | Shopian case: SIT questions doctors | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar: The SIT, probing the Shopian rape-and-murder case, has questioned the doctors who had conducted the second post-mortem and made the slides of vaginal swabs of the two victims after it came to light that they were possibly tampered with.
Official sources said the Special Investigative Team has questioned Deputy Chief Medical Officer Ghulam Qadir Sofi and District Health Officer Mohammad Maqbool, who were part of the team that conducted the second post-mortem on the two women.
It was, however, not confirmed whether gynecologist Nighat Shaheen, at whose house the slides were sealed before being sent to Forensic Sciences Laboratory, was also questioned. Shaheen... | |
| | | | Gujjars say tribal heritage razed along Mughal Road | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 16: Nomadic Gujjars in Jammu and Kashmir are anguished over what they call 'devastation of our tribal properties' along the old Mughal era road, which is being developed as an alternate link between Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley.
The Gujjars forming 20 percent of the about 11 million population of state alleged that government was 'intentionally destroying the tribal properties and other historic monuments alongside the Mughal Road'.
'We have asked them through a legal notice to stop damaging and destroying the nomadic assets and initiate steps for restoration of all the Sarais and other temporary shelters along side the Mughal road being used by the n... | |
| | | | How much money is at Minister’s liberty? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 16: How much (money) does a Minister has in his wallets or coffers to spend? Other way around, how far can a Minister go to make an announcement for financial aid?
Famous for its apple orchards, Sopore in North Kashmir has always been important for Congress: not for the reason that this is home town and pocket-borough senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani but more for the fact that Sopore is a contested land of the Congress’ grand old man Ghulam Rasool Kar who late last year violated the party whip to contest, probably last election of his life, as an independent candidate. He, however, lost.
This rich history of this place at the back of his min... | |
| | | | Swine flu: doctors feel ostracised | | 7 suspects clear test, results of 28 awaited | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 16: Much to the relief of many swine flu suspects, the test reports have confirmed only one of the eight samples positive even as reports of 28 other suspects are still awaited clearance from New Delhi based National Institution of Communicable Diseases.
Meanwhile, in an interesting case of widely televised panic and scare over swine flu, the doctors engaged in screening of patients in Jammu are facing a sort of ostracising at hands of friends and social contacts
Health officials said that blood samples of 36 Swine-Flu suspects were sent to New Delhi for test in which GMC hospital administration has received 8 reports from National Institute of Communicab... | |
| | | | PDP, Hurriyat contest PM’s interpretation of 2008-09 elections | | Why no room for separatists in J&K? | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Aug 16: Patron of the mainstream Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who has been India’s Home Minister and Jammu & Kashmir state’s Chief Minister in the past, as also most of the Valley’s separatist political parties---including both factions of the Hurriyat Conference, JLKF and Jamaat-e-Islami---have strongly disputed Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s latest interpretation of the massive participation of the Kashmiris in recently held Assembly and Lok Sabha elections and claimed that the democratic process had not marginalized the separatist politics.
In sharp contrast to the tone and tenure of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s Independence Da... | |
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