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Nearly 2 lakhs court arrest for shrine land 8/18/2008 10:39:24 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Aug 18 It was a quick and grim reminder of Indian freedom movement today when several thousands people –rather few lakhs –marched to the Police several stations across the region and offered their arrests in a gesture of strongest protest against the government for its inability to restore 800 kanals of forest land at Baltal to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board. The first phase of the ‘Jail Bharo Andolan’ launched by Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti and supported by over three dozen other organizations, saw a sea of humanity pouring into various Police Stations to offer their arrests. Though the situation was tough for the Police to handle but no curfew or other restrictions had been imposed to curb the movement of agitators. Though today it was the turn of men to court their arrests but thousands of women and children also marched to the Police Stations. The women folk said that they were pained over the situation and were in no mood to wait till their turn. “Although woman folk was not asked to participate in today's Jail Bharo Andolan, still ...   READ MORE

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They don’t mean what they profess 8/18/2008 10:38:39 PM Nirbhay Jammual Jammu | Aug 18 If not the separatists at least leaders of mainstream political parties are heard professing their urge for ameliorating the lot of people.They are heard shouting at the top of their voices that they,as leaders,have the task of uplifting the downtrodden and the poor out of morass.Unlike the separatists mainstream political leaders have diverse activities to perform.Separatists have one-point agendaof misleading people in the name of religion,region and extraterritorial ambition.They have one thing special about their behaviour.If they profess being secular they are secular to the coreof their heart.If they profess they are communal they do not hidetheir...   READ MORE   Mush quits, era ends 8/18/2008 10:38:06 PM Islamabad | Aug 18 Facing an imminent impeachment, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Monday announced his resignation maintaining that he wanted to avoid the country being put into instability and confrontation. "No impeachment or no chargesheet can stand against me... But I think this is not the time for individual bravado. This is the time for serious thought. In the interest of the country, I have decided to resign. The resignation will reach the National Assembly speaker shortly," the 65-year-old former army chief said in an emotional internationally televised address. Pakistan's Senate Chairman Mohammed Mian Soomro will take over as acting president, Law Minister Farooq Nae...   READ MORE   Maharaja sings after 20 years "Bijiliyan baras rahi hain kya karein, woh hame tadpa rahe hain kya karein" 8/18/2008 10:37:38 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Aug 18 At a time when the land of Maharaja is burning with seething anger, the scion of Royal Dogra dynasty of Jammu and Kashmir and former Sadr-e-Reyasat, Dr Karan Singh is making tryst with his love for music. The Member of Parliament and the Chairperson of Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Dr Karan Singh is a orator, philosopher and writer par excellence but little was known about his singing talent and his love for music. Contemporaries say that some 20 years back Karan Singh lent his voice to a couple of traditional Dogri songs but since than his singing talent has remained hidden. However, in a surprise to music lovers, the veteran parliamenta...   READ MORE   PM to ‘right thinkers’: work for peace 8/18/2008 10:37:14 PM New Delhi | Aug 18 Concerned over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that all "right thinking" people must work together to bring peace and normalcy in the border state. "All political parties, all right-thinking people must work together to bring the situation under control," Singh told reporters in the Parliament complex after attending the swearing-in of noted economist C Rangarajan and former Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna as Rajya Sabha members. "Everybody has an obligation to contribute...All political parties, as I said from the ramparts of the Red Fort. This is not a partisan issue," Singh said when asked whether the situation in ...   READ MORE   Gladni may give light today Good news in bad times 8/18/2008 10:36:22 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Aug 18 If the claims made by the government are anything to go by, then Tuesday is all set to bring some good news for Jammuites, to “cool” them down and take them out of the darkness. An official spokesman, briefing about the proceedings of a meeting chaired by the Governor NN Vohra said here today that the repaired transformer has been installed at the Gladni Grid station in Jammu and it shall be operational by tomorrow. It at all it happens, people in Jammu district and two other districts of the region will heave a sigh of relief after nearly two months of power outage for most of the days. “Reviewing the overall situation obtaining in the Jammu regi...   READ MORE   12th attempt on PDP office 8/18/2008 10:35:11 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Aug 18 The enraged agitators today made an attempt to ransack the office building of Peoples Democratic Party here in Gandhi Nagar but the Police prevented any major untoward incident. This was the twelfth time when the angry mob, protesting for withdrawal of 800 kanals of land from the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, made an attempt to ransack PDP office. This time the protestors could damage the outside billboard of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Mehbooba as Police prevented their entry inside the office. Holding national tricolour in their hands large number of activists shouting slogans assembled outside the regional headquarters of the PDP and destroyed l...   READ MORE

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