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Police to probe fresh threat from Pak terror portal 8/19/2022 11:13:36 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 19: The Jammu and Kashmir Police is set to probe the fresh threat purportedly released by a Pakistani terror portal that wants to “keep the pot of bloodshed boiling in the valley.” Top sources said the terror portal has issued a fresh threat in the wake of some recent positive developments on the electoral front in Jammu and Kashmir. The sources said terror portal, which has been banned across India has released some terror content that has put the security establishment on alert to safeguard lives of the people. The terror portal is believed to be close to the Lashkar and other terror outfits operating from Pakistan and POK across the fence. The terror portal, as per the sources, in the past had issued death threats to some prominent Kashmiri people, some of whom were subsequently killed by the terrorists. The sources said an FIR was likely to be registered in connection with the content of the purported threat. The era of peace and prosperity which Jammu and Kashmir has been witnessing since the abrogation of the so called special status...   READ MORE

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Terror funding module busted, one arrested from Jammu, another from Delhi 8/19/2022 11:13:29 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 19: A module involved in funding terror groups active in Jammu and Kashmir was jointly busted by Jammu and Kashmir Police and Delhi Police with the assistance of intelligence agencies. While one member of this syndicate was arrested by J&K Police on Thursday from Jammu Bus Stand while the kingpin of this module was nabbed by Delhi Police from Meena Bazaar, Delhi. The accused arrested by Meena Bazaar Delhi was disguised as a “garment trader” and receiving Hawala money from abroad to distribute the same among the terrorists of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Al-Badr outfits active in Jammu and Kashmir. Identified as Mohammad Yaseen, 48, the accused was arrested ...   READ MORE   Weapon dropping case: Accused dies in jail 8/19/2022 11:13:17 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 19: A day after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids at eight locations across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the dropping of arms from Pakistan, investigation agencies received a setback as the kingpin of this terrorist module died on Friday afternoon due to a massive heart attack in the Kot Bhalwal Jail of Jammu. Lodged in Kot Bhalwal Jail, Muni Mohmmad was offering Namaz along with other prisoners when he suddenly collapsed. He was shifted to a hospital where he was declared dead by the doctors. Reports said that Muni Mohammad suffered a massive heart attack. He was the kingpin of a terrorist module invol...   READ MORE   2 hybrid terrorists arrested in Handwara 8/19/2022 11:13:11 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Aug 19: Police on Friday claimed to have arrested two Hybrid terrorists in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. A police spokesman said the accused Aijaz Ahmad Bhat alias Hilal, S/o Khazir Mohd Bhat, R/o Humpora and Naseer Ahmad Mir, S/o Mohd Ramzan Mir, R/o Sagipora were arrested following the arrest of three hybrid terrorists on Aug 4. That trio was arrested by joint parties of Police, Army 21 RR and 92 Bn CRPF in Handwara and arms and ammunition from them had been recovered even as FIR No. 213/2022 u/s 13 UAPA and 7/25 Arms Act had been registered at Police Station Handwara and investigation was initiated. The police spokesman further st...   READ MORE   Hard work needed to build country: PM Modi 8/19/2022 11:13:03 PM Agencies NEW DELHI, Aug 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 19, 2022 said it does not take much effort to form a government, but a lot of hard work goes into building a country as he took a veiled jibe at the Opposition for neglecting a key issue like water conservation. He said those who were not concerned about the country were not bothered about its present or the future and maintained his government has been working for the last eight years to ensure water scarcity does not become an impediment in the path of overall development. Mr. Modi was addressing, via video link, a programme titled “Har Ghar Jal Utsav”, organised by the Goa government to mark 100% piped water supply...   READ MORE   Mirwaiz not under house arrest: LG clarifies police's presence 8/19/2022 11:12:56 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 19: Senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is not under house arrest, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha said on Friday. “We have neither arrested him nor is he under house arrest,” Sinha told in an interview. Noting that the father of the Mirwaiz was killed in an unfortunate incident, he said that police was placed around the separatist leader's house for his protection. “Even in 2019, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was not detained under the PSA. He is neither arrested nor detained. He must decide what he wants to do,” Sinha added. By clarifying the presence of police with Mirwaiz, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha has countered a malicious campaign s...   READ MORE   ‘J&K figures among 11 States, UTs where women have more sex partners than men’ 8/19/2022 11:12:50 PM Agencies New Delhi, Aug 19: Women on average have more sex partners than men in 11 states and UTs but the percentage of men who had sexual intercourse with someone who was neither their spouse or lived with stood at 4 per cent, much higher than that of women at 0.5 per cent, according to the NFHS data. The National Family Health Survey which was conducted among 1.1 lakh women and 1 lakh men showed that the number of sex partners on average for women was higher than men in many states and Union territories. These states and UTs are Rajasthan, Haryana, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, and Tamil Nadu. Rajasthan had the highe...   READ MORE   Pahalgam accident: 3 critically injured ITBP jawans airlifted to AIIMS 8/19/2022 11:12:05 PM Agencies New Delhi, Aug 19: Three Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force personnel who were critically injured in a road accident while being de-inducted from the Amarnath Yatra duty were flown in to Delhi on Friday for specialised treatment. They have been admitted to the trauma centre of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after being airlifted from Srinagar onboard an air ambulance service, a senior officer of the paramilitary force said. The three jawans were critically injured and required specialised treatment, he said. Seven ITBP personnel were killed while 32 others, including two Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel, were injured when their bus fell into a g...   READ MORE   Army defuses unexploded ordnance shell in Samba 8/19/2022 11:11:58 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 19: Army troops detected and defused an unexploded ordnance shell in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Friday, officials said. Soldiers of the Tiger division assisted the civil administration in carrying out safe extrication of the unexploded ordnance shell from a heavily populated area near Kikri Morh in Balole Nala of Samba, they said. They demolished the shell safely, thereby averting a tragedy, the officials added....   READ MORE   Wanted to join Army, but couldn’t: Rajnath 8/19/2022 11:11:52 PM Agencies Imphal, Aug 19: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that he wanted to join the Army but could not due to difficulties in his family. Addressing the personnel of the Assam Rifles and 57th Mountain Division of the Indian Army here, Singh recounted how he appeared for the examination to get into the forces. I want to share a story from my childhood. I also wanted to join the Army, and once I appeared for the examination of the Short Service Commission. I gave the written exam. But, because of certain situations in my family, including the death of my father, I couldn’t join the Army,” he said. You will see, if you give the Army uniform to a kid, his personality change...   READ MORE   Union Home Secy gets one-year extension 8/19/2022 11:11:45 PM Agencies NEW DELHI, Aug 19: Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Friday was given a one-year extension in service till August 22, 2023, according to a personnel ministry order. Bhalla, a 1984-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, was appointed as the home secretary in August 2019 and this is his third extension. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved extension in service to Bhalla as home secretary, ministry of home affairs, for a period of one year beyond August 22, 2022, i.e. up to August 22, 2023, in relaxation of the All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958, it said. After being appointed as th...   READ MORE

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