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| Bhalla expresses grief over Digiana accident | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORTER
Jammu | August 27
The state coalition Government has expressed sympathies with the kins of the today's road accident victims who were crushed to death by a minibus near Digiana. In the accident seven people were killed and five others were wounded.
Raman Bhalla, MLA immediately rushed to the spot to assess the gravity of the incident. People of the area gathered and start protesting against the accident. They also blocked the ever-busy Digiana road and didn't allow the vehicular movement for some time. Meanwhile, people lifted the protest only after the assurance of compensations to the victim's family and stern action against the culprit. Mr Raman Bhalla had be... | |
| | | | Pak support to Kashmirs will continue: Musharraf | | Student from Delhi is PoK President | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI | AUGUST 27
Amid the re-activated talk in Pakistan about the "improved chances" of a conciliatory meeting between President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, and Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, in Cuba next month, Islamabad has re-activated the talk of 'genuinness of the movement' of Kashmiri people in Indian Kashmir. The talk, in fact, has received a fresh impetus with Gen. Musharraf's pointed reference to Pakistan's 'commitment to the cause of Kashmir'.
Apparently, provoked by the recent statement of India's Minister of State for External Affairs, E. Ahamed, in the Rajya Sabha, declaring that Kashmir "is an integral part of India" and that there will be no compromi... | |
| | | | SC to hear petition to shift sex scandal case outside J-K | | | | New Delhi | AugUST 27
A week after the Supreme Court put brakes on indiscriminate arrests in the Srinagar sex scandal, thirteen out of the 14 accused, arrested by the CBI, have moved a petition before it seeking shifting of the case to a place outside Jammu and Kashmir.
In the petition, which has been listed for hearing tomorrow before a Bench headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal, the accused have contended that it was not possible for them to get free and fair trial in the prevailing situation in the state as no lawyer was willing take up their case in the wake of a resolution passed passed by Jammu and Kashmir Bar Association in Srinagar. Except former Congress Minister Ghulam Mohamm... | |
| | | | Bugti, associates killed in Pak military operation | | | | Islamabad | Aug 27
Prominent tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a major Army operation in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province which also left 38 other armed rebels and 21 security personnel dead, triggering massive violence which prompted authorities to impose curfew in Quetta and arrest hundreds of rioters.
"It is confirmed Nawab Bugti has been killed in an operation," Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani said here late last night.
The Baloch leader's son-in-law, Senator Agha Bugti, also said that 80-year-old Bugti was killed in the military operation in the gas-rich southwestern Balochistan province.
Besides the British-educated tribal leader, 38 armed rebels, ... | |
| | | | Aiyar complements state government for reviving Panchayats | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORTER
SRINAGAR |AUGUST 27
Assuring all possible help for effective working of Panchayats and implementation of rural development schemes, the Union Minister for Panchayat Raj, Mani Shanker Aiyar today said that fiscal and democratic decentralization is essential for strengthening the federal fabric of the country.
Aiyar was addressing during the plenary discussion on decentralization and local governance during the 3-days conference on “Indian Federalism at Work” at SKICC organized by Institute of Social Sciences in collaboration with University of Kashmir, University of Jammu and Hamdard University, New Delhi. He said that with the empowerment of Panchayati Raj Institut... | |
| | | | Govt infuses fresh oxygen to revamp RAW | | | | New Delhi | AugUST 27
With a view to revamp the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and meet its depleting cadre strength, the government has given a green signal to IPS officers to work in the external intelligence agency on the basis of permanent secondment, under which they can return to their parent cadre in case of better promotional avenues.
The proposal was cleared at a recent high-level meeting attended by senior bureaucrats, including RAW chief P K Hormese Tharakan, informed sources said.
Under the new proposal, IPS officers can join the RAW without affecting their seniority and return to their parent cadre whenever they have a better opportunity, which was not the case earlie... | |
| | | | "Vajpayee, Advani compelled me to release Azhar" : Farooq | | | | New Delhi | AugUST 27
In a stinging attack on Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani over the 1999 Kandahar hijack episode, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has accused the then Prime Minister and Home Minister of compelling him to release Jaish-e-Mohammad founder Maulana Masood Azhar for which the "world will pay the price".
Breaking his silence on the issue, the former ally of the ruling NDA said he had unsuccessfully desired to resign in view of the compelling directives of Vajpayee and Advani instead of being seen as "one responsible for promoting terrorism in this form." He said the Central pressure on him to release terrorists in view of the hijacking of the ... | |
| | | | Azad appreciates media for maintaining high standards of journalistic ethics | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORTER
Srinagar | August 27
Speaking on the occasion of Golden Jubilee function of Daily Aftab at SKICC, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has appreciated the role of local print media for maintaining high standards of journalistic ethics. He said that since his S. P. college days he was keen reader of Daily Aftab and has established personal association with its Chief Editor Khawaja Sonaullah Bhat after observing his high intellectual caliber. He said that he has always found rich content in famous column of aftab “Khazir Soochta Ha Wullar Key Kenaray” and even during his stay at New Delhi he has been reading this column and observing famous cartoon of Srinagar Times daily... | |
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