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| Eyebrows up as reports say Chinese helicopters intruded Ladakh airspace | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 30: India’s increasing strategic concern in Ladakh and other areas bordering China are not quite out of place as some reports have suggested violation of airspace in Ladakh by Chinese helicopters twice earlier this year.
Agency reports have claimed that two Chinese helicopters have reportedly violated the Indian air space in recent months in Leh area of north Jammu and Kashmir during which they air-dropped some canned food in barren land at Chumar, northeast of this Himalayan town, along the border. The MI series helicopters were reported to the nearby defence post by residents of this high altitude area living along the Pangong lake located in the lap of majestic hills, prompting the Army Aviation Corps to rush its Cheetah and Chetak helicopters.
However, they could only find tell-tale signs left by Chinese helicopters which hovered in the Indian territory for nearly five minutes dropping the food material on June 21 this year, sources said. When contacted, Army spokesperson for Udhampur-based Northern Command said that there was a report of a h... | |
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| CUAS threatens to intensify agitation | | | Munish Gupta | 8/30/2009 10:29:26 PM |
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Jammu, Aug 30: Peeved over the reported move of Union Ministry of Human Resource Development putting Central University of Jammu and Kashmir on hold for a year, the conglomerate Jammu based organizations spearheading agitation has warned of a sustained agitation if campus was not established in Jammu.
“If a Central University stands sanctioned for Jammu and Indian Institute of Management for Kashmir then what is all this fuss about”, questioned Advocate Sunil Sethi, the spokesman of Central University Andolan Samiti and president of Jammu Bar Association. He told reporters that the CUAS is geared for a sustained agitation, “more aggressive than last year’s Amarnath land row stir” if a t... | |
| | | | STATE SUBJECT LAWS | | Rules say – love J&K but leave when time comes | | | Agencies
Srinagar, Aug 30: Her teachers rate Shazadi as an outstanding student. The girl studying in Class 4 speaks the Kashmiri language fluently. She wants to become a college teacher here when she grows up. But destiny - in the form of government rules - has already ordained that she never will.
For, she is not a permanent resident of Jammu and Kashmir and was born to Bengali parents. Never mind that her family has lived in the valley for more than 20 years.
"She must complete her education and move out to West Bengal or any other state to fulfil her dreams," said her father Qasim, 39, in a matter-of-fact way.
The family has an acute sense of belonging for Kashmir. Shazadi, fondly ca... | |
| | | | Banning inter-district recruitments | | Bill can drive a wedge between NC, Cong | | |
Sant Kumar Sharma
SRINAGAR, Aug 30: The government has been dragging its feet on a controversial issue for nearly a month but now when session of legislative assembly is drawing to close all eyes are on the report of Joint Select Committee which had studied the Bill seeking to ban inter-district recruitments in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Bill tabled in the Legislative Assembly earlier this year was later referred to a Joint Select Committee of both Houses headed by Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather. After its three meetings since March, the JSC okayed the controversial Bill with some minor amendments and returned for presentation in the House. However, it is to be seen whether governmen... | |
| | | | Bhagwat meets Advani again | | | |
Early Times Report
New Delhi, Aug 30: RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat had yet another meeting with Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani today, after which speculations were rife that the octogenarian BJP leader, who is under pressure to make way for a younger leadership, had made up his mind to quit, but the change will not be immediate and he would continue guiding the party.
Senior RSS leader Madan Das Devi, who along with Mr Suresh Soni was present in the meeting that took place over the breakfast, told newspersons that they discussed the current crisis in the BJP and expressed the hope that the party would emerge stronger. He, however, refused to admit that the Sangh was decidin... | |
| | | | More money doesn't mean military strength: Pranab | | | | Early Times Report
New Delhi, Aug 30 : Pranab Mukherjee may now be in charge of the finance ministry but his versatility and his experience keep him in touch with practically every aspect of governance.
At a luncheon interaction with editors, Mukherjee was asked if allocating only 2.2 percent of GDP for defence did not make a handicap for India compared to Pakistan that spent 3.4 percent of its GDP on defence.
Mukherjee, who has been defence minister and then foreign minister in the previous Manmohan Singh government, promptly replied that military spending was not necessarily an index of the country's defence preparedness. He said India had taken a conscious decision not to up its defen... | |
| | | | Two bodies recovered at bus stand | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 30: Police today recovered two bodies from Jammu bus stand here.
The bodies were recovered from a corner of the stand during routine checking, they said.
While one of the dead man has been identified as Ram Dass, identity of the other is yet to be ascertained, they added.
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| | | | It’s democracy, don’t battle it in jails: Mufti | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 30: After days of watching the noisy politics, in and out of assembly, from a distance the former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today counseled the government to face the dissent in democratic manner instead of packing jails with opponents.
Addressing a public meeting at Anantnag, the assembly constituency of Mufti, the former Chief Minister said that Kashmir can never reconcile to strong arm methods or subversion of democratic norms and therefore withdrawal of forces from civilian areas and repeal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act was essential for moving forward. ''Sooner we understand this basic truth the bet... | |
| | | | PDP worker, family escape grenade blast | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 30: A blast was averted today in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir with police diffusing a grenade planted allegedly by militants outside the house of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) worker.
Militants had fixed a grenade at the front door of PDP worker Nissar Ahmed's house in Gursia village in Poonch, the police said today.
The grenade was attached to the door with a rope, they said, adding that it would have exploded if the door was opened.
The militants had knocked the door and fled from the spot, while local people informed the police after they saw it this morning.
Meanwhile the PDP worker and his family escaped from back door of the house and took... | |
| | | | Rather speechless in Assembly over JKB’s Rs 6.5 Cr loan to PDP leader | | Drabu escapes with another embarrassment for Omar’s Govt | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Aug 29: Close on the heels of Mehbooba Mufti’s revelation that former Economic Advisor to Jammu & Kashmir Government, Haseeb Drabu, had simultaneously functioned as a political advisor to the PDP and drafted the party’s ‘Self Rule’ concept alongwith Muzaffar Hussain Baig, Omar Abdullah’s National Conference-led coalition Government was subjected to yet another embarrassment today: Minister of Finance, Abdul Rahim Rather, had no answer to the Independent MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid’s question in Legislative Assembly. It was for the first time, at least since 1996, that a Minister himself pleaded for deferment of a starred question after learning that the reply was al... | |
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