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| TOP COPS ALL SET FOR PROMOTIONS | | | | Jammu, August 3 -Seven SSPs are being elevated to the post of DIGs in Jammu and Kashmir soon after the Independence day celebrations are over.
Informed sources said that the Director General Police, Mr Gopal Sharma,who has already been empanelled will continue to head the police organization in the state.The sources said that at one stage Mr Sharma had wanted to seek a posting as Directror General police outside the state but the state Government, especially the Chief Minister, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad,and the Transport Minister, Mr Mangat Ram Sharma, continue to support Mr Gopal Sharma.
When Mr Azad took over as Chief Minister he had toyed with the idea of bringing some senior IPS officer to head the police in Jammu and Kashmir. But he could not succeed in his mission because suitable people were not interested in shouldering the responsibility of heading the police in a state tormented by militancy related violence. And both Mr Azad and his cabinet colleagues,besides the Governor,Mr S.K.Sinha,are said to have found in Mr Gopal Sharma a non controversial officer.
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| SECURITY BEEFED UP, INTENSIVE CHECKING OF VEHICLES LAUNCHED, CAMPAIGN AGAINST TINTED GLASSES | | | | Jammu, August 03 : In the run up to the Independence day celebrations the traffic police department has decided to launch intensive campaign to check the authenticity of vehicles and their ownership to avoid misuse of vehicles by militants for planting explosives.
The traffic police authorities have also decided to conduct random checking of vehicles across various city nakas through out the day.
Sources in the department said that following reports that militants were planning to disrupt the Independence day celebrations in Jammu and Kashmir the traffic police department has been asked to assist local police authorities to coordinate and launch intensive campaign to ward off any threat. ... | |
| | | | Jammu and Kashmir govt initiates pest control measures in Ladakh region | | | |
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government today said various pest control measures initiated in the Ladakh region of the state have helped in checking the spread of locust infestation in field crops to a great extent.
Various pest control measures initiated by the government in the ladakh region have helped to check the spread of locust infestation on field crops to a greater extent, Agriculture Minister Abdul Aziz Zargar said in the legislative council.
He said the locust infestation was reported in pastures of Changthan area in Leh district during 2005 and the disease appeared again this season. A similar infestation was reported from Zanskar area of Kargil district this year but the... | |
| | | | Tehran not willing to sell gas cheaply to India, Pakistan | | | | New Delhi: Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Mohammad Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian said on Thursday that the price being offered by New Delhi and Islamabad for Iranian gas was half of what Tehran was looking out for.
Speaking to reporters here on the sidelines of the third round of talks to iron out a seven-billion-dollar gas pipeline deal with India and Pakistan, Hosseinian said, "The price of the seller is about twice the prices that the buyers are interested,"
On being asked how big the price difference was, Hosseinian refused to divulge the details saying, "It depends how you compare it".
"We think that the price is fair and today we have a report that shows that's the good price for Indi... | |
| | | | Ninety-six percent of Golden Quadrilateral to be completed by December 2006 | | | |
New Delhi: Minister of State for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, K H Muniyappa on Thursday said that ninety-six percent of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) would be completed by December 2006.
He told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the project was facing delay due to problems associated with some contracts, acquisition of land, shifting of utilities, environment and forest clearances, law and order and poor performance of contractors.
The (GQ) is the largest expressway project in India. It is the first phase of the (NHDP) which consists of building 5,846 kilometers of four or six lane expressways connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, including 722 km in Rajastha... | |
| | | | Measures in place to protect unskilled labour | | India concerned over suicide by NRIs: Ahmad | | |
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NEW DELHI, AUG. 3: Indian authorities have expressed concern over the rising tendency among NRIs (non-resident Indians) in the Gulf to commit suicide, according to the Minister of State for External Affairs, E. Ahmad. Despite efforts like provision of counselling and legal assistance, the suicide rate has shown no signs of abating.
In the course of an informal chat with EARLY TIMES correspondent in Parliament's Central Hall, E. Ahmad said that the number of suicides by the NRIs in the Gulf had shown an increase during the last over one-and-a-half years. Nearly 270 Gulf-based Indians committed suicide in 2005. And the figure stood at 166 in 2006 until the end of July... | |
| | | | A diamond rush, illegal brush! | | Illegal mining continues in Chhattisgarh | | |
EARLY TIMES DELHI BUREAU
NEW DELHI, AUG. 3: The 'diamond lands' in the Raipur district of Chhattisgarh State are in the news. A report just made public by CNN-IBN television network says that everyday sacks are filled with diamonds fromfields and traken away for washing and extraction. CNN-IBN's special investigation team (SIT) has, at the same time, cautioned: There is one catch to this entire set up. It is all illegal.
The report says: Dig the earth in this Chhattisgarh town and chances are you may just strike diamonds. Predictably, this has led to a diamond rush, where hundreds come every year in the hope of finding diamonds and striking it rich. Pailikhand, Gariaband, Deob... | |
| | | | Pak faces major political crisis | | Musharraf uses 'Kashmir card' to save his regime | | |
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NEW DELHI: Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, currently facing a set of serious challenges within his own country, has chosen to divert the Pakistanis' attention to the decades old bone of contention between his country and India. It is Kashmir, to be precise. Gen. Musharraf and his men within and outside the Pakistan ruling establishment seem to have found the 'Kashmir card' relevant and effective while dealing with their political adversaries.
Since things on Pakistan's politcal scene are hotting up, the use of 'Kashmir card' may not eventually serve the political requirements of Gen. Musharraf and his men. Taking the situation, as it is, Pakistan is on the ... | |
| | | | Two crucial official wings aren't healthy | | Home Ministry for effective surveillance on calls to Pak | | |
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NEW DELHI, AUG. 3: The government of India admits that highly robust is the terrorists' world. Equally robust is the comunication network available to the terrorists, local and foreign. What seems to have perturbed the government is that in spite of the existence in India of a number of security and intelligence related agencies, the number of terrorist attacks has only increased.
The government, signifcantly, does not refute the 'fact' that the lack of coordination between different intelligence agencies has, more often than not, led to successes by the 'enemy'--the infiltrator, the militant, the terrorist, the fidayeen. While the Intelligence Bureau (IB) is the apex ... | |
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