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| All focus on NH restoration: CS | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Aug 5
The high level Central team comprising Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta and Defence Secretary, Vijay Singh had a detailed meeting with the senior State government officers led by Chief Secretary, S. S. Kapur and reviewed the overall situation in Jammu and Kashmir today.
The Director General, CRPF, V. K. Gosh, Corps Commander, 15 Corps, Lt. Gen. Mukesh Sabharwal, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Masood Samoon and senior officers of Police and security agencies participated.
The central team had taken a similar stock taking meeting at Jammu last evening.
Later, briefing about the meeting, the Chief Secretary said that while the overall securi... | |
| | | | Error Sending Message….. | | 36 hours after HC orders SMS still banned | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 5
Error Sending Message…this is what you get on mobile phones while sending an SMS since Sunday morning. Despite High Court orders, the Short Messaging Services (SMS) has still not been restored by the telecom operators even as the rumour mongers continued to have field day.
The SMS services were suspended on the instructions of administration to avoid spread of rumours. Though the messages were not restored, but the rumour mongers continued to have field day. This newspaper was called up by the people over two dozen times today to ascertain as how many people were killed in Akhnoor while the fact was that no one was killed.
More than 36 hours have ... | |
| | | | 102 cops injured in 36 days | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 5
Literally pushed to the wall by strong contingents of agitators in different parts of region, the Police today said it 102 of its cops have been injured in 52 major incidents of past 36 days while it opened fire only in three cases.
Defending the Police, a spokesman of the administration today fervently appealed to the people of Jammu region to cooperate with the administration to maintain law and order in the region and help in minimizing inconvenience to the general masses .
Advising people to restrain from violating curfew, the spokesman said that this measure is being taken to prevent unleashing of violence and loss of life and property . He sa... | |
| | | | Vohra renews appeal for peace | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 5
Amidst raging violence in the region and situation virtually slipping out of the security forces, the Governor NN Vohra today renewed his appeal for peace and sought to assure the public that a solution will soon be worked out through dialogue.
He called upon the people to maintain their age-old communal harmony at all costs and do all that may be necessary to ensure the safety of life and public property.
Mr Vohra expressed his deep concern over the damages caused to the railway-track at Hiranagar and said that such acts were reprehnsible and caused untold inconvenience to the travelling public besides enormous economic losses. He observed with ang... | |
| | | | Mob goes berserk in Jourian, Gaghwal | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu/Kathua | Aug 5
• Police Post, Naib Tehsildar office torched in Jourian
• Large scale violence, leaves four critically injured
• PDP, Congress offices attacked in Akhnoor area
• Rail track uprooted in Ghagwal; curfew in Kathua
• Thousands stranded as train traffic badly hit
• Incoming trains being terminated at Pathankote
• Dozens of trains for different areas cancelled
On fourteenth day of the second round of ongoing agitation on the issue of Shri Amarnath Shrine land, the Police today found itself on receiving end of a strong mob which indulged into large scale violence and arson.
The mobsters launched an attack on the Jourian village in t... | |
| | | | Better sops for removing regional discrimination are needed for restoring peace | | | | Gareeb Dass
Jammu | Aug 5
The ongoing stir in Jammu is purely a mass movement.The strings of the agitation are no longer in the hands of one or two political parties.Though the Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti continues to draw support from the masses in the Jammu region,its leaders are no longer in a position to go against the wishes and will of the people of the region.As such it is almost a futile exercise if the Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh appeals to Atal Behari Vajpayee or L.K.Advani for intervention so that peace was restored to Jammu.It is equally a futile exercise if the AICC Chief,Sonia Gandhi,appeals to the BJP Chief,Rajnath Singh,for defusing the crisis.Rajnath Singh has rightly t... | |
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