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| Jammu facing threat of loosing left over green patches to land grabbers | | 'Influential developing illegal colony inside Tawi' | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 7: Jammu region is faced with grave threat of land mafia patronized by various politicians encroaching upon huge chunks of land belonging to Forest Department, thus leaving not even a single green patch for morning and evening walkers.
Though the department has been making strenuous efforts to get the encroached land vacated but interference of political forces is preventing it from taking up mass anti-encroachment drives. Forest officials maintain that despite their best efforts, fresh Pucca structures have come up on one side of river Tawi in the foot hills of Mahamaya forests up to the Golf Course in Sidhra.
According to an official report, copy of which is with Early Times, over 300 Kanals of land belonging to forest department has been allegedly grabbed in Sidhra and Dwada area, near Golf Course and adjacent to Mahamaya temple in Bahu Range across river Tawi under Jammu Forest Division by influential persons who are working in Revenue, Police and Forest departments.
Forest officials disclosed that they have been facing innumerable difficultie... | |
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| Forest deptt retrieves 1900 Kanals of encroached land | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 7: Intensifying its drive against land grabbers, a team of Forest officials led by Chief Conservator of Forest (Jammu) Ravi Kesar got 1900 Kanals of land which was being grabbed by a local at Utterbani in Samba district vacated.
Official sources said that the department was approached by locals of Utterbani who expressed serious concern over the forest land being grabbed by one Rasaal Singh, a politically well-connected person of Utterbani in district Samba. Acting on the complaint of the locals, a team of Forest Protection Force (FPF) under the supervision of Minister for Forest, Mian Altaf and Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) Vinod Ranjan, led... | |
| | | | Hang Guru to save innocent lives | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 7: A day before master mind of Delhi High Court blast was killed, who according to the media report had carried out attack to pressurize judiciary for reversing its decision of death sentence to Afzal Guru, senior NC leader and MP Mehboob Beg had said, Guru won't be hanged during the tenure of Omar Abdullah as Chief Minister.
Mehboob Beg, whose father Mirza Afzal Beg would carry green cloth in public rallies to instigate people for showing their preference to Pakistan, had even gone to the extent of saying that Guru couldn't be hanged because of the fragile political nature of Kashmir.
Later, it was revealed that how dangerous it had become to keep this terr... | |
| | | | Militant threats' vindicate KPs stand on return: Pandit bodies | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 7: Kashmiri Pandit organisations today made it clear to the Government that the militants' threat to migrant youth appointed under PM's employment package in Valley had vindicated their stand that the time was not opportune for the return of the community to Valley. Commenting on the threat letter dashed by Jaish-e-Mohammad to migrant employees putting up at Sheikhpora quarters, Panun Kashmir said that it has vindicated the stand of PK on homeland as well and the organization will forcefully launch a movement for achievement of the goal.
PK president, Dr Ajay Chrungoo at a press conference here today expressed his serious concern over the letter of the dread... | |
| | | | After detection of underground infiltration route,it is untiring vigil on IB for smooth conduct of I-Day | | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Aug 7: The detection of the 400 mt long tunnel, running between Pakistan and India, and two incidents of firing from across the International Border (IB) here in less than a week speak of the neighbouring country's hidden evil intentions and show that it won't turn off the terror tap on its soil.
While the tunnel was to serve as an underground infiltration route to avoid armed conflict with the on-ground Indian security personnel, the firing incidents that followed its detection were aimed at facilitating intrusion by militants, a senior BSF officer today said in an informal chat with ET.
It had been dug by militants, or the Pak Rangers, or both with the sole purpos... | |
| | | | 'Dispute' over Sarthal Devi road project, contractor approaches CMs grievance cell | | | | Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, Aug 7: Construction work on 17 Kilometer Sarthal-Badhat road connecting over 20 villages in Sarthal area of Kishtwar district has hit the blockade due to dispute over 150 meter land at take off point of road.
Even though the contractor constructed near about 5 Kilometer road connecting 3 villages out of 20 villages coming under the alignment of said road project, but the road for the people of these three villages is useless since the take off point of this prestigious Rs. 12 crore road project is closed due to dispute on a private land.
Even though the PMGSY department has deposited the compensation of Rs. 1.34 cr in the year 2009 with Collector Land Acquisi... | |
| | | | Delhi High Court blast accused Chota Hafiz urges GOI to re-investigate blast case | | Blames media for hyping their names in Delhi blast case | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
KISHTWAR, Aug 7: After sending fellers to the security forces for surrender few months ago, Hizb commander Shakir Hussain Sheikh alias Chota Hafiz, prime accused in last year September 7 blast outside Delhi High Court demands reinvestigation in Delhi High Court blast in which he (Chota Hafiz) along with two others Amir Ali Kamal (now dead) and Junaid Akram Malik has been named as co-accused in the case along with three other Kishtwari youths Dr. Waseem Akram, Amir Abbas Dev, minor Abid Hussain Bhawani and few other Pakistani militants.
In an exclusive video available with "Early Times" recorded few weeks ago, Chota Hafiz again denied its hand in Delhi High Court blast case... | |
| | | | Justice delayed is justice denied, 80,000 cases pile in J&K HC | | | | Bashir Assad
SRINAGAR, Aug 7: Around 2.80 lakh cases are pending in various courts in Jammu and Kashmir with 80,000 cases piling up before the High Court only due to judges' shortage resulting in delay in disposal of the decades old cases.
The Jammu and Kashmir having 14 sanctioned vacancies has just seven judges (including Chief Justice MM Kumar) with 4 at Srinagar and 3 at Jammu while over 50% of slots - seven - have remained vacant for quite some time. The deficiency of judges have not only resulted in delay in justice to the litigants but also has rendered lawyers both at Srinagar and Jammu helpless in the eyes of their clients whose cases did not come up for hearing due to pa... | |
| | | | Kamaal unwilling to spare the Cong party | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 7: NC additional general secretary Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal will not reform himself. Nor would he change his attitude towards the Congress party. This became evident yesterday when he attacked the Congress party from right and left without naming it. He did name the PDP and said the PDP was the number one enemy of the NC, but what he said was also a blistering attack on the Congress party. He, among other things, said: "People know that sex scandal, forest scam, Amarnath land row, corruption that took place in his (read Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led Government) brief Government from 2002-2005 and they will always keep away from him and his Party. This period was the ... | |
| | | | Advani's machinations likely to damage BJP | | Either Me Or None | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 7: Former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, who calls himself a BJP veteran and has been struggling hard to become Prime Minister, seems all out to spoil the electoral chances of the party which he led a number of times. It was he who led the BJP in the 2004 and 2009 general elections. As the Indian electorate had developed disliking for Advani, it rejected the BJP. It was not that the Congress had improved its tally in these elections because the Indian electorate liked the Congress leadership. It was the BJP under the ineffective and controversial leadership of Advani that lost much of its political space to the Congress.
There was general consensus in the c... | |
| | | | Ganderbal clash political, not sectarian: Jamaat | | Don't think of repeating 1979. Much of water has flown down the Jhelum', Geelani warns Omar Abdullah's NC | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Aug 7: Even as Jamaat-e-Islami today claimed that Monday's group clash, that left one of the organisation's activists killed and several others wounded at Sindhbal village of Ganderbal, was "political, not sectarian", JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik described it as a "blot on the face of entire nation".
"It was a purely political clash, not religious or sectarian", Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami, Sheikh Ghulam Hassan, asserted at a news conference at the party's headquarters at Batmaloo today. He elaborated: "National Conference's goons, led by their Sarpanch, carried out this heinous attack on the people performing prayers at the mosque. They are disturbed over Jamaat's gro... | |
| | | | Union HM's visit assumes significance in 'changed' security environment of J&K | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 7: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's visit to J&K by this weekend assumes significance in more than one way. Apart from being his first visit in capacity of Home Minister to J&K, Shinde is coming at a time to state when security environment in Kashmir , of which he would be taking a review as major agenda , is witnessing some unsavory developments in terms of fillip in violence and resurgence of various outfits and operatives that remained dormant for some time in the past. While Shinde would expectedly review security scenario of the entire state in the forthcoming visit to J&K as a primary task in the official agenda, what comes as a major challeng... | |
| | | | 15 prisoners have escaped in 3 jail breaks | | 8 Security in Srinagar Central Jail | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 7: The security system of the Srinagar Central jail has been trampled three times till date. Fifteen prisoners have escaped. Those who escaped frm the prison include Maqbool Bhat and Khawaja Ghulam Naqui.
Khawaja Ghulam Naqui and his friend advocate were arrested for their affiliation with the first militant organization of Jammu Kashmir, Hyderi Column. The outfit was launched immediately after the creationof India and Pakistan. Arms were smuggled from across the border and large number of youth joined it. Naqui and his friend had just returned from Aligarh Muslim University after completing their LLB. Naqui who rose to the level of vice-chairman Habib Bank... | |
| | | | 4 member NIA team arrives at Kishtwar | | Probe into Delhi High Court blast | | | Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Aug 7: Four member National Investigating Agency (NIA) probing last year's September 7 blast outside Delhi High Court arrived here to quiz Hizb militant Rizwan presently in custody of Doda police.
The NIA visit to Kishtwar comes in wake of killing of two HM militants including prime suspect Amir Ali Kamal alias Akram at Dachhan yesterday.
According to the reports, the NIA officials held meeting with JK Police at Kishtwar and Doda. They also met the 10 RR men and discussed circumstances that lead to the killing of accuse Amir Kamal.
The NIA officials will quiz Sajjad Ahmed Mir alias Rizwan a close associate of Chota Hafiz about the whereabouts of Cho... | |
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