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Stone pelters staging a comeback in Srinagar Surrender to Geelani: Students won't attend I-Day ceremonies in Valley 8/8/2011 11:46:04 PM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT srinagar, Aug 8: After nearly nine months of calm in Kashmir valley, street clashes between pro-Azadi groups of youth and Police are back at several 'flashpoints' in this capital city, though not with much intensity yet. While the separatist leaders are trying to exploit the custodial killing of a youth in Sopore and tension is palpably building up ahead of the Indian Independence Day, Government is said to be holding the ceremonial parades without participation of schoolchildren on August 15th. Separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani's shutdown, coupled by Friday protests against home confinement of separatist leaders, has cast some dark shadows on the nine-month-long peace in the Valley. Small groups of youngsters surfaced on the road at three o...   READ MORE

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Forestry projects in limbo, J&K spending more on salaries 'Aamdani athani kharcha rupaya' 8/8/2011 11:43:33 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 8: Jammu and Kashmir government is spending nearly 10 times more on paying salaries to overstaffed social forestry department than on achieving the objectives for which it was created in the year 2004. And if the sources are to be believed, despite being aware of burdening salary budget of the department, several blue-eyed officers from agriculture department have been drafted into the social forestry department on deputation basis. 'Forest Digest 2009' gives an insight into the department which was actually, a World Bank aided project, started in the state in the year in 1981-82, initially for a period of five years. The Project was ...   READ MORE   NC leadership using 'media' to reach out to 'government' run by party….? 'Distance widening between cadres, ruling elite' 8/8/2011 11:42:55 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Aug 8: It sounds ironical that those in power should make media as 'medium' to reach out to the power corridors to voice out their concerns on issues concerning people or a region in particular. The plight of workers and even middle rung cadres is common with almost all the parties in Indian polity but here in J&K it reflects pathetic state of affairs when the leaders of the ruling NC choose to take media help to make their own government listen and understand what public wants from them. This may be true of both the alliance partners in J&K coalition government Congress as well as NC that workers and even leaders of senior hierarchy feel quite distanced from th...   READ MORE   New Delhi has handed over J&K to a Twitter kid: PDP 8/8/2011 11:42:27 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Aug 8: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today said that New Delhi has handed over power to a twitter kid who is busy only on Twitter. In an interview given to a national daily, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice-president Moulvi Iftikhar Ansari has said that Delhi has handed over power to a kid who is busy only on Twitter. He went on to say that after custodial death of Manzoor Ahmad, Omar ordered a probe while adding that the criminal got a promotion instead of punishment. Referring to the Sopore incident, Ansari said that it is cold-blooded murder of a youth who was arrested and eight hours later, his body was handed over to his parents. "When PDP leaders trie...   READ MORE   Omar's New Delhi vacations continue, aide denies 8/8/2011 11:42:09 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 8: Unfazed by happenings across the state, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was reportedly holidaying with his family in New Delhi and returned to Srinagar on Monday. Highly placed sources said that despite New Delhi's annoyance with Omar regularly shuttling between Srinagar and New Delhi, the tech savvy Chief Minister found time from his busy schedule to visit his family in New Delhi. They added that Omar wen to Delhi on Saturday evening and after staying for a day with his family, returned to Srinagar on Monday at around 4 pm. Sources said that omar was expected to break his routine after New Delhi explicitly asked him to take job at home ...   READ MORE   Omar has no plans to observe black day today How bright is August 9? 8/8/2011 11:41:45 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Aug 8: Sher-e-Kashmir's only roar cost him his chair and liberty. This happened on August 9, 1953 for `seeking independence of Jammu Kashmir'. However, strangely enough, the `roaring lion' accused |New Delhi of ditching him and observed August 9 as black day. Even after assuming power with Congress support in 1975, he continued to observe it as black day. But times have changed and so has the situation. Today's NC is more interested in a six-year term of Omar Abdullah rather than Sher-e-Kashmir's legacy. And with Congress and PDP coming closer, Omar can go to the extent of saying that August 9 was as bright as any other day. People by and large believe that...   READ MORE   No school children at this year's Independence Day in Srinagar? 8/8/2011 11:41:23 PM Early Times Report srinagar, Aug 8: The decision of the provincial administration not to hold any cultural programmes by school children in connection with this year's Independence Day functions in the Bakshi Stadium can only be called unfortunate. A local news agency has quoted official sources saying no invitations are being sent to any school this year to participate in the Independence Day celebrations at the Stadium on August 15. "Neither government nor private schools will be invited this time," the news agency said. It must be mentioned that local separatist leaders have been appealing the school authorities over the last many years not to send children to attend the Republic Day...   READ MORE   Surankote encounter turned fake killed 'LeT Comdr' was civilian 8/8/2011 11:41:03 PM Amit Sharma EARLY TIMES REPORT SURANKOTE, Aug 8: Claimed as Pakistani militant and District Commander of Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) by Army, the Surankote encounter has turned out to be fake as in a sensational revelation police have declared the killed person as a civilian. It is pertinent to mention here that Army and Police on Sunday had declared that they have killed Abu Usman, after a 12-hour long gun battle at Hari area of Surankote and they have also recovered a Pistol from the encounter site. There were also reports that another ultra was escaped from the encounter site. However, whole story changed in the evening when local residents refused to bury the dead body because they had d...   READ MORE   Isolate and bring to justice anti-India Indians Fai's Arrest: Lessons for India 8/8/2011 11:40:40 PM Rustam EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 8: The July 19 arrest of the United States-based Pakistani agent of Kashmir origin Ghulam Nabi Fai has triggered a fierce debate in India with concerned Indians raising questions about the nature of the Indian State and suggesting that "now is the most appropriate time to take on headlong all those (from India) seeking to wreck the Indian polity both from within and outside." A leading private TV news channel Times Now took the lead in exposing the so-called Indians who had been willingly and cheerfully offering their services to Pakistan and its agent Fai since years to weaken the Indian stand on Jammu and Kashmir and vindicate the Pakistani stand tha...   READ MORE   Campaign against corruption, BJP-style Charity Begins At Home 8/8/2011 11:40:04 PM EARLY TIMES Report JAMMU, Aug 8: BJP national general secretary Jagat Prakash Nadda yesterday said that the Congress-led UPA Government "has become a den of corruption" and that the BJP "has lunched a month-long awareness campaign against corruption, black money and price rise." Nadda made these statements in Jammu while addressing a public meting. Nobody would disagree with Nadda when he says that the Congress is a corrupt party and that the Congress-led UPA Government the most corrupt government India has ever seen. Both the Congress and the present dispensation in New Delhi are indeed most corrupt; they have undoubtedly shamed India and blacken the face of the country beyond recogniti...   READ MORE   Cornered interlocutors may put in their papers Good News For Jammu 8/8/2011 11:39:26 PM Neha EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 8: Chief interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir Dileep Padgaonkar, who attended the ISI/Fai-sponsored anti-India seminar in Washington D C, is in the dock. Radha Kumar, another interlocutor, who attended the Fai-sponsored anti-India seminar in Brussels and became a party to the anti-India resolution on Jammu and Kashmir, is also in deep trouble. In fact, both Padgaonkar and Kumar have become objectives of ridicule and contempt with people and political parties like the Congress and the BJP raising several questions about their credibility and virtually suggesting their dismissal saying they have "outlived their utility" by exposing their anti-India credentia...   READ MORE

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