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| Patriots get less reward than militants: Mere Rs 5,100 awarded for detecting secret cross-border tunnel | | CS to take access of tunnel today | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Aug 31: Reaction started pouring in from different corners after Government presented a meager award of Rs 5100 to a villager who informed security forces about underground tunnel in border area of Samba. The issue perhaps may play a damp squib during the proposed visit of Chief Secretary Madhav Lal who is visiting to Samba tomorrow.
Sources said the high profiled cavalcade of Chief Secretary will be apprised with the issue and resentment among locals during his visit to border village to asses the situation.
Sources in Samba said that resentment started pouring in after the villager who gave the tip-off to Army about an underground tunnel dug from Pakistan along the ... | |
| | | | Govt primary school at Ker in Bhalwal block has 2 ReTs, 1 cook but "no" student | | Classrooms constructed over an year back are without roof | | | Bharat Bhushan
DHANU IN BHALWAL BLOCK (JAMMU), Aug 31: Tarmurian is a morha in Dhanu village of Bhalwal block. While this sleepy hamlet is hardly 23 km from Bhalwal and about 15 km from the main Akhnoor road at Gour, it is virtually cut off from the adjoining villages for most of the rainy days of the year. Since the last Friday night witnessed heavy downpour, the efforts to reach here from the Gour side could not succeed for the next two days as landslides and uprooted trees blocked the narrow and bumpy dirt track, 8 km off the main Gour-Reasi road.
Due to the prevailing road conditions that of course make the drive risky, Zonal Education Officer (ZEO), Bhalwal, or other senior educatio... | |
| | | | Agenda comes during meeting by mutual consent , says Prof Soz | | Coordination Committee meeting today | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 31: The Chairman of the Coordination Committee of ruling alliance partners National Conference and Congress, Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz ruled out any pre decided agenda for the meeting which is scheduled in the summer capital tomorrow. The meeting is being held after over a month and will be attended by the members of both the parties.
"We devise the agenda there and then only and it is always by mutual consent that issues are taken up for discussion by the members…..we never go with any fixed or pre decided agenda ….", Prof Soz said while speaking to ET. Anything that is circulated ahead of the meeting is speculative …..the veteran Congress leader said adding ... | |
| | | | Audio conversation indicts teacher | | Chatroo attempted rape case | | |
Asif Iqbal Naik
KISHTWAR, Aug 31: An audio conversation with Early Times indicts a teacher in Chatroo attempted rape. The conversation as recorded by victim's friends as a proof to convince her parents of evil intentions of the accused teacher.
The accused teacher offers help to the victim in lieu of sex. The 3 minute 15 second conversation begins with the inquiry from the teacher who seeks her whereabouts.. The accused teacher informs the victim that he is in Kishtwar in connection with the treatment of an insect bite. "Where are you this time, are you alone", the accused teacher enquires. The victim in her reply informs him that she was alone and was sitting near a village spring.
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| | | | Former interlocutors at the receiving end | | Will Jammu also go the Kashmir way? | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 31: In Kashmir, two former Government of India-appointed interlocutors journalist Dilip Padgaonkar and university professor Radha Kumar were mocked by all or nearly all the participants in workshop on their report on Jammu and Kashmir held at the Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre, Srinagar, on Thursday. The Kashmiri participants rejected the document of the former interlocutors, who now call themselves resource persons, circulated in the workshop hall for getting feedback to be communicated to the Central Government for consideration. The document was nothing but a broad summery of their recommendations. They rejected the document, nay the report, saying that... | |
| | | | SS Kapur emerging 'dark horse' in CVC race | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 31: Former State Chief Secretary SS Kapur is emerging as 'dark horse' in the hot race to fill the coveted post of Chief Vigilance Commissioner in Jammu and Kashmir.
The ongoing selection process was put on hold after Governor NN Vohra raised querries over the appointment of former DGP Kuldeep Khoda on the post of CVC.
Leader of the Opposition Mehbooba Mufti had submitted a dissent note during the meeting of selection panel following which Governor had returned the file seeking clarification from the state government over allegations leveled by PDP leader against former police chief.
PDP leader had dragged his name in the fake encounter case.
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| | | | Treatment at SKIMS becomes costlier, Cancer patients suffer | | | | Bashir Assad
SRINAGAR, Aug 31: While the Central Government is providing liberal financial assistance to the State Government to upgrade healthcare infrastructure, the situation in Sher-i-Kashmir Medical Institute Soura (SKIMS) is going from bad to worst.
Director of the lone prestigious tertiary SKIMS who also runs a NGO namely Cancer Society of Kashmir, has on one hand launched endowment fund on the pretext to provide better health to cancer patients and on the other hand has ordered for charging investigation fee from the patients suffering from this deadly disease.
It merits a mention here that certain amount though nominal is being deducted from the employees of the institute i... | |
| | | | Young girl attempts suicide after harassment by youth | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 31: Facing continuous exploitation by a youth, a young girl attempted suicide taking some poisonous substance at her residence here late night today.
According to sources, Neha (Name changed) a student of B.A Final Year, was being exploited by a youth for about six months and despite her resistance, the said youth continued exploiting her.
About two days ago, he followed her at Jewel Chowk and brought down her from the matador, she was travelling in, and slapped her in full public view. While she could manage to move ahead towards her home, the said youth again followed her and again attacked her near Taali Morh, Janipur and snatched her mobile and fled... | |
| | | | Secular space for minorities in a theocratic neutral zone? | | Taking Jammu and Ladakh for a ride | | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 31: Give us autonomy, says the ruling National Conference. It says the grant of autonomy (read semi-independence) to the State would end unrest in the Valley on a permanent basis, resolve the "Kashmir issue" and forge a lasting peace in South Asia. Give us self-rule, says the People's Democratic Party. It says the grant of self-rule (read quasi-independence and India-Pakistan joint control over the State) would go a long way in restoring peace in the restive Kashmir Valley. Hold referendum in the State and allow us to join Muslim Pakistan, says Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman of Tehrik-e-Hurriyat. He says the merger of the State with Pakistan is the only solution, as Jammu ... | |
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