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| Chenab looses claim on world’s highest rail bridge | | After spending Rs 300 Crore, prestigious project called off | | | Early Times Report
Jammu | Sept 12
Jammu and Kashmir’s chance to claim a rare international fame by boasting of having world’s highest railway bridge has been scuttled midway with government canceling the arduous yet marvelous link over River Chenab after burning more than Rs 100 Crore and standing to loose another Rs 200 Crores.
As a part of Jammu-Udhampur-Baramulla rail link the world’s highest railway bridge was coming up over River Chenab in village Kauri in the newly created Reasi district. After spending more than Rs 100 Crores and risking the claims of an international construction consortium running beyond Rs 200 Crores, the government has cancelled the project after belatedly learning about its unfeasibility.
Even as the sources confirmed about the development which is all set to delay the rail project by few more years, the local administrative authorities feigned ignorance about this. On being contacted, the Deputy Commissioner of Reasi, Sanjeev Verma told EARLY TIMES that he has no such information. “There must have been some rumour, the construction work is goin... | |
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| Students to pay for 2 months when their schools were shut
| | | | Munish Gupta
Jammu | Sept 12
With the resumption of life to near normal in Jammu after two-month long agitation, various establishments are counting their losses and making case for rehabilitation but one section is confused –parents of the school going children.
The students of private schools lost their studies during the months of agitation and now parents are being asked to pay the fees for the period when schools were shut. Schools have a ‘justifiable’ reason to charge the fees but strangely there is no word from the government on what to do on this account. Parents are appearing as a confused lot.
The agreement between the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti and the Governmen... | |
| | | | Misfortune for Kauri | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu | Sep 12
Unfortunately Kauri in Reasi failed to have a tryst with destiny. Few would have even heard of Kauri, a small and virtually inaccessible hamlet in newly created district of Reasi which earlier this year geared up for being enlisted as the place where world’s tallest bridge is being constructed by the Konkan Railways.
A joint venture of Indian-European partnership and the flagship project of the Konkan Railways, the Chenab Bridge, on its completion would have been located at the height of 359 metres above the bed of the mighty and tumultuous Chenab, with Kauri emerging as the country’s attraction centre.
Surpassing the record of the Mailo Road Bridge i... | |
| | | | Valley erupts in Friday, 2 dead, 130 injured | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar | Sept 12
Two persons were killed and over 130 others, including JKLF chief Yasin Malik, injured in firing and baton charge by security forces as fresh protests rocked the Kashmir Valley today, prompting authorities to clamp curfew in Baramulla and Shopian towns.
The protesters poured into the streets shortly after Friday prayers on a call by the separatists to press for right to self determination but turned violent as security forces refused to allow them to march on the roads, the sources said.
Apprehending violence, authorities had deployed police and paramilitary forces in strength outside all mosques, shrines and sensitive localities
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| | | | Amarnath yatra to be BJP’s nation campaign plank | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu | Sept 12
As expected in the election season, the Bhartiya Janta Party has taken over not only the Shri Amarnath Yatra issue but also the whole gamut of Jammu and Kashmir –a matter of nationalism –as a major plank for the poll campaign.
The National Executive meeting of the BJP which went underway in Bangalore today had Jammu and Kashmir as a dominant subject of fiery debates even as the party president Rajnath Singh projected the senior leader LK Advani as Prime Ministerial candidate.
Calling for nationlisation of the Shri Amarnath Yatra, the BJP also asked the Election Commission of India to take action against all those political parties which have direct... | |
| | | | Pak Par to discuss Kashmir solution | | | | Islamabad | Sept 12
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is hopeful that disputes related to Siachen and Sir Creek will be resolved "very soon" with India, creating an atmosphere for the two countries to achieve a breakthrough on the long-standing Kashmir issue.
Insisting that his government will not depend on secret diplomacy to resolve outstanding issues with India, Zardari told The News daily he was hopeful the military stand-off on the Siachen glacier and the Sir Creek boundary dispute would be resolved "very soon".?
The settlement of these two issues could create an atmosphere of trust in which the two countries could move forward on the Kashmir dispute, he said.
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| | | | Await poll or Zardari's good news | | | | Nirbhay Jammual
The state team,comprising Director General Police,Kuldeep Khoda,Chief SecretaryS.S.Kapoor,and the Chief Electoral Officer,B.R.Sharma,have conveyed to the Election Commission that holding of the Assembly election could prove an antidote to the current situation in the Kashmir valley.Yes the team did not mind if the elections were held a bit later than the schedule,instead of holding it in October it could be held towards the end of November.The team members had explained to the Election Commission members that the security scenario in the Kashmir could not be expected to become normal within a month or so when the separatists have started inciting people on one issue or th... | |
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