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| Qazi may regain Forest deptt | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu|Sep 13 After massive changes in the administrative setup of the Forest department and institution of a high level inquiry the Forest portfolio is all set to be restored to the beleaguered Peoples Democratic Party leader Qazi Mohammad Afzal.
Though there has not be any official communication between Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and president Mehbooba Mufti (who are away in America) but the clipped Minister Qazi Mohammad Afzal today indicated that he will rejoin his duties in the secretariat if his portfolios are restored to him honourably.
Sources said that following a suggestion from the Congress president Sonia Gandhi,... | |
| | | | Police claims cracking tourist attack case | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar|Sep 13: The Jammu and Kashmir police today claimed to have achieved another breakthrough when they arrested four Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) cadres involved in recent grenade attacks on tourist vehicles in Awantipora, in which several lives were lost. A police spokesman identified the arrested as Tariq Ahmad, Parvaiz Ahmad Lone, Liaqat-ul-Islam Lone and Umar Wani, all residents of Awantipora in Pulwama district of south Kashmir.
Three Chinese hand grenades were seized from their possession.
He said all of them were working under the then LeT district commander of Shopian, Abdul Hai alias Khubaid alias Saad, who was eliminated in a gun-battle in south Kashmir some... | |
| | | | Puri joins as DIG Udhampur | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 13
Two senior superintendents of police today took over deputy inspectors general of the Special Service Group (SSG) and Udhampur-Reasi range in Jammu and Kashmir.
SSP (Special Bureau) of CID, Alok Puri, has taken over as DIG of Udhampur-Reasi range in Jammu region, a police spokesman said here.
Puri will, however, also look after the sensitive Special Bureau.
Yoginder Koul, who was SSP (Counter Intelligence) in CID has taken up his new assignment in the SSG, which protects Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and other VIPs in the state. Both Puri and Koul were promoted by the state government last month.
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| | | | SC stays trial in Pathribal killings | | Lal Quila attacker Ashfaq gets gallows, 6 acquitted | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu|Sep 13
The Supreme Court today stayed the trial of army personnel charged with killing five "innocent" persons after branding them terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district on March 25, 2000.
The five men were shot dead in a joint operation by the army and police in Pathribal village of Anantnag district, as a sequel to the gruesome killing of 35 people in village Chattisinghpura by terrorists a few days prior to the visit of the then US President Bill Clinton to India.
The apex court stayed the trial after the Additional Solicitor General Vikas Singh appearing for the army authorities submitted that the CBI conducted the prosecution and filed the... | |
| | | | Denying "Ram" puts government in defensive | | | | ET Special Correspondent
Jammu | Sep 13
The Union government's submission, through an affidavit, before the Supreme Court that there was no historical proof of the existence of Ram or the other characters in the Ramayana, has further complicated the issue of Sethu Samudram, a navigable sea route linking the eastern and western coasts of the country around the southern tip of the Indian peninsula, which the government going to raise, disregarding the damage and destruction to be caused to the Ram Setu, the bridge which is believed in Hindu mythology as mentioned in Ramayana, to have been constructed on the initiation of Ram, to help reach him Sri Lanka, to rescue Sita who was abducted by R... | |
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