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| 20 hurt in Srinagar explosion | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar | Sept 17
At least 20 people were injured in a grenade attack by militants at Budshah Chowk in the heart of the city today.
Militants hurled a hand grenade targeting a security picket at the entrance of the Akhara building but it missed the intended target.
Th grenade hit a passing passenger bus before exploding on the roadside, officials said, adding 15 pedestrians were injured in the blast. The area was immediately cordoned off, they said.
The incident took place when the guerrillas targeted a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) vehicle in the Budshah Chowk area near the business hub Lal Chowk.
"The grenade exploded near a passenger minibus resulting ... | |
| | | | J&K situation still fragile: PM | | | | New Delhi | Sept 17
The situation in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of Amarnath land row is still fragile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today. "The situation is still fragile and needs careful handling," he said.
The Prime Minister made the remark while speaking at the concluding session of the two-day Governor's Conference at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
He said the recent controversy relating to the temporary allotment of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board has offset some of the gains made by the state.
Singh noted that there had been a marked improvement in security in the state in recent years. It was an outcome of the Rs 25,000 crore development packages, Round Table Conference and the ... | |
| | | | Mainstream parties lost space, Mehbooba admits | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu | Sept 17
While the Election Commission of India is still to reach any final decision on timing of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Peoples Democratic Party has strongly opposed to having polls in the state till situation completely settles in the Valley.
Sources said that the Election Commission is still undecided on the timing as the Union Home Ministry has sought more time to give a complete picture of security scenario and a meeting of the Commission is still pending with the Governor NN Vohra. The Commission is likely to meet the Governor next week.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has completely ruled out an al... | |
| | | | Omar scores over all MPs | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu | Sept 17
In 2002 assembly elections, the National Conference president and then youngest Ministers in the Union Government, Omar Abdullah may have suffered humiliation for the follies of his father but six years down the line the youngest Member Parliament from Jammu and Kashmir seems to have learnt lessons quite well.
First of its kind in India, a national survey indexing all 543 Lok Sabha constituencies on the basis of their performance in socio-economic and infrastructure sectors has placed Omar’s constituency at number one in Jammu and Kashmir. The Srinagar-Badgam Lok Sabha segment has been placed at 208 rank in terms of performance on socio-economic sector... | |
| | | | Sukhoi to roar over J&K skies | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu | Sept 17
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has, for the first time, deployed its multi-role Sukhoi SU-30MKI combat jets in Jammu and Kashmir to send out a powerful message to both China and Pakistan, with whom it has fought border wars.
The twin-seater air dominance fighter aircraft has begun operating from Ladakh on a temporary basis for what is officially described as a routine training exercise.
'The IAF has deployed Sukhoi jets in Jammu and Kashmir as part of its annual training programme to help the pilots adapt to different environments and respond with flexibility,' Air Marshal P.K. Barbora, the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the premier Western Air Command... | |
| | | | Stage set for fresh rise in militancy | | | | Nirbhay Jammual
Gradually the stage is being set for militants to carve out new sanctuaries for those who have recently infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir and for those who were waiting for an opportunity for sneaking into the valley.This stage is being set neither by any Government agency nor by Pakistan but by the separatists and by a couple of mainstream political parties that incited people to violence over the land diversion issue.Whether the separatists or the minstream political parties in the valley ignited turmoil out of their ulterior motives they had never expected that militants would,ultimately,benefit from these development in which large groups of people participated in t... | |
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