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| Red alert sounded in Jammu | | 4 ultras sneak in after exchange of fire on IB | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 17: In a heightened security environment in view of the ensuing festival season, red alert was tonight sounded across the city and its outskirts after reports of a militant infiltration through International Border. A massive hunt was launched late in the evening as Police suspected a group of four militants having sneaked in even as border guards BSF was tight lipped over the issue.
Sources said that at around 6PM Thursday a Border Security Force was on patrol in Nikowal sub-sector of Pargwal sector when it came under fire from other side of the International Border.
The fire was effectively retaliated but in the exchange two BSF jawans were injured. Amidst panic and state of high alert, the injured jawans were rushed to the Government Medical College here. The injured jawans have been identified as Rajinder and Mandeep Gogi, both from Rajasthan. They are reported to have sustained deep bullet injuries and were under treatment.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu, Manohar Singh confirmed to Early Times about possibility of at least four mil... | |
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| SHOPIAN FIASCO | | CBI initiates its probe, discusses case with SIT | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Sep 17: Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) today began its probe into the alleged rape-cum-murder of two young women in Shopian during the night intervening May 29th and May 30th this year with a five-hour-long briefing with members of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Jammu & Kashmir Police that failed to achieve any breakthrough in three months of turbulent exercise including 26 days of appearance in different judicial courts.
Highly placed official sources told Early Times that a special team of CBI, comprising over a dozen members, reached here at 1330 hours and settled its camp at a Police guesthouse at Humhama. In 2006-07, CBI had operated from... | |
| | | | Press reports help footballer get passport | | | | Early Times report
Srinagar, Sept 17: Following media reports, including Early Times, about denial of passport to a footballer to travel abroad, the state government has intervened and advised the CID for immediate clearance.
Passport was denied to Basharat Bashir Baba who needed it to travel to Spain and Brazil for special professional training in Football Clubs. However, the CID department has not given clearance to him as he was son of Militant. His father was involved in militancy when Bashrat was not even born.
Basharat Bashir is one of the proud footballer of the valley who has been selected for an international football tournament. The story was also published in a leading nation... | |
| | | | Medicos to get more for rural duties: Azad | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Sep 17 : Doctors who opt to work in rural areas will be duly compensated with extra money and weightage points that will help them while going for higher studies, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announced Thursday.
"The only way to attract the attention of doctors to work in difficult, most difficult and inaccessible areas is through incentives. We have requested the states to give us the list under the above categories. We can provide extra money as extra incentive," Azad told reporters.
"Assam has already done it. To encourage rural postings, additional weightage will be given in the post graduate examination at the rate of 10 percent for each year of rural servic... | |
| | | | ASCOMS hospital nearly shut as doctors, teachers go on strike | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sep 17: The only private medical college and hospital of Jammu today appeared like a shut and abandoned shop, but not without handful of panicked patients, as doctors and teachers went on strike demanding hike in salary and other emoluments par with their counterparts in the government hospitals as per recommendations of the sixth pay panel.
Work at all the departments, including the Emergency and Teaching, remained paralysed with no doctor attending to the patients the largest private healthcare institution in the winter capital
''Recent developments in the institution have forced the ASCOMS Medical Teachers Association (AMTA) to resort to protest against th... | |
| | | | India preparing response to Chinese incursions | | | |
New Delhi Sept 17: National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has convened a meeting of the China Study Group, comprising top officials, on Thursday to discuss the situation arising after Chinese Incursion reports.
The meeting being chaired by Narayanan, will be attended by Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar, Home Secretary G K Pillai, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, will take stock of the situation along the Sino-Indian border, sources said.
The chiefs of the three armed forces and the Intelligence Bureau will also attend the meeting which is expected to draft India’s response to the border violations.
The meeting comes in the wake of recent reports o... | |
| | | | Towards transparency: 27 departments get PIOs | | | | SANT KUMAR SHARMA
Srinagar, Sept 17: The government has been making slow but steady progress on the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act. In this connection, the processes are getting more streamlined and departments have started appointing Public Information Officers (PIOs). So far, of a total of 34 departments, no less than 27 have appointed their PIOs and only seven have failed to do the needful till date. On the other hand, seven public authorities, comprising autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies, have also appointed their PIOs but 15 have not.
Incidentally, none of the departments have appointed Assistant Public Information Officers (APIOs) as mandated. The APIOs are... | |
| | | | Pak for unconditional talks | | | |
Islamabad Sept 17: Tossing a new slogan prior to the foreign secretary level talks with India, scheduled for next week in New York, Pakistan on Thursday said that the talks should be held without any pre-conditions.
“The talks in New York should not be conditional. Indian has already made its stand clear on various issues during earlier talks held in Sharm-al-Sheikh in Egypt,” Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said.
“We will clarify our stand on India during talks in New York,” Qureshi said while responding to a question weather Islamabad will put forward any pre-condition for talks vis-à-vis New Delhi’s stand while interacting with media persons before departing for New ... | |
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