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| Rajouri cools down | | Schools, Colleges and other business establishments open | | | Early Times Reporter
Rajouri | Sep 27
After three days of communal tension in border town Rajouri, the normal life returned in the town on Thursday. All schools, Colleges and other business establishments were seen on their normal work and the restrictions of Section 144 imposed by the administration were also withdrawn today. The tension averted in the town after the hectic efforts of civil administration. During last three days Deputy Commissioner Rajouri, Rafiq Ahmed Sheikh and Deputy Inspector General of Rajouri Poonch Police Range, Prithvi Raj Manhas has been organizing separate meetings with the cross faith communities and with their sincere efforts both the communities agreed to shun the agitating path and let the peace to prevail.
Announcing this before the media persons her this evening, DIG Rajouri Poonch Range, PR Manhas claimed that there is no further tension in any corner of Rajouri and Poonch twin border districts. He said some of the rumor raisers have created much problem during past three days. DIG claimed that both the communities have agreed with them that t... | |
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| JK may face food scarcity, warns report | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Sep 27
Jammu and Kashmir is on the brink of an environmental disaster due to global warming. Temperatures are rising alarmingly, glaciers are vanishing, and rainfall and snowfall patterns are changing, taking a toll on the agricultural produce in this strategic Indian border state', says a report.
The report by ActionAid International, titled 'Climate changes and its impact in Kashmir', has singled out depleting glaciers and water resources and the severe crisis faced by the saffron growing belt, which depends on
rain, as alarming.
Predicting a severe shortage in food output, the report reveals that the transformation of once rich paddy growing fields i... | |
| | | | J&K's informer is Delhi's dreaded terrorist c | | | | New Delhi | Sep 27
Who's the real Haji Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Dar? In the Capital, he is painted as a dreaded terrorist who had planned to bomb the international airport.
Back home in Kashmir, he is the ambitious political leader who unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls.
And in the secret world of the Jammu and Kashmir police, he is a dependable informer.
The Delhi police has nailed Dar as a terrorist who planned to bomb the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
According to them, he and three of his associates were arrested on July 2, 2005, for their plot.
However, the J&K police insists Dar was a dependable informer who played a key role in the arrest and surrender of almost 300... | |
| | | | Jawan arrested for killing youth | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Sep 27
Police on Thursday arrested a paramilitary jawan for allegedly killing a young man in a south Kashmir village.
Residents of Gabarpora village of Pulwama district, 40 km from here, alleged that a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan, Ganjan Kumar of 166 Battalion, fired at an 18-year old youth after a heated argument between the two.
The villagers held a demonstration after the incident.
The district magistrate of Pulwama district, who rushed to the spot to pacify the protesters, told reporters that the CRPF trooper had been arrested following a complaint registered by the police.
The body of the slain youth, Bilal Ahmad Bhat, was later hand... | |
| | | | ‘Naadir Shahi’ at its high in Cultural Academy | | | | Surinder Raina
Jammu | Sep 27
The 50th year of the Cultural Academy is marred by the ‘Naadir Shahi’ rule. The present Secretary of the Academy Dr. Rafeeq Masoodi has issued an order wherein he has banned the participation/performances/association of all the writers/artists and performers working in the Cultural Academy to participate outside the Academy. This order instead of promoting the cause of culture will effect the literally and cultural activities adversely. Everybody knows that Academy is an institution of writers, poets, painters/sculptors/musicians/ performers and creative people In the past fifty years fourteen Secretaries could have never dare to think of issuing such a barba... | |
| | | | Conflicting claims on arrest of Taliban spokesman | | | | Kabul | Sep 27
The Afghan government announced today it had arrested the Taliban movement's main spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, but a man believed to be the militants' mouthpiece denied he had been captured.
The interior ministry said Ahmadi was seized with his brother yesterday in the volatile southern province of Helmand where the Islamic extremist Taliban are in control of several districts.
They were arrested by police near the provincial capital Lashkar Gah with motorcycles and a gun, as well as a satellite and a mobile telephone, a ministry statement said.
"One of the men himself confessed that, "I am Mawlawi Mohammad Qasim working under the pseudonym Qari Yousuf Ahmadi. I am the Talib... | |
| | | | Police arrests five for faking employments | | ‘Gang of cheaters busted’ | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar|Sep 27
Jammu and Kashmir police claimed to have busted a gang of cheaters and arrested five persons, including a government employee, who were minting money from unemployed youth for arranging a job in various government departments.
A police spokesman said that the racket also involve some government officials who in connivance with the other accused were collecting money from poor persons by fraudulent means. The accused were not only cheating the poor people but also preparing fake appointment orders, he said.
Though the reports of this fake recruitment racket was making rounds in Kashmir valley from last several months, police came in action when one ... | |
| | | | BJP's regional Councils resolution termed as betrayal of Jammu state demand | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Sep
The resolution passed by the national executive of BJP at Bhopal, seeking empowerment of Jammu and Ladakh regions of J&K state, by constituting separate regional councils for the three distinct regions of the state, has hardly any buyer either in Jammu or in Ladakh. The supporters of separate Jammu state are highly critical of BJP for the party shying way from this demand, which they believe alone can lead to empowerment of Jammu, which has been denied due share in the political structure and decision making in the state, being made to play second fiddle to the Kashmiri politicians. Even the Ladakhis are not content with regional council or A... | |
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