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| 20 pc students, 60 pc staff turn up despite attacks on few buses, schools | | Educational institutions open in Valley after three months of shutdown | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Sept 27: Even as the separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani asked the Kashmiris not to send their children to school and his followers operated to harass staff, students and parents at several places, educational institutions in Kashmir valley opened today after three months of shutdown. Authorities have resolved to carry out all academic activities, including holding of annual examinations, in defiance of a call from the radical faction of Hurriyat Conference.
Most of the private schools refused to operate in defiance of Geelani's call but reports available from all ten district headquarters in the Valley said that all government schools and colleges, besides a number of private educational institutions, resumed academic activity after nearly months of continued shutdown and curfew. In Srinagar, all four of the leading Christian Missionary schools---Tyndale Biscoe, Mallinson, Presentation Convent and Burn Hall---opened in the morning. Teaching as well as non-teaching staff turned up for duty but very few students dared to attend ... | |
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| Mendher offices start work in 63 yrs back gear | | School opened after 12 days, day curfew to be lifted from Wednesday | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, Sept 27: Following 12 days curfew, Mendher is returning to normalcy with notification issued for opening of all offices today. However, all the office started work from zero as all the records from 1947 to 2010 have been turned into ashes in the recent agitation of locals in the area.
Administration in Mendher had lifted curfew in the town from 11 am onwards today and had issued instructions to all offices and schools to resume work. Although there was low presence of the officials attending duty of students attending schools, life returned to normal in the area after at least 12 days curfew. Administration is going to relax curfew on Tuesday from 10 am and it ... | |
| | | | Army ready to accept UC decision on AFSPA | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
rajouri, Sept 27: General Officer in Command of White Knight Corps, Lieutenant General Rameshwer Roy has said that army has to accept the decision of Unified Command over Armed Forces Special Power Act. He has also said that Pakistan has opened many temporary training camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and these camps are being changed from one place to another after few months.
Talking to mediapersons here after Army mela, Rameshwer Roy said that the Centre government has authorised Unified Command of the State to take decision on Armed Forces Special Power Act. Without saying anything about its impact if revoked, Roy said that army has to accept the decision taken by ... | |
| | | | 5-days police remand granted to two brothers in rape case | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 27: Two sons of a Jammu police officer, who were arrested on Monday for allegedly kidnapping and raping a daughter of a CBI officer, were granted five days police remand by court for further questioning, police said.
As a part of investigation, the victim was today taken to the Gandhi Nagar hospital for medical check up. The reports of which is awaited. Giving information, a police officer said that further investigation is to be started only after police receives medical reports of the girl.
Pertinent to mention here that the 18-year-old daughter of a CBI Inspector, a resident of Chandigarh, had gone to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine all alone after a tiff at... | |
| | | | Over trivial issue, 8th class student murdered at Darhal | | | | ET REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 27: Over the trivial issue of grazing cattle in a forest enclosure at Sarotha Chowkian in Darhal area of Rajouri, a youth first murdered a 15-year-old boy and then threw his body down the hill to make it
look like an accident.
Police sources identified the dead as Mohammad Ikhlaq Ahmad (15), son of Muneer Hussain of Sarotha Chowkian, and the accused as his neighbour Shehraz Ahmad alias Shah (20), son of Gulam Ahmad alias Jatta.
While Ikhlaq studied in 8th class in a village school, Shah was a student of 10th class, the sources added. Ikhlaq's body was found on September 6. His head was crushed and
the body bore multiple injuries.While it seemed as if the boy ha... | |
| | | | Omar's happiness over 8-point package misplaced | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 27: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah appears quite jubilant these days. It is a different story that his party colleagues and MP Mehboob Beg has described the package as "too little, too late." Omar Abdullah says that New Delhi has given to him what he needed to tackle the situation in Kashmir. The case in point is the 8-point package the Union Home Minister announced last Saturday after the end of the Cabinet Committee on Security meet. What has he got? He has got only 100 crores of rupees for the development of infrastructure in the educational institutions and nothing else. This is so small an amount for New Delhi considering the fact it has pumped into Kashmi... | |
| | | | Govt likely to announce names of J&K interlocutors on Sept 30 | | | | ET REPORT
NEW DELHI, Sept 27: The government is likely to announce the names of interlocutors to begin the process of dialogue with all sections of people in Jammu and Kashmir on September 30 and the chairman of the group will enjoy the rank of a Union cabinet minister.
Official sources said the Cabinet Committee on Security will finalise the names of the group of three to four interlocutors and the chairman is expected to be a political person.
The interlocutors, after their appointment, will immediately initiate the process of dialogue with political parties, groups, youth and student organisations, civil society organisations and other stakeholders, including the separatists.
The ... | |
| | | | Panchayat elections in Dec: Sagar | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Sept 27: Panchayat elections for establishing various Panchayats across the State would be held in December so as to involve the people at gross root level in policy implementation and formulation for their development.
This was disclosed at a high level meeting convened under the chairmanship of Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Sagar here today. It was also attended by the Chief Electoral Officer BR Sharma, Secretary, Rural Development, Yahudullah and other senior officers.
The Minister impressed upon the concerned to speed up the preparation process, so that these can be held smoothly an... | |
| | | | Who will compensate 4,000 injured security forces personnel? | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 27: Those at the helm in New Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir are expressing their solidarity with those got killed or injured during the clashes between the police and paramilitary forces and the followers of Syed Ali Shah Geelani and others. The so-called human rights activists and a number of "think-tanks" and media persons are also doing the same and denouncing the paramilitary forces and the state police. They are also describing what is going on in the Kashmir valley as "civil disturbances." The attitude of Pakistan has been no different. It is on expected lines.
Neither the authorities in New Delhi nor the Delhi-based think-tanks, "human rights" ac... | |
| | | | Jammuites, ladakhis terms 8-point initiative Kashmir centric | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 27: The Centre's eight point initiative on Kashmir has generated a lot of resentment among the people in Jammu and Ladakh regions who term it a Kashmir centric package and betrayal with the other two regions of the state.
People across all religions in these two divisions of the state are not satisfied with the initiative saying the Government has totally betrayed them and holding of talks with the representatives of Jammu by All Parties Parliamentary Delegation was only an eyewash.
No one is against the peace initiative in Kashmir but at the same time the Government was supposed to redress the problems of the people of Jammu and Ladakh regions who are at r... | |
| | | | People kill leopard with lathies | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, Sept 27: A 5-month-old leopard was beaten to death with lathies by villagers at Mangal Nar here this morning after it mauled four persons, including a woman.
Separated from its mother, the cub was in the maize fields at Mangal Nar when Nazakat Begum, wife of Saed Mohammad, happened to go there at about 4.30 am to attend the call of nature.
Police sources said when the woman walked through the field, the cub attacked her. Hearing her screams, some villagers rushed to the field and rescued her from the animal.
The woman survived with serious injuries, the sources added, saying while the villagers were trying to scare the cub away, it attacked and injured Gulam ... | |
| | | | 'Happily, J and K disregarded Hurriyat call' | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
New Delhi, Sept 27: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday said the people of Kashmir Valley has 'happily' disregarded hardline faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference's call to stay away from educational institutions.
Nearly after 100 days of shutdown, educational institutions in Kashmir are being reopened on Monday following a state government's directive to school authorities on Sunday as curfew has been lifted from most of the areas of the valley.
"Government is happy to learn that most schools and colleges have reopened in Jammu and Kashmir and most students have gone back to school/college today.There was a call by one of the Hurriyat leaders to paren... | |
| | | | Yechury parries question on his being Kashmir interlocutor | | | | AGENCIES
COIMBATORE, Sept 27: CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury today parried questions about the possibility of his being one of the interlocutors on Kashmir issue.
"I have no such indication. I have not heard anything so far. First, let it come. If at all, they will ask, then we shall see", Yechury told reporters here.
He, however, pointed out that CPI(M) was a member of the all-party delegation that had gone to Kashmir Valley recently because "this is an issue for the country as a whole. This is not an issue confined to any particular state. It's a larger issue of India's unity and integrity".
Yechury said the Centre should urgently implement the eight-point initiative on Jammu and Kashm... | |
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