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| Tunnel caves in, Kashmir rail project on hold | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 7
The Rs 11,000 crore rail project that promises to be an economic lifeline for the Kashmir valley suffered a setback when a portion of the three kilometre tunnel near Udhampur caved in, and seepage problem hampering progress in three other tunnels.
Work on the four tunnels have been halted temporarily, and Northern Railway officals are now awaiting the arrival of a six-member Austrian expert team on September 10 to assist in rebuilding the tunnels.
"About 800m of the tunnel near Udhampur caved in after the completion of the work due to squeezing pressure," B P Khare, chief administrative officer, Northern Railway, said. "This is a geological problem as soil having swelling characteristic gave way in the middle of the tunnel. Work has stopped there. Work on another terminal near Udhampur has suffered due to severe seepage problem."
It had cost about Rs 50 crore to construct the three-km long tunnel near Udhampur. The total length of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla railway link is 120.44 km, and 80% of the route is covered through tunnels. ... | |
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| PDP toughens stand, asks Azad to recall Qazi | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Sep 7:-The PDP leadership has decided that Qazi Mohd.Afzal,who submitted his resignation from the cabinet in protest against the way he was divested of the forest portfolio by the Chief Minister,Ghulam Nabi Azad,would rejoin the cabinet only when the forest portfolio was restored to him.
General secretary of the PDP,Mr Nizam-ud-Din Bhat,said today “the forest portfolio should be given back to the Qazi after the Chief Minister,in his letter to the Minister,had stated that he had not received any complaint against him (Qazi).”Mr Bhat said “in addition to this the Chief Minister should discuss the controversy over divesting Qazi Mohd.Afzal,of forest portfo... | |
| | | | Plan to murder only Chopra, not entire family | | murdered all one by one in front of Chopra | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 7
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has got vital clues against the businessman who gave ‘supary’ to the killers who murdered Chopra family last year, after the interrogation of Sangram Singh and Bhawani Singh who were arrested by police from Guna area of Madhya Pradesh some days back. The arrest of the businessman is expected any time, the sources claimed.
According to sources after the arrest of kingpin and one more killer in the Chopra murder case ,the police got some vital clues about the businessman who himself hired the criminal gang to murder the Chopra family. Sources said the investigation in the case took a new turn and police got many clues... | |
| | | | Foreign ultras mushrooming in Jammu? | | | | Jammu | Sep 7, :-Larger presence of foreign militants in hilly Doda and border districts of Rajouri and Pooch is bothering security forces deployed in counter insurgency operations. As per rough estimates the number of foreign mercenaries in the districts of Doda, Poonch and Rajouri has increased during the last one year. According to the police, the number of foreign mercenaries had once touched below 30 mark between 2004-2005 in Doda region but the latest reports indicated that their number has now gone upto over 80. Similarly, presence of foreign mercenaries in the border districts of Rajouri and Pooch is also increasing in the recent months.
According to official sources the total numb... | |
| | | | Two extornist held, money recovered | | | | Early Times Reporter
Doda | Sep 7
Doda police arrested two extortionists, impersonating themselves as militants and involved in looting a large number of people on toy gun point here today while their two other accomplice are still absconding.
According to reports on August 28 some persons impersonating as militants entered in three houses at village Tendla and extorted cash worth rupees 8500 from one Ghulam Mustafa Wani, food store dealer Bhatyas, cash worth rupees 8000 and gold silver ornaments worth rupees 15000 from Mohd Issaq son of Shunkar Din and cash worth rupees 4000 from Ahmedullah Malik son of Lala Malik.
On receipt of this information, case FIR No 102/2007 under section 39... | |
| | | | Girl-student conduit held with arms | | Aspiring lawyer was coming from Surankote to Jammu | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 7
Special Operation Group (SOG) today arrested a girl law student and recovered UBGL rifle grenades from her possession when she was on way to Jammu from Surankote. On a specific input that the girl student traveling in a private Maruti car from Surankot was carrying some consignment for militants, SOG team laid a naka in Tanda area of Akhnoor and during checking the vehicle stopped a Maruti car. On search the team recovered some UGBL grenades from the bag of the Law student identified as Nahida Altaf daughter of Altaf Hussain resident of Iqbal Nagar, Surankote and took her to some safer place for interrogation.
Sources said during interrogation she tol... | |
| | | | Sexual scandals in army have dangerous portents | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 7
The allegations of a woman army officer, Captain Neha Rawat of Corps of Singles based in Leh against General Officer Commanding, Leh division, Major General A L Lal of sexually misbehaving with her during a meditation session and the counter allegations by the family members of the Major General against the complainant female officer, about her habitual unbecoming behavior as an officer, freely socializing with male officers and taking heavy dose of alcohol at late night parties has vitiated the atmosphere in the defense services in the country. It is not for the first time that our armed forces are embroiled in sexual scandals. Apart from the frequent c... | |
| | | | Sexual scandals in army have dangerous portents | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 7
The allegations of a woman army officer, Captain Neha Rawat of Corps of Singles based in Leh against General Officer Commanding, Leh division, Major General A L Lal of sexually misbehaving with her during a meditation session and the counter allegations by the family members of the Major General against the complainant female officer, about her habitual unbecoming behavior as an officer, freely socializing with male officers and taking heavy dose of alcohol at late night parties has vitiated the atmosphere in the defense services in the country. It is not for the first time that our armed forces are embroiled in sexual scandals. Apart from the frequent c... | |
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