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Business as usual on Doda roads, 25 more killed 9/7/2009 11:53:30 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 7: Tragedy, as it literally business as usual there, struck once more in the Chenab Valley region taking away at least 25 precious lives and injuring 21 others in ghastly road accident off Assar on Jammu-Kishtwar National Highway. This was the fifth major accident in the region taking death toll on the troika districts of Doda-Ramban-Kishwar closer to 150. It all happened when driver of a passenger bus, reportedly fit in condition, lost control over the steering while negotiating a curve as the road beneath caved in. local sources told Early Times that it was a patch of under construction road which caved in thus resulting into loss of balance and making the driver to lose control. The passenger bus was bearing registration number JK02AD,6339. Officials of the local administered rushed to the spot on hearing of mishap and made arrangements of shifting the critically injured persons to Jammu for advanced treatment. In view of their deteriorating condition, the injured were airlifted to Jammu and removed to the Government Medical College Hospitals...   READ MORE

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Eight held on way to Pakistan, travel papers seized for probe 9/7/2009 11:52:58 PM SUMIT SHARMA Jammu, Sept 7: Based on the information that a family was planning to travel to Pakistan on fake documents, the Crime Branch, in a well coordinated operation, arrested a party of eight persons near Jammu seized their passports and visas for verification. The arrested party of eight members was in the custody of the Crime Branch for further verification. Official sources said that the Crime Branch Jammu in association with their counterparts from Kashmir, laid down a naka at Nagrota on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway near here and arrested eight persons for verification of their antecedents and the travel documents. Sources had told Crime Branch that the group was in conta...   READ MORE   100 politicians on IT radar 9/7/2009 11:52:43 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, SEP 7: With some unscrupulous politicians on their radar, the Income Tax department is taking to innovative measures by outsourcing part of their job to the trusted Chartered Accountants. Income Tax department sources told Early Times that they were watching over the financial activities of influential yet chronic tax evaders and a foolproof exercise is underway to catch hold of them. “We are ascertaining the records in a manner that when hands is laid on them there is no escape route other then shelling out the tax money to government coffers”, said the IT officials. It is learnt that some 100 politicians of different hues are on the radar of IT departme...   READ MORE   China’s Intentions –I Is dragon drawing closer? ABID SHAH 9/7/2009 11:52:24 PM An Early Times Special New Delhi, Sept 7: Close on the heels of reports about Chinese incursions in Ladakh, officials at home are confounded by chance discovery of a China-bound cargo plane carrying arms and ammunition at Kolkata International Airport on Sunday evening. Even as officials are tight-lipped about declaration by the pilot of the United Arab Emirates aircraft about the nature of its cargo, military strategists here point to the China’s long reach in military and strategic matters and close interaction with far off countries extending through almost every part of Asia. Talking about the Kolkata inicident, a senior fellow of Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (...   READ MORE   Forgetting Sheikh Abdullah! DD, Info Deptt, Cultural Academy didn’t bother to preserve Sher-e-Kashmir for posterity 9/7/2009 11:51:46 PM AHMED ALI FAYYAZ SRINAGAR, Sep 7: A nation that altogether forgot its last monarch, Yousuf Shah Chak, and remembered the conqueror, Akbar, for nearly four centuries, can not be expected to remember its messiah Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah for long. But disservice done to the ‘father of the nation’ by the state’s own organs and agencies is simply phenomenal. Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar, which has received hundreds of crores of Rupees from New Delhi for preserving icons of secularism and promoting national integration in its life of 36 years, has neither bothered to make a film on Sheikh Abdullah nor preserved archival footage of his life and contribution to the state. Jammu & Kashmir Ac...   READ MORE   Jawan crushed to death NH 9/7/2009 11:51:19 PM Early Times Report Jammu , Sep 7 An army jawan was crushed to death by an unidentified vehicle on the Jammu - Pathankot highway at Samba, 40 km from here, police said today. Sepoy Surinder Singh of 15 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles was riding on a motorcycle towards his unit when an unidentified vehicle crushed him on the highway at Badiya area in Samba district last last night, they said. ...   READ MORE   Bail for Shopian cops: argument goes on today 9/7/2009 11:50:57 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sep 7 : The arguments on the bail applications of two senior police officers in connection with the double rape and murder case in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court will continue tomorrow. Law experts, however, said the suspended police officers will get bail in case the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Jammu and Kashmir police fails to file charge sheet in the court within next one week. Opposing the bail, the High Court Bar Association (HCBA) president Mian Abdul Qayoum said the police officers-- then Superintendent of Police (SP), Shopian, Javid Iqbal Matoo and his deputy Rohit Baskotra were responsible for destroying evidence in the rape and murder cas...   READ MORE   Govt reads red writing on wall, Army Chief to visit Ladakh 9/7/2009 11:50:29 PM Early Times Report New Delhi: Even though External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Monday sought to downplay the recent Chinese violations of airspace and international border in Leh and Ladakh respectively, the Central government has taken note of the incursions at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) held here. Ministers at the CCS meet are reported to have discussed the Chinese incursions with serious concern. Reports said Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor will travel to Leh on September 10 and 11 to take stock of the situation first hand. The External Affairs Minister had earlier in the day said that India has "one of the most peaceful boundaries with China", adding...   READ MORE

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