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| Security agencies zeroing on TRF | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 1: Security forces have pumped up their efforts to dismantle the network of LeT’s shadow terror group The Resistance Front (TRF) which had issued a poster glorifying the terrorists who had killed a Kashmiri Pandit Sanjay Kumar in Pulwama, officials said Wednesday.
The agencies are choking its fund flow and acting against its members to tear up the network in Jammu and Kashmir, they said. Two terrorists of the group — Aqib Mustaq Bhat and Ajaz Ahmed Bhat — who were accused of gunning down Kumar were killed by a team of 55 Rashtriya Rifles in an encounter on Tuesday.
Kumar, the latest victim in the targeted killing of Kashmiri Pandits, was among the few of his community who had not migrated during the onset of terror violence in the 1990s.
He was fired upon by motorcycle-borne terrorists in his village in Pulwama on February 26 and later succumbed to injuries on the way to the district hospital, they said.
Although ‘Kashmir Freedom Fighters’ had claimed responsibility for the attack, the security agencies have found TRF posters glorifying two te... | |
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| Nearly 80% population exempted from property tax, assures LG | | Cautions people against misinformation campaigns launched by some vested interests | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 1: Countering the vicious campaign launched by some vested interest to confuse the common masses on Property Tax, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday said that nearly 80 percent of the population will be exempted from the tax.
“Nearly 75 to 80 percent of the population of J&K will be exempted from the Property Tax. Those who are following under the purview of Property Tax are trying to create chaos and confusion among the common masses”, the Lieutenant Governor said.
“Citizens across the country are paying Property Tax. What to say of Delhi, Mumbai, or Chandigarh, Property Tax proposed for Jammu and Kashmir is even one-tenth of Shimla-the capita... | |
| | | | Well-planned cities will determine country’s fate: PM Modi | | | |
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New Delhi, Mar 1: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that well-panned Indian cities will determine the fate of the country.
Addressing a post-Budget webinar on 'Urban Planning, Development and Sanitation', he said with India urbanising rapidly, it is important to build infrastructure that is futuristic.
"The well-planned cities of India will only determine the fate of India. When planning is better, our cities will become climate resilient and water secure," the prime minister said.
He also listed three focus areas for urban planning and development - How to strengthen urban planning ecosystem in states, how to better utilise expertise available in private sec... | |
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