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Pak frustration worsens: Proxy Muzammil Ayyub Thakur threatens Kashmir woman at UN 4/3/2023 11:42:02 PM Sanjay Pandita Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 3: UK-based Muzammil Ayyub Thakur, who has already been booked by the Jammu and Kashmir Police for anti-national activities has threatened a Kashmiri woman rights activist Tasleema at the United Nations for exposing Pakistan sponsored terror in her homeland. Tasleema, who was recently at the United Nations to hail the woman empowerment in Kashmir under Modi regime and to equally expose the sinister designs of Pakistan and its proxies, left the likes of Thakur frustrated. In response, Thakur threatened her of dire consequences. Tasleema said the so called “human rights activist Muzammil Ayub Thakur threatened me at UN, saying ‘Kashmir Vapas Nahi Jana Kya?". She has now written a letter to the UN, demanding action against Thakur for his misconduct during the UN session while the matter was being brought to the notice of the JK police as well. Pertinently in 2022, Thakur who is of Kashmiri-origin has already been booked under the UAPA for allegedly carrying out anti-national activities on social media. A complaint was also l...   READ MORE

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Sex racket busted in Srinagar 8, including 4 sex workers, arrested 4/3/2023 11:41:54 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Apr 3: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday busted a sex scandal in Bagh-e-Mehtab area in Srinagar. A police party from police station Chanapora cracked a sex scandal. The arrested men were residents of Mehjoor Nagar, Pampore, Karimabad Pulwama and Old Barzulla of Srinagar. The female sex workers who were detained by the police, identified as the residents of Lal-Bazar, Nishat, Habbakadal and Gulshan-Nagar Srinagar. Srinagar police in a tweet informed “A prostit...   READ MORE   Dream Shahpur-Kandi project is still a distant dream; thanks to non-serious authorities 4/3/2023 11:41:33 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 3: Although Principal Secretary, ARI & Trainings, Ashok Kumar Parmar, today visited Shahpur Kandi Dam Project and took stock of works being executed there, the completion of this dream project is still a distant dream. Almost two years have passed after the foundation stone of this dream project was laid after the signing of the fresh agreement with Punjab. It was announced in April 2021 that the project will become functional by November 2022. The project is being constructed on the river Ravi, 11 kilometres downstream of the Ranjit Sagar Dam and eight kilometers upstream of Madhopur in Punjab's Pathankot district. When the foundation stone was laid, ...   READ MORE   Family members of KP killed by terrorists seek justice ‘Please help us, we’ve nowhere to go in Jammu’ 4/3/2023 11:41:16 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 3: Family members of a Kashmiri Pandit Sanjay Sharma, who was shot dead by terrorists in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district in February this year, are wandering from one place to another in Jammu. Talking to Early Times, family members of the 42- year old slain Kashmiri Pandit, said, “We have left everything behind and come to Jammu. For the past one month we have been wandering from one place to another. We were told that one of the family members would be given ...   READ MORE   Authorities press panic button amid a spike in COVID cases 4/3/2023 11:40:45 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 3: Authorities of the Health Department pressed the panic button amid a spike in COVID cases across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Although higher-ups in the Health Department have yet not announced the fourth wave of Coronavirus in Union Territory, authorities have taken some precautionary steps. Directorate of Health Services Kashmir (DHSK) on Monday directed the medical officers to increase the COVID testing rate amid an increase in the number of infections in Jammu and Kashmir. Experts said that COVID-19, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Influenza-A (H1N1, H3N2) and Influenza-B viruses are prevalent among people in J&K. Experts said tha...   READ MORE   CBI's key responsibility is to free India from corruption: PM 4/3/2023 11:40:37 PM Agencies New Delhi, Apr 3: Building a developed India is not possible without professional and efficient institutions and the CBI therefore has a huge responsibility, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. Addressing the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Central Bureau of Investigation, the prime minister termed corruption the biggest roadblock to democracy and justice. CBI's key responsibility, he said, is to free India from corruption. The government, he said, had started started action against black money and benami property on mission mode. "Besides the corrupt, we are fighting causes of corruption," Modi said. Even today, when a case remains unsolved, there are deman...   READ MORE   Father arrested for killing minor daughter in Kupwara 4/3/2023 11:40:32 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Apr 3: Jammu and Kashmir police has arrested a man for allegedly killing his eight year old daughter in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district last week. Senior Superintendent of Police Kupwara, Yougal Manhas said on March 29, a minor girl from Lalpora Kupwara was found dead, with her throat slit, in a wooden shed owned by her family, near to their house. "Prime facie it looked like the girl was murdered by slitting the throat with a knife. However, after the postmortem was carried out, the medical opinion suggested that she was killed by strangulation," SSP Manhas said. He said during the investigation the family surfaced as a prime suspect. "The father of...   READ MORE   ACB traps, arrests employee for accepting bribe 4/3/2023 11:40:25 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Apr 3: A complaint was received by Anti-corruption Bureau against Gram Rozgar Sevak Ajaz Ahmad Mir S/o Nazeer Ahmad Mir R/o Boh Noorabad, Damhal Hanjipora, Kulgam, for demanding bribe of Rs 7,000 for processing / forwarding the demand of labour money with regards to project namely Bhuhi Naag at Reshipora. Since the contents of the complaint disclose demand of bribe by alleged accused public servant namely Ajaz Ahmad Mir and subsequently the Pre-trap verification was conducted which required prompt action. Accordingly, Case FIR No. 03/2023 was registered at P/S ACB Anantnag and investigation started. After registration of the case a trap team was constitut...   READ MORE   COVID-19:J&K reports 40 fresh cases 4/3/2023 11:40:19 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 3: Jammu and Kashmir Monday reported 40 fresh cases of Covid-19, taking the number of active cases to 166 while no death was reported in the last 24 hours. An official said that among 40 new cases, 19 have been reported from the Kashmir division and 21 from the Jammu division. He said the total number of active cases in the union territory is 166, including 125 from the Kashmir division and 41 from the Jammu division. “Among the fresh 40 cases in Kashmir, four each are from Anantnag, Kulgam and Srinagar, three from Baramulla, two from Pulwama and one each from Budgam and Kupwara; and among 14 from the Jammu division, three from Poonch and one each from Ra...   READ MORE   MeT predicts widespread rainfall across J&K 4/3/2023 11:40:09 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Apr 3: Meteorological department (MeT) forecast fairly widespread light to moderate rains over Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. Scattered to light rain and traces will occur during the next two days in Jammu and Kashmir, the MeT office said. Currently the weather is mostly cloudy in Kashmir valley. An independent weather observer Faizan Arif forecast that light to moderate rain showers are expected at most places in Jammu and Kashmir today. The day temperatures are also expected to stay 3-9 degree Celsius below normal that can make people feel a bit chilly. The wet weather may continue tomorrow also, he added. The maximum and minimum temperat...   READ MORE   CBI court orders reinvestigation in case against ex-MLA, others 4/3/2023 11:40:03 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 3: In a much publicized case in which CBI produced challan against Kanta Andotra, former MLA and then Chairperson of Kathua based educational trust and Ravinder Singh, the then Patwari Muthi Hardo for illegal possession and encroachment of land, Special Judge CBI Court R K wattal has directed reinvestigation in the case. The court has granted four month time therefore merits to be granted for re-investigation under the supervision of SP Central Bureau of Investigation concerned. This case was registered on the complaint of CBI officer Vikas Renot Sub Inspector ACB Jammu on the basis of the preliminary enquiry done by him on some source information to t...   READ MORE   Minimum age for class 1 to be 6 years: Centre to States, UTs 4/3/2023 11:39:53 PM Agencies New Delhi, Apr 3: Students can only be admitted to Class 1 at the age of six years and above, the Ministry of Education told States and Union Territories on Wednesday. The foundational stage, as defined by the new National Education Policy (NEP), consists of five years of learning opportunities for all children (between 3 to 8 years), including three years of preschool education followed by Class 1 and 2. "The policy thus promotes seamless learning and development of children from pre-school to Class 2. This can only be done by ensuring accessibility to three years of quality preschool education for all children studying in Anganwadis or government, government-aided, private a...   READ MORE

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