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| Soz playing shots, Azad stands completely isolated | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 26: Saif-ud-Din Soz was never a Congressman. He was an ideologue of the National Conference. He joined the Congress only some ten years ago, when the National Conference expelled him from the party on the charge that he violated the party whip and voted against the BJP-led government at the Centre in 1998. Ever since then, Soz has been working tirelessly for strengthening the Congress party in the state. Soz, unlike Farooq Abdullah and others of his ilk, proved his commitment to the ideology he had been adhering to and established that he could go to any extent to hold his own against all odds. It was his single vote that resulted in the fall of the Vajpayee-l... | |
| | | | CBI raid on DD Producer's office, house in Srinagar | | Probe begins in fraudulent payments; records in music section seized | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, May 26: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today conducted raids on the office and residential house of a female producer of Dooradrshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar, seized records and sealed both the places. With this, CBI has launched its second consecutive investigation into fraudulent payments made by some DDK Srinagar producers on account of making in-house music programmes.
Informed sources told Early Times that a CBI team conducted a surprise raid on the office of DDK Srinagar producer and head of music section, Kausar Parveen, at 0730 hours. The team seized records and finally sealed the producer's office, pending detailed investigation into the in-house... | |
| | | | Crucial Census Exercise: Jammu needs to imitate Kashmir | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 26: Why is this writer questioning the view of Kashmiri leaders that Kashmir has more population? Why because the view appears both ridiculous, flawed and motivated. It needs to be noted that the population difference between Kashmir and Jammu was never so huge between 1941 and 1991. In fact, in 1941, the population of Jammu was more as compared to Kashmir. It is a fact that many Muslims migrated from Jammu to Pakistan in 1947 in the wake of the country's communal partition. But it is also a hard fact that nearly cent per cent non-Muslims, including Hindus and Sikhs, from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir migrated to Jammu the same year to escape their physi... | |
| | | | J&K witnesses steady rise in road fatalities | | As overloading is a strong reason for road accident death toll, no traffic cop has been so far terminated, or booked in "murder" case | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 26: The steady rise in road fatalities is a matter of great concern for all. Not a day passes when two or three serious road mishaps do not occur on the killer J&K roads.
It is felt that whistling and hooting by passengers, hanging from the doors of the crammed buses, often lead to the distraction of driver's attention.
And, on the serpentine hilly roads, losing attention means nothing short of death. There is no chance to survive once the vehicle goes off the road, on one side of which is the hill and on the other are deep narrow steep-sided ravines.
People hang from the doors, or rise to the rooftops only when the buses are overloaded and ... | |
| | | | 1,360 undertrials released from jails in J&K | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, May 26: Under a Central Government move set in motion on last Republic Day by Union Law Ministry in order to reduce overcrowding in jails, 1,360 undertrials languishing in prisons of Jammu and Kashmir for years have either been discharged or given bail to end their custody.
The Ministry stated this today here while releasing countrywide figures of undertrials set free until the end of the last month through granting bail or ordering discharge by courts on the basis of figures gathered by it from various High Courts in the country.
This step has been taken under the National Mission for Delivery of Justice and Legal Reforms initiated by Union Law Ministry. T... | |
| | | | Blistering heat waves keep Jammuites indoors | | | | ARTEEV SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 26: Jammuites today continued to experience searing heat waves for the second day with mercury still hovering above 45 degree Celsius mark, the highest experienced this summer season as well as in the month of May in the past eight years.
There was no respite from soaring temperature as the unprecedented heat waves that gripped the entire Jammu region for the past one week continued to be harsh and the mercury remained at a record 45.5 degrees Celsius mark.
Normal life was thrown out of gear in the region with people preferring to stay indoors. Bikers and pedestrians had a harrowing time on roads whereas few schools in the city have also an... | |
| | | | Power cuts add to problems | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 26: If the relentless heat waves have made lives of Jammuites miserable, frequent and long power-cuts by the Power Development Department (PDD) are just adding to their woes.
Besides, the State government's tall claims of a power-cut free summer in metered areas seem to have been blacked out with people battling searing heat waves and long power cuts.
What to the utter dismay is the government itself has restricted the Power Development Department (PDD) from purchasing electricity to meet the public requirement.
Talking to the Early Times, Chief Engineer PDD Jammu, Mohammad Qasim disclosed, "The department has been directed by the government that the pow... | |
| | | | Infiltration bid foiled, two intruders killed | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 26: Foiling yet another infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC), army today killed two militants in Tangdhar sector of Kupwara following an encounter with them.
Alert troops of army challenged a group of infiltrating terrorists at Tangdhar in the morning. The terrorists started firing at the troops, resulting in a sustained gunfight. Two intruders were killed in the gunbattle, official sources said.
Two AK rifles and other arms and ammunition were recovered from the slain militants, who were yet to be identified. Although firing had stopped, troops were continuing searches in the area when reports last came in.
This was the first infiltration... | |
| | | | Kashmir is a dispute: Hurriyat | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 26: The leadership of the All Party Hurriyat Conference,a conglomerate of moderate separatists,believes that Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh's Monday's statement,while referring to his upcoming trip to Jammu and Kashmir,that "it is a visit to one of the states of the union"could be a rejoinder to Syed Ali Shah Geelani who has been saying that he would join talks only if the Government of India treated Kashmir as a disputed territory.
"Well Manmohan Singh cannot be faulted if he has said that he would be visiting Jammu and Kashmir which is one of the states of the union because as Prime Minister he cannot say anything duifferent from this,"said a senior Hurriyat... | |
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