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| Top militant Naikoo, associate killed, brave hearts avenged | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 6: In a major success in anti-militancy operations in J&K, security forces on Wednesday killed the most wanted militant commander, Riyaz Naikoo along with his associate in Pulwama district thereby avenging the deaths of five security men martyred in Kupwara district on May 3.
Naikoo, Kashmir''s most wanted militant and Hizbul chief was trapped late on Tuesday in his native Beighpora village in Jammu and Kashmir''s Pulwama district.
The Hizbul Mujahiddin commander and his associate were killed early on Wednesday while another militant was killed in a separate operation in Sharshali village of Khrew area in Pulwama district away from Naikoo''s encounter spot.
Confirming Naikoo''s death a senior security forces officer said, "Naikoo has been neutralized along with his associate.
"We had said that the martyrdom of our bravehearts, Colonel Ashutosh Sharma, major Anuj Sood, Lance naik Dinesh Singh, naik Rakesh Kumar and sub-inspector Saqeer Khan would be avenged and that pledge has been fulfilled within three days."
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| Don''t use Naikoo''s death to provoke violence, protest: Omar | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 6: Hizbul Mujahideen commander Reyaz Naikoo''s death must not be used as an excuse by some to put more people in "harm''s way by provoking violence and protests", former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday.
In a tweet, Omar said Naikoo''s destiny was decided the moment he picked up the gun and adopted the path of violence and terror.
"His death must not be used as an excuse by some to put more people in harms way by provoking violence & protests," he said.
Naikoo, on the run for eight years, was killed on Wednesday by security forces in his village in Kashmir''s Pulwama district.
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| | | | J&K administration not to give bodies of Naikoo, associate to relatives | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 6: In a big move to stop glorification and big funeral procession of terrorists, the bodies of Pakistan-supported Hizb-ul-Mujahideen's top terror commander Riyaz Naikoo and his associate will not be given to their relatives. They were killed on Wednesday in an encounter in Beighpora village of Awantipora in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The administration of the union territory has decided to bury them and not reveal the location. This decision also came at the backdrop of stone-pelting by youths on a vehicle of security forces in Pulwama at the encounter site of Naikoo.... | |
| | | | Red alert in Kashmir as Pak terrorists on suicide mission | | Surveillance heightened at Govt installations in Srinagar | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 6: A red alert has been sounded in entire Kashmir region in the wake of intelligence inputs that a group of Pakistani terrorists are out on suicide mission in the valley.
Sources said the intelligence agencies have inputs that over a dozen highly trained Pakistani terrorists with specialized “Daur-e-Khaas training” have infiltrated into Kashmir from Leepa Valley in north Kashmir during the ongoing pandemic when the rest of the world is fighting the deadly ailment.
Sources said the intelligence inputs have been shared with the Army, police and the paramilitary forces deployed in the area and that a high level meeting has been chaired in this regard.
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| | | | JKBOSE announces mass promotion of Class 11th students in Ladakh | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 6: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education announced that it would be promoting all the students of class 11 to class 12 without conducting exams in the Union Territory of Ladakh. The notice came in wake of the extension of lockdown as the pandemic spread is not yet controlled in the area. The notice has been issued for Higher Secondary Part 1 students or 11th standard students for annual-biannual private, HSP-1 2019-20.
The candidates can view the notice on the official website of JKBOSE, jkbose.ac.in. In the notice, it has been mentioned that JKBOSE has taken such a step as it believes that in the current situation academic loss of the students... | |
| | | | Now crying foul, PDP once dared GOI over banning Jamat-e-Islami | | Party openly used to support militant sympathisers, ridicule GoI policies | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 6: At a time when the PDP is out to condemn the slapping of Public Safety Act (PSA) against it President Mehbooba Mufti, there are venomous statements of the past issued by the PDP Chief that have began making rounds on the internet.
One such statement dates back to March 27, 2019 when the PDP President assured people that they would revoke the ban imposed by the government of India on Jamat-e-Islami and JKLF. Such a statement was made by Mehbooba at a time when GOI while banning JKLF and Jamat affirmed that these two organisations pose threat to country’s integrity and sovereignty. However, it was the PDP alone which in order to impress its electorate prom... | |
| | | | Despite ban, outgoing college principal engages daily-wager through backdoor channel | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 6: Though time and again the administration has imposed blanket ban on the engagement of any daily wager, contractual, seasonal or any type of worker in the government institutions but an outgoing Principal of a Government Degree College (GDC) got engaged a daily wager through backdoor channels under the nose of authorities.
Sources informed Early Times that the outgoing Principal of a GDC, who attained superannuation on March 31, had engaged a daily wager, throwing the repeated dictates and circulars issued by the government into a dustbin.
This blue-eyed daily wager is a relative of a contractual lecturer who had joined the same college and without fe... | |
| | | | After a day’s respite valley witnesses spike in CoVID-19 cases as 32 more test positive | | Two test positive from Jammu, active cases are 445 | |  Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 6: After a day’s gap the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir witnessed a spike in the Corona Virus cases as 34 more persons tested positive for COVID-19 today. While 32 cases were reported from Kashmir two such cases came to the fore from Jammu division.
With today’s fresh cases the number of positive cases in Jammu & Kashmir reached 775.
Since 322 COVID-19 patients have recovered so far and eight such patients have died the number of a... | |
| | | | BJP MP Namgyal, family kept in quarantine after arrival from Jammu | | | |
Early Times Report
Leh, May 6: BJP’s Member of Parliament from Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency has been kept under quarantine for 14 days soon after his arrival here from Jammu by road.
A notice was pasted outside his residence stating ‘visitors not allowed’ by the District Disaster Management Authority. It further mentioned the that the 14-day quarantine period would come effect from May 5 for all the five members of the house. Jamyang Tsering Namgyal along with his family had returned from Jammu on Tuesday.
Divisional Commissioner Saugat Biswas when contacted said that it has been done as per protocol prescribed to contain COVID-19 pandemic. Everybody who is coming to Ladakh from e... | |
| | | | District Admin Samba fails to provide ration to migrant labourers | | |  Gurdas Kumar
Early Times Report
Samba, May 6: Despite tall claims of District Administration Samba, the migrant labourers have not been getting ration and other relief material for their survival in this COVID-19 lockdown. Sources told Early Times that the claims made by local administration of reaching out to each and every migrant labourer have literally proved empty, when hundreds of migrant labourers residing in different part of the district have not been getting ration properly.
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| | | | Naikoo's hideout input could have come from TRF terrorists: Intelligence Sources | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, May 6: Amid an ongoing turf war between terrorist groups in Kashmir valley, intelligence sources are suggesting that the input to the security forces came from Hizbul Mujahidden's rival The Resistance Front.
"Naikoo had been active in Kashmir for more than eight years and had managed to keep himself hidden for long from the forces.
This time, the intelligence about his hideout and visit to his village can be sourced to the TRF," intelligence sources said.
TRF is a new front of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and other Pakistani backer terrorist groups as Pakistan wants to create a perception that these groups are from within Kashmir and it has no links with it, they said.
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| | | | Only hand pump at village Rajpura Mandi lying defunct for past one month | | PHE Deptt declines to repair it | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 6: The only hand pump installed at village Rajpura Mandi of block Marh of district Jammu, which cater the availability of potable water to the residents, has been lying defunct for the last one month due to which the locals have been facing huge difficulty to meet out their daily need of water.
Sources told Early times that the village Rajpura Mandi which falls in Ward No 9 of Panchayat Rajpura, has around 20-25 families, which are totally rely on this hand... | |
| | | | Despite getting penalized, MC Udhampur continue to dump disposal along river Tawi | | |  ASHWANI SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
UDHAMPUR, May 6: It was almost six months back when Jammu and Kashmir Pollution Control Board (PCB) had asked the Municipal Council (MC) Udhampur to pay Rs 1.39 crore compensation for polluting the environment by resorting to illegal and unscientific dumping and disposal of solid waste at the bank of river Tawi near Jekhani.
The PCB’s first of its kind major action was necessitated to implement the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT’s) landmark directions; how... | |
| | | | Munish Gupta asks state government to solve problems of people of Sector 6 ward no 56 Gangyal | | Residents of Sector 6 ward 56 Gangyal at receiving end since problems remain unattended | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 6: Munish Gupta, Editor in Chief, Early Times has asked the administration to come up to the expectations of the people living in the Jammu region and solve the problems living in the different areas of the city.
Referring to the problems being faced by the people of Gandhi Nagar constituency Munish said that many areas of this constituency have been left to the mercy of God. He said that despite repeated reminders the people at helm have not taken any step to ... | |
| | | | Collection of COVID-19 samples of pregnant women, labourers gets underway at DH Kishtwar | | |  ASIF IQBAL NAIK
EARLY TIMES REPORT
KISHTWAR, May 6: In a significant development, the District Hospital Kishtwar began the collection of samples for COVID-19 that of pregnant women, vegetable vendors, labourers which is underway at District Hospital Kishtwar and in last few days, over 300 samples has been collected so far at District Hospital Kishtwar by dedicated COVID warriors of health department.
As per the details available with Early Times, as a part of Government initiative to keep... | |
| | | | 114 still under active surveillance, 224 under administrative quarantine in Kishtwar | | 104 labourers arriving midnight at Distt HQ | | | ASIF IQBAL NAIK
EARLY TIMES REPORT
KISHTWAR, May 6: As many as 114 people are still under active surveillance while 224 are under administrative quarantine, and the number of such persons under home quarantine is 224 in Kishtwar.
10 people who had arrived from Himachal Pradesh are under Hospital Quarantine in Kishtwar.
The official document available with Early Times reveals that 191 persons are under Quarantine in Kishtwar Medical block while 67 persons are under active surveillance, 180 persons under administrative Quarantine and 10 are persons under Hospital Quarantine as off today whose samples had been collected yesterday and sent to command hospital Udhampur for testing.
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