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| Vigilance asking scribe to identify 'billionaire Minister' | | Rather, Nasir, Jora found to have visited Dubai in 2010 | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, July 18: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is understood to have taken an extremely serious notice of a newspaper report and directed State Vigilance Commissioner to initiate necessary action against one of his senior Ministerial colleagues in case he was found involved in buying a house worth Rs 120 Crore in Dubai. Commissioner has been asked to initiate action against the newspaper and its correspondent if they declined to identify the Minister or the report was found to be baseless.
Leading Srinagar-based daily 'Greater Kashmir' had reported in today's edition that a senior Minister of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's Cabinet had recently purchased an 8-bed room villa in Dubai's posh Palms Island for a whopping Rs 120 Crore. However, the newspaper has identified neither the buyer of the Rs 1.2 billion property nor three other Ministers of Omar Abdullah's Cabinet who, according to it, were also involved in corrupt practices and had allegedly amassed substantial fortunes.
Quoting unnamed sources, GK report elaborated that the "senior Ca... | |
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| Pak-based ultras seek Kashmiri guides' help to infiltrate | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 18: The Pakistan-based terrorists were planning to use Kashmiris as their guides to "successfully" infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir. As several misguided Kashmiri youth were in Pakistan and Pakistan
occupied Kashmir (PoK), the Pak-based terrorists had decided to use them as guides as they were well-versed with the routes from Line of Control (LoC) to safer places in J&K forests, official sources said, quoting intelligence agencies. In the absence of guides, 16 Pakistani militants, who had infiltrated from the International Border (IB) in Akhnoor here about two months back, were killed by troops in a gunbattle in Rajouri.
Militants were also killed while ... | |
| | | | Emergency wing of GMC to be shifted to new building within week | | HIMALAYAN FEATURE | | | ASHWANI
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JAMMU, July 18: The emergency wing of Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital will be shifted to newly constructed building within a week. This will be the first Department of the GMC which will be shifted to new building after the up gradation of Hospital on pattern of All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS). According to high placed sources the Medical Education Department is under constant pressure regarding shifting of various wings of GMC to newly constructed buildings for providing better Medicare facilities to patients. The sources said constant delay in up gradation of GMC Hospital on pattern of AIIMS the work on which was started in 2003-04 ha... | |
| | | | Rain gods play spoilsport at the time of final assault on Day 6 | | Lt Gen Jaswal likely to visit Mendhar | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 18: On Day 6 of Beri Rakh encounter in Mendhgar, Poonch, rain gods played the "spoilsport" in the wee hours of Sunday morning when troops were preparing to launch a final assault.
GOC-in-C northern command, Lt Gen B S Jaswal was scheduled to visit Beri Rakh on Monday along with other senior army officers of the northern command to take stock of the situation.
The gunbattle started in Beri Rakh forests on July 13 after Maj Amit Thenge was killed and six others, including Col Ajay Katoch, were wounded in ambush by four odd militants.
Two of them were killed by troops in a gunbattle on Thursday. The remaining two, however, could not be killed, owing to the d... | |
| | | | Pakistanis united, Indians divided on Kashmir | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 18: The collapse of Indo-Pak Foreign Minister-level talks, held at Islamabad on July 15, has led to a serious debate among "opinion leaders" in India and Pakistan. These "opinion leaders include former Army officials, former diplomats, those who held top positions in the intelligence agencies, journalists, political commentators, "human rights" activists, academicians, lawyers and film makers. Sometimes politicians belonging to different political parties also play the role of "opinion leader" and a few of them even speak a language his/her party would not use in public or while participating in TV channel debates. One thing that is common between the... | |
| | | | Passenger fare to be increased by 13 pc, TC authorized to revise fare henceforth | | Transporters' strike called off | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 18 : Following an assurance from the two senior cabinet ministers that government will increase the passenger fare by 13 percent, the transporters have decided to withdraw their decision of remaining off the roads tomorrow.The strike, they said has been called off in the larger interests of the masses. Transporters Union leaders had been demanding hike in passenger fare in the wake of rise in fuel prices and had threatened to go on strike tomorrow.
During the meeting held with representatives of Transporters Union at Circuit House here this evening, the transporters were assured by the cabinet ministers- Minister of Medical and technical Education RS Chi... | |
| | | | Communalism, not unemployment, the reason behind Kashmir's turmoil | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 18: The beleaguered Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, met the Prime Minister, the UPA chairperson and the Home Minister on Saturday in Delhi. He discussed with them the current political situation in Kashmir and suggested that if the lasting peace is to return to Kashmir, it is imperative to address two major issues - Kashmir and unemployment. He also, according to reports, handed over to the Prime Minister the copy of the July 12 All-Party meet resolution and urged him to consider it.
While the Omar Abdullah's first suggestion suggests that he, like the Kashmiri separatists and PDP leaders, doesn't consider Jammu and Kashmir a settled issue in the real sense o... | |
| | | | Pak leadership changing colours faster than kaleidoscope | | BEHIND THE VEIL | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 18: If the latest statement from the Pakistan Foreign Minister,Shah Mehmood Qureshi,is any guide Islamabad seems to be changing its colours more rapaidly that the kaleidoscope.Till Friday the establishment in Pakistan,especially Qureshi,were enraged over what they termed as unprepardness on the part of Delhi to enter into a dialogue which had been the main factor for the the Thursday's talks between Qureshi and S.M.Krishna in Islamabad to have ended in a stalemate.On Saturday signals emanated one after the other from Islamabad indicating Pakistan's willingness to keep the dialogue process on which alone could dilute the trust deficit and promote friendly... | |
| | | | Suspected LeT ultra killed in Kishtwar | | | | JAMMU: Troops of 26 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and police jointly killed a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant in a gunbattle in Konighat forests of Lainka Top in Patnazi, Kishtwar, in the wee of Sunday morning.
Acting on a tip-off, police parties from Devigol, Dhandal and Bhanwara police posts launched an operation in Konighat forests late last night. They were later joined by 26 RR troops.
Police sources said the jawans searched out a militant hideout in the forests early this morning.
Sources said when the jawans were nearing the hideout, militants, said to be two in number, opened heavy volume of fire, which was returned.
In the ensuing gunbattle that lasted over an hour, one milita... | |
| | | | Bar secretary detained under PSA | | | | JAMMU: The police took High Court Bar Association Secretary, Advocate GN Shaheen into custody last evening and detained him under Public Safety Act (PSA). He was immediately shifted to Rajouri Jail.
According to reports, GN Shaheen after leading the lawyers' protest at Lal Chowk in the summer capital yesterday left for his home (Tral in Pulwama district) in his Maruti car. He was intercepted by a police party near Awantipora on the Srinagar-Jammu highway and taken into custody. Soon after, he was informed about his detention under PSA and lodgment in Rajouri Jail.
Sheheen was instrumental in mobilizing Valley lawyers to protest arrest of Mian Abdul Qayoom who heads the Bar. The lawyers ... | |
| | | | Army lodges protest with Pak | | | | JAMMU: Angered by the ceasefire violation on the Line of Control (LoC) in Krishna Ghati sub-sector of Poonch on Friday last, army has lodged a strong protest with their Pakistani counterparts.
At least six Indian forward posts along LoC in Krishna Ghati were targeted by mortar and small arms firing late Friday night.
"We have held a flag meeting along Line of Control (LoC) at a forward post in Poonch sector and lodged a strong protest over the ceasefire violation and cross-border firing", a senior army officer
said. The Pak troops had violated Indo-Pak border ceasefire along LoC and targeted six Indian posts with mortar, rockets and small arms fire in the border KG area, he added.
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| | | | Pak apologises for airspace violation | | | | JAMMU: A day after blatant violation of the Indian airspace in R S Pura sector here, Pakistan apologised for the "serious error".
"Pakistan has admitted to the violation and issued an apology to India," official sources said.
A Pakistani plane had yesterday morning entered the Indian airspace in RS Pura area and remained on this side for about three minutes.
The aircraft flew in from Sialkot area in Pakistan and moved towards an Indian Observation Tower. The plane was spotted by a jawan on Sentry post No 5.
The area where the violation took place falls under the Western Air Command.
The BSF had not shot down the plane as it looked like a passenger aircraft. "Our action could have caus... | |
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