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| Rs 125 cr grant, ex gratia announced | | PM reaches out to Leh people, says every destroyed house would be rebuilt | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
LEH, Aug 7: A day after Youth Congress President Rahul Gandhi assured measures to provide healing balm to the disaster people of Leh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today announced that all the houses destroyed in flash floods would be rebuilt before the onset of winter. To make sure his promise was fulfilled, he said he would again visit the place later this year.
During his daylong visit to Leh, the prime minister announced a grant of Rs.125 crore out of the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund for reconstruction of Leh town and adjacent villages.
He also announced Rs.100,000 ex-gratia relief for the next of kin of those who died in the calamity and Rs.50,000 each to those injured in the Aug 6 flashfloods triggered by a massive cloudburst. At least 179 people, including six foreigners, were killed while 200 people are still missing in the disaster.
Addressing the victims of the tragedy, the prime minister said the purpose of his visit to Leh was to share the pain of the people of Ladakh at this critical point of time, in which so many precious lives had b... | |
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| Soz says early restoration of telecom services must in Leh | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 17: Prof. Saifuddin Soz, MP (former Union Minister) and President, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee has sought visit of senior level officer of the Ministry of telecommunication to flood ravaged Leh so that snapped telecommunication services could be restored at the earliest.
"One aspect of Prime Minister's visit to Leh, today, was that the people of Leh thanked the PM for the government's speedy response to the tragedy that had occured on August 6, 2010. Even in their hardship they did appreciate the gesture of the Hon'ble PM to have visited Leh and announced a package of relief.
Soz said he reminded PM that in spite of the fact that he had ma... | |
| | | | Shoe-throwing ‘hero’ disappoints separatists, gets released after meeting with CM | | ANTI-CLIMAX | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Aug 17: Suspended head constable, Abdul Ahad Jan, who had become a hero among separatists over his audacity of hurling a shoe angrily on Mr Omar Abdullah, has been released after he met Chief Minister at his Gupkar Road residence today. This anti-climax of 48-hour-long drama has made an unprecedented excitement among Kashmiri separatists shortlived.
Informed sources told Early Times that under treatment and detention at Police Hospital Srinagar, Abdul Ahad Jan expressed the desire of meeting with Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, in order to express his remorse on the show-throwing incident of August 15th. Jan had hurled a shoe towards Chief Mi... | |
| | | | PM puts all speculations about autonomy to rest | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 17: Though the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has put to rest the all speculations regarding the grant of autonomy toJ&K State in his Independence speech saying the J&K is an integral part of India and all solutions can be found under the Indian Constitution, the question making rounds everywhere is who fed this information to a section of the media that Dr Singh during the all party meeting at New Delhi recently had said that Government was ready to discuss the autonomy for the state provided there is consensus on the issue.
It may be recalled that State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, Prof Chaman Lal Gupta and Party president, Shamsher Singh Manha... | |
| | | | Dukhtaran chief denies her son wants to study abroad | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 15: A day after the media reports brought to fore the firebrand separatist leader Syeda Asiya Andrabi's intentions of sending her son abroad for studies on the basisi of petition filed in the court, the chief of women's separatist group, 'Dukhtaran-e-Milat' (Daughters of Faith) today dismissed as "malicious propaganda" media reports that her 18-year old son wanted to study abroad.
"It is malicious propaganda against me since enemies of our freedom struggle could say nothing else to malign my person," Asiya told an agency.
The chief of the women's separatist group said she had been invited by Pakistan government in January this year and in order to und... | |
| | | | Without getting panicky Delhi need not take any hasty decision on Kashmir | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu,Aug 17: Initially groups of people used to follow the calender framed by the separatists as far as the days for the shutdown and days for normal business was concerned.Now a stage has come when these very demonstrators,protesting against killing of civilians,do not strictly follow the calender.This was evident on Tuesday when under the instructions of the separatists the shops and banks opened,passenger transport ser vices wer e back in the streets giving a semblance of normalcy.And all of a sudden violence erupted in several areas forcing the Government to reimpose cur few restrictions in Anantnag,Mattan,Trehgam and other towns.
The violence erupted after news ... | |
| | | | Can Article 370 be abrogated? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 17: Article 370 of the Indian constitution that guarantees special status to the state is widely discussed across Jammu Kashmir yet again. While the Kashmiris have shown total indifference, some quarters in Jammu have demanded its removal from the constitution. As the debate continues, a legal luminary has said the Article could not be abrogated.
Siraj-ud-Din Shah, a member of the High Court Bar Association, Srinagar said the Article was as hollow as a pipe. "It serves no purpose. Kashmiris will not cry if the article is removed." An unexpected answer from a Srinagar based lawyer. He elaborated. "Article 238 that contained the heart and soul of Article 370 ... | |
| | | | "Story of BJP is one of betrayal of Jammu", says a BJP activist | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 17: J&K unit of the BJP, which has no specific Jammu-centric agenda and which is known for its more than cordial relations with the pro-autonomy NC, is trying to befool the people of Jammu province by enacting drama after drama. On August 14, it enacted a drama of sorts. Some activists of its youth wing started moving towards Srinagar. Earlier on the same day, they performed Puja at Tawi River to attract the attention of the media. A day earlier, the BJP's youth wing had declared that hundreds of youths would go to Srinagar on August 14 to unfurl the national flag at the Srinagar's Lal Chowk on August 15. The most striking aspect of the BJP's planning was to m... | |
| | | | Assessment of Chib about Omar Abdullah is flawed | | | | RUSTAM
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JAMMU, Aug 17: Minister for Medical and Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports, R S Chib, has done well to set up a Public Relation Office at R S Pura where he would be listening to the grievances and demands of the people of the border tehsil. Public relation offices are needed at all tehsil headquarters in order to establish contact with the people and listen to their grievances and needs. Hence, the establishment of a Public relation Office at R S Pura is a step in the right direction. However, it is to be seen if R S Chib would honour his commitment that he would be invariably visiting this office to meet people.
What, however, surprising was his ass... | |
| | | | Four OGWs held for providing SIMs | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 17: In a major breakthrough, security forces today broke a nexus between militant sympathisers and some SIM card dealers in the mountain-locked Kishtwar, Reasi and Rajouri districts by laying hands on four persons for their alleged acts of making available SIMs to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commanders in lieu of huge sums of money. With their arrest, police hoped to get vital clues to the activities of LeT militants and their hideouts in the three districts of the region. Mohammad Shafi, son of Noor Mohammad, was picked up by police from his residence at Tipri Bonjwan in Kishtwar for having allegedly supplied two SIMs to a LeT district commander Police came t... | |
| | | | Transfers & postings in administration | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Aug 17: State Cabinet which met here today under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, approved following transfers and postings in the civil administration with immediate effect. Tashi Dorjee, Secretary in the Home Department has been transferred and posted as Secretary, Administrative Reforms, Inspections, Trainings and Grievances department against an available vacancy. Abdul Majid Wani, Project Director, Integrated Rural Energy Programme (IREP) has been transferred and posted as Additional Commissioner, Kashmir against an available vacancy. The charge of the post of Project Director, IREP shall be held by the Chief Executive Officer, Jammu and ... | |
| | | | Police arrest wanted stone pelter in Kupwara | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Aug 17: Police in Kupwara sector of Jammu and Kashmir arrested a wanted stone pelter on Tuesday while raiding a house in Trehgam area.
The accused namely Adil Manzoor Bhat son of Manzoor Ahmad Bhat resident of Trehgam was arrested when the police was carrying out the raid in search of some wanted stone pelters. "During the raid the police party was fired upon by some unidentified militants under the cover of darkness, resulting in injury to one Sg. Ct Abdul Ahad in his left shoulder," said a release.The injured has been shifted to hospital for treatment. ... | |
| | | | Militant held in Doda | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 17: A militant was Monday arrested by a joint column of police and Rashtriya Rifles (RR) from Hindigam in Chhatroo area of Doda. Police identified him as Ghani Gujjar (46), son of Nazir Gujjar, of Hindigam. A .12 bore gun, one fake identity card and some miscellaneous items were recovered from him. His sustained interrogation was on, police added.... | |
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