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| Pak plays cricket with India in Dubai, keeps terror pot boiling in J&K | | Asteen Ka Saanp! | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 29: Even as Pakistan played cricket with India in Dubai on August 28 only to get duly defeated in the international match, the neighboring country is not putting an end to sponsoring terror into Jammu and Kashmir.
Whereas for the last few days the players from Pakistan were shaking hands with their counterparts from India for the international cricket event being held in the United Arab Emirates, the neighboring country remained equally busy sponsoring terror into J&K.
Since the day cricketing event picked up in Dubai, Pakistani Army handled at least three infiltration bids including suicide squads of terrorist into the Union Territory only to face the Indian forces on alert.
Whereas in Uri three terrorists were killed and a cache of arms and ammunition were recovered in Kamalkote area of the frontier, in Rajauri, a terrorist from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir was caught alive when he was on a suicide mission to attack the Indian Army but had got wounded.
While two of his colleagues had managed to flee, the wounded terrorist was rescued by the ... | |
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| ‘Red-Hunt’ exercise: Army’s message to China | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 29: The Army has conducted “exercise Red-Hunt” in the cold desert of Ladakh to check augmentation in lethality, survivability, mobility, and sustainable awareness being demonstrated, exploiting the newly inducted weapons and equipment.
Northern Command chief Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi visited forward posts along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Eastern Ladakh sector and reviewed the operational preparedness of the troops. Dwivedi is on a four-f... | |
| | | | PM Modi displayed humanity: Azad | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, Aug 29: Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said he had assumed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be a “crude man” but he had displayed humanity while recalling a terror-related incident during the farewell speech for Azad in Rajya Sabha.
After Azad quit the Congress, the party had alleged that he was “Modi-fied” and several leaders attacked him citing Modi’s speech in Rajya Sabha in February last year in which the teary-eyed prime minister had praised Azad as a “true friend”.
Modi had recalled the 2007 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on a bus carrying people from his state Gujarat when he was the chief minister and his interaction with Azad, who wa... | |
| | | | Congress needs medicines more than wishes: Azad | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, Aug 29: Launching a fresh attack on the Congress, its former leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said the party needs medicines for treating it which are being provided by compounders instead of doctors.
Mr Azad also accused the leadership of not having time for setting the organisation right.
Speaking to reporters at his residence, Mr Azad who quit the party on Friday last, alleged that the leaders being projected in the party in states are making party members leave instead of uniting them.
He also said that he will not join the BJP as it will not help his politics in Jammu and Kashmir and that he would soon set up a new party there as assembly elections could... | |
| | | | 4 more Cong leaders, 12 Apni Party workers resign join Azad | | | |
Early Times Report
Kathua/Jammu, Aug 29: Four more Congress leaders, including former deputy speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Gulam Hyder Malik, and a dozen prominent workers of the Apni Party resigned from their respective parties on Monday in support of veteran politician Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Azad (73), a former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, ended his five-decade association with the Congress on Friday, saying the party was "comprehensively destroyed" and lashing out at Rahul Gandhi for "demolishing" its entire consultative mechanism.
Malik, a former Congress MLA from Kathua's Bani, and two former MLCs -- Subash Gupta from Kathua and Sham Lal Bhagat from Doda -- separat... | |
| | | | Azad's supporters meet in Jammu ahead of new party launch | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 29: Several leaders and activists, who resigned from Congress following in Ghulam Nabi Azad's footsteps, met under former Jammu and Kashmir minister GM Saroori's leadership to ramp up support for the senior leader in his next endeavour.
Mr Azad, a Congress veteran who resigned from the party on August 26, is scheduled to reach Jammu on September 4. He has announced launching a new party beginning with Jammu and Kashmir where assembly polls are due.
"Over 500 prominent Congress leaders and workers, including corporators, panchayat members and block-level leaders, have resigned from the party in support of Azad. The meeting was convened to send a message... | |
| | | | Cong finds it hard to keep flock together | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 29: Notwithstanding claims made in the much-publicized meeting of the coordination committee of the J&K Congress, the party finds it difficult to keep its flock together because leaders continue to desert the grand old party.
Although AICC incharge J&K Rajni Patil is trying to establish contact with loyalists of Azad, the spree of resignations going unabated.
While former Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand is yet to announce joining Azad’s camp, four more Congress leaders, including former deputy speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Gulam Hyder Malik, and a dozen prominent workers of the Apni Party resigned from their respective parties on Monday in... | |
| | | | In 2021, road accidents killed 1.73 lakh people across India | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, Aug 29: As many as 1.73 lakh people lost their lives in around 4.22 lakh traffic accidents in the country in 2021 with Uttar Pradesh reporting the highest number of deaths in such mishaps at 24,711 deaths, followed by Tamil Nadu which recorded 16,685 deaths.
According to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the number of traffic accidents in the country increased from 3,68,828 in 2020 to 4,22,659 in 2021.
These traffic accidents comprise 4,03,116 road accidents, 17,993 railway accidents and 1,550 railway crossing accidents. They caused 1,55,622, 16,431 and 1,807 deaths respectively during 2021.
The maximum increase in number of traffi... | |
| | | | Surrendered terrorist detained under PSA, lodged in Kot Bhalwal Jail | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 29: A surrendered terrorist was detained under Public Safety Act (PSA) for his alleged involvement in “anti-national and anti-social” activities in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, and lodged in Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu, officials said on Monday.
The order for the detention of Mohammad Amin Wani, a resident of Bankoot village of Banihal, under PSA was issued by Ramban District Magistrate on August 25, stating that his activities are “prejudical to maintenance of public order”. PSA is an administrative law that allows detention without charge or trial for up to two years in some cases. As per the dossier prepared by Senior Superintendent of Police, R... | |
| | | | NIA arrests another accused in Handwara narco-terrorism case | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 29: The anti-terror federal probe agency NIA today said it has arrested the 12th accused in connection with Handwara narco-terrorism case from Kupwara in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) for his alleged involvement in supply of narcotics, cash and arms and ammunition through the Line of Control (LoC).
An official spokesperson of the agency said the NIA on Sunday arrested 45-year-old Abdul Rauf Badan, a resident of Kupwara district for his involvement in case of supply of narcotics, cash and arms and ammunition through LoC border of Amarohi, Tangdhar area by concealing the consignment in vegetable carrier vehicle.
The NIA official said, “He is a key operator of t... | |
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