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| NO change of guard on anvil | | Spurned by 'Dilli Durbar', Cong leaders make retreat | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 4: Even as the delegation of senior Congress leaders have tried in vain to reach out to High Command in a bid to 'strike the iron' while it is hot, the response to these efforts has been cold, rather far fetched.. Some of the leaders have made a retreat from "Dilli Durbaar' while many are still camping in the national capital.
Sources said the even though the senior Congressmen from state including CLP leader Choudhary Mohammad Aslam did meet the dignitaries right from Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to express their concern and apprehensions over turbulent situation in Kashmir, their approach was only seen as 'inopportune and untimely' by the Delhi leadership. Sources said while a calm and wise PM is believed to have given hearing to what all the J&K Congress men painted the picture about state and political leadership, they were rebuffed by some other veterans whom they met with a word of caution that they should fish in troubled waters in the similar way as opposition parties are doing at present.
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| Kashmir House packed with political guests | | No accommodation for BJP MLAs | | |
Kashmir House in Delhi which is otherwise seen enveloped in controversies with regard to its occupancy , has been seen totally packed, rather 'over loaded' with 'political guests' from the state. Since a large delegation of Congress leaders has been camping for the last few days in the Kashmir House, the occupancy is running full. The House has become hub of political hustle and bustle these days with all rooms occupied by political leaders including MLAs, ex MLAs, Chairmen etc. from Congress. While other guests seeking accommodation have been returning disappointed, it was the turn of BJP MLAs to face the similar situation. Some BJP MLAs are said to have reached Delhi for the purpose ... | |
| | | | Youth murdered in Regud forest | | | | JAMMU: A youth was found brutally murdered in Regud forest near Mahamaya temple under the jurisdiction of Bagh-e-Bahu police station today. Though, the identification of the deceased had not established till late hours but police has seized the stone which was used to crush the head of the deceased.
Police came to know about the body of the deceased when some shepherds informed them. After getting information, police reached the spot where it found decomposed body of a youth aged about 35 years. A case under section 302 RPC has been registered in this connection. The body was shifted to GMC hospital for postmortem. Police have registered a case under section 302 RPC and the investigation i... | |
| | | | No let up in infiltration bids by Pak-based ultras: DG BSF | | | | NEW Delhi: BSF director general (DG) Raman Srivastava today said there was no let up in infiltration attempts by militants from across the borders neighbouring Pakistan. "The militants are waiting desperately to sneak in," he said after flagging off a contingent of 125 BSF men for deployment in Congo under a UN mission.
Srivastava said troops deployed along the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir were regularly thwarting such attempts.
"There are repeated attempts to infiltrate especially along the Jammu frontier. Lots of militants are waiting across the border. They are at it all the time and we are at our job all the time," he added.
"We have... | |
| | | | BJP MLAs from J&K to meet PM today | | | | NEW DELHI: All the 11 BJP members of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly led by the State party chief Shamsher Singh arrived here today to try and meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the volatile situation in the Kashmir Valley. Indications are that the BJP legislators would ask the Prime Minister to revoke his party's support to Omar Abdullah Government.
Asked about their plan, the former J&K BJP president and senior MLA Ashok Khajuria told this correspondent here on Wednesday evening that the MLAs would like the Centre to intervene to redeem the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and thus they would try to meet the Prime Minister along with the senior Central party leaders like LK A... | |
| | | | No shootout after 'shoot-at-sight' orders in Kashmir | | Geelani reaches back to his home, calls for 'only peaceful' demonstrations | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Aug 4: Media hype to "shoot-at-sight" orders today led to a situation in which Police and paramilitary forces had no occasion to open gunfire as the angry Kashmiris remained confined to their homes and did not clash with the authorities anywhere in the Valley. It was, thus, after several days of turbulence that not a single shot was fired and nobody was killed or injured. However, yet another civilian, who had sustained critical injuries in a shootout at Chhanpora last week, breathed his last at a hospital. Meanwhile, separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani asked the Kashmir to stop all violent means of "resistance" after he reached back to... | |
| | | | "Kashmiris are our own people", says Chidambaram | | | | ABID SHAH
EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, Aug 4: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has made a strong plea for peace in Jammu and Kashmir through a statement made here in the Lok Sabha today regarding the situation in the border State where, according to him, as many as 39 civilians died during the trouble that began on June 11.
Two days ago Chidambaram had assured the MPs to make a statement about the serious situation the State has been caught in. And when he spoke today he virtually extended an olive branch to the angry youth and the separatists' leadership by assuring to reactivate political process and dialogue once the violence was over.
He called Kashmiris as "our own people" and sp... | |
| | | | PDP and separatists hold different views on restoration of peace in valley | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 4: The opposition PDP and a section of the Kashmiri separatists differ as far as the issue pertaining to Omar Abdullah's continuance as Chief Minister of the troubled state was concerned.
While the PDP leadership believes that change in the guard could lead to improvement in the security scenario the separatists have a different perception of the problem. A senior Hurriyat Conference leader, Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat, said that change of guard "can have no bearing on the volatile situation in the Kashmir valley." In support of his argument he said that the current turmoil, unrest and street protests were not aimed at destabilising Omar Abdullah led Government b... | |
| | | | If agencies sponsor protests, why seek a political package? | | Identify the mischief mongers | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 4: The on-going protests have been giving sleepless nights to the government. But instead of taking tangible measures to restore order in the troubled valley, the politicians have been accusing unidentified `agencies' for creating trouble. Yesterday, the Congress chairperson, Sonia Gandhi also accused some elements for the mess Kashmir finds itself in. However, the Chief Minister contradicted all including his previous statement by saying `Kashmir was a political problem' at New Delhi last week.
The law minister, Ali Muhammad Sagar even went to the extent of saying that the `elements' behind the trouble had been identified. Sagar was referring to the s... | |
| | | | PHE’s privatization drive proves costly | | | | Gopal Gupta
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 4: If the manner in which PHE department has been spending public money on hiring private vehicles is taken into account, Jammu and Kashmir government is seemingly pursing 'illogical and economically awful policy' of privatization of functioning of various departments.
On one hand, the government has been talking of cutting down fruitless expenditure to pep the revenue demands of the state, this mass hiring of private vehicles by PHE department at exorbitant rents is making the whole effort go down the drain. Moreover, there is no check on the need for hiring these vehicles.
Officials of PHE department maintain that hiring vehicles is import... | |
| | | | Amid tensions; India, Pakistan plan to share 'Basmati' tag stalled | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, Aug 4: Tensions between India and Pakistan have thwarted their plans to jointly own the term "basmati" for the aromatic rice, much as producers in Champagne, France, have the exclusive right to name their product.
South Asian neighbors are big producers of iconic long-grained rice, which is in rising demand from middle-class Indians as well as buyers in the Middle East and among Indians, and their restaurants, world-wide. India and Pakistan had planned to file joint application for what's called "geographic indication" to lay claim to the name "basmati."
A Kolkata vendor sells basmati, which India and Pakistan claim as their own. But the basmati bandwagon ha... | |
| | | | Reality shows damaging creativity among children in Jammu | | | | Gopal Gupta
early times report
JAMMU, Aug 4: Jammu city where hundred plus channels are being beamed live in the homes has of late shown a growing obsession among parents to make their child do ‘something extra’ alongside remaining meritorious in his academic curriculum.
Children are being pushed into fields unknown to their tender psyche. Psychologists are advising caution but parents influenced by reality shows, soap operas, game shows and computer games are out to erode child’s sense of reality. They hardly care about the child’s inner creative side and instead force him to accept what they think would bring some fame for them in the society.
Inspired by the national locals, a few... | |
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