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Pakistan loots Muzaffarabad minerals, Kashmiris protest 9/28/2022 10:59:54 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 28: In a significant development of far reaching consequences, the people living in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir or POK have staged protest demonstrations against Pakistan for looting their mineral resources. The sources said government of India has received credible inputs that Pakistan was resorting to the plunder of the mineral resources in POK for its vested interests and that the locals have objected to the move through protests. The sources said the Indian government has also received details of the protest demonstrations held in POK, especially in Muzaffarabad. The people are understood to have protested that Pakistan has leased out the mineral mines to some influential people. Sources said the locals of Muzaffarabad are planning major agitation against the issue and that the ISI and Pakistani army were trying to muzzle such voices. What is interesting is that the people of POK have “started raising voice against the draconian rule of Pakistan” in the territory which actually belongs to India. The sources said the matter was being b...   READ MORE

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‘Maharaja CM’: Bhagwant Mann moves with 42 cars 9/28/2022 10:59:47 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 28: The so-called simplicity of the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been exposed in an RTI reply of Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa. In the RTI filed by Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader in the Punjab Assembly, Partap Singh Bajwa, the government has replied that the present Chief Minister of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Bhagwant Singh Mann usually moves with a convoy of 42 cars in his cavalcade. The Chief Minister, who claimed to be “Aam Aad...   READ MORE   Lt Gen Anil Chauhan appointed Chief of Defence Staff 9/28/2022 10:59:34 PM Agencies New Delhi, Sept 28: The ministry of Defense on Wednesday announced Lt General Anil Chauhan (Retired) has been appointed as the next Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). The release also stated that Chauhan will also function as Secretary to Government of India in the Department of Military Affairs. Chauhan retired as the General Officer Commanding in Chief (GOC-in-C) of Eastern Command in May 2021. The ministry of defense informed that in a career spanning over nearly 40 years, Lt Gen Anil Chauhan (Retd) had held several command, staff and instrumental appointments and had extensive experience in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and North-East India. Earlier, ...   READ MORE   Extension of free ration scheme will benefit crores: PM Modi 9/28/2022 10:59:28 PM Agencies NEW DELHI, Sept 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the Union Cabinet decision to extend the scheme, under which over 80 crore people have been getting free ration, will ensure support to them during the festive season. Noting the Cabinet’s decision on redevelopment of New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus railway stations, he said India’s infrastructure has to be futuristic and the measure reflects this vision of the government. These stations will be modernised and further ‘ease of living’, he added. The government on Wednesday extended by three months the ‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana’, at a cost of Rs 44,762 crore as it l...   READ MORE   Collective effort needed to save youth from radicalisation: Army official 9/28/2022 10:59:20 PM Early Times Report NAGROTA, Sept 28: A ‘whole of nation’ approach is needed to save the youth of Jammu and Kashmir from getting radicalised, a senior Army official said on Wednesday. General officer Commanding (GoC) 16 Corps Lieutenant General Manjinder Singh said it is the Government’s agenda to get youngsters into the mainstream and the Army is aligned with it to ensure peace and development in Jammu and Kashmir. “Radicalisation is a phenomenon under which the enemy country is making e...   READ MORE   Govt bans PFI, associates for alleged terror activities 9/28/2022 10:59:00 PM Agencies New Delhi, Sept 28: The government on Wednesday banned Popular Front of India and several of its associates under a stringent anti-terror law, accusing them of having "links" with global terror groups like ISIS. Besides PFI, the organisations which were also declared banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) include Rehab India Foundation, Campus Front of India, All India Imams Council, National Confederation of Human Rights Organisation, National Women's Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala. More than 150 people allegedly linked with PFI were detained or arrested in raids across seven states on Tuesday, five days afte...   READ MORE   Govt’s policy decisions not susceptible to judicial review: High Court 9/28/2022 10:58:53 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 28: The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that the deployment of armed forces with the UN Peace Keeping Mission cannot be equated with Formed Police Units as both play separate roles according to UN mandate. Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal while dismissing the petition observed that policy framed by the Government of India has reasonable classification with the objects sought to be achieved and the law has been settled that the policy decisions of the Government are not susceptible to Judicial Review. This significant judgment was passed by Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal in a petition filed by Rajender Singh Saini and others seeking quashment o...   READ MORE   Terror funding case: SIA carries out raids in Rajouri, Poonch 9/28/2022 10:58:47 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 28: The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Wednesday carried out multiple raids and searches at houses of suspected persons in twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri in in a terror funding case, officials said. Three teams carried out simultaneous raids in different areas of Rajouri and Poonch including Dharati village (tehsil Balakote), Kuniyan village (tehsil Haveli, Poonch) and Julass village (tehsil Haveli), they said. The raids, carried out by SIA Jammu with the help of district administrations and police, were aimed at breaking the terror ecosystem and investigate the proceeds of terror funding, the officials said. The se...   READ MORE

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