LEH
:(18:30
IST) Union
Minister Farooq Abdullah
today went shopping for
vegetables, particularly
turnip, grown in Ladakh
much to the surprise of
the roadside vendors and
onlookers. Abdullah, who
was accompanied by his
Chief Minister son Omar,
bought patatoes,
cauliflower and apricot,
besides turnip, which is
famous in this part of
the State for its sweet
flavour....more
SRINAGAR:
(17:30IST)
The
Government has to recover
Rs 488.55 crore from 97
defaulters in respect of
Commerical Taxes while
another Rs 11.71 crore
from three defaulters as
excise duty and toll tax....more
PUNE
: (16:10
IST) Pakistan
is "going beyond
nuclear deterrence"
if reports of it having a
large stockpile of
nuclear missiles with
India specific delivery
system are true, Army
Chief General Deepak
Kapoor said today.....more
NEW
DELHI : (14:00
IST) A
personal security officer
protecting the sons of
Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah was killed after
being hit by a speeding
call centre vehicle.....more
GoC 9 Corps Lt
Gen G M Nair speaking to
reporters at Yole
Cantt on Tuesday. (....
see more pictures)
YOLE
CANTONMENT, HP, Sept 1: An
Army Division, comprising
around 15,000 troops, is
being withdrawn from
Jammu and Kashmir and
some of its units have
already returned to its
base in Himachal Pradesh,
a senior Army officer
said today. On withdrawal
of 39 Mountain Division
from Rajouri and Poonch
border districts to its
base in Palampur in
Himachal Pradesh, General
Officer Commanding (GOC),
9 Corps Lt Gen G M Nair
here said, "This
Division is being
shifted. Some of its
units have already
reached its base in
HP." The shifting of
the Division from the
districts in Jammu and
Kashmir comes close on
the demand of separatists
and opposition PDP to
withdraw troops from the
State in view of the
improved security
situation there.
"The entire Division
has not been moved fully
so far. It will take some
time," the GOC said.
39 Mountain Division was
shifted to Rajouri and
Poonch districts to
assist joint security
grid in conducting
counter insurgency
operations and undertake
counter infiltration
measures in 1994.
However, the Division was
later shifted to
Palampur. But during the
operation Parakaram, it
was moved back to
Rajouri-Poonch region in
Jammu and Kashmir,
another senior Army
official said. "It
takes nearly six months
to shift the entire
Division," he said,
adding the process is on.
He said Pakistan is
building fortifications
along the border and more
than 50 militants are
waiting to infiltrate
into Jammu sector from
Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir. "They
(Pakistan) have dug up
bunkers and ditches and
set up a few observation
towers along Jammu and
Kashmir and Punjab
borders," Lt Gen
Nair said.....more
Unattended
damaged road at Shalamar
in the heart of Jammu
city.
—Excelsior/Rakesh (....
see more pictures)
By Mohinder
Verma
JAMMU,
Sept 1:While people in
winter capital of the
State continued to face
many hardships, the dug
up roads of the Jammu
city seem to be
nobody’s baby with
all the concerned
agencies passing bucks on
each other over the
completion of multi-crore
sewerage pipes laying
project and repairs of
the roads. The work of
laying sewerage pipes in
the Jammu city was
allotted to the National
Building Construction
Corporation (NBCC) as per
the Detailed Project
Report (DPR) prepared by
the UEED Department of
the State while as Public
Works Department (PWD)
was entrusted with the
responsibility to
macadamize the roads on
the completion of
sewerage pipes laying
project. But instead of
working in tandem all
these agencies are
passing bucks on each
other over the completion
of the project and repair
of the roads where the
work has already been
completed thereby
rendering all the 32
damaged roads as
nobody’s baby. While
R&B Ministry claims
that macadamisation of
those roads where
sewerage pipes have
already been laid would
be taken up only after
the National Building
Construction Corporation ...more
Srinagar,
Sept 1: The
Legislative Assembly
witnessed uproarious
scenes by MLAs from
Kupwara district as the
Government did not bring
a bill to ban
inter-district
recruitments in open
merit category in this
session as directed by
Speaker Mohammad Akbar
Lone few days earlier.
The issue was raised by
Independent MLA from
Langate Sheikh Abdul
Rashid soon after the
Assembly convened in the
morning. Pointing to the
list of business for the
day, Rashid said he
wanted to know why the
bill promised by the Law
Minister Ali Mohammad
Sagar was not listed in
the business. However,
the Speaker did not allow
Rashid to raise the issue
saying he will take it up
after the Question Hour
was over. Soon after the
Question Hour, the MLA
Langate supported by four
other MLAs from Kupwara
district again agitated
on the issue. This time
they faced opposition
from BJP and National
Panthers' Party (NPP)
MLAs who were opposing
the move saying it was
against the Scheduled
Caste and Schedule Tribe
communities of the State....more
JAMMU,
Sept 1: Yet
another infiltration
attempt, backed by
Pakistan troops, was made
by a group of Pakistani
militants from Line of
Control (LoC) at forward
village of Sagra in
Balnoi area of Mendhar
sector in Poonch district
in wee hours of this
morning. An Army jawan
was killed in the firing
from across the LoC.
"It was being
ascertained as to whether
the bullet was fired by
Pakistan army or the
militants trying to
sneak-in. The bullet was
fired from a sniper rifle
which was available with
top commanders of
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and
Hizbul Mujahideen
militants", official
sources told the
Excelsior. Army is
reported to have sought a
flag meeting with
Pakistan army commanders
on the LoC to lodge
protest on both
aspects—cease-fire
violation as well as
infiltration attempt by
the militants from
across......more
JAMMU,
Sept 1: The
increase in petrol and
diesel prices, which was
affected in the General
Budget presented by State
Finance Minister, Abdul
Rahim Rather, will come
into force from mid-night
tonight. As per the
Government order dated
September 1, 2009, the
cess on diesel will now
be Re 1 while as the same
on petrol has been
increased from Re 1 to Rs
3 thereby making diesel
costlier by Re 1 and
petrol by Rs 2 from
mid-night tonight. The
Government order reads:
"In exercise of
powers conferred by
Sub-Section 1 of the
Section 3-A of the
J&K Motor
Spirit/Diesel Oil
(Taxation of Sales Act),
Samvat, 2005 and in
supercession..more
NEW
DELHI, Sept 1:
Withdrawal of
para-military forces from
Jammu and Kashmir is an
ongoing process and there
is no time limit for the
same, Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah said here today.
"It is an ongoing
process. Five or six CRPF
Battalions have been
removed and two Indian
Reserve Battalions have
been inducted. But, there
is no deadline... It is
an ongoing process,"
Omar told reporters after
his 30-minute meeting
with Union Home Minister
P Chidambaram. Asked
whether any lapses were
noted in yesterday’s
militant attack in which
two CRPF personnel were
killed, Omar said initial
information suggested the
Standard Operational
Procedures (SOP) had not
been followed properly......more
NEW
DELHI, Sept 1:
Senior Congress leader
Karan Singh today
requested the Centre to
consider setting up a
Central University in
Kashmir region in
addition to the one
proposed for Jammu as
such a facility was
becoming a "bone of
contention" between
the two parts of the
State. If this is not
possible, the UPA
Government could allot
the proposed Indian
Institute of Management
(IIM) to be set up in the
State to Kashmir region,
he said in a statement
here. "The
controversy regarding the
proposed Central
University in Jammu and
Kashmir has become yet
another bone of
contention and is already
assuming an agitational
character," he said.
He pointed out to the
Amarnath agitation which
saw loss of lives and
property besides
affecting the
State’s economy and
said any new agitation
should be avoided. It was
necessary to sort out the
matter before it assumed
alarming proportions....more
JAMMU,
Sept 1: Eight
DySPs and several SHOs
were today transferred by
the police authorities.
Inspector Bishnesh Kumar,
SHO Channi Himmat, has
been transferred and
posted as SHO Domana
police station vice
Inspector Rakesh Bamba,
who has been shifted to
Kathua district.
Inspector Chanchal Singh
has been posted as new
SHO Channi Himmat.
Inspector Gurmeet Singh,
Incharge Anti-Goonda
Squad, Jammu, has been
posted as SHO City vice
Sandeep Mahajan, who has
been transferred to Samba
district. Inspector Ajay
Bhat has been posted as
SHO Jhajjar Kotli police
station in place of
Naveen Angral, who has
been shifted to Nowabad
police station as
Additional SHO. Sub
Inspector Jaipal Sharma
has been posted as SHO
Kanachak police station
in place of Rajesh
Sharma, who has been
shifted to District
Police Lines (DPL),
Jammu....more
