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Six injured in grenade attack SRINAGAR, May 29 — A militant was killed in north Kashmir and seven persons, including a policeman, were injured in a grenade attack by the militants here today, an official spokesman said. 800-kv
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PM to inaugurate Sindhu
fest 5 killed in road mishaps Plan for return of migrants discussed JKPCC dissolved
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Six injured in
grenade attack SRINAGAR, May 29 (PTI) — A militant was killed in north Kashmir and seven persons, including a policeman, were injured in a grenade attack by the militants here today, an official spokesman said. He said the militant was killed when security forces returned the fire after being attacked by militants in Kudhara forest in Baramula district in north Kashmir. Seven persons, including a woman and her baby, were injured when militants lobbed two grenades in quick succession in the Badshah Chowk area the spokesman said. The grenades were aimed at a police party in the area, but missed the target and exploded on the road injuring six civilians and a policeman, he said. Meanwhile, the police smashed a militant hideout during search operations at Gazrial forest in Kupwara district yesterday. A large cache of arms and ammunition, including two missile heads, a remote control device, an anti-personnel mine, 2 kg of RDX and two rocket boosters, were recovered form the hideout, the spokesman said. The spokesman said two persons, who were kidnapped by militants at Patshai in Baramula district yesterday, managed to escape from the captivity of the ultras. The militants fired at them while they wre escaping but they escaped unhurt, he added. |
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transmission system inaugurated JAMMU, May 29 — The country’s first 800 kv Kishenpur-Moga transmission system was inaugurated at Kishenpur in Jammu district today. The transmission system has been built at a cost of Rs 456.98 crore in a record time of 57 months by the Power Grid Corporation. The transmission lines have been laid over a distance of 275 km, which would facilitate transmission of electricity from Jammu to Moga in Punjab and the vice-versa. According to the Chairman and Managing Director of the corporation, Mr R.P. Singh, work on the second Kishenpur-Moga circuit had also been taken in hand and the two circuits would cost over Rs 938.48 crore. Inaugurating the circuit the Union Minister of Power, Mr P.R. Kumaramanglam, said there was a need for increasing power generation in Jammu and Kashmir when the state had the potential of generating 15,000 mw. He said so far the total generation had touched 1170 mw, which was a fraction of the total generating capacity. Mr Kumarmangalam said in the next plan a provision was being made for raising the power generation by another 900 mw. He said it was strange that when it had been established that hydel projects having the capacity of 3,500 mw could be set up work should have been initiated on it. He stated that on June 10 a high-level meeting in Srinagar was to be held where issues related to increase in power generation would be discussed and schemes finalised. The Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah, said because of paucity of funds and lack of central assistance on several power projects the construction work could not be started. He said had the Centre given counter guarantees and released additional funds during the past several years the state would have not only been self-sufficient in power but it could have exported electricity to the northern grid. Dr Abdullah said the Government of India had given a raw deal to Jammu and Kashmir by having signed the Indus water treaty with Pakistan in 1960 which had imposed restrictions on the optimum utilisation of water from its rivers for generating power. In this connection he referred to Uri and Salal projects. He said the Uri project had the capacity of generating 480 mw but in winter the total generation touched 35 mw. The Salal project could generate 100 mw against the installed capacity of 600 mw in summer. He praised the role of the power grid in building a sound transmission system and added that when the militants blasted the transmission system in Kashmir it was the power grid engineers who had restored power transmission within a few days. Dr Abdullah blamed Pakistan for having wrecked the economy of Jammu and Kashmir by exporting terrorism to the state. He said Pakistan should not mistake India’s quest for peace as its weakness. He said nothing would emerge out of the talks with the Hurriyat Conference leaders. The Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Prof Chaman Lal Gupta, expressed concern over the prolonged load shedding in the Jammu region. The Chief Minister announced that he would release Rs 5 crore in favour of the Power Development Department for purchasing new transformers which could ensure regular power supply. |
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SRINAGAR, May 29 (PTI) — The two-day Sindhu darshan festival will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee on June 7. The festival, to be held on the banks of the Sindhu at Shey in the frontier region of Ladakh aims at not only projecting the Sindhu as a symbol of multi-dimensional cultural identity and peaceful co-existence but would also to promote tourism, officials here said. They said the Prime Minister was scheduled to lay the foundation stone of the Sindhu cultural centre and also inaugurate the new office complex of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council on the occasion. Being organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Government in cooperation with the Union Tourism Ministry, Department of Culture, the festival is the fourth in the series. Several Union Ministers, Chief Ministers and Governors of various states besides other dignitaries and tourists are expected to
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5 killed in road mishaps JAMMU, May 29 (PTI) — Five persons, including a woman, were killed and seven injured in separate mishaps in Jammu region, official sources said here today. The sources said four persons were killed when their matador skidded and fell into a gorge near
Jindra, about 70 km from here in Udhampur district yesterday. In another mishap a youth was killed and two others were injured when their three wheeler fell into a stream in Rajouri district yesterday, they said. Five persons, including a woman, were injured when their car, on way from Delhi to Jammu, collided with a truck in Kathua district last evening, the sources added. |
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Plan for return of migrants discussed SRINAGAR, May 29 (PTI) — An action plan for the rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrants, which envisages their safe return to the valley, was discussed at the apex committee meeting here, official sources said today. The committee, at its meeting held here yesterday, said the action plan before being passed on to the Centre should be discussed with the representatives of Kashmiri migrants living at various places in Jammu division and outside the state, the sources said. The meeting which was presided over by the Revenue and Rehabilition Minister Mr Abdul Qayoom, was attended, among others, by the Principal Secretary, Planning and Development and Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir.
SRINAGAR, May 29 (PTI) — The newly appointed President of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr Mohammad Shafi Qureshi, today dissolved the committee with immediate effect, a party spokesman said. He said the new Pradesh Congress Committee would be constituted in the course of time. However, he made it clear that the district committees of the party will continue to function. |
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