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Surya Kiran team showcases aerobatic skills
Assembly elections:
NC to confront CM on home turf
Jobs for locals sought
in railway work
VHP to educate masses on ‘anti-Hindu’ policies of UPA
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51 small hydel projects alloted to pvt sector
Another soldier ends life
2 militants shot in encounter
Colonel dies in avalanche
BJP decries PDP’s self-rule doctrine for J&K
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Surya Kiran team showcases aerobatic skills
Srinagar, September 24 The team comprising nine aircraft in the first half performed in the display of turns, wingovers, loops and barrel rolls in various formations. In the second half of the show, attended among others by students from schools here, the formation split into two groups to carry out variety of manoeuvres like splits, level and rolling crosses, inverted runs and the heart loop. A Defence spokesman here said the team displayed all facets of the IAF’s professionalism and showcased its skill across the country from Dal lake in the north to Trivandrum in the south and Chabua in the east to Naliya in the west. Apart from recent display at Chandigarh during the presidential fleet review of the IAF, the team has participated in all six Bangalore Aero India international airshows since 1996. The team has also displayed in Colombo.
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Assembly elections:
NC to confront CM on home turf
Udhampur, September 24 Although former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah and party president Omar Abdullah still avoid direct attack on Azad, other leaders have been availing themselves all opportunities to attack the Chief Minister while highlighting misdeeds of the coalition regime. A campaign launched by NC leader Aslam Goni from Bhalesa, native place of the Chief Minister, reflects the opposition has decided against a walkover to Azad this time. Goni, who contested 2002 Assembly elections for the Bhaderwah seat, has toured Bhalesa and Gandoh areas and addressed a series of public meeting. National Conference leaders, who earlier used to be soft towards Azad, minced no words in attacking him. Goni and other leaders visited many remote areas of Bhalesa and highlighted failures of the Congress-led coalition in general and Azad in particular. They alleged that despite being the home town of Azad, this belt had been lagging behind most areas of the state in development. Whether or not the NC succeeds in making inroads into the Congress bastion, the way party has launched a campaign against Azad indicates relations between two parties are not as good as in 2005 when Azad had assumed charge. When Azad had contested election from the Bhaderwah constituency in 2006 to become a member of J&K Assembly, the NC had not fielded candidate against him.
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Jobs for locals sought
in railway work
Udhampur, Septembe 24 As CITU and other trade unions have already launched an agitation in Reasi to protest against ignoring local youths, today Udhampur unit of the BJP also took up this issue. A deputation of BJP leaders led by former chairman of the Udhampur Municipal Committee Pawan Khajuria today called on the deputy commissioner Udhampur and drew his attention to the ignoring of local youths in the Railways’ construction work. The deputation pointed out government and private companies engaged in the construction work had been ignoring local skilled and unskilled labourers. On the other hand, various trade unions have already launched an agitation in Reasi against denial of jobs to local unemployed youths in the Railway construction work. Trade union leaders have alleged some of the local labourers engaged in the construction work, were being given lower salary vis-a-vis the outsiders. Trade union leaders have alleged exploitation of local labourers and the authorities unconcerned towards the woes of workers. Various private and government companies are engaged in the construction of the Udhampur-Katra and the Katra-Qazigund Railway lines. Many outsiders, skilled and unskilled labourers, have been engaged in these works and local leaders have been demanding recruitment of local workers. |
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VHP to educate masses on ‘anti-Hindu’ policies of UPA
Udhampur, September 24 During the Navratras the VHP has decided to start a drive to enrol youths to intensify the on-going stir to save Ram Setu. The VHP will also approach all villages and hamlets of Jammu province to rake up the controversial affidavit issue filed by the union government. Khem Raj, general secretary of the VHP, stated this to reporters at Reasi. He warned that the VHP and other allied organisations would not hesitate to take any extreme step to foil attempt of the UPA regime to demolish Ram Setu. He disclosed about the special drive to enrol youths as `Dharam Yudha' which would be started from October 12 to launch protest. Like the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, the VHP has decided to enrol youths from Jammu and Kashmir to save Ram Setu. The VHP leader added that on the birthday of Maharshi Valmiki, recitation of the Hanuman Chalisa would be organised all over the state. He said Hindu organisations had decided to cover almost all villages of Jammu province to educate masses on Ram Setu. VHP leaders have been touring villages of Reasi district to enrol people for the on-going stir against the demolition of Ram Setu.
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51 small hydel projects alloted to pvt sector
Srinagar, September 24 Reviewing private sector’s participation in power sector of the state here yesterday, minister for power Nawang Rigzin Jora said execution agreements and power purchase agreements with 10 private sector players totalling 107 MWs under Phase-I of the policy would be signed soon. Under the state’s hydel policy, in force since 2003 28 new projects had been offered to private sector, of which 10 stand allotted while 18 were in the pipeline, an official spokesman here said. The minister said the policy was to make this sector a prime resource of the state adding Jammu and Kashmir was set to emerge an energy surplus state. |
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Another soldier ends life
Jammu, September 24 Official sources today said Sepoy Rakesh Kumar of Mahar regiment was posted in Bathinda and was on leave for the past one month. “The jawan allegedly consumed some poisonous substance at his residence this morning and as his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to hospital by family members where he breathed his last,” the sources said. However, the reasons could not be ascertained while a case has been registered and an inquiry initiated, the sources added.
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2 militants shot in encounter
Srinagar, September 24 The Army said today Rashtriya Rifles in a special operation with Marine commandos, an elite force of the Indian Navy, killed the district commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen in Bandipore in today morning. He has been identified as Danish, alias Mugera, a Pakistani national. The troops recovered one AK-47 rifle with eight magazines from him. In another opeation chief operational commander of the Al-Barq was eliminated by the police and the Army in Hardu Shiva in Sopore last night. Baramula DIG B. Srinivas said on a tip-off on some militants in the house of Ghulam Mohammed Rather in Sopore, they launched an operation along with 22 RR and 179 Battalion, CRPF. As the police zeroed in on the target house, the militants opened fire on them which was returned. In the encounter, chief operational commander of the militant group, Abu Hadier Ali, was killed, the DIG said. "The militant commander was among the most wanted in the north Kashmir," he said. |
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Colonel dies in avalanche
Srinagar, September 24 Defence spokesman Lt Col A. K. Mathur said here Colonel Manivandan of Victor Force of the Army died in the avalanche in the Thajiwas glacier area near Sonmarg tourist spot around 2-30 pm today.
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BJP decries PDP’s self-rule doctrine for J&K Jammu, September 24 In a statement faxed to The Tribune, Khajuria has urged the UPA government at the Centre to recall the PDP leaders from the United States, where they had gone to attend a seminar on Kashmir conflict. The statement added advocacy of self-rule propounded by Pakistani President General Pervez Mushrraf aimed at diluting India’s sovereignty over the state. Condemning the recent meeting between the Hurriyat leaders and the European Union delegation in Srinagar, Khajuria said the BJP had already rejected the four-point Kashmir solution as advocated by Pakistan on the ground that the same suggested shared sovereignty of India and Pakistan over the state and the formula was nothing but a manifestation of the Pakistani President’s communal thinking.
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