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Obama, Clinton among targets New York : Former US Presi-dent Barack Obama and for-mer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among the targets of suspected package bombs de-livered to several high-profile Democrats and CNN, which the FBI said it was investigat-ing as an act of terrorism. At least eight suspicious parcels were intercepted before reach-ing any intended recipients, including Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, former CIA Director John Brennan and prominent Democratic Party donor George Soros. Two packages were sent to Califor-nia Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the FBI said.
China vows to defend Taiwan Beijing : China vowed it will never give up an inch of its terri-tory - whether it’s the self-ruled island of Taiwan it claims as its own or in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe made the remarks on Thursday at the opening of the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, which China styles as its answer to the annu-al Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in the wealthy city-state of Singapore. “If someone tries to separate Taiwan from China, the Chinese armed forces will take action at any price,” Wei warned.
Alok Verma Still the Boss New Delhi : The Central Bu-reau of Investigation on Thursday said Alok Verma still remains the director and his number 2 Rakesh Asthana will continue as the special director of the agency despite being divest-ed of their powers. The clar-ification comes just a day before the Supreme Court hears the petition filed by Verma challenging the gov-ernment decision to bar him from entering his office and to send him on a forced leave. According to sources, this would also be the line of government argument in the apex court on Friday.
BJP leader’s mother dies Bandipora : Mother of BJP District President Bandi-pora Sheikh Waseem Bari lost her life after she met with an accident in cen-tral Kashmir on Thurs-day, while his sister sus-tained serious injuries.The deceased identified as Nelofar Begum along with her daughter Gousia Islam were traveling in an Alto Maruti car bearing regis-tration number JK-04-5200 from Mansbal to Gander-bal when it collided with a truck bearing registra-tion number JK 07-4014, re-sulting in injuries to both the mother and daughter.The duo was soon rushed to a nearby hos-pital for the treatment.
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PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi , Oct, | 25 | 18: India needs a strong, stable and deci-sive government for the next 10 years to achieve its political, economic and strategic objec-tives, National Security Advi-sor Ajit Doval said Thursday, asserting that “weak coalitions will be bad” for the country. Delivering the Sardar Patel Me-morial Lecture here, he claimed that in the past four years, the country’s “national will” has been aroused. Democracy is In-dia’s strength, it needs to be pre-served, Doval said while speak-ing on the topic “Dream India 2030 -- Avoiding the pitfalls”. “Weakened democracies can tend to make a country a soft power. India cannot afford to be a soft power for the next few years. It will be compelled to
take hard decisions,” the Nation-al Security Advisor (NSA) said. “If it becomes a soft power then you have to make compromises. And when you have to make compromises then your political survival takes precedence over the national interest,” he assert-ed. Fragmented polity will make it impossible for India to realise its will because weak govern-ments are unable to take hard decisions, the NSA
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STATE P-3CS for
harnessing J&K’s plenti-
ful water resources judiciously
INTERNATIONAL P-8Suspicious packages sent to top US Dems, CNN as elections loom
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NATIONAL P-7India supports digitisation but won’t com-promise on data integrity IT minister
BUSINESS P-9Cloud, gam-ing growth helps Mi-crosoft log $29.1 bn in revenue
SCEINCE & TECHNOLOGY P-11Crater that killed the dino-saurs reveals how broken rocks can flow like liquid
EARTH NEWS SERVICEEARTH NEWS SERVICE
Srinagar, Oct , 25 |18: Oct , 25 |18: Governor Satya Pal Malik on Thursday said that no talks will be held with Hurriyat Conference (HC) until they stops taking direc-tions from Pakistan.“I talk to everyone. I recently met Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and Mohammad Yousif Tarigami? so I meet with eve-ryone. But as far as talks with Hurriyat Conference is con-cerned, till the time they stop taking instructions from Pa-kistan no dialogue can be held with them,” Mr Malik told reporters after inaugurating Kashmir Autumn FAM Tour at SKICC here on Thursday.He further said it is the job of the Government to hold talks and his role is only to create
conducive atmosphere for ini-tiating dialogue. “I’m trying to create that atmosphere and the situation has improved from the last couple of months,” he said. earlier Governor Satya Pal Ma-
lik inaugurated a 3-day Kashmir Autumn FAM (Familiarisation) Tour-2018 at the SKICC here to-day. This familiarization tour programme has been organized by the Department of Tourism, Kashmir. Sh. Nor’Azam Mo-
hammad, Deputy High Com-missioner of Malaysia to India; Sh. Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, Advisor to Governor; Sh. Rig-zin Samphel Secretary Tour-ism; Sh. P.D. Tshering, Chief Post Master General, J&K; Dr Syed Abid Rashid Shah, Deputy Commissioner Srinagar; Sh. Tasaduq Jeelani Director Tour-ism, Sh. Aziz Hajini, Secretary JKAACL, Sh. Sulaiman Suip Director Tourism Malaysia, and distinguished guests from across the country were present on the occasion. Welcoming the guests from the Tour and Trav-el Sector who have come from all over India to participate in this Familiarisation Tour pro-gramme, Governor observed that a tourist is as safe in J&K
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No talks with Hurriyat until they stop taking directions from Pak: Governor
India needs strong, stable govt for next 10 years; weak coalitions bad: Ajit Doval
Khashoggi’s murder was ‘premeditated’, says Saudi in latest reversalPRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Riyadh , Oct, | 25 | 18: Saudi Arabia, in the latest reversal in its version of how Jamal Khashoggi was killed in Tur-key, said on Thursday that the death of dissident jour-nalist had been “premedi-tated”.Saudi officials last week said that Khashoggi, a support-er-turned-critic of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Sal-man, was killed “accidental-ly” in a fist fight at the king-dom’s consulate in Istanbul by “rogue” agents.The Thursday’s announce-ment was made by Saudi public prosecutor through the state-run news media. According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the prosecu-tor said the conclusion was based on new information received from a joint Saudi-Turkish investigation tak-
ing place in Turkey.The Saudi Foreign Ministry said the prosecutor will con-tinue investigation based on the new information.Shortly after the Washington Post columnist disappeared on October 2 after entering the consulate in Istanbul for paperwork, Turkish authori-ties said he was killed in a “premeditated” attack by 15 Saudi agents sent to Turkey with the purpose of killing
him.They said that Saudi agents killed Khashoggi in minutes and then dismembered his body with a bone saw for dis-posal.Saudi Arabia initially denied any knowledge of Khashog-gi’s fate, but later said it had arrested 18 people and dismissed five officials after a preliminary investigation revealed he was killed in the consulate during a “botched
intelligence operation”.Turkey had rejected the Sau-di’s description of the “ac-cidental death” and pressed it to concede Khashoggi was deliberately targeted. The kingdom’s narrative was also questioned by US Presi-dent Donald Trump.“We have maintained since the beginning that the Khashoggi murder was pre-meditated,” a senior Turkish official told The Washington Post shortly after the Saudi announcement. “We owe it to Jamal and his loved ones to uncover all of the truth. The criminal investigation continues in Turkey.”The New York Times said that the Turkish officials leaked to the news media the names of the men on the Sau-di team as well as photos of
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EARTH NEWS SERVICEEARTH NEWS SERVICE
Srinagar, Oct , 25 |18: Oct , 25 |18: Four Terrorists were killed in two different encounters between militants and security forces in South and North Kashmir gun fights. Two militants were killed in Arwani in South Kashmir while two others were killed in North Kashmir even as police has denied hav-
ing recovered any body of the militants from Kreerir term-ing the news as frivilous. Two militants have been killed in an ongoing operation in Ar-wani area of Bijbehara in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said on Thursday even-ing. A police official said so far two militants have been killed and searches are underway to
look for another militant be-lieved to have been killed in the gunfight.He said the identity of the slain militants is yet to be ascer-tained. “Three weapons have been recovered from the gun-fight site,” he said.Earlier today, a gunfight broke out between militants and the government forces in Arwani area of Anantnag district.Reports said that the gunfight broke out after forces launched a cordon-and-search-operation (CASO) in Arwani.Soon after the reports of gun-fight scores of clashes with forces near the gunfight site.Meanhwile Clashes erupted near the site of gunfight which broke out between militants and the government forces in Arwani area of south Kash-mir’s Anantnag district on Thursday. Reports said that
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Pak astronaut into space
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Islamabad , Oct, | 25 | 18: Pa-kistan would send a human to space for the first time in 2022 with China’s help, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry an-nounced Thursday, ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s maiden visit to Beijing.Pakistan’s first space mission has been planned for 2022 and the federal Cabinet meeting chaired by Khan approved the plan on Thursday, he was quot-ed as saying by The News.An agreement between Paki-stan Space and Upper Atmos-phere Research Commission (SUPARCO) and a Chinese com-pany has already been signed, the minister said.Earlier this year, Pakistan launched two indigenously built satellites into orbit, using a Chinese launch vehicle.
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EARTH NEWS SERVICEEARTH NEWS SERVICE
Srinagar, Oct , 25 |18: Oct , 25 |18: Senior CPI (M) leader and MLA Kulgam Muhammad Yusuf Tarigami on Thursday blamed New Delhi’s “denial” to dialogue for pushing Kashmiri youth towards mili-tancy. Addressing a presser at his Gupkar residence, Tarigami, who is state’s general secretary for the CPI (M), said Modi government consistently refuses to initiate a political dialogue with all the po-litical forces, including the voices of dissent. “This has resulted in a number of young men joining the militants. For the last three years, there has been a steady escalation in violence. Dozens of unarmed people got killed and a number of people injured,” he said.“This disastrous policy of the government is alienating more sections of the population and driving number of youth to mili-
tancy,” he added.He said that while violence has engulfed Kashmir, the response of Government of India has been only use of “disproportionate force which compounds the vi-cious cycle of violence.”“Instead of listening to the griev-ances of Kashmiris and resolving the issue through a credible pro-cess of dialogue, the BJP govern-ment’s stubborn attempts to sub-due people’s political aspirations is making the situation worse,” he said. Tarigami added the un-armed innocent civilians killed in Kulgam has deeply shaken whole Kashmir valley. “Legitimate question of the people is wheth-er this tragedy could have been averted. The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of 2012 makes it mandatory on security forces to sanitize the encounter site before
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Delhi’s denial to dialogue pushing Kashmiri youth towards militancy: Tarigami
‘4 terrorists’ killed in two different encounters in Kashmir?
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi , Oct, | 25 | 18: Indian railways plans to con-nect New Delhi with Ladakh region through the world’s highest railway line that will run along the India-China border. The national trans-porter plans to build a stra-tegically-important Bilaspur-Manali- Leh line along the Indo-China border. Accroding to a PTI report, the location survey of the first phase is complete. Besides giving quick all-weather ac-cess to the armed forces, the railway line will also boost tourism in the scenic Ladakh region that is currently con-nected by road and air. The Ladakh-Himachal region receives heavy snowfall and road and air connectivity are sometime affected due to bad
weather. Here are the key attractions of this strategic railway line:* The estimated cost to build this 465 km-line will be Rs 83,360 crore. * The rail line will have a highest road point of 5,360 metres above mean sea level that is comparable only to the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Line in China, which is at a height of around 2,000 metres. *The project will include 74 tunnels, 124 major bridges and 396 minor bridges, ac-cording to the first phase of the survey. * There would be 30 station on the line* Keylong station on the route will be build inside a tunnel at a height of 3,000 me-tres, a first in India
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Soon, world’s highest railway line will take you to Ladakh from New Delhi in just 20 hours
Imran Khan terms Saudi bailout package big relief
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Islamabad , Oct, | 25 | 18: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has described a $6 bil-lion Saudi bailout package as a “big relief” for the country and vowed to mediate be-tween Riyadh and Yemen to end their ongo-ing conflict. Accusing the previous two gov-ernments of plunging the country into its worst financial crisis, Khan in his address
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9 youth detained in Shopian
EARTH NEWS SERVICEEARTH NEWS SERVICE
Shopian, Oct , 25 |18: Oct , 25 |18: At lest nine youth have been detained by the government forces during a night raid at a village in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. A police official said that the forces in the dead of night surrounded a cluster of houses in Gundidarvesh village of Shopian and arrested as many as nine youth. The youth, according to the official, are being quizzed for their alleged role in various stone-pelting incidents on forces. Government forces on Thursday afternoon launched a cordon and search operation in Hajin locality of north Kashmir’s Bandipora dis-trict. An official said that a joint team of army’s 13 RR unit, SOG of Jammu and Kashmir police and CRPF launched search operation in Banger Mohalla locality follow-ing inputs about the presence of militants.More details are awaited.
EARTH NEWS SERVICEEARTH NEWS SERVICE
Srinagar, Oct , 25 |18: Oct , 25 |18: Stating that the party is not a feckless sycophant but the representa-tive of peoples aspirations, Peo-ples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday reacted strongly to the statement made by Governor Satya Pal Malik that state’s re-gional parties have no mandate to pitch for Indo-Pak dialogue.In a statement issued here, PDP’s chief spokesman Rafi Ah-mad Mir stated that the party since its inception has been in the forefront pitching for dialogue and reconciliation be-tween the two countries so that a new era of peace is ushered in the state of Jammu and Kashmir that has been witnessing may-hem and bloodshed for decades. He added that being a regional party of the state, PDP considers
it as its prime responsibility to get the state out of uncertainty and chaos and demand that the vicious cycle of death, violence and pillage must stop without any further delay. “The state Governor must bear this glaring reality in mind that it is the peo-ple of Kashmir who have been bearing the brunt of hostilities between India and Pakistan and due to such arch rivalry between the two countries, the state has been converted into as war zone where death has become a per-manent headline,” Mir said. He added that the PDP’s stand has always been to pitch for thaw between India and Paki-stan so that the already per-turbed people in the violence in-fested state could heave a sigh of relief. Mir said that every time, the two countries come closer
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PDP reacts strongly to Governor’s statement on Indo-Pak talks
Karwa Chauth shopping in full swing: ladies are thronging the market place to make purchases for Karwa Chauth and Deepawali in Jammu on Thursday.
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Governor inaugurates Kashmir Autumn FAM Tour-2018
Govt asks Google, Twitter, WhatsApp to check rumours inciting unrest
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi , Oct, | 25 | 18: Government has asked Google, Twitter, WhatsApp and other social media platforms to take concrete steps to check spread of rumours and messages inciting unrest,
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