Dehradun: Rights activist Avdhash Kaushal on Friday sought a ban on the entry of BJP leaders Uma Bharati, Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank and environmentalist GD Aggarwal in any hydel project area in Uttarakhand and demanded their arrest under the NSA if they did so. Criticising these leaders for opposing the uplifting of the Dhari Devi temple which will pave the way for 330 mw Srinagar hydropower project, Kaushal, a Padmashree award recipient, said they have no right create obstacles as the Supreme Court has already given clearance to the much awaited uplifting of the ancient shrine.
These leaders had recently visited Srinagar to oppose the uplifting of the temple when locals showed them black flags and asked them to leave. "Uma Bharati, GD Aggarwal, Nishank and their followers should not be allowed in any hydro power project area and if they do so, they should be arrested under National Security Act," Kaushal, who runs a leading NGO in the city named RLEK, said.
Dams are the backbones of any civilisation as they play a crucial role in water conservation for irrigation, municipal supplies and industries, generating power, flood control, recreation navigation, river rafting etc, fish production and road bridges, Kaushal said. Kaushal also asked the state government to immediately restart the stalled hydro project of Lohari Nagpala (600 MW), whose resumption had also been recommended by President Pranab Mukherjee, when he was the chairperson of the Group of Ministers (GoM) looking into the matter.
"In view of substantial
05:10 PM, May 17, 2013
Kathmandu: All 22 people, including eight Japanese tourists on board a Nepal Airlines aircraft on Thursday escaped with minor injuries after the small plane skidded off the runway while trying to land and plunged into a river in northwestern Nepal. The accident occurred as the Twin Otter airplane on a flight from Pokhara skidded off the runway while trying to land at Jomsom Airport in a mountainous region and crashed...
04:22 PM, May 16, 2013
Chandigarh: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq, who was attacked by his fellow Indian inmate in a Jammu jail on Friday, is in a deep coma, said doctors, adding that the 52-year-old is critical and on ventilator support. The Indian convict, who had allegedly attacked Haq, was sent to 7 days of police custody on Saturday. "He is on ventilator and in a deep coma. He continues to be critically sick," said...
08:43 AM, May 05, 2013
Los Angeles: Already home to the Las Vegas strip with its casinos and high-stakes games, Nevada on Tuesday became the first state where residents can legally play poker online for money. Station Casinos STN.UL went live with UltimatePoker.com after Nevada legalised online poker in February. New Jersey and Delaware have legalised online gambling, which could eventually generate billions of dollars in revenue for companies and local governments. UlimatePoker.com will operate...
10:13 AM, May 01, 2013
Poonch: Goods worth over Rs 1 crore were traded across the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday between Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and Jammu and Kashmir at Chakan-Da-Bagh crossing point in Poonch, officials said. As many as 25 trucks rolled out from the Trade Facilitation Centre (TFC) in Poonch to PoK, they said, adding, these trucks carried bags of banana, onion and tamarind worth Rs 62,05,260. From PoK, four trucks...
08:55 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday raked up the execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in his address to the joint session of the legislature of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK). He also threatened that Pakistan will continue to highlight the Kashmir "cause" at international forums. "The hanging of Afzal Guru through the abuse of judicial process has further aggravated and angered the people of Kashmir," he said....
08:52 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Buzz is that actors Venkatesh and Akshara are playing the lead pair in a film titled 'Osey Osey Vadhilesi Vellipoke'. Shanmukha Raj is the director and it is presented by M L Laxmi under the S Team Pictures banner. The actors in this movie were trained under Kamal Haasan. The Telugu film will be released on April 19th. The producer Nallapu Ravindra Babu said,"Our movie will give a great relief...
11:28 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Washington: Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has shown Pak-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) as a part of Pakistan in its recently released global map. There is no mention of the Line of Control as is the common practice to refer to the two sides of LoC as India-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. The interactive map was released by WikiLeaks on Monday, so as to help people to search into its 1.7 million cables in a...
08:30 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Washington: A staggering 94 per cent of fresh recruits of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) see Jammu and Kashmir as a "fighting front" and hail mostly from Pakistan's Punjab province from families having links with the powerful army and intelligence network, according to a US military report. The report from the US Military Academy in West Point is result of a multi-year research effort conducted by a lead team of five eminent authors...
05:40 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Indian authorities will exchange with their PoK counterparts a list of defaulters on both sides, who have not cleared due payments to the parties in course of their cross LoC trade transactions. A decision to this effect was taken on Tuesday during a meeting between Additional District Development Commissioner of Poonch and Additional Deputy Commisioner, Hajira, Anwar Hussain Shah, officials said. ...
05:15 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Jammu: The army on Sunday handed over two Pakistani boys, who had crossed the Line of Control into India, to the Pakistan army as a goodwill gesture. Rehmatullah, 15, and Inayatullah, 12, of Kotli area of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) had crossed over to this side of the LoC in Nowshera sector on Friday in "search of employment", said Col RK Palta, Jammu-based spokesperson of the army. The LoC divides...
05:57 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Jammu: In a good will gesture, the Indian Army on Sunday handed over two teenagers, who had crossed over this side of the border, to the Pakistan Army at a flag meeting in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. Army troops located in the Poonch Sector, handed over to the Pakistan Army, the two young boys who had crossed over to the Indian side of the Line of Control in...
10:41 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Talking more about the film Bare confirmed that it deals with the story of marginalised people. ...
05:48 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Parliament on Friday rejected Pakistan Assembly's resolution on Afzal Guru and said that it amounts to interference in India's internal affairs. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar moved the draft resolution in the House and while unanimously adopting the resolution said, "House rejects the interference into internal affairs of India. The entire J&K including the illegally occupied part of Kashmir is and shall always be an integral part of India." ...
01:53 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said Jammu and Kashmir had received over 1,000 applications from militants in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) but no one had yet returned through the designated routes. ...
05:59 AM, Mar 12, 2013
A Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) staffer was on Monday arrested in Pokhran spying case. Chandrashekhar, a section officer in the foreign division of the MHA, was arrested by the Rajasthan police for his alleged link to spy Sumer Khan who was arrested for leaking reports of the Indian Air Force's air exercise 'Iron Fist' in Pokhran to ISI. ...
02:30 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Currently the actor is busy shooting for his next upcoming film 'Thalaivaa' and 'Jilla'. ...
02:29 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Barely two days after the conclusion of the Indian Air Force's air exercise 'Iron Fist' in Pokhran, a suspected spy has been caught giving information of the war games to an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operative in Pakistan. Sumer Khan (34), a computer expert, was taken into custody by army intelligence from his house in Pokhran on Sunday and was being grilled by security agencies, SP Jaisalmer Pankaj Kumar Chaudhary said...
04:53 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Akshay Kumar has recently brought the rights of Tamil chartbuster 'Appadi Podu' from the film 'Gilli'. ...
01:51 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Far from the damaging allegations of bribery in the VVIP helicopter deal, India's political brass assembled at Pokhran on Friday to witness the first Air Force day-night firepower demonstration named 'Iron Fist'. ...
03:29 PM, Feb 23, 2013
