250-300 terrorists waiting to cross into J&K: Army
SRINAGAR: Two infiltrators, believed to be from the Pakistanbased Lashkar-e-taiba (LET), were shot dead close to the Line of Control (LOC) in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Saturday, officials said.
The Indian Army said soldiers noticed movement in the Naugam sector early morning and gunned down the terrorists.
Major General Virender Vats, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the army’s Baramulla-based 19 infantry division, said the number of terrorists at launchpads across the LOC could be anywhere between 250 and 300.
“The launchpads are fully occupied and if we have to hazard a guess, it could be anything between 250 and 300 terrorists presently occupying the launch pads [on] opposite [side],” he said, while pointing out “Pakistan’s complicity in abetment to foment trouble in India”.
Defence spokesperson Col Rajesh Kalia said apart from arms and ammunition, Pakistani currency was found at the encounter site. According to a
police official, one of the terrorists was a resident of Kupwara who had gone to Pakistan via the Wagah border. The other person was yet to be identified.
SRINAGAR : Jammu and Kashmir administration is in the final stages of designing an ambitious industrial promotion policy to attract private investment, Lt governor GC Murmu said on Saturday, as he invited investors from across the globe and assured full support for their interest in the Union Territory.
He also said that the proposed global investment summit in Jammu and Kashmir would be held soon and would be announced once the COVID-19 pandemic is brought under control.
“We are in the final stages of designing an ambitious industrial promotion policy 2020. It will have elements like tax exemption and very attractive land policy… this will be in addition to the incentives to be provided by the Centre through a special J&K Industrial development scheme which is already in play and is being revamped,” Murmu said.
Delivering his address at the India Global Week 2020 - a virtual conference being organised in the UK, he said, “We have identified 14 sectors for privatising our efforts for investment.”
Identifying the sectors including information technology, tourism and hospitality and horticulture and post harvest management, agro and food processing, agriculture and milk poultry, processing of handloom, silk and handicraft and healthcare and pharma, the Lt Governor said his government is developing a state-ofthe-art infrastructure for industries in the UT.
“We are currently developing two ITS and two ICDS and have identified industrial land,” he said, adding that 6,000 acres of government land, without disturbing agricultural land, across 20 districts will be used to develop state-of-the-art industrial estates.