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| Controversies kept Omar on tenterhooks in 2011 | | State Of Uncertainty | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 31: 2011, like 2010, was not a good year for Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. During these 12 months, he courted controversy after controversy. His statements and actions demonstrated his unwillingness to recognize the fact that he was not engaged in one party rule. His political conduct angered the Congress leadership in the state in general and JKPCC president Saif-ud-Din in particular. What happened in the wake of the Chief Minister's October 21 Srinagar statement on AFSPA is too well-known. Suffice it to say that the Chief Minister's statement provoked the JKPCC to the extent that the latter publicly disapproved of it and candidly told the former that he violated coalition dharma by making a statement on a very sensitive issue without taking the Congress into confidence.
Likewise, it would be enough to say that the Chief Minister, instead of accepting his mistake, publicly took on the JKPCC chief and said there was no need for him to take him on board as he had already taken Home Minister P Chidambaram into confidence. While taking on the JKPCC chief... | |
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| Article 370, Candid Reflections & Unsettling Suggestions | | Jammu & Kashmir in the words of Padgaonkar | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Dec 31: "Yes, I can say something about Article 370. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had said that Jammu and Kashmir is a unique state. On the one hand, it is an integral part of India and, on the other hand, it enjoys a special status within the Indian Union. It is under Article 370 that it enjoys a special status. Besides, Jammu and Kashmir has its own constitution which declares Jammu and Kashmir as an integral part of India. So, Jammu and Kashmir has two identities. The people of the state have two identities. One is that they are Indian nationals. The other is that they are state subjects. There is no region in the country which houses people having two identities. It ... | |
| | | | Cabinet meeting on Monday | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 31: Cabinet meeting will be held on Monday 2 January, 2012 under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah winter capital of the state, Jammu sources told KNS.
The meeting will decide the extension of Director CA &PD, Abdul Wahid Tak and Managing Director of Power Development Corporation, Basharat Ahmad Dhar as they have retired today. Sources told KNS that power crises and other things will be discussed in the meeting.
This will be the first cabinet meeting of year 2012. The total number of cabinet meetings held in 2011 were 26, in which 224 important decision were taken.
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| | | | Police "good work" in 2011: 37 chain snatching incidents, only 18 solved | | Thefts, incidents of cops browbeating public witnessed increase in 2011 | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 31: Police reflected the "good work" done by them in a press note issued here today on the last day of 2001, saying out of 37 incidents of chain snatching in the city, they had solved "only" 18.
Despite the heavy presence of cops, the writ of chain snatchers ran large on city roads, with women preferring to stay indoors during night hours, or avoiding secluded lanes and bylanes even during the day time.
But in the handout, police proudly announced that they had solved 18 out of 37 chain snatching incidents.
The incidents of thefts and cops browbeating general public also witnessed a jump in 2011.
A goldsmith's both shoulders were made non-functional by Ja... | |
| | | | Sopore girl denied passport 20 years after her militant father's death | | Questions to Rehana: When did CM assure passports to militants' relatives? Why should you have a passport? | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SOPORE, Dec 31: Rehana of Baba Raza mohalla, Sopore, was born with the birth of Kashmir militancy in 1990. Her father, Abdul Rashid Penchoo, was among hundreds of youth who deserted their aging parents, young wives and children to "liberate" Kashmir. He joined the Islamist guerrilla group Hizbul Mujahideen and assumed the codename of Zahid Ali. Rehana was two-year old and her brother, Tahir, in fourth month when Zahid Ali died alongwith some of his associates in a fierce encounter with the armed forces in nearby Chhankhan locality on July 15th/ 16th in 1992.
Twenty years later, Rehana is completing her Bachelor of Arts at Government Degree College Sopore. Tahir is awaitin... | |
| | | | New Year revellers celebrate end of 2011 and herald in 2012 with fireworks, late night parties | | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Dec 31: Times flies but senses today found it difficult to believe that it was the last day of the year 2011 which started only recently. This is the time when people start writing down their New Year resolutions and reflect on the year that is about to finish. They prepare for the new year by setting personal and professional goals.
This is also the time of celebrations. Thousands, including young boys and girls, tonight thronged the city hotels and clubs to celebrate the end of 2011 and herald in 2012.
Welcoming the new year with fireworks, they attended late night parties and danced to make memorable the last day of 2011 and the first day of 2012.
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| | | | Separatists amused and amazed over Chidambaram's informal invite? | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 31: Kashmiri separatists feel amazed over the latest statement of the Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, in which he has said that he Government was ready to hold talks with the separatists. Chidambaram has said "if they are ready for talks we are ready for talks."
Commenting on Chidambaram's statement a senior leader of All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat, said that during the year 2011 the Government of India has been "talking about talks in vacuum." He said on August 15, 2011 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had told the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort that he was willing to hold talks with all shades of political opinion i... | |
| | | | NC for Lokayuktas in all states, barring J&K | | Dubious Role, Hatred | | |
Neha
JAMMU, Dec 31: What transpired in the Union Cabinet meetings this month and what happened in the Lok Sabha on December 27 and in Rajya Sabha on December 29 must make the people sit down and ponder over the attitude of the National Conference (NC) towards the processes of legislation in the country our law-makers participate in. The concerned people; all the political parties, barring the Congress, the NC, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and a couple of other marginal outfits; the objective commentators; and almost the entire media, both print and electronic, have already denounced the Congress party as anti-democratic. As for the BJP-led NDA, it has... | |
| | | | Cong Sarpanch arrested under unlawful act gets bail | | | |
Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, Dec 31: After remaining in jail for over a month, Congress Sarpanch from Changher (Marwah) Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh allegedly involved in collecting money on behalf of the militants involved in September 7, 2011 blast outside Delhi Court gets bail from the court of Principal District and Session Judge Kishtwar.
Sheikh was arrested by Kishtwar police from Bus Stand Kishtwar on November 25, 2011 in connection with FIR No:12/2011 registered at police station Marwah. After Chief Judical Magistrate Kishtwar refuse to give the bail in favour of Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh, his council approach the court of Principal District and Session Judge Kishtwar.
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| | | | Despite Xinjiang Heat:China prefers Pak to India | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 31: Despite the fact that Islamic terrorist groups,trained in Pakistan,have been indulging in subversive violence including killing of innocent civilians in the Xinjiang province of China during the last about two years Beijing has maintained a calculated silence in order to ensure that its relations with its all weather friend,Pakistan,were not soiled.
However,Beijing has simply endorsed the decision of the establishment in Xingjiang favouring crackdown on the terrorists groups.In order to mount pressure on the terrorist groups the Government in Xinjiang has increased police deployment in the province where the Islamic extremists have been posing a great thr... | |
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