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| Omar dedicates next 3 years to inclusive development | | Vows to fight for AFSPA repeal, promises softening of PSA | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 25: Iraday Jinkay Pukhta Huan, Nazar Jinkey Khuda Par Ho,Talatum Khaiz Moujoun Say Woh Gabraya Nahien Kartay.(Those who have determination and faith in God, they don't get disturbed by tumult waters). This is how Omar Abdullah ended his Republic Day speech. The verse, however, evoked a sarcastic response. Only last fortnight the state administration got disturbed by three inch snow.
Omar dedicated the next three years to inclusive development. He announced a grant of Rs one lakh to each Panchayat for development works. This `generosity' also did not go well with various quarters. What shall the panchayat do with Rs one lakh? Omar alone knows.
The Chief Minister also talked about softening the Public Safety Act (PSA). For his information, the legislation can be softened by an amendment. Does he have the required members in the legislative assembly for effecting any changes in PSA?
Omar hailed the people for their contribution in making 2011 year of peace and development. While development still remains a distant dream, the Chief Minister did no... | |
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| Govt faced with new challenge of 'empowerment' | | MLAs ask for 'defining their specific powers' - - All Party meeting moots panel of legislators to prepare 'report' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 25: The NC led coalition government is yet to settle the issue of empowerment of Panches and Sarpanches, is faced with a similar challenge from the institution of Legislature where MLAs are asking for 'defining the powers' they are entitled to apart from enjoying the specific privileges. The government will form a committee of MLAs which will have members from all political parties on board who will suggest in what areas MLAs want empowerment . This is what emerged as consensus in the All Party meeting held two days back of the MLAs led by the Speaker of Assembly Mohammad Akbar Lone with the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Sources said the MLAs cutting acro... | |
| | | | Fearing reprisal from PDP, government defers election to four LC seats | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 25: A day after Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Muhammad Sagar said that elections to the four vacant seats of Legislative Council from Panchayat quota are unlikely to be held in near future, sources, in the government attribute the deferment of elections to the fear of defeat at the hands of opposition Peoples Democratic Party. "There are certain reasons due to which there can not be immediate elections to the four seats from Panchayat quota to the Upper House", the minister had said on Tuesday.
Fearing defeat in Kashmir division from opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the National Conference led coalition government has decided to put the... | |
| | | | Without fresh delimitation of assembly segments regional imbalance can't end | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 25: When shall the glaring error in the distribution of Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir get corrected ?This question has been bothering the people of the regions of Jammu and Ladakh for the last about 30 years.
If political pundits and the constitutional experts are to be believed this very defective distribution of Assembly and Lok Sabha segments has been the main cause for the four decade long regional discrimination in Jammu an Kashmir.This regional discrimination has taken so much firm roots that one can never imagine political power getting transferred from the Kashmir valley to the Jammu region.
Sheikh Abdullah had become awa... | |
| | | | Pot calling Kettle black....? | | Cops drive vehicles fitted with tinted glasses | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 25: In what could be described as Police top brass "ignoring" violation of set norms being made by none other than most of the Men in Khaakhi, tinted glasses fitted private vehicles ply on roads here in the winter capital without any check.
Reliable sources in police department disclosed that "though police department is busy these days to remove Z Black sheets and tinted glasses from the vehicles having no permission from the Security wing of the state police but the similar type of vehicles owned by police officers plying on various city roads are not being stopped."
"These vehicles are quite visible even during the day time ferrying the wards of the po... | |
| | | | State of the Republic after independence | | Nation at cross-roads | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 25: The nation tomorrow will celebrate Republic Day. It was on January 26, 1950 that India was declared a Republic with great pomp and show. The entire nation celebrated the day and remembered the martyrs. The political leadership pledged to uphold the Indian Constitution, maintain the territorial integrity of the country and work with single-minded devotion for the promotion of people's democracy. The nation reposed full confidence in the leadership and hoped that it would regenerate the socio-economic and political life of the people with zeal and commitment. This happened 62 years ago.
What is the state of the Republic today 62 years down the line? It is ... | |
| | | | Mobile Magistrate seizes vehicles in violation of SRO 33 of 2007 | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 25: According to the closed source to Traffic Court Jammu, Special Mobile Magistrate Jammu seizes officials being used by the family of Members of Minister and Bureaucrats of J&K State plying with Right Light in violation of SRO 33 of 2007.
Sources said taking up routine check-up of traffic it was found that the officials Vehicles are being used by the family of Members of Minister and Bureaucrats of J&K State and drivers are plying in 'Right Light in violation of SRO 33 of 2007 and Special Mobile Magistrate Jammu Naushad Ahmed seized the Vehicle of Revenue Minister, Higher Education Minister, Forest Minister, and Commissioner/Secretary Technical Edu... | |
| | | | The forgotten Singhal Committee Report | | Jammu Youth & Jammu Leadership | | | Neha
JAMMU, Jan 25: On April 7, 1998, the government of Farooq Abdullah set up a three-member committee vide Government Order No. 442-GAD of 1998, dated April 7, 1998, to look into the complaint of the Jammu youth that they were denied their due share in the medical colleges by the Competent Authority and make appropriate recommendations for consideration of the state government. Former Chairman of Central Board of Secondary Education Professor R P Singhal was made the chairman of the committee and Director, Centre for New Literature, Jammu University, Professor D K Rampal and Professor A K Kidwai of Aligarh Muslim University, its members. Prof Rampal joined the committee as third member ... | |
| | | | Congress, SP doing what League did before 1947 | | Towards Another Partition -- IV | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 25: The Muslim League, the Jamait-ul-ulma-e-Islam, political organ of a section of Deobandis, Dar-ul-Uloom, and the Aligarh School did not look back after March 23, 1940. Partition of India on communal basis became the chief plank in their programme. Jinnah was in the forefront. Ultimately, Jinnah got what he wanted. India was partitioned and Pakistan came into being in August 1947. Parts of Punjab and Bengal, Sind and North West Frontier Province (NWFP) constituted Pakistan. These were the areas where the demand for Pakistan was very weak. In fact, the Muslim leadership of these provinces opposed the demand for Pakistan for years. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, also called Bads... | |
| | | | Night before R-Day tense; borders sealed, bus services to remote hilly areas cancelled | | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Jan 25: While the night before Republic Day was as usual tense here, with borders sealed and entry points to the state's winter capital plugged, the city surprisingly did not resemble a fortress as it used to be on this day every year. As a result of this, normal life ran smoothly.
It was for the first time in the past 17 years that the day before Republic Day was like any other day in the city. Motorists enjoyed a fear-free, hassle-free drive all day. The absence of special nakas during the day time also came to them as a surprise. Some hoped that it could be the beginning of the good days ahead in the hitherto troubled state.
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