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e-smart? Official websites awaiting delayed click for updates 1/26/2009 11:07:06 PM HAMAAD SALIF Jammu, Jan 26: Jammu and Kashmir’s new Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has a well established reputation of being technology savvy and making IT as a tool of growth in state is one of his major priorities. That the only major decision his government has taken so far pertains to establishment of an e-governance agency is reflective of his approach to make governance smart and efficient by use of Information Technology. Omar’s predecessors also laid a significant emphasis on Information Technology and from time to time it was decided that every department will have a website of its own to facilitate public information. There is a quite handsome budget and staff support in every department for making them e-smart. While translating his vision of smart governance through information technology, the Chief Minister may make a beginning by visiting websites of few departments: • www.jammukashmir.nic.in , the official website of Jammu and Kashmir government can be described as mother of all the websites. It is worth appreciating that website recently updated its section o...   READ MORE

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J&K DIALOGUE Five ideas New Delhi can give wings 1/26/2009 11:05:27 PM Nirbhay Jammual If India finds it difficult to find a solution to the Kashmir issue it can seek guidance from five solutions that are now available. The latest being the autonomy document, which the Awami National Conference, now headed by Khalida Shah, wife of late GM Shah, claims had been prepared in 1981 when Sheikh Abdullah was alive and headed the Government in the state. Shah's document lays emphasis on intra-Kashmir dialogue in which leaders from Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan and India remained engaged for finding out a solution to the Kashmir issue. In fact before his demise GM Shah had attempted at holding the intra-Kashmir dialogue in Srinagar. On one occasion elaborate arrangeme...   READ MORE   Evolve new paradigm: Vohra to Govt Impressive, largely attended R-Day function in Jammu after years 1/26/2009 11:02:56 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, JAN 26: Expressing that speed, adequacy and timeliness of the delivery of public services were central to good governance, the Governor, N N Vohra, today expressed confidence that the popularly elected Government would address the new found aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and focus the gap between promise, potential and performance. After unfurling the tricolour at the State level function on the occasion of the 60th Republic Day, at Maulana Azad Stadium here this morning, the Governor stressed the need for revisiting, reviewing and suitably modifying the basic framework for ensuring delivery of various important services to the common man. The ...   READ MORE   India’s cultural diversity, military prowess on display at Janpath 1/26/2009 11:02:13 PM New Delhi, Jan 26: Kaleidoscopic images of India's rich cultural diversity and the might of its military were on full display on the magnificent Rajpath as the nation celebrated its 60th Republic Day amid an unprecedented security cover. An impressive and colourful parade, a traditional attraction of the national event, marched down the thoroughfare connecting the Rashtrapati Bhawan and the historic India Gate as President Pratibha Patil took the salute from marching contingents. Armed forces in battle regalia proudly marching before their supreme commander, scintillating show of air power, fascinating tableaux depicting the diverse culture and hundreds of colourfully-dressed dancing sc...   READ MORE   Congress gets into poll gear 1/26/2009 11:01:39 PM Early Times Report New Delhi, Jan 26: The Congress Working Committee meeting here on January 29 will finalise the poll manifesto and party's strategy to prepare for the Lok Sabha elections, party sources said on Monday. The party expects the dates for the Lok Sabha elections to be announced anytime between February 15 and March 1 and the CWC will take stock of the poll preparedness of the party for the "gruelling election months" ahead, they said. "The draft manifesto will be submitted to the CWC and the Congress President," Chief Spokesman M Veerappa Moily said after a meeting of the Manifesto Committee headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The CWC is also likely to...   READ MORE   US will attack Pak if it has intelligence: Biden 1/26/2009 11:01:14 PM Washington, Jan 26: Sticking to the campaign pledge of US President Barack Obama, his deputy and Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday said the United States would not hesitate to launch attacks inside Pakistan, if it had actionable intelligence against "high-value" al-Qaida targets. "I can say that the President of the United States said during his campaign and in the debates that if there is an actionable target, of a high-level al Qaida personnel, that he would not hesitate to use action to deal with that," Biden said in an interview to CBS news. Biden was responding to a question referring to the latest US missile attack inside the tribal regions of Pakistan and if these attacks were...   READ MORE   Sagar sends dialogue reminder to PM 1/26/2009 11:00:44 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 26: First time after taking over the reins, the state government, particularly its major partner National Conference, today called upon the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resume the sagging peace process at both levels –between New Delhi and Kashmir and as also between New Delhi and Islamabad. Rural Development Minister Ali Mohammed Sagar in his Republic Day speech in the summer capital Srinagar made a passionate appeal to the prime minister to resume the peace negotiations with Islamabad, snapped in the wake of the Nov 26 Mumbai terror attacks that India blamed on elements from Pakistan. "The process of peace and reconciliation between India and Pakis...   READ MORE

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