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| Major reshuffle in state cabinet | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 2
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today ordered a major reshuffle in the state cabinet, which was expanded to its maximum number of twenty-two members, here on Wednesday.
Official sources said that Azad retains the departments of GAD, Home, Estates, Revenue, Information, Hospitality and Protocol, Civil Aviation and Floriculture with himself, while his deputy Muzaffar Hussain Baig will continue to hold the charge of Planning, Law and Parliamentary Affairs and Tourism.
Mangat Ram Sharma has been give Health and Medical Education, Labour and Employment and Ladakh Affairs, while no change has been made in the portfolios of Tariq Hameed Karra, Finance and Housing and Urban Development and Qazi Muhammad Afzal, forest.
Similarly Abdul Aziz Zargar, Muhammad Dilawar Mir and Taj Mohiuddin will continue to hold their own portfolios, without any reshuffle.
Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed will continue to hold School Education, Science and Technology, Information Technology, Haj and Auqaf; sources told News Agency of Kashmir adding that highe... | |
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| State to get A V Thomas Wallet unit | | Jairam Ramesh draws blueprint for Kashmir handicrafts | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 2
Stressing the need for permanent marketing centre for world famous Kashmiri handicrafts in the capital, the Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh today said the Central Government has identified 20 kanals of land for developing a marketing and exhibition Centre of Kashmir handicraft.
Inaugurating the Kashmir handicrafts expo exhibition- 2008 Jairam said the Centre has received a proposal from Jammu and Kashmir government for setting up of a permanent marketing-exhibition centre for Kashmir handicraft in the capital. Such a Centre, he said, would give fillip to the handicraft expo and suggested organizing such expos at other States of th... | |
| | | | Court awards 18 yrs imprisonment to ISI trained militant | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 2
Principal Sessions Judge, Jammu, Mr. J. R Kotwal, sentenced and convicted Raja Muzaffar Ahmed code name Rashed r/o Bamyar, Baramulla to undergo 18 years imprisonment.
According to the prosecution case that on May 1, 2000, one Sanjeev Kumar informed border police force Chakra that he had gone his field and he came across to unknown persons coming from border side, who enquired from him about the vehicular road to Jammu. Both the said persons were Urdu speaking and alien to the area and he has got them seated on a shop. On this information, the police party proceeded for the spot and brought both the said persons to the police post. During the course of ... | |
| | | | Azad has viral fever | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 2
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has been suffering from viral fever for the last two days and has been advised rest by the doctors.
Despite being unwell, 58-year-old Azad attended the swearing-in ceremony of four Congress Ministers who were inducted into his Cabinet at a function here last evening.
Azad has, however, not been attending office for the past two days and has been advised rest, official sources said. ... | |
| | | | Pakistan elections postponed to Feb 18 | | | | Islamabad | Jan 2
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday decided to postpone the January 8 polls to February 18, in view of the situation in the country after the murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq said.
Earlier on Saturday, the ECP released a press statement saying that the election scheduled next month had been "adversely affected" by unrest in the country and that it would hold an urgent meeting on Monday.
After Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, another candidate was killed in a bomb blast on Friday.
The commission said in its statement: "All activities pertaining to pre-poll arrangements, i... | |
| | | | Kashmiri terrorism spreading tentacles all over India | | With high alert and vigil in J&K, Islamic jehadis shifting to UP | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Jan 2
The pre-dawn Fidayeen attack on Tuesday at the CRPF camp in Rampur, killing seven Jawans and one civilian, together with about a dozen terrorist strikes in different parts of the country in the last one year, is indication enough that pressed hard in Jammu and Kashmir, where their several attempts at sabotage have been foiled by the alert security forces, the miscreants have shifted their area of operation to other parts of the country.
Paradoxically, while J&K has remained free of any terrorist strike in the last five months, UP alone has witnessed three major strikes during last eights months or so, including the terrorist strikes in the... | |
| | | | Reshuffle in portfolios | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 2
In a major reshuffle of portfolios, Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad today allotted various departments to the Ministers in following order:-
1 Chief Minister
Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad GAD, Home, Estates, Revenue, Information, Hospitality & Protocol, Civil Aviation and Floriculture.
2 Dy Chief Minister
Mr. Muzaffar Hussain Baig Planning, Law and Parliamentary Affairs and Tourism.
3 Mr. Mangat Ram Sharma Health & Medical Education, Labour & Employment and Ladakh Affairs.
4 Mr. Abdul Aziz Zargar Agriculture, Sericulture, Cooperation and Fisheries.
5 Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen Transport, Grievances, Stationery and Printing.
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