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| Open factionalism surfaces in State Congress, Soz, Azad hold parallel rallies | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, JAN 30; With Congress holding two separate rallies in winter Capital here today, the vertical division in the State unit of the Party has openly come to fore. The Party state president and former Union Minister, Saif-ud-Din Soz and Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad who were at draggers drawn with each other have now publicly made their rivalry known.
The Azad camp of PCC who had earlier announced holding of a rally at Parade on Martyrs' Day as his show of strength was caught by surprise after the second rally on the same day at a distance of six kilometres from its venue was announced by the PCC headed by Soz. Though both the faction... | |
| | | | If Azad is correct, then the Cong in Jammu is doomed! | | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 30: Interacting with reporters on Saturday at Press Club, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the NC, which is responsible for destruction of the Congress in Jammu province and elsewhere in the state, would rule or misrule - whatever one may call it -- the state for full term of six years and that the possibility of any Congressman, even a Congressman from Kashmir, becoming Chief Minister of J&K after Omar Abdullah completes three years in office on January 4, 2012 is too remote.
"There is no agreement on rotational chief minister-ship in place this time unlike 2002, when the PDP and the Congress formed government in the state", Azad, in fa... | |
| | | | Non issue of Voter Identity Cards irks people | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 30: The state government has finally decided to go ahead with the Municipal elections. Finance minister Saturday said that all problems had been solved and elections shall be held in April. This leaves the government with just two months to make the arrangements for the elections. And with thousands of voters awaiting election identity cards, the concerned have to push the process to meet the dead line.
Thousands of voters in Kashmir could not get the important document during the Assembly and Parliamentary elections held in 2008. No reason has been given for withholding the identity cards. They have urged the concerned to speed up the process. Pertinent to m... | |
| | | | Will Omar fulfill his twin new year resolutions? | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Jan 29: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, has made two new year resolutions. One, he will not allow the 2010 summer violence to be repeated this summer. Secondly the Chief Minister has vowed to catch the "big fish" involved in corrupt practices. During the last 10 days Omar Abdullah has started showing signs of an angry leader determined to deal firmly with those who plan to destabilise peace and with those indulging in corrupt practices. In fact he has succeeded in dealing with the BJYM's Ekta Yatra by preventing the activists of the Sangh Parivar from hoisting the national flag at Lal Chowk. A move that could have triggered violence after a section of separatists, ... | |
| | | | NH1-A reopens after being closed for few hours | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Jan 30: One-way traffic was restored this afternoon on the 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway after remaining closed for some hours since this morning due to heavy snowfall.
A senior traffic police official said traffic had been resumed for one way on the highway, the only road linking Kashmir valley with the rest of the country.
He said traffic from Srinagar to Jammu had been allowed and added that vehicles from Jammu to Srinagar would be allowed tomorrow if the weather permitted.
He said vehicles stranded on the highway had been cleared after the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintenance of the highway, cleared the snow at J... | |
| | | | Indo-Pak Dialogue: For Islamabad, water not Kashmir a core issue | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 30: Sundeep Waslekar and his team members had then made some very startling revelations. One was that Pakistan's per capita water availability had decreased from 5,600 cubic meters in 1947 to just 1,200 cubic meters in 2005 and that by 2007, water availability in Pakistan "might touch the threshold level of 1,000 cubic meters". The same team had pointed out that the "worst affected areas are the Sindh and Punjab provinces".
Sundeep was of the view that Pakistan's fundamental "strategic interest in Kashmir is regulating the flow of water from the catchment area of the Chenab river, which falls in J&K.
The book brought out by the Centre for Peace Initi... | |
| | | | Indo-Pak Dialogue: For Islamabad, water not Kashmir a core issue | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 30: Sundeep Waslekar and his team members had then made some very startling revelations. One was that Pakistan's per capita water availability had decreased from 5,600 cubic meters in 1947 to just 1,200 cubic meters in 2005 and that by 2007, water availability in Pakistan "might touch the threshold level of 1,000 cubic meters". The same team had pointed out that the "worst affected areas are the Sindh and Punjab provinces".
Sundeep was of the view that Pakistan's fundamental "strategic interest in Kashmir is regulating the flow of water from the catchment area of the Chenab river, which falls in J&K.
The book brought out by the Centre for Peace Initi... | |
| | | | DD Director forced artist Jai Kishori suffer till death | | Five DDK Srinagar producers die of stress and cardiac arrest in one year | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 30: Director Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar, Rafeeq Masoodi, traveled all the way from Srinagar to Jammu to deliver payment cheques worth Rs 8 Lakh on residence of a Jammu-based private producer last week. On Masoodi's direction, Executive Producer Shammi Shair has acquired hundreds of tapes from this freelance producer cum property broker who has helped both the DD officials in purchasing plush houses in Jammu. Fifty-two episodes of his two programme serials at the rate of Rs 40,000 each episode have been telecast in the last few months. However, elderly Kashmiri migrant woman artist-producer Jai Kishori was mercilessly made to suffer for 18 months, wit... | |
| | | | Man held in wife's mysterious death | | | | JAMMU: While a Board of Doctors today conducted post-mortem on the body of the woman, who had Saturday died under mysterious circumstances at her Bhagwati Nagar residence here, police took into custody her husband.
Santosh Kumari was found hanging from the ceiling fan hook in her house at Bhagwati Nagar yesterday.
The hospital authorities constituted a board of senior doctors to conduct post-mortem on the body after her parents alleged that she had been tortured to death by husband Suresh Kumar.
Their daughter Shameeli also alleged that her father used to beat her mother almost every day.
Following these allegations, police apprehended Suresh and his nephew for questioning.
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| | | | Cop stabs youth at Rajbagh | | | | JAMMU: An IRP cop today stabbed a youth at Rajbagh in Kathua after a verbal duel between them. Police sources said following heated exchanges between them, IRP cop Vijay Singh Bandral allegedly attacked Deepak Singh on his arm with a sharp-edged weapon and fled the spot.
Deepak was evacuated to the Kathua district hospital for treatment. Police had registered a case against Bandral, who had not been arrested till late tonight.
Meanwhile, Ashwani Kumar was beaten by two youth at Chhani Himmat here while he was going home in the locality. He was hospitalised.
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| | | | 2 held with IMFL bottles at Lakhanpur | | | | JAMMU: Two Punjab residents were today apprehended by excise department sleuths at Lakhanpur in Kathua along with 36 IMFL Black Commando bottles.
Official sources identified the accused as Sukhdev Singh (60) and Tarsem Lal (48), both residents of Thrayal Madhopur, Punjab. They were on their motorcycle (PB35K/4374) when the excise officials apprehended them along with 36 IMFL bottles, the sources added. They were later handed over to excise Inspector, sub-range, Kathua, for initiating action under law against them. Deputy excise commissioner, Lakhanpur toll post, has "hailed the team for the good work' done by it.... | |
| | | | Man kills | | 3-yr-old ailing daughter | | | JAMMU: A man allegedly stabbed his three-year-old ailing daughter to death at their residence at Malhar in Udhampur this even-ing. Police sources said Mohan Lal's wife had gone to her parents' house in the village close to Malhar and asked him to take care of their daughter Aditi (3) till she came back.
As Aditi was ailing, Mohan allegedly stabb-ed her to death with a sharp edged weapon, the sources added. Police had registered a murder case against Mohan who was stated to be mentally unfit.... | |
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