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| Shah laid to rest with honours | | | | Early Times report
SRINAGAR, JAN 7: Former Chief Minister, Mr. G. M. Shah, who passed away yesterday, was laid to rest with full State honours, here today.
The nimaz-e-jinaza of Mr. Shah was offered at Polo Ground in which large number of people besides the Chief Minister, Mr. Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, ministers, Mr. Abdul Rahim Rather, Mr. Ali Mohammad Sagar and Mr. Taj Mohi-ud-Din, newly-elected legislators, Mr. Irfan Shah, Mr. Nasir Sogami and Mr. Ghulam Hassan Mir, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr. Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, senior officers, representatives of various political, religious and social organizations, close relatives as well as friends participated. Mr. Devinder Rana, MLC, was also present.
Later, the body of the departed leader was taken in a procession with full State honours to his ancestral graveyard, at Ziyarat Hazrat Syed Mohammad Mantaqi (RA), in Chattabal, where he was laid to rest. A contingent of Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police lowered their arms as the body of the departed leader was being laid to rest.
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| MLAs await their turn | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 7: Two days after administration of oath to Omar Abdullah’s Council of Ministers, the newly elected Members of the Legislative Assembly are eagerly waiting for their swearing in.
Meanwhile, the new Ministers are also awaiting charge of their assignments even as the suspense is hovering over the designation of the Deputy Chief Minister as the new government is neither declaring nor denying the number two in the cabinet.
After declaration of results of assembly elections on December 28, the newly elected Members of the Legislative Assembly are keenly looking forward for their formal oath in the House. Curiosity is high among the first time legislators and ... | |
| | | | SASB rearranged: world class faces on board | | | | Vohra’s Choice: Environmentalist Sunita Narain, Spiritual Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Arts Scholar Kapila Vatsyayan, Sanskrit Scholar Ved Kumar Ghai, Musician Bhajan Sopori; Justice Sharma retained
Jammu, Jan 7: Two days after handing over powers to the elected government, the Governor NN Vohra has executive perhaps his biggest task of the year by addressing an issue which was biggest controversy of 2008.
Taking on board eminent personalities drawn from different walks of life, the Governor has reconstituted the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board. All six new members appointed to the SASB are unchallenged luminaries of their own fields. The choice of one of the six members of a Board, Sunita... | |
| | | | Probe in assembly complex fire incident | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, JAN 7: The Government has appointed Mr. S. L. Bhat, Financial Commissioner, Planning and Development Department, as Inquiry Officer to enquire into the fire incident which broke out in the Legislative Assembly Complex, here yesterday afternoon.
This follows the directions of the Chief Minister, Mr. Omar Abdullah to have the incident enquired into.
The Development Commissioner, Power and the Director General, Fire Services, will assist the Inquiry Officer in conduct of the enquiry.
According to a Government order issued here today, the terms of reference of the Inquiry Officer include ascertaining the cause(s) which resulted in the breakout of the fire, estab... | |
| | | | No cut in age, PSC clarifies | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, JAN 7: The Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (PSC) has clarified that the age limits for the Combined Competitive Examination (CCE), 2009 has not been changed or modified.
According to a communication received from the PSC, the upper age limit prescribed for CCE, 2009 has been fixed at 35 years for General (Open) Category candidates and 40 years for Reserved/In-Service Category candidates, as on January 1, 2008, in terms of notification issued by the Government vide SRO No: 397 dated 30.12.2008.
The communication further states that in the previous Combined Competitive Examinations held in the year 2005, the age limits for both General and Reserved ... | |
| | | | Aslam Pro-Tem Speaker | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, JANUARY 07- Governor, Mr N N Vohra, has appointed Choudhry Mohammad Aslam as Speaker Pro-tem of the State Legislative Assembly in terms of section 59 (1) of the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution .
According to a Raj Bhavan Spokesperson, the Governor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him under section 64 of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, appointed Choudhry Mohammed Aslam, MLA, to be the person before whom the members elected to the Legislative Assembly may make and subscribe the oath or affirmation set out for the purpose in the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution.
The Spokesman said that the office of the Speaker, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assemb... | |
| | | | Army launches decisive assault, 350 soldiers engaged in operation | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 7: Army personnel were carrying out a "deliberate operation" to wear out the holed-up terrorists to avoid casualties in security forces, as their encounter in the dense forests in Poonch raged for the seventh day in one of the longest battles in the border state in years.
The Army said the eight to ten terrorists holed up in the Bhati Dhar jungles in Jammu region were suspected to be from Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group.
Defence Minister AK Antony, its chief General Deepak Kapoor and senior officers in Jammu underpinned a strategy to quickly end the encounter which was marked by a heavy exchange of gunfire but acknowledged it was taking ... | |
| | | | Pak NSA sacked for owning Kasab | | | | Agencies
Islamabad, Jan 07: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday night sacked National Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durani for saying that Kasab is a Pakistani national.
A local television channel reported quoting unnamed official sources as saying that the lone surviving terrorist involved in the Mumbai attacks is a Pakistani, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said he would not confirm the news report.
Replying to the channel's claim that Pakistan National Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durani had conveyed to it that Kasab is a Pakistan and that he would be giving a report to the Prime Minister's Office in this regard, Bashir had said he had just spoken to Durani, who t... | |
| | | | Commission to examine regional discrimination | | | |
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Jammu, Jan 7: The National Conference-Congress goverment government proposes to set up an administrative commission to examine the issue of discrimination among three regions of the state and suggest measures to remove it.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the commission will be headed by a retired judge of the Supreme Court preferably from outside the state.
"I understand that there is a strong inherent belief that Jammu is being discriminated at the cost of Kashmir. Unfortunately, I also have to state the same belief exists in Kashmir that it is being discriminated," he told Karan Thapar in 'India Tonight' programme broadcasted on CNBC-TV18.
"Clearly, truth lies somewhe... | |
| | | | Associates of 26/11 on mission Kashmir | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Jan 7: Six terrorists, part of a Pakistani group which struck in Mumbai, have been sent to Kashmir for "some operations", according to the dossier India handed over to Pakistan.
Citing the interrogation report of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist held during the Mumbai attacks, the dossier says that the six terrorists had undergone training in various parts of Pakistan along with seven of the 10 terrorists who were responsible for the November 26 carnage in the western metropolis.
The terrorists were trained at Lashkar-e-Taiba camps in Muridke, Manshera and Muzaffarabad (in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir), says the dossier which has included Kasab's interrogation report... | |
| | | | Last round to be contest of elites | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 18: Following a highly competitive election over six phases that saw huge voter turnout all over the state, focused has now shifted on twin Capital Cities and their outskirts where a contest between political elites is on the cards on December 24 –the last phase of polling.
As many as 21 constituencies of Jammu, Samba and Srinagar are going to polls where around a dozen and half former Ministers and over a score of former legislators are seeking election. Former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah is contesting election from two constituencies in Srinagar district –Hazratbal and Sonwar.
Over 63 per cent polling was recorded yesterday in the sixth phase, ... | |
| | | | EC gears up for LS polls | | | | Early Times Report
New Delhi, Dec 18: Gearing up for the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for early next year, the Election Commission of India Thursday concluded its three-day meet with chief electoral officers of six metropolitan cities and states Thursday.
“The Election Commission conducted three-day workshop to discus issues connected with conducting elections in metropolitan areas in the country,” an Election Commission said.
Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswamy and election commissioners Navin B. Chawla and S.Y. Quraishi reviewed the current status of preparedness.
While on Tuesday the focus of the meet was on election management in metropolitan cities, over the next two da... | |
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