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Cabinet in perpetual deadlock Not meeting since two months; new Chief Secretary's appointment acid test 10/15/2007 11:28:11 PM Early Times Reporter Jamm | Oct 15 With no possibility in sight for a patch-up between the coalition partners, more than two months have passed that the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has not been able to convene a meeting of his cabinet to clear long pending important decisions. Just ten days have left for the formal closure of civil secretariat in Srinagar for its biennial move to the winter capital but there are no chances of holding the cabinet meeting in these ten days. "Through General Administration Department, the Chief Minister has not been conveying to his cabinet colleagues for a formal meeting apprehending that the Ministers from the Peoples Democratic Party might not attend the meeting thus making it an embarrassing situation", said a source in the government. When a PDP minister contacted, he told EARLY TIMES, "Chief Minister has created a crisis and unless the situation is not resolved there is no question of our attending the cabinet meeting". He was referring to the controversy revolving around Housing and Urban Development Minister Qazi Mohammad Afzal who ha...   READ MORE

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Follow up unlikely on Kundal report 10/15/2007 11:26:53 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 15 The BR Kundal committee of investigations which probed the alleged bungling and misappropriations in Forest department is most unlikely to see implementation of its recommendations except ceremonial action against a couple of officers. The Committee constituted by the Chief Minister after withdrawal of Forest portfolio from Peoples Democratic Party's Qazi Mohammad Afazal has since submitted its report to the Chief Minister. Not only this, the contents of the report and its recommendations have already gone to the public domain through its knowledge in the press. any action on follow up to the Kundal committee report is being seen as a last nail in t...   READ MORE   Cinema owners asked to apply security norms Initial Ludhiana probe points to LeT, BKI 10/15/2007 11:25:47 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 15 Following directions from the Union Home Ministry in the aftermath of Ludhiana Cineplex explosion, the cinema halls in Jammu have been asked to adhere to the strict security guidelines. As the investigators probed the cinema hall blast in Ludhiana, the Centre government has told the state government in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere to ask the owners of cinema halls and shopping complexes to have an in-house mechanism to prevent such incidents. "People and owners of various shopping complexes and cinema halls should ensure an in-house mechanism to keep a constant vigil against those who wanted to perpetrate terrorism," Union Home Secretary Madhukar...   READ MORE   LeT ultras held 10/15/2007 11:24:15 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 15 Three Lashker-e-Toiba (LET) militants, including a self-styled Teshil commander, were arrested by security forces in Kishtwar district. On a tip off, Rashtriya Rifles (RR) troops and police raided a hideout in Pattimal village of Jammu and Kashmir and arrested 3 let militants last night, police said on Monday. The arrested militants were identified as Nissar Ahmed alias Abu Maaz - a self styled Teshil commander, Gulam Mohmmad and Farooq Ahmed alias Abu Sofia, they said. The forces recovered 3 AK rifles, 5 magazines, 75 rounds and one grenade from them, they said....   READ MORE   Notwithstanding public utterances BJP is jubilant over averting mid term LS elections 10/15/2007 10:39:03 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 15 There is undercurrent of jubilation in the leftists camp in the country over their apparent victory, with both Prime Minister and UPA Chairperson conveying an impression that Indo-US atomic deal will not be allowed to precipitate the matter and rock the present Congress friendship with the left parties, which can lead to fall off the UPA government. But the leaders of left parties are very cautious in their reaction and any expression of happiness on their part is subdued, since the last word on the deal has not yet been said by the Prime Minister or the Congress President. The BJP on the other hand, who for public consumption has sharply criticize So...   READ MORE

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