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Cultivation of peace must to reap harvest of progress: Azad Completion of Rs 7.25 crore Kunzer bridge 3 months before targeted time live example of success of double-shift work culture 10/16/2006 8:34:49 PM Srinagar, October 16 – Saying that development is a continuous process and cannot wait settlement of issues as the demands and needs of people grow with time requiring immediate attention of the government, Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad said that simultaneous attention has to be given to carry forward development scenario with faster pace and commitment to seek economic well-being of the people and progress of the state along with looking for settlement of all problems faced by the people. He said Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has provided most viable and pragmatic platform of roundtable conferences to deliberate upon issues and put forth view points which should be taken best advantage of in the interest of the state and the people. Mr. Azad was addressing a largely attended public gathering at Kunzer Monday, after inaugurating 85 metres long steel plate girder 4-lane bridge over Ferozpora Nallah at Kunzer on Narbal-Gulmarg road. Expressing satisfaction over the completion of bridge along with approach roads at a cost of over Rs. 7.25 crore by JKP...   READ MORE

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ISI's special bureau for J&K Lashkar to target Indian temples, religious centres 10/16/2006 5:35:51 PM B L KAK NEW DELHI, OCT. 16: The government of India has put on 'high alert' the police and other security agencies in Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. The government's latest directive, in fact, has called for 'greater vigil' in communally sensitive areas and 'effective' measures against any attack on the temples and other religious institutions. The directive came after the receipt of 'classified' inputs by the country's two important spy arms, the RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) and the IB (Intelligence Bureau), vis-a-vis the Lashkar-e-Toiba's more to target the temples and other religous centres. If the Jammu and Kashmir gove...   READ MORE   Drug trafficking between India, Pakistan Over 50 identified in J&K as 'live conduits' 10/16/2006 5:35:22 PM B L KAK NEW DELHI, OCT. 16: A field intelligence unit of the government of India is learnt to have identified more than 50 indivduals belonging to Jammu and Kashmir as 'live conduits' of providing underground cells created in the State for the drug trafficking between India and Pakistan. These indivduals also include some females and a handful of functionaries of the J&K Police and security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir. What has led to the unpublished instructions from the government for 'immediate' watch on some of these functionariesd is the report made available to an ofical agency in Delhi pointing out that out that three to five drug trafickers of Jammu and Kashmir have, i...   READ MORE   Azad entrusts task of preparing a report on good governance to C.Phunsog and Ajit Kumar 10/16/2006 5:34:33 PM Jammu, October 16 :- Chief Minister, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad,has entrusted the task of evolving measures for promoting good governance in Jammu and Kashmir to Chief Secretary, C. Phunsog, and Financial Commissioner Coordination, Mr Ajit Kumar. Official sources said that senior bureaucrats of IAS cadre, who are in the JK Cadre have been roped in to submit their views on ways the Government should adopt for promoting good governance. It may be mentioned that Chief Secretary and Financial commissioner Coordination have decided to base their report on the ideas they receive from the bureaucrats who, over the years, have had long experience in dealing with varied affairs pertaining to the ...   READ MORE   Lashkar demands setting up elders forum for probing killing of innocent people 10/16/2006 5:33:39 PM Srinagar,October 16 :- The “silent” shockwaves over the brutal killing of a dental surgeon,Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah,in Sopre on October 7 seem to have prompted Lashkar-i-Toiba outfit not only to disown its responsibility for the gruesome murder but also condemn such killings. The LeT has demanded that an elders forum be constituted in Kashmir which would probe into incidents of mysterious killings of innocent people.The demand,sources said,surfaced after LeT activists alleged that some vested interests were trying to malign the name of the outfit.It is for the first time that a dread outfit like LeT has demanded the setting up an elders forum for inquiring into killing of the type of D...   READ MORE   J&K to boost pilgrimage tourism now 10/16/2006 5:27:32 PM Srinagar, Oct 16 In an effort to boost the pilgrimage tourism, Jammu and Kashmir government is constructing a Rs 3 crore aerial ropeway at the holy shrine of Aishmuqam in South Kashmir. The survey for the proposed ropeway has already been completed by the Rites, a leading consultancy firm of the country and the tenders for the execution of the work are expected to be floated with in a month, minister for tourism Dilwara Mir said. He said this will help the pilgrims to reach the shrine on the hill top. Meanwhile, the minister ordered for taking up of the new regional Water Supply Scheme, Aishmuqam, to provide portable drinking water to the local populace and to the ever increasing...   READ MORE

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