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| Cong, NC, PDP project concern in own ways, BJP too joins race | | Politics over border situation heats up | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 22: As the tension escalates along border, both IB as well as LoC with Pakistan, politics over border situation has also increased proportionately with various political parties in J&K coming out with statements having contents that suits their constituencies.
Congress which has major stakes in border areas, having MLAs as well as an MP elected from these areas has become active for the last few days in demonstrating concern over continuous ceasefire violations which are affecting now civilian population. While Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has also woken up to continuous ceasefire violation by Pakistan , prompting him at last to make a statement, no matter in taking a dig at Pak and urging Centre to take serious cognizance , his sudden concern prompted Congress to appear on the scene exhibiting a little more anxiety and fear for the border area residents.
While Union Home Minister, belonging to Congress party only made an aerial visit to border areas, though seen as late step, the leadership of the party in the state did n... | |
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| E-governance still a distant dream in J&K | | Websites of Key departments not updated | | | Akshay Azad
JAMMU, Oct 21: The e-governance in Jammu and Kashmir is still a distant dream as websites of majority of key government departments are not updated besides some are giving obsolete information.
If one goes by the websites of various key departments including Planning and Development Department, Jammu and Kashmir Finance department, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Geology and Mining, Jammu and Kashmir Forest department besides others, all are giving outdated information, raising a serious question mark over seriousness of these departments towards e-governance and bringing transparency.
The Planning and Development Department has so far been showing Annu... | |
| | | | Congress MP says act against Pak, NC provincial president counters him | | Coalition of contradictions | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 21: The NC and the Congress are coalition partners. The NC is leading the government and the Congress is its part. The coalition was formed after the 2008 Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and NC working president Omar Abdullah, who earlier had served as minister in the BJP-led NDA Government, became the Chief Minister. He formed the government on January 5, 2009.
Ever since then, the NC and the Congress have been pulling in different directions, leave alone the fact that the most of the Congress ministers have not created any problem for Omar Abdullah, notwithstanding the fact that some senior NC ministers have never missed any opportunity to counter t... | |
| | | | Finally Shinde will take Omar to border villages | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 21: Finally the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah will visit the border areas where families were forced to migrate to safer places following shelling from across the border. Omar, however, will not be visiting he affected areas on his own. He will be accompanying the Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde.
Omar thus shall be performing protocol duty rather than to fulfil the obligations cast on him by his office.
Home Minister will assess the situation as per his perspective brief in taking measures to stop this misadventurism of the Pakistan and also brief the prime minister about the ground situation. Home minister is coming precisely because International Bord... | |
| | | | 13 cheques amounting Rs 1, 11,971 found near Nandini | | Alleged MNREGA scheme scandal | | | Krishan Kumar
Udhampur, Oct 21: Thirteen cheques amounting to Rs.1,11,971 issued under MNREGA scheme were today found in a lane near Nandini area, but 11 of the beneficiaries of these cheques have said that they have no connection whatsoever with these cheques.
According to sources, thirteen cheques were found along with many other documents abandoned in a file at a way side tea stall, near Nandini on Jammu Udhampur national highway.
The owner of the tea stall, on going through the file found telephone number of one Shiv Charan, the Member Judicial Committee of Ser Manjhla panchayat in Udhampur. The tea stall owner informed him about the documents but when he did not get any response for... | |
| | | | Kichloo's security compromised, action against erring officers likely | | Kishtwar violence probe | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
KISHTWAR, Oct 21: Giving a fresh twist to the Kishtwar violence probe, the former MOS Home Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo has reportedly sought the details of the Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) set for the security of the VVIP's or the Minister both Cabinet as well as MOS from the concerned agencies.
As per the reports during the preliminary investigation, Justice Gandhi found that the security of the MOS Home Kichloo has been compromised as a result of which the Minister as well as the Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar was trapped inside the Dak Banglow after the rioters attacked the building and tried to burn the minister and his accompanies alive.
Kichloo was present inside t... | |
| | | | Omar has a change of heart, urges New Delhi to act tough against Islamabad | | Says India can't be considered as soft target always | |  Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Oct 21: For a change instead of talking about dialogue and reconciliation with Pakistan, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today asked New Delhi to look beyond the prism of peace and think of other options while dealing with Pakistan with regard to recent incidents of ceasefire violation near the Line of Control and International Border.
Addressing the Police Commemoration Day function at Zewan in outskirts of summer capital, Omar said that the patience of India cannot be... | |
| | | | BJP, CPI on the same page | | J&K a bilateral issue | | |
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JAMMU, Oct 21: The Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif's October 20 London statement that he would urge US President Barack Obama to intervene to resolve the Kashmir issue has evoked a very strong reaction from the BJP and the CPI. Both the parties, which represent diametrically opposite ideologies, spoke in one voice yesterday while condemning Pakistani attempt at internationalizing the Jammu & Kashmir issue.
"There is no way in which India will accept any intervention on an issue that is entirely accepted in the Shimla Agreement as a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan. Jammu & Kashmir is an integral part of India and no one should raise a question on that. It is a... | |
| | | | NC opened 'channels'............., Congress follows 'suit' | | Congress pays in 'same coin' to ally in power | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 21: In what can be seen as paying its alliance partner National Conference in the same coin, Congress today took in its own fold the stalwarts hitherto associated with the party or those who demonstrated staunch loyalty with the NC in past. Even as PDP leaders also joined the Congress, but the rude shock came to NC, it being the ally, also because it pinned hopes on substantial help coming from the coalition partner in coming elections. A 'tit for tat' move, Congress only followed what NC did in the past few months is not only openly alluring its senior leaders but in a way snatching Congress prospects at some places by taking them in the party fold and... | |
| | | | India putting all its eggs in a wrong basket | | Exposing Pakistani double-speak | | | Neha
JAMMU, Oct 21: The Congress-led UPA Government is playing with fire by trusting Pakistani Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, who came back to power in June this year with the support of rabidly anti-India terrorists like Hafiz Saeed, founder of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Toiba. The Congress party in general and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in particular have been reposing faith in Mian Nawaz Sharif again and again overlooking what the Pakistani Army, Pakistani Rangers, Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence and Pakistan-backed, aided, protected and trained terrorists have been doing along the LoC and International Border, as also sometimes deep inside the Indian territories even since Mian N... | |
| | | | Sagar rejects 73rd amendment | | | |
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SRINAGAR, Oct 21: Notwithstanding the demand of its coalition partner for incorporation of 73rd amendment of the Constitution of India in the State Panchayati Raj Act, the National Conference headed government virtually turned down the demand.
During the recently concluded Assembly Session, Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Ali Mohammad Sagar said that the 73rd amendment of the Constitution of India is not applicable to the state of Jammu and Kashmir in view of the special position enjoyed by the State under the Constitution of India. In reply to a question tabled by Jugal Kishore of BJP, Sagar said the J&K State has its own Panchayati Raj Act where almost a... | |
| | | | Water meant for Pahalgam village goes to illegal huts | | | | Saahil Suhail
Anantnag, Oct 21: Pahalgam Village on the left side of river Lidder continues to face acute shortage of drinking water as the water supply scheme meant for the village is being illegally used by the owners of huts and hotels which they have constructed illegally during the year. Residents of Wahidan Dalseer Phalgam told early times that they are facing acute shortage of drinking water because the hut and hotel owners in Movera area in nexus with PHE employees have holed the water supply pipe line and got the connections illegally due to which the taps in the village are running dry.
They said the affluent people who have constructed huts and hotels in Movera area, while v... | |
| | | | Work on Vikram Chowk-Satwari fly over causes traffic jams | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 21: The work on Vikram Chowk- Satwari flyover causes massive traffic jams on a vital road which leads to Airport and Lakhanpur.
The people are mostly inconveniences in the mornings and evenings.
The road is one of the busiest roads in the city. It leads to airport, Gandhinagar women College, Army cantonment, industrial area and connects the state to rest of the country.
This road also links the main Tawi bridge near Vikram chowk which connects two parts of the Jammu city.
The ware house area, which is an important business hub also falls in this route where goods vehicles move throughout the day. In the morning and afternoon time, when students come out... | |
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