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| No breakthrough in govt-medico parleys | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 22: The second round of talks between striking doctors and high level committee appointed by the Chief Minister could not break the ongoing deadlock as doctors persisted with their demands before calling off the strike.
Talks were held in a very cordial atmosphere. Chairman of the committee and Minister for Finance, Mr. Abdul Rahim Rather reiterated government’s resolve to address their demands in a positive manner before darbar move.
Representatives of doctors sought more time to decide after their discussions with other colleagues. It was decided that third round of talks would be held either today evening or latest by tomorrow morning.
Rather and other committee members which included Minister for Medical Education, Tech. Education and Youth Services and Sports R. S. Chib, Minister for Health Sham Lal Sharma, Minister of State for Health Javed Ahmad Dar and Political Advisor to Chief Minister Davinder Singh Rana, advised the representatives of doctors that they should call off their strike in view of the sufferings of the patients and also th... | |
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| Quiet diplomacy team on way to Srinagar, Mirwaiz off to London | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu/Srinagar, Oct 22: While New Delhi’s team of peacenik mandarins is on way to Valley to launch their quite diplomacy with the separatists, the main dialogue enthusiast Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of the moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference, has left for London to attend two conferences.
Some members of the team of bureaucratic from the Home Ministry and Prime Minister’s Office are already in Srinagar while others are reaching there to launch the quite diplomacy as announced by the visiting Home Minister P Chidrambram earlier this month. They are scheduled to meet Mirwaiz and other separatist leaders to get a feedback on the dialogue process, an official said. ... | |
| | | | 37 cross sides on LoC | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 22 : As many as 37 people crossed sides on the Line of Control (LoC) at Aman Setu, the last Indian military post in Uri sector today.
Official sources said that 11 guests from Pakistan-occupied -Kashmir (PoK) arrived here in the Karvan-e-Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad since April 7, 2005.
The guests, including two women and as many children, arrived here for the first time to meet their relatives, separated from 1947.
Three residents of this sides, who had crossed over to the other side, also returned back to their homes in the bus.
The sources said only four residents of the Kashmir Valley, including one woman, travelled to P... | |
| | | | AMANDEEP MURDER CASE | | Bail hearing of cops adjourned | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 22: Principal Sessions Judge Jammu BL Bhat today after hearing Adv Rajesh Kotwal appearing for the suspended Senior Superintendent of Police Manohar Singh who submitted before the Court that the Jail Authority has not allowed him to see the Manohar Singh for taking signatures on supplementary bail application, adjourned the bail applications SSP along with bail application of former SHO Gandhi Nagar Sultan Mirza and Sub Inspector Satnam Singh and fixed October 27, 2009.
In the meanwhile Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu Mr. JR Kotwal adjourned the bail application of former SSP S Manohar Singh after hearing Adv Rajesh Kotwal on the same plea which he has t... | |
| | | | CM takes train run ahead of launch | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar October 22- Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah today visited Qazigund Railway Station. He was accompanied by Ministers Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed and Ms. Sakina Itoo, Member Parliament Dr. Mehboob Baig, Advisor to Chief Minister Mr. Mubarak Gul, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr. Khurshid Ahmad Ganai and other senior level officers. He inspected the site of inauguration where the Qazigund-Anantnag Rail is being inaugurates on October 28, 2009 by Prime Minister and UPA Chairperson, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi.
The arrangements are in full swing for the grand inauguration of the track. After linking Qazigund with Anantnag, the railway circuit between Baramulla to Srinag... | |
| | | | Wajahat formally appointed CIC Staff deputed, building hired, JK Information Commission starts working on Darbar Move | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 22: Seasoned bureaucrat and an expert hand on Jammu and Kashmir, Wajahat Habibullah was today formally appointed as State Chief Information Commissioner (SCIC) of J&K State Information Commission.
A notification to this effect vide SRO 334 was issued by the Governor NN Vohra. Accordingly a notification number GAD(adm)78/2009-V issued by the General Administration Department read as: “in exercise of the powers vested in me under sub section (3) of section 12 of the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act, I, NN Vohra, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, hereby appoint Sh Wajahat Habibullah as the State Chief Information Commissioner of the State Information Com... | |
| | | | No norms is the norm for cell-phone towers | | | |
SANT KUMAR SHARMA
Jammu, Oct 22: Despite rapid growth of mobile telephony over the last few years, the government has failed to issue necessary guidelines or criteria regarding siting of mobile telephone towers. The towers are being set up, here, there and everywhere, but no norms have been codified for setting up these towers so far.
Environmentalists believe that these mobile towers impact living beings in a negative manner. It has been noticed that sparrows vanish from the vicinity of the towers and other birds also leave their nests from areas where towers are erected.
Since the negative effects of these towers have not been studied in detail so far, scientists urge caution in se... | |
| | | | Cong nets M’rashtra, A’chal Houses; hung in Haryana | | | |
New Delhi , Oct 22
The Congress has sweeped Arunachal, retained Maharashtra, but has fallen short of a majority in Haryana. The ruling Congress in Haryana is falling six short of the magic figure of 46, while Congress today stormed back to power in Arunachal Pradesh with a two-third majority winning 39 seats.
Haryana: The state threw up a fractured verdict in the assembly elections with ruling Congress falling six short of the magic figure of 46, as independents, who could play a crucial role in government formation, won seven seats.
INLD, which has made a significant comeback, won at 31 constituencies in the 90-member House.
With all the results declared, the Congress finished with ... | |
| | | | | | | Cong nets M’rashtra, A’chal Houses; hung in Haryana
New Delhi , Oct 22
The Congress has sweeped Arunachal, retained Maharashtra, but has fallen short of a majority in Haryana. The ruling Congress in Haryana is falling six short of the magic figure of 46, while Congress today stormed back to power in Arunachal Pradesh with a two-third majority winning 39 seats.
Haryana: The state threw up a fractured verdict in the assembly elections with ruling Congress falling six short of the magic figure of 46, as independents, who could play a crucial role in government formation, won seven seats.
INLD, which has made a significant comeback, won at 31 constituencies in the 90-member House.
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| | | | Farooq Haider new PoK ‘PM’ | | | | Early Times RWport
Jammu, Oct 22: After a week of political upheavals, Raja Farooq Haider Khan of the Muslim Conference was today elected as ‘Prime Minister’ (as the executive head of state is known there) of Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
Reports reaching here said In a tense parliamentary electoral exercise studded with hail and halts the nominee of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, MLA Raja Farooq Haider Khan, was elected as Leader of the House, and took oath of office as ‘Prime Minister’ of Pakistani Kashmir later in the afternoon.
‘President’ Raja Zulkarnain Khan administered him oath after he was notified as Leader of the House in a parliamentary vote in a morning session... | |
| | | | ‘Self Rule envisages opening up Ladakh to Central Asia, China’ | | | | Early Times Report
Leh, Oct 22: Notwithstanding the spate of verbal acrobatics between New Delhi and Beijing, mainly through media, the Peoples Democratic Party today asserted that its self-rule plan envisages opening up of Ladakh to Central Asia and China.
As a part of its public debate on the self-rule, the Peoples Democratic Party leaders including President Mehbooba Mufti and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig today addressed a civil society seminar in Leh where they reiterated the call for opening of all Northern and North-Western routs connecting Jammu and Kashmir to outside world.
The PDP leaders said that plugging of routes to the outside world in the wake of in... | |
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