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| JAMMU CHAMBER POLLS | | Internal democracy, LoC trade tops priorities | | |
After a staggering gap of nine years, the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry is currently in the middle of a hectic electoral exercise. A 75-year old powerful body of leading businessmen, the Jammu Chamber has always played a lead role in espousing the social causes, besides watching interests its basic stakeholders. For the post of the President of Chamber there is a triangular contest between a two-time former President Romesh Gupta, another former office bearer YV Sharma and a representative of the pharmaceutical traders Rajesh Gupta. Just ahead of elections, ZAFAR CHOUDHARY catches up with the three ace contenders to find their motivation for elections, claim for the post and the priorities. Here are excerpts of conversations:
Romesh
There is an interesting paradigm for this senior contender for the Chamber’s high office. He was President at the end of two decades of last century –late 1980s and late 1990s –and believes that elections being held at the end of first decade of present century prove his mettle third time. “Elections for the governing seats of... | |
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| Manmohan outlines J&K agenda Keen to engage all groups ‘outside mainstream’: PM | | Chidrambram says quiet diplomacy to consider everything on table | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 25:Before he sets out for his visit to Jammu and Kashmir later this week, the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in Thailand on Sunday, sought to send out a message that his government is keen to engage with different shades of opinion as also the Kashmir groups which are outside the mainstream. In an apparent reference to Kashmiri separatists, the Prime Minister said, “Government would like to engage some political groups who are outside the mainstream in a constructive dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir”.
He also made it clear that as far as negotiations with any separatist groups is concerned his specific purpose is not to start negotiations or to engage "in negoti... | |
| | | | Probe ordered in Kupwara youth’s killing | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 25: Separate inquiries by the district administration as well as the army have been ordered into the killing of a youth in Baramulla district as protests continued unabated against the incident in the frontier district of Kupwara for the second successive day on Sunday.
Deputy commissioner Kupwara Showkat Ahmad Mir ordered a magisterial inquiry into the killing of 24-year-old Sajad Ahmad Lone.
"I have asked my additional deputy commissioner to conduct the inquiry and submit a report within a month," Mir said, adding ex-gratia would be given to the family of the deceased soon.
Police said Sajad was not a terrorist and a case has been registered against ... | |
| | | | Temp dips to zero in Valley | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 24: People in the Kashmir valley and Ladakh region are experiencing biting cold due to minus temperature even as water and electricity shortage because of dry weather in the absence of Western Disturbances (WD) affecting normal life.
Drass, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia, and Leh in Ladakh region and Pahalgam in the Kashmir valley were coldest in the state.
Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, witnessed the coldest night of the season with minimum temperature plummeting to zero this morning, a weather office spokesman said.
World famous tourist resort of Pahalgam, base camp of holy Amarnath cave on the traditional ro... | |
| | | | Army-Govt rift deepens in Leh | | | | ET DESK
Jammu, Oct 25 As the Army-Government pit deepens in the Himalayan enclave of Ladakh, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has accused the Army of taking law into its hands for the reasons beyond propriety.
Months after Army personnel were accused of manhandling the government officials in a remote Leh village when they were returning after removing an encroachment, the Army has been contending that it has powers to do so. However, the government says since Ladakh is out of purview of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, it has the right to move against Army.
Army is using land in Ladakh division of Jammu and Kashmir for entertaining the families of their officials in the name of d... | |
| | | | Medicos on warpath | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 25: As miseries of patients continue to multiply and private clinics get overcrowded with elite patients, the government had issued a fresh warning to the striking medicos even as the agitating doctors appear to be on warpath.
Following government’s action of suspending some doctors and reverting others to the Health Department from Medical Education department, the striking medicos have decided to take a massive march to the Government Medical Colleges in Jammu and Srinagar. The march is also being seen as an attempt to stall the process of fresh hiring of Registrars and Demonstrators as notified by the government on Saturday.
Meanwhile, a high level meet... | |
| | | | J&K getting 2 air ambulances | | 50 critical care ambulances being procured for District Hospitals, National Highway | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Oct 25: Thanks to former Chief Minister and Union Minister of Health, Ghulam Nabi Azad, an extremely ill-equipped Jammu & Kashmir state is getting two critical care air ambulances within current financial year, even as Omar Abdullah-led coalition government has already begun process for procurement of 50 fresh ambulance vans for all the 22 District Hospitals and Srinagar-Jammu National Highway.
Highly placed authoritative sources revealed to Early Times that Ghulam Nabi Azad was currently clearing the decks in the Union Health Ministry for sanctioning an extra-ordinary financial grant of Rs 36 Crore for procurement of two critical care air ambulances for Jammu &... | |
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