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| Panic button was pressed yesterday; today Mehbooba wants safe haven | | Ministers in state of anxiety fearing expansion, reshuffle | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Oct 4
The unleashing of another master-stroke against bete-noire but the coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party, by the Congress chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad with handing over the charge of Housing and Urban Development to Minister of State for Forests Aijaz Ahmed Khan, has sent the top leadership of PDP running for cover, with party president and fire brand leader of the party.
Mehbooba Mufti refused to meet anybody from the party on her return from New Delhi well informed sources disclosed.
If sources within the party are to be believed, PDP leadership wanted to clip the wings of Qazi Mohammad Afzal, a heavyweight leader after cutting to size... | |
| | | | Indo-Pak wrestling competition in Jammu on Oct 14 | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 4
An Indo-Pak wrestling competition would be organised by the Indian Style Wrestling Association (ISWA) in Katra in Jammu on October 14.
Stating this, Jammu and Kashmir head of the ISWA, Shiv Kumar Sharma said the association today reviewed the arrangements for the event which is scheduled at the Vivekanand Sports Stadium, Katra on October 14.
"J&K chapter of ISWA in collaboration with Rajiv Gandhi Sports Foundation is organising the third Mission Dosti Wrestling under the aegis of ISWA and J&K Sports council," he said.
Shiv Kumar Sharma disclosed that the third Rustam-e-Indo-Pak Wrestling which is also known as 'Mission Dosti' will be held in a mud ... | |
| | | | No setback to process of return of normalcy in J&K: Antony | | | | New Delhi | Oct 4
Terming the fierce gunbattle near the tourist resort of Gulmarg on Wednesday in which nine terrorists were killed as an" isolated incident", Defence Minister A K Antony today said there was no setback to the process of return of normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir.
"The situation in the state is showing improvement and the valley is by and large peaceful", Antony told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
He, however, did not say if the government proposed to undertake troop withdrawal from the militancy-hit state.
Asked whether the Gulmarg incident in which two Majors were also killed belied claims that there had been a drop in infiltration, Antony said compared to... | |
| | | | No money for terminally ill youth: CM office | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 4
The family of a terminally-ill youth here is crestfallen after purportedly receiving a letter from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's office that said the government cannot pay the medical expenses despite requests from the Union home ministry.
"It is to intimate that the government of Jammu and Kashmir is not bound to obey the orders of the home ministry under Article 370, which gives special status to the state," Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's special secretary Zafar Ahmed reportedly wrote to Usha Koul, who had sought aid from the state government for her son Vipul's treatment.
"Hence your son's medical case cannot be settled at... | |
| | | | Atrri joins opposition camp | | Set back to Congress in Municipal election Bishnah | | | Govind Chouhan
Bishnah | Oct 4
Bishnah Municipal election today took a new turn when a Congress councilor joined the opposition camp and filed papers for the post of President.
According to reports, the election for the Bishnah Municipal President and Vice President was pending for the last two years. However on September 26 last the Deputy Commissioner Jammu, who is also the district election officer ordered holding of election for these two posts which remained vacant during the last nearly two years following resignations by the then President and Vice President.
The sources said that as per the notification of the district election officer the last date for filing the nomination w... | |
| | | | BJP allegations against Mangat Ram Sharma have wider political contours | | | | ET Special Correspondent
Jammu | Oct 4
Serious allegations leveled by some BJP leaders against the senior most Congress leader in the state and Cabinet Minister in Ghulam Nabi Azad government, Mangat Ram Sharma have much wider political contours than seem the eyes. This salvo fired by two BJP Pradesh General Secretaries is attributed by deep observers of the political goings on in the state, as a part of PDP campaign to tarnish the image of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad by rubbishing his claim of all out war on corruption. The leveling of these charges on the Congress Minister, on the very day Ghulam Nabi Azad virtually accepted the resignation of former PDP minister in his government,... | |
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