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| PMRP: Delhi Babus to ask today, what happened to money? | | Ahead of PM’s visit, Central team to review his Rs 30,000 Cr project launched in 2004 | | |
ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
Jammu, Oct 4: Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s impending visit to Jammu and Kashmir later this month, the Union Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrashekhar along with a battery of officers drawn from as many as 17 central ministries is reaching Srinagar tomorrow but the state government has very little to explain as what it did with Rs 30,000 Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Programme (PMRP) funds.
That tops agenda of Chandraskehar’s team is discussion with civil society stake holders and the state government officers on sector-wise performance on the PMRP which was announced by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during UPA-I regime in November 2004. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was then Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
Even as the people of this state have been fancies by the development slogans in past few years but in August this year the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather took everyone by surprise by a startling disclosure: “Only Rs 6000 Crore out of Rs 30000 Crore plan have so far been spent”, they informed the Legislative As... | |
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| MiGs, tankers at finger areas along Pak, China | | | | ET DESK
Jammu, Oct 4: Getting cautiously yet aggressively defensive against its unfriendly and uncertain neighbours India is putting in place the warfare paraphernalia along borders with Pakistan and China.
While MiGs are stationed along the Pakistan border in a state of preparedness for quick launch, the country is planning light tanks for deployment along Chinese border as also Pakistani order.
Reports say that the Indian Air Force has decided to station all its MiG 29 squadrons at Adampur, the second largest Air Force base in the country. The Adampur Air Force station, which is also known as home of MiG 29s, already has two frontline fighter squadrons and will see another squadr... | |
| | | | Baramulla still curfewed | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar: Life in Baramulla town remained crippled for the third consecutive day on Sunday as people defied prohibitory orders and clashed with police after a 12-year-old boy died allegedly in police action.
Total nine persons, including two policemen, were wounded.
Scores of people defied prohibitory orders and took to streets demanding stern action against the erring policemen who allegedly killed a 12-year-old youth in the town on Friday.
Raising pro-freedom slogans, the youth pelted stones on police who retaliated with lathi charge and tear gas shells.
Shops and business establishments remained closed.
Irfan Ahmad Lone was killed two days ago and four other... | |
| | | | Wajahat may join by this month end | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 4: Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah is likely take over as head of the first Information Commission of militancy torn Jammu and Kashmir by the end of this month.
Habibullah, a retired IAS officer from the J&K cadre, became the first chief of the transparency watchdog -Central Information Commission- in 2005, and he is positively "considering" a proposal of the state government to head its recently constituted Information Commission.
"I have received an offer that is correct. They (J&K government) are enforcing a new Act and under that they have offered me the post of State Chief Information Commissioner.
"It's an offer from the Chief Mi... | |
| | | | 4 B’deshis held | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 4: Four Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested by the security forces when they were allegedly trying to cross over to Pakistan along the Indo-Pak border in Samba district, officials said.
During a search operation, 7 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles troops caught the Bangladeshi nationals near the border in Hansuchak area of Vijaypur border belt in the district last night.
They have been identified as Ajayab Ali, Hussain Ali, Minto Miya and Mohmmad Shahid, police said.
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| | | | 4 DEAD in mishaps | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar Oct 4: Four persons including father- son duo died and six others were injured in different road accidents across the Kashmir valley on Sunday.
Police said that five persons including father-son duo were critically injured after a A TATA Sumo coming from Srinagar to Magam hit them at Kawoosa.
All the injured were rushed to JVC Srinagar where Ghulam Ahmad Wani son of Ghulam Mohammad and his adopted son Zeeshan Ahmad Wani residents of Check-i-Kawoosa Magam succumbed to injuries. at Kawoosa Magam. Both the injured were rushed to JVC Srinagar where they succumbed to their injuries. Three more persons were injured in the incident.
The diver of the vehicle fled ... | |
| | | | Govt to prove point on its jurisdiction in Leh | | | | Early Times Report
Leh, Oct 4: The Jammu and Kashmir government has a point to win over Army as it says that Armed Forces Special Powers Act does not apply in Ladakh region of the state.
The government has taken a strong objection to the Army's claim that police could not proceed against its officers who had allegedly manhandled civilian and police officials while they were returning after demolishing an "unauthorised" structure of the Army at the picturesque Pangong lake in Ladakh region of the state.
Countering the claims in an affidavit filed in Jammu and Kashmir High Court, the state government had readied its reply which pointed to "gross irregularities" in the Army's claim that ... | |
| | | | COST OF COURAGE | | Rukhsana's family shifted to police lines in Rajouri | | | Early Times Report
Jammu: The police on Sunday shifted Rukhsana Kausar, the young Kashmiri girl who shot dead a dreaded LeT terrorist at her residence in Rajouri last week, to district police line there after she expressed fears over her safety.
"Rukhsana's family has been shifted from remote Kalsia-Thanamdani belt to high security DPL. Two police quarters have been given to the 12-member family as a security measure," a police officer said.
"My family should be shifted from here. They should be given some accommodation at Rajouri and security should be provided them there. We are unsafe here now," 22-year-old Rukhsana had told reporters in Rajouri on Friday before leaving for New Del... | |
| | | | Pondi CM in Jammu | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, OCT 4: Pondicherry Chief Minister V Vaithilingam today arrived in Jammu on a three-day state visit. He was received at airport by J&K Chief Minister’s advisor Mubarak Gul.
Interacting with the Chief Minister Pondicherry, Mr. Gul asked for better coordination between tourist agencies of the two States to promote tourism. He said that under the dynamic leadership of Chief Minister Mr. Omar Abdullah, the state is witnessing unprecedented development in every sector. He also invited him to visit Kashmir on behalf of Chief Minister of State and they also discussed the various issues of Kashmiri families settled in Pondicherry, prevailing work culture in both the stat... | |
| | | | Be ready for ESMA, Govt warns doctors | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 4: A day before the Junior Doctors embark on an indefinite strike demanding better perks and avenues, the government talked exceptionally tough as it warned of serious action including invoking Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) if the doctors failed to put their agitational course off.
The warning comes a day after Medical Education Minister Rajinder Singh Chib had a meeting with the Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather and assured that “all genuine demands of the doctors shall be addressed by the end of this month”.
Despite this assurance as doctors refused to relent, a high level meeting was held here this evening in which the Medical Education Mi... | |
| | | | Rains make Jammu cooler by 5 degrees | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 4: Heavy rains lashed today in many parts of the state including Jammu city and its periphery providing some relief to the people from the sultry conditions. The much needed showers were received in Jammu this afternoon, which caused traffic snarls as water logged at many places. The traffic police found it difficult to regulate the traffic at Bikram Chowk, Dogra Chowk, Jewel area and other places.
The rains came after a long period of dry spell which brings relief and cheers on the faces of the people. The metrological department had already forecasted the rains in first week of October. Suman, a housewife, said, that the rain has brought temperature down wh... | |
| | | | Villagers over 35 will be tested for diabetes: Azad | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
New Delhi, Oct 4: All villagers across India over the age of 35 will be tested for diabetes through easy and affordable test kits to reduce the burden of the lifestyle disease, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Sunday.
"We have a huge burden of diabetes. But awareness level about the disease is very low in rural areas. We are planning diabetes tests for villagers above 35 or 40 years of age," Azad said.
"I have already held a series of meetings with my officers about it. We are serious about it and this is one of my own initiatives," he said at a conference on diabetes in South Asia here.
Azad said testing 25 to 30 crore (250 to 300 million) people mainly above... | |
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