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| Azad, Soz lobbies divide in factional tributes to Indira | | | | ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
Jammu, Oct 31: The ‘Iron Lady’ as the Congress leader and former Prime Minister of India was popularly known, Indira would have never liked the idea of getting tributes in factions from her party leaders. Since Indira is not here to crack the whip on unbridled factionists, the Congress leaders divided in camps to pay factional tributes to her.
The division in the elite camp of Congress in Jammu and Kashmir is always too deep but leaders, particularly when in power, somehow try to keep away from getting branded. However, once or twice a year, there come such occasions when there are no other options but show up the ‘brand Azad’ and ‘brand Soz’. In October month there were two such occasions, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and death anniversary of Indira Gandhi when the top Congress leaders had to declare which camp they belonged to.
On Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi shared dais at a mega function in Delhi, here in Jammu the State Congress President Saif-ud-Din Soz and Deputy Chief M... | |
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| Pre-paid cellphone ban: | | all getting united in pain | | |
CHAMAN KAUL
JAMMU, OCT 31: Nothing unites like pain, this has been proved again. The recent announcement by Government of India for banning pre paid cellular services to about 40 lakh customers due to security reasons has not only evolved afresh agenda for the politicians of J & K but also emotional hurting of its loyal customers.
Logically, the point is when procedure allotting SIM cards is same in the case of pre paid and post paid except that of payment mode, then under which logic government ordered banning of pre paid only and not the post paid, customers think twice in the heart of hearts. Government also showing its concern has decided to take up the issue with the Union Governm... | |
| | | | DD Kashir suffers shame deficit? | | Gross irregularities in commissioning; Farooq’s snub at Ambika’s SKICC function fails to chasten officials | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR/JAMMU, Oct 31: Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Dr Farooq Abdullah’s public reprimand at All India Editors Conference at SKICC here earlier this month has failed to bring about any accountability among Doordarshan authorities who seem to have crossed all limits of irregularities and unfair means in the current process of commissioning of programmes for DD Kashir. Even as DD has shamelessly closed the chapter of transparency and refused to post of the list of the allotees and their credentials on its website, it has been discovered that most of the hard and fast guidelines have been brazenly violated and a large number of programmes have been secre... | |
| | | | Sonia honours Puri as Indira valued him | | | |
ABID SHAH
New Delhi, Oct 31: While honouring the eminent peace activist and journalist from Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Balraj Puri, here today for his ceaseless services to the State and other troubled parts of the country at numerous points of history, there was something amiss in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech delivered on the occasion.
Mr Puri who was conferred today the Indira Gandhi National Integration Award by Congress president and UPA chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, was instrumental in convincing the late Indira Gandhi for a clause to be included in Shimla Agreement signed by her and the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in July 1972.
This unambiguously laid down that the final settl... | |
| | | | Trooper runs amuck,kills two colleagues | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 31 : A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) havaldar killed two of his colleagues and injured two others in indiscriminate firing in a camp in south Kashmir district of Anantnag late last night.
The accused havaldar, identified as Ramesh Chander of Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested and handed over to police, CRPF spokesman P Tripathi said today.
He said Chander of 164 battalion, under the influnce of liquor, resorted to indiscriminate firing in a camp at Kokernag, in Anantnag district resulting in on the spot death of havaldars Tufail Ahmad Khan and Sada Singh Tiwari, residents of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh respectively.
Another havaldar and a constabl... | |
| | | | Radha new ISRO chief | | | |
Thiru, Oct 31: Dr K Radhakrishnan today took charge as the new chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He took over from Dr G Madhavan Nair at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre here.
Apart from Dr Madhavan Nair, newly appointed VSSC director P S Veeraraghavan, SHAR director M C Dattan were among those who were present at the function.Mr Veeraraghavan was the Director of ISRO's Inertial Systems Unit.
An avionics expert, Dr Radhakrishnan played a key role in India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I and was also instrumental in the development of the PSLV launch vehicle. After getting his Electrical Engineering Degree from Kerala University in 1970, Dr Radhakrishnan j... | |
| | | | Pak ‘spillover’ couldaffect us: Gen Jaiswal | | | | Early Times Report
Udhampur, Oct 31: Saying that it was well geared to handle worst of challenges, the Army today expressed fears spillover effects in India if the situation in Pakistan continued to worsen. The Army also ruled out presence of Taliban in Jammu and Kashmir.
General officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Northern Command Lt. Gen. B.S. Jaswal denied the Taliban had entered the state but said that there was a "possibility of spillover if the situation in Pakistan goes out of control".
"A stable Pakistan is in our interest," Jaswal told a news conference at the Northern Command headquarters in Udhampur, 66 km north of Jammu.
He said that the situation in the subcontinent, ref... | |
| | | | Are we all militants? | | | |
AGENCIES
Jammu/Srinagar, Oct 31 : A wave of anger has swept through Jammu and Kashmir with the central government deciding to ban pre-paid mobile connections in the state from Sunday due to security concerns. Most angry are youths.
Even as the Kashmir government has promised to take up the issue with the centre, the 'walk and talk' generation in the state is furious that it has been clubbed with terrorists who misused pre-paid connections.
"Are we militants?" Shahid Khan, a student, asked in anger and frustration. "Are millions of pre-paid connection subscribers terrorists?" he asked.
The decision to snap this service has resulted in total chaos among subscribers.
"It is strange that... | |
| | | | Omar wants employeeswarm, at ease in winters | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Oct 31: Ahead of Darbar Move to winter capital, the first return of Omar Abdullah government to Jammu, the Chief Minister’s Political Advisor Devinder Rana today shuttled room to room in several employees’ colonies to check if they were arrangements for housing them comfortably.
Rana’s visit will be followed by the Chief Minister’s visit in some of the colonies as Omar is reportedly keen in ensuring that employees have a cozy and comfortable winter ahead.
Around 2350 employees, including some senior officers, moving with the biennial Darbar Move return to Jammu every November. According to officials, 303 gazzetted officers and 1719 non-gazzetted officers have... | |
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