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| How Omar’s right hand man tried to gag media? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 10: The Chief Minister had on Saturday said that it was difficult to gag the media. "The media has grown strong and it is very difficult to gag it," he said. However, the government's love-hate relationship with the media narrates a different story. There have been attempts to gag the media during Omar's regime. The onslaught started during the budget session of the Legislative Assembly in 2010.
For the first time three breach of privilege notices were issued against scribes in a single session.
Noted journalist, Ahmad Ali Fayaz's disclosures about former Chief Minister's advisor and chief whip of National Conference, Mubarak Gul on February 28 in E... | |
| | | | If Congress turns up single largest party, NC, PDP may aspire for third place | | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Nov 10: If emphatic predictions by Congress that it would win enough seats in the 2014 Assembly elections to form Government on its own in Jammu and Kashmir turn out true to the extent of its emergence as the single largest party, both National Conference and PDP would aspire and wish to end up third rather than a close second to Congress.
Political gurus believe that if Congress found itself in such a position that it needed a partner to form the government, it would prefer to enter into coalition with a weaker partner rather than with a stronger one. "Even though both National Conference and PDP have been assuming comforting postures viz a viz Congress pre-empting ... | |
| | | | P&DD asks all departments to restrict release of funds to 75% | | Development activities to suffer in JK | | | Akshay Azad
Jammu, Nov 10: The pace and magnitude of development activities across Jammu and Kashmir would suffer a jolt in the days ahead, as the Planning and Development Department has asked all administrative secretaries of government departments and District Development Commissioners (DDCs) to restrict release of funds to 75 percent instead of 100 percent.
Sources informed Early Times that on September, 10, Planning and Development Department had approved authorization of 100 percent plan funds to all departments, but on October, 6, P&DD has modified its own order, directing all departments to restrict release of Revenue and Capital component of Annual Plan funds by 75 percent inst... | |
| | | | Media manipulator, instead of media manager...... | | | | It is no secret that the Chief Minister's right hand man manages
to plant news in newspapers against his political opponents in various national as well as local newspapers. It is a matter of common knowledge in the National Conference that he has even planted news against some senior men within his own party on several occasions, with intent just to keep them away from power corridors. It is a different matter that he did not succeed in that even as his manipulation went about smoothly with his ever enticing ways of some men in media fraternity. Normally, he should have acted as Chief Minister's media manager but on the contrary he has been seen as a media manipulator. There have been ... | |
| | | | Inauguration of bridge at Trungal Assar; Omar skips local issues | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 10: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said that in next six to eight months, state will witness massive expansion in development, but said little on the previous five years that his government spent in power.
The Chief Minister made this statement while addressing a public meeting at Trungal area of Assar after inaugurating a bridge over river Chenab. As the election year is coming near, he is talking about expansion and development but he has an unimpressive report card with regards to development works especially in Doda-Kishtwar belts.
The Chief Minister forgot that in 2009, Trungal witnessed a landslide due to which the Batote-Kishtwar national highw... | |
| | | | J&K Cements heading towards disaster, Govt in deep slumber | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Nov 10: Blue-eyed officers of Jammu and Kashmir government are leaving no stone unturned in turning a state owned profit making corporation 'J&K Cement Limited' into another ruined house.
Ex-Managing Director of the corporation R.K.Razdan whose second extension bid was cut short by a team of officers, who were appalled by the reports coming from inside the corporation. He made all possible efforts to get his term extended by another year after having managed the same in October 2012 by the blessings of ex-Minister of State (MOS) Sajjad Kitchloo and Ex-Industries Minister.
Razdan, according to sources would have managed extension for another year, if Farooq Fac... | |
| | | | PYC leader accuses Coalition Govt of apathy, indifference | | Govt faces censure from within | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 10: At a time when PYC is entangled in a bitter internal bickering, interestingly it has opened a front against its own government accusing it of neglecting Majalta tehsil of Ramnagar in particular.
A PYC general secretary of the area in ignorant of the fact that his own party is a partner in the ruling coalition has charged the government of over underdevelopment, lack of accountability and misgovernance in Ramnagar Assembly segment.
R. S. Pathania, General Secretary, J & K Pradesh Youth Congress, while conducting a whirlwind tour of the area and addressing largely-attended meetings at Jakhenu, Palnu, Sortha, Khoon, Thail and many other villages of Majal... | |
| | | | PYC infighting: Performance Report likely to be trashed | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 10: Notwithstanding aggressive posture assumed by incumbent Pradesh Youth Congress (PYC) president Shahnawaz Chowdhary, central leadership has deputed a team to look into allegations levelled against him.
Insiders said that national president of Youth Congress Rajiv Satab has taken serious note of the allegation levelled against the State president so he immediately deputed a team to look into the allegations. During their visit to New Delhi, detractors of Shahnawaz Chowdhary had reportedly provided some authentic information to high command to substantiate their allegations.
Sources said that it was all due to the results of the authentic proofs provided ... | |
| | | | 'Tech Savvy' makes [email protected] 'accessible.....' | | Corruption prevents CM's 'Vasco De Gamas' to flourish | | | Avinash Azad
Jammu, Nov 10: Indirectly admitting that the Chief Minister's Grievance Cell had failed to achieve its objective, Omar Abdullah Saturday launched another medium [email protected] to impress the unemployed youth.
Addressing the unit holders, who have entered into the entrepreneurship field through the Sher-i-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY) projected and piloted by CM, at Pampore on November 9, Omar Abdullah, described entrepreneurs as Christopher Columbus, Vasco De Gama and Neil Armstrong of present day.
However, Omar's newly offered medium and impressive speech was taken with a pinch of salt by prospective entrepreneurs. Shahid Murtaza Handoo re... | |
| | | | Govt's 'high yielding' potatoes produce tomatoes instead | | Issue too trivial for his comment says Minister | | | Javaid Naikoo
Srinagar, Nov 10: As the much hyped high yielding potatoes introduced by the department of agriculture produced useless tomatoes instead of potatoes for the farmers, concerned Minister for agriculture after being informed about the failure of his department and loss to the farmers rejected the issue as unworthy of his comment.
Famed for the production of high quality potatoes across the kashmir, the villagers of Heerpora and Sedow areas of south kashmir's district shopian are facing loss of lakhs of rupees this year after they decided to sow subsidized high yielding potatoes introduced by the department agriculture among them which at the end of the season according to th... | |
| | | | BJP sweeping Delhi, MP, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan | | ORG opinion poll | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Nov 10: The Congress is in for a bigger defeat and the BJP is also set to replace the Congress in Delhi after a long gap of 15 years. This is what the latest pre-poll survey conducted by Org for reputed magazine, India Today, suggests. It suggests the exit of the incumbent Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit from power after a period of 15 years and says that BJP's Harsh Vardhan will become new Chief Minister. The opinion poll suggests that while the BJP will win 36 seats in the 70-member House, the Congress will get 22 seats. In other words, while the BJP will increase its tally by 13 seats as compared to its 2008 tally of 23 seats, the Congress's tally would come down fro... | |
| | | | SKIMS continues to be under scanner of CAG | | | | Mustansir
Srinagar, Nov10: The Comptroller and Auditor General report on functioning and performance of various departments and PSUs in J&K in its latest report has criticized the functioning of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Srinagar, highlighting various financial and operational deficiencies.
Interestingly the CAG report of last two years has been constantly criticizing the functioning of the SKIMS highlighting lacunas in its performance raging from financial irregularities to poor health care services being provided by the institute to the patients.The performance review of SKIMS revealed various financial and operational deficiencies like under-utilizat... | |
| | | | Who is to benefit from Katra expo? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 10: An advertisement issued by the Handloom department has urged the people to patronize and encourage the craftsmen and weavers by buying the products made by them at handloom expose at Katra.
The message needs to be appreciated but only if some questions raised by the weavers and craftsmen are answered, what do the craftsmen and weavers get after making masterpieces? These poor souls do not even get peanuts. The trader gets all the benefits and the government especially the Handloom department knows it fully.
The handloom sector has suffered a lot due to indifference of the concerned authorities. Therefore, by urging the people to purchase at the handlo... | |
| | | | KPs facing 'ordeal' once again in getting registered as voters | | Procedure cumbersome, lists end up flawed as ever | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 10: Participating in the biggest democratic exercise of elections and casting votes to elect their choicest representatives is once again hitting roadblock for the Kashmiri Pandits, thanks to ever cumbersome procedure offered by the government to register them as genuine voters in the so called government voter lists , which is nothing but a fully flawed and deliberately complicated documents to keep the community in exile at distance and a non significant lot for the elections. As the political humdrum for the elections next year has begun, so has the hectic activity of preparing voter lists begun to have genuine voters on board. But this is once again beco... | |
| | | | AJKPC lambasts former interlocutor Radha | | Empowering Panchayats | | | Neha
JAMMU, Nov 10: All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC), considered to an apex body of Panchayat members of state, has lambasted former interlocutor for Jammu & Kashmir Radha Kumar for her provocative statement on the long-pending demand of panchs and sarpachs seeking adoption of 73rd constitutional amendment so that the elected panchayats are empowered and are in a position to cater to the immediate local needs at the grass-roots level.
On November 7, she had said that the adoption of 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments would erode the special status the state enjoyed under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. Article 370 is not just an obnoxious provision that ha... | |
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