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| Was Nehru lesser Congressman? | | At last Azad, Soz factions didn’t elbow out | | |
ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
Jammu, Nov 14: Since the rift between two powerful sections of Congress in Jammu and Kashmir deepened earlier this year, the anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and later Indira Gandhi witnessed high degree of lobby politics than the memorial services. Both occasions were used by the lobbies headed by Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and PCC President Saifuddin Soz to convey their strength to the powers that be in Delhi. However, today, on birth anniversary of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru neither the lobby heads nor their loyalists were seen anywhere around –was a Nehru a lesser Congressman or the scores between lobbies have already been settled down?
On this day in 2006, Jammu city was flooded with more than 50,000 children drawn from the across the region to mark Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru’s birth anniversary as Children’s Day. The brain behind mega event, billed as first and only its kind in country since death of Nehru, was that of then Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. The function reflected more of an exercise projecting Azad as poster boy of Nehru-Gandhi... | |
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| BJP kettle calling the Hurriyat pot black! | | When Chancellors and Pro Chancellors fail, Vice Chancellors can be no different | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Nov 14: Separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s visit to the Kashmir University (KU) campus, inspection of Iqbal Library and a fiery speech at a gathering of the students and officials has stirred a hornet’s nest in the BJP. MLA and President of the party, Ashok Khajuria did not waste a minute in demanding action against Vice Chancellor Prof Riyaz Punjabi. He has publicly complained that Chief Minister and Pro Chancellor Omar Abdullah had allowed KU to become ‘a den of anti-Indian propaganda’ by permitting radical separatists like Geelani to address students and officials.
Fact of the matter is that almost all Chancellors (Governors) and Pro Chancellors (... | |
| | | | 5 infiltrators killed in Uri | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 14: Army has intercepted a thick group of infiltrating militants and killed at least five of them in a fierce gunbattle close to LoC in Uri.
Informed official sources told Early Times that on a specific information, corroborated by technological inputs, troops laid an ambush at Tootmar Gali of Kala Parhar in Uri sector at 1230 hours today. According to the information, a thick group of militants was infiltrating over fresh cow-clad cliffs and ravines from PoK side into Kashmir valley.
Late in the afternoon, troops in ambush intercepted the infiltrators and challenged them to halt and surrender. The militants opened gunfire and made attempts to escape ba... | |
| | | | Transfer industry picking up | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 14: Leadership of both the National Conference and the Congress is worried over the sudden rise in what is called "transfer industry" in Jammu and Kashmir. Informed sources said that even though the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, too felt unhappy with frequent and major transfer in various departments he has not been able to initiate measures for rectifying the wrong.
Senior functionaries in the Pradesh Congress committee too are unhappy with the style of the functioning of sever al ministers and senior bureaucrats. Reports have reached the Chief Minister and the PCC Chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz, which have revealed that the "transfer industry" has generated corr... | |
| | | | Services in J&K will be taxed under GST | | | |
New Delhi, Nov 14: All services in Jammu and Kashmir, which are currently exempt from service tax, would be taxed once goods and services tax (GST) becomes operational in the country, a senior government official said.
Services in Jammu and Kashmir would also be taxed when GST is rolled out across the country, Central Excise Commissioner Sushil Solanki said at an interactive session with business leaders here yesterday.
At present only a few services, including insurance and financial, are levied sales tax(ST) or value added tax(VAT) in the border state, he said, adding once GST is executed the state would stop levying ST or VAT on these services.
Solanki said the Centre is contemplati... | |
| | | | India second worst terror-hit country | | | |
New Delhi, Nov 14: India is the second most worst terrorism - hit country - behind only war-ravaged Iraq - facing eight terror attacks in 2008 alone and losing over 3,500 lives in the last few years. Quoting a recent United States report, city-based NGO--Bombay First--said India follows Iraq in the number of lives lost in various terror attacks last year.
"According to the report, terror attacks in India have increased in the past few years and claimed 3,674 lives, which is second to that of Iraq," NGO Chairman Narinder Nayar said yesterday at a security summit organised at Hotel Trident, one of the sites hit by the terrorists in last November. Nayar said India, battling terrorism for n... | |
| | | | PM: abolition of 10th Board under debate | | | |
NEW DELHI, NOV 14: Amid the controversy over the move to scrap the tenth board examinataion, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said it is an experiment that is still being debated and felt no decision should be taken in haste.
"We are still debating on this issue. This is an experiment. We should not take a decision in haste", Singh told a group a children during an interaction organised by CNN-IBN on the occasion of Children's Day.
He was asked whether children are not being made weak by the decision to do away with the tenth board examination. "You are shielding them from difficulties," a student asked.
Government had in September announced abolition of compulsory CBSE Board exams f... | |
| | | | Directors’ verdict decisive: Manohar | | Mohinder, Tariq declare each other ‘ineligible’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 14: As one of the only few surviving signs of cooperative movement in Jammu and Kashmir crumbles under the weight of leadership tussle, the Minister for Cooperatives Dr Manohar Lal Sharma has said that he wants Banks to be truly democratic institutions but if directors fail to resolve the issues amicably, the last resort will have to be taken –takeover of management!
Upset over the crisis that broke out at Jammu Central Cooperative Bank Ltd following bid by former Chairman Mohammad Sharief Tariq to replace incumbent Mohinder Singh, the Cooperative Minister said that decision on chairmanship shall be taken in next two to three days after all directors are ... | |
| | | | 10 killed, 25 injured in Peshawar blasts | | | |
Islamabad: In continuing wave of violence in Pakistan's northwest, a suicide car bomber blew himself up at a police check post on Peshawar's outskirts on Thursday, killing 10 people, including women and children, and injuring over 25 others.
The bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle, packed with 50 kg of explosives, when he was flagged at the checkpoint at Pishtakhara Chowk, the main entry point to Peshawar from the troubled Khyber tribal region.
The powerful blast blew up a number of other vehicles lined up at the check post. A large number of people were present in a nearby bus stand and commercial area when the blast occurred at about 4.15 pm.
Hospital officials said 10 peop... | |
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