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| The essential 'Doctor Saheb' is reborn! | | Retaining heartthrob upsleeves, Farooq positions himself politically | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 22
Singing Ghazals, sipping coffee with young and upmarket party colleagues at the public cafes, singling out odd faces in the crowds, the National Conference patriarch is back in his element but this time he seems to have positioned himself "political appropriately".
After the fall of National Conference from the essential grace it boasted for decades and demitting the office of Chief Minister in October 2002, Dr Farooq Abbdullah had no more remained the same flamboyant "Doctor Sa'ab" even the worst of critics would love to catch glimpse of. He disappeared from the public scene. Son Omar, after loosing his own seat wore a sullen face. And people thought that Abdullah story was over.
Not only the political analysts but even the party activists too believed that the National Conference is deep is down and out in the morass. Yes it was badly down but Farooq, to the surprise of all those tracking them, is once again wearing the essential charisma without which he has been quite incomplete. He is now seeking to tell his people that neither he nor t... | |
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| Congress looses pace on safest wicket | | Mir is candidate for Poonch, Sharma too may jump in fray | | | NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
Jammu | Nov 22
On its one of the most secure wickets, the ruling Congress party today appeared loosing pace when it announced its candidate for by-election to Poonch assembly constituency which goes to polls on December 12.
Contrary to expectations in the political circles, the Congress party announced Jahangir Mir as its candidate for by-elections to Poonch assembly constituency. A decision to this effect was made by Pradesh Congress Committee president Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed after consultations with the party high command in New Delhi, said the party sources.
Jahangir Mir faces main contest with a youngster Ajaz Jaan of National Conference. Jaan is son of the form... | |
| | | | We have checked out: Army | | Valley's schools, hospitals vacated: Gen Sekhon | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 22
A statement which should have come from the political leadership seeking to soothe the souring relations between ruling coalition partners, particularly to put the Peoples Democratic Party on an even keel has finally come from the Army top brass.
Living up to the promise made by the Defence Minister AK Antony and Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad last month, the Army has announced checking out from the school and hospital buildings in Kashmir.
All hospitals and schools used by the army have been vacated, except a school at Mirgund in Budgam district, General Officer Commanding, Srinagar-based 15th Corps Lt Gen A S Sekhon told media persons on the si... | |
| | | | No safe way for mercenaries | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 22
The army on Thursday ruled out any surrender policy for foreign militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir, saying they are meant to be eliminated.
"There is no surrender policy for foreign militants active in Jammu and Kashmir," XV Corps General Officer-in-Commanding Lt Gen A S Sekhon told journalists on the fringes of a function at Awantipora in south Kashmir.
"They (foreign militants) have no business to be here in Jammu and Kashmir and are meant to be eliminated," he added.
Gen Sekhon, who is to assume the charge of director general military operations in New Delhi later this month, said the operations against militants in Jammu and Kashmir will... | |
| | | | Various Scams/Sleaze overshadowed the development in the state in the state | | | | Sanjay Khajuria
Jammu | Nov 21
Not the developmental projects that went on the slow and sluggish place but the much hyped ‘PHE Scam in Bhadewrah or in multi crore scam PHE in Rajouri, CD Porno Scam, Sleaze in Valley and Jammu and above all the corruption in the state that has put the state in the top corrupt state of the nation as per surveys but not on the developmental spheres..
Apart from this the Land Mafia, Forest Scams too have made the state to steal the show in the media sections despite tall claims of the ruling regime about the good governance and the land mafia scams whatever it would be the state government has been tagged with a the title one of the corrupt state during th... | |
| | | | CM smells vested interests blocking development | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 22
Strongly favouring participation of builders and estate developers from other parts of country for creating housing and business infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today smelled some vested interests coming in the way of Public Private Partnership.
While speaking at the Golden Jubilee Celebrations J&K Cooperative Housing Cooperation here this evening, the Chief Minister referred to the opposition raised by the separatists and others when expression of interest was invited last year for developing tourism infrastructure in the Kashmir Valley. The Chief Minister, however, did not name any party or person specific wh... | |
| | | | Rahul could have met Rajiv's fate: probe | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu/New Delhi | Nov 22
But for the timely action of cops, the scion of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, Rahum Gandhi could have met the same fate which his father Rajiv Gandhi met a decade and half back.
Garlanding of Rahul Gandhi with grenades before kidnapping him to put up their demands was the "plan" of the three Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants nabbed in Uttar Pradesh last week, interrogation of them has revealed, official sources a news agency.
The detailed interrogation of Mohammed Abid, Yusuf and Mirza Rashid, arrested in Lucknow last week, by personnel of the central security agencies, revealed that they would have garlanded the young Gandhi with grenades before t... | |
| | | | Carrying the burden of PDP liability will prove costly for Congress | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Nov 22
The resolution adopted by the All India Congress Committee in its session in New Delhi on continuance of its alliance with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, to lost beyond the present term of the state assembly, conveying an impression of the two parties fighting the next assembly elections jointly, has not gone well with the majority of Congress leaders in the middle rung and the worker at large in the state. The Congress activists, particularly in Jammu region, where the party has a strong base, are unhappy with the development, which makes the party to carry the liability of PDP on its shoulders and share blame for PDP's pro militants, pro s... | |
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