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| FM to bring innovation | | Populism is compulsion of last budget | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 27
With just a month and half left for the presentation of last budget of the present coalition government, the Finance Minister Tariq Hamid Qarra is reportedly looking for innovation as he prepares for populist presentation.
The office of the Finance Minister on the third floor in civil secretariat is these days almost out of bounds for the routine visitors as Qarra is engrossed in the formulations. The Financial Commissioner Planning and Development and Commissioner Secretary
Finance too are also not seeing the routine file these days.
While sources indicated the possibility of a Vote on Account but if this is a full fledged budget then it is going to... | |
| | | | Udyog Bhawan disappoints Azad | | CM to screen record, question officers today | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 28
When Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad set out on an development reality check he was shocked to see that not a brick has moved up on an ambitious industrial house envisaged to cater full range of industrial activities.
The Chief Minister has summoned entire record pertaining to project and approval of contracts for a detailed scrutiny as eleven years after its commencement the Udyop Bhawan is nowhere near completion.
Azad today had a surprise inspection of the under-construction Jawaharlal Nehru Udyog Bhawan at Railhead here and expressed concern over the inordinate delay in its completion. The foundation stone of the project had been laid a decade bac... | |
| | | | Infiltration drops marginally | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 28
Infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir during 2007 dropped
marginally in comparison to the previous two years.
According to Sriprakash Jaiswal, Minister of State for Home, there were an estimated 499 infiltrations in 2007, whereas in 2005 and 2006, the figure was 597 and 573 respectively. He shared these details in the Lok Sabha.
Jaiswal further said that these figures pertained to those militants who had been apprehended or killed while crossing the LoC/borders.
As per available information, over 4000 illegal weapons, including AK-47 Rifles, Pistols/Revolvers, UMGs/LMGs, Rocket Launchers/Boosters and huge quantities of ammunition and explosives/IEDs hav... | |
| | | | BSNL tightens noose against defaulters | | MLA’s landline, cell phone disconnected | | | Govind Chouhan
Jammu | Nov 27
Coming down heavily on the defaulters, the Bhartiya Sanchar Nigam Ltd, (BSNL) have connected the landline phones of several people including some political leaders and is also planning to debar their cell phones from incoming and outgoing calls.
Despite repeated notices for depositing the outstanding amounts, the defaulters have preferred to remain silent for long forcing the authorities to take drastic steps.
According to sources, the BSNL has disconnected the landline telephone and WLL of senior congress leader and MLA Suchetgarh Gharu Ram for non payment of bills amounting to about Rs.23,000. The sources said, since the MLA has again failed to pay his bi... | |
| | | | BSNL slashes ISD call rates | | | | New Delhi | Nov 27
BSNL has slashed its international call charges to the US and Canada by over 300 per cent.
State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) said on Friday that it has slashed its international call charges to the US and Canada by over 300 per cent at Rs 1.75 per minute from Rs 7.20 on its ‘CallNow’ cards.
The cards, available in various denominations ranging from Rs 100, Rs 300, Rs 500, Rs 1,000 and Rs 2,000, allow Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and MTNL subscribers to make much cheaper ISD calls to the United States and Canada.
“For select important countries like France, Russia, the United Kingdom, South East Asia, the rates vary from a minimum of Rs 3.25 per minute to a max... | |
| | | | Mr Shigehiko, have a word with ERA people | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 27: The Mission Leader of the Asian Development Bank Shigehiko Muramota is in the town, but many, within and outside the government, are not quite happy with its fully funded agency in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Economic Reconstruction Agency, ERA, a development reconstruction agency created by the Jammu and Kashmir government and fully funded by the Asian Development Bank is coming under a sharp criticism from public as well as the public representatives on the manner it is working.
ERA has been conceived and created with a vision to create world class infrastructure in Jammu and Jammu and Kashmir. The agency has hired a large staff, is jumping high with hug... | |
| | | | Roshni Act implementation review on cards | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Nov 27
There are strong indications that the rates fixed earlier in respect of conferring of ownership rights on the authorized lease holders and occupants of Nazool and other government lands, for last 50 to 60 years, under the Jammu and Kashmir State Lands (investing of ownership to occupants) Act, popularly known as Roshni Act, will be revised and brought down considerably, in order to address the deep concern and unrest among a large section of people adversely affected, as a result of exorbitant rates, varying from Rs 75 lakhs to Rs 1.5 crores per kanal, depending upon the location of the lands.
The rates to be charged from various occupant... | |
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