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| CENTRAL UNIVERSITY ISSUE | | BJP ‘falters’ in Lok Sabha, opposes ‘pro-Jammu’ Bill | | |
ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
Jammu, Nov 30: It may sound strange and ludicrous but the truth is that the party which few months back threatened to ‘shake up the state’ if Central University was not allotted to Jammu region was today the lone opponent of the idea in Parliament when an amendment Bill was moved for setting up two Central Universities in Jammu and Kashmir.
Anurag Thakur of BJP, who is also son of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister, opposed the idea describing it succumbing to the regional pressures. Reacting to the development Congress leader and Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla said that “cat is out of the bag” and it is the time people understood who represents them well. BJP veteran and party’s leader in Assembly Prof Chaman Lal Gupta feigned ignorance over the matter and said that perhaps BJP MP Anurag Thakur was not aware of the ground realities in Jammu and Kashmir.
A Bill to amend the Central Universities Act 2009 had to be moved in the Lok Sabha following Government of India’s consent to allot two Central Universities to Jammu and Kashmir against one as envisaged ... | |
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| Shock in town: driver kills boss for Rs 30,000 | | | |
SUMIT SHARMA
Jammu, Nov 30: In a shocking incident, betraying faith and trust, an officer of the Department of Economics and Statistics has been allegedly done to death by his driver. Police said that driver has been arrested and has confessed to have committed the heinous crime.
Ashok Kumar Kichloo, a Deputy Director of Economic and Statistics department was brutally murdered by his own driver with the intention of looting cash and jewellary meant for his son’s marriage ceremony scheduled in next month.
The shocking yet dramatic incident occurred in late hours last night when deputy director of Economic and Statistics department namely Ashok Kitchloo son of Dina Nath Ki... | |
| | | | Amarnath ghost visits Kumar couple, Sonali gets ‘warning’ letter | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 30: Amarnath land row was settled after months of agitation last year. It has been a year and half since the icon of Amarnath controversy Lt Gen SK Sinha demitted the Raj Bhawan but the religious-environmental-political storm continues to haunt the Kumar couple –Sonali and Dr Arun Kumar, two top IAS officers.
Barely days after government moved court against a CAT (Central Administrative Tribunal) order offering relief to Principal Secretary Dr Arun Kumar that his wife Sonali, currently Principal Secretary Agriculture Department, has been served with a ‘warning’. A letter has been shot off by the Chief Secretary for an ‘inappropriate’ conduct in 2005 and sh... | |
| | | | Rain or snow likely in J&K | | | |
Pune, Nov 30 : Rain or snow are likely to occur at a few places in Jammu and Kashmir and isolated places in Himachal Pradesh.
Rain or thundershowers may lash few places in Tamil Nadu, isolated places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, south coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalseema, south coastal and south interior Karnataka, Kerala, Andaman, Nicobar and Lakshadweep Islands.
Mainly dry weather will prevail in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal, Sikkim, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat state, Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, north coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, north coastal and interior Karnataka... | |
| | | | SRTC employees garner support, countrywide protests on Dec 10 | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 30: They tried all the means –bare chest protests, sit-ins with beggar bowls in hands, their kids holding placards asking the Chief Minister to give them a pint of poison if there were no salaries for their parents, the SRTC employees have now taken their story of woes to the nation causing a clear embarrassment to the government.
Denied salaries for over eight months, the agitating employees of the government owned State Road Transport Corporation, currently in Delhi, have mobilized massive support of their counterparts in other states. In a show of unity, the state owned Roadways employees country-wide would hold protests on all district headquarters ... | |
| | | | Srgr-Leh highway officially declared closed for winters | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 30: The 434-km-long Srinagar-Leh national highway was closed for winter due to heavy snowfall and slippery road, while weather condition has improved in the Kashmir Valley where the minimum was recorded at 2.3 degrees Celsius, two degree above normal this morning.
However, Kokernag was the coldest in the Valley where the minimum was minus 2 degree while people in Ladakh region continued to shiver due to below freezing temperature.
"We have put a total ban on any traffic movement on the Srinagar-Leh national highway, life line to Ladakh region, because of slippery road conditions and heavy snowfall, official sources told UNI here.
The sources sa... | |
| | | | China gets a road grounded in Ladakh | | Orders were ‘apparently’ from Delhi: Sagar | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov, 30: As the far off Demchuk becomes latest Chinese finger-point and hundreds of locals as well as thousands of visitors lose the opportunity of trying a hot spring with healing qualities, it is unclear who exactly got a small stretch of road under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme off midway in Ladakh.
Jammu and Kashmir’s lone representative in UPA Cabinet Dr Farooq Abdullah skirts the reports that road construction work was stopped after Chinese protest as he believes this might have happened due to extreme cold weather conditions there. However, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been quoted by a newspaper confirming that work was stopped aft... | |
| | | | No local dailies in Srinagar for second day | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 30 : Local english and urdu daily newspapers remained off the stands for the second day today as the media offices remained closed in the Kashmir valley due to Eid-ul-Zuha holidays.
However, Jammu based besides other national and regional newspapers were available as newspaper sellers also resumed normal work. More than 50 Urdu and English daily newspapers are published in the Kashmir valley.
Due to non-publication of the newspapers, the Radio Kashmir, Srinagar and Doordarshan Kendra, Srinagar could not broadcast and telecast live programmes based on newspaper headlines this morning.
However, people remained in touch with the outside the world a... | |
| | | | KP who feels vindicated after Liberhan probe | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, NOV 30: Exactly 17 years ago from today a young Kashmiri Pandit boy, Sanjay Kaw, was on his way to Ayodhya, posing as a Kar Sevak. A few days later he alerted the world about what was in store vis-à-vis the fate of Babari Masjid by writing a couple of newspaper stories on his return to Delhi. Yet the warning sounded by him went unheeded and soon reason ebbed and frenzy took over. Ever since the then 24-year-old Kaw has felt sad about this. Yet 17 years after the Ayodhya demolition the findings of Justice MS Liberhan Commission have come to Kaw as a belated consolation.
The Commission had summoned Kaw as 20th witness to the run up to the unfortunate incident at... | |
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