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| Differences surface in employees’ associations, strike unlikely today | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 1: Before upping their pressure on the government on demands of pay hike and increase in retirement age, differences have surfaced between two key associations of employees and tomorrow’s strike is unlikely to be effective.
Sources said that on persuasion of the Governor’s administration the Secretariat Non Gazetted Employees Union has dropped its plans of pen down strike for tomorrow while Joint Action Committee of employees is adamant on going ahead with strike. The JAC includes members mostly from outside the secretariat but it is the Non Gazetted Employees Union which makes strike effective for being within the secretariat –the highest power center of the government.
The Secretariat Non Gazetted Employees Union has said that they would prefer to wait till December 31 –the deadline government has sought for settling the pay issue. However, JAC is of the contention that this deadline is a mere delay tactic and therefore employees should observe strike for press for their demands. The employees, it may be mentioned here, have been demanding implem... | |
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| Only 5 can accompany candidate to RO office | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 1: Election Commission of India has directed all the candidates not to take more than five persons inside the office of the returning officer while filling the nomination papers. Apart from this, only three vehicles will be allowed inside the 100 meter periphery of the returning officers.
A state election official told Press Bureau of India that all the political parties and independent candidates have been informed about the new guidelines and "it is mandatory on all political parties to adhere the guidelines in letter and spirit."
There are still two days left for the filling of nomination papers for the constituencies going for ballots in the sevent... | |
| | | | Mumbai terror comes in handy for BJP to take on Congress | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 1: Malegaon probe controversy which offered Peoples Democratic Party some leverage over National Conference and other is now passé, now it is turn of terror attacks in Mumbai which has come in handy for BJP to take on Congress in Jammu.
Though for last four days local leaders have been veering their speeches and discourses around the Mumbai lasts to accuse Congress of soft approach on terror, BJP’s senior national leader Syed Shah Nawaz Hussain today launched the scathing attack.
Hussain on Monday accused Congress led UPA government of playing vote UPA government of playing vote bank politics while dealing with the threat of terrorism and maintained that ... | |
| | | | India talks tough to Pakistan, Menon heads US with proof | | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI, Dec 1: As evidence mounts about Pakistani links to the stunning Mumbai terror strike, India has lodged a strong diplomatic protest with Islamabad in the form of a written demarche.
The note from external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee to his counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani was handed over to Pakistan’s foreign office on Saturday. It warned of a freeze in bilateral ties unless Pakistan lived up to its January 2004 promise of clamping down on terrorist groups operating from its soil. Although couched in diplomatic language, the message was a repeat of Mukherjee’s “enough is enough” telephonic conversation with Gilani on Friday.
The demarche, considered the ultimate... | |
| | | | 28 papers rejected, 290 in fray | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, DEC 1: A total of 28 nominations were rejected during scrutiny ahead of the sixth round of the seven-phased assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, leaving a record 290 candidates in fray for the December 17 elections to 16 assembly seats, officials said today.
Eight nomination papers were rejected in the six constituencies of Anantnag district while the candidature of six nominees were disapproved in Kulgam district, they said.
The decision over one of the nominations has been deferred.
Nomination papers of 106 candidates were found in order during scrutiny in Anantnag district while 72 were declared valid in Kulgam district, the officials said.
The 16 consti... | |
| | | | Last phase heavyweights file papers | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar/Jammu, Dec 1: It was a storming day of stalwarts from almost all political parties gearing for the last phase of elections who filed their nomination papers in both capital districts of the state.
Srinagar and Jammu districts will go polls in last phase on December 24. National Conference patron Dr Farooq Abdullah and BJP state president Ashok Khajuria are among the key contenders in the last phase.
In Srinagar City, almost all National Conference nominees filed their nomination papers and the spree was led by the Chief Ministerial candidate Dr Farooq Abdullah.
Dr. Farooq Abdullah Patron National Conference today filed his nomination papers from Hazratbal... | |
| | | | Eight Gujjars got Congress tickets, now community must vote: Azad | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Udhampur, Dec 1: After giving party tickets to over half a dozen Gujjars across the state, the senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today asked the community to strengthen party with their votes.
Scoring a point, the former Chief Minister claimed that no other party has ever been so concerned about Gujjars in Jammu and Kashmir like Congress has done for them. He said that in this election the Congress has given mandates to eight Gujjar leaders while as National Conference to only three Gujjar leaders, which is two seats more than the proportion of their population.
He asserted that during Mufti regime the reservation for Scheduled Tribes ... | |
| | | | BSF ups patrolling along IB | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 1 : Anticipating possible changes in India's relations with Pakistan after last week's Mumbai terror attack, the central paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) Monday said it has increased patrolling and surveillance along the border.
"We have increased the vigil, patrolling and surveillance all along the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of the Mumbai terror strikes. It is the regular practise that we adopt after any terror attack in the country," a top BSF official said in Delhi.
"There is no question of increasing the numbers of personnel at the border since we are already short of manpower. So far we have not ... | |
| | | | Only Rs 20,000 as Mehbooba opens purse strings | | STATE OF WEALTH | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 1: Her party leaders have millions invested in banks or properties but Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti does not have much wealth to boast off.
The only possession which Mehbooba has in her own name is a Maruti Swift Car and that too on bank loan. No real estate investments, no debentures and not even a house to own, as Kashmir’s emerging political force makes declaration of her assets and liabilities while filing her nomination papers from Wachi constituency in Shopian district of South Kashmir.
Mehbooba has said in her statement that she has only Rs 40,000 cash in hand and some Rs 129,000 invested in banks. No lands, houses or propertie... | |
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