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| State Cong firm on snapping ties with NC | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 30: The State unit of Congress has asked the party high command to snap ties with the National Conference. "It would be politically wise to go alone in the elections, it believes. The unit believes that the party can win most of the seats in Jammu and had made substantial progress in Kashmir valley.
"The unit is very firm on it. It knows that going with the NC will cost it very much. The high command was briefed about the situation in Delhi recently and it's in the back drop of it that Ghulam Nabi Azad had said party's leadership concern will be taken into account," said a senior party leader, wishing not to be named.
The party unit has told the high command that in the Valley the PDP is gaining ground at the expense of the national conference and it will be all out politically costly proposition if the party sides with the loosing partner.
There is also a view that even if the party doesn't emerge as the single largest party, though party is still confident about it, it feels that it can hold the balance of the power and this is the most important... | |
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| Cong likely to show door to Agri Minister Ghulam Hassam Mir | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
JAMMU, Dec 30: In a significant development, Congress is mulling option of dropping Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir to pay way for accommodation of either a Congress MLA or an MLC so as to give strength to party leaders ahead of upcoming Parliamentary and state election.
Sources within Congress party said that Congress has made its mind to drop Ghulam Hassan Mir who is presently Agriculture Minister in Omar Abdullah led Congress-NC Government since last over five years. Congress sources informed the "Early Times" that internal probe conducted by Union Ministry of Defence into J & K payoff scandal involving former Army Chief Rtd. General V K Singh found role of Jammu... | |
| | | | Amid mis-management, eminent Punjabi singer Gurdas Mann mesmerizes audience | | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Dec 30: It was a night to remember for Jammuites as one of the most notable figures in the world of Punjabi music, Gurdas Mann, with his inimitable style of singing enthralled the audience during a musical show to mark the culmination of 'Jammu Festival-2013'.
Mann, who undoubtedly was the centre of attraction among the entire lot of invited artists to perform during Jammu Festival with his pulsating voice and powerful performance live up the expectations of his fans.
As soon as Mann came on stage in his trademark traditional attire and when he greeted everyone, the crowd waiting for his appearance roared in cheer.
Mann mesmerized the gathering of around ten tho... | |
| | | | SHRC urges DC to furnish report | | Slaughter house at Jagti | | | Bivek Mathur
Jammu, Dec 30: The Jammu and Kashmir cabinet's approval for transfer of forest land at village Jagti in the year 2009 for establishment of slaughter house has been challenged by the villagers and they have appealed National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) as well as State Human Right Commission (SHRC) for their intervention considering it a case of human rights violation.
The villagers have complained that the proposed location for the slaughter house in village Khanpur is just five Kilometers away from village Jagti and at zero distance from the main road. The villagers have also complained that it is also at a few meters from the school, temple and drinking water well whic... | |
| | | | Congress Sarpanch dupes Poor Gujjar in Dooru | | | | Saahil Suhail
ANANTNAG, Dec 30 : A Congress Sarpanch, who is believed to be a close confident of Tourism Minister Gulam Ahmad Mir, has allegedly duped a poor man from tribal community of South Kashmir's Dooru area on the pretext of providing him a hut under centrally sponsored housing Scheme IAY.
Habib Khan, father of five children resident of Halisardar Dooru told Early Times that Congress Sarpanch identified by him as Iqbal Ahmad in year 2011 duped him on the pretext of providing him hut under IAY Scheme.
"He (Iqbal) visited our Gujar basti and said that he is enlisting names for IAY schemes, I being the poorest in my neighborhood requested him to include my name in the list which he... | |
| | | | The name of state is J&K, not JK | | JKLF's dirty game | | |
Neha
JAMMU, Dec 30: The name of our State is Jammu and Kashmir State, and not Jammu Kashmir. Those who have started calling it Jammu Kashmir are doing it with a purpose. Their ulterior purpose is to mislead the international community by telling it that Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are one as far as their demand for liberation from India is concerned. But they will not succeed inn their evil game plan. They will be defeated by the people of Jammu and Ladakh and many others in Kashmir, including the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus.
On Sunday, the so-called Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) adopted four resolutions in Srinagar seeking solution to the so-called Kashmir dispute ac... | |
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