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| Ghar Wapsi no cakewalk for Cong deserters | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 27: Amid reports that “committed” Congress leaders opposed giving previous positions to the “deserters”, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary (organization) K C Venugopal has reportedly not shown much enthusiasm about the “Ghar Wapsi” of ex-loyalists of Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Highly placed sources in Congress said that issue of rejoining of former Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and other Congress leaders was discussed during the brief stay of K C Venugopal at Jammu.
“K C Venugopal hailed the move of Congress leaders to convince the loyalists of Ghulam Nabi Azad to raise the banner of revolt against their political mentor”, a source said but added that AICC general secretary sought time to reinduct these leaders in the party.
Wishing anonymity, a senior Congress leader said that while travelling from Jammu to Srinagar local leaders discussed the fate of ex-loyalists of Ghulam Nabi Azad with K C Venugopal, who asked local party leaders to wait for some time to reinduct these leaders.
Sources said that K C Venugopal further assured l... | |
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| SMC councilor blows lid of Rs 29.5 cr ghotala | | Danish Bhat seeks LG Sinha’s intervention | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 27: Amid mounting complaints of alleged corruption at the Srinagar Municipal Corporation here, one of the prominent SMC councilors and known whistleblowers against corruption, Danish Bhat has opened lid on a whopping Rs 29.5 crore scam at the civic body.
Danish, who also heads the Srinagar Corporators Front (SCF) took to the social media and subsequently spoke to the media to expose the multi crore scam in development activity at a landfill site seeking the personal intervention of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha.
“Not paying much heed to the queries of CE R&B, SMC approached CE UEED with same DPR for technical sanction. After being pressurised by h... | |
| | | | Mehbooba to join Rahul’s Yatra; NC yet to respond to Cong’s formal invitation | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 27: Even as Congress leadership claimed that Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Omar, Mehbooba Mufti, and others have given their consent to join the Bharat Jodo Yatra only the PDP president has given her consent to join Rahul Gandhi when his Yatra enters Jammu and Kashmir.
“I have been formally invited to join @RahulGandhi Ji for his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir today. Salute his indomitable courage & I believe it is my duty to stand with someone who has the courage to c... | |
| | | | Fire damages 6 residential houses in Dalgate | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 27: At least six residential houses were gutted in a devastating fire incident that erupted at Kunrache locality in Dalgate area of Srinagar during the wee hours of Tuesday.
Fire and Emergency Service officials said that fire broke out at 5.27 am in a house in the locality on the banks of Dal Lake and engulfed other nearby structures damaging four double story houses severely and two others suffered partial damage in the incident.
Several fire fighting engines were rushed from the nearby fire stations to douse the flames that controlled the leaping flames timely before causing damage to other houses of this congested locality.
The cause of the fire i... | |
| | | | LG interacts with citizens during live public grievance hearing | | “LG’s Mulaqaat | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 27: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha heard grievances of people and issued direction for their appropriate redressal during “LG’s Mulaqaat”- Live Public Grievance Hearing programme, at the Civil Secretariat today.
The Lt Governor sought details of complaints received on JKIGRAM portal from the concerned deputy commissioners, senior officials and directed for prompt redressal of grievances in a transparent and effective manner.
“Grievance disposal mechanism s... | |
| | | | Value education should be included in curriculum: Prez Murmu | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, Dec 27: President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday stressed on the importance of teaching value education to children to make them good citizens.
Murmu, who addressed the students and faculty members of the Keshav Memorial Educational Society at a function organised as part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav here, said parents also, in view of competition, focus on children studying the syllabus taught in their books.
"I say everywhere that value education should be added in our curriculum, our system, our syllabus," she said.
If value education is imparted from the beginning, it will help in ushering in a good society, she said.
She was responding to a query from a studen... | |
| | | | Centre giving full support to judiciary: Minister | | | |
Agencies
Kurukshetra (Haryana), Dec 27: The Centre is giving full support to the judiciary in resolving the cases pending before courts, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said in Kurukshetra. The minister pointed out that more than five crore cases are pending before various courts across the country.
Mr Rijiju was addressing the three-day 16th national conference of the "Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad" at the Kurukshetra University campus in Haryana on Monday.
He said the government took steps to "equip" the courts well even during the COVID-19 pandemic so that the courts could function during the period.
Mr Rijiju said several politicians and mediapersons continue to spread that th... | |
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