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| NC controlling situation in Kashmir 'single' handedly..? | | Soz, Azad fail to land in Valley | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 12: Is National Conference (NC), heading the coalition Government here in the State, controlling post Afzal Guru hanging situation single handedly in Kashmir valley? Well, the right answer is with Congress party, which is playing a second fiddle role in the ruling coalition. While the curfew continued for the third consecutive day in Kashmir with no relaxation and additional deployment of para-military and police forces have been made in several parts of Kashmir valley, the Congress Ministers have "preferred" to stay back here in the winter capital to address the peoples' grievances.
Headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, the top NC leadership including the entire senior Ministers and Legislators especially of Kashmir valley are camping in the summer capital Srinagar and monitoring the situation and making untiring efforts to control the situation arising after the hanging of Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru.
The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is learnt to have given different responsibilities to his party's Ministers to control the situation. "He... | |
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| NC slams Centre, accuses it of grooming separatists | | | |
Early Times Report
srinagar, Feb 12: Yasin Malik's Pakistan visit and his sharing the dais with LeT chief Hafiz Saeed has given National Conference a whip to beat the Centre with. It has accused the Centre of facilitating separatist activities in the State. Dr Mustafa Kamaal, additional secretary of NC, who recently called for plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday described Malik sharing the dais with Saeed as "unfortunate." "Saeed has links with Mumbai attacks. Now it is for New Delhi to decide. Now New Delhi's conscience should be stirred and people should see what the country is doing," Kamaal said.
"Why do you treat separatists like VIPs within the country and facilitating thei... | |
| | | | DB expresses displeasure over GAD's inaction, seeks detailed report | | Encroachment of 92 Kanals of state land by Lal Singh | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Feb 12: In the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Prof SK Bhalla highlighting organized land grabbing by certain police officers/ politicians/bureaucrats in connivance with land mafia/under world in various parts of Jammu/Samba Districts, a Division Bench of State High Court comprising Chief Justice MM Kumar and Justice Hasnain Massodi, today expressed its deep anguish / displeasure over the inaction of the General Administration Department (GAD) on the report of State Vigilance Organization (SVO) which was submitted way back on April 24/2006 to the then Principle Secretary to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. The SVO in its report dated April 24/2006... | |
| | | | Rather motorcade attacked, curfew relaxed at certain places | | Taj's cavalcade stuck at Sheeri, 3 injured in police action | | | ET Report
Srinagar, Feb 12: The situation in Baramulla's Sheeri town took an ugly turn today when police and security forces fired rubber bullets on protesters injuring three persons.
Unofficial reports said that the incident took place when Minister for Medical Education, Taj Mohiuddin's cavalcade on way from Chandanwadi, Uri to Baramulla got stuck near Sheeri where the protesters had already assembled.
Sources said that the CRPF personnel deployed on the site tried to disperse the protesters and clear the road for Taj's cavalcade.
However, the protesters resisted and started pelting stones on CRPF personnel who retaliated by firing rubber bullets on the protesters injuring 3 persons. ... | |
| | | | Unruly attitude of matadors leads to chaotic traffic jams in Jammu | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 12: The unruly attitude of Mini Buses (Matadors) in the winter capital of the Jammu and Kashmir state leads to chaotic traffic jams and road accidents in the city, even after the installation of Traffic Lights.
As the Jammu city is already overburdened with around 35000 more vehicles due to Darbar move, the most famous and affordable transport of the city (Matador) is becoming headache for the private vehicle owners due to their unorganized way of driving and overloading of the passengers. This attitude of these matador drivers leads to irritating traffic jams with long queues of vehicles and also raising the toll of the daily accidents in the city.
"It ta... | |
| | | | Contractor-Officer mafia looting public exchequer in PHE | | | | Avinash Azad
Jammu, Feb 12: Outsourcing culture in Public Health Department (PHE) is taking huge toll on public exchequer, as the department has been hiring private machinery to dig tube wells.
Authoritative sources informed Early Times that department is paying about Rs. 35 crore to private owners every year instead of purchasing its own Rig machines. But on the contrary departmental infrastructure is depleting with each passing day and increasing its dependency on private players.
Ground water division of Public Health Engineering Department has to dig up around 150 tube wells annually in Jammu division alone, for the purpose department has 14 deep driller rig machines which are also ... | |
| | | | Has Delhi rendered NC politically impotent? | | Guru's Hanging | | | ET Report
Jammu, Feb 12: Has New Delhi rendered the National Conference (NC) --- which continues to lead the Jammu & Kashmir Government in alliance with the Congress and share power with the Congress at the Centre whose Government under pressure from the nation implemented the Supreme Court verdict on Parliament terror attack accused Afzal Guru which led to his hanging in Tihar Jail on February 9 -politically impotent? Yes, according to senior NC leader and Member of Parliament Mehboob Beg. Yesterday, the communalist of communalists and separatist of separatists Beg, who has never missed any opportunity to attack the Indian State, Indian Army and the Indian Constitution and who has always ... | |
| | | | LC polls: Cadres dismayed at 'choice' of candidates | | Congress promoting crony culture in J&K…? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 12: Even as Congress has not yet disclosed the name of its candidates to be fielded for LC polls, the 'selection' list discussed and almost finalized by the leadership has upset the entire hierarchy - functionaries and leaders associated with the party for a long time. Dismayed and in a state of disarray at the choice of the candidates, the 'criterion' adopted in picking up some names is being seen as not only politically insignificant but the moves which can prove political suicide in the election year for the party. The names forwarded and the 'consideration' so adopted for the same by leaders in reckoning both Ghulam Nabi Azad and Prof Saif-ud-Din ... | |
| | | | Govt to question Yasin Malik, revoke passport: Sources | | | |
Early Times Report
new delhi, Feb 12: The Government of India seems to have made up its mind to act against separatist leader Yasin Malik for sharing stage with India's most wanted terrorist Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan and making anti-India comments.
Sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs told Zee News today that Malik's actions are not acceptable and warrant action from the Government.
The JKLF leader may be questioned on arrival back to India and his passport may be revoked so as to prevent his travel to Pakistan again, sources said.
As per reports, the Government is going through the details of Malik's recent Pakistan visits and his recent activities there. The focus of the probe is t... | |
| | | | Guru's hanging: Three Abdullahs, three voices | | Party in complete disarray | | | Rustam
Jammu, Feb 12: Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah-founded premier religio-political organization of Kashmir, National Conference (NC), is down and almost out. It appears it has outlived its utility and its collapse appears almost imminent. It is not the opposition that has brought the NC to such a pass. It is the three Abdullahs - Farooq Abdullah, party president, Omar Abdullah, party vice-president and State Chief Minister, and Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal, party additional general secretary --- who have been speaking differently and contradicting each other without naming each other in the aftermath of the hanging of Afzal Guru. Contradictions among the Abdullahs are not a new phenomenon. Lust for... | |
| | | | Employment counsellor attached to counsel Civil Secretariat? | | J&K govt does it again! | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 12: Unique are the ways in which Jammu and Kashmir Government functions! A counselor appointed to ensure successful implementation of various self-employment schemes is in the Civil Secretariat for the purpose known better to the Labour and Employment Ministry.
An employee of the Labour and Employment department, a female counselor (name withheld) who was working in the District Employment and Counseling has been called to the Civil Secretariat. Though it is not known what work has been assigned to her, sources said that the ill-planned move has resulted in District Employment and Counseling Center (DECC) Udhampur getting defunct.
According to documents avai... | |
| | | | Demand for doing away with death penalty gains ground | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 12: The recent execution of the Indian Parliament attack convict, Afzal Guru, has set in motion the demand for abolition of death penalty. The demand has been also voiced by many political leaders, including Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, PDP chief, Mehbooba Mufti,and other social activists. Well this issue has two sides. One is that why the demand for ending capital punishment did not surface when a Pakistani national, Ajmal Kasab, was hanged to death recently, after he had been awarded death sentence by the courts on charge of his direct involvement in the 2008 deadly terrorist strike in Mumbai which left over 166 people dead? And why the demand for end to d... | |
| | | | Exodus of K Hindus & execution of Guru | | Two faces of Pandita | | | Neha
Jammu, Feb 12: Only a few days ago, a migrant from Kashmir and Delhi-based journalist Rahul Pandita came out with an "excellent" book on the circumstances leading to the exodus of the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley in early 1990, as also on the nature of the ongoing secessionist movement there and Kashmiri leadership. The book is titled "Our Moon Has Blood Clots". It recounts in minute detail about the "conspiracy" hatched by the "majority community" to rid the Valley of "an erudite, enlightened minority" (read Kashmiri Hindus), so that the fanatics could establish "an independent Islamic state". It also catalogues in detail the atrocities perpetrated on his com... | |
| | | | Threatening posters reappear on Kishtwar walls | | Afzal Guru hanging | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
kishtwar, Feb 12: Fumed over lack of support from general public in response to shutdown call from Valley, militants issued threats through poster at several prominent locations in Kishtwar.
These posters believed to be pasted by the HM militant outfit with the help of separatist elements created panic among the security forces and general public. As soon as the police got the information about surfacing of posters on Afzal Guru hanging, they swung into action and removed all the posters from the walls outside schools and educational institutions. Police were however tight lipped over the investigation in this regard. The sources informed the "Early Times" that similar p... | |
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