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| Good Morning, Fuel is Dearer Today | | Midnight rush: petrol up by Rs 2, diesel by Re 1 | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 14
Those who got the fuel tanks of their vehicles filled up this night were lucky enough –though till the present filling exhausted. As you wake up in the morning and rush to the filling station, you will find diesel and petrol dearer –yet another whole in the common man’s pocket.
After months of dithering, the government today finally raised petrol price by Rs 2 a litre and diesel by Re one per litre with effect from midnight tonight.
As the Television channels beamed this news, a huge rush of vehicles was seen at petrol pumps to make some last minutes savings. Hurry was particularly seen among the commercial vehicles as their fuel tanks with capacity of over hundred liters would have saved them few hundreds rupees before the midnight.
The Union Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, which took up the matter instead of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs because of the political sensitivity of the issue when general elections are not far away, however, decided against lowering duties to cushion the impact of surging international oil p... | |
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| DyCM lands in ‘land soup’ | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 14
While showcasing the scenic beauty and hard-selling Kashmir to attract infrastructure investment, the Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig has landed in a political soup.
Opposition political parties, particularly the National Conference and the separatists have ganged up against Baig for inviting outsiders to buy land in Kashmir even though the Deputy Chief Minister has denied having made any such statement.
While addressing a functioning in connection with the winter games in New Delhi earlier this week, the Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig was reported to have invited the outsiders to invest in Jammu and Kashmir. Some reports, t... | |
| | | | Dilli Meherbaan, Mantri Pahalwan | | Ahead of elections, Ministers obtain sops from Center | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 14
In run up to the general elections, one after the other, the Ministers from Jammu and Kashmir are snatching the last minute sops from the central government to hardsell the same to their electorate.
A day after Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad got the bundle full of new projects and programs in the state, the Rural Development Minister Mula Ram has got the central government agreed to extend the state Rural Development plan by another two months.
The Chief Minister in his around 24 hours long stay in the Union Capital managed central fund sharing in Baglihar project, a new thermal power project, two air strips and modernization of Srinagar and Jammu ... | |
| | | | Worklord takes workers hostage | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 14
In today’s age of transparency and human rights activism, can one imagine a work-lord enslaving his workers. Reports have this that owner of a brick kiln in Reasi has taken ten workers hostage after they demanded their due wages.
One Gurbaksh Singh of Amritsar has complained before the Jammu and Kashmir High Court that ten of his relatives have taken into custody by one Diwakar, owner of Maa Bhagwati Brick Kiln at Bhambla Road in Reasi district.
The court has has directed the SHO of Police Station Reasi to immediately visit the brick kiln to find out the matter. In case he finds them to be detained, he shall immediately get them released from cust... | |
| | | | Geelani’s man in PDP camp | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 14
With elections round the corner, the Peoples Democratic Party is wooing people from other side of the political fence to join its cadres.
PDP has its eyes focused on taking the separatists elements in its fold to strengthen and consolidate its base in the Valley. Reports have been suggesting the some people from the separatist brigade may participate in the elections which has put the PDP on a note of caution. Before things go out of control, the party is getting in the separatist leaders who have known differences with their parent organizations.
In such development, Abdul Khaliq Haneef, a former close aide of hardline Hurriyat Conference chief Sye... | |
| | | | Mufti’s son-in-law joins politics | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 14
A leading businessman but a low profile political son of the south has jumped into politics –probably influenced by his father-in-law and sister-in-law in Jammu and Kashmir.
Reports from Chennai said that Shaukat Sherif, the son-in-law of former J&K Chief Minister and People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mufti Mohammed Syed, today joined actor-politician Vijayakanth's DMDK.
Sherif, a businessman residing in the city, presented a shawl to Vijayakanth at the DMDK office here and became a member of the party.
When questioned by Vijayakanth for his decision to join the party, Sherif said he was impressed with his ideologies and his earnestness to ser... | |
| | | | Heavy snowfall, extreme cold proved as a blessing in disguise as much for Azad government as for heating appliances dealers | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Feb 14
News Analysis
The heavy snowfall, accompanied by avalanches dipping the temperature to minus 10 to minus 20 degree Celsius in Kashmir valley and upper hilly areas of Jammu region, was a blessing in disguise for the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Congress-PDP coalition government as well as the dealers in heating appliances. With natural calamity befalling the state, taking the toll of three dozen human lives and heavy loss to the cattle heads as well as other untold miseries brought about to the common man, with all roads remaining blocked and as a resultant acute scarcity of essential items, diverted the attention of the people at l... | |
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