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| Costlier petrol, diesel may hit poor hard as Pranab sings peans of growth in Budget 2010-11 | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, FEB 26: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukhejee’s Budget for 2010-11 points to India’s growing fiscal might. His idea behind today’s Budget proposals brought before the Lok Sabha is winning back a higher and robust growth rate.
This had once touched nine percent a year mark of growth in Gross Domestic Product or GDP. And, thus, Finance Minister has tried to fill the air with same or even greater expectations among diverse sections of the society even as many of them grapple with spiraling prices without a corresponding rise in their incomes.
The Budget Estimates 2010-11 provides for a total expenditure of Rs. 11,08,749 crore. Out of this, Rs 3,73,092 crore is plan expenditure and Rs.7,35,657 crore is non-plan expenditure. The plan expenditure has increased by 15 percent while there is only 6 percent increase in non-plan expenditure.
The total receipt are estimate Rs.7,46,651 crore.
The Fiscal deficit is pegged at 5.5 percent. In the Medium Term Fiscal Policy Statement being presented along with other Budget documents in the House today, the ... | |
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| Ministers visit burning Pattan but no interface with people | | Inflammatory speeches made for Police audience amid ‘curfew’ in 30 villages | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Feb 26: Three of the Cabinet Ministers and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s Advisor, Mubarak Gul, today visited a spot in the disturbed Pattan area but they returned to the Capital city without arranging any interaction with representatives of the two warring sects. Notwithstanding the visit of senior government functionaries, at least two residential houses were ransacked and set on fire and speakers made inflammatory speeches at a mosque amid curfew in nearly 30 villages in Pattan-Magam belt.
On Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s direction, Minister of Rural Development, Ali Mohammad Sagar, Minister of Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir, Minister of Animal ... | |
| | | | Man held with cash at Srinagar Airport | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 26:
A man was today held by sleuths of Income Tax (IT) department at Srinagar Airport with a cash of over Rs 13 lakh.
Official sources said the man was getting ready to board a Delhi-bound flight when IT sleuths laid their hands on him.
He was later handed over to local police.
Though his identity could not be known, sources said he was a businessman from Amritsar in Punjab.
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| | | | Bakra gang's hitman arrested | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 26:
Mayur Raina alias Jyoti Raina, the hitman of Bakra gang, was today arrested by Pucca Danga police.
He was evading arrest for the past about two years after his alleged involvement in an attempt to murder case, according to police sources.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team in civvies laid a trap and nabbed the absconding criminal, who was wanted in various cases, the sources added.
He hails from Chougan Slathia. As a sharp-edged weapon was recovered from him, a fresh case under 4/25 of Arms Act was registered against him.
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| | | | Jammu trucker killed in road mishap near Delhi | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 26: A Jammu trucker was killed in a road accident on the Jammu-Jaipur National Highway in the wee hours of Friday morning.
Police sources said Praveen Singh Saini (22) of Sarora near Akalpur here, was killed when the truck he was driving collided head-on with a truck-trolley at Tarureda, about 70 km ahead of Delhi on the Jaipura Road, at about 3 am.He was crushed to death, sources said, quoting the Tarureda police.
Another Jammu youth, who was conductor, survived by jumping out of the truck before the two vehicles collided, the sources added.
Praveen's father Anchal Singh Saini, who is a farmer, was informed of the tragic incident by the Tarureda police at ... | |
| | | | Indo-Pak Talks: Belligerent and ambitious Pakistan will not reform itself | | STARK REALITY | | |
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 26: The much-hyped India-Pakistan Foreign Secretary-level talks are over. Both the countries remain where they were before the talks, which continued for 90 minutes, as against the scheduled 30 minutes long meeting, held at Hyderabad House in New Delhi.
In other words, nothing concrete emerged out of the meeting between Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir. And, it was not altogether unexpected considering the Pakistani belligerence and its territorial designs on India.
It would not be an overstatement if it is said that the talks between the two Foreign Secretaries have failed to break the... | |
| | | | Not a ‘single inch’ land for Pakistan in J&K: Gadkari | | ‘Terror and talks just cannot go together’ | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 26: Warning the Centre and State Governments against any attempt to accomplish the surrender policy proposal mooted by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said it would not allow anybody to give “a single inch of land” of Jammu and Kashmir to neighbouring country under pressure.
“The United States in particular sees Pakistan as a useful ally in Afghanistan. It is least concerned with its ally fomenting trouble on its eastern border. To give comfort to Pakistan, efforts are on to compel India to dilute its conventional position on Jammu and Kashmir,” Nitin Gadkari, BJP national president told reporters here this afterno... | |
| | | | ‘Great economist PM failed over inflation’ | | | | ET REPORT
JAMMU: Nitin Gadkari today criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his “'failure” to deal with the problem of price rise, which has increased worries of common man.
“'It is a failure of great economist Prime Minister,” Gadkari said while expressing concerns of increasing prices of essential commodities.
Lambasting Manmohan Singh-led UPA government, he said, “Everything is happening due to wrong economic policies of Congress Government.”
He said that people were suffering because the Centre had no economic policy for the country.
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| | | | Watermill owner bludgeoned to death near Tikri | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 26:
In a murder committed in the spirit of revenge, a watermill owner was bludgeoned to death by two brothers at Jungle Gali, a remote Tikri village in Trikuta Hills of Katra, Thursday night.
Prabhu Ram (29) was inside his watermill at Jungle Gali with his wife sleeping beside him when water entered their shed all of a sudden at about 8.45 pm.He immediately came out to find out the reason. While he was checking the stream that flowed through the mill, some people, who were hiding there under the cover of darkness, hit him on the head with a bludgeon.
Hearing his screams, his wife rushed out but only to find him writhing with pain in a pool of blood. He d... | |
| | | | NC puts blame on PDP, demands apology in public | | Facebook, SMS controversy | | |
Arteev Sharma
JAMMU, Feb 26: The confrontation between the two arch political rivals PDP and ruling National Conference today took a new twist with a fresh controversy, this time involving the three leaders of the Abdullah family and some ‘objectionable’ comments against their names on Cyber Space.
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It now appears that allegations and counter-allegations between two mainstream parties on the issue of stone pelting has now taken a backstage and recourse through the cyber space. The National Conference today alleged that PDP has posted three generation of Abdullah family as ‘3 Idiots’ on social networking site ‘Facebook’ and circulated it through SMS . Offended and infuriated over ... | |
| | | | Don’t waste time on Facebook: Mehbooba | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 25: Ridiculing charges of National Conference, president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti today said that the ruling party has been raking up “irrelevant” issues to divert attentions of the people from its failure.
In a statement issued here today PDP chief regretted that instead of concentrating on governance, the ruling National Conference is more concerned about hiding its misdeeds by inventing one after another issues to hoodwink the gullible masses.
She regretted that the ruling National Conference has stooped down to such a low that it has dragged its late leaders into unnecessary controversy to divert attention of the people. Duri... | |
| | | | "Punjabi Bhangra Party" mustard oil banned | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 26:
Taking cognizance of the complaint of a Gangyal-based oil mill owner, police today raided some wholesale shops at Nehru Market here and seized several cans of the unregistered
"Punjabi Bhangra Party" brand, pronouncing its sale and purchase as "illegal".
The banned brand owner Satish Aggarwal had gone underground to avoid arrest. He was booked under section 420 of RPC, 63/65 of Copyright Act and 77/78 of Trade and Merchandise Act.
The complaint against him was lodged with Gangyal police station by the owner of Gangyal-based Jammu Oil Mills which had the registered brand name of "Bhangra".
In the complaint, he also alleged that one S K Enterprises, ... | |
| | | | 3-yr-old falls into water tank, dies | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 26:
A three-year-old boy died after he fell into an underground water tank in Link Road area of Kishtwar Thursday evening.
Police sources said Fayaz Ahmad (3) was playing with other children in his house when he fell into the water tank.
By the time, family members took him out of the tank, he had died, the sources added.
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| | | | 2,000 Kashmiri youth to join paramilitary forces | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Feb 26 It may not be enough to tackle the grave problem of unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir, which has around 300,000 jobless people, but the central government Friday announced that 2,000 youth from the state will be recruited in the central paramilitary forces.
“There was decline in violence in Jammu and Kashmir in the year 2009. We have taken a number of confidence building measures. As one more such measure, the government proposes to recruit about 2,000 youth as constables in five central paramilitary forces in the year 2010,” Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in his budget speech.
Unemployment has been listed as one of the reasons for the growth of milita... | |
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