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| Fighting price rise | | PM calls for temporary ban on export of essential items | | | New Delhi Feb 6
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called for a temporary ban on the export of essential commodities to fight rising prices, and urged state governments to take every step possible to ensure the poor were not burdened further.
"We have to moderate inflationary expectations," the prime minister said in his inaugural address at a conference of chief ministers here, convened specifically on the issue of tackling rising prices, especially of essential commodities.
"We must ban export of these items," the prime minister said, while outlining the steps taken by his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government over the past several months, such as additional allocation of grain for distribution through fair price shops. At the same time, he also urged state governments to invoke their respective Essential Commodities Maintenance Act to prevent hoarding and take strict action against those creating artificial scarcity and fanning inflationary expectations.
The Prime Minister said chief ministers must also remove all existing curbs on the processing of imported raw su... | |
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| Autopsy shows Nishat boy was targeted from behind | | Funeral conducted amid pro-Azadi, anti-India slogans | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Feb 6: Post mortem of Zahid Farooq Shah today revealed that the 16-year-old student of Brain locality of Nishat had been fired upon from behind by the armed forces whose identification has been assigned to different Police and intelligence agencies in addition to two formal inquiries being conducted by Police and Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir. Meanwhile, on sixth consecutive day of near-total shutdown in Valley and undeclared curfew in half of the capital city, funeral rites of the young student were conducted today at Nishat amid pro-Azadi and anti-India slogans by the gathering.
Informed sources revealed to Early Times that a team of doctors from Gov... | |
| | | | Omar asks Centre for more food grains allocation | | | |
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 06 – Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mr. Omar Abdullah Saturday highlighted the dependence of common man on the availability of essential commodities at affordable prices and called for required steps to deal with price hike situation effectively. “Indeed the common man’s life is critically dependent on the availability of essential commodities and we need to be in the state of readiness to manage the availability and control the prices”, he stressed.
Participating in the deliberations of Chief Ministers Conference on prices of essential commodities, here, Mr. Omar observed “we had begun to overlook this aspect for the unprecedented increase in food production, fav... | |
| | | | Kashmir in flames: Act before it is too late | | | |
RUSTAM
JAMMU, Feb 6: Kashmir is once again in flames. The enemies of peace are doing everything to ensure disrupt peace. Instead of dousing fire in the Valley, almost all those who proudly term themselves as Kashmiri leaders, “mainstream” and separatists included, are exploiting the prevailing anarchical situation there to further their own respective agendas overlooking the agony of the common people caused due to the shutdowns and bloodshed. National Conference president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah perhaps is the only Kashmir-based leader who has taken a somewhat different stand and he appears to be an odd man.
The remaining Kashmiri leaders, whether “mainstream” o... | |
| | | | Muzaffarabad Conference aimed at forcing Delhi resolve Kashmir issue | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, February 6:-Amazingly when Delhi announced its willingness to reopen the channels of dialogue with Islamabad through a meeting between the two foreign secretaries, militant groups, operating in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, issued open threats saying that Jehad will continue till Kashmir was not liberated from the Indian control. Equally interesting is the way the organisers of the conference on Kashmir, held on Thursday in Muzaffarabad in connection with the Kashmir Solidarity Day, were allowed to use the platform for fulminating against India and that too at a time when Delhi had, after over one year, demonstrated flexibility by resuming talks with the Pakista... | |
| | | | Friday tigers brag as India and Pak gear up to talk | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, FEB 6: Wild reactions from militant sections from across the borders since yesterday over Indian move to resume dialogue with Pakistan at Foreign Secretaries level proves that Islamabad though keen for talks has opted to flaunt adverse opinion vis-à-vis Indian stand on Kashmir by giving a long rope to militant organisations like Jamat-ud-Dawah and its leader Hafiz Saeed.
Simultaneous rallies taken out by JUD through the central vista of capital cities of Islamabad and Lahore after Friday prayers challenged among other things the efficacy of official civilian set ups of Pakistan.
Neither the Federal nor State Government appears to be in control of the internal situa... | |
| | | | Use of Pak SIM: Sr KAS officer's brother "evades" questioning | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 06:
The SIM card of a Pakistani mobile company was allegedly seized by security agencies from the brother of a senior KAS officer at Chakan Da Bagh checking point in Poonch over a month back, but police are yet to make any headway in the case.
Though Deputy Commissioner Kuldip Khajuria and SSP, Poonch, Manmohan Singh confirmed that a cross-border passenger had walked into the Indian territory with a Pakistani SIM after a stay at his uncle's house in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK),
both expressed their ignorance about his relation with a senior KAS officer.
Official sources, however, said the man, who had walked into Poonch from Chakan Da Bagh with a Pak... | |
| | | | Business rivalry led to double murder at Narwal Mandi | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 06:
A business rivalry between transporters-cum-commission agents was the reason behind the double murder at the Narwal Fruit Mandi here on Friday evening.
Fatal stab wounds were inflicted on Gurnam Singh alias Manga of Sainik Colony and his nephew Rajinder Singh of Karan Bagh over the issue of loading a truck in the transport yard managed by the accused.
While Gurnam had died on the spot, Rajinder succumbed to his injuries on way to CMC, Ludhiana, late Friday evening.
Police sources said there were two yards at the fruit market. While in one, Gurnam and Rajinder were commission agents, in the other, the commission was being charged by the accused, the so... | |
| | | | Panic grips winter capital after "suspects" seen at Janipura | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 06:
Panic gripped the winter capital city after a jail cop alerted police that he had noticed the movement of two suspected armed militants at Janipura.
Manjit Singh, a jail cop who lives at Upper Paloura near Janipura, spotted two suspected militants with long beards moving towards Gujjar Colony, Janipura, at about 5.30 am. They were said to be in police uniform and carried rucksacks. While watching their activities from some distance, Manjit called up a senior police officer and informed him of the suspicious movement, police sources said.
Soon thereafter, police teams of special operation group and para-military troops, led by SP city, Randhir S... | |
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