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Gole Market traders protest as DGP, IGP (T) turn blind eye to tyranny unleashed by Traffic Police MLA Raman Bhalla, Corporators join protest; administration looks other way 2/29/2008 11:37:30 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Feb 29 As top echelons of Police including the Director General and Inspector General (Traffic) turned a blind eye to the reign of autocratic regime unleashed by the Traffic Police, the traders’ fraternity of Gole Market Gandhi Nagar today pulled down their shutters and lodged a protest demonstration. Gandhi Nagar MLA Raman Bhalla and many local corporators also joined the protest against the Traffic Police. The traffic movement to and fro Gole Market, adjoining Swarn Theater was blocked this evening as traders came down on roads protesting highhandedness of the Traffic Police. The Traffic Police has banned parking in the well defined parking zone of Gole Market area adjoining Swarn Theater as an act of vengeance. Vehicles are not being allowed to park in around 200 meters area around Monika Super Market where a heavy contingent of Traffic Police cops and executive police has been deployed along with recovery vans. The parking zone which has been existing there for many decades has been thrown out of bounds for all types of vehicles after Early Times...   READ MORE

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14-yr-old hit by former J-K CM’s Gypsy near PM house 2/29/2008 11:33:05 PM New Delhi | Feb 29 A 14-year-old boy was injured after being hit by a jeep of a former chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir, near the Prime Minister’s house in Chanakyapuri on Thursday afternoon. The victim, identified as Anshi, was rushed to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital by the Gypsy driver. The boy, who sells groundnuts by the roadside, has fractured both his legs. The police was informed by a passerby, but no case has been registered by the victim's family. The boy was crossing the road opposite Air Force station when the accident took place. Said Anshi: "I was crossing the road when a speeding Gypsy hit me. I fell on the road and both my legs got fractured." He also has injury marks on his...   READ MORE   FM does the Santa act; presents please-all Budget 2/29/2008 11:31:45 PM New Delhi | Feb 29 It was Santa Chidambaram all the way – a budget that would please the people and perhaps 10 Janpath. To even the most ignorant it would be obvious that this was an election year budget. From the expected giant debt waiver for agricultural loans to increased allocation for National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme to the rather generous increase in the minimum tax slab for individuals, the FM has tried to please all kinds of vote constituencies. He is perhaps also hoping that strong economic growth would keep revenue buoyancy stable to help him pay for all that he has dished out. Also announced are absolute increases for programmes for women, children, and minorities...   READ MORE   Cheaper food on breakfast table 2/29/2008 11:31:03 PM New Delhi | Feb 29 The breakfast food like corn flakes, sharbat, coffee and tea pre-mixes and packaged tender coconut will cost less as the Budget for 2008-09 has either exempted or reduced excise duties on a number of processed food items. Finance Minister P Chidambaram has totally exempted from excise duty packaged tender coconut water, paws, puffed rice, milk containing edible nuts and tea and coffee pre-mixes. The duty has been halved to eight per cent on muesli, corn flakes and sharbat. It has been done so even on the packaging material like open top sanitary (OTS) cans, aseptic packaging paper and aseptic bags. Total exemption has also been given on specified refrigeration equipme...   READ MORE

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