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Statments likely to create 'friction' among ruling allies 'Unhappy' Congress workers: 3/14/2010 11:36:31 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Mar 14: The NC-Congress coalition in the state may appear to be stable and smooth outwardly but the grudges nourished by some disgruntled COngress leaders over a host of issues have started surfacing against the ruling NC in the shape of statements that is bound to create some 'friction' at various levels. In what can be seen as a statement laden with levels of discomfiture of some Congress leaders with NC is the one veteran Gujjar leader Choudhary Bashir Ahmad Naz has given today at Mandi in Poonch district.Naz, a former MLC and at present Vice Chairman Gujjar Bakarwal Advisory Board, (Mos) has alleged that UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was not happy the way ruling dispensation has been 'giving raw deal' to the Congress workers and cadres at different places. "Sonia Gandhi has conveyed to some leaders that she cannot see Congress workers being pushed to wall or getting sidelined.........she is even stated to have conveyed that if such approach continued, Congress would consider pulling out of coalition", Bashir Ahmad Naz said this today while addressin...   READ MORE

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Farooq ushers Cabinet out of austerity 3/14/2010 11:36:02 PM ABID SHAH EARLY TIMES REPORT NEW DELHI, Mar 14: Union Minister for Non-Conventional Energy Farooq Abdullah is being credited with helping in signaling an end to nearly six-month-long Finance Ministry-led austerity drive that curtailed expenses on travel and stay of even Cabinet Ministers while being on domestic as well as foreign visits. Now this is going to be over with the end of this month. A prominent newspaper here reported today the end of the austerity drive even as Abdullah is on a tour abroad. Yet since the beginning of September last year a strict control on expenses by Central Minister has been on which Abdullah opposed since the beginning by saying that he was "old and tall ...   READ MORE   CRPF jawan killed, 5 Injured in grenade attack 3/14/2010 11:35:44 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Mar 14: In the third strike in the city within a week, militants today attacked a CRPF patrol near a police station in downtown Srinagar, killing a jawan and injuring five others. Unidentified militants hurled a grenade at a group of CRPF personnel at Pather Masjid near Maharaj Gunj Police Station around 3.15 PM, injuring six jawans, official sources said. One of them identified as Constable Mohan Lal, who suffered multiple splinter injuries, later succumbed in a hospital, they said. The injured were identified as Sub-Inspector PJ Raman and constables Mohammad Hashim Ali, Mani Kundan, Gopak Naikar and P Subash, the sources said. A manhunt has been launched...   READ MORE   Struggle for Nagrota constituency: Political Advisor Rana versus Ajatshatru 3/14/2010 11:35:30 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 14: Party politics within the National Conference is assuming alarming proportions, not for the people of Jammu province who are by and large opposed to this Kashmir-based party, but for the party itself that has been trying to capture the political space in the prestigious Nagrota assembly constituency from the BJP since 2002, when its candidate Ajatshatru Singh lost the election by a paltry 60 odd votes. The BJP had won this seat not only in 2002, but also retained it in 2008 as well. What has given an interesting twist to the party politics within the National Conference in the Nagrota constituency is the frequent forays into this constituency of t...   READ MORE   RR jawan commits ‘suicide’ 3/14/2010 11:34:41 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 14: A 26-year-old jawan of 11 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) today allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself dead with his service rifle at Mughal Maidan in Kishtwar. Sepoy Goverdhan Ram was on guard duty at Mughal Maidan at about 2.10 pm when he allegedly pointed his service rifle towards his head and pressed the trigger, shooting himself dead, police sources said. He was killed on the spot, the sources added. A suicide note was found from his possession which was being examined. Sources said initial indicators suggested that he took the extreme step due to some domestic problems. He belonged to Jodhpur in Rajasthan and was in service for the past six years...   READ MORE

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