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Omar Govt’s landmark Bill getting Cabinet nod today Public Services Guarantee Bill proposes penalties on defaulter officers 3/18/2011 12:15:55 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz JAMMU, Mar 17: A landmark legislation, that has potential of changing red-tapism and inordinate delays in basic delivery systems in Jammu and Kashmir, is all set to get Cabinet’s approval today. The historic Bill is likely to be passed in both Houses of legislature during the current session. A year after BJP-led government of Shivraj Singh Chauhan pioneered its introduction and implementation in Madhya Pradesh, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will be piloting Public Services Guarantee Bill in both Houses of Legislature next week. Highly placed government sources revealed to Early Times that the state Cabinet, which would be meeting in the morning on Friday, would consider and subsequently approve draft of the groundbreaking Bill to curb inordinate delays in the basic delivery system of public services---and resultant corruption. After Right To Information Act 2004/2009, this would be the most revolutionary legislation in Jammu and Kashmir in over a decade. While Shivraj Singh Chauhan government in Madhya Pradesh had become India’s first state to lau...   READ MORE

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Interlocutors 'report' stirs hornet's nest in Assembly BJP, PP, JSM up in arms against recommendations, stage walkout 3/18/2011 12:14:45 AM NC in favour, Congress mute, PDP in 'wait & watch' mode KUNAL SHRIVATSA JAMMU, Mar 17: Bedlam prevailed in the State Legislative Assembly today as the opposition parties having their stronghold in Jammu region including Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Jammu Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) and Jammu State Morcha (JSM) created a ruckus over the reported recommendations of the 3-member team of Interlocutors, who have allegedly proposed to the Union Government to restore pre-1953 situation besides change in nomenclature of the Chief Minister to Wazir-e-Azam and the Governor as Sadar-e-Riyasat. Soon after the Question Hour concluded, the BJP, JKNPP and JSM members started the ...   READ MORE   Interlocutors have biased policy, alleges BJP Party to launch nationwide campaign against 'report' 3/18/2011 12:14:13 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 17 : While inside the Legislative Assembly, opposition BJP created uproar over the report submitted by interlocutors for what they said some 'objectionable' recommendations, the party leadership outside the House alleged that the three-member team of Government appointed interlocutors have a ‘biased’ approach in presenting the true picture of Jammu and Kashmir to the Centre. "BJP will expose the conspiracy hatched by the interlocutors' team and their biased approach towards the people of Jammu and Ladakh regions," BJP State Chief Spokesperson Jitender Singh and National Executive member told reporters at a press conference here this afternoon. Dr Singh ...   READ MORE   Hasnain opposes repeal of AFSPA 3/18/2011 12:13:34 AM Early Times Report Srinagar , March 17 Army today said revoking Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Disturbed Areas Act (DAA) in Jammu and Kashmir would mean "compromising" its operational capabilities. "We feel that by revoking special legal provisions, which are in place here, definitely our operational capabilities will be compromised," General Officer Command (GOC) of Army's Srinagar based 15 Corps Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain told reporters at Pattan, 30 kms from Srinagar. He said Army's "line of thinking" about the revocation of AFSPA has already been conveyed many times to the government. "Army's line of thinking has already been conveyed many times by th...   READ MORE   `700 militants waiting to sneak into Valley’ 3/18/2011 12:12:58 AM Early Times Report Pattan, March 17 : The Army believes that as many as 700 militants were waiting to sneak into the Valley. "India, Kashmir and Pakistan are all at the peripheries of the problem area of Afghanistan. So if peace does not exist in Afghanistan and there is turbulence in Pakistan, obviously there will be turbulence around us," General Officer Command (GOC) of Srinagar-based 15 Corps Lt General S A Hasnain told reporters here, 30 kms from capital Srinagar. Lt Gen Hasnain was replying to a question about the impact on Kashmir after the US forces withdraw from Afghanistan. "The problem is always that of turbulence. An area that is turbulent will always send waves of turbulen...   READ MORE   `700 militants waiting to sneak into Valley’ 3/18/2011 12:01:33 AM Early Times Report Pattan, March 17 : The Army believes that as many as 700 militants were waiting to sneak into the Valley. "India, Kashmir and Pakistan are all at the peripheries of the problem area of Afghanistan. So if peace does not exist in Afghanistan and there is turbulence in Pakistan, obviously there will be turbulence around us," General Officer Command (GOC) of Srinagar-based 15 Corps Lt General S A Hasnain told reporters here, 30 kms from capital Srinagar. Lt Gen Hasnain was replying to a question about the impact on Kashmir after the US forces withdraw from Afghanistan. "The problem is always that of turbulence. An area that is turbulent will always send waves of turbulen...   READ MORE   Hasnain opposes repeal of AFSPA 3/18/2011 12:00:56 AM Early Times Report Srinagar , March 17 Army today said revoking Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Disturbed Areas Act (DAA) in Jammu and Kashmir would mean "compromising" its operational capabilities. "We feel that by revoking special legal provisions, which are in place here, definitely our operational capabilities will be compromised," General Officer Command (GOC) of Army's Srinagar based 15 Corps Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain told reporters at Pattan, 30 kms from Srinagar. He said Army's "line of thinking" about the revocation of AFSPA has already been conveyed many times to the government. "Army's line of thinking has already been conveyed many times by th...   READ MORE   Two 11th class students beaten at Nanak Ngr 3/18/2011 12:00:32 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 17: Two 11th class students of a private school were today beaten by three youth at Nanak Nagar.Police sources said Navjot Singh of Bhore Camp and Talbir Singh of Simble were going home from school when they were beaten by three youth at Nanak Nagar. The accused later took them to a house and beat them there too. The students later approached police with a complaint against the accused.The accused were identified by the victims as Goldi, Aman and Lamboo.Police had registered a case in this connection. ...   READ MORE   BJP ko gusa kyon aata hai! Can PM change nomenclature of JK’s top posts? 3/17/2011 11:59:48 PM News Analysis Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 17: The Bhartaya Janata Party (BJP) and Panthers Party (PP) MLAs today staged a walkout over New Delhi’s nominated interlocutors’ suggestion to the union government to restore the posts of Prime Minister and Sader-e-Riyasat. They warned against any compromise on the unity and integrity of the country. There is no denying the fact that the National Conference believes that autonomy was the best solution to the vexed problem. How to achieve the goal? Can it be granted by the Prime Minister and his cabinet? According to constitutional experts, the government has to go to the Parliament and amend the constitution, or re-induct the omitted ar...   READ MORE   Everything is fair in politics. 3/17/2011 11:59:28 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 17: It is said that everything is fear in love and war but everything is fair in Indian politics as well. The actions of politicians right or wrong have always a justification in this largest democracy of world and no one can challenge the same. It is truly said that nothing is permanent in the Indian politics where politicians shift loyalties within no time. A political leader who does not like to share dais with his rival groups and publicly criticises their policies and programmes for years together does not lose a moment in shifting the loyalty in case he is promised a good ministerial berth or any other prize post by ruling party or coalition. He never ...   READ MORE   Jammu & Kashmir withering away! Assembly Session 3/17/2011 11:59:05 PM MINCING NO WORDS NEHA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 17: Tehrik-e-Hurriyat says the unity and integrity of the state has to be maintained at any cost and that the entire population of the state, including more than four million non-Muslims, will have to accept the solution it has been advocating since decades. His solution is merger of the state with the theocratic and radical Pakistan. All-Party Hurriyat Conference (Mirwaiz), the ruling National Conference, the main opposition in the assembly People’s Democratic Party, the CPI-M, the CPI and several other outfits, which are operating in Kashmir, also say the same thing: Unity and integrity of the state has to be preserved at any cost a...   READ MORE   Movements in Libya-Bahrain for constitutional rights, Movement in Kashmir secessionist Wrong Comparison 3/17/2011 11:58:27 PM STARK REALITY RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 17: The dictatorial regimes in Libya and Bahrain have let loose a reign of senseless brutalities against those demanding constitutional rights. In Libya, hundreds and hundreds of protestors have been shot dead in cold blood during the past over four weeks and the regime continues to maim and butcher everyone including men, women and children, who is demanding the overthrow of the dictatorial regime and fighting for his/her civil and economic rights. The situation in Bahrain is no different. Bahrain is witnessing a movement that has been engineered by the majority Shiite community against minority dictatorial regime of the Sunni Muslim...   READ MORE   Autonomy would set the clock back:10-year old union cabinet's decision (Behind the veil) 3/17/2011 11:58:05 PM Early Times Report If the three interlocutors have recommended, in their sixth report to the central Government, restoration of greater autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir does it mean that the basic task assigned to Dileep Padgaonkar,Radha Kumar and M.M.Ansari,was to suggest which political arrangement could end violence and resolve the Kashmir issue? If this was the task the Government of India has simply wasted money and time on the exercise of appointing three interlocuters.As per the ruckus in the Assembly the interlocutors have recommended restoration of pre-1953 status to Jammu and Kashmir. It is yet to be clear whether the interlocutors have suggested to the centre to a...   READ MORE

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