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| Sonia to inaugurate Tulip Garden | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 27
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s most cherished and literally carefully cultivated project –the tulip garden in Srinagar –is all set to be formally thrown open by the Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Official sources told EARLY TIMES that the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi likely to reach Srinagar over next few days to formally throw open for public, Asia’s largest tulip garden described by the cultivators as a "flori-marvel" on the foothills of Zabarwan, overlooking the Dal Lake.
The tulip garden in Srinagar –the largest in Asia –is arguably the most cherished project of the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. Also known as Siraj Bagh, Azad has been visiting invariably twice a month there to oversee progress on the project. Chief minister, who visited the garden on March 23, said, "It would emerge as a major tourist attraction in Kashmir. The ambience and the setting of the garden would entice visitors to come here over and over again."
The tulip garden has really emerged as a major attraction in the Valley. The visitors to Kashmir can have a ... | |
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| J&K has 400 homos | | 100 in Jammu, 300 in Valley | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 27
Did you that Jammu and Kashmir has a sizeable population of the infamous third sex.
Largely considered as a taboo, both by the government and the society, homosexuality has of late hogged the limelight in the country. However, little was known about the prevalence of homosexuality in Jammu and Kashmir.
Surprisingly, homosexuality is coming out in the open in the conservative Jammu and Kashmir. A survey conducted by the J&K AIDS Control and Prevention Society revealed that there are 400 active homosexuals in Jammu and Kashmir.
Surprisingly, the Kashmir province has the highest number of homosexuals in the state. As per the survey, Jammu region has... | |
| | | | Politics this week: All versus Advani | | ‘My Country, My Life’ excerpts fuelling PDP, NC, BJP campaign | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 27
Till last week, the issues in the politically surcharged electoral landscape of Jammu and Kashmir were limited in scope and merely digging the old graves. However, the BJP leader LK Advani’s book ‘My Country, My Life’ has infused fresh blood in the state politics with Peoples Democratic Party, National Conference and BJP playing a triangular game.
Advani has written the book, got it descently released and now the publisher is making brisk sales. However, in Jammu and Kashmir, it has caused a daily round of attacks and counter attacks between three parties. Interestingly, the Congress is keeping itself away from the controversy.
While the NC and PDP ... | |
| | | | Srinagar flyover blast worked out | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 27
The Kashmir Police today claimed to have cracked the Srinagar flyover blast case with the arrest of three saboteurs.
The militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen had earlier taken the responsibility for the blast in which an innocent civilian was killed and many others were injured by arresting three out of the four militants who planted explosives on the flyover near Jehangir chowk Srinagar.
Addressing a press conference in the summer capital, the Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Ahfadul Mujtaba said that militant outfit HM had not been able to carry out any attack at Srinagar, as a result of which HM Commanders Tanveer Ahmad Zargar alias Tanna ... | |
| | | | RBI refuses to replace half cut 1000 rupee note | | ‘Offers just half to account holder’ | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 27
In a bizarre incident, perhaps the first of its kind, the Reserve Bank of India, Jammu Branch refused to replace Rs.1000 note drawn from the bank and offered only fifty per cent of it to the account holder.
Amit (name changed) today went to RBI to draw some payment and while counting the notes he found a Rs.1000 note half cut and pleaded for its replacement. He got stunt on the refusal of the cashier to replace the note.
Finding no alternative, he dared to meet one of the senior officials of the Bank and requested for replacement of the note. Surprisingly, the official concerned asked him to either accept Rs.500 against Rs.1000 note or leave the bank.... | |
| | | | Mehbooba leaves for Pakistan | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 27
Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti is leaving for the Pakistani capital Islamabad tonight to attend the Pugwash conclave on "Regional Stability".
The PDP President would be making an elaborate presentation on the "Prospects for Kashmir in Indo-Pak relations" one of the topics for the two-day conference as has been outlined in the party's Self-Rule document. The other topics to be discussed at the conference include Pakistani, Afghani, Iran relations, role of NATO and foreign troops in the area and impact of the new political developments in Pakistan
The proposed conclave would discuss problems of regional stability, initiatives that s... | |
| | | | Habitual turn coat G M Shaw throwing his hat in the electoral ring on "Azadi" plank | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Mar 27
News Analysis
With elections to the state assembly still six months ahead, political parties have started gearing up to throw their hat in the electoral ring. Whereas the main three political dispensations in the state, Congress, National Conference and PDP are eyeing power either on their own or in alliance with other major parties, some of the small political groups only want to be counted among those who also ran the race. Notwithstanding their strength and support base only nominal and if at all confined to a few selected pockets, these small political groups are making tall claims of fielding candidates in almost all the 87 assembly s... | |
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