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VoA: Govt seeks Rs 9503 Cr for five months 3/3/2009 11:52:51 PM Early Times Report Jammu, March 3: A day after Model Code of Conduct came into effect with announcement of Lak Sabha elections, barring governments from offering any sops, the Jammu and Kashmir Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather presented in the Legislative Assembly a Rs 9503 Crore Vote on Account (VoA) for five months. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and almost all members of the treasury bench were present in the House when Finance Minister read out his VoA speech. However, the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party top brass including Mehbooba Mufti, Mufti Sayeed and Muzaffar Hussain Baig were absent. The Finance Minister also presented revised estimates for 2008-09 estimated at Rs. 19,077 crore against the budget estimates of Rs. 18,443 crore. . Rather said that out of the total sum of Rs. 9,503 crore, Rs. 6,153 crore comprise non-plan expenditure; Rs. 2,100 crore state plan expenditure, Rs. 750 crore under Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Plan and Rs. 500 crore as expenditure under Centrally sponsored schemes. Deliberating on the revised estimates for the current financ...   READ MORE

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Students take blessings, last minute revision as board exams begin 42,853 appearing for 12th exams at 434 centers 3/3/2009 11:52:27 PM MUNISH GUPTA Jammu , March 3: “Do your paper well; do not leave even a single question unsolved. Revise the answers thoroughly and do it timely. All the best,” these were the words of Meenakshi Gupta to her daughter Pallavi, a Class 12th student, outside the examination centre at Govt Girls Higher Secondary School Rehari as the examinations of the 12th standard for J&K Board of School Education begins today. As per reports about 42,853 students are appearing in the examination for which 434 centers have been established across Jammu Province. Chairman J&K Board of School Education, Prof. Deshbandu Sharma while talking to Early Times said that the board has made very strict arrangeme...   READ MORE   CM, separatists, cricketers react 3/3/2009 11:51:58 PM AMANDEEP SINGH Jammu, March 3: As terrorist attack on the cricketers had worldwide reactions and concerns, the politicians, separatists and cricketers in Jammu and Kashmir have come with strongest terms calling for separating sports from politics. Chief Minister Mr. Omar Abdullah today called for separating sports from politics even as he wanted Pakistan to see reason and correct the damage caused to it by the forces it had promoted and protected at one point in time. “Sports and politics have to be separated and I do not think any cause should allow sportspersons to be targeted”, Mr. Abdullah said while talking with media persons here this afternoon on the Lahore incident in whi...   READ MORE   First MCC Violation? 3/3/2009 11:51:39 PM Early Times Report Jammu, March 3: The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) is in force since Monday afternoon when Election Commission of India announced Lok Sabha poll schedule and Jammu and Kashmir Government has issued a circular for strict adherence but there are apparent aberrations. While many departments in the state government had prepared a long list of fresh postings and transfers but barring one they put it all off till the elections were over. The Health Department has, however, rushed in with transfers of around a dozen and half specialist doctors and some deputy directors a day after MCC came into force. Early Times has confirmed that orders of these transfers were issued T...   READ MORE   JMC Mayoral polls on March 5 3/3/2009 11:51:19 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, March 03- According to Joint Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Jammu, the election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor shall be held at Assembly Hall of Jammu Municipal Corporation, Town Hall Jammu on 05th of March 2009. In pursuance of section 36 of J&K Municipal Corporation Act, 2000, read with Regulation 3 of the Jammu Municipal Corporation (Procedure and Conduct of Business) Regulation 2005, the meeting of the corporation will be held for the same at the said venue. ...   READ MORE   Assembly to have Dy Speaker on March 5 3/3/2009 11:50:36 PM Early Times Report JAMMU MARCH 3: The Speaker, Mr. Mohammad Akbar Lone has fixed March 5,2009 the date for the election of the Deputy Speaker. According to a bulletin issued by the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Secretariat, all members intending to give motion in terms of Rule 10(2) of Rules of Procedure and conduct of Business in the Legislative Assembly may give notice in writing to Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly upto 12 Noon on March 4, 2009. ...   READ MORE   Coalition will never have CMP, Omar takes sarcasm to confirm 3/3/2009 11:50:07 PM Early Times Report Jammu, March 3: Confirming that the Coalition Government of the National Conference and the Congress will never have a Common Minimum Programme (CMP) for governance, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah put it sarcastically –we want to do maximum and not the minimum. Replying to the discussion on motion of thanks on the Governor’s address in the Legislative Council, Omar took the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party to task for questioning absence of CMP. He said that element of faith and trust between NC and the Congress was enough run the government smoothly. Omar reminded them that when they were in power they were only concerned with completing their three ye...   READ MORE   Remark on Azad triggers uproar in LC 3/3/2009 11:49:47 PM Early Times Report Jammu, March 3: Uproarious scenes were witnessed in Jammu and Kashmir legislative council today with several members of the ruling National Conference and Congress protesting a remark made by a PDP legislator against former Chief Minster Ghulam Nabi Azad. When the House met for a second session, PDP legislator Murtaza Ahmed Khan alleged that "Azad left the state after causing a divide between its two regions during the Amarnath land row last year". However, the members of the ruling parties objected to his allegation saying such remarks should not be made against a person who is not present in the House. The Minister for Health Shyam Lal Sharma (Congress) demand...   READ MORE   The terror game goes on Lankan Cricket Team Attacked in Lahore 3/3/2009 11:49:24 PM 6 Players, Umpire Injured; World Concerned Lahore, March 3: Terror struck cricket on Tuesday when the Sri Lankan cricket team was ambushed by a gang of highly trained terrorists in Lahore. Six players and an umpire were injured in the incident. The Sri Lankan team, in Lahore to play in the second test, were on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, early today, when the incident happened. The players were air-lifted from the Gaddafi Stadium to the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore and now are on their way to Abu Dhabi from there they would proceed to Colombo. The Sri Lankan High Commission while confirming the evacuation also, officially, revealed the names of the players w...   READ MORE   Rather promises ‘vision document’ in full budget 3/3/2009 11:48:32 PM Early Times Report Jammu, March 3: Promising the full budget to come up in the month of July or August as a ‘vision document’, the Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather justified the presentation of Vote on Account. However, he said that the Vote on Account sets an agenda for the Omar Abdullah government. Rather said that in a full-fledged budget the Government would have made important announcements and come out welfare measures which, it could not do in view of the enforcement of Model Code of Conduct. He said J&K was not the only state to have presented Vote on Account as it was also done by various other states and even the Union Government in view of the forthcoming Lok Sabha elect...   READ MORE   Entire opposition unites on pay revision Issue, walks out 3/3/2009 11:47:47 PM Early Times Report Jammu, March 3: It was an occasion of rare unity between the ‘poles apart’ Opposition, as the members of Peoples Democratic Party and the Bhartiya Janta Party joined the issue pay revision of employees much to the discomfort of government before staging walkout from the Legislative Assembly. The issue rocked the House when the Finance Minister AR Rather failed to pacify agitating members from the opposition benches who were seeking state governments response on the issue of paying arrears, absorbing adhoc and contractual employees, paying more wages to daily wagers and treating employees of PSU’s at par with the state government employees after implementing the recom...   READ MORE

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