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| Noisy scenes in LA; PDP stages walk out, Speaker reprimands Akhoon | | ‘Shortage of rations’ | | |
Arteev Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 3: The issue of "acute shortage" of rations and "poor" Public Distribution System across the State today created ruckus in the Lower House of the State Legislature with MLAs of different political parties grilling the ruling alliance for its "failure" to streamline and make distribution system more accountable across the state.
Amid pandemonium and noisy scenes, all the legislators of main Opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by party president, Mehbooba Mufti staged walk-out from the House. Besides, the Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) Qamar Ali Akhoon was also reprimanded by the Speaker, Mohammad Akbar Lone for making a "lengthy" reply over the issue.
It all happened soon after the Zero Hour when the Speaker allowed a special debate over the shortage of rations in the State after the PDP member Mansoor Hussain and BJP legislators Gharu Ram and Bharat Bhushan moved a half an hour discussion notice.
Though the discussion began at 11:25 a.m was scheduled for half an hour, it continued till 12... | |
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| Cop teases B.Ed student, evades arrest | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 3: A Headconstable in wireless wing of police, who illegally drove his Bolero jeep as a taxi on the Jammu-Rajouri-Poonch road, teased a B.Ed. student at Dalera in Poonch Tuesday evening.
Though the girl, who travelled in his Bolero, resisted his advances, but when he did not desist from teasing her, she jumped out of the moving vehicle as a result of which she got her leg fractured. The Headconstable -- Kuldip Raj -- was evading arrest. He originally hailed from Ward No 16 in Poonch, but had settled in Rajouri for the past some time. At present, he was posted in Rajouri.
He owned a Bolero jeep, which he had been using as a taxi unauthorisedly.
The girl wa... | |
| | | | Advani gets trapped in web created by his website | | | |
ABID SHAH
EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, Mar 3: The Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani has, indeed, been let down because of his own website. His today's move in the Lok Sabha to pin down the Government on US angle to Indo-Pak talks was already known because of his aggressive blogging through his website. And, thus, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could easily take on his BJP rival today in the House.
It was Advani who had earlier written on his website that the February 25 Foreign Secretaries level talks between India and Pakistan took place because of the "US nudge". He had reflected more on this in his website www.lkadvani.in and this was soon picked up by media. So no anticipatio... | |
| | | | Vaishno Devi Shrine on Terror Radar: MHA | | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI, MAR 03: The holy Vaishno Devi shrine in Trikuta Hills of Katra in Jammu is one of the targets on the radar of terrorists.This was informed by minister of state for home affairs, Mullappally
Ramachandran to the Rajya Sabha today.
In a written reply to a query, he said, "the central security agencies have furnished inputs based on intelligence intercepts to that effect. It is not in public interest to disclose these facts."
He said central security agencies regularly conduct security audit of all important pilgrimage centres including Tirupathi and Shirdi."The Ministry has sent advisories to the State Government and Union Territories Administration to prepare appropri... | |
| | | | Two top HM ultras surrender before DGP | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 03: Two top Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants surrendered along with arms and ammunition before director general of police (DGP) Kuldip Khuda in Doda today.
Khuda was on a tour of the mountain-locked Ramban, Kishtwar and Doda districts to review the law and order situation.
In Doda, two top HM militants surrendered before him. They were identified as Abdul Lateef Bali alias Abdu Hamza, a self-styled HM deputy divisional commander, and his deputy Sher Mohammad alias Saifullah.
The arms and ammunition laid down by them included a universal machine gun, an AK rifle, a grenade launcher, seven RPG rounds, 550 rounds of AK rifle, six magazines, 50 electronic deton... | |
| | | | Suspect picked up from Janipura | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 03:
An alleged suspect was picked up by special operation group (SOG) of police from Haiderpura in Janipura late Tuesday night.Police sources said acting on a tip-off, SOG men raided a house at Haiderpura late Tuesday night and picked up a suspect from there.Soon thereafter, he was whisked away to a safe house where his sustained interrogation was on.
Sources identified him as Feroz Ahmad, son of Habibullah of Kupwara, Kashmir. He was living at Haiderpura for the past some time.... | |
| | | | 148 kg charas, 2100 kg poppy straw seized at Lakhanpur | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 03:
Continuing with their special drive against smugglers and tax evaders, sleuths of excise department today seized 148 kilograms of charas worth crores of rupees and 2,100 kilograms of poppy straw from two trucks at Lakhanpur.
Official sources said a truck was intercepted and put to physical verification by the excise department sleuths at Lakhanpur toll post while it was on its way from Kashmir to outside the state.
During checking, the sleuths recovered some bags concealed beneath apple boxes. Search of the bags led them to the recovery of 148 kg charas and 1,500 kg poppy straw.
While the contraband and the truck were seized, the smugglers, including... | |
| | | | Research comes to stand stillstill in JU's Chemistry Deptt | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 03:
The Chemistry Department's "deteriorating" condition notwithstanding, Jammu University (JU) vice-chancellor (VC), Prof Varun Sahni and his courtiers talk of making the campus a hub of
academic activity and creating an atmosphere conducive for "quality research work".
It seems there is too much talk and not enough work being done on the campus. The JU authorities' assertions have only proved to be starry-eyed and impractical so far as these lack results.The appropriate example in this context could be that of the chemistry department which sans three major equipments -- Powder X-ray Diffractometer, Cryogenic System and Beta & Gama Ray Detectors.
While... | |
| | | | Govt targeting PDP to hide own failures: Mehbooba | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Mar 3: Continuing her tirade and criticism against the NC led coalition government the opposition leader Mehbooba Mufti today alleged that in order to hide its own failures, the Chief Minister had lately started targeting PDP for every lapse in his speeches.Mehbooba also strongly advocated withdrawal of security forces contending the number of militants had reduced drastically over the years that warranted reduction in presence of forces .
“Yeh Har Cheez Ka Ilzam PDP Par Daltey Hain……Issey Hamey Apni Takat Ka Andaza Ho Raha Hai(the government is blaming PDP for all its wrongs ….this only suggests how powerful we are and that we have capacity to do so)”, Mehboob... | |
| | | | Heated exchange of words between PDP, Sagar | | 'Missing' boy controversy | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Mar 3: The State Legislative Assembly today once again witnessed hot exchange of words between opposition PDP members and NC led coalition government , this time over the issue of a ‘missing’ boy . The nagging scenes and bickerings on the two sides continued until amidst clamour and noisy scenes PDP MLAs staged walkout in anger.
Din erupted in the House suddenly when Law Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar read out his statement about a boy named Asif , whose matter was raised by Syed Bashir Ahmad, PDP MLA from Rajpura in Kashmir, as reported to be missing from his house for some days. PDP MLA sharing concern and agony of the family of the boy sought the details from... | |
| | | | Commandant Bardi may be arrested today | | Zahid Farooq case | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 3: With his counsel hinting withdrawal of petition for anticipatory bail, stage seems all set for arrest of a BSF commandant for his alleged involvement in the murder of a Nishat youth.
According to reports, the state and counsel for the deceased youth’s relatives offered stiff resistance to a petition seeking anticipatory bail for BSF Commandant (68 BN) , R K Bardi. The commandant, according to the main accused in Zahid Farooq case, ordered him to shoot Zahid on February 5 near Nishat garden.
Ever since Lakhwinder made the statement, the deceased youth’s relatives and Co-ordination Committee Nishat have been seeking Bardi’s arrest. Bardi represented by... | |
| | | | Pakistan should honour decision on infiltration: CM | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Mar 3 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has asked Pakistan to honour its promise on not pushing infiltrators into India.
Terming infiltration a serious threat, Abdullah said it would lead to a deterioration in relationship between India and Pakistan.
"I am hoping that the verbal bilateral talks between India and Pakistan, which has recently started again should have an impact on infiltration also. And we would only demand that Pakistan even if it doesn''t listen to India, at least it pays attention to its own promises," Abdullah said.
Abdullah had recently proposed militants surrender policy for militants in Pakistan Kashmir.
Calling for a resum... | |
| | | | CM remarks on Indo-Pak relations fine, but on J&K | | STARK REALITY | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 3: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s March 2 Legislative Council remarks on Indo-Pak relations could not be questioned. He was right when he said that “smooth relations between India and Pakistan have good effect on our state and bad relations create an adverse result”.
However, one cannot completely agree with his statement that the “Indo-Pak relations have direct bearing on J&K”. The reason is simple: J&K is an integral part of India and whatever happens here have direct bearing on the national psyche.
The other reason is that it is not just J&K that suffers due to the Pakistan-sponsored terror. The entire nation has been suffering due... | |
| | | | Roshni Act likely to be amended in Jammu Kashmir | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 3 :The Roshni Act,which had been found to be carrying a number of loopholes,is likely to be amended.Official sources said that the scheme had come up for a brief discussion during the Tuesday's cabinet meeting in Jammu and the Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,has suggested to the Revenue Department to submit a report on the matter.
Sources said that the Chief Minister was informed that the Government had not succeeded in generating additional resources from the sale of the surplus land as its rates were so higher than the prospective buyers felt it difficult to clinch the deal.According to these sources experts have suggested amendment in the Roshni Act so tha... | |
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