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BL KAK
NEW DELHI, MARCH 6
Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, has created history of sorts, if official statistics in relation to his declared assets were any proof. He is the only member in Pakistan's Cabinet, whose assets are close to Rs 1 billion, as shown in his annual statement of assets and liabilities filed with the Election Commission of Pakistan.
According to reports from Islamabad, the assets of all other full-fledged and Deputy Ministers represent an assortment of fortunes but none of them even crossed the Rs 350 million mark. Hardly any declaration seems to be a true reflection of the actual financial position of the Cabinet members, these repo... | |
| | | | Was it an extra terrestrial event? | | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, MARCH 6
India "Fireball" mystery has deepened, with no convincing answer or finding coming from experts and specialists. Officials of Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) are confronted with two questions: Was it an extra terrestrial event? Or was it a meteor shower? The DGCA specialists are baffled over a strage ocurrence in midair in the dead of the night recently.
Pilots of at least 10 aircraft flying over India reported, at around the same time, that a "ball of fire" emerged in the sky from nowhere and blasted off immediately, leaving a blazing trail in the sky, some 40,000 feet up in the air. A British Airways pilot flying his aircraft over Ind... | |
| | | | Crafty Mulayam Yadav playing politics | | Lok Sabha Speaker being groomed for topmost slot | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, MARCH 6
Somnath Chatterjee, Lok Sabha Speaker and political heavyweight among the Left leaders, seems satisfied with the idea supporting his passage into the Rashtrapati Bhavan as the next President of India. And even as the idea has originated from the controversial Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Mulayam Singh Yadav, Chatterjee has no plans to go against it.
Signifcantly, several MPs have, in the past some days, sought to know Somnath Chatterjee's reaction to the proposal floated by the Samajwadi Party (SP) in his support. Samajwadi Party is led by Mulayam Singh Yadav. It is also signifcant that at a time when Mulayam Yada... | |
| | | | Paswan’s visit today | | | |
JAMMU, March 06
The Union Minister for Steel, Chemicals and Fertilizers, Sh. Ram Vilas Paswan is arriving Jammu tomorrow. Soon after his arrival , the Minister will inaugurate a National Seminar on Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar at Rajender Singh Auditorium, Jammu University at 10. A. M.
The Union Minister is likely to address a press conference there. Sh. Paswan will return to New Delhi tomorrow afternoon.
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| | | | Indo-Pak counter-terrorism panel holds maiden meet | | | |
ISLAMABAD, MAR 6
The India-Pakistan Joint Mechanism on Terrorism today held its first meeting here with New Delhi focusing on the involvement of Pakistan-based elements in incidents of terrorism on its soil, including the Mumbai blasts.
A three-member Indian delegation headed by K C Singh, Additional Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry, held talks with the team led by Tariq Usman Haider of the Pakistan Foreign Office.
The JMT consisted of officials from Foreign Offices, Home and intelligence services of both the countries.
This is the maiden meeting of the counter-terrorism panel since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf decided on settin... | |
| | | | EU report on J&K disfavours plebiscite | | | |
LONDON, MAR 6
A European Union report on Jammu and Kashmir has disfavoured any plebiscite in the state, saying it would be "meaningless" unless Pakistan withdraws all its troops from the parts under it, corrects the demographic changes and ensures return of territory under China.
The report, to be discussed by the EU's Foreign Affairs Committee on March 21, notes that over last 58 years, there have been large scale population changes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) with people from outside settling in unlike the the Indian side where such settlements are prohibited.
An amendment recognising this situation is among 16 accepted from among 250 moved in the report prepared by prominent... | |
| | | | CONG retains MAYOR; NC gets DEPUTY MAYOR | | | |
JAMMU, March 6
In the absence of any cross voting the unwritten alliance between the Congress and the National conference showed its first results when the former bagged Mayors post and the latter that of the deputy mayor in the Jammu Municipality corporation elections, the results of which were declared here today.
In the final tally, Congress candidate Narinder Singh defected his rival candidate of the BJP with a margin of seven votes while Dharamvir Singh Jamwal of the National conference surprised his rival candidate Neerja Khajuria by defeting her with a margin of 17 votes.
The results, however, exhibited better management on the part of the National conference than the c... | |
| | | | Mangat Ram, newly elected Mayor, corporators call on Azad | | | |
Jammu, Mar 6
Newly elected Mayor Jammu Municipal Corporation Narinder Singh immediately after winning the election for the post of Mayor Jammu Municipal Corporation along with all Corporators of Congress called on Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here today.
All the corporators expressed confidence in the newly elected Mayor, who was profusely garlanded by them.
The Chief Minister while speaking to corporators hoped that the newly elected Mayor will play an important role in developing Jammu as a mega-city and waste not even a single second while developing all nooks and corners of the city.
Minister for Health and Medical Education Mangat Ram Sharma and legislators Raman Bhalla, ... | |
| | | | Raju is Jammu’s Mayor, Jamwal his deputy | | | |
Jammu, Mar 6
Taking advantage of the tacit understanding with National Conference, the Congress today romped hope victorious with the prized post of Mayor in its bag, while National Conference candidate Dharamweer Jamwal won the Deputy Mayor’s post, in the elections to Jammu Municipality held today.
While the heat and dust associated with the past municipal elections was missing, in a tight contest Congress candidate Narinder Singh ‘Raju’ defeated his nearest Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Kavinder Gupta by seven votes. Singh bagged 39 votes while Gupta managed to secure only 32 votes.
Amidst slogan shouting in favour of NC-Congress combine, National Congress candidate Dharamveer J... | |
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