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| PM turns to Azad as opposition to Women's Bill mounts | | | |
ABID SHAH
EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, Mar 8: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad has turned out to be one of the main trouble shooters from Congress' side as the party's plan to get the Women's reservation bill through the Rajya Sabha received a rude jolt here today.
Soon after the Government fumbled and could not get the nod of the members in the Upper House for the Women's Bill to coincide and, thus, mark the 100th International Women's Day being observed the world over today, Azad was called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for consultations.
Though other Ministers like Pranab Mukherjee, Pawan Kumar Bansal and Salman Khurshid too have been consulted by Prime Minister and the Finance Minister had a separate closed door meeting with Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in the wake of the trouble faced by Women's Bill, Azad's talks with Prime Minister assume significance since the Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal announced the withdrawal of their support from the UPA today, asking for caste and community based quota in... | |
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| Oil dealers, union leaders run CAPD as Akhoon, Samoon reply AQs | | Police digs multi-Crore ration scam; heads to roll in CAPD, Revenue departments | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Mar 8: That the infamous Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department (CAPD) in Kashmir valley is completely run by a mafia, having ration dealers and trade union leaders hand-in-glove with officials of CAPD and Revenue departments, has become clear as Srinagar Police have seized at least five kersone oil tankers and arrested their drivers and owners while swindling huge quantities of kerosene oil in black-market. Men of extremely high political and bureaucratic clout have been found directly involved in the multi-Crore ration scandal even as Minister, Qamar Ali Akhoon, and Commissioner-Secretary, Asgar Samoon, have been appreciat... | |
| | | | 20 per cent ultras without guns in J-K, claims IGP | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 8: Terming a new "winter strategy" as the success mantra of police, IGP, Jammu zone, Dr Ashok Gupta today said it paid well in terms of countering infiltration and terrorism.
"The new strategy reaped in good dividends which is evident from the fact that 20 per cent of the militants active in the state are without guns," he told a press conference.
Dr Gupta claimed that because of this strategy, 17 militants, including 10 top commanders of different outfits, had been killed in 2010 so far.
"At least 20 per cent militants are without guns, so imagine a journalist without a pen. Our strategy will be to see that they don't get weapons from acro... | |
| | | | Vaishnodevi shrine not on terror radar | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 8: Even as the central minister of state for home, Mullappally Ramachandran told the parliament on March 2 last that the holy cave shrine of Vaishno Devi was on terror radar, IGP, Jammu zone, Dr
Ashok Gupta today sought to "play down" such reports, ruling out "any recent specific inputs" in this regard.
In a written reply in the parliament, Ramachandran had stated that the world famous Vaishno Devi shrine was one of the targets on the radar of terrorists.
The minister also said that central security agencies had furnished inputs based on intelligence inputs to that effect. He, however, had asserted that it was not in public interest to discl... | |
| | | | Police findings similar to ET Report that shop was put afire for insurance claim | | Vijaypur shop fire incident | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 8: As the Samba police today came out with their findings that the Chhamb Cloth House in the main Vijaypur market was set ablaze on February 25 last for the whopping Rs 70 lakh insurance claim, these matched word for word with the March 02 Early Times Report -- Circumstantial evidence suggests there was something rather "fishy".
The shop owner Krishan Lal Choudhary was today arrested by police and booked under sections 436, 435, 304, 109 and 193 (ii) of RPC, according to SSP, Samba, Raghubir Singh.
In the devastating fire, that had reduced the shop to ashes, Krishan's son-in-law Bhupinder Singh and the latter's cousin Pawan Kumar Choudhary were bur... | |
| | | | Employees begin 5 days strike today | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 8: With the state government's eleventh hour bid to avert a employees strike failing, the state machinery is all set to come to a halt from Tuesday for five days as the lakhs of employees would go on strike across the State tomorrow.
The Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), a conglomerate of several government employees' unions, turned down the request by the administration on Monday to withdraw the strike call.
The employees are demanding the release of arrears accruing to them from the implementation of the 6th Pay Commission recommendations, and enhancing the retirement age by two years, apart from issues like dearness allowance and regularizatio... | |
| | | | Not only the opposition but Congress too against fresh taxes in J&K | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 8: The state unit of the Congress is opposed to any plan of the Government to impose additional taxes in the budget proposals that are to be presented in the state legislature on March 12. Senior Congress functionaries today said that the Finance Minister, A.R. Rather, should discuss the issue of imposing fresh taxes with the Congress with which the National Conference shares power in Jammu and Kashmir.
These functionaries said that before levying fresh taxes the issue should be discussed in the cabinet and in the previous meeting of the cabinet there was no mention about the plan of imposing additional taxes.Number of congress ministers confirmed that ... | |
| | | | Autonomy Issue: Jammu Congress leaders in precarious situation | | | |
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 8: It appears that the Union Government has finally made up its mind to accept the autonomy demand being put forth by its coalition partner, National Conference, and implement the Justice Saghir Ahmed report on the Centre-State relations. Justice Saghir Ahmed report has recommended autonomy for J&K ignoring serious objections of several Jammu and Ladakh-based representatives, who were also members of the working group, which was headed by Justice Saghir Ahmed.
Reports from New Delhi and the reference to the Justice Saghir Ahmed report in the Parliament on last Friday as well as sources close to the state government, including Law and Parliamen... | |
| | | | Supreme Court asks centre to deport 22 Pakistanis | | | |
Agencies
New delhi, Mar 8: Observing that prisoners from Pakistan who had out-served their sentence in Jammu and Kashmir should be deported, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Government of India to pass appropriate orders under the Foreigners Act in respect of 22 in two months.
A Bench, comprising Justice JJ Mr. Markandey Katju and Justice R.M. Lodha, made it clear to the government that the Centre must grant the prayer of some of the prisoners for deportation as they had served their sentence and there was no case pending against them.
A petition was filed in 2005 for the release of 124 detainees who were detained under the Public Safety Act in the state for over 10 years ... | |
| | | | Enemy Agent Ordinance Bill defeated | | | |
JAMMU: Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Sagar today said that the Government would bring necessary amendments in the Enemy Agent Ordinance which was enacted some decades ago. The Minister was speaking on a private members Bill moved by Murtaza Khan, on behalf of Nizamu-ud-din Khatana. The Bill was rejected by voice vote.
Sagar assured the House that official Bill would be introduced in the House shortly.
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| | | | Lawyers suspend work | | | |
JAMMU: Bar Association Jammu (BAJ) today suspended work at High Court and Subordinate Courts to express resentment over "murderous" attack on an advocate and his family members who were protesting against miscreants for encroaching the public lane.
In an emergent meeting of BAJ held under the chairmanship of its president senior Advocate Sunil Sethi in which the members of the BAR condemned the role of the police and unanimously decided to suspend the routine work for today at High Court and Subordinate Courts at Janipur Complex.
The meeting pointed out that a group of miscreants made a murderous attempt on Advocate Amit Gupta and his family members who are protesting against miscr... | |
| | | | Hideout bused | | | |
JAMMU: Security forces busted a militant hideout in Gandoh forests of Doda today and recovered from there a cache of arms and ammunition. Police sources said while making searches in Min Nullah area of Gandoh forests, security forces came across a militant hideout. Its search led them to the recovery of four country-made rifles, one kg explosive powder, one improvised explosive device (IED), 15 SLR rounds, 14 INSAS Rifle rounds, 4 AK rifle rounds and seven detonators.
The hideout was later destroyed by the troops, the sources added.
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| | | | Sugar, pulses prices dip in most markets: Govt | | | |
New Delhi: The government today said the prices of sugar and pulses have declined, while rates of other essential items like wheat and edible oils have remained steady during the week ending March 3 in most parts of the country.
"Sugar prices have declined in Delhi, Jammu, Dehradun, Mumbai, Ah-medabad, Raipur, Jaipur, Kolkata, Bhubaneshwar and Chennai," an official statement said today.
Among pulses, the prices of tur dal dipped in cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, and Hyderabad, while gram, urad and masoor dal remained steady in a few cities, it said.
Similarly, the prices of wheat, edible oil, vanaspati and vegetables such as potato and onion were st... | |
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