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| Charity begins at home! Employees rubbish govt advts | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 9: Having presumably run out of all options to break the stalemate between it and the striking 4.5 lakh employees, the contentious issues now pose a threat to paralyse the government.
The situation has now gone from bad to worse, signalling a serious political problem besetting the Omar-led coalition.
Even the doors to discussions are shut on the government with the agitated employees saying parleys won't do anything now and this was the apt time for it to concede their genuine demands, including release of sixth pay commission arrears.
Left with no other option, the government, through multi-colour advertisements, that appeared in local dailies in the past four days, expressed its helplessness to concede employees' demands, claiming that its expenditure was more than the earnings.
The employees, however, rubbished the government claim, saying "charity begins at home. It first needs to stop draining the state exchequer in the name of unlimited facilities to chief minister, his cabinet colleagues, MLAs and MLCs".
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| HC seeks explanation | | | | JAMMU: Taking cognizance of a public interest litigation (PIL) the Srinagar bench of the High Court today directed the state government to explain its position viz-a-viz ongoing employee's strike by April 12.
A division bench comprising Justice Husain Masoodi and Justice Yaqoub was constituted to hear the PIL preferred by Advocate Riyaz Ahmad Khan and basher Ahmad Dar. The petitioners said the government employees had no right to subject the common people to inconvenience.
The Chief Secretary has been made a party in the PIL. A clause of the petition reads: "The tussle between government and the employees has deprived the public of essential services. Even medicare, municipal services and... | |
| | | | Assembly, Council adjourned sine die | | | | JAMMU: After 45-day-long budget session, both the Houses of State Legislature were adjourned sine-die here today.
The Speaker, Mohammad Akbar Lone adjourned the Legislative Assembly sine-die while the Deputy Chairman, Legislative Council Arvinder Singh Micky declared the adjournment of Upper House sine-die.
Speaking on the occasion, Lone thanked all the departments and Media for cooperating and lending dedicated services in running the proceedings of the House smoothly.
He lauded the role of both treasury benches as well as opposition for their cooperation in conducting the proceedings of the House smoothly. The synergy among various political parties and members in highlighting the dema... | |
| | | | Jammu observes complete bandh | | | | JAMMU: Normal life remained paralysed in entire Jammu Province today as a result of bandh call was given to register a protest
against proposed ban on Inter-District Recruitment bill Bhartiya Janta Party Jammu city and its surrounding areas witnessed complete shutdown crippling entire life in the winter capital, today.
Shops and other business establishments remained closed and government offices observed thin presence as passenger vehicles remained off the road, today.
There was heavy deployment of Police and paramilitary forces in and around Jammu city to thwart any untoward incident.
However, due to Bandh, tourists/pilgrims visiting Jammu had to face difficulties to reach their resp... | |
| | | | Law minister must hang his head in shame | | In autocracy judiciary was free; in democracy it is in chains | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 9: Two months ago when the government approved the rules framed by the state High Court seeking disposal of habeas corpus petitions within 15 days; the families of prisoners, lawyers and human rights defenders welcomed the move saying it was a "a right step in the right direction at the right time".
Giving details, the law minister, Ali Muhammad Sagar said: "Yes, I have given the approval of rules and regulations for courts and Case Flow Management in the High Court. I approved the matter the day it came to my office. These will go a long way in providing speedy justice in different nature of cases."
The rules mention that a notice should be issued in res... | |
| | | | Media should play the role of watchdog | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 9: Media is recognized throughout the world as the fourth estate. Media plays the role of a watchdog. It highlights the people's problems, puts official actions in proper perspective, points out achievements and misdeeds of the government and contributes to the process of nation-making. No state can be termed as state in the real sense of the term if it doesn't allow media to discharge its responsibilities towards the people and the state.
Similarly, media cannot be considered a watchdog if it goes beyond the confines of the universally recognized cardinal principles, the most important being the objective reporting, coupled with well-intentioned and ... | |
| | | | 13 employees' leaders arrested in Jammu | | Crisis deepens: Strike enters 6th day | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 9: Tightening its noose around the striking employees, the Police today detained 13 employees' leaders from different parts of Jammu province as the ongoing strike of employees entered sixth consecutive day today. The arrest of more employees took the total number to 113 across the State.
Undeterred by arrests and invoking of Essential Services Maintenance Ordinance (ESMO), employees continued their strike successfully across the state crippling entire administrative set-up including functioning of civil secretariat.
Meanwhile, a local court granted bail to three employees who were arrested by the police under ESMO for mobilizing the employees.
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| | | | "Why BJP's silence......what is Bandh for today....?" | | | | OVER the BJP's non committal and mute stance despite heavy chaos in the assembly over the Bill, Independent MLA from Langate Abdul Rashid Engineer took the opportunity to term the party's silence as its "immoral win of succeeding in getting two regions of Jammu and Kashmir separated on the issue."
"BJP's silence in the House has proved its dubious credibility while supporting the division of the state into two regions and remaining mute over the passing of the Bill despite issuing warning threats in the public to fight tooth and nail in the assembly," he told reporters outside the Legislative Assembly soon after the
The furious MLA said, "If the BJP does not want J&K to be a single state,... | |
| | | | Passage of recuitment ban bill leaves BJP a confused lot | | | | ARTEEV SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 9: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-claiming to be a party with difference-today presented a confused and divided state of affairs of its ideology inside and outside the Legislative Assembly over the passing of the controversial Bill seeking ban on inter-district recruitment.
The 'Party with difference' virtually became the 'party having differences' among its leadership when the senior party leaders made different statements vis-à-vis passage of Inter-district recruitment bill.
The chaos and confusion within the leadership began in the Lower House of the State Legislature when the Leader of BJP Legislature Party Chaman Lal Gupta firstly described... | |
| | | | Govt brings Bill to regulate brick kilns | | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 9: Government of Jammu & Kashmir has finally introduced a comprehensive law seeking to regulate and control brick kilns but the draft Bill seems to be remarkably soft towards hundreds of unauthorized kilns which have been established by influential industrialists in brazen violation of environmental laws in the last two decades. As regards the new entrepreneurs, the Bill has proposed stringent penal punishment for violation of its provisions and, much like the draconian Forest Act, bar to judicial scrutiny in the matters of challenging the executive orders.
On the concluding day of the 50-day-long Budget session in Legislative Assembly, Mi... | |
| | | | NC discredited Assembly: PDP | | PDP 'behaviour' in frustration: Sagar | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 9: Enraged and infuriated over the attitude of Speaker for allowing passage of Inter District Recruitment Bill without their participation in the debate, PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti came down heavily on NC once again, alleging the party today discredited the highest forum of democracy Assembly the same way it discredited Election Commission in 1987. The NC she asserted has hurt the dignity and decorum of the Assembly by rushing through the passage without allowing debate over the issue.
"We wanted to discuss the pros and cons of the Bill……..they allowed BJP and Panthers Party to speak but stopped PDP just to muzzle our voice despite the fact we are largest o... | |
| | | | Unruly scenes in LA as PDP resorts to scuffles, clashes | | Bill ensuring ban passed , 8 % reservation for SCs to stay | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 9: The NC led coalition government today managed passage of the controversial Bill paving way for imposition of ban at the inter district recruitments across J&K state, albeit providing with 8 % reservation of jobs for Scheduled Caste community, even as Opposition PDP created ruckus and unruly scenes and even resorted to violence while hurling mikes and turning tables in the House, objecting to denial of permission for debate over the issue. The Bill was passed by voice vote amid uproarious scenes and complete chaos by PDP MLAs. The mover bars the candidates from various districts across the state to apply in any district other than where they originally ... | |
| | | | Foreign Ministry mum over likely meeting between Indian and Pak PMs in US | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, APR 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is set to leave for Washington tomorrow to attend nuclear security summit of 43 nations called by US President Barak Obama.
Yet, an External Affairs Ministry spokesman declined here today to either confirm or deny the possibility of a meeting between Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the two-day summit, beginning Monday.
Gilani too is attending the summit devoted to nuclear security, safety, disarmament, non-proliferation and safeguards against pilferage and misuse of nuclear technology by terrorists, rouge elements and non-state actors.
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