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| Govt terminating services of 40 ring leaders today | | Minister: Trade union leadership's ship will be sinking in a few days | | | JCC: Employees are firmly on strike and they make the Govt bow soon
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Apr 12: Minister of Irrigation & Public Health Engineering, Taj Mohiuddin, confirmed to this newspaper that Omar Abdullah's coalition government would be terminating the services of 35 to 40 ring leaders of different trade unions any time on Tuesday as, according to him, government's limit of leniency towards the employees on the strike had exhausted fully. Continuing to take the government's threats of "stern action" non-seriously, trade union leaders today extended the state-wide strike of over four Lakh employees to April 17th as they threatened to include essential services in the stir and asserted that the government would be forced to bow.
Highly placed authoritative sources revealed to Early Times that the state government had compiled a list of 40 trade union leaders on the basis of reports received from their respective Heads of departments (HODs) and CID for termination of their services under Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA). Sources said that m... | |
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| Slender presence of Babus, Mantris | | Strike makes Secretariat look dull, deserted | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 12: The highest seat of governance - civil secretariat which used to remain abuzz with activity, hustle and bustle around this time of the year in winter capital presents a dull and deserted look - courtesy employees' strike which has made it wear this days before the entire government machinery would shift to summer capital. While the presence of bureaucrats and senior officers has failed to keep alive the activity in the corridors of power, the irregularity and slender presence of Ministers in their official chambers also adds to the drab scenario of the Secretariat.
Until the last day of Assembly on April 9, the corridors of the Secretariat main buil... | |
| | | | Father killed, son critical in shoot out | | | | KATHUA: April. In a day light shoot out that occurred in busy area of Kathua one person died while the condition of other is stated to be critical.
Panic gripped in the area when one Manoj Sharma son of Mohan Lal resorting to firing towards his two relatives resulting bullet injuries to both of them. They have been identified as Sdarshan Khajuria and Madhan Lal Khajuria .Latter is retired police officer. Both the victims are father and son.In the hospital the father later succumbed to injuries. Culprit after the incident escaped from the spot leaving both in a pool of blood. However, police has registered a case in this connection and a manhunt has been launched to arrest the accused. Wh... | |
| | | | SDM's wife escapes from hotel, alleged paramour detained | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, April 12: While a woman managed to give cops a slip, her alleged paramour was detained by police in a city hotel late Sunday night. Police said one Amit Goel of Link Road was allegedly running an affair with a woman, which his wife Deepmala objected to. Yesterday when she came to know that Amit and the woman were together in a luxury hotel on Samadhian Road, she reached there along with her family members at about 9.30 pm and caught both of them together, police added. When Deepmala created a scene in the hotel, the woman fled the spot. Police said the woman’s husband was posted as sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) in somewhere district of Jammu and Kashmir. Be... | |
| | | | Fulfill commitment or quit: PDP to coalition | | | |
SUBASH MALIK
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 12: The main opposition PDP leadership has said that if the National Conference led ruling coalition "is not in a position to concede the demands of over 4.5 lakh employees it should resign."A senior PDP leader,Nizam-ud-Din Bhat said that the Government has no "moral" right to remain in office if it was not able to end the current turmoil and crisis by implementing its committment of releasing the 6th pay commission arrears to the employees.
When reminded that since the state Government was faced with severe financial crunch which had made it difficult for the ruling coalition to pay the ar rears Bhat said why did the Government promise the ... | |
| | | | HC rejects Govt affidavit in PIL | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, April 12: The high court today rejected an affidavit filed by the government in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by preferred by two Srinagar lawyers. The PIL was field last week to relieve general public from the difficulties arising out of the employees strike.
In response to the court notice, the government through an affidavit stated that essential commodities were provided to the public despite the employees' strike. However, the court rejected the affidavit and sought personal appearance of heads of departments supposed to provide essential services to the public.
Directions have been issued to Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Director Health Services, ... | |
| | | | Jawan falls into gorge, dies | | | |
JAMMU:
A Lance Naik of 39 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) died after he fell into a gorge in the Krishna Ghati sub-sector of Poonch Sunday night. Police sources said Lance Naik Virender Singh was part of an ambush party near the Line of Control (LoC) in Krishna Ghati area when he slipped into the gorge. He died on the spot. The body was later retrieved from the gorge and sent for post-mortem in hospital, the sources added.
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| | | | Better road connectivity a way to control militancy | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, April 12: If the far-flung and inaccessible areas in the state are connected to main roads, militancy can be tackled to a large extent, feels R&B minister G M Saroori.The government was focussing in a big way on road construction in the state's remote and mountainous areas to check militancy, he added. He said once the roads were constructed, it would become easier for security forces to hunt down militants perched in the remote areas. This would not only create jobs for locals and bring development but also help wipe out terrorism, the minister added. He said of the nearly 2,200 road projects taken up by R&B department, 75 per cent were in remote and rural ar... | |
| | | | Juice shops and chicken corners that turn into bars at night | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, April 12: If you want to be on the booze and that too without spending much, visit the "unofficial" night bars which are operational with impunity from law in almost every nook and cranny of the winter capital city. At a fruit juice shop, liquor is mixed with juice and then served. The shop owners charge only for juice. Liquor is brought by the booze lovers with them. Liquor can also be consumed inside a chicken corner or outside it in a private car, cops won't disturb you. Fruit juice shops and meat shops are the two places that serve as unofficial bars at night. Though the concerned police stations are in knowhow of it, the illegal business has been thri... | |
| | | | Coalition may not last full term | | Congress man to replace Omar after 2 yrs? | | |
News Analysis
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, April 12: Last week's tussle between former Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Jammu Kashmir Congress chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz was not an ordinary confrontation. Both the leaders had their eyes on the Chief Ministerial berth which, as per a decision taken by the Congress Working Committee last month has to be occupied by a Congress man.
According to highly placed sources in the Congress party, the organization's all powerful Working Committee held an extra-ordinary meeting last month with its president Sonia Gandhi in chair. The decision making body, sources said, has decided to have a Congress man as Chief Minister of the state after two years... | |
| | | | Azad rejects legal route to family planning, calls for voluntary steps | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, APR 12: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad has called for steps to prioritise population stability alongside on going efforts to augment healthcare facilities in rural areas.
Speaking at a function held here to mark the anniversary of now five-year-old National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Azad stressed the need for efforts to stabilise population through drawing a comprehensive plan in consultation with States. He ruled out achieving this through bringing in legislation.
The Minister said, "While we are making all efforts to improve healthcare, time has come for all of us to think and accord priority to population stabilisation.... | |
| | | | Jammu on a winning spree | | | |
STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 12: Jammu and Kashmir State acceded to the Indian Dominion on 26th October 1947. Ever since, the people of Jammu province, Hindus and Muslims included, had been at the receiving end. The situation changed dramatically in 2008, when certain fundamentalist forces in Kashmir opposed the decision of the Congress-led coalition government to divert a small piece of land at Baltal to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) on a temporary basis for creating facilities for pilgrims and unleashed a campaign against the government with a view to forcing it to reverse the otherwise constitutionally valid decision.
The Kashmiri-sponsored anti-land div... | |
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