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Small and medium entrepreneurship has to solve unemployment problem’ CM holds marathon meet with Valley industrialists, business community 4/4/2009 12:39:22 AM ‘ ET Correspondent SRINAGAR, Apr 3: Camping in the summer capital since Thursday with a heavy schedule of official and political business, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today held a marathon meeting with Kashmir-based businessmen and industrialists. Seeking the cooperation of the business community, he asserted that entrepreneurs would have to play a significant role in addressing the gigantic problem of unemployment in Jammu & Kashmir. He underscored the importance of the growth of small and medium entrepreneurship (SME) in the disturbed state. Addressing a one-day leadership brief session on industrial growth and development, organized by Federation Chamber of Industries, Kashmir (FCIK) at SKICC, Chief Minister said that small industrial sector had a pivotal role in sustained economic development. He said that small and medium entrepreneurs in the State provide job to 8 lakh people. “The sector, if properly supported to grow, can absorb another 4-5 lakh people easily reducing the pressure on job market. Here comes the role of government which it will render in its ...   READ MORE

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Pak refuses to accept pre-condition for talks with India 4/4/2009 12:37:55 AM Islamabad, April 03: Pakistan on Friday made it clear that it would not accept any pre-condition for resumption of the stalled peace process with India. Islamabad made its stand clear while reacting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assertion that for the resumption of dialogue, Pakistan must meet the "minimum pre-condition" of ensuring that its soil will not be used for terror activities against India. "We should move forward and not backwards. By putting conditions, we would be going backward," Pakistan presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said. Asked about the pre-condition set by Singh, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said, "When we have a dialogue we canno...   READ MORE   BJP unfolds election manifesto Abrogation of Art 370 prominent in Ramaraj draft 4/4/2009 12:37:31 AM New Delhi, April 3 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) manifesto, released Friday, is a curious mix of promises reflecting its dilemma - clinging on to its Hindutva agenda partially while trying to woo the middle-class and young voters - to take on the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP has stuck to its agenda by incorporating all three core issues - construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya, implmentation of the uniform civil Code and abolition of the constitution’s Article 370 granting special status to Jammu and Kashmir. This would help the party retain its committed voters who support it for pursuing a ‘hardline Hindutva’ agenda. However, the party has downplayed...   READ MORE   Coalition CC meeting tomorrow to finalize seat sharing 4/4/2009 12:36:45 AM Early Times Report Srinagar: To settle the sharing of seats for the four LoK Sabha segments from Kashmir region including Leh, the Coordination Committee of Congress and National Conference is meeting Saturday to decide over the issue. Sources told Press Bureau of India that no consensus has been reached over the sharing of seats for the ensuing Lok Sabha polls. If sources are to be believed, congress wants to contest two of the seats including from south Kashmir and Leh. After the first meeting of the coalition coordination comprising of three members each from Congress and National conference, it was decided to have a root level assessment of the segments by the respective parties in...   READ MORE   Over 13 Lakh pilgrims visit Mata’s shrine in 3 months 50,000 visit Bahu Fort temple as Ramanavmi celebrated with fervour 4/4/2009 12:36:18 AM Munish Gupta JAMMU, April 3: Like other parts of the country Ramnavmi—birthday of Lord Shri Rama---was celebrated In J&K with religious fervour and gaiety. The City of Temples wore a festive look as the entire city was well decorated with saffron flags, buntings and banners on this auspicious occasion. More than 50,000 devotees today visited Bahu Fort to have darshan of the deity of Kali Mata installed in the premises of the Fort. Chanting slogans in praise of Mata, hundreds devotees were seen lined up in the premises of the temple very much before dawn. The police deployed at Bahu- Fort today had very tough time to control the unprecedent rush of the devotees at the Shrine. Security a...   READ MORE   Central team reviews J&K security scenario Fresh security guidelines being issued to politicians 4/4/2009 12:34:35 AM ET Correspondents SRINAGAR/ JAMMU, Apr 3: A high-level Central team, comprising Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta, and Union Defence Secretary, Vijay Singh, returned to New Delhi this evening after thoroughly reviewing the overall security scenario in the State with top-ranking government functionaries and senior officials of Police, paramilitary forces and Army. Before concluding the two-day visit, ahead of the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Jammu & Kashmir, both the senior bureaucrats took a high-level meeting in the winter capital with senior officials of the State government. Chief Secretary, S S Kapur, and Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda, briefed the Union Sec...   READ MORE   Observers appointed for Jammu-Poonch seat 4/4/2009 12:34:03 AM ET Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 3: The Election Commission has appointed Observers for Assembly segments of Jammu Parliamentary constituency. The Observer for Samba, Vijaypur, Gandhinagar, Bishnah, R. S. Pura and Suchetgarh Assembly segments, Mr. Raj Pratap Singh can be contacted at telephone nos. 0191-2505068, 9906155143, while the Observer for Nagrota, Jammu-East, Jammu-west, Marh, Raipur Domana, Akhnoor and Chhamb Assembly segments, Mrs. Uma Mukherjee would be available at telephone nos. 0191-2505068 ...   READ MORE   PDP MLA’s complaint of ‘misbehaviour’ Privilege notice issued to Dir SKIMS 4/4/2009 12:33:25 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 3: Speaker, J&K Legislative Assembly, Mr. Mohammad Akbar Lone has issued a notice for personal appearance of Director SKIMS, Soura on April 15 at 12 noon in his Chamber at Jammu. This follows a Privilege Motion moved by MLA, Lolab, Mr Abdul Haq Khan before the Speaker wherein the MLA concerned has alleged that he had been humiliated by the Director SKIMS during the course of his discussion with the official on a public matter. ...   READ MORE   MHA alerts ISRO scientists following LeT threat 4/4/2009 12:33:01 AM New Delhi, April 03: The Union Home Ministry has asked scientists of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to be careful in their movement following intelligence inputs that Pakistan-based militant group Lashker-e-Tobia was planning to kidnap or assassinate them. Security around scientific installations across the country was also enhanced manifold, Home Ministry sources said tonight. The Home Ministry alerts followed intercept of conversation between two LeT militants over satellite phone whose base was located at the local headquarters of the militant group at Koel in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The intercept said LeT has activated some of its sleeper cells to abduct or assa...   READ MORE   ‘Omar wept on Varun to please patrons in Sangh Parivar’ Mehbooba says CM didn’t keep one promise in 100 days 4/4/2009 12:32:30 AM ET Correspondent SRINAGAR, Apr 3: The Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Mehbooba Mufti, today claimed that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was still in the honeymoon gear of his government as, according to her, he had failed to keep any one of his election time promises in the last 100 days of the NC-Congress regime in Jammu & Kashmir. She said that a former Minister in the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, Mr Abdullah had shed his tears on Varun Gandhi’s National Security Act (NSA) only to please his Sangh Parivar patrons ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in India. Expressing surprise overOmar Abdullah’s disapproval of slapping NSA on BJP’s Varun Gandhi for hi...   READ MORE   Drug peddler arrested in south Kashmir 4/3/2009 10:52:33 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, April 03 : Police claimed to have arrested a drug peddler and recovered 450 grams of Charas from his possession here at Arwani area of Bijbehara in south Kashmir. Acting on a tip off, police party led by in charge police station Bijbehara today laid a naka and nabbed Nisar Ahmed Reshi son of Ghula, Rasool resident of Sendapora Harwan. About 450 grams of Charas from his possession of the accused. A case has been registered under NDPS act at police station Bijbehara in this regard. ...   READ MORE   Parliamentary Elections-2009 4/3/2009 10:52:01 PM EC appoints Election Observers Early Times Report Kathua, April 03 – The Election Commission has appointed Observers for Assembly segments of Jammu Parliamentary constituency. The Observer for Samba, Vijaypur, Gandhinagar, Bishnah, R. S. Pura and Suchetgarh Assembly segments, Mr. Raj Pratap Singh can be contacted at telephone nos. 0191-2505068, 9906155143, while the Observer for Nagrota, Jammu-East, Jammu-west, Marh, Raipur Domana, Akhnoor and Chhamb Assembly segments, Mrs. Uma Mukherjee would be available at telephone nos. 0191-2505068, 9906152195 and 9018190648. The people and the political parties can contact or meet personally the Election Observers at Circuit House at ...   READ MORE

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