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| No breakthrough: Talks remain inconclusive | | Strike paralyses work in govt offices, PSUs | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 3: The second round of talks between the Cabinet Sub-Committee and agitating employees today remained ‘inconclusive’ with the latter announcing to continue their strike till logical conclusion.
The Cabinet Sub-Committee, which held talks with employees’ factions separately, could do nothing but to reiterate its commitment to fulfill its promises made to the employees and to appeal them to call off their strike.
Meanwhile, normal work in all government offices and Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) remained paralysed across the State on the first day of four day strike call given by the Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC). While the Non-Gazetted Civil Secretariat Employees Association has declared to observe strike on April 5 and 6, another faction of employees, Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) has called for seven days strike from April 6.
The talks between Cabinet Sub-Committee and 12-member delegation of Non-Gazetted Civil Secretariat Employees Association, which started at around 6:00 p.m, lasted for over one hour but no breakthroug... | |
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| Woman arrested for running abortion clinic | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 3: A retired health worker, allegedly running an abortion clinic at Akhnoor, about 23 km from here, was today arrested by police for her alleged act of carrying out female foeticides.
Police raided the clinic of Surinder Kampaini, which she was running in a rented building in Ward No 6 of Akhnoor, and arrested her. Police sources said she was running the abortion clinic after her
retirement about five to six years back. She charged between 5,000-10,000 rupees for each abortion, the sources added.
At least eight women were also found in her clinic at the time of the police raid. All of them had come for the selective sex abortion.
The women were admitt... | |
| | | | Two brothers injured in explosion | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Apr 3: Two brothers were injured today when an explosive device went off in the forest area in Rajouri district, a police spokesman said here.
The two brothers, both minors, had gone to graze their cattle in the forest area of Tain in Nowshera, about 130-km from here, found a ball like device, he said adding the device exploded when they fiddled with it.
Nisar Ahmed and Liaqat Ahmed of Thaka village in Nowshera received splinter injuries and were evacuated by police to nearby health centre.
They were later shifted to Government Medical College (GMC) hospital here for specialised treatment, the spokesman said.
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| | | | Man faces SHO’s ‘anger’ | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Apr 3:
In an alleged act of "extortion", a 42-year-old printing press owner was beaten and his wife manhandled by a police Inspector at Phinter in Billawar, Kathua, Friday night.
Police, however, categorically refuted the extortion allegation, saying the printing press owner was booked as he was involved in a brawl with another man.
Onkar Singh (42), who runs a printing press at Phinter, also owns a dhaba in the area. With multiple injuries and a broken arm, he was admitted to the GMC Hospital here.
With tears rolling down his eyes, he told The Early Times that Billawar Police Station SHO, Inspector Ashok Sharma had allegedly been sending special police off... | |
| | | | ‘Defective’ electoral rolls: Voters in quandary | | (In Focus) | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU: A potential candidate found missing from the voters list and a dead person’s vote being cast in other’s name in the electoral process of the state is a common feature that Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) should feel embarrassed of.
Anyhow nothing of the sort has changed with the system as JMC’s mordant attitude continues unabated and people’s hue and cry keeps striking shrieking echoes, but on deaf ears only.
Decades after also since there has been government’s claim to rehash (revise) the voter lists of the candidates to include them “fairly” into the rolls, nothing effective has been visible except the administration’s monotonous recycling of the event... | |
| | | | Heat gets on, darbar heading towards Valley | | | | CHAMAN KAUL
Jammu, Apr 3:
THE unusual high temperature this year has forced the darbar employees to start a move to Valley. In comparison to previous years, this year the mercury has gone all time high in March itself prompting the employees to go back to Valley.
Not only employees but also the ministers have decided to move to valley earlier. In this connection, instead of being available in Jammu some ministers of Jammu have decided to attend civil secretariat Srinagar in the month of April. As per the notification, Minister for Animal Husbandry and Science and Technology will be available for people in winter secretariat, Srinagar from April 07 to April 09, to address grievances of g... | |
| | | | Employees’ retirement age issue: Coalition-a divided House | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 3: Even as the state government has successfully managed to bring consensus among different political outfits vis-à-vis sending an all party delegation to the Centre seeking its financial aid for payment of sixth pay commission arrears, the ruling coalition is still a divided House over the employees’ demand of enhancement of retirement age.
If sources are to be believed, the members of ruling coalition partners, National Conference and Congress, who participated in the All Party Meet called by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, had expressed different views over the demand of increasing the retirement age from 58 to 60 years. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)... | |
| | | | Soz, Azad rendezvous in Royal Springs Golf Course | | Fissures in Congress | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, April 3: Fissures in State Congress Party came to fore when former Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad and the Pradesh Congress Committee chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz ignored each other in the Royal Springs Golf Course in the summer capital Saturday.
Sources close to Congress said Azad’s supporters rushed to New Delhi last week and persuaded him to take interest in the affairs of State Pradesh Congress Committee. After much coaxing and cajoling, Azad agreed to visit Srinagar. Immediately after his arrival in Srinagar yesterday, Azad is believed to have had a meeting with his supporters.
Azad promised his supporters of his active role in the affairs of Congress Part... | |
| | | | NC official "Media Cell's" pick & choose way annoys all | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 03:
Functioning in an arbitrary manner, the state information department has virtually turned into an "official" Media Cell of the ruling National Conference. Instead of logics, the department is guided by personal opinions and biases while issuing advertisement to local newspapers. While the "official" newspapers receive more advertisement, those who highlight deficiencies of the NC-Congress government, systematic efforts are being made to relegate them to the wall.
There are several instances when the upcoming newspapers have been discriminated against, but on March 04 last, a multi-colour advertisement was issued to only one or two local dailies.
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| | | | India asks China not to issue stapled visas for Kashmiris | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 3: Ahead of External Affairs Minister SM Krishna's visit to Beijing, India Saturday asked China to stop the practice of issuing stapled visas to Indians from Jammu and Kashmir and said Beijing should be sensitive to New Delhi's "core concern" on this issue.
"We have asked the Chinese side to do away with dual visa policy policy," Gautam Bambawale, joint secretary in charge of China and East Asia in the external affairs ministry, told reporters here.
"This is a matter of core concern for India because it goes to the heart of our territorial sovereignty and integrity," Bambawale said.
"We will continue to press them on this issue," he added.
"We expect t... | |
| | | | Legislators' NO’ to family welfare programme | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu,April 3:-Expectedly two bills,seeking amendment to the state constitution,that were moved by the Panthers Party MLA,Harsh Dev Singh,in the Assembly on Thursday were defeated.Not that the objectives of the bills lacked commonsense but the majority of the members of the House were not ready to allow any amendment to the constitution which would restrict their freedom in fathering as many children as they wished.Majority of members of the Assembly were opposed to any amendment to the constitution which could limit freedom of women in conceiving as many times as they wished.
Harsh Dev Singh wanted the constitution to be amended so that those who had more than... | |
| | | | Why BAJ not supporting demand of Jammu-based VC for CU? -- I | | STARK REALITY | | |
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 3: Bar Association Jammu (BAJ) deserves kudos. Ever since March 8, when the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) legislator was allowed by Congress leader and Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla to introduce the fundamentally bad, draconian and anti-women Permanent Resident (Disqualification) Bill (PRDB) in the Legislative Council, the BAJ has been organizing programmes after programmes to register its protest against the bill and demanding its withdrawal. So for, it has struck work on two occasions and paralyzed the function of the courts and organized two long marches. On one occasion, a number of agitating lawyers, including women lawyers, confronted t... | |
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