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| Another election over, regional imbalances remain | | | | NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
JAMMU, MAY 11: As yet the campaign for yet another election comes to a close, it can be concluded that despite commitments the successive state Governments have not resolved the problem of regional discrimination, which has been allowed to rage on. The issue of ending regional discrimination was part of the common minimum programme of the Congress-PDP coalition Government but the problem continues to be alive. Now the NC-Congress ruling coalition has made an announcement that it would remove regional discrimination and has entrusted the task of examining the issue to Mehmood-ur-Rehman, chairman of the Finance Commission. In the past the Jammuites have clamored over the failure of the successive state Government in implementing the recommendations of various commissions, including the Gajendragadkar and Wazir Commission. However, during the time Ghulam Nabi Azad was the Chief Minister he was instrumental in not only implementing the wazir committee report but went a step ahead of it. The Wazir committee had recommended creation of three new districts in the Jammu reg... | |
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| Dillawar’s cavalcade smashed in Baramulla | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar: At least twelve Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) activists were injured and their vehicles smashed by angry anti-poll protesters at cement bridge, Baramulla on Monday morning.
Reports said early Monday morning hundreds of people mainly youth at Cement Bridge, Baramulla surrounded the cavalcade of PDP candidate for Baramulla Parliamentary constituency, Mohammad Dilawar Mir that was on its way to Uri from Rafiabad for an election rally.
The angry protesters surrounded the cavalcade comprising more than twenty five vehicles, pelted stones, smashing their window panes and injuring many PDP Activists. However, Mir, who was in the last vehicle of the cavalcade escap... | |
| | | | Hotels exempted from sales tax | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, May 11: According to a notification issued by the Government, the services provided in the shape of lodging facilities by hotels shall be exempted from payment of tax leviable under Jammu and Kashmir General Sales Tax Act, 1962 with effect from April 1, 2009 till further orders
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| | | | Hotels exempted from sales tax | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, May 11: According to a notification issued by the Government, the services provided in the shape of lodging facilities by hotels shall be exempted from payment of tax leviable under Jammu and Kashmir General Sales Tax Act, 1962 with effect from April 1, 2009 till further orderS.... | |
| | | | Govt cracks whip; parents, schools not convinced | | FEE BLUES | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 11: The hue and cry over the fee structure of private schools –both affiliated to the J&K Board and the CBSE –refuses to settle down but when all three parties locked in the issue were today face to face pleas appeared genuine from all sides.
For past sometime the parents of the children have been coming loggerheads with management of private schools inviting attention of the department of school education. While parents allege that the schools are charging hefty sums, the school managements justify this with a variety of reasons, including the pay structures of the teachers suggested by the government. The directorate of school education has been trying to ... | |
| | | | Ladakh mess poised to spoil coalition health | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 11: Feeling ditched by the Congress over the Ladakh seat was snatched by the coalition partners; the National Conference is not worried if an independent makes it to the Lok Sabha from the Himalayan cold desert.
Election to the Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency is slated for May 13, the campaigning ended this evening but no National Conference leader was seen in support of Congress. The Congress high command is said to be highly annoyed with the strategy adopted by the National Conference in the ongoing Lok Sabha poll in Jammu and Kashmir.Party sources today said that the National Conference had not sent any senior party leader for campaigning in favour of the C... | |
| | | | Major posted in Kashmir held taking obscene pictures | | | | AGENCIES
Panaji, May 11: An Indian Army major was arrested here Monday for allegedly taking obscene photographs of a woman and attempting to blackmail her, police said.
The officer, identified as Major Tarun Singh, 27, is posted at Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir and is in Goa on a holiday, Inspector Nolasco Raposo told reporters, adding he was staying in a hotel adjacent to a room occupied by a Mumbai-based family, which included the complainant.
“The major took some photographs of the woman having a bath by removing some of the sliding glass bars fitted to the window,” Raposo said. Singh then started threatening the woman via the hotel intercom, claiming that he would post her nude photo... | |
| | | | PM says friendship with Pak not at cost of own security | | | | AGENCIES
Amritsar, May 11: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that India would not compromise its security while reaching out to improve relations with Pakistan.
''We want good relations with Pakistan but will not tolerate any activity which threatens our security,'' he said while addressing election rallies at Amritsar, the holy city of the Sikhs and his home town and at the historic town of Tarn Taran, on the last day of the campaign for the fifth phase.
Expressing concern over the situation across the border, Dr Singh urged Pakistan to take steps to halt atrocities on the minority communities in the Taliban controlled areas of the country.
''We have already taken up th... | |
| | | | CM calls on Governor | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, MAY 11 – Immediately after the conclusion of the election campaigning by parties for the last and final phase of polling in J&K, on 13th May, the Chief Minister, Mr. Omar Abdullah met the Governor, Mr. N. N. Vohra, at the Raj Bhavan today evening.
The Chief Minister and Governor, during their discussions lasting for over an hour, covered various important issues, including security related matters.
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| | | | Minus Srinagar, J&K gets rid of MCC on Wednesday | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 11: After two months of dull, drab and unintelligent season of allegations and counter-allegations, murky tirades and personal attacks, the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections ended this evening as Baramulla and Ladakh constituency brace up for polling on Wednesday.
Though the state’s official apparatus and security are on toes for counting of votes on May 16, but some semblance of life is expected to return to the government and administrative machinery as the Model Code of Conduct goes on the evening of May 16. The MCC has been in place since early March restricting government in its easy-going affairs.
However, the Model Code of Conduct stays in the ... | |
| | | | Jammu kidnapper traced in Gangtok | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Gangtok, May 11: Two men have been arrested here for allegedly kidnapping three women from Jammu and Kashmir, police said Monday.
The two men were traced and arrested by the Jammu police Sunday.
'Jammu police arrived here with arrest warrants for the three accused. Of the three men, two were arrested on May 10. Both were arrested from the Pani House area here. One man is absconding,' Superintendent of Police (East) M.S. Tuli said.
The Jammu police traced them with the help of their mobile phone calls.
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| | | | Officer suspended in Fallian Mandal case | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 11: To put the Fallian-Mandal eviction controversy to rest, the government has ordered attachment of a senior officer of the Social Forestry department.
Sources said that in view of heightened criticism of the government on handling of the issues, where clash erupted between Gujjars and police while clearing illegal encroachment from the forest land, the government has ordered attachment of the officer and ordered inquiry to alleged police atrocities.
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